Description
Book SynopsisShows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened . . . with just four basic hand tools, and with little or no electricity or irrigation. Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener
In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. This book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps two hundred dollars' worth of hand tools.
Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to the new circumstances we find ourselves in. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. Prior to the 1970s,
Table of Contents
Introduction; Basics; Tools and Tasks; Garden Centres; Seeds; Watering ... and Not; Compost; Insects and Diseases; What to Grow ... and How to; Resources; Index.
