. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 76 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. A fine Iowa garden. Everything in long straight rows, wide enough to le cultivated with a horse cultivator "A PRETTY FAIR STAGGER AT A ; From Mrs. James Patterson, Burnt Ranch, Calif. I think I have had a pretty good sort of a garden—considering. If I am to be judged along with professionals and others who have hired help and finely cultivated ground and all sorts of tools, I am sure that I stand no chance for your consideration, but if you judge me from a feminine vi
. The book of a thousand gardens;. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. 76 THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND GARDENS. A fine Iowa garden. Everything in long straight rows, wide enough to le cultivated with a horse cultivator "A PRETTY FAIR STAGGER AT A ; From Mrs. James Patterson, Burnt Ranch, Calif. I think I have had a pretty good sort of a garden—considering. If I am to be judged along with professionals and others who have hired help and finely cultivated ground and all sorts of tools, I am sure that I stand no chance for your consideration, but if you judge me from a feminine viewpoint, (I am a voter now, you know), on what I really accom- plished against heavy odds, I believe you will say with my old neighbor, "That it was a pretty fair stagger at a ; I am a city-bred woman and this is my first garden—thanks to you, Mr. Field. This is a homestead in the Trinity National Forest which we have just taken up. It is in the northern part of California where we have early frosts, much snow and a short summer, and we have only trails to travel on. 1 started my garden on a rocky hillside having a southern exposure. I brought water to the spot in a little ditch. We have no summer rains. I hired a decrepit Chinaman and a little boy to take off the top layer of rocks, and I did the rest. I worked with the pick, the shovel, the mattock and the hoe. I planted, sowed, cultivated, irrigated and harvested this garden by myself upon soil which had never before been upturned by the hand of man. My garden spot was 32x48 ft., with young peach trees set out at 16 ft. intervals and several large madrono stumps in between and numerous small ones. The only fertilizer I had at hand was wood ashes from my cook stove, and I got a few bushels of borrowed manure in my tiny seed bed, but I worked early and late with the little water at my dis-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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