The Starter Garden Handbook
eBook - ePub

The Starter Garden Handbook

A Cook's Guide to Growing Your Own Food

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Starter Garden Handbook

A Cook's Guide to Growing Your Own Food

About this book

The author of The Going Green Handbook gives you tips for growing vegetables, reducing your food budget, eating organic, and being eco-friendly.
 
Here in one pretty package is everything you need to know to have your garden and eat it, too! Inside, you'll find tips for greening up all areas of your garden. Learn surprising facts about your impact on the environment and change your habits with do-it-yourself ideas in  The Starter Garden Handbook.
 
Organic gardener, environmentalist, and pop-up chef Alice Mary Alvrez will help you start with small changes, like growing basic herbs, and work your way up to raising bees. Learn how to raise many kinds of vegetables and fruits, and get tips on composting weeds, clippings, and leftovers so you have nutrient-rich soil. Whether you are at the green rookie level, eco-master, or full-on gardening guru, you can learn to grow your own food and help the planet every week of the year with  The Starter Garden Handbook.
 
If you're a fan of  The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, you'll love  The Starter Garden Handbook!
 
"Nowadays people think they have to quit their day job and toil in the hot sun all day. Not true! Most gardening is in the planning and once you have established your plot, I promise you, it will become your Happy Place. Nothing feels better than serving a delicious dish from plants you grew from seeds." —Susannah Seton, author of Simple Pleasures of the Garden

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Level 1: Digging In
  6. Take Lots of Notes
  7. Know Your Zone
  8. Watch Your Frost Dates
  9. Start with Herbs
  10. Perennials vs. Annuals
  11. North vs. South
  12. Windowsill Gardening
  13. Gardening Toolbox
  14. Get a Water Barrel
  15. Watering the Right Way
  16. Mulch
  17. Start Composting
  18. Grow What You Eat
  19. Thin Out the Seedlings
  20. Get to Know the Good Bugs
  21. Natural Pesticides
  22. Level 2: Gone to Seed
  23. Starting Seeds Indoors
  24. Apartment Gardening
  25. Container Gardening
  26. Vertical Gardening
  27. The Art of Transplanting
  28. Testing Your Soil
  29. Support Your Plants
  30. Level 3: Green Thumb
  31. Natural Fertilizers
  32. Heirloom vs. Hybrid
  33. Row or Not to Row
  34. Rotate Your Crops
  35. Successive Sowing
  36. Get International
  37. Adding Shade
  38. Edible Flowers
  39. Think of the Bees
  40. Dealing with Animal Pests
  41. Get Kids Involved
  42. Saving Seeds
  43. Level 4: Garden Pro
  44. Get Started in the Fall
  45. Cold Frames
  46. Raise Up Your Beds
  47. Preserving Your Harvest
  48. Using Row Covers
  49. Pruning and Cutting Back
  50. Use Your Greywater
  51. Microgreens and Sprouting
  52. Companion Planting
  53. Get Cooking
  54. Level 5: Frequent Farmer
  55. Growing Mushrooms
  56. Growing Grains
  57. Getting into Trees
  58. Get Into Grafting
  59. Harvesting
  60. Sell Your Surplus
  61. Think About Chickens
  62. Bonus
  63. Further Reading