Here's a quote from Ernest Cobb's book Garden Steps, 1917:
"Success in garden work is not a matter of a single year of study; it is a matter of long experience. Very few beginners ever get great results from the first season. If, after the first summer, with its struggles and disappointments, the amateur still looks forward to the next spring, determined to turn the mistakes of the past year into the successes of the next, he may be sure that he will not fail...So then, if weather has been unfavorable, if bugs and blights have come unexpectedly, if weeds have crowded in, if sods have been heavy and the ground hard and lumpy, if the work has been a tax on muscles unaccustomed to labor, determine that instead of giving up, you will turn to use the experience thus gained, so that next year the crops shall be increased and improved. Remember that you are helping to solve one of the greatest problems of the race, the food supply. There is no greater test of determination of character than the garden. In the long run, failure is impossible to those who apply the qualities needed in the task. Nature knows no favorites. The rain falls on all alike, but the hoe and the harrow shall say whether the rain waters weeds or fruit."
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