The organic seed catalogue have a heritage seed section on line. You can get old varieties that would have been available in 1914. Mind you even things like little gem lettuce and early onward peas were around then.
Are the spacings and timings back then different from how they are now? Looking only at the first one, runner beans, I space mine 9” apart and sow in early May.
Maybe climate change has brought forward sowing dates by about a week but my feeling is what worked for Mr Skelton’s Surrey garden in 1917 holds true for today.
allotment boy:you are missing point of the thread. the point is the spacing and timing of plantings in this era.
Well pardon me but I agree with BenCotto. I was merely letting people know that if they fancy trying any of these old varieties that many are still , not only available, but indeed some are still widely grown.
Allotment Boy this thread is about planting diagrams a planting dates. from ww1 era. If want start a thread about ww1 era heirloom varieties you can.
BenCotto the are several spacing and planting date problems in the diagram posted from Uk. but they tough see unless graph out whole diagram use a planting schedule flow chart,and plant height graph chart.
one example: what do plan on doing when those 80 cabbages are ripe at same time.
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from march 12,1918 p 10 for ww1
the point is the spacing and timing of plantings in
this era.
Maybe climate change has brought forward sowing dates by about a week but my feeling is what worked for Mr Skelton’s Surrey garden in 1917 holds true for today.
I was merely letting people know that if they fancy trying any of these old varieties that many are still , not only available, but indeed some are still widely grown.
from ww1 era. If want start a thread about ww1 era
heirloom varieties you can.
BenCotto the are several spacing and planting
date problems in the diagram posted from Uk.
but they tough see unless graph out whole diagram
use a planting schedule flow chart,and plant height
graph chart.
one example: what do plan on doing when those
80 cabbages are ripe at same time.