Garden Crops: Production and Preservation

Lester Sylvan Ivins

Rand, McNally, 1919 - Vegetable gardening - 338 pages

Contents

• The Preface: 15
• SECTION ONE THE PRODUCTION OF GARDEN CROPS CHAPTER: 16
• SELECTING THE GARDEN SITE 2 I: 21
• MAKING GARDEN PLANS: 24
• COMPANION CROPS: 32
• ROTATION OF GARDEN CROPS: 35
• PURCHASING GARDEN SEED: 37
• ECONOMY IN THE USE OF SEEDS: 39
• VARIETIES OF CROPS: 41
• HINTS ON PLANTING: 43
• DRAINING THE GARDEN: 47
• PREPARING THE GARDEN SOIL: 49
• COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS FOR THE GARDEN: 53
• TESTING GARDEN SEED: 56
• THE HOTBED: 59
• THE COLD FRAME AND SEED BED: 62
• PLANTING DATES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: 67
• PLANTING DATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: 70
• THINNING AND REPLANTING PLANTS: 75
• GROWING AND TRANSPLANTING PLANTS: 77
• TILLAGE AND THE USE OF TOOLS 81: 83
• WATERING THE GARDEN: 86
• PROTECTING THE GARDEN PRODUCTS: 90
• GARDEN RECORDS: 92
• SPRAYING FOR INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES: 95
• PROTECTING GARDEN CROPS FROM FROST ΙΟΙ: 101
• WEEDS AND WEEDING: 103
• THE GARDENERS FRIENDS: 105
• XXVIII: 113
• XXXII: 122
• XXXIV: 128
• XXXVIII: 138
• BEANS: 147
• KALE AND CAULIFLOWER: 155
• XLVII: 166
• Kale: 170
• XLIX: 174
• Kohlrabi: 176
• SPRING SALADS: 182
• Parsley: 186
• PLANTS RELATED TO THE ONION: 189
• Asparagus bunched for market: 195
• LVIII: 198
• Harvest day at a school for the blind Cleveland Ohio: 203
• SMALL FRUITS: 206
• LXII: 212
• A flourishing strawberry patch and a sample of the fruit being mar: 213
• Pole lima beans furnishing a luxuriant screen for the back yard fence: 225
• PLANTS TO BEAUTIFY THE YARD OR GARDEN: 227
• A school room class at work testing seeds for purity: 235
• Second grade pupils learning how to propagate plants: 244
• WHY AND HOW WE PRESERVE FOODS: 249
• Galvanized pail and wooden rack an inexpensive equipment: 253
• Teacher placing rack in the wash boiler and pupil ready to place: 259
• STORING VEGETABLES IN PITS: 280
• LESSON ASSIGNMENTS: 291
• SCHOOL EXHIBITS OF GARDEN CROPS: 304
• SOME SUGGESTIVE FORMS: 312
• THE COMPOSITION OF VEGETABLES: 320
• ADDRESSES OF STATE EXPERIMENT STATIONS: 321
• 201: 326
• The Index: 327

Bibliographic information

• Title: Garden Crops: Production and Preservation
• Author: Lester Sylvan Ivins
• Publisher: Rand, McNally, 1919
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 29, 2008
• Length: 338 pages