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 their twiggy bushes are covered with small, aromatic, bright gray berries that last half the year. Bayberry’s Features Bayberry leaves are alternate and somewhat crowded … Read more
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 door for this useful, happy kind of gardening. Scent Of Spicy Herbs In Your Garden You’ll enjoy the scent of spicy herbs as you walk … Read more
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 small farm. “Care to see my melon patch?” l asked. I saw a 50 by 50 plot planted in cantaloupes, many of them ready … Read more
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 of hunger and Communism were hovering over Europe. Since then, the world food situation has not improved. On the contrary, it is worse that prices … Read more
Lime may provide the key to better plant growth in sections where the soil is acidic. Therefore the gardener in such areas needs to understand how to use this indispensable material. Plants differ widely in their tolerance to acidity in the soil. A few, such as blueberries and evergreens, will tolerate extreme acidity. However, most … Read more
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 root zone. Rocks are variable in composition but contain minerals such as feldspars, micas, apatite, hornblende, and others that are important in forming soils. As … Read more
Cramped for space in your garden? The smallest yard is large enough for a tub garden. All you need is a sound wooden or galvanized tub; if yours is galvanized, paint it inside and out with asbestos roofing paint. The tub should be sunk halfway into the ground and about half filled with good garden soil. … Read more
Kohlrabi deserves a better place in our vegetable gardens. It is easily grown and one of the finest vegetables to eat raw. Children love it when it is peeled and sliced fresh from the garden. It is seldom seen in markets. These vegetables lose their fresh, tender flavor and tend to become bitter when they … Read more
We have merely to look at a pretty new house before grass, shrubs, and trees have been planted, or an old house amid neglected surroundings to realize how true it is that a “house is not a home until it’s planted.” When one thinks of all that should be done, it may appear to be … Read more
You can grow vegetables in the littlest garden. Indeed in a plot 20 by 20 feet or smaller, you can raise enough to make gardening more fun and eating more interesting for a family of five. How? With good varieties capable of tiptop yield in small spaces and by succession cropping. Here are the types … Read more