18th c. Cisterns & Gardening Practices #shorts
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🥬 What fed the Washington household every single day? Step into the lower garden to find out.
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Learn about one of Mount Vernon's witness trees from Fifer Donald Francisco.
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18th c. Cisterns & Gardening Practices #shorts
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Learn about 18th century gardening practices with your favorite horticulturist, Dean Norton.
Cisterns, seen here in the Lower Garden, were essential to plant growth in George Washington’s time.
They served two primary functions:
(1) Making water easily accessible to the gardeners
(2) Warming up the water so that the plants would be more receptive to it.
Landscape and Horticulture
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1
0:54
🥬 What fed the Washington household every single day? Step into the lower garden to find out.
Landscape and Horticulture
8
0:43
Learn about one of Mount Vernon's witness trees from Fifer Donald Francisco.
Landscape and Horticulture