Starter Vegetable Gardens, 2nd Edition 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens
by Pleasant, BarbaraFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2023-02-07
Publisher(s): Storey Publishing, LLC
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Summary
Best-selling gardening author Barbara Pleasant makes organic vegetable gardening easy, fun, and rewarding with detailed planting and care designs for 24 beginner-friendly gardens to fit any site, whether it's a tiny side yard, a border, a trellis alongside the house, or a front yard. From exactly what plants (and how many) to buy, where and when to plant them, and how to care for each vegetable throughout the season, Pleasant encourages readers to start small, grow the food they love, and expand their plant selection as their skills develop. Specially tailored plans offer choices to fit a wide range of sites and food preferences, from the Front-Yard Food Supply to the Marinara Medley, Sweet Corn & Company, and High-Value Verticals.There's a plan and plant selection to fit every gardener's passion. Detailed plot plans show progressive stages for how each garden can be expanded gradually over the course of three years, ensuring that beginning gardeners will experience success and satisfaction without being overwhelmed by an over-ambitious plan at the start.
Author Biography
Barbara Pleasant has written about organic gardening and self-sufficient living for more than 30 years. Her books include Starter Vegetable Gardens, The Complete Compost Gardening Guide, The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, The Gardener’s Bug Book, The Gardener’s Weed Book, and The Gardener’s Guide to Plant Diseases.
Table of Contents
Digging In
Appendix
- How to Use This Book
- Starting Small and Growing Year by Year
- Sizing Up Your Site and Soil
- Year One
- Year Two
- Year Three
- Year One
- Year Two
- Year Three
- Year One
- Year Two
- Year Three
- Short, Cool Summers
- Full-Season Summers
- Long, Hot Summers
- Angel Wings Herb Garden
- Purposeful Planting Plans
- It’s All in the Timing
- Vegetables and Climate
- From Flowers to Food
- Garden Plan: Overnight Success
- Direct-Seeding in Your Garden
- Garden Plan: Strictly from Seed
- Starting Seeds Indoors
- Starting Seeds Step-by-Step
- Garden Plan: Paintbrush Beds
- Types of Support
- How to Pound a Post
- How to Cage a Tomato
- Garden Plan: High-Value Verticals
- Garden Plan: Marinara Medley
- Knowing When to Water
- When Looks Count
- Garden Plan: Managed Mulch Garden
- Weighing Your Options
- Garden Plan: Sweet Corn & Company
- Can You Use Too Much?
- Organic Remedies That Really Work
- Garden Plan: Beneficial Border
- Super-Strong Varieties
- Garden Plan: Cajun Spice
- Fighting with Fungi
- Chill Out!
- Preserving Your Favorite Herbs
- Garden Plan: Good-for-You Garden
- Three Ways to Bring On Spring
- Garden Plan: Six-Weeks-Sooner 15 CHAPTER
- Making Good Choices
- What Is a Variety?
Appendix
- Gardener’s Basic Lingo
- Which Planting Plans Are Right for You?
- Sources for Seeds and Plants
- Metric Conversions
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