High Quality
Open the downloaded document, and select print from the file menu (PDF reader required).
24 No-Fail Plans
for
Small Organic Gardens
BARBARA PLEASANT
AUTHOR OF
THE COMPLETE COMPOST GARDENING GUIDE
STARTER
VEGETABLE
GARDENS
CONTENTS
DIGGING IN
9
How to Use This Book ......................................................................................................................... 9
DEVELOPING YOUR GARDEN PLAN:
STARTING SMALL AND GROWING YEAR BY YEAR
Chapter 1.
The Easy-Care Bag Garden
14
Chapter 2.
A Backyard Border
33
Chapter
3.
The Front-Yard Food Supply
48
Chapter 4.
The Family Food Factory
66
ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES ANDMORE PLANTING PLANS
Chapter 5.
Deciding What to Grow
76
Chapter 6.
Designing Beautiful, Big-Flavor Gardens
80
Chapter 7.
Working with Seeds and Seedlings
84
Chapter 8.
Supporting Your Plants
101
Chapter 9.
Water: Make Every Drop Count
107
Chapter 10.
The Magic of Mulch
112
Chapter 11.
Fertilizing Your Garden
118
Chapter 12.
Your Insect Friends and Foes
124
Chapter 13.
Preventing Dastardly Diseases
129
Chapter 14.
Smart Harvesting
134
Chapter 15.
Stretching the Seasons
139
PICK-OF-THE-CROP VEGGIE VARIETIES
APPENDIX
169
1
PART
2
PART
3
PART
123
Designed to bring good things to eat to a city backyard or an oversized sub-
urban lawn, this easy-to-install garden requires no prior experience. You
can set up the first-year rendition in a single weekend, and even after youexpand the garden in year two and year three, it remains a doable project fora gardener working alone who also has a full-time job or takes care of youngchildren. This garden is big enough to keep you in fresh food all summer butnot so big that it will take over your life.
aives, which end o preer all overspring in mos (bu no all!) climaes.
You will discover wheher harves-
ing and eaing garden-resh poaoesand ruabagas raes as super-specialor jus so-so in your book, and yourexperiences will help you cusomizeyour crop lis or seasons o come.
When you’re ready for new ad-venures, experimen by fitingplaning plans from par 2 such as
Sricly rom Seed (page 92) and heGood-or-You Garden (page 136) ino
he fooprin of your Easy-Care BagGarden. Browse he variey descrip-ions in par 3 as well, and choose a
ew o ry. This will make your gardenmore ineresing wih every passingseason.
123
YEAR ONE
PAGE 18
YEAR TWO
PAGE 24
YEAR THREE
PAGE 28
THE EASY-CAREBAG GARDEN
B
ag gardening couldn’t be easier.
You simply se ou purchased
bags o opsoil, cu open he bags,
and plan seeds and seedlings righin he opsoil. The Easy-Care Bag
Garden is a one-person garden, and
in year one, i will ake one persononly a few hours each week o keep
up wih waering, weeding, planing,and picking.By he second year, he garden isully uncional as a ood garden or
a single person, wih 15 vegeables
and 5 herbs producing seadily romearly summer o lae all. I you wanmore vegeables, you can expand he
garden when you’re ready. You’re incharge, because his is inended o
remain a one-person garden.As he garden grows, you’ll see howwell your sie and soil suppor popu-
lar garden plans like omaoes andsnap beans. You will also learn hepreferred growing season for broc-
coli and is close cabbage-amily rel-
3
PAGE 28
CHAPTER ONE
Add a Comment