Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening (eBook)

Techniques and Know-How for Planning, Planting, and Tending a Home Vegetable Garden Organically

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
272 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9282-9 (ISBN)

Infos

From the foremost authority in American gardening comes a must-have handbook for home gardeners who want a productive organic vegetable garden.In their first new book in over two decades, the American Horticultural Society offers indispensable insight into growing a modern edible garden at home, regardless of whether home is in the desert Southwest, the Midwestern plains, or on the shores of New England. Starting with a unique look at the history of vegetable gardening in North America, from indigenous cultures to Victory Gardeners to today's biodiversity-nurturing growers,Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening then digs into everything you need to know tocultivatea successful and productive vegetable garden without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.Includes advice on:Choosing the best design and planting style for your site, from raised beds and row gardens to matrix plantings and food forestsDeciding which varieties to plant, from heirlooms and ancestral selections to modern hybridsFostering resiliency in the face of weather extremes, invasive pests, and other challengesNurturing the garden as an ecosystem to preserve and protect soil life, pollinators, and other wildlifeConducting at-home soil assessments for compaction, biological activity, texture, and drainageCaring for the garden using natural techniques and products, including pinching, pruning, staking, fertilizing, and pest and disease controlThe new American vegetable garden is a place of beauty and productivity with a diverse selection of edible crops and flowers that create a haven for plants, pollinators, and people as they fill your kitchen with flavor and nutrition.Whether you're a new garden lover or a long-time veggie grower,Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening has the science-based information you need to overcome today's gardening challenges and cultivate success.Also included in this series areEssential Guide to Perennial Gardening and Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2025
• Reihe/Serie: American Horticultural Society
• Reihe/Serie: American Horticultural Society Guides
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • AHS • American • backyard food garden • Basil • building raised beds • chives • crops • Earth Day • edible plants • eggplants • food forest • for mom • Garden design • gardener • garden maintenance • Gift • grow from seed • growing vegetables • grow your own • Guide • hardiness zone 3 • herbs • history of gardening in North America • Home • homesteading • how much to plant • how to get rid of grass • how to start a vegetable garden • indigenous gardens • Intercropping • interplanting • Layout • lettuce • matrix planting • Modern Techniques • Mother's Day • Mother's Day Gift • national gardening day • NATURAL • natural fertilizer • natural pest control • Onions • organic • Peppers • permaculture • pinching • planning a garden • Planting • planting styles • plant supports • present • present for mom • pruning • raised bed • Rosemary • row gardening • site preparation • soil care • spring planting • start seeds • three sisters planting • thyme • tomatoes • transplants • Trellis • types of vegetable gardens • vegetable gardening book • vertical gardening
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9282-X / 076039282X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9282-9 / 9780760392829