This text contains a handy guide to market gardening. The aim of this text is to furnish, in a condensed and usable form, information concerning the methods and best practices for growing and marketing common vegetables. It is designed primarily as an elementary text on market gardening. Methods for the propagation, preparation of the soil for planting, cultivation, harvesting and marketing of twenty-three of the more common and hardy vegetables are considered in detail. This is a text that will greatly appeal to anyone considering owning, or indeed already own, a market garden - containing a wealth of invaluable information. The chapters of this book include: 'Location for the Market Garden', 'Fertilizers', 'Hot Beds', 'Seeds and Seed Sowing', 'Irrigation', 'Vegetable Gardens', 'Storing and Packing', and 'Crops'. This text was originally published in 1915, and is proudly republished now complete with a new introduction on homesteading.

Market Gardening (Vintage Homestead Classics)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Yeaw, F. L.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Hewlett Pr

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