Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way
From the nation’s foremost historical preservation site comes a guide to traditional—and
still relevant—methods and advice for planting and tending a productive vegetable garden
In a colonial-style garden, the broccoli is purple and “turkey” cucumbers grow to three feet long; oiled
paper predates plastic for sheltering spring plants; and fermenting manure warms the seedlings. Finding
inspiration and value in 18th-century plants, tools, and techniques, the gardene…
