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My
vegetable gardening friend; It cannot, as a usual thing,
be done. Of course, it
may happen and sometimes does. You might, being
a trusting lamb,
go down into Wall Street with $10,000 and make a
fortune. You know that
you would not be likely to, and the chances are very
much against you. This
vegetable gardening business is a matter of common sense; and
the man, or the woman,
who has learned by experience how to do
something, whether it is
cornering the market or growing cabbages,
naturally does it better than
the one who has not. Do not expect the
impossible. No, if you are going
to take up vegetable gardening, you will have to work
hard, gather as many gardening tips that
you can, and
you will still have a great many
disappointments. All that I, or anyone else,
could put on a website will not make a vegetable gardener of
you. It must be learned through
the fingers, and back, too, as well as from the
printed page. But, after all,
the greatest reward for your efforts will be the
work itself; and unless
you love the work, or have a feeling that you
will love it, probably
the best way for you, is to stick to the grocery
for your vegetables.
Most things,
in the course of development, change from the
simple to
the complex. The art of vegetable gardening
has in many
ways been an exception to
the rule. The methods of culture used for many
crops are more simple
than those in vogue a generation ago. The last
fifty years has seen
also a tremendous advance in the varieties of vegetables, and the
strange thing is that in many instances the new
and better sorts are
more easily and quickly grown than those they
have replaced. The new
lima beans are an instance of what is meant.
While limas have always
been appreciated as one of the most delicious of
vegetables, in many
sections they could never be successfully grown,
because of their
aversion to dampness and cold, and of the long
season required to
mature them. The newer sorts are not only larger
and better, but
hardier and earlier; and the bush forms have
made them still more
generally available.
Vegetable Gardening |
Gardening Tips | Growing Vegetables
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