Common Scents Organic Gardening: Techniques for Creating and Maintaining a Sustainable Kitchen Garden

By Marie Arana

Book Overview

'Common Scents Organic Gardening' provides comprehensive time, cost and water saving techniques for creating and maintaining a sustainable kitchen garden. The book includes chapters on Tools & Equipment, Site Characteristics, Garden Layout, Keeping Chickens, Creating a 'Viable' Soil (including Composting and Mulch), Dog Patrol and Techniques for Planting, Harvesting and Propagation including selecting, dehydrating and storing seeds and transplanting seedlings and cuttings.As no chemical pesticides are used, a variety of insects, spiders and birds attracted to the kitchen garden have created a naturally balanced ecosystem with minimal damage to produce. As a result fresh, healthy and abundant produce is available year after year.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385319630
• ISBN13: 9780385319638
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 5.5"