The instructions in this book show how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of vegetables in a small space (using containers as well as ground gardens) by following intensive, organic techniques that require much less weeding, watering, and overall effort.
There is detailed information for planning a postage stamp garden based on your typical menus, the size of your family, space available, the time and money you want to spend and planting cycles. Then you can consider the appearance and fragrance, and you can attract birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects. There are also thematic groupings of herbs and vegetables for every personal taste.
The Postage Stamp Kitchen Garden Book highlights Italian, French, Asian, Vegetarian, and Mexican food gardens, as well as the all-inclusive salad garden, and a garden for people who enjoy cooking light. It also covers techniques for cooking vegetables when they're fresh, minutes off the vine!
While many cooks complain that they are short on both time and garden space, this book solves both of these problems.
... 66-67 E Earthworms, 41-42 Eggplant, 104-7 baby, 32-33 cropstretching, 104 growingtips for 107 harvesting. ... 6, 8, 13 for orchard mason bees, 10 French Intensive gardening, 1-2 Frost dates, last,53 tolerance of 51 Fungicides, ...
"...The easy to follow intensive gardening techniques in this book will help you to grow more healthy vegetables in less space and with less hassle than you ever thought possible."--Publisher description.
The Postage Stamp Garden Book: How to Grow All the Food You Can Eat in Very Little Space
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Instructions in this book demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of vegetables in small spaces by following intensive techniques. Illustrations.
This book is a new and significantly revised version of the much acclaimed Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening, which was published in 1996.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.