Houbein offers a charming and practical work that explains how to turn one square yard of soil into a nourishing, inexpensive, and Earth-friendly source of produce right at home. Illustrations throughout.
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The 30 'Magic Square' garden plots offer plenty of ideas, from a simple salad garden with a variety of lettuces, to gardens for soup, stir fry, root crops and more. "San Francisco Chronicle " So many gardening books feature plants' mile-long Latin names and confusing charts. Not this one. Its easy-to-follow instructions, diagrams, and photos inspire desire to grow good-for-the-body fresh produce from little yard space. A bonus: some delicious serving suggestions. "One Magic Square" tells you everything you need to get started and profiles each plant. "The Virginian-Pilot" Australian gardener Houbein has a personal and intimate understanding of food security, having survived famine during the Nazi occupation in Holland. She warns of the dangers of globalized, corporate agribusiness and 'aims to put you in control of the production of at least part of the food you need.'... The book provides basic gardening information and a wide variety of square-yard vegetablen
This is a fantastic gardening book that teaches you how to make your garden turn into a thriving food-growing place. If you don't have a lot of room, or if you are wanting to learn what to plant with what, then this is the book for you. I am sick of getting the book from the library so have decided to buy it for myself.
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