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A little dated but otherwise useful information without unnecessary fluff. It's definitely a brief primer to high yield backyard agriculture, but makes for a nice, quick reference.
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The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
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From the author of our best-selling and widely beloved HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES comes this "quick and dirty" introduction to biointensive gardening that shows it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetables and fruits, while conserving resources and actually helping the soil. A revolutionary approach to feeding ourselves and nurturing the land, this book
- Step-by-step illustrations and instructions that make these techniques simple for even the novice gardener.
- Everything you need to know about planning crops, composting, harvesting, and more.
- Complete resources for seeds, tools, and other garden supplies.Feed a family of four on the bounty of your backyard, or just get more out of your garden with less effort with this wonderful resource.
- Step-by-step illustrations and instructions that make these techniques simple for even the novice gardener.
- Everything you need to know about planning crops, composting, harvesting, and more.
- Complete resources for seeds, tools, and other garden supplies.Feed a family of four on the bounty of your backyard, or just get more out of your garden with less effort with this wonderful resource.
118 pages, Paperback
First published February 1,1999
This edition
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118 pages, Paperback
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February 1, 1999 by Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
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9781580080163
- ASIN
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1580080162
- Language
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English
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A great intro to Jeavons other book How to Grow More Vegetables.
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A guide for gardeners who want to preserve the fertility of their soil without the use of chemical fertilizers. Discusses composting and crop rotation among other ideas.
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Top notch. If you want to learn how to rebuild your soil in a simple way, read this book. It explains the steps well and has illustrations. Keen to get into spring planting!!
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A good place to start, condensed info, but not a lot of details. A good companion/quick reference to John Jeavons, 'How to Grow more vegetables" book.
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Guide to healthy soil.
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A good basic reader about bio-diverse sustainable gardens but the authors are math nazis and I found it unhelpful for those of us who don't carry a calculator in our pockets along with various measuring devices, complicated charts and other such things. It's a garden, not quantum physics. That said, for a basic understanding of how to grow more food in a smaller space and how to create a compost garden to enrich the soil, it was good. My one other criticism is that the book encourages tilling which, now we know, isn't really necessary if you use the Japanese method of cardboard, good compost/soil mix and hay on top after planting. One, two, three and there you go. No need to dig. Just prepare the plot a few months before and you're golden. Happy Spring.
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I've loaned this book to Kristen and will read it after my summer class is over.
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