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Small plot, high yield gardening : grow like a pro, save money, and eat well from your front (or back or side) yard organic produce garden / Sal Gilbertie and Larry Sheehan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781580080378 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 1580080375 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: Rev. ed.
- Publisher: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. "Originally published in the United States under the title Home Gardening at Its Best by Atheneum, New York, in 1977." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 12cent a day -- Triggering the nutrients in soil -- Production-plus planting procedures -- Watering -- Much ado about mulch -- Weather -- Bugs & Co. -- Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table -- Plant your personality -- Shopping for seeds and seedlings -- Maximum-production techniques for 50+ popular vegetables -- Gardening in small spaces -- 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? |
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| Subject: | Vegetable gardening. Organic gardening. Small gardens. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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