Archive for July, 2007
As part of our excerpting old gardening books, we’re proud to start a series of posts featuring Home Vegetable Gardening: A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by F. F. Rockwell, 1911.
We really love reading this book and we’re sure you will too. Written in 1911, it is still relevant today while being of historical interest.
Here is the very quaint cover:
I love growing in my backyard garden zucchini or summer squash as some people call it. BTW, I seldom spell zucchini and didn’t realized it was spelled that way. I kept typing zuchinni and zuchini. Anyway, I’ve got about a dozen nice zucchini plants going in my garden vegetable bed and each one had about 6 or 8 beautiful flowers on them. I was so proud. Read the rest of this entry »