Garden Way's Joy Of Gardening

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""MY WIDE ROW GARDENING SYSTEM""; ""What do I mean by a wide row?""; ""Wide rows provide a continual harvest""; ""Save hours of weeding and watering""; ""My three big-harvest garden plans""; ""The Salad Garden (6' x 8')""; ""The Summer Garden (30' x 40')""; ""The Eat 'N Store Garden (60' x 80')""; ""Seed varieties""; ""Planting a wide row""; ""Thinning, weeding, and harvesting""; ""Multicrop rows""; ""Block planting""; ""Double and triple rows""; ""GETTING THE SOIL READY""; ""An early start cuts weeding""; ""Soils, pH and fertilizers"";The best of Dick Raymond's vegetable gardening wisdom--his proven methods for raised beds, wide rows, and other simple techniques that promise a bigger harvest with much less work--is here in one comprehensive guide. Raymond covers everything from preparing the soil to starting plants, stopping weeds, caring for your garden through the season, and even storing your bounty in a root cellar.