Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way: 18th-Century Methods for Today’s Organic Gardeners

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Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

From the nation’s foremost historical preservation website online 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 gardeners at Colonial Williamsburg have came upon that these traditional vegetable-growing methods are perfectly at home in these days’s up to date organic gardens. In the end, in the 18th century, organic gardening used to be the only form of gardening and local produce the only produce to be had.

Author Wesley Greene founded the Colonial Garden in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area in 1996. He and his colleagues have painstakingly researched the ways the colonists planted and tended their vegetable and herb beds, most of which are more relevant than ever. In conjunction with historical observation and complete growing instructions for 50 delicious vegetables, including colonial varieties still to be had these days, gardeners and folklorists will find weather-watching guidelines, planting techniques, and seedsaving advice for legumes, brassicas, alliums, root crops, nightshades, melons, squash, greens, and other curious and tender produce.

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