false 183595 2 <p>The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering.</p> <p>Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. <i>Gardening When It Counts</i> helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food.</p> <p>Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a day during the growing season.</p> <p><b>Steve Solomon</b> is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including <i>Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades</i> which has appeared in five editions.</p> 177431 1 4 2006 Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) total:93|5:27|4:39|3:17|2:7|1:3| 93 359 239 31 4 1 false false Mon Oct 08 08:50:22 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 08:53:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 10 12:19:03 -0700 2009 Thu May 17 16:56:23 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 10 12:19:03 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 09:31:22 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 09:35:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 21:27:18 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 08 11:27:07 -0700 2009
"Since the time I was sent to elementary school, my feet have marched to the beat of a different drummer than Everybody Else's.... This book is for Mr. and Ms. Everybody Else, who are well known and highly respected aut...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Dec 31 07:35:51 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:44:03 -0800 2007 How to Grow More Vegetables. Solomon debunks the Grow Biointensive method as requiring too much investment of time, labor, water, and amendments for too little gain. A former seed man with experience in biointensive gardening, Solomon takes us t...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Jun 13 08:52:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 30 13:13:45 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 13 08:52:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 15:59:38 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:16:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 09 12:38:08 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 13 10:18:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 07:42:18 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:44:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 07 11:45:27 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 09:56:05 -0700 2008 3 As a gardener, Solomon lives off of what he grows all year round. This is a great book for anyone loo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 07 08:24:13 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 08:11:25 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 08:24:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:51:57 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 15 02:30:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:03:35 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:03:44 -0700 2009 0 1 false false Wed Jun 17 20:14:59 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 20:16:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 19:48:21 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 19:52:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Mar 13 14:30:54 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 14:30:54 -0700 2009 no garden is a closed system]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 06 10:18:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 14 08:50:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 13:36:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:37:10 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Sep 11 17:01:40 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 17:05:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 09 18:42:39 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 12:55:45 -0700 2008 more...]]>