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Home Vegetable Gardening - a Complete and Practi

F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .to go unnourished in the midst of soups and tender meats if the latter were frozen solid.

Plants take all their nourishment in the form of soups, and very weak ones at that. Plant food to be available must be soluble to the action of the feeding root tubes; and unless it is available it might, as far as the present benefiting of your garden is concerned, just as well not be there at all. Plants take up their food through innumerable and microscopic feeding rootlets, which possess the power of absorbing moisture, and furnishing it, distributed by the plant juices, or sap, to stem, branch, leaf, flower and fruit. There is one startling fact which may help to fix these things in your memory: it takes from 300 to 500 pounds of water to furnish food for the building of one pound of dry plant matter. You can see why plant food is not of much use unless it is available; and it is not available unless it is soluble.

THE THEORY OF MANURING

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Community Reviews

Difficult to read on the Kindle. Advice for the most part is probably still relevant, but some of the techniques are pretty dated. I'll probably use a newer book when I start a garden.

I am not a fan of the organization/layout. It is both hard to read (though mostly fine besides a table here or there) and hard to locate useful information