VEGETABLES FOR TODAY'S GARDENS

Practical guide to home-grown delicious vegetables by R. Milton Carleton. Detailed growing instructions for over forty popular vegetables spelt out exactly how, what, why and when to plant. 

If you have ever crunched your way through a portion of commercially grown cellulose lettuce, or searched every market for really fresh corn, a good bunch of leeks, or a knob of celeriac, you're not likely to dispute the case for home-grown vegetables. Every dedicated gardener - not only those who love tasty, fresh, and hard-to-find vegetables can profit from R. Milton Carleton's advice on how to get out and grow your own. For although it is still possible to find vegetables of the older tasty varieties, the demands of the mass producing commercial market are rapidly making many of them unavailable.

The author covers all the well-known vegetables, including suggestions on the best varieties for your needs. And, he puts in a convincing plug for some of the lesser known plants such as Witloof chicory (often known as Belgian endive), Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus pea, sea kale, oyster plant, Florence fennel, and cardoon, to name a few.

The practical aspects of vegetable growing - site and soil, starting seedlings indoors, tools and equipment, watering, mulching, fertilizing, and measures against pests and diseases - are detailed in the realistic language of the gardener who has personally dealt with these questions.

R. Milton Carleton explains how many vegetables can be preserved well into winter . . . some in special storage containers, others frozen right in the ground. An especially interesting chapter tells how growers in a number of other countries, as well as our own, handle fall and winter storage.

Detailed growing instructions for over forty popular vegetables spell out exactly when to plant, how much seed for what length of row, how to space plants, how many to plant for family tastes, and at what intervals they will produce. Special instructions for "working swing shifts in the garden" insure that your garden - no matter how small - will be productive throughout the growing season.

#6060 ................................................................................. RM11.40 (US$3)