Comments for Piemoney http://piemoney.com Pied Stuff You Need Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on The American Gardener by Cheryl20772 http://piemoney.com/landscape_garden/the-american-gardener#comment-2 Cheryl20772 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:34:29 +0000 http://piemoney.com/?p=16#comment-2 This is a vintage book that deals more with fruit and flower than vegetables. It's an out of print book that is made newly available in downloadable format. I find it always interesting to see how people in history have looked at many of the same things we have today. In 1854, they had many of the same plants, but may have spelled the names differently or used a foreign language name for what we know today. Here is a small quote from this neat book for your pleasure: "Having fixed upon the spot for the garden, the next thing is to prepare the ground. This may be done by ploughing and harrowing, until the ground, at the top, be perfectly clean; and, then, by double ploughings: that is to say, by going, with a strong plough that turns a large furrow and turns it cleanly, twice in the same place, and thus, moving the ground to the depth of fourteen or sixteen inches, for, the advantage of deeply moving the ground is very great indeed. When this has been done in one direction; it ought to be done across, and then the ground will have been well and truly moved. The ploughing ought to be done with four oxen and the plough ought to be held by a strong and careful ploughman. This is as much as I shall, probably, be able to persuade any body to do in the way of preparing the ground. But, this is not all that ought to be done; and it is proper to give directions for the best way of doing this and every thing else." This is a vintage book that deals more with fruit and flower than vegetables. It’s an out of print book that is made newly available in downloadable format. I find it always interesting to see how people in history have looked at many of the same things we have today. In 1854, they had many of the same plants, but may have spelled the names differently or used a foreign language name for what we know today.

Here is a small quote from this neat book for your pleasure:

“Having fixed upon the spot for the garden, the next thing is to prepare the ground. This may be done by ploughing and harrowing, until the ground, at the top, be perfectly clean; and, then, by double ploughings: that is to say, by going, with a strong plough that turns a large furrow and turns it cleanly, twice in the same place, and thus, moving the ground to the depth of fourteen or sixteen inches, for, the advantage of deeply moving the ground is very great indeed.

When this has been done in one direction; it ought to be done across, and then the ground will have been well and truly moved. The ploughing ought to be done with four oxen and the plough ought to be held by a strong and careful ploughman.

This is as much as I shall, probably, be able to persuade any body to do in the way of preparing the ground. But, this is not all that ought to be done; and it is proper to give directions for the best way of doing this and every thing else.”

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