Michigan Historical Reprint Series

The American Gardener: a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying out of Gardens, on the Making and Managing of Hotbeds and Greenhouses; and on the ... Herbs, Fruits, and Flowers. by William Michigan Historical Reprint Series

The American Gardener provides over 150 pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying.

Here's What You'll Find In The American Gardener:

* Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants.

* Preparing the soil properly to provide nutrition for healthy plants.

* Fencing techniques for your garden.

* Designing, or laying out, your garden so that it's pleasing to the eye yet functional as well.

* You'll learn how to make hotbeds, so that you can start your vegetables earlier in the season and have edible produce as many as 15 days earlier than normal!

* Learn the benefits of operating a hobby greenhouse, and how it can be beneficially to your household.

* Learn about true seeds and the soundness of seed.

* Learn proper methods for saving and preserving seed.

* Learn proper sowing methods to improve your seeds germination rate, and to ensure healthy plants.

* American Gardener provides proper transplanting methods, to ensure your plants survival when moving from one area to another.

* Cultivating your garden properly and methods for tilling, trenching and sowing to ensure your gardens success.

* Learn propagating methods so that you can grow many more plants form just one stock plant.

* There is a nice section on growing grapes in minimum space while producing so many grapes that it'll make your mouth water!

* Learn how to successfully grow 81 different vegetables and herbs, 26 tasty fruits and nuts and the most popular flowers and shrubs with the most gorgeous blooms!