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The
Kitchen Garden Guide
Foreword
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If you're interested in growing
healthy, chemical-free food, if you'd like to try some vegetables
that you've never had before, if you'd like your vegetable garden to
be a bit more dependable and if you'd like to enjoy it longer,
you've found the right book!
Last century, just about everyone had a "kitchen garden" as their
only source of fresh vegetables. Before our miracle fertilizers, pH
tests, hybrid seeds and chemical pesticides, our ancestors depended
on simple techniques that guaranteed a good first harvest and an
even better one with each new season. They grew a much greater
variety of vegetables than we do now and they developed methods to
extend their home-grown bounty throughout the year.
Those gardeners left us the legacy of good advice that you'll find
on the pages of this book. I collected the articles from time-worn
farm journals, seed catalogs, garden magazines and household
cyclopaedias. If you're planning a new "kitchen garden" or if you'd
like to improve an old one, I'm sure that you'll find their words as
valuable now as they were when they were written.
Donald J. Berg
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