The Organic Gardeners Handbook tells you everything you need to know to create a highly productive vegetable garden. Combining European tradition with American creativity it covers the art and science of organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in contemporary books. There are chapters on every aspect of organic vegetable gardening, soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses and much more. Whether you are a complete novice and need your hand holding through every step, or a veteran gardener with a permanent layer of soil under your fingernails, you will find this book both helpful and informative. A book that will soon be covered in dirty fingerprints. The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion to The Vegetable Growers Handbook.

Frank Tozer has been an avid gardener for 30 years. He is obsessed by food plants, and is passionately interested in developing a sustainable way for humans to live on the earth using plants. His 2 ½ acre garden in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California is an evolving mix of French intensive vegetable garden, English cottage garden, edible landscape, wild (edible) plant garden, forest garden and more. He is also the author of The Uses of Wild Plants.

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Distributor: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication Date: 07-15-2008
Pages: 248
Measurements: 11in X 8.5in X .75in X 1.4oz