The Biggle garden book
Subtitle: vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit
By: by Jacob Biggle
Series: Biggle farm library
Publisher: Skyhorse; SKYHORSE
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781626361447
Subjects: Gardening
Description: When "The Biggle Garden Book" was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener's success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. "The man, woman or youngster who really wants a garden, will somehow manage to have a good one regardless of soil conditions, bad weather, measles in the family, or whether the area of ground at hand is a square acre or a square rod," he wrote encouragingly at the start of the book. That passion for gardening continues today in fields, backyards, and urban community plots across the United States. According to a poll taken in 2009 by the National Gardening Association, more than forty-three million households in the United States grow some of their own food.
Notes: Includes index.