city garden plan from 1917

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city garden plan from 
The Oregon Daily Journal

1917 Apr 26 Page 11
1917 Apr 27 Page 11
page one is the plan
page two is the explanation of the  plan enjoy. 
 feel free to comment on any flaw problem you may see in the plan.

enjoy

bcpathome

Wow. He must have spent his whole life gardening with all that lot .When did he sleep ? 

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they did not have cell phones.  tv,radio or internet back then so
they had plenty of spare time. And the size of garden compared
to the amount plants is deceptive. if you planted same amount of
 plants using the square foot spacing method the garden would be
less than a third the size.

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Liriodendron

I'm interested that he didn't have potatoes on his plan... obviously since it's from 1917 it doesn't include some of the veg I'd be aiming to grow today, like courgettes, sugar peas, rocket or tatsoi.  Plus it's American so it includes crops I couldn't reliably grow outside here, such as tomatoes, cucumber, melons etc.  He also seems to be growing huge amounts of certain crops like beans - I wonder if it was a market garden, or if they were grown for drying, perhaps...

But it's interesting to see what has changed in the past 100 years or so.  That method of planting in long rows isn't something I'd be doing these days, as I'm short and old and need good access to my plants.  Smaller beds, raised or otherwise, with access paths around make sense to me.

Uff

It is interesting to see what was grown then. Bearing in mind that most people didn't have a fridge or freezer I wonder how they stored their veg and fruit for that matter. Drying and bottling I imagine and veg eaten in season.

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in another article in same newspaper that
did not included describes the area as a
major potato growing region also there
was a bumper crop that fall of potatoes.