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Description Small Plot, Big Harvest 2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0756690552 | PDF | 49 MB by DK Publishing (Author) Aimed at both urban and suburban gardeners with small plots, who want to be part of the grow-your-own phenomenon, Small Plot, Big Harvest celebrates what the vast majority of people have — a little bit of patio or garden that is precious to them. With at-a-glance crop planners, step-by-step gardening techniques — such as preparing soil, sowing, planting, watering, feeding, and growing under cover — and instructions and charts showing when to sow and when to harvest, Small Plot, Big Harvest brings foolproof vegetable growing for gardeners with little space. Can't really just exactly how good the book is until I get into my garden and start using it, but the pictures are amazing - including a good section on disease and pests in the garden. Wish it had a little bit more about companion gardening other than the one line of marigolds and tomatoes. With over 70 step-by-step pictures of various crops from beets to pumpkins, I am pretty sure I will be using this book a lot. Good book for beginners and an easy read. Great setup of a 9 x 9 foot (3 yard square) crop area. But the book also is suppose to go into how to grow in containers, and in that it is woefully lacking other than telling you things need more water. No information on how large a container should be, if you need to rotate them, etc. The big example is the 3 yard square area - which is in the ground planting, though four different setups are provided. The harvest of potatoes shows containers, but the other 70 step-by-step pictures are all in the ground kind of things. Also a hazard is no real discussion of climate differences. For a beginning gardening book, at least one page should have been devoted to snow vs. no snow climates rather than the vague "if you live in colder areas". So lots of pretty pictures. Need a little gardening background (like remembering visiting your grandparents in the summer and helping them a couple years when you were six or seven), but not much. Good for small lots and inspiration if you want to do container gardening. And pretty pictures if you don't know what the plant is suppose to look like from sprout to harvest. (I mentioned pictures, right?) Related Torrents
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