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101 Essential Tips
Pages 8 to 15 GETTING STARTED
1 Is growing vegetables right for you?
2 What do you need to grow vegetables?
3 Growing organically
4 Why choose a community garden?
5 Making a veggie patch
6 Growing in raised beds
7 Choosing containers
8 Crops for windowboxes
9 Growing in the sun
10 Shady patches
11 Offering some shelter
12 Deciding what to grow
13 Assemble your kit
14 Types of seed trays
15 Nets & cloches
Pages 16 to 23 PREPARING YOUR SITE
16 Do you have sandy soil?
17 Do you have clay soil?
18 Improving your soil
19 Choosing soil improvers
20 Why dig?
21 The need for weeding
22 Warming the soil
23 Try compost trenches
24 Making a raised bed
25 Supporting climbing crops
26 Protecting crops from frost
27 Protecting crops from pests
Pages 24 to 35 ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES
28 Sowing seeds in trays
29 Sowing seeds in pots
30 Growing on seedlings
31 Planting seedlings outside
32 Making a seedbed & sowing seeds outside
33 Growing on seedlings raised outside
34 Choosing watering cans
35 Choosing hoses
36 Conserving moisture
37 Organic feeding
38 Chemical feeding
39 What is crop rotation?
40 Making garden compost
41 Successional planting
42 Intercropping
43 Freezing
44 Drying
45 Curing
46 Using clamps
Pages 36 to 61 GROWING YOUR OWN
47 Lettuce, chicory & endive
48 Swiss chard & spinach
49 Cut-&-come-again salads & watercress
50 Cabbages
51 Cauliflowers
52 Brussels sprouts
53 Kale
54 Calabrese
55 Sprouting broccoli
56 Potatoes
57 Parsnips
58 Rutabagas
59 Beets
60 Radishes
61 Turnips
62 Carrots
63 French beans
64 Green beans
65 Peas
66 Fava beans
67 Tomatoes
68 Chili peppers
69 Peppers
70 Cucumbers
71 Eggplant
72 Zucchinis
73 Squashes
74 Pumpkins
75 Onions
76 Shallots
77 Leeks
78 Garlic
79 Scallions
80 Celery
81 Celeriac
82 Kohlrabi
83 Florence fennel
84 Corn
85 Asparagus
86 Jerusalem artichokes
87 Globe artichokes
88 Perennial herbs
89 Annual herbs
Pages 62 to 69 PLANT HEALTH
90 Good garden hygiene
91 Keeping plants healthy
92 Slugs & snails
93 Caterpillars
94 Grubs & larvae
95 Green- & blackfly
96 Mildews
97 Rust
98 Clubroot
99 Nutrient deficiencies
100 Poor pollination
101 Wilting
Index 70
Acknowledgments 72
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