Skills: (1942) The Farm Garden

Farmers' Bulletin No. 1673; J.H Beattie and W.R. Beattie; USDA; 1942

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The Farm Garden — USDA Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1673 (Revised 1942)
A classic, practical guide to planning and growing a productive farm garden. This revised 1942 USDA bulletin covers soil preparation, fertilizing, planting calendars by frost zone, crop-by-crop instructions, and basics on irrigation, pest control, and storing your harvest. Authored by J. H. Beattie and W. R. Beattie of the Bureau of Plant Industry.

What’s inside:

• Frost-zone planting calendars and maps with schedules for when to start, set out, and succession-plant across U.S. zones, plus autumn frost maps.

• Quick-reference tables showing seed needed per 100 ft of row, sowing depth, and plant spacing for dozens of crops.

• Crop guides with step-by-step culture for perennials such as asparagus and rhubarb; greens and salad crops; roots and tubers; vine crops; legumes; the cabbage group; the onion group; and warm-season fleshy fruits.

• Period variety notes including Early Jersey Wakefield and Golden Acre (cabbage), Earliana and Marglobe (tomato), and Golden Bantam and Stowell’s Evergreen (sweet corn).