Gardening with Brains; Fifty Years' Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of course, you do truck gardening for a living, which alters the case. It was because I practiced the methods of intensive gardening that I was insured the worst year for gardening (in Maine) I have ever known. In putting in the Bantam corn, for instance, I dug for each hill a hole a foot deep and wide, in which I mixed a little pulverized sheep manure and bone meal (wood ashes do not seem to help corn) with the (previously manured) soil. Then, with my finger, I made seven little holes for seven kernels of corn which had soaked in water overnight. Then I dug down with my trowel for some moist soil and put it over the kernels, after which, with my foot or the flat end of the hoe I firmed the soil. Then I wet the "hill" thoroughly (usually it is called a hill, though hilling is no longer practiced by up-to-date corn growers) and finally I hoed an inch of dry soil over the whole to form a dust mulch to keep in the moisture. As all of the seven kernels sprouted, three were pulled out when they were six inches high, the strongest being left. MAKE INTENSIVE GARDENING COMPULSORY It was slow work, no doubt--but I got my corn; I was insured against total loss. In a favorable season most of my painstaking work would have been superfluous; but don't you insure your house, though you feel sure it won't burn up? That season there were few families in this neighborhood whose corn didn't literally burn up from the sun's heat. It was pitiable to see it curl up its leaves (plants know a thing or two) so as to have less surface exposed to the desiccating sun, unfurling again when the grateful coolness of the night and its dew came. If that summer was the least favorable for gardening I have ever known, I remember one summer in this neighborhood which was simply id...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of course, you do truck gardening for a living, which alters the case. It was because I practiced the methods of intensive gardening that I was insured the worst year for gardening (in Maine) I have ever known. In putting in the Bantam corn, for instance, I dug for each hill a hole a foot deep and wide, in which I mixed a little pulverized sheep manure and bone meal (wood ashes do not seem to help corn) with the (previously manured) soil. Then, with my finger, I made seven little holes for seven kernels of corn which had soaked in water overnight. Then I dug down with my trowel for some moist soil and put it over the kernels, after which, with my foot or the flat end of the hoe I firmed the soil. Then I wet the "hill" thoroughly (usually it is called a hill, though hilling is no longer practiced by up-to-date corn growers) and finally I hoed an inch of dry soil over the whole to form a dust mulch to keep in the moisture. As all of the seven kernels sprouted, three were pulled out when they were six inches high, the strongest being left. MAKE INTENSIVE GARDENING COMPULSORY It was slow work, no doubt--but I got my corn; I was insured against total loss. In a favorable season most of my painstaking work would have been superfluous; but don't you insure your house, though you feel sure it won't burn up? That season there were few families in this neighborhood whose corn didn't literally burn up from the sun's heat. It was pitiable to see it curl up its leaves (plants know a thing or two) so as to have less surface exposed to the desiccating sun, unfurling again when the grateful coolness of the night and its dew came. If that summer was the least favorable for gardening I have ever known, I remember one summer in this neighborhood which was simply id...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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62

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978-1-232-16426-5

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9781232164265

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1-232-16426-7



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