Home Vegetable Gardening A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

About this eBook

Author

Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye), 1884-1976

Credits

Produced by Michelle Shephard, Tiffany Vergon, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, Charles Aldarondo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Fruit-culture

Category

Text

eBook-No.

7123

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7123

Release Date

December 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — PART TWO—VEGETABLES — PART THREE—FRUITS
5. 5.CHAPTER I
6. 6.CHAPTER II
7. 7.CHAPTER III — EXPOSURE — THE SOIL — DRAINAGE — SOIL ANTECEDENTS — OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — CHECK LIST — PLANTING TABLE — I. CROPS REMAINING ENTIRE SEASON — PLANTING TABLE — II. CROPS FOR SUCCESSION PLANTINGS — II. CROPS FOR SUCCESSION PLANTINGS — III. CROPS TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS — IV. CROPS THAT MAY FOLLOW OTHERS — REFERENCE NOTES FROM THE TABLES
9. 9.CHAPTER V — TOOLS FOR PREPARING THE SEED-BED — FOR FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — THE THEORY OF MANURING — VARIOUS MANURES — VALUE OF GREEN MANURING — CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS — VARIOUS FERTILIZERS — MIXED FERTILIZERS — HOME MIXING — APPLYING MANURES
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — PREPARING THE SOIL — PLOWING — HARROWING — FINING.
12. 12.Part Two—Vegetables — CHAPTER VIII. — PREPARING THE SOIL — SOWING THE SEED — STARTING PLANTS OUTSIDE
13. 13.CHAPTER IX — WHEN TO SOW OUTDOORS — METHODS OF PLANTING — SOWING THE SEED — SETTING OUT PLANTS — AFTER-CARE
14. 14.CHAPTER X — ROTATION OF CROPS
15. 15.CHAPTER XI — ROOT CROPS — LEAF CROPS — THE FRUIT CROPS
16. 16.CHAPTER XII
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII — REMEDIES — MECHANICAL REMEDIES — DESTRUCTIVE REMEDIES — POISONOUS REMEDIES — PRECAUTIONS
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV
19. 19.Part Three—Fruits and Berries — CHAPTER XV. — APPLES — PEARS — PEACHES — PLUMS — CHERRIES
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI — PLANTING — SETTING — CULTIVATION
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII — APPLE ENEMIES — CHERRY ENEMIES — PEACH ENEMIES — PEAR ENEMIES — PLUM ENEMIES
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII — SETTING THE PLANTS — METHODS OF GROWING — CULTIVATION — MULCHING — INSECTS AND DISEASE — VARIETIES — THE BLACKBERRY — BLACKBERRY VARIETIES — THE DEWBERRY — RASPBERRY — RASPBERRY ENEMIES — RASPBERRY VARIETIES — CURRANTS — PRUNING CURRANTS — ENEMIES OF THE CURRANT — VARIETIES OF CURRANTS — THE GOOSEBERRY — GOOSEBERRY ENEMIES — GOOSEBERRY VARIETIES — THE GRAPE — GRAPE PRUNING
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX — JANUARY — FEBRUARY — MARCH — APRIL — JUNE — JULY — AUGUST — SEPTEMBER — OCTOBER — NOVEMBER — DECEMBER — AND THEN
24. 24.CHAPTER XX

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