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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food

A Crop-by-Crop Reference for 62 Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, and Herbs

by Tanya Denckla Cobb
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This essential guide to growing a bountiful food garden includes detailed seed-starting, growing, and harvesting information for 62 vegetables, fruits, and herbs, a complete companion-planting guide, and organic pest-control handbook.

The latest addition to Storey's bestselling Backyard Homestead series, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food is a one-stop reference for all the key information food gardeners need to grow a healthy, bountiful garden. Author Tanya Denckla Cobb presents key information based on extensive research and years of experience, including when to start seeds for each type of crop (and at what temperature), how far apart to space seedlings, how to tell when a crop is ready to harvest, and notes on preservation. The book features a comprehensive companion planting guide and an in-depth review of the most effective organic pest control practices, including recipes for how to make your own pest deterrent sprays.

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  • Release date

    February 20, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781635867916

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781635867916
      • File size: 7503 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2024

      Cobb (Reclaiming Our Food) is an environmental mediator and food-systems planning instructor. Her book's opening pages extol the sustainable, practical and stress-relieving virtues of gardening. The "For Starters" chapter details how to plan and maintain a self-sustaining garden. It includes tidbits about composting, soil balance, and managing essential bugs. Other chapters cover vegetables, fruits and nuts, and herbs. Each crop is presented with clear instructions on planting, determining the proper soil, understanding water and temperature needs, and storing. Readers will also learn about companion and incompatible plants, ideal times to harvest, and pests and diseases. There are tips for identifying and preventing common garden problems and advice about gardening without chemicals. The final chapter compiles allies and companion plants into an easy-to-read chart that lists the plants they help and the insects they repel or attract. Additional resources, such as recommended readings and metric conversion charts, appear at the back of the book. VERDICT A solid reference guide that's best for established gardeners looking to introduce organic methods and self-sustainability into their practice.--Whitney Bates-Gomez

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      January 1, 2024
      Published previously under the title The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food (2004), but with new material, this is a straightforward, serviceable guide to an array of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs that can be grown organically by the home gardener. Range is not extensive--no Swiss chard, mustard greens, or citrus, for example--but entries cover a lot of ground: where to site, soil and water needs, heights and spacing, pollination needs, pests and diseases, pruning needs, and compatible and incompatible plant neighbors. Especially useful are storage requirements, given in each entry, and the book's emphasis on building soil. Though not essential here, illustrations might have been welcome.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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