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Small plot, high yield gardening : grow like a pro, save money, and eat well from your front (or back or side) yard 100% organic produce garden / Sal Gilbertie and Larry Sheehan.

by Gilbertie, Sal

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Ten Speed Press, 2010.

Vegetable gardening.

Organic gardening.

9781580080378 (alk. paper)

1580080375 (alk. paper)

248 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

"Originally published in the United States under the title Home Gardening at Its Best by Atheneum, New York, in 1977."

You don't have to be Italian to grow good peppers -- Why bother? -- Productivity is growing $7,486 worth of fresh, organic produce -- Rabbits and raised beds -- More on garden architecture -- Grow into gardening -- Breaking even in the first year -- How to read seed catalogs -- Other sources of gardening savvy -- Ask Uncle Sam -- Big is not bountiful -- Chaos in the vegetable kingdom? -- Practical vegetable groupings -- Build soil -- The ABCs of N, P, and K -- Feeding your garden for 12 cents a day -- Triggering the nutrients in soil -- Production-plus planting procedures -- Watering -- Much ado about mulch -- Weather -- Bugs & Co. -- Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table -- Plant your personality -- Shopping for seeds and seedlings -- Gardening in small spaces -- Maximum-production techniques for over fifty popular vegetables -- Make compost as you make good lasagne -- Garden plants that keep on giving -- Uses of a cold frame -- Starting from seed -- Did I plant that?

Sheehan, Larry.

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