Books behind The Bicycle Guide to Grow Food At Home

#1

Pole · Treat the goal as broad household self-sufficiency including baking, fermenting, and foraging (“A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More!”), or apply commercial small-farm methods (“The New Organic Grower A Masters Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener”)

#2

Pole · Build beds from a soil-less blend of one-third each peat, vermiculite, and compost ('Mel's Mix') for instant weed-free, well-drained fertility (“All New Square Foot Gardening”)

#3

Hunt, Marjorie

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#4

Steven A. Frowine

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#5

Steve Solomon

Pole · Eliminate irrigation by repeatedly hoeing a loose 'dust mulch' that seals moisture into the soil below (“Gardening When It Counts Growing Food in Hard Times”)

#6

Rodale Books

Pole · Water deeply and regularly at the root zone to keep plants supplied (most books)

#7

Rodale Books

Pole · Water deeply and regularly at the root zone to keep plants supplied (most books)

#8

Rodale Books

Pole · Water deeply and regularly at the root zone to keep plants supplied (most books)

#9

Rodale Books

Pole · Water deeply and regularly at the root zone to keep plants supplied (most books)

#10

Lewis, WayneLowenfels, Jeff

Pole · Feed the soil food web with compost and minimal amendment, letting biology deliver nutrients (“Teaming with microbes the organic gardeners guide to the soil food web”, “Rodale organic gardening basics. Volume 2, Soil”)

#11

Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch

Pole · Treat the goal as broad household self-sufficiency including baking, fermenting, and foraging (“A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More!”), or apply commercial small-farm methods (“The New Organic Grower A Masters Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener”)

#12

Edward C. Smith

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#13

Pole · Pack plants intensively in raised beds using square-foot or close spacing to maximize yield per area and shade out weeds while conserving soil moisture (“All New Square Foot Gardening”, “Urban Gardening For Dummies”)