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Lolo Houbein has 40 years' worth of gardening wisdom to share--on how to coax an abundance of organic food from a plot that is just 3 feet square! Sustainable, cost-effective, and creative techniques: how to compost, save water, troubleshoot weeds and pests, create a plant-friendly microclimate, and more Over 40 themed plot designs, from antioxidant-rich and anti-cancer plots to salad, pizza, pasta, and stir-fry plots Encyclopedic information about every crop in every plot Tips on drying, freezing, pickling, and other ways to get more value and enjoyment from your homegrown produce And her irresistible gardening philosophy ("If herbs wanted to be used frugally, they would also grow frugally. But they don't!") Ever encouraging, often charming, and always practical, this expanded second edition of One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening will help first-time gardeners get started--and help veteran gardeners get results--on a small, easy-to-maintain plot. No actual magic is required!
Author Notes
Lolo Houbein lives and gardens in the Adelaide Hills of Australia. Cofounder of Trees for Life, and an environmental activist for many years, she has written a dozen books on love, life, travel, and food.
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Houbein brings a singular respect for the productive, organic vegetable garden, having barely survived famine as a youth in WWII Holland. She's brilliantly contemporary in organizing each of her 40-plus model gardens into a number of practical culinary groupings: Asian greens (mizuna, bok choy, Chinese cabbages, etc.), pasta and pizza (tomatoes, onions, eggplants, bell peppers, fingerlings, etc.), Aztec (corn, beans, squash) as well as gardens for omega-3, anticancer, antioxidant, root crops, soup, essential herbs, and stir-fry, among many more. For each three-by-three-foot garden, she lays out a plot diagram, with specific spaces designated for each plant. There follows a detailed, refreshingly candid section on growing each of the veggies listed in the plots. Old garden geezers will tell you growing carrots is dead easy, she writes, but many a gardener has troubles with this indispensable root vegetable. Amen. Since the author works and lives in Australia, this guide the second, expanded edition of a book that found limited distribution here is best suited for gardens in more temperate climates; the clever gardener, though, could make this book work anywhere.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2016 Booklist
Table of Contents
Preface | p. x |
Introduction | p. xii |
Abbreviations | p. xiv |
Part 1 Towards Sustainable and Self-Sufficient Food Growing | |
The Terrifying Importance of Growing Food | p. 2 |
How to Get Started | p. 11 |
How to Find Time to Grow Food | p. 16 |
Gardening with Attitude | p. 19 |
Ten Green Rules | p. 21 |
Part 2 Tips and Tricks | |
Starting and Maintaining | p. 24 |
How to Set Up a Food Plot | p. 25 |
Soil Secrets | p. 29 |
Compost Compositions | p. 34 |
Seeds and Seedlings | p. 41 |
Easy-Care Fruit Trees | p. 49 |
Companion Planting and Intercropping | p. 52 |
Water and Watering | p. 55 |
Big Yielders and Gross Feeders | p. 60 |
Plant Food and Soil Food | p. 63 |
The Message of Mulch | p. 69 |
Pruning, Pinching, and Thinning | p. 74 |
Crop Rotation and Green Crops | p. 76 |
Problem-Solving | p. 82 |
What to Do about Weeds | p. 83 |
Pests and Predators | p. 86 |
Visitors from the Biosphere | p. 89 |
An A-Z of Pests and Problems | p. 94 |
Livestock, Birds and Bees, and Frogs | p. 102 |
Hardware in the Food Garden | p. 105 |
Thinking Outside the Magic Square | p. 115 |
The Seasons | p. 116 |
Climate, Weather, and Microclimate | p. 119 |
Permaculture | p. 124 |
Easy Vegetables to Grow | p. 126 |
Saving Seed | p. 129 |
From Garden to Table | p. 135 |
Essential Utensils | p. 137 |
Cupboard Self-Sufficiency | p. 139 |
Part 3 The Magic Square Plots | |
A Note on the Magic Square Plots | p. 146 |
The Salad Plots | p. 147 |
The Fava Bean Plot | p. 156 |
The Omega- 3 Plot | p. 158 |
The Antioxidants Plot | p. 160 |
The Curry Plots | p. 162 |
The Beans Plot | p. 164 |
The Stir-Fry Plots | p. 167 |
The Asian Greens Plot | p. 170 |
The Baby Greens Plot | p. 173 |
The Arugula Plot | p. 174 |
The Root Crop Plot | p. 176 |
The Pasta/Pizza Plots | p. 178 |
The Wild Greens (Horta) Plot | p. 180 |
The Aztec Plot | p. 182 |
The Pea Plot | p. 185 |
The Melon Plot | p. 186 |
The Chinese Melon Plot | p. 187 |
The Essential Herb Plot | p. 189 |
The Soup Plots | p. 192 |
The Pick-and-Come-Again Plot | p. 198 |
The Starchy Staples Plot | p. 199 |
The Rotating Mono-Crops Plot | p. 200 |
The Interlacing Plot | p. 201 |
The Onion and Garlic Plot | p. 204 |
The Ginger or Galangal Plot | p. 205 |
The Anti-Cancer Plots | p. 207 |
Berry Plots and Hedges | p. 209 |
The Pumpkin Plot | p. 211 |
The Perennials | p. 213 |
The Spice Companions | p. 215 |
The Stinging Nettle Plot | p. 216 |
The Edible Flower Plot | p. 218 |
Part 4 Descriptions of Food Plants | |
An A-Z of Vegetable Families | p. 222 |
Summer, Winter, and All-Season Vegetables and Herbs | p. 225 |
Common Vegetables: How to Grow and Use Them | p. 229 |
More Value from Popular Vegetables | p. 273 |
Common Herbs: How to Grow and Use Them | p. 279 |
Easy-Care Fruit Trees and Berries: How to Grow and Use Them | p. 293 |
Preserving and Using Home Produce | p. 307 |
Notes | p. 312 |
References and Further Reading | p. 314 |
Useful Addresses | p. 317 |
Acknowledgments | p. 319 |
Index | p. 321 |
About the Author | p. 338 |