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Summary:

"To accommodate today's lifestyles, a garden needs to fit easily into a very small plot, take as little time as possible to maintain, require a minimum amount of water, and still produce prolifically. That's exactly what a postage stamp garden does. Postage stamp gardens are as little as 4 by 4 feet, and, after the initial soil preparation, they require very little extra work to produce a tremendous amount of vegetables-for instance, a 5-by-5-foot bed will produce a minimum of 200 pounds of vegetables. When first published 40 years ago, the postage stamp techniques, including closely planted beds rather than rows, vines and trailing plants grown vertically to free up space, and intercropping, were groundbreaking. Revised for an all new generation of gardeners, this edition includes brand new information on the variety of heirloom vegetables available today and how to grow them the postage stamp way"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Planning your postage stamp vegetable garden
• The postage stamp soil mix
• Getting your ground ready
• When and how to plant
• Watering your postage stamp vegetable garden
• Heirloom vegetables and herbs you'll love to grow
• Plants that like each other
• Controlling pests, diseases, and critters.

Author/Creator:

Newcomb, Karen , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The postage stamp vegetable garden: grow tons of organic vegetables in tiny spaces and containers [by Newcomb, K.]

Subjects:

Vegetable gardening

Organic gardening

Small gardens

General Notes:

Includes index.
"Originally published in different form as The postage stamp garden book by Adams Media, Holbrook, MA, in 1999 and by J.P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, CA, in 1975."

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

SB321 .N45 2015

ISBNs:

9781607746836 (paperback)
1607746832 (paperback)
9781607746843 (ebook) [Invalid]
1607746840 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014027489

OCLC Numbers:

885547302