文档介绍：Growing
Vegetables
West of the Cascades
Growing Vegetables
West of the Cascades
plete guide anic gardening
6th edition
Steve Solomon
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Copyright © 2007 by Steve Solomon
Illustrations copyright © 2000 by Muriel Chen
Electronic edition published 2009
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form, or by
any electronic, mechanical, or other means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
First published in 1981 as plete Guide anic Gardening West of the Cascades.
Printed in the United States of America
Published by Sasquatch Books
Distributed by PGW/Perseus
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Cover photograph:
Marrows © Mk74 |
Tomatoes © Deemac |
Pea pod © Tommounsey |
Cover design: Lesley Feldman
Interior design: Kate Basart
Interior illustrations: Muriel Chen
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Solomon, Steve.
Growing vegetables west of the cascades : plete guide anic gardening / Steve
Solomon.—6th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57061-635-8 ISBN-10: 1-57061-635-3 (e-book)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57061-534-4 ISBN-10: 1-57061-534-9 (paperback)
1. Vegetable gardening—Northwest Coast of North America. 2. Organic gardening—
Northwest Coast of North America. I. Title.
2007
635'.048409795—dc22
2007020907
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Contents
Introduction vii
In which the author attempts to hook the bookstore browser and
generally warms up the reader to the subject at hand.
Chapter 1 Basics 1
An assortment of basic gardening topics, done medium-rare.
Chapter 2 Soil 23
What cool-climate vegetables need; how to produce nutritious vegetables
where it rains too much; the word “fertilizer” does not necessarily mean “chemical”; the vital
importance anic matter in soil and a unique discussion of how m