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The Abundant Mini Garden’s Guide to Vertical Vegetable Gardening: How to Use Trellises to Grow More Food in Less Space

** An Amazon Best Seller in Gardening and Horticulture, Urban Gardening, and Garden Design ** This 140-page book includes 90 images. Discover how you can harvest up to $150 worth of organic vegetables from plants grown on trellises in a tiny 4’ x 4’ garden bed! You can tuck this size bed into the smallest yard – and you only need a few minutes per week to care for it. * Discover the incredible amounts of food that you can harvest from a small vertical garden * Learn when you should NOT use a vertical garden * Produce the highest yields possible by giving your plants these five things * Double or triple your harvest from a small vertical garden bed with this one simple tip * Discover which type of trellises work best with different vegetables * Learn how to design your vertical garden for maximum yield and comfort * Discover how to properly train and prune the large vining plants on your trellises * Get detailed directions for easily creating a large $20 trellis that will last over 15 years A single large winter squash plant can easily grow 20 feet across on the ground. That’s a huge amount of space for just one plant, and you would need to do a lot of work to keep that much area weeded, fertilized, and watered. But you don’t need a lot of space or time in order to grow large vining vegetable plants if you learn how to grow them vertically on trellises. The author, Debra Graff, has 35 years of experience in growing organic food in small garden beds, and has trained new Master Gardeners about vegetable gardening. In this book, she shares many of the secrets that she has learned over the years on how to produce a tremendous amount of food from a small vertical garden.

Organic Vegetable Gardening A to Z: Start With A Seed And Shovel, End With Food On Your Plate

Kill The Weeds, Plant The Seeds, Fill Your Needs Today everything we eat is covered in pesticides or is genetically modified. What does this mean? Well it means cancer is on the horizon for the entire human population. As the population grows and the earth has reached carrying capacity, scientists have had to engineer ways to increase the food supply. The chemicals being used are proven to cause cancer later in life, so why the HELL are we eating it?! It’s time to put a stop to all the nasty pesticides, but you cannot rely on others to do it for you. In this book I guide you through creating your very own vegetable garden from step one all the way until the food is on your plate. This is truly the only way to know if your food is organic and pesticide free. What You Will Discover InsidePre-garden preparation tipsHow to plan your garden efficientlyHow to optimize your soil for the best growthSelecting which veggies to plantFinding the best seeds for your gardenMaintaining your garden and keeping it healthy Would You Like To Know More? This book contains one the most important health decisions you could make. The question is will you choose to start growing your own veggies or will you wake up tomorrow with cancers from all the pesticides and GMOs? If you are ready to start improving your health and life than scroll up and grab your copy of Organic Vegetable Gardening A to Z.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman’s own farm. His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it “just can’t be done.”

The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible

The invaluable resource for home food gardeners! Ed Smith’s W-O-R-D system has helped countless gardeners grow an abundance of vegetables and herbs. And those tomatoes and zucchini and basil and cucumbers have nourished countless families, neighbors, and friends with delicious, fresh produce. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible is essential reading for locavores in every corner of North America!Everything you loved about the first edition of The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible is still here: friendly, accessible language; full-color photography; comprehensive vegetable specific information in the A-to-Z section; ahead-of-its-time commitment to organic methods; and much more.Now, Ed Smith is back with a 10th Anniversary Edition for the next generation of vegetable gardeners. New to this edition is coverage of 15 additional vegetables, including an expanded section on salad greens and more European and Asian vegetables. Readers will also find growing information on more fruits and herbs, new cultivar photographs in many vegetable entries, and a much-requested section on extending the season into the winter months. No matter how cold the climate, growers can bring herbs indoors and keep hardy greens alive in cold frames or hoop houses. The impulse to grow vegetables is even stronger in 2009 than it was in 2000, when Storey published The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. The financial and environmental costs of fossil fuels raise urgent questions: How far should we be shipping food? What are the health costs of petroleum-based pesticides and herbicides? Do we have to rely on megafarms that use gasoline-powered machinery to grow and harvest crops? With every difficult question, more people think, “Maybe I should grow a few vegetables of my own.” This book will continue to answer all their vegetable gardening questions. Praise for the First Edition:”In every small town, there is a vegetable garden that people go out of the way to walk past. Smith is the guy who grew that garden.” — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review”An abundance of photographs . . . visually bolster the techniques described, while frequent subheads, sidebars, and information-packed photo captions make the layout user-friendly . . . [Smith’s] book is thorough and infused with practical wisdom and a dry Vermont humor that should endear him to readers.” — Publisher’s Weekly”Smith . . . clearly explains everything novice and experienced gardeners need to know to grow vegetables and herbs. . . . ” — Library Journal”this book will answer all your questions as well as put you on the path to an abundant harvest. As a bonus, anecdotes and stories make this informative book fun to read.” – New York Newsday

The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers

By growing vegetables in containers, even novice gardeners can reap a bounty of organic food in very small spaces. Anyone can harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, or grow broccoli on a balcony — it’s easy! Ed Smith shows you how to choose the right plants, select containers and tools, care for plants throughout the growing season, control pests without chemicals, and much more. He even includes plans for small-space container gardens that are perfect for urban and suburban gardeners.