Vegetable Gardening

Incorporating authentic and field experience based information on every phase of hardy vegetable culture; this Encyclopaedic work is of high and lasting reference value for vegetable growers as well as amateurs in the field of gardening. Over 14 different chapters in the book provide detailed scientific information on aspects like soils and their cultivation, manuring and artificial fertilizers, the planning and layout, rotation and cropping, classification, the use of frames and cloches, seed sowing and transplanting, the culture of the various vegetables, salad plants, herbs, unusual vegetables, vegetable pests and their control, vegetable diseases and their control, etc. There are diagrams, illustrations and a comprehensive index.