Raised-Bed Vegetable Gardening Made Simple

by Raymond Nones

Overview

Grow more veggies—in less space and with less work—than you ever thought possible!

Having a backyard garden in a small space got a lot easier when the first edition of this wonderful handbook was published. Now it gets even easier—Raised-Bed Vegetable Gardening Made Simple has been revised!

Framed raised beds and a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production in less space and with less work. Whether you live in a small city apartment or on a large country estate, you’ll find something in this book to help with your specific gardening challenges. Nones shows you how to set everything up and then gives you in-depth descriptions of all the procedures needed to achieve gardening success: sowing seeds, thinning, transplanting, cultivating, mulching, watering, harvesting, pest control, composting, crop rotation, and seed saving. It’s a complete gardening guide for both the beginner and the experienced gardener, useful for those who have never tried raised beds before as well as for those who have already tried a raised-bed system. Far less bending, far less weeding, more produce at harvest time—gardeners, what have you been waiting for?

Raymond Nones is a dirt-under-the-fingernails organic practitioner and proud penny-pincher who lives and gardens in Queens, New York. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581577105
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	1,005,752
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Raymond Nones is a dirt-under-the-fingernails organic practitioner and proud penny-pincher who lives and gardens in Queens, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface 5

Introduction 7

1 Searching for a better way 9

2 The three-module garden 20

3 Gardening procedures 28

4 Putting it all together 66

5 The initial planting 70

6 The transition process 87

7 The succession planting 91

8 Preparing for winter 118

9 Crop rotation 124

10 Garden calendar 128

11 Saving seed 132

12 Pest control 138

13 Filling in some blanks 153

14 Substitutions 164

15 Experimentation 170

16 Conclusion 175

Appendix: Random ramblings: tomato-growing nitty-gritty 178

Calibrate your forefinger 186

Index 187

About the author 192