Echoes from 1904

I’m really geeked about a blog I just found while I was participating in Causabon’s Independance Day’s Challenge. Its a transcription of the writing of a woman named Kate V. Saint Maur who lived and gardened in 1904. She gives advice on how often to cultivate for weeds in a much more exacting manner than most garden novels today. Some of the advice isn’t as useful, such as using lead pipes to spray copper sulfate on apple trees. It’s still interesting to see how a working garden functioned before the Green Revoloution in the middle of the century, when chemical developments in WWII were applied to creating the chemical fertilizers we use today in most of our food production. So check out A Self Supporting Home for a glimpse gardens past.