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Gardening When It Counts : Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon (2006, Perfect)
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PublisherNew Society Publishers, The Limited
ISBN-10086571553X
ISBN-139780865715530
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038748882
Product Key Features
Book TitleGardening When It Counts : Growing Food in Hard Times
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicSustainable Living, Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Organic, General
IllustratorYes
GenreHouse & Home, Technology & Engineering, Gardening
AuthorSteve Solomon
Book SeriesMother Earth News Wiser Living Ser.
FormatPerfect
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number5
Dewey Decimal635
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introduction The coming hard times Getting land Becoming a vegetableatarian Chapter 2: Basics What is a vegetable? Helping plants grow Increasing soil fertility Summary Chapter 3: 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 Chapter 4: Garden centers Transplants: Buyer beware Growing your own seedlings the easy way The garden center seedrack Chapter 5: Seeds The mail-order seed business Who to buy from Making seeds come up Saving on seed purchases Growing your own Chapter 6:Watering ... and not Four spacing systems Not suffering drought A gardener's textbook of sprinkler irrigation Chapter 7: Compost Why compost? Making low-grade compost Medium-quality compost: The once-a-year heap Humanure Green manure and cover crops Chapter 8: Insects and diseases Avoiding trouble Insects and their remedies Diseases and their remedies Chapter 9: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 Chapter 10: Bibliography Books Online resources Index About the Author
Synopsis"Shows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened . . . with just four basic hand tools, and with little or no electricity or irrigation." --Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. This book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps two hundred dollars' worth of hand tools. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to the new circumstances we find ourselves in. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, Gardening When It Counts is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. "Delightfully informative and abundantly rich with humor and grandfatherly wisdom. A must-read for anyone wanting a feast off the land of their own making." --Elaine Smitha, host of the "Evolving Ideas" cable talk show and author of If You Make the Rules, How Come You're Not Boss?, Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead. 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 irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies-working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 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 irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies -- working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades which has appeared in five editions., 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 irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. "Gardening When It Counts" helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" which has appeared in five editions., Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional methods to produce healthy food.
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