Now that garden activity are in full swing, too, are aching muscles! The joy and enthusiasm of gardening are often dampened because the unused muscles rebel due mainly to incorrect gardening carriage and motion. What do we do for our muscles? Do we take advantage of last year’s painful experience? Do we prepare ourselves by … Read more
In June, the vegetable garden really begins to pay dividends. Radishes, spinach, lettuce, green onions, peas, turnips, beet greens, and others will be in good supply, and—if you got an early start—even broccoli and cabbage before the end of the month. So the gardener is inclined to take it easy and rest on his oars. … Read more
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
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
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
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 upon the land. It’s merely because these varieties in shape or color deviate from the common lot. Many folks do not know that there are … Read more
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 Freedom Gardens, every pound of food raised at home will aid in feeding the hungry abroad and make easier the national aim of peace on … Read more
When I was a child, there were no supermarkets. So a vegetable garden was very important. After school, we helped mother plant lettuce, radishes, and peas on a warm day in early spring. At the same time, large whole onions were saved from the season before, and our own onion sets and a few potatoes … Read more