The Healthy Vegetable Garden: A Natural, Chemical-Free Approach to Soil, Biodiversity and Managing Pests and Diseases - Sally Morgan

Descriere The Healthy Vegetable Garden: A Natural, Chemical-Free Approach to Soil, Biodiversity and Managing Pests and Diseases - Sally Morgan

\n \nWhether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop.\n \nThere are few gardeners (or farmers) I know who wouldn't benefit from reading Sally Morgan's new book. . . . The Healthy Vegetable Garden is a detailed and indispensable resource.--Hobby Farms \n \nIn The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture--all to help your green space thrive.\n \nThe Healthy Vegetable Garden shows you how to: \n \n- Combat disease and keep pests at bay with natural predators, companion planting, and trap and barrier crops \n- Choose the right plants to attract pollinators and pest predators \n- Build a healthy soil full of organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi \n- Regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching \n- Boost biodiversity through the use of crop rotations and polyculture \n- Rewild your garden by creating a range of habitats, making use of walls and fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners \n- Understand plant defenses and use biocontrols \n- Make natural barriers, traps, and lures \n \n \nA healthy, productive garden should work in harmony with nature to produce and protect delicious fruits and vegetables and build a rich soil that is full of life. With The Healthy Vegetable Garden, growers of all levels will start reducing incidents of pests and diseases while creating a verdant habitat--all without the need for fertilizers, pesticides, or weedkillers.\n

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Chelsea Green Publishing Company

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9781645020646

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