The home vegetable garden

by: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), 1870-1954

Publication date: 1906

Topics: Vegetable gardening, vegetable crops, vegetables, home gardens, home gardening, vegetable growing, site preparation, seedbed preparation, plant cultural practices, irrigation, gardening equipment, disease and pest management, Gardening

Publisher: Washington : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Collection: usda-farmersbulletin; usdanationalagriculturallibrary; fedlink

Digitizing sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Contributor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Language: English

Volume: no.255

47 pages : 23 cm

Cover title

Location of the garden -- Plan and arrangement of garden -- Preparation of the soil -- Fertilizers -- Seeds and plants for the garden -- The seed bed -- The handling of plants -- Time of planting -- Protection of plants -- Cultivation of garden crops -- Irrigation of garden crops -- Precautions to avoid attacks of insects and diseases -- Cultural hints for garden crops -- Gardener's planting table