Gardening When It Counts Growing Food in Hard Times

Name: Gardening When It Counts Growing Food in Hard Times
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ISBN: 9780865715530

ISBN-10: 086571553X

ISBN-13: 9780865715530

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steve Solomon

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The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Society Publishers, Limited
Publication date: 1/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Introduction


The coming hard times


Getting land


Becoming a vegetableatarian



Basics


What is a vegetable?


Helping plants grow


Increasing soil fertility


Summary



Tools and tasks


The basic three and a file


How to start a new garden


Raised beds and raised rows


The bow rake


Restoring a raised bed for planting again


The hoe


Miscellaneous tools


Care of tools



Garden centers


Transplants: Buyer beware


Growing your own seedlings the easy way


The garden center seedrack



Seeds


The mail-order seed business


Who to buy from


Making seeds come up


Saving on seed purchases


Growing your own



Watering ... and not


Four spacing systems


Not suffering drought


A gardener's textbook of sprinkler irrigation



Compost


Why compost?


Making low-grade compost


Medium-quality compost: The once-a-year heap


Humanure


Green manure and cover crops



Insects and diseases


Avoiding trouble


Insects and their remedies


Diseases and their remedies



What to grow ... and how to grow it


Some general tips


Crops that are easiest to grow


Crops that are harder to grow


Difficult vegetables



Bibliography


Books


Online resources


Index


About the Author