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Tomato
Trees
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1858
Short, thick,
spreading bushes, sharpened and put into the ground by first
making a hole with a crowbar, serve as an admirable support for
the stems of the tomato plant, which, when loaded with its fruit
among the spreading branches of the bushes, look like dwarf trees
in full bearing.
Rhubarb
From The
Horticulturist, 1857
Rhubarb is an
invaluable plant to those who like a spring tart. You may have
yours ready to cut a week before your neighbor's, without the
trouble of forcing, if you set your plants in a border on the
south side of a wall or tight board fence, and take the precaution
to loosen up the soil, and cover each crown of roots with a bushel
basket full of black peat earth the autumn before.
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Garden
Tools
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1858
Handles of pruning
knives and all other implements that are liable to be lost should
be painted of a bright red. The handles of knives and other small
tools are usually of a color so near that of the soil, or that of
the branches of trees and vines, that it is not easy to find them,
if carelessly misplaced.
Garden
Rotation
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1858
The following
enumeration of the different families of garden vegetables will
enable the gardener to plan a rotation, so that similar plants
will not occupy the same soil in successive years - those classed
together should not succeed each other.
1. Peas, beans.
2. Cabbage, cauliflower, brocoli, turnip, radish.
3. Carrot, parsnip, parsley, celery.
4. Potato, tomato, egg plant.
5. Cucumber, melon gourd, squash.
6. Lettuce, salsify, endive, chicory.
7. Onion, garlic, shallot, leek.
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