Home Vegetable Gardening

by F. F. Rockwell

HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING

A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO THE PLANTING AND CARE OF ALL
VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND BERRIES
WORTH 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 many in both classes whose experience in gardening has been restricted within very narrow bounds, and whose present spare time for gardening is limited. It is as "first aid" to such persons, who want to do practical, efficient gardening, and do it with the least possible fuss and loss of time, that this book is written. In his own experience the author has found that garden books, while seldom lacking in information, often do not present it in the clearest possible way. It has been his aim to make the present volume first of all practical, and in addition to that, though comprehensive, yet simple and concise. If it helps to make the way of the home gardener more clear and definite, its purpose will have been accomplished.

CONTENTS

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, HARVESTING
XVIII	BERRIES AND SMALL FRUITS
XIX	A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS
XX	CONCLUSION