The new organic grower
Subtitle: a master's manual of tools and techniques for the home and market gardener
By: Eliot Coleman ; illustrations by Molly Cook Field and Sheri Amsel.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Vegetable gardening.; Organic gardening.; Truck farming.; Organic farming.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-334) and index.
"A Gardener's Supply book"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Agricultural craftsmanship -- Land -- Scale and capital -- Part-time help -- Marketing strategy -- Planning and observation -- Crop rotation -- Green manures -- Tillage -- Soil fertility -- Farm-generated fertility -- Direct seeding -- Transplanting -- Soil blocks -- Setting out transplants -- Weeds -- Pests? -- Pests: temporary palliatives -- Harvest -- Marketing -- Season extension -- The movable feast -- The winter garden -- Livestock -- The information resource -- The final question -- L'envoi -- From artichokes to zucchini.