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Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Everything You Need to Know (FFA)

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Johnson, Daniel; Johnson, Samantha

 
9780760344040: Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Everything You Need to Know (FFA)
ISBN 10: 0760344043 ISBN 13: 9780760344040
Verlag: Voyageur Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

If you want to harvest produce from your own backyard garden, The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening has everything you need to know about growing healthy veggies, herbs, and popular fruits such as strawberries and raspberries. Tips and techniques are described in easy-to-follow advice that a gardener of any skill or age will be able to follow and master. The information in the book includes the following:
* Understanding your climate and growing season
* Choosing and constructing a garden space
* Starting from seeds or seedlings
* Preparing the soil properly
* Weeding, watering, and other daily garden care

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Johnson and Samantha Johnson are a brother-and-sister team who have paired up to write and photograph several books on raising horses, rabbits, and other farm animals. Both 4-H alumni, they live on Fox Hill Farm, a family-owned farm with a large vegetable garden outside the town of Phelps in far northern Wisconsin.

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If you want to harvest fresh, delicious vegetables from your own backyard garden, this is the book for you. The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening covers everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a healthy, productive vegetable garden, whether you have a small urban lot or a large country yard.
Samantha Johnson and Daniel Johnson, a brother-sister book-writing team from northern Wisconsin, are 4-H alumni who have written several books on raising livestock and other aspects of rural living. Here they condense their extensive gardening experience and full-color photography into one easy-to-use guidebook.
This book was created as a practical, illustrated resource for FFA members ages twelve and up, but it is useful for any beginning gardener. From picking a site and amending the soil to watering and harvesting, this book lays out simple steps to gardening success. In addition to detailed growing information on common vegetables, The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening includes a bonus section on popular herbs and fruits for the home garden.
The Johnsons describe useful tips and techniques that will help a novice gardener bring in a bumper crop. And they don’t leave you hanging with the harvest: they include advice for preserving, storing, and exhibiting your vegetables, and even offer a few recipes for making treats from your fall bounty.
Buy this guide and learn how to:
Choose the right garden site
Start from seeds or seedlings
Pick the right tools
Prepare the soil properly
Make compost
Keep weeds under control
Extend the growing season
Rotate your crops
Save seeds
Exhibit your harvest at the county fair
Make dinner from your garden
About the authors:

Samantha Johnson and Daniel Johnson have collaborated on several rural living guidebooks, including The Field Guide to Horses (2009) and How to Raise Rabbits (2009). Both are 4-H alumni and live on the family farm, Fox Hill Farm, in far northern Wisconsin. Samantha is also a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Daniel Johnson is a professional photographer whose work can be seen at www.foxhillphoto.com.

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Verlag
Voyageur Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0760344043
ISBN 13 
9780760344040
Einband
Flexibler Einband
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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