Book
How to grow more vegetables : (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine
Edition
8th edition.
Publication Information
Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Summary
"A primer on the life-giving Grow Biointensive method of sustainable horticulture."
Contents
- Ecology action and the Common Ground Project
- Building soil, building the future
- Deep soil structure creation and maintenance
- Sustainability
- use of compost and soil fertility
- Fertilization
- Open-pollinated seeds, seed propagation, close-spacing and seed-saving
- Companion planting
- interrelated food-raising system : creating and caring for a balanced natural ecosystem with insect life
- Master charts and planning
- Sample garden plans.