This book contains an accessible treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions, with information on techniques, economy, common problems, and more. This text contains concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting, and marketing of the common garden vegetables, designed in such a manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure, and profit. Although old, much of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of much use to modern readers. The chapters of this book include: 'Home Gardens', 'Soils and Locations', 'Tillage and Tools', 'Manures and Manuring', 'Crop Rotation', 'Irrigation', 'Insects and Diseases', 'Succession and Double Cropping', 'Storing Vegetables', 'Marketing', 'Greenhouses', 'Hotbeds and Cold Frames', 'Seeds and Seeding', etcetera. We are proud to republish this vintage text, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on kitchen gardening.