The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener, credited to Ida Dandridge Bennett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of THE VEGETABLE GARDEN: A MANUAL FOR THE AMATEUR GARDENER, by IDA DANDRIDGE BENNETT. This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, growing and storing vegetables, managing garden pests, and fall garden work.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener
• Author credits: Ida Dandridge Bennett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 5:39:56

Catalogue topics

• gardening
• garden
• vegetables

Track guide

1. 01 - The Sanitary and Economic Value of the Kitchen Garden — 11:20
2. 02 - The Location of the Garden — 12:09
3. 03 - Planning the Garden — 8:34
4. 04 - How To Maintain Fertility-part 1 — 12:29
5. 05 - How To Maintain Fertility-part 2 — 11:45
6. 06 - The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 1 — 23:40
7. 07 - The Construction and Care of Hotbeds, Cold frames, and Pits-part 2 — 20:31
8. 08 - On the Sowing of Seed — 12:33
9. 09 - Transplanting — 14:50
10. 10 - Tools which Make Gardening Easy — 9:34
11. 11 - On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 1 — 20:15
12. 12 - On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 2 — 17:08
13. 13 - On the Growing of Various Vegetables-part 3 — 13:44
14. 14 - Root Vegetables-part 1 — 19:14
15. 15 - Root Vegetables-part 2 — 23:23
16. 16 - Root Vegetables-part 3 — 7:54
17. 17 - Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 1 — 13:41
18. 18 - Vine Vegetables and Fruits-part 2 — 8:51
19. 19 - Greens and Salad Vegetables — 16:27
20. 20 - Perennial Vegetables — 24:50
21. 21 - Storing Vegetables in Winter — 8:51
22. 22 - The Garden's Enemies — 17:41
23. 23 - Fall Work in the Garden — 10:45

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