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High-yield vegetable gardening : grow more of what you want in the space you have / Colin McCrate and Brad Halm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781612123967
  • 1612123961
Subject(s):
Contents:
PART 1 PLANNING AND PLANTING WHAT YOU NEED -- Chapter 1 Making a Site Plan -- Chapter 2 Crop Selecting, Scheduling, and Recordkeeping -- Chapter 3 Garden Mapping and Crop Rotation -- Chapter 4 Selecting Seeds -- PART 2 GROWING FOR MAXIMUM YIELD -- Chapter 5 Prepping Soil for Production -- Chapter 6 Setting Up Irrigation Systems -- Chapter 7 Setting Up a Home Nursery -- Chapter 8 Starting Plants En Masse -- Chapter 9 Transplanting and Direct Seeding in the Garden -- PART 3 GETTING THE MOST FROM ANY GARDEN SPACE -- Chapter 10 Getting the Most from Every Plant -- Chapter 11 Suppress the Competition: Weeds, Pests, and Diseases -- Chapter 12 Maintaining Soil Quality -- Chapter 13 Extending the Growing Season -- Chapter 14 Timely Harvesting and Storage.
Summary: "You won't believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening, authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show you how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You'll learn their secrets for preparing the soil, selecting and rotating your crops, and mapping out a specific customized plan to make the most of your space and your growing season. Packed with the charts, tables, schedules, and worksheets you need -- as well as record-keeping pages so you can repeat your successes next year -- this book is an essential tool for the serious gardener,"--Amazon.com.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

You won't believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening , authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You'll learn their secrets for preparing the soil, selecting and rotating your crops, and mapping out a specific customized plan to make the most of your space and your growing season. Packed with the charts, tables, schedules, and worksheets you need -- as well as record-keeping pages so you can repeat your successes next year -- this book is an essential tool for the serious gardener.

Spiral bound.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index.

PART 1 PLANNING AND PLANTING WHAT YOU NEED -- Chapter 1 Making a Site Plan -- Chapter 2 Crop Selecting, Scheduling, and Recordkeeping -- Chapter 3 Garden Mapping and Crop Rotation -- Chapter 4 Selecting Seeds -- PART 2 GROWING FOR MAXIMUM YIELD -- Chapter 5 Prepping Soil for Production -- Chapter 6 Setting Up Irrigation Systems -- Chapter 7 Setting Up a Home Nursery -- Chapter 8 Starting Plants En Masse -- Chapter 9 Transplanting and Direct Seeding in the Garden -- PART 3 GETTING THE MOST FROM ANY GARDEN SPACE -- Chapter 10 Getting the Most from Every Plant -- Chapter 11 Suppress the Competition: Weeds, Pests, and Diseases -- Chapter 12 Maintaining Soil Quality -- Chapter 13 Extending the Growing Season -- Chapter 14 Timely Harvesting and Storage.

"You won't believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening, authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show you how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You'll learn their secrets for preparing the soil, selecting and rotating your crops, and mapping out a specific customized plan to make the most of your space and your growing season. Packed with the charts, tables, schedules, and worksheets you need -- as well as record-keeping pages so you can repeat your successes next year -- this book is an essential tool for the serious gardener,"--Amazon.com.

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