potato-patch

In my potato-patch I am merely trying to create situations that are favorable to growth, and in the school I can do neither more nor better.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

I had fully intended to exercise my inalienable rights and lie in the shade for two hours to-day, but when I caught a glimpse of that little chap in the high chair, and heard his pitiful plea for potatoes, I made for the potato-patch post-haste, as if I were responding to a hurry call.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

If one cannot learn pedagogy there it is no fault of the potato-patch.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

It is just possible that I shall find it over there in the potato-patch, for its latitude and longitude have never been definitely determined, so far as I am aware.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

The potato-patch is your true pedagogical laboratory and conservatory.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

These people were but little indebted to fortune, and the size of their potato-patch did not exactly correspond with the number of rosy-cheeks within doors.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

There was only one man to be seen, peacefully hoeing his potato-patch.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

From the gate one might look up and down the road, bordered on one side by the trees that hung over the river, and on the other by the miners 'houses, one-story cottages, each with its small inclosure, and showing every degree of cultivation, from the neat vegetable-patch and whitewashed porch of the Scotch families to the neglected waste ground and slovenly potato-patch of the Irishmen.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

So I selected my potato-patch, and the man ploughed it, although I could have done that if Clyde would have let me.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

I can take these stellar companions with me to my potato-patch, and they help the day along.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson