A No-nonsense Guide to Growing your own Vegetables
By Paul Spivey
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-"Wholesale food prices rose last month by the most in 36 years, and experts can't say how high they'll ultimately go."(Penn State© Live: April 4, 2011)
-"Studies estimate that processed food in the United States travels over 1,300 miles, and fresh produce travels over 1,500 miles, before being consumed."
-A well-known financial consultant says food prices are skyrocketing now.
-The United States has two weeks' worth of stored grain.
-Providing for your family might depend on growing your own vegetables.
This book quickly brings you up-to-speed in a no-nonsense way on the topic of growing your own vegetables. I wanted to learn the ways my grandparents fed themselves and combine their wisdom with the advantages of today's scientific advances. This book will give you the basics and provide lots of links where you can learn more, go much deeper. This booklet is also peppered with my sense of humor, for better or worse. I hope you enjoy learning about growing and eating your own food.
Chapters include;
Why Start a Survival Garden,
Build Your Soil,
Build your Garden,
Earthworms,
Planting,
Seed or Plant?,
Planting Out Your Garden,
Mulching,
Fertilizing,
Compost,
Pest Control,
Preserving your Harvest,
Saving Seeds,
What to Do in Winter,
Links (lots of them)
I hope you enjoy your garden as much as I do mine! Experiment with it and have fun! Most importantly, do it.
Paul Spivey
Gardener, writer, technologist, tweeter(webdevguy), husband, father, and experimenter.
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A No-nonsense Guide to Growing your own Vegetables - Paul Spivey
A NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO
GROWING YOUR OWN VEGETABLES
by Paul Spivey
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A NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Why Start a Survival Garden
Build Your Soil
Build your Garden
Earthworms
Planting
Seed or Plant?
Planting Out Your Garden
Mulching
Fertilizing
Compost
Pest Control
Preserving your Harvest
Saving Seeds
What to Do in Winter
Links
Introduction
The goal of this book is to quickly bring you up-to-speed—in a no-nonsense way—on the topic of growing your own vegetables. I'm not a survivalist in the extreme sense of the word, but I wanted to learn the ways my grandparents fed themselves and combine their wisdom with the advantages of today’s scientific advances.
I want you to be a wise gardener. This book will give you the basics and provide lots of links where you can learn more, go much deeper. Links are anything underlined and probably a different color than the rest of the text. Links will take you to the