Now the time is here to grow vegetables for fun and ease the family pocketbook’s strain. For most of us, the years of apprenticeship are over, for we learned to grow vegetables under the pressure of wartime necessity if we had not done so before. Some of us found it hard work. However, raising vegetables … Read more
It has long been a mystery why so few home gardeners grow Brussels sprouts. Is it because people do not like to eat them or think they are challenging to raise? Most people think they are a delicacy obtainable only at a fancy price at better restaurants and greengrocers. They have not realized that Brussels … Read more
Loaded with health-giving vitamin A (thousands more units per pound than white potatoes), homegrown sweet potatoes are so flavorful than those you buy at the store cannot compare with them. So, if you can grow ordinary potatoes in your garden, why not grow sweet potatoes, too? They are no more difficult and produce as well, … Read more
Several readers share how they introduced their friends to gardening. M. Hauber It all began with my transfer from an office with southern exposure and yards of sills to a reconverted attic office with two postage-stamp north windows without sills. By the end of September, when I would have had each window sill banked with … Read more
May is the vegetable grower’s busiest month for most parts of the country. The seeds of the early hardy crops that were sown a month or so ago will have germinated and made sufficient growth to be thinned out—an operation which cannot be postponed without disastrous results. And as the ground warms up and the … Read more
At the outset, if you make up your mind what your interest is in your garden or proposed garden, you will avoid confusion later. Is the garden merely to supply food as easily and cheaply as possible, or is it to provide vegetables of superb taste and texture which just cannot be bought in the … Read more
A casual visitor strolling through my yard may notice only a well-kept lawn and many flowers. An experienced gardener’s eye will spot a row of fern-like foliage just back of a border of dwarf marigolds. Looks like carrots, they’ll think, and be right. Down the perennial row, they’ll notice a plant with huge tropical-looking leaves … Read more
Witloof Chicory, also called succory and French endive and sometimes erroneously called endive in food markets, looks like a corpulent, pallid cigar. But it commands a very high price (and gets it) for it is highly prized by the epicure. The young shoot of Cichorium Intybus is forced into growth during the winter from roots … Read more
Like the proverbial shoemaker and his children, the garden of many professional horticulturists often gets the minimum care and attention. We are so busy telling the other fellow what to do that we do not have time to do it ourselves. In addition to this, we are watched over most carefully by our neighbors who … Read more
Provide your vegetable garden with full sun for at least half the daylight hours. Plant it in well-drained soil, which can be kept moist and free of weeds. Then go one step further. Be sure that your vegetables have sufficient plant food at all times. Of all the unfavorable factors which might spell failure in … Read more