Doomsday Defense Library Rebuilding Civilization
Handbook · 1918
War Gardens
A Pocket Guide for Home Vegetable Growers
Historical text. The pesticides recommended here (arsenate of lead, Paris green and others) are highly toxic and long banned. Do not use them. Everything else about soil, planting and care still applies.
When the United States entered the First World War, Americans were urged to grow their own vegetables so more food could go to the troops and to Europe. Montague Free, head gardener at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, wrote this pocket guide for first-time growers: starting a garden, tools, soil preparation, fertilizers, what to grow, planning, sowing and transplanting, and crop-by-crop directions.
The same logic applies to any long emergency. More in gardening.
- Author
- Montague Free
- Published
- 1918, Harper & Brothers
- Topics
- Gardening & Farming
- Rights
- Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
- Transcription
- Project Gutenberg eBook #63013
Contents
- I — The Value of Back-yard and Vacant-lot Gardening
- II — How to Make a Start—community Gardens
- III — Tools
- IV — The Site—the Soil and Its Preparation
- V — Fertilizers
- VI — The Kinds of Vegetables to Grow
- VII — Planning the Garden
- VIII — Seeds, Seed-sowing, and Transplanting
- IX — Hoeing and Thinning
- X — Staking and Tying
- XI — Insect Enemies
- XII — Plant Diseases
- XIII — The Culture of Vegetables in Detail
- XIV — Harvesting and Storing
- Appendix