Gardening for Geeks: All the Science You Need for Successful Organic Gardening

by Christy Wilhelmi

Overview

The ultimate organic gardening resource, Gardening for Geeks provides readers with everything they need to know about designing, building, and sustaining their own garden. Filled with step-by-step processes, helpful diagrams, and expert tips on the best practices, this book covers it all for anyone who dreams of gardening, even the city dweller. Starting off with the basics and progressing into more advanced concepts for a wide scope of gardening strategies and techniques, this is a comprehensive and geeky look at your favorite hobby. Founder of Gardenerd and author, Christy Wilhelmi shares her expertise to break down the biology and ecology of gardening in an easy, breezy writing style that will make you appreciate and understand gardening even more than you did before!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620083581
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/11/2020
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	484,647
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Christy Wilhelmi empowers people to grow their own food, to be more self-reliant, and to reduce pollution and waste, one garden at a time. Christy is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes newsletters, her popular blog, and podcasts. She also specializes in small-space, organic vegetable garden design and consulting. She holds regular organic gardening classes in California, and has co-taught organic gardening at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Christy has been a board member of Ocean View Farms Organic Community Garden in Mar Vista, California since 1999, and gardens almost entirely with heirloom vegetables. Between 70-80 percent of her family's produce comes from her garden of less than 200 square feet. Her writing has appeared in many publications, such as Edible Los Angeles and Edible Westside Magazines, The Good Food Blog, Low Impact Living.com and the Mar Vista Farmers' Market wrap up for Patch.com.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: What’s It All About? • 9 CHAPTER 1: Creating Your Garden Ecosystem • 11 CHAPTER 2: Garden Beds • 21 CHAPTER 3: All about Soil • 37 CHAPTER 4: Planning Your Garden Season • 53 CHAPTER 5: Small Space/Urban Gardening • 67 CHAPTER 6: Planting Nitty-Gritty • 83 CHAPTER 7: Irrigation • 129 CHAPTER 8: Keeping Order: Trellises and Cages for Crops • 145 CHAPTER 9 : Pest Control • 157 CHAPTER 10: Now Pick It! (And Then What?) • 173 APPENDIX A: Browns and Greens for Your Compost Bin • 197 APPENDIX B: Trusted Seed Companies • 199 APPENDIX C: How to Build an Eight-Plant Tomato Crib • 205 APPENDIX D: Mounds: Naturally Raised Beds • 209 Bibliography and Resources • 211 Glossary • 214 Index • 217