Gardening without irrigation
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Chapters (91)
- Cascadia Gardening Series
- Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
- Steve Solomon
- CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 Predictably Rainless Summers 2 Water-Wise Gardening Science 3 Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation 4 Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round 5 How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A-Z 6 My Own Garden Plan 7 The Backyard
- Introduction
- Starting a New Gardening Era
- Gardening with Less Irrigation
- Chapter 1 Predictably Rainless Summers
- Chapter 2 Water-Wise Gardening Science
- Plants Are Water
- Soil's Water-Holding Capacity
- How Soil Loses Water
- How Plants Obtain Water
- Lowered Plant Density: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening
- Dealing with a Surprise Water Shortage
- Chapter 3 Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation
- Building Bigger Root Systems
- Evaluating Potential Rooting Ability
- Eliminating Plowpan
- Curing Clayey Soils
- Spotting a Likely Site
- Using Humus to Increase Soil Moisture
- Keeping the Subsoil Open with Green Manuring
- Mulching
- Windbreaks
- Fertilizing, Fertigating and Foliar Spraying
- Increasing Soil Fertility Saves Water
- Vegetables That:
- Chapter 4 Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round
- Early Spring: The Easiest Unwatered Garden
- Later in Spring: Sprouting Seeds Without Watering
- Handmade Footprints
- Summer: How to Fluid Drill Seeds
- Establishing the Fall and Winter Garden
- Chapter 5 How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A-Z
- First, a Word About Varieties
- Seed Company Directory*
- Plant Spacing: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening
- When to Plant
- Arugula (Rocket)
- Beans of All Sorts
- Beets
- Broccoli: Italian Style
- Broccoli: Purple Sprouting and Other Overwintering Types
- Root System Vigor in the Cabbage Family
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Chard
- Corn
- Successfully Starting Cucurbits From Seed
- Cucumbers
- Eggplant
- Endive
- Herbs
- Kale
- Kohlrabi (Giant)
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Water-Wise Cucurbits
- Melons
- Onions/Scallions
- Parsley
- Peas
- Peppers
- Potatoes
- Rutabagas
- Sorrel
- Spinach
- Squash, Winter and Summer
- Tomato
- Chapter 6 My Own Garden Plan
- The Raised Bed
- Row 1
- Row 2: Semi-Drought Tolerant Brassicas
- Row 3: Kale
- Row 4: Root Crops
- Row 5: Dry-Gardened Salads
- Row 6: Peas, Overwintered Cauliflower, and All Solanaceae
- Row 7: Water-Demanding Brassicas
- Row 8: The Trellis
- Row 9: Cucurbits
- Row 10: Unirrigated Potatoes
- Chapter 7 The Backyard
- Water-Wise Gardener
- Water Conservation Is the Most Important First Step
- Optimizing Space: Planning the Water-Wise Backyard Garden
- Water-Wise Efficiency of Vegetable Crops
- More Reading
- About the Interlibrary Loan Service
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