The Kitchen Garden Guide

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Foreword

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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