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The ultimate guide to growing your own food : save money, live better, and enjoy life with food from your own garden

Call Number

  • 635 B9473 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.

Physical Description

177 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Summary

Due to the high cost of transporting food long distances, the heightened problem of diseased caused by commercially grown foods, and concerns of the overuse of chemicals in mass food production, there's never been a more urgent time to start growing your own food.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Why grow your own food
  • Planning to grow
  • Preparing the site
  • Growing food in small spaces
  • Growing vegetables
  • Vegetable specifics
  • Growing food fall and winter
  • Growing perennial foods
  • Herbs
  • Small fruits
  • The home orchard.

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