Your edible yard : landscaping with fruits and vegetables / Crystal Stevens.
Journey into the good food movement by unleashing the potential of your yard, transforming it into a beautiful and vibrant space that offers a continuous supply of food. Using dozens of beautiful color photographs and watercolor planting charts, infographics, and landscaping designs, Your Edible Yard is the comprehensive how-to guide you need to turn your yard into a bountiful feast. It features: practical gardening methods and maintenance from weeding to wintering, including foodscaping, container gardening, and saving seeds; permaculture principles including soil building techniques, garden preparation, raised beds, and natural/non-toxic DIY pesticide alternatives; how to integrate culinary and medicinal herbs, edible flowers, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and wild edibles; gardening resources: where to go for help, buy seeds, and source supplies on a budget; instructions on preserving, fermenting, freezing, drying, and making simple medicines; general tips, such as how to find loopholes in laws preventing edible front yards. Whether you're a beginner or experienced gardener in the city, the suburbs, or the country, this manual is the A-Z guide for how to make use of the space you have, highlighting the colorful and abundant array that edible landscapes promise.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780865719224 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: viii, 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes recipes and index. |
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Subject: | Edible landscaping. Natural landscaping. Gardens > Design. Plants, Edible. Vegetable gardening. Fruit-culture. |
Genre: | Recipes. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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