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
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How To Plant A Tub Garden
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,
Kohlrabi Easy To Grow Excellent To Eat Raw
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
Do You Include The Garden In Your Budget?
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
Space Saving Vegetables
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
Don’t Crowd Your Vegetable Seeds
Thickly sown vegetable seeds cause many disappointments in home gardening. The seedlings often come up so crowded that none has a chance for average growth unless the rows are thinned
Confessions Of A Garden Gambler
There was the year we had roasting cars on July 2. That’s a month to 6 weeks ahead of schedule for central Indiana. For here, our last killing frost is
Vitamin Rich Kales From The Orient
Few plain dirt gardeners can visualize kale, the richest vitamin of the pot herbs, as a foliage plant for the flower border. Japanese horticulturists came up with ornamental kales more
Parsley The Wonder Plant Loaded With Vitamin A
Just outside my kitchen door, green, feathery, hardy plants have stood throughout the winter, offering health-giving leaves which are as good as a whole bottle of pills. I merely brush
Choosy About Tomatoes
It may have been the year I stood over chili sauce for hours, boiling it down to the proper consistency. Or maybe the year I tried to make tomato juice