Creating a Vegetable Garden

By gardener | Jul 28, 2007

In deciding upon the site for the home vegetable garden it is well to dispose once and for all of the old idea that the garden “patch” must be an ugly spot in the home surroundings. If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared for, it may be made a beautiful and harmonious feature of [...]

Creating A Wild Flower Garden

By gardener | Jul 28, 2007

A wild-flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of long tramps in the woods, collecting material, and then of the fun in fixing a real wild garden.
Many people say they have no luck at all with such a garden. It is not a question of luck, but a question of understanding, for [...]

The Genesis of Soil

By gardener | Jul 28, 2007

Soil primarily had its beginning from rock together with animal and vegetable decay, if you can imagine long stretches or periods of time when great rock masses were crumbling and breaking up. Heat, water action, and friction were largely responsible for this. By friction here is meant the rubbing and grinding of rock mass against [...]

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