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The family garden plan : grow a year's worth of sustainable and healthy food by Norris, Melissa K.,1981-author.(CARDINAL)802777;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.Planning your food crops -- Planning your garden space -- Choosing your plant variety and seeds -- Getting the garden in the ground -- Caring for your garden -- Bringing in the harvest -- Perennials: plant once, harvest for years -- Herbs and edible flowers -- Advanced topics."Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less pace than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, walks you through each step of the process, including how to decide which food crops are best for you area and family ; plan your garden to maximize the space you have e; protect your garden from common pets and diseases naturally ; determine when your fruits and vegetables are ready to be harvested ; improve soil health with simple techniques like crop rotation and backyard composting. Sharing the same practices and techniques from her homestead, Melissa shows you how easy it can be to raise a year's worth of produce at home. Simple-to-follow charts, worksheets, and photographs are provided throughout to help you in every phase of the gardening process. You can enjoy good eating and greater well-being for you and your family."-- Back cover.
Subjects: Gardening.; Vegetable gardening.; Fruit.; Food crops.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Sowing modernity : America's first agricultural revolution / by McClelland, Peter D.(CARDINAL)155502;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-337) and index.The problem -- The approach -- Plowing -- Sowing -- Harrowing -- Cultivating -- Reaping -- Threshing -- Winnowing and straw cutting -- Novus Ordo Seclorum? -- Remedies for soil exhaustion -- Breeding and raising livestock."Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial quetion was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way?" "McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular focus on the change in implements used to produce small grains. With wit and verve and an abundance of detail, he demonstrates that the first great surge in inventive activity in agronomy in the United States took place following the War of 1812, much of it in a fifteen-year period ending in 1830." "With the aid of more than 270 illustrations, many of them taken from contemporary sources, McClelland describes this stunning transformation in a manner rarely found in the agricultural literature. How primitive farming implements worked, what their defects were, and how they were initially redesigned are explained in a manner intelligible to the novice and yet offering analysis and information of special interest to the expert."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural innovations; Agriculture; Agricultural innovations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Grow food at home : simple methods for small spaces / by Tullock, John,1951-author.(CARDINAL)647053;
Where to Grow Food -- Crops to Grow -- Popular Homegrown Produce."Everything you need to know to grow good food without a yard Grow food for freshness. Grow food organically. Grow food to connect with nature. Whatever the goal, you don't need a lot of space to enjoy the benefits of homegrown veggies, herbs, and fruits. In Grow Food at Home, gardening expert John Tullock shows readers just how easy it is to enjoy "farm"-fresh produce grown right on the windowsill, the porch, or in a tiny backyard. Covering artificial lighting, hydroponics, vertical gardening, straw-bale planters, and more, the book offers even the most confined apartment dwellers plenty of options to get growing. Tullock shares all the tips and tricks readers need to make small-space gardening a success, with information on starting seeds, transplanting, succession planting, "crop" rotation, and other procedures-all tailored to the small-space garden-plus recipes to make the most of the harvest. Readers will be energized to grow a mouth-watering selection of micro-crops, from lettuces and herbs to tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, and even small fruits-no matter how little room they have available"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Container gardening.; Cookbooks.; Food crops; Food; Organic gardening; Vegetable gardening;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Rodale's vegetable garden problem solver : the best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden / by Bradley, Fern Marshall.(CARDINAL)365620; Rodale (Firm)(CARDINAL)356375;
Alternaria blight -- Angular leaf spot -- Animal pests -- Anthracnose -- Ants -- Aphids -- Armyworms -- Artichokes -- Arugula -- Asparagus -- Aster yellows -- Beans -- Beet curly top -- Beets -- Beneficial insects -- Birds -- Blister beetles -- Blossom-end rot -- Broccoli -- Broccoli raab -- Brussels sprouts -- Cabbage -- Cabbage loopers -- Cabbage maggots -- Cantaloupe -- Carrots -- Cauliflower -- Celeriac -- Celery -- Cercospora leaf spot -- Club root -- Cold frames -- Collards -- Colorado potato beetles -- Companion planting -- Composting -- Corn -- Corn earworm -- Cover crops -- Crop rotation -- Cucumber -- Cucumber beetles -- Cutworms -- Damping-off -- Deer -- Disease control -- Downy mildew -- Early blight -- Earwigs -- Eggplant -- Endive -- Fertilizers -- Flea beetles -- Fleahoppers -- Fusarium wilt -- Garlic -- Gourds -- Grasshoppers -- Gray mold (botrytis).Hardening off -- Harlequin bugs -- Herbs -- Horseradish -- Imported cabbageworms -- Japanese beetles -- Jerusalem artichokes -- Kale -- Kohlrabi -- Late blight -- Leafhoppers -- Leafminers -- Leeks -- Lettuce -- Melons -- Mexican bean beetles -- Mites -- Mosaic -- Mulch -- Nematodes -- Nutrient deficiencies -- Okra -- Onions -- Parsnips -- Peas -- Peppers -- Pest control -- Ph problems -- Pickleworms -- Planting and transplanting -- Potatoes -- Powdery mildew -- Pumpkins -- Radishes -- Raised beds -- Rhubarb -- Rots -- Row covers -- Rust -- Salad greens -- Scab -- Scallions -- Season extension -- Seed starting -- Shallots -- Slugs and snails -- Soil -- Southern blight -- Spider mites -- Spinach -- Squash -- Squash bugs -- Squash vine borers -- Stink bugs -- Sweet potatoes -- Swiss chard -- Tarnished plant bugs -- Thrips -- Tomatillos -- Tomatoes -- Tomato hornworm -- Turnips -- Verticillium wilt.Watering -- Watermelon -- Weather -- Weeds -- Whiteflies -- White mold -- Wireworms -- Zucchini.
Subjects: Garden pests; Insect pests.; Organic gardening.; Vegetable gardening.; Vegetables.; Vegetables; Weeds.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Rodale's vegetable garden problem solver : the best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden / by Bradley, Fern Marshall.(CARDINAL)365620; Rodale (Firm)(CARDINAL)356375;
Alternaria blight -- Angular leaf spot -- Animal pests -- Anthracnose -- Ants -- Aphids -- Armyworms -- Artichokes -- Arugula -- Asparagus -- Aster yellows -- Beans -- Beet curly top -- Beets -- Beneficial insects -- Birds -- Blister beetles -- Blossom-end rot -- Broccoli -- Broccoli raab -- Brussels sprouts -- Cabbage -- Cabbage loopers -- Cabbage maggots -- Cantaloupe -- Carrots -- Cauliflower -- Celeriac -- Celery -- Cercospora leaf spot -- Club root -- Cold frames -- Collards -- Colorado potato beetles -- Companion planting -- Composting -- Corn -- Corn earworm -- Cover crops -- Crop rotation -- Cucumber -- Cucumber beetles -- Cutworms -- Damping-off -- Deer -- Disease control -- Downy mildew -- Early blight -- Earwigs -- Eggplant -- Endive -- Fertilizers -- Flea beetles -- Fleahoppers -- Fusarium wilt -- Garlic -- Gourds -- Grasshoppers -- Gray mold (botrytis).Hardening off -- Harlequin bugs -- Herbs -- Horseradish -- Imported cabbageworms -- Japanese beetles -- Jerusalem artichokes -- Kale -- Kohlrabi -- Late blight -- Leafhoppers -- Leafminers -- Leeks -- Lettuce -- Melons -- Mexican bean beetles -- Mites -- Mosaic -- Mulch -- Nematodes -- Nutrient deficiencies -- Okra -- Onions -- Parsnips -- Peas -- Peppers -- Pest control -- Ph problems -- Pickleworms -- Planting and transplanting -- Potatoes -- Powdery mildew -- Pumpkins -- Radishes -- Raised beds -- Rhubarb -- Rots -- Row covers -- Rust -- Salad greens -- Scab -- Scallions -- Season extension -- Seed starting -- Shallots -- Slugs and snails -- Soil -- Southern blight -- Spider mites -- Spinach -- Squash -- Squash bugs -- Squash vine borers -- Stink bugs -- Sweet potatoes -- Swiss chard -- Tarnished plant bugs -- Thrips -- Tomatillos -- Tomatoes -- Tomato hornworm -- Turnips -- Verticillium wilt.Watering -- Watermelon -- Weather -- Weeds -- Whiteflies -- White mold -- Wireworms -- Zucchini.
Subjects: Vegetables; Vegetable gardening.; Garden pests; Weeds.; Organic gardening.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 18
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Plant food : articles from the fall, 1940 and spring, 1941 analyses of commercial fertilizers. by North Carolina.Department of Agriculture.(CARDINAL)154217;
What the principal plant foods do -- Hunger signs in plants --Inspection and analyses of commercial fertilizers, fall season, 1940, spring season, 1941 / by D.S. Coltrane and B.W. Kilgore -- New fertilizer law / by D.S. Coltrane -- Fertilizer consumption, season 1940-41 / by D.S. Coltrane --Analyses of commercial fertilizers, fertilizer materials, liming materials and land plaster, season 1940-41 -- 1942 fertilizer recommendations of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station / prepared by the Department of Agronomy -- Method and time of fertilizer applications / by E.R. Collins.Crop rotations for North Carolina / by E.C. Blair -- The importance of soil organic matter in crop production / by L.D. Baver --Principles underlying the purchase of fertilizers / by I.E. Miles --Agricultural lime / I.E. Miles -- Development of the American potash industry / by Charles Bower --Growing small grain / by W.H. Rankin -- Peanut production for oil in the national defense program / by E.R. Collins -- Recommended field crop varieties for North Carolina / compiled by N.C. Experiment Station --Discussion of tobacco fertilizers / by E.G. Moss.
Subjects: Fertilizers; Soil fertility;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Managing cover crops profitably / by Clark, Andy.(CARDINAL)643124; Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (Program);
Includes bibliographical references and index.Benefits of cover crops -- Selecting the best cover crops for your farm -- Building soil fertility and tilth with cover crops -- Cover crops can stabilize your soil -- How much N? -- Managing pests with cover crops -- Georgia cotton, peanut farmers use cover crops to control pests -- Select covers that balance pests, problems of farm -- Crop rotations with cover crops -- Full-year covers tackle tough weeds -- Cover crops in conservation tillage systems -- After 25 years, improvements keep coming -- Overview of charts -- Chart 1:Top regional cover crop species -- Chart 2: Performance and roles -- Chart 3a: Cultural traits -- Chart 3b: Planting -- Chart 4a: Potential advantages -- Chart 4b: Potential disadvantages-- Cover crop species -- Overview of nonlegume cover crops -- Annual ryegrass -- Barley -- Brassicas and mustards -- Mustard mix manages nematodes in potato/wheat system -- Buckwheat -- Cereal rye -- Rye smothers weeds before soybeans -- Oats -- Oats, rye feed soil in corn/bean rotation -- Sorghum sudangrass -- Summer covers relieve compaction -- Winter wheat -- Wheat boosts income and soil protection -- Wheat offers high-volume weed control too -- Overview of legume cover crops -- Cover crop mixtures expand possibilities. Berseem clover -- Nodulation: match inoculant to maximize N -- Cowpeas -- Cowpeas provide elegant solution to awkward niche -- Crimson clover -- Field peas -- Peas do double duty for Kansas farmer -- Hairy vetch -- Vetch beats plastic -- Cover crop roller design holds promise for no-tillers -- Medics -- Jess counts on George for N and organic matter -- Southern spotted bur.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Cover crops;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The tiny farm planner : record keeping, seasonal to-dos, and resources for managing your small-scale home farm / by Ragan, Jill,Author(DLC)no2022088652; Diamond, Abby,Illustrator(local)tlcaut1749482749061445956;
A practical yet pretty small-farm planner that serves as a guidebook, record keeper, and task tracker for small-scale farmers and backyard gardeners everywhere.  From Jill Ragan, author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm, comes the resource backyard farmers, gardeners, and homesteaders have been waiting for! This complete, well organized, and easy-to-use logbook for recording all of the activities, tools, and to-dos required to run a successful home farm is organized by your garden's cycles, not calendar dates. Divided into seasonal sections--from early-season straight through to post-season--you'll easily be able to track everything from planting dates and chore lists to plant yields and harvest times, no matter what climate and zone you grow in. Whether you use your garden's yields yourself or sell it to others at a farmer's market or CSA program, this planner is an essential tool for success. Included in each seasonal section are:    *Seed, plant, and tool inventory record sheets *Budget tracking and expense logs *Seed starting and planting schedules and charts *Pest and disease trackers *Monthly chore checklists *Supply needs lists *Variety reviews  *Plus, plenty of room to record all the little details a gardener needs to keep track of! Additional resources include goal tracking for 1, 5, and 10 years from now, recording pages for soil test results, places to track amendments and fertilizers used, advice on trellising systems, cover crops and crop rotation tracking, and end-of-year crop evaluations. With handy grower's tips sprinkled throughout, The Tiny Farm Planner is a complete system for recording all the data, thoughts, and inspiration you need to keep your garden productive and healthy from year to year.
Subjects: Informational works; Farms, Small.; Farm management; Farmers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fruit & vegetable gardening / by Pollock, Michael,1938-(CARDINAL)702416;
Subjects: Vegetable gardening.; Fruit-culture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moon gardening : learn ancient and natural ways to grow more and better with less / by Harris, R. J.(Richard John),1941-author.(CARDINAL)688388; Rickards, Jim,1967-author.(CARDINAL)426690;
Subjects: Astrology and gardening.; Plants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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