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Here are just a few
articles from the 152 pages of the free book, the Kitchen Garden
Guide. If you enjoy them, you can download the whole book by
clicking on the link at the bottom of any article.
How to
Plan Your Vegetable Garden
Get helpful
advice from yesterday's garden guide books on how to layout a
practical and attractive garden for your family vegetables, greens and
herbs.
How to
Build Cold Frames
Get your family's victory garden
off to a good start. Learn how to build inexpensive cold frames with
directions from the 1894 book How to Make the Garden Pay.
How to Grow Onions in Your Backyard
Learn some old-time
hints on having a great supply of home-grown onions from your
victory garden.
How to Predict the Weather
Protect your garden
vegetables from the wiles of the weather. Know just when to plant
and just when to harvest. This old-time weather lore will help you
know what's coming before the weatherman does.
How and
Why to Firm Your Vegetable Garden's Soil
Learn the advantages of firm
garden soil for starting seeds. This advice is by Peter Henderson,
from his 1887 book, Gardening for Pleasure.
How to
Improve Your Vegetable
Garden's Soil
Learn how you can have a
bountiful harvest of healthy garden vegetables. Improve your soil
with these practical hints from old garden guide books and farmers'
journals.
How to
Make a Scarecrow that Works
Here's how to chase crows from
your family's vegetable garden. This design was contributed, in
1876, by a reader of the popular farm journal, The American
Agriculturist.
How to
Have Cabbages Year-Round, Grown from Your Home Garden
Enjoy healthful home-grown
cabbages from early spring through winter. Learn how from the 1888
book Gardening for Pleasure, by Peter Henderson.
How to Protect Your Vegetable Plants from Garden Pests
Learn how to make and use simple,
safe, home-made pesticides with these guides from yesterday's most
popular garden books and magazines.
How to
Save Your Vegetable Garden Seeds
Save your best seeds, the way
that yesterday's gardeners did, to improve next year's yield.
How to
Start Your Vegetable Seedlings
Learn how to get your victory
garden seeds started early with good advice from old-time gardening
guides.
How to
Use Nature's Helpers in Your Vegetable Garden
Learn how to take advantage of
beneficial birds, bugs and toads and have them get rid of pests in
your garden. These practical hints are from the 1894 book, How to
Make the Garden Pay.
How to
Use Companion Planting for a Bountiful Backyard Vegetable Garden
Try these time-tested ideas to
increase the yield of your victory garden.
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