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War Gardens: A Pocket Guide for Home Vegetable Growers
Montague Free
When war strained the food supply, Americans dug gardens to help. Montague Free's pocket guide arms the home grower: the tools, the site and its soil, fertilizers, which vegetables to plant, and how to sow, hoe, thin, and stake them. Compact, complete, and practical. Everything a first-time vegetable gardener needs to feed the family. Dig in and grow.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
34 chapters
- 1CONTENTS
- 2PREFACE
- 3I THE VALUE OF BACK-YARD AND VACANT-LOT GARDENING
- 4II HOW TO MAKE A START—COMMUNITY GARDENS
- 5III TOOLS
- 6IV THE SITE—THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION
- 7V FERTILIZERS
- 8VI THE KINDS OF VEGETABLES TO GROW
- 9VII PLANNING THE GARDEN
- 10VIII SEEDS, SEED-SOWING, AND TRANSPLANTING
- 11IX HOEING AND THINNING
- 12X STAKING AND TYING
- 13XI INSECT ENEMIES
- 14STOMACH POISONS FOR BITING INSECTS
- 15Lead-arsenate Solution
- 16Paris Green
- 17Pyrethrum Powder
- 18Hellebore Powder
+ 16 more. The full contents open with the book.
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