Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering.\ Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time...
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Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead.
Ch. 1Introduction1Ch. 2Basics13Ch. 3Tools and tasks41Ch. 4Garden centers81Ch. 5Seeds105Ch. 6Watering ... and not145Ch. 7Compost179Ch. 8Insects and diseases217Ch. 9What to grow ... and how to grow it239Ch. 10Bibliography325
