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Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

Public domain audiobook

Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

by Ida Dandridge Bennett

English· 5:39:56· 23 chapters
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)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    01- The Sanitary and Economic Value of the Kitchen Garden

    11:19
  2. Chapter 2

    02- The Location of the Garden

    12:08
  3. Chapter 3

    03- Planning the Garden

    08:33
  4. Chapter 4

    04- How To Maintain Fertility-part 1

    12:29
  5. Chapter 5

    05- How To Maintain Fertility-part 2

    11:45
  6. Chapter 6

    06- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 1

    23:39
  7. Chapter 7

    07- The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 2

    20:30
  8. Chapter 8

    08- On the Sowing of Seed

    12:32
  9. Chapter 9

    09- Transplanting

    14:50
  10. Chapter 10

    10- Tools which Make Gardening Easy

    09:33
  11. Chapter 11

    11- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 1

    20:14
  12. Chapter 12

    12- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 2

    17:07
  13. Chapter 13

    13- On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 3

    13:44
  14. Chapter 14

    14- Root Vegetables-part 1

    19:13
  15. Chapter 15

    15- Root Vegetables-part 2

    23:23
  16. Chapter 16

    16- Root Vegetables-part 3

    07:53
  17. Chapter 17

    17- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 1

    13:41
  18. Chapter 18

    18- Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 2

    08:50
  19. Chapter 19

    19- Greens and Salad Vegetables

    16:27
  20. Chapter 20

    20- Perennial Vegetables

    24:50
  21. Chapter 21

    21- Storing Vegetables in Winter

    08:51
  22. Chapter 22

    22- The Garden's Enemies

    17:41
  23. Chapter 23

    23- Fall Work in the Garden

    10:44