Learning To Garden: How A Friend Started Me Gardening
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
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The Vegetable Garden In May: Sowing, Thinning and Early Pests
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
What Is Your Garden For – To Garden Or Grow Good Food?
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
How I Raise Gardening Plants And Flowers Together
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
When Do You Sow Witloof Chicory aka French Endive?
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
One Man’s Way To A Healthy Garden
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
Fertilize Your Vegetables and Get a Bigger Yield
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
Colorful Vegetables Good To Eat
The standardization of vegetables may have gone somewhat too far, and to use an inconsistent phrase, the public has been educated to be ignorant of many good things that grow
What Are The Best Annual Herbs To Grow In Pots?
The annual kitchen or pot herbs always have been favorites with home gardeners. In most instances, a few plants of each kind produced from a packet of seed suffice to
The Little Vegetable Garden: How To Grow More In A Small Space
Every year is a good year to have a vegetable garden, but this is a doubly good one. As President Truman has pointed out years ago in his appeal for