Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener
Ida Dandridge Bennett
23 chapters · 5 h 40 min · English
Read by Michael Packard, Esther, Lily-LLM, Garth Burton, Cheri Gardner, Denny Sayers (d. 2015) and others
Gardening · Nature · Miscellaneous
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This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, growing and storing vegetables, managing garden pests, and fall garden work.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)
Chapters
1 01- The Sanitary and Economic Value of the Kitchen Garden 11 min 2 02- The Location of the Garden 12 min 3 03- Planning the Garden 9 min 4 04- How To Maintain Fertility-part 1 12 min 5 05- How To Maintain Fertility-part 2 12 min 6 06- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 1 24 min 7 07- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 2 20 min 8 08- On the Sowing of Seed 13 min 9 09- Transplanting 15 min 10 10- Tools which Make Gardening Easy 10 min 11 11- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 1 20 min 12 12- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 2 17 min 13 13- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 3 14 min 14 14- Root Vegetables-part 1 19 min 15 15- Root Vegetables-part 2 23 min 16 16- Root Vegetables-part 3 8 min 17 17- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 1 14 min 18 18- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 2 9 min 19 19- Greens and Salad Vegetables 16 min 20 20- Perennial Vegetables 25 min 21 21- Storing Vegetables in Winter 9 min 22 22- The Garden's Enemies 18 min 23 23- Fall Work in the Garden 11 min
