Home Vegetable Gardening

A practical guide to creating, managing and harvesting your home vegetable garden to get fresh, wholesome and delicious ingredients for your meals.

Comprehensive, simple and full of examples, this book details out everything from garden planning and preparing to planting, protecting, and harvesting.

Excellent advice for both the garden enthusiast and the beginner. If you ever wanted to start a garden but did not know how to go about it, then this book was written for you.

Here are the chapters included inside the book:

I INTRODUCTION
II WHY YOU SHOULD GARDEN
III REQUISITES OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN
IV THE PLANTING PLAN
V IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR USES
VI MANURES AND FERTILIZERS
VII THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION

PART TWO--VEGETABLES

VIII STARTING THE PLANTS
IX SOWING AND PLANTING
X THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES
XI THE VEGETABLES AND THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS
XII BEST VARIETIES OF THE GARDEN VEGETABLES
XIII INSECTS AND DISEASE, AND METHODS OF FIGHTING THEM
XIV HARVESTING AND STORING

PART THREE--FRUITS

XV THE VARIETIES OF POME AND STONE FRUITS
XVI PLANTING; CULTIVATION; FILLER CROPS
XVII PRUNING, SPRAYING, HARVESTING
XVIII BERRIES AND SMALL FRUITS
XIX A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS
XX CONCLUSION