How to grow more vegetables - John Jeavons
How Deep Soil Preparation and Structure Makes All the Difference to Your Plants.
So, here's another post about roots.
This time, I want to talk about how deep soil preparation (double-digging) works to increase the health and yields of plants by giving them room to spread out. Did you know that the average carrot puts down an ...
How Deep Soil Preparation and Structure Makes All the Difference to Your Plants.
So, here's another post about roots.
This time, I want to talk about how deep soil preparation (double-digging) works to increase the health and yields of plants by giving them room to spread out. Did you know that the average carrot puts down an ...
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INTRODUCTION
Building Soil, Building the Future
History and Philosophy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method • How to Use This Book
1 Deep Soil Creation and Maintenance
Getting Started—Correct Tools • Laying Out Your Beds • Types of Deep Soil Preparation • General Double-Digging Procedure • Considerations for Initial Dig with Very Poor Soils • Prepared Beds
2 Sustainability
Sustainable Soil Fertility • The Loss of Soil Nutrients and Humus • Initially Adding Nutrients and Humus to the Soil • 100% Sustainability Impossible • The Need for Up to 99% Sustainability •Ecology Action’s Pursuit of Sustainability • How to Design for Your Soil’s Fertility
3 The Use of Compost and Soil Fertility
A “Natural” System • Compost Functions • The Process • Soil and Other Materials in the Compost Pile • Locating the Pile • Size and Timing • Building the Pile • Watering the Pile • Compost Curing and Application Rates • Composting Methods Compared • Materials to Use Minimally or Not at All • Benefits of Compost in the Soil • Building a Compost Pile Step-By-Step • All Compost Is Not Equal
4 Fertilization
Soil Testing • Taking a
Recommended Sources of Nutrients • Adding Fertilizers and Compost • More Sustainable Fertilization
5 Open-Pollinated Seeds, Seed
Propagation, Close Spacing, and
Seed Saving
Seed Planting • Seedling Flats • Flat Soil • Some Causes of Poor Germination • Pricking Out Seedlings • Transplanting • Spotting • Planting by the Phases of the Moon • Watering • Shadenetting • Mini-Greenhouses • Key Water Factors • Weeding • Planting in Season
6 Companion Planting
Health • Rotations • Nourishing the Soil • Physical Complementarity • Weed, Insect, and Animal Relationships
7 An Interrelated Food-Raising System: Creating and Caring for a Balanced Natural Ecosystem with Insect Life
Soil Sample • pH •
Natural Predators • Other Initiatives
8 Master Charts and Planning
Letter Codes • Vegetable and Garden Crops • Calorie, Grain, Protein Source, and Vegetable Oil Crops • Compost, Carbon, Organic Matter, Fodder, and Cover Crops • Energy, Fiber, Paper, and Other Crops • Tree and Cane Crops • Flower Spacing Chart • Herb Spacing Chart • Planning Sheet
9 Sample Garden Plans
Appendices
APPENDIX1 Tools
APPENDIX2 The Efficacy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method in
Increasing Sustainable Yields and Building Soils
APPENDIX3 Ecology Action Publications APPENDIX4 Organizations
APPENDIX5 Memberships and Ordering INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
See also: www.johnjeavons.info
INTRODUCTION
Building Soil, Building the Future
History and Philosophy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method • How to Use This Book
1 Deep Soil Creation and Maintenance
Getting Started—Correct Tools • Laying Out Your Beds • Types of Deep Soil Preparation • General Double-Digging Procedure • Considerations for Initial Dig with Very Poor Soils • Prepared Beds
2 Sustainability
Sustainable Soil Fertility • The Loss of Soil Nutrients and Humus • Initially Adding Nutrients and Humus to the Soil • 100% Sustainability Impossible • The Need for Up to 99% Sustainability •Ecology Action’s Pursuit of Sustainability • How to Design for Your Soil’s Fertility
3 The Use of Compost and Soil Fertility
A “Natural” System • Compost Functions • The Process • Soil and Other Materials in the Compost Pile • Locating the Pile • Size and Timing • Building the Pile • Watering the Pile • Compost Curing and Application Rates • Composting Methods Compared • Materials to Use Minimally or Not at All • Benefits of Compost in the Soil • Building a Compost Pile Step-By-Step • All Compost Is Not Equal
4 Fertilization
Soil Testing • Taking a
Recommended Sources of Nutrients • Adding Fertilizers and Compost • More Sustainable Fertilization
5 Open-Pollinated Seeds, Seed
Propagation, Close Spacing, and
Seed Saving
Seed Planting • Seedling Flats • Flat Soil • Some Causes of Poor Germination • Pricking Out Seedlings • Transplanting • Spotting • Planting by the Phases of the Moon • Watering • Shadenetting • Mini-Greenhouses • Key Water Factors • Weeding • Planting in Season
6 Companion Planting
Health • Rotations • Nourishing the Soil • Physical Complementarity • Weed, Insect, and Animal Relationships
7 An Interrelated Food-Raising System: Creating and Caring for a Balanced Natural Ecosystem with Insect Life
Soil Sample • pH •
Natural Predators • Other Initiatives
8 Master Charts and Planning
Letter Codes • Vegetable and Garden Crops • Calorie, Grain, Protein Source, and Vegetable Oil Crops • Compost, Carbon, Organic Matter, Fodder, and Cover Crops • Energy, Fiber, Paper, and Other Crops • Tree and Cane Crops • Flower Spacing Chart • Herb Spacing Chart • Planning Sheet
9 Sample Garden Plans
Appendices
APPENDIX1 Tools
APPENDIX2 The Efficacy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method in
Increasing Sustainable Yields and Building Soils
APPENDIX3 Ecology Action Publications APPENDIX4 Organizations
APPENDIX5 Memberships and Ordering INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THE MAN WHO WOULD FEED THE WORLD / John Jeavons ...https://www.sfgate.com › homeandgarden › article › T...
Apr 13, 2002 — In the new edition of "How to Grow More Vegetables," he writes that the "heavy winter rains, prolonged summer droughts, short growing season, ...
THE MAN WHO WOULD FEED THE WORLD / John Jeavons ...https://www.sfgate.com › homeandgarden › article › T...
Apr 13, 2002 — In the new edition of "How to Grow More Vegetables," he writes that the "heavy winter rains, prolonged summer droughts, short growing season, ...