Cultivating history
Subtitle: exploring horticultural practices of the Southern gardener : proceedings of the thirteenth conference on Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes, September 27-29, 2001, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Contributors: Old Salem, Inc
Publisher: Old Salem
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Winston-Salem, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Gardening; Congresses; History; Gardens; African American gardens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Their garden was of moderate size, well laid off ..." : historic Southern gardens in letters, journals, & travel accounts  -- Davyd Foard Hood; title: Well wrought : making garden tools from iron and steel  -- Stephen Mankowski; title: Practical gardening : the method of proceeding  -- Terry Yemm; title: "Sprung from the earth" : the layout of the common garden  -- Rudy J. Favretti; title: The archaeology of slave quarter architecture and landscape  -- Douglas Sanford; title: "Little spots allow'd them" : slave gardens in the eighteenth century  -- Patricia Gibbs; title: Gumbo, the three sisters, and food production in nineteenth-century slave gardens  -- Leni Ashmore Sorensen; title: Rediscovering gardening by the moon  -- Sally K. Reeves; title: "Ecological imperialism?" Southern garden pests and pesticides, 1700-1832 -- Peter Hatch.