The Resilient Gardener by Deppe, Carol -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments 1. Gardening and Resilience

Hard Times Great and Small Special Dietary Needs as Hard Times—and an Invitation to Gardening Adventures A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Y2K Practicing Balance Appropriate Self-Sufficiency How Much Land Do You Need? Gardening—an Essential Survival Skill

2. The Plant-Gardener Covenant: 33 Golden Gardening Rules

The Grand Alliance The Covenant: The Contract between the Domesticated Plant and Her Gardener The 33 Golden Rules of Gardening

3. Gardening in an Era of Wild Weather and Climate Change

Global Warming in Your Backyard Adventures with Wild Weather and What Happened the Year the Californians Stole Our Rain Lessons from the Little Ice Age—a Model for Agricultural Resilience Electricity The Hopi Rule Evaluating the Resilience and Use Potential of Your Land Gambling on Global Warming—Strategies with Annuals and Perennials Planting Depth, Soil Type, and Weather The Gambler’s Guide to Transplants Presoaking Seeds and Germination Tests Climate Change, Diseases, and Pests Overwintering Crops, Staggered Planting, and Resilience Eggs, Baskets, and Diversity On Making Hay while the Sun Shines

4. Diet and Food Resilience

Two Orange Trunks and a New England Flood Buying Patterns, Apples, and Resilience The Nut Lady—on Nuts, Opportunism, and Oral Tradition Trading, Swapping, Borrowing, and Gifts Water Choosing Your Calorie and Protein Staples Wheat Allergies, Gluten Intolerance, and Celiac Disease Ideal Storage Conditions for 49 Fruits and Vegetables that Keep Longer than Two Months Milling and Storing Whole-Grain Flour Using Whole-Grain Gluten-Free Flours Asthma, Allergies, and Adventures with Omega-3 Fatty Acids Buying Grass-Fed Meat and Dairy Products The Missing Ingredient—Can What We Aren’t Eating Make Us Fat? How to Let Your Body Tell You What It Needs A Different Conceptual Framework for Understanding Obesity Sugar Salt, High Blood Pressure, and Edema Other Oils and Fats Vitamins, Minerals, Phytochemicals, and Fiber Special Implications for Vegetarians and Those with Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance, or Who Can’t Eat Dairy Products Preserving and Storing Methods Drying Fruits and Vegetables Drying Prune Plums (and Figs, Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines) Dehydrators Hoarding and Saving Seeds

5. Labor and Exercise

Purposeful Exercise The All-or-Nothing Problem Warming Up and General Conditioning Restless Leg Syndrome, Walking, and Gardening Gardening Styles and Labor—Beds versus Rows Choosing Gardening Styles, Planting Methods, and Tools to Fit Your Body Garden Beds—Double-Dug, Single-Dug, Sorta-Dug, and Worm-Dug The Peasant Hoe Spacing and Labor Planting The Furrowing Plow Varying the Kinds of Labor Weeds Buying Tools Using the Peasant Hoe Using Light Hoes Sharpening Tools Mulch Transplanting versus Direct Seeding, Revisited Selective Sloppiness Knowing When to Stop Easy on the Back (and Knees) Helpers

6. Water and Watering

The Essential Water-Nature of Your Land Fruit and Nut Trees Ornamental and Landscape Plantings Grass Water and Spacing Water and Fertility Water and Erosion The Threefold Effects of Mulch Why I Hate Drip Irrigation Soil Capillarity and the Pot Effect Planting in Dry Conditions Overhead Watering Water Resilience and Vegetables Water Resilience and Heirloom Varieties Becoming Native to the Land of Our Living

7. Soil and Fertility

The Big Picture The Soil Test Experiment Stockpiling Fertility Add Fertilizer to the Right Place Retaining Soil Fertility On Not Buying Things Growing Our Own Fertility with Legumes Growing Our Own Fertility with Azolla Manure The Power of Pee Leaves Fertilizing with Grass Clippings Squanto and the Raw Fish, Revisited Why I Don’t Compost Anymore A Debris Pile Addendum

8. Potatoes

In Praise of Potatoes Potatoes and Adventures in Resilience Potatoes, Nutrition, Diets, and Dieting Potatoes, Glycoalkaloids, and Solanum Sensitivity A Potato for Every Purpose Growing Potatoes—Themes and Variations Water Harvesting Potato Yields Storing Potatoes Avoiding Potato Diseases Saving Your Own Potato Seed and Maintaining Potato Varieties Basic Potato Cooking Methods Cooking White and Yellow Potatoes Cooking Blue Potatoes

9. The Laying Flock

Backyard Poultry Ducks versus Chickens Poultry for Various Purposes: Choosing a Type and Breed Laying Duck Breeds and Behavior Feeding the Free-Range Laying Flock in Ordinary Times Feeding Poultry in Hard Times Ducks for Garden Pest Control Duck-Egg Cookery

10. Squash and Pumpkins

Why You Can’t Buy a Prime Winter Squash Three Squash Species, Three Curing and Use Patterns Seven Superb, Gourmet-Quality, Long-Keeping Winter Squash Varieties Fall Squash—Delicious Delicatas and ‘Small Sugar’ Summer Squash Following in Buffalo Bird Woman’s Footsteps—Adventures with Drying Squash A Modern Squash-Drying Rack Growing Squash and Pumpkins Harvesting, Storing, and Curing The Perfect Pumpkin Pie Hoarding Seeds of Squash and Pumpkins Saving Seeds of Squash and Pumpkins

11. Beans

The Big Bean Picture Cooking Beans for Maximum Flavor and Minimum Toot Selecting Our Own Friendly Microbial Members of the Grand Alliance Hold the Water Bush Beans versus Pole Beans for Dry Seed Interplanting Corn and Beans Bean Strategies Uncommon Common Beans Fava Beans Cowpeas Runner Beans Popbeans Tepary Beans Why You Can’t Recognize Bean Crosses; Seed Saving, Isolation Distances, and Numbers Harvesting and Threshing Beans Turbo-Winnowing How Many Beans?

12. Corn

Corn and Nutrition In Defense of Corn Drying Sweet Corn Types of Grain Corn—Flints, Flours, and Dents Rediscovering Corn Breaking the Cooking Code Flint Corn Varieties and Uses Fast-Cooking Polenta Carol’s Universal Skillet Bread The Dedicated Cornbread Skillet Parching Corn Flour Corn Varieties and Uses Semi-Universal Pancakes Semi-Universal Sponge Cake ‘Magic Manna’ Savory Corn Gravy Saving Seed of Corn— Isolation Tricks and Tactics Avoiding Inbreeding Depression Selection Growing, Harvesting, and Storing the Corn Crop Yields Guerrilla Gardening

Appendix A. Chapter Notes and References Appendix B. Seed Companies and Sources About the Author