The Woodchuck's Guide to GardeningHere is an entertaining, common sense organic gardening book from a master of both gardening and storytelling. The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening reconnects us to the four gardening cycles of the year -- from spade to seed to grain to bread--through anecdotes and history, poetry and wit, politics, stories, and lots of down-to-earth organic gardening tips. This is a gardening book for beginners, as well as for more experienced organic and biodynamic gardeners willing to learn thrift and practicality from the "woodchuck." It tells the story of the author, Ron Krupp's thirty years of garden-based learning. Part gardening primer, part map for your own gardening journey, part guide to the universe. |
Contents
THE GREENEST OF SEASONS | 2 |
Spring | 3 |
A Woodchucks AllPurpose Formula | 9 |
Spring Blooms And Edibles | 14 |
Flower Seeds | 16 |
The Woodland Plants | 22 |
Late Spring Gardening | 31 |
Chapter 5 | 39 |
Chapter 13 | 89 |
Chapter 14 | 100 |
Chapter 16 | 119 |
Chapter 18 | 129 |
Chapter 19 | 137 |
Chapter 20 | 144 |
Chapter 21 | 152 |
Winter | 171 |
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annual Appendix Guide Number apple cider applesauce Autumn Appendix Guide beans beetles biodynamic biodynamic gardener bloodroot bloom bugs bulbs cabbage calendula carrots CHAPTER cold frame colors comfrey Community Garden companion planting compost pile cool corn cover crops cucumbers dandelion daylilies Deborah dried early earth fall farm favorite Fedco frost fruit fungus garden beds geraniums germination grass green manures greenhouse grow harvest heirloom herbs home gardener hybrid insects lamb's-quarters late leaf leaves lettuce light moisture mulch nettle onion organic gardening P.O. Box peas perennials pests Plant Hardiness Zone plastic potatoes pots produce raised beds Ron's root cellar rose row covers season seed catalogs seed saving seedlings soil spinach Spring Appendix Guide squash St.-John's-wort strawflowers Summer Appendix Guide sweet tomatoes transplant trays trees varieties vegetables Vermont warm weeds wild Winter Appendix Guide winter rye woodchuck woodchuck gardeners wreath young plants
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