Small-plot, high-yield gardening grow like a pro, save money, and eat well from your front (or back or side) yard 100% organic produce garden
Are you longing to feed your family in more healthful and eco-friendly ways but shocked by organic produce prices at the grocery store? It's time for you to get down and dirty-- and take the plunge that will please your taste buds and your pocket-book!
| Main Author: | Gilbertie, Sal. |
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| Other Authors: | Sheehan, Larry. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley [Calif.] :
Ten Speed Press,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- You don't have to be Italian to grow good peppers
- Why bother?
- Productivity is growing $7,486 worth of fresh, organic produce
- Rabbits and raised beds
- More on garden architecture
- Grow into gardening
- Breaking even in the first year
- How to read seed catalogs
- Other sources of gardening savvy
- Ask Uncle Sam
- Big is not bountiful
- Chaos in the vegetable kingdom?
- Practical vegetable groupings
- "Build soil"
- The ABCs of N, P, and K
- Feeding your garden for 12 cents a day
- Triggering the nutrients in soil
- Production-plus planting procedures
- Water
- Much ado about mulch
- Weather
- Bugs & Co.
- Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table
- Plant your personality
- Shopping for seeds and seedlings
- Gardening in small spaces
- Maximum-production techniques for over fifty popular vegetables
- Make compost as you make good lasagne
- Garden plants that keep on giving
- Uses of a cold frame
- Starting from seed
- "Did I plant that?"