{"product_id":"gardening-when-it-counts-9780865715530","title":"Gardening When It Counts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShows 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Resilient Gardener \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGardening When It Counts \u003c\/em\u003ehelps 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,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Basics; Tools and Tasks; Garden Centres; Seeds; Watering ... and Not; Compost; Insects and Diseases; What to Grow ... and How to; Resources; Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Society Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866114240855,"sku":"9780865715530","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780865715530.jpg?v=1722277107","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gardening-when-it-counts-9780865715530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}