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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method
Author: How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method
Author: Jerome Irving RodalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
A comprehensive book on organic gardening covering everything from soil preparation, selecting fruit varieties to pruning and propagating.
Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening
Author: Howard GarrettPublisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1589794818
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.
Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida
Author: Ginny StiboltPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813072522
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
How to grow delicious produce in your own backyard In this guide, expert botanist Ginny Stibolt and Master Gardener Melissa Markham provide simple and accessible advice for successful vegetable gardening in Florida, where soil types vary and cool-weather crops are grown right through the mild winters. They offer advice on what to do with over-abundant harvests, strategies for developing a community garden, and suggestions for opportunities beyond the home garden. They also address integrated pest management, appropriate raised bed types, irrigation, seed saving, just-in-time harvesting, and food safety. This second edition is updated with the latest scientific knowledge and growing techniques; new crops for growers to try; more detail in the growing calendars separated by north, central, and south Florida regions; and color photos and illustrations throughout the text. Readers will appreciate this reliable resource that will help them and their families become more resilient by controlling some of their food from seed to table.
How to Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition
Author: John JeavonsPublisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0399579192
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power. Long before it was a trend, How to Grow More Vegetables brought backyard ecosystems to life for the home gardener by demonstrating sustainable growing methods for spectacular organic produce on a small but intensive scale. How to Grow More Vegetables has become the go-to reference for food growers at every level, whether home gardeners dedicated to nurturing backyard edibles with minimal water in maximum harmony with nature's cycles, or a small-scale commercial producer interested in optimizing soil fertility and increasing plant productivity. In the ninth edition, author John Jeavons has revised and updated each chapter, including new sections on using less water and increasing compost power.
Growing Fruits & Vegetables Organically
Author: Jean M. A. NickPublisher: Rodale Books
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Guide to growing herbs, vegetables, and fruits organically with practical easy to follow directions for planting, caring for crops, and more.
Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way
Author: Wesley GreenePublisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1609611624
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending 50 different kinds of vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing complementary weather-watching guidelines, organic techniques and seed-saving advice.
Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert & Dry Times
Author: Maureen GilmerPublisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632170248
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Here is the definitive guide to growing healthy organic vegetables without wasting our precious water resources! This incredibly timely book will give dedicated home gardeners the know-how to grow delicious produce in dry times, focusing on four different low-water conditions in the western United States: voluntary water conservation, drought, and both high and low desert. Using modern techniques, as well as tips and stories from native traditions ranging from the southwestern United States to the Middle East, this guide offers the best of ancient wisdom and the newest innovations in conservation, and includes varietal recommendations and a seasonal crop guide. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Organic Gardening
Author: Geoff HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Whether you want to grow better-tasting fruit and vegetables untainted by chemicals, find natural methods of pest and weed control, or create a garden that is safer for your children, pets and wildlife, Organic Gardening is your practical, easy-to-follow guide to gardening with, rather than against, nature.
Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
Author: Charlie NardozziPublisher:
ISBN: 1591865298
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book includes more than 60 fruits, vegetables, and herbs selected for growing success in the diverse growing conditions of Northeast gardens. Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening addresses the climate, soil, sun, and water conditions that affect growing success and includes advice for extending the growing season. Each plant profile highlights planting, growing, watering, and care information. Helpful charts and graphs assist gardeners in knowing when to plant and harvest.
