Farmers and gardeners of a few decades ago knew a thing or two about healthier plants and soils. This is what I learned from one of them.
Implements And Their Uses
It may seem to the reader that it is all very well to make a garden with a pencil, but that the work of transferring it to the soil must be quite another problem and one entailing so much work that he will leave it to the professional market gardener.
Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part I
It certainly is true that many modern houses of the better sort do not offer very congenial conditions to the healthy growth of plants. It is equally certain that in many cases these conditions may be changed by different management in such way that they would be not only more healthy for plants to live in, but so also for their human occupants.
Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part II
After so much advice as to the possibility of making conditions right for the growing of plants in the house, the inexperienced reader will naturally want to know what these conditions are.
Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part III
The proper condition of temperature is the most difficult thing to regulate and maintain in growing plants in the house.