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9780878332588

Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland

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    9780878332588

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    0878332588

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Natl Book Network
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Summary

How do I cope with winter-spring-winter-summer-winter-spring weather?

Which of these things sprouting are my vegetables and which ones are weeds?

What do I do about this awful clay soil?

These are just a few of the questions addressed in Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland. Comprising over one-fifth of the U.S. -- South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky -- the Heartland may share horticultural zones with many other areas, but its soils and erratic weather make gardening there a singularly challenging experience. Dispensing hard-won advice from years of firsthand experience and promoting a practical, organic approach, this invaluable guide offers essential information to beginners and veteran gardeners of the Great Plains.

Andrea Ray Chandler explains with clear instructions, down-to-earth examples, and colorful anecdotes the fundamentals of:
-- soil regeneration and compost making
-- weather problems (and how to cope with them!)
-- cool-weather crops and succession planni

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
What Makes the Heartland So Special?
Why Heartland Gardeners Need Their Own Book
True Confessions
Why Gardening Books Seem to Disagree
The Common Factors
Weather Weirdness in the Heartland
Your Garden Ground
1(22)
Site Selection Considerations
The Dirt on Soil
In the Beginning: The History of Your Soil
The Composition of Your Soil
How to Take a Soil Sample
Better Than Reading Tea Leaves
The ABCs of NPK
How to Spin Straw into Gold: Composting
A Bevy of Bins
Barrow Composting: The Painless Way to Enrich Your Garden
Understanding the Barrow Method
Other Soil Amendments
Ten Rules for Making Compost
The Benefits of Raised Beds
Breaking New Ground
The First Method: Double-Digging
The Second Method: Hill Culture
The Third and Easiest Method: Barrow Beds
CCA Wood and Other Things to Avoid
Figuring Rainfall and Your Watering Needs
Understanding Catalogs
23(9)
Beyond the ``Hyper-Kodachrome'': Decoding Catalog-Speak
More Catalog Terms
Figuring Packet Sizes and Costs
Proven Winners
Disease Resistance
Hybrid vs. Open-Pollinated
USDA Zones: What They Do and Don't Mean
Narrowing Down Varieties
Favorite Vegetable Seed Catalogs
Seed Starting and Garden Planning
32(21)
Seed-Starting Equipment
Containers
Shelves and Lighting Setups
Seed-Starting Schedules
How Long Does It Take Seeds to Sprout?
Advanced Seedling Care: Pricking Out and Repotting
When Do You Not Start Things from Transplants?
Hardening Off
Asexual Propagation
Divide to Multiply
Out-of-Ground Experiences: Container Growing
Hey, Are These Seeds Still Any Good?
Planning Your Garden Layout
Playing Around with Spacing
Maximizing the Harvest: Interplanting and Succession Planting
Moving out of Doors
53(15)
Labor Pains: Is It Time Yet?
Frost Dates
Some Homemade Frost- and Wind-Protection Devices
Thermodynamic and Other Cold Frames
Another Cover-Up Job
Mulch, Two, Three Four!
Trellising: Oh, Grow Up!
Building a Tomato Cage
Trellis-Building Supplies
Spring and Autumn Crops
68(26)
How to Grow Cool-Season Vegetables
Peas
Cruciferous or Cole Crops
Root Crops
Alliums
Leafy Vegetables
Third Time's the Charm: Autumn Crops
``Squashes and Corn and Beans, Oh My!'' Warm-Season-Vegetables
94(18)
Beans
Corn
Eggplants
Okra
Peppers
Sweetpotatoes
Tomatoes
Curcurbits
Perennial Vegetables
That Cover-Up Job
Growing and Cooking with Herbs---No Icky Veggies, Only Icky Recipes
112(32)
Why Grow Herbs?
Popular Pernnial Herbs
Popular Tender Perennial Herbs
Popular Annual and Biennial Herbs
Volunteer Herbs
The Gourmet's Garden
Herb and Ethnic Seed and Plant Catalogs
Gathering, Drying, and Using Your Herb Harvest
Making Herbal Oils and Vinegars
Awash in Squash and Other Blessings: Vegetable Recipes
Bugs, Slugs, and Four-Legged Thugs
144(23)
IPM and Organic Pest Control
Gallery of Garden Pests
Pesticide and Herbicide Safety
Critters and Even Larger Thugs
Good Guys Don't Wear White Hats
Common Plant Diseases and Questions
Crop Rotation
Soil Solarization
``What Is That?''---Getting Help from Your Extension Office
Tool Selection---or Whoever Dies with the Most Toys, Wins!
167(10)
Simple Pleasures: What You Really Need
How to Pick the Weeder for You
Handy Tools for Advanced Gardeners
Tools for the Maniacal Gardener
Homemade Tools for Easier Gardening
Making Gardening Easier
How to Get Brilliant
177(21)
Why We Bother with Record Keeping
Sky-Watching for Gardeners
Yikes! Coping with Storm Damage
Thunderstorm and Tornado Safety
Elementary Seed Saving
How Long Do Seeds Last?
How Much Yield Can You Expect?
Keeping the Gardener in Top Shape
Calendar of General Garden Activities by Month
Appendix A Tables of Measures 198(4)
Table of American Measures, Some Pretty Darn Obscure
Table of U.S. and Metric Volume Equivalencies
Table of Metric Measures
Cirde Math
How to Calculate the Height of a Tree without Using Trigonometry
Appendix B Addresses for State Extension Offices 202(1)
Glossary 203(10)
Bibliography 213(2)
Index 215

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