Marjorie Harris returns with a completely updated edition of her sixteen-year-old classic guide to gardening with the environment in mind. In her witty and accessible style, Marjorie Harris - who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s - encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to basics. With information updated for today's society, Ecological Gardening shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. In 1992, when the book was first published, gardening ecologically was a choice - now, it's absolutely a matter of proper stewardship. With a…mehr
Marjorie Harris returns with a completely updated edition of her sixteen-year-old classic guide to gardening with the environment in mind. In her witty and accessible style, Marjorie Harris - who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s - encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to basics. With information updated for today's society, Ecological Gardening shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. In 1992, when the book was first published, gardening ecologically was a choice - now, it's absolutely a matter of proper stewardship. With a society intent on leaving as small a footprint on the earth as possible, there is no better time than now for this important and vital book.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: SOIL: The Real Dirt Earthworms Know your soil Feed the soil Soil amending Solving soil problems Buying topsoil Soil testing 2: COMPOSTING: Garden Gold Location How to get started Stuff for the compost pile Layering the compost pile How to layer Hot rot Compost and chemicals Earthworm tea Cold weather composting Composting pet waste Compost problems 3: MULCHING AND FERTILIZING: To Feed and Protect Why mulch? How to mulch What to use as mulch Fertilizing The organics 4: BUGS: The Good, the Bad and the Merely Ugly Ecological pesticides Politically correct supplies Non-commercial alternatives A garden for beneficials Good bugs Bad bugs Mammal pests 5: DISEASES AND DEFICIENCIES Preventative gardening Deficiencies Specific diseases 6: WEEDS: Friends or Foes? Beneficial weeds Nasty weeds Weed indicators 7: PLANTING: Companions for Life Companion planting Protective botanicals Planting strategies Chart your companions 8: WATER AND THE GARDEN Watering and your soil How to water Planting Grey water Lawns Ground cover alternatives to the lawn Xeriscaping: twenty-first century gardening Frost chart 9: OLD WIVES’ LORE: THE GETTING OF WISDOM Planting cycles Weather 10: STYLES OF GARDENING The natural garden Gardening where it’s dry Gardening where it’s wet Gardening where it’s cold Self-sowing gardens Endangered bulbs Planting by indicators Native plants for the garden 11: FINALE APPENDIX Organic amending Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: SOIL: The Real Dirt Earthworms Know your soil Feed the soil Soil amending Solving soil problems Buying topsoil Soil testing 2: COMPOSTING: Garden Gold Location How to get started Stuff for the compost pile Layering the compost pile How to layer Hot rot Compost and chemicals Earthworm tea Cold weather composting Composting pet waste Compost problems 3: MULCHING AND FERTILIZING: To Feed and Protect Why mulch? How to mulch What to use as mulch Fertilizing The organics 4: BUGS: The Good, the Bad and the Merely Ugly Ecological pesticides Politically correct supplies Non-commercial alternatives A garden for beneficials Good bugs Bad bugs Mammal pests 5: DISEASES AND DEFICIENCIES Preventative gardening Deficiencies Specific diseases 6: WEEDS: Friends or Foes? Beneficial weeds Nasty weeds Weed indicators 7: PLANTING: Companions for Life Companion planting Protective botanicals Planting strategies Chart your companions 8: WATER AND THE GARDEN Watering and your soil How to water Planting Grey water Lawns Ground cover alternatives to the lawn Xeriscaping: twenty-first century gardening Frost chart 9: OLD WIVES’ LORE: THE GETTING OF WISDOM Planting cycles Weather 10: STYLES OF GARDENING The natural garden Gardening where it’s dry Gardening where it’s wet Gardening where it’s cold Self-sowing gardens Endangered bulbs Planting by indicators Native plants for the garden 11: FINALE APPENDIX Organic amending Bibliography Index
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