Welcome to another episode of Textbook Sleep, the podcast that reads aloud boring public domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.

My voice is also boring. When I speak to people on the phone, it’s not unusual that I hear snoring and have to hang up.

Tonight we read again from Agriculture for Beginners, by Burkett, Stevens and Hill, first published in 1903. We’ll be hearing about hotbeds, Cold-Frames, celery, tomatoes, striped cucumber beetles and something called dewberries, whatever they are.

To be more accurate, I’ll be hearing about them, you will be fast asleep. Maybe you will dream about dewberries, about putting a dollop of whipped cream on them, or baking them into a pie.

I hope that you do not dream instead about striped cucumber beetles.

Let us proceed with Horticulture, Section XXV. Pull up the blanket. Adjust your pillow. And sleep my pretties, sleep.

This recording will end quietly.

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