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The Biggle Garden Book : Vegetables, Small Fruits and Flowers for Pleasure and Profit, Hardback Book

The Biggle Garden Book : Vegetables, Small Fruits and Flowers for Pleasure and Profit Hardback

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When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers.

Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener’s success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. “The man, woman or youngster who really wants a garden, will somehow manage to have a good one regardless of soil conditions, bad weather, measles in the family, or whether the area of ground at hand is a square acre or a square rod,” he wrote encouragingly at the start of the book. That passion for gardening continues today in fields, backyards, and urban community plots across the United States.

According to a poll taken in 2009 by the National Gardening Association, more than forty-three million households in the United States grow some of their own food.

Learn how to do things the “old-school” way as Jacob and Harriet Biggle guide you through the fundamentals of:Soil preparation, sowing, and plantingHotbeds and cold framesFertilization, cultivation, and irrigationFlower gardening with old-fashioned favoritesGarden pests and friendsWith a resurgence in organic farming, heirloom varieties, and self-reliant living, The Biggle Garden Book is more valuable than ever because of the time-tested advice it offers.

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