Excerpt from Vegetable Growing in New South Wales
Increased production is the only practical solution of the problems of high prices and scarcity, under which every country in the world is labouring at the present time, and the solution does not rest alone with those who are farming large areas. Consumers can help themselves and their fellow citizens by becoming producers according to their own opportunities, and this many can do by raising vegetables on such small areas as are available round their own homes. Probably nine-tenths of the residences in New South Wales have a plot of ground large enough to raise a substantial quantity of fresh vegetables - almost sufficient for the requirements of the household.
Despite the disadvantages of time and distance by which they are seemingly prejudiced, and the wide areas of suitable land in this State that could easily be made to supply the whole of our own requirements, large quantities of vegetables, grown in Victoria and Tasmania, successfully compete with locally-grown produce in our markets. The bulk of the homegrown vegetables offered for sale in Sydney is raised by Chinamen, while in Victoria the celestial has long ago been almost forced out of the business by the white grower. It was one of the impressions derived by many of our "diggers," that the supply of vegetables in all European countries was in the hands of growers of their own nationality. Why it should be otherwise in New South Wales is not clear.
Contrary to popular opinion, vegetable growing does not, demand such long hours as the industrious Mongolian suggests. Like any other business it requires the commonsense application of up-to-date methods, an intelligent recognition of the principles underlying the control of contrary elements (pests and diseases), a capacity to apply energy in the right direction, and sufficient business ability to run the place on commercial lines. Sound methods are reflected in the quantity and quality of the crops, but careless, unsystematic, labour-wasting practices have their reflex in unprofitable and unattractive products.
The present publication indicates the methods adopted on the Department's experiment farms, and by the most successful commercial growers in the State. An effort has been made so to present the various recommendations that growers in different parts of the State can readily adapt them to their own peculiar conditions.
The book is particularly intended to be of use to the small market gardener and the suburban resident. It is hoped that as the initial effort of the kind, it will prove practically useful and suggestive.
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