Evin Sebze Bahçesi Yetiştiriciliği: Ev kullanımı için değerli tüm sebzeler, meyveler ve yemişlerin dikimi ve bakımı için tüm kapsamlı ve pratik rehber. - Home Vegetable Gardening
A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

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HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING

A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL GUIDETO THE PLANTING AND CARE OF ALLVEGETABLES, FRUITS AND BERRIESWORTH GROWING FOR HOME USE

BY

F. F. ROCKWELL

Author of Around the Year in the Garden,Gardening Indoors and Under Glass,The Key to the Land, etc., etc.

PREFACE

With some, the home vegetable garden is a hobby; with others,especially in these days of high prices, a great help. There are manyin both classes whose experience in gardening has been restrictedwithin very narrow bounds, and whose present spare time for gardeningis limited. It is as "first aid" to such persons, who want to dopractical, efficient gardening, and do it with the least possible fussand loss of time, that this book is written. In his own experience theauthor has found that garden books, while seldom lacking ininformation, often do not present it in the clearest possible way. Ithas been his aim to make the present volume first of all practical, andin addition to that, though comprehensive, yet simple and concise. Ifit helps to make the way of the home gardener more clear and definite,its purpose will have been accomplished.

CHAPTER

I INTRODUCTION II WHY YOU SHOULD GARDEN III REQUISITES OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN IV THE PLANTING PLAN V IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR USES VI MANURES AND FERTILIZERS VII THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION

PART TWO—VEGETABLES

VIII STARTING THE PLANTS IX SOWING AND PLANTING X THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES XI THE VEGETABLES AND THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS XII BEST VARIETIES OF THE GARDEN VEGETABLES XIII INSECTS AND DISEASE, AND METHODS OF FIGHTING THEM XIV HARVESTING AND STORING

PART THREE—FRUITS

XV THE VARIETIES OF POME AND STONE FRUITS XVI PLANTING; CULTIVATION; FILLER CROPS XVII PRUNING, SPRAYING, HARVESTINGXVIII BERRIES AND SMALL FRUITS XIX A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS XX CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Formerly it was the custom for gardeners to invest their labors andachievements with a mystery and secrecy which might well havediscouraged any amateur from trespassing upon such difficult ground."Trade secrets" in either flower or vegetable growing were acquired bythe apprentice only through practice and observation, and in turnjealously guarded by him until passed on to some younger brother in theprofession. Every garden operation was made to seem a wonderful anddifficult undertaking. Now, all that has changed. In fact the pendulumhas swung, as it usually does, to the other extreme. Often, if you area beginner, you have been flatteringly told in print that you couldfrom the beginning do just as well as the experienced gardener.

My garden friend, it cannot, as a usual thing, be done. Of course, itmay happen and sometimes does. You might, being a trusting lamb,go down into Wall Street with $10,000 [Ed. Note: all monetary valuesthroughout the book are 1911 values] and make a fortune. You know thatyou would not be likely to; the chances are very much against you. Thisgarden business is a matter of common sense; and the man, or the woman,who has learned by exper

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