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 Backyard Organic Vegetable Growing
 by Geoffrey Ian Miller
 
  Download price: US$ 4.99
  Published: March 2001
  ISBN: 1-877285-12-9
  Page count: 27 pages
  File size: 339,080 bytes (approx. 47 sec @ 56k)
  
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About this Guide
This is a guide for the home gardener on how to grow vegetables organically. Each section is in a easy-to-follow format. The guide begins with the most important criteria such as site selection, location, drainage followed by soils. How to deal with problem soils? Further sections include mulching, seed sowing and transplanting, crop rotation, companion planting and general maintenance. These practices do away with the need for expensive and harmful synthetic chemicals. Those apartment dwellers who do not have space for a normal garden, can grow vegetables in containers. Finally, detailed descriptions on how to grow and harvest specific vegetables are included. This section is grouped into subsections depending on what part of the vegetable is harvested, such as root, leaf and fruit/seed
 
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This guide will help the home gardener who would like to start growing vegetables organically for the first time. You do not need to have a large amount of space to grow vegetables. Further more, the apartment dweller can grow vegetables in containers. Even if you are an experienced conventional grower wanting to change to organics, you can benefit from this guide. The guide shows you how to create a natural balance between pests and their natural predators in your immediate environment. You can achieve this by following the companion planting and beneficial plant tables. If you do not want to use synthetic chemicals and are concerned about you and your family's health then this guide is for you.
 

 You should buy this guide if...

...you have not grown vegetables before and desire to grow organically for you own use. Are you environmentally conscious and want to grow cheap, chemical-free vegetables? Do you want an easy-to-follow guide on how to achieve your goal? The guide begins with the basic fundamentals of location, bed preparation and then works up to crop maintenence. If you want to learn how to grow individual vegetables then the last sections will help you.

 
 

 

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