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VanMeer's Step-By-Step
Guide to Natural Gardening

An Alternative to Poisonous Pesticides

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Table of Contents


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This 220-page, step-by-step guide to natural gardening explains nature’s insect-controlling methods and why gardeners no longer need to spray poisonous chemical pesticides.




Thirty-five chapters, packed with organic information, include:

Advantages of Gardening

Why Garden Organically?

Preparing a Garden Site

Tools To Help You Garden

Improving Soil Fertility

Living Soil

Weeds Can Be Blessings in Disguise

A Gold Mine In Your Kitchen

Soil-Building With Earthworms

Testing Soil In An Organic Garden

Organic Fertilizers You Can Use

Seeds Are Magic Capsules

Multiple Marvels of Seed Germination

Indoor Planting Can Be Fun

Creating A Garden

Keep It Wet But Never Soggy

Mulch Offers Rich Rewards

Advantages Of Shredding

Newspapers Make Good Garden Mulch

Insects Needn't Bug You

Encourage Insect-Eating Allies

Insecticides In An Organic Garden

Poisons In Our Foods

Companion Planting Aids In Bug Control

Herbs In A Vegetable Garden

Miracle of Pollination

Crop Rotation Pays Dividends

Succession Plantings Enlarge A Garden's Growing Capacity

Vertical Planting Saves Space

Container Gardening

Inflation Gardens Can Help You And Your Budget

Potpourri

The Synthetic Pesticide Story And What It Means To You

Food Irradiation

A Look To Tomorrow

APPENDICES

Time From Planting To Harvest

Planting Depth and Germination Chart

Glossary of Terms

Organic Farming Organizations

INDEX


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