Growing and Planting The Lettuce Patch
Gardeners have been raising and eating lettuce for at least 2,500 years. Even though the particular varieties served at the tables of Persian kings around 500 B.C. may not be
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Succeeding With Raspberries
Raspberries are among the most satisfactory and rewarding fruits for home gardens where sufficient space is available. Plants are relatively free from diseases and insects and are easy to maintain.
Home Vegetable Garden: A Simple Plan
Home gardening provides pleasure and recreation as well as food — if the home gardener does not try to cultivate more land than he can take care of. Ideal Conditions
Coldframe Gardening Now A Hotbed
This month, you can get a head start on spring by adding heating equipment to your cold frame. Any one of several methods of supplying heat will turn your hard
Amiable Bayberries
Amiable is the word for bayberries. They thrive in sandy, dry, sterile soil making pleasant, otherwise barren lands. Although never spectacular, they are decorative both in summer and winter when
Plant A Herb Garden For Flavor
If you’ve never grown herbs, by all means, set aside a section of your garden, or borders along a path, or a little area not too far from your kitchen
How I Started To Have Cantaloupes In Abundance
For seven years, I have had the most delicious cantaloupes in abundance at the end of every summer. It started this way: I was talking to a friend who has
A Freedom Garden Will Cut Your Food Bill
When Secretary Clinton P. Anderson issued him a call for 20,000,000 Freedom Gardens in 1948, and the food conservation drive was getting underway. Food prices were soaring, and dark clouds
Should You Grow Your Asparagus From Seed?
When we moved our vegetable garden 20 years ago to its present and permanent location, we luckily kept our asparagus bed going in the old garden. I say luckily because
Soil The Black Magic Beneath Your Feet
Soil formation is a slow process that requires 10,000 years or more to form one foot of depth. The host soils provide 10′ feet or more effective depth for the