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Vegetable gardening the Colonial Williamsburg way : 18th-century methods for today's organic gardeners / Wesley Greene ; photography by Barbara Temple Lombardi.
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Rodale
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2011
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| Location | Call No. | Status | Note | URL |
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| Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department | 635.0975 GREENE | Check Shelf | ||
| Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction | 635.0484 GREENE | Check Shelf | ||
| Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department | 635.09755 GREENE | Check Shelf |
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ix, 246 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Includes index.
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| Contents |
Of beans and peas -- Of the cabbage family -- Of salad greens -- Of root crops -- Of the onion family -- Of melons and cucumbers -- Of squash, pumpkins, and gourds -- Of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants -- Of luxuries and oddities -- Gardening under cover -- Growing sticks.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.
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| Summary |
A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending fifty different vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing organic techniques.
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9781609611620 hardcover
1609611624 hardcover
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