Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive WayChelsea Green Publishing, 1994 M09 1 - 288 páginas Solar Gardening shows how to increase efforts of the sun during the coldest months of the year and how to protect tender plants from the intensity of the scorching sun during the hottest months through the use of solar "mini-greenhouses." The book includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances plus descriptions of more than 90 different crops, with charts showing when to plant and harvest each. The result is a year-round harvest even from a small garden. In Solar Gardening the Poissons show you how to:
Armed with nothing but this book and a few simple tools, even novice gardeners can quickly learn to extend their growing season and increase their yields, without increasing the size of their garden plot. |
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Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-round the American Intensive Way Leandre Poisson,Gretchen Vogel Poisson Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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American Intensive Gardening beans beets biennial plant broccoli cabbage family carrots caulking Celtuce Chinese cold-tolerant vegetables compost cool cool-hardy vegetables Cooperative Extension Service corn salad cucumbers dried drop frames eggplant end plates etables fall fertility fresh harvest frost fruit germinate glazing go to seed green manure growing areas growing season grown harvest period heat heat-loving vegetables inches insect inside insulated base insulated beds interplant kale kohlrabi leaves leeks lettuce long-season mature melons mid-season moderate zone moisture month mulch nutrients okra onions open bed open garden open-bed organic matter overwinter P.O. Box parsnips peas peppers pests plants pliances potatoes produce propagate protect radishes root cellar rutabagas salsify sea kale seed remains viable seedbed seedlings shade short-season side rails solar appliances Solar Cones southern zone space spinach spring sprouts stalks summer squash Swiss chard Tomatillos tomatoes transplant turnips varieties warm weeds winter squash
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Página v - I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Página v - No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table, I am still devoted to the garden. But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
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