Product Description

In 18th-century gardens, the broccoli was purple and cucumbers grew to 3 feet long. Lime water controlled aphids, and a simple tile trapped slugs in the lettuce beds. And melon seeds were improved by walking about with them in your pockets.

In Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way, historic gardener Wesley Greene shares history and folklore along with practical advice on growing vegetables herbs, garden tools, and cultivation techniques. This is the ultimate organic gardening book—from a time when organic was the only garden.

Features

Written by Wesley Greene
Photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi
Hardcover with jacket
256 pages
More than 300 color photographs
8-1/4 " x 10-1/2"