Small-plot, high-yield gardening
Subtitle: grow like a pro, save money, and eat well from your front (or back or side) yard 100% organic produce garden
By: Sal Gilbertie and Larry Sheehan
Contributors: Sheehan, Larry
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781580080378
Description: 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!
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: You don't have to be Italian to grow good peppers; title: Why bother?; title: Productivity is growing $7,486 worth of fresh, organic produce; title: Rabbits and raised beds; title: More on garden architecture; title: Grow into gardening; title: Breaking even in the first year; title: How to read seed catalogs; title: Other sources of gardening savvy; title: Ask Uncle Sam; title: Big is not bountiful; title: Chaos in the vegetable kingdom?; title: Practical vegetable groupings; title: "Build soil"; title: The ABCs of N, P, and K; title: Feeding your garden for 12 cents a day; title: Triggering the nutrients in soil; title: Production-plus planting procedures; title: Water; title: Much ado about mulch; title: Weather; title: Bugs & Co.; title: Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table; title: Plant your personality; title: Shopping for seeds and seedlings; title: Gardening in small spaces; title: Maximum-production techniques for over fifty popular vegetables; title: Make compost as you make good lasagna; title: Garden plants that keep on giving; title: Uses of a cold frame; title: Starting from seed; title: "Did I plant that?"