Gardening Without Irrigation by Steve Solomon - Free Ebook Online

This is a guide to growing food without dependence on irrigation. It was written entirely from personal observations and original research between 1979 and 1993, all in western Oregon, a climate that has virtually no rainfall from June through September, a guaranteed four months of drought every year. It has broad applications to anyplace where the rains can't be depended upon and to anyone who is using a well, off the grid, or etc. There's another facet to this book too. The current gardening trend is intensive, postage-stamp, high-yield, raised bed. This book explains the dynamics behind the absolute opposite of what everyone else is doing. It is extensive, low-yield, low-maintenance.


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Preface

Introduction - Starting a New Gardening Era

• Chapter 1 - Predictably Rainless Summers

• Chapter 2 - Water-Wise Gardening Science

• Chapter 3 - Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation

• Chapter 4 - Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round

• Chapter 5 - How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A--Z

• Chapter 6 - My Own Garden Plan

• Chapter 7 - The Backyard Water-Wise Gardener

Readings

Photographs

• Carrots

• Dry Garden

• Endive

• Garden Plan

• Kale

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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times - Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies — working an average of two hours a day during the growing season.

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