1964-01-01 The following report of vegetable growing in El Salvador in a composit report of those volunteers that have had projects in home gardening. It is meant to be used as a guide for future projects with the desire that what we have learned may be used to advantage by future volunteers. Much work...
1984-01-01 Thousands of gardeners are discovering the joys of growing heirloom vegetables and fruits...older, classic, often rare varieties now difficult to obtain from commercial nurseries and seed companies. Older varieties are often better adapted to specific local growing conditions, offer a rich...
1982-01-01 How to Plan your Custom Garden is divided into two sections. The first section includes a collection or success story articles, while the 2nd section helps you plan the garden that most closely meets your needs. Comprised mostly of charts and checklists, this section first helps you determine...
1992-01-01 The vegetables listed in this publication can be divided into cool and warm season vegetables based on their optimum growing season and planting dates.
1985-01-01 The 60-Minute Garden requires initially a small investent of time and money to build the twenty devices that make up the garden, but once the permanent system is in place, it viturally takes care of itself.
2009-01-01 Vegetables that are easy to grow - potatoes, onions, tomatoes - provide economic, social and nutritional advantages and can make significant differences to smallholder livelihoods. With this booklet, policy-makers and development personnel will recognize the opportunities that are available for...
A good plan is the first step in establishing a home vegetable garden. Planning includes selecting the garden location; deciding on size and kinds and varieties of vegetables to plant: and determining where, when and how much of each vegetable to plant in the garden.
1978-01-01 Tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown by gardeners today for many reasons: they can be grown anywhere, they are relatively easy to grow, and tomatoes are easily preserved for out-of-season use.The Gardens for All Book of Tomatoes provides information for tomatoes gardening including...
1983-01-01 Here we hope to answer some of these questions and to show how people can begin--it does not matter how small--to take some responsibility in providing for themselves in a way that is ecologically sound, intelletually and physically stimulating, emotionally satisfying, and, above all, fun.