| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Descript. |
248 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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"Originally published in the United States under the title Home Gardening at Its Best by Atheneum, New York, in 1977." |
| Contents |
You don't have to be Italian to grow good peppers -- Why bother? -- Productivity is growing $7,486 worth of fresh, organic produce -- Rabbits and raised beds -- More on garden architecture -- Grow into gardening -- Breaking even in the first year -- How to read seed catalogs -- Other sources of gardening savvy -- Ask Uncle Sam -- Big is not bountiful -- Chaos in the vegetable kingdom? -- Practical vegetable groupings -- Build soil -- The ABCs of N, P, and K -- Feeding your garden for 12cent a day -- Triggering the nutrients in soil -- Production-plus planting procedures -- Watering -- Much ado about mulch -- Weather -- Bugs & Co. -- Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table -- Plant your personality -- Shopping for seeds and seedlings -- Maximum-production techniques for 50+ popular vegetables -- Gardening in small spaces -- Make compost as you make good lasagne -- Garden plants that keep on giving -- Uses of a cold frame -- Starting from seed -- Did I plant that? |
| Subject |
Vegetable gardening.
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Organic gardening.
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Small gardens.
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| Alt Author |
Sheehan, Larry.
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| ISBN |
9781580080378 (alk. paper) |
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1580080375 (alk. paper) |
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