Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener
by Ida Dandridge Bennett
About this book
This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, growing and storing vegetables, managing garden pests, and fall garden work.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)
Chapters (23)
101- The Sanitary and Economic Value of the Kitchen Garden
202- The Location of the Garden
303- Planning the Garden
404- How To Maintain Fertility-part 1
505- How To Maintain Fertility-part 2
606- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 1
707- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 2
808- On the Sowing of Seed
909- Transplanting
1010- Tools which Make Gardening Easy
1111- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 1
1212- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 2
1313- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 3
1414- Root Vegetables-part 1
1515- Root Vegetables-part 2
1616- Root Vegetables-part 3
1717- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 1
1818- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 2
1919- Greens and Salad Vegetables
2020- Perennial Vegetables
2121- Storing Vegetables in Winter
2222- The Garden's Enemies
2323- Fall Work in the Garden
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