Paperback, 468 pages
by Robert Kourik
ISBN: 978-0961584887

Dismantle Your Gardening Myths; Grow a Garden Grounding in Facts Backed by Science.

Would you like to garden without digging, composting, buying fertilizers, spraying with pesticides, or lamenting low yields? If so, Sustainable Food Gardening is the book for you.

You'll learn to:

• - Use no-till techniques to preserve your soil
• - Grow new kinds of beautiful and productive Victory gardens
• - Review alternative ways to stack and layer your paintings
• - Plant Native American "Three Sisters" gardens that actually work
• - Attract beneficial insects to your garden with strategic flower planting

Other topics covered in depth include:

• - Rainwater catchment/cisterns
• - Faster way to maximize and improve soil
• - "Dynamic accumulation" -- a myth with some useful new guidelines
• - How to encourage fruiting with clothespins

In Sustainable Food Gardening you'll learn how to achieve that Holy Grail of gardening--productivity, tasty food, and a beautiful, sustainable garden, yard, or landscape.