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More copies of this ISBN:Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardeningby Steve Solomon
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades is an invaluable resource for any gardener looking to become more knowledgeable and grow better vegetables. The book features basic info on soils, composting, chemical-free fertilizing, efficient water usage, and planning, but it is also filled with up-to-date tips on seed sources and new growing and cultivation techniques. Featuring a Earth-friendly focus on organic gardening practices, the book helps readers acquire a foundation of master-gardening knowledge that they can use to organize and plan their own gardens however they want. Book News Annotation:Solomon lives in Tasmania now, but every few years still updates his
guide for gardeners in the North American Maritime Northwest, first
published in 1980. He discusses the usual topics of conventional
beginning organic gardening books--soil, composting, water, seeds,
predators, and so on--but approaches it all from the particular
conditions encountered in the region, such as no sun in the winter
and no rain in the summer, and nutrients washed out of the soil by a
thousand years of endless rain. Perhaps underlying all other
problems, he says, is that Native Americans in Cascadia did not farm
and so had only one lesson to teach European settlers about
agriculture there, which they have ignored ever since.
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