| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
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Includes index. |
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"Grow like a pro--no experience required!" --cover. |
| Contents |
Start here -- It's all about the soil -- Plant basics -- Where to grow your food -- Feeding your plants -- Seeds and seedlings -- Getting the timing right -- Mulch matters -- Getting the watering right -- Extending the season -- Insects and bugs: friend or foe? -- Diseases: managing the inevitable -- The fab 40 for filling your vegetable garden. |
| Summary |
"An extensive, hands-on guide to growing a productive organic food garden"--Page 4 of cover. |
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"The award-winning television and podcast host Joe Lampl is here with insider tips and next-level insight for creating a lush, fruitful, and resilient vegetable garden. Just when you think you have a secure grip on what it takes to grow a vegetable garden, a pro like Joe comes along to surprise you with a wheelbarrow full of new-to-you information to knock your gardening socks right off. In The Vegetable Gardening Book, Joe distills insight from years interviewing highly experienced growers for public televisions Growing a Greener World and The joe gardener® Show Podcast along with his own extensive, hands-on knowledge of the craft to present practical and useful info on everything from starting seeds and selecting varieties to building the perfect tomato cage, encouraging pollinators, and creating biodiversity-rich soil in a 100% organic food garden. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in growing the best edible garden their backyard (or balcony!) has ever seen." --from Goodreads.com. |
| Subject |
Vegetable gardening.
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Organic gardening.
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| ISBN |
9780760375716 (paperback) |
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0760375712 (paperback) |
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