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Index
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Propagation and Planting
• A bit of deception helps me get some seeds to sprout that under natural conditions would wisely stay asleep • Burial in tundra might be ideal for seed storage but I choose more practical storage for my vegetable and flower seeds • Electricity temporarily suffices when access to sunlight is lacking • In which the pre-plant toughening up of seedlings is shown to be necessary, but with a gentle touch • Plants exhibit all sorts of changes, some sought after, some not, as they go through puberty • A recommendation to plant citrus from seed even if fruit is improbable or not worth eating • Containing some of the ways in which I use a few or many plant cells to conjure up whole new plants • I revisit totipotence, using stems again, this time joining them to existing roots • Neither monstrous nor scary, but often beautiful—yes, real chimeras may be in our midst • Knowing that a bulb is, essentially, a stem lets me multiply them with the same “pinch” that makes stems branch
Soil
• In which we watch the progress of water traveling through soil, with methods to, at the same time, speed it up and slow it down • A common sense recommendation that turns out not to make sense • Contains a description and an opinion of hydroponics • In which I pay homage to humus, even though it may be a misnomer • Wherein I check my ground’s acidity and then tweak it, as needed • On my ostensibly occult practice which turns out to be good gardening • How I manage to tame nitrogen’s comings and goings for my plants • Even without squealing like hungry pigs, my plants can tell me if they’re hungry, and for what
Flowering and Fruiting
• Sex is introduced and its sometime importance is emphasized • In which I make right the products of plants’ sexual excesses • Describing the importance of night for coaxing blossoms, and a gardener’s trickery • In which a small gas molecule has a big effect on flavor • Contains a question and an answer: is hybrid always high-bred?
Stems and Leaves
• In which my thumbnails, pruning shears, and branch bending coax plants into bushiness, lankiness, or anything betwixt • Wherein I make designs with the traceries of my fruit plants’ branches • Questioning the advice to put the brakes on tree growth with summer pruning • On the genesis, reason for, and propagation of weeping trees... • A comfortable seat in a sunny spot gets trees and shrubs ready for winter… • In which it is demonstrated that buds are not boring • How buds become burls and witches’ brooms • On entreating and helping trees to stay asleep • About a quick and easy way to hasten spring • Sunlight is important but sometimes shade offers improvement
Organizations
• Wherein families migrate together around my garden, and for good reason • How plant families got put in order • On Latin being a foreign tongue but providing a useful understanding of plant relationships • Making up a new category name, fortunately, does not ruin flavor or appearance • Relating a true story about how my plants broke the law
Stress
• On steps, human and otherwise, to avoid the havoc of icy cells during frigid temperatures • In which hot days bring on a tug of war between hunger and thirst, in plants • No water, no matter—because I take these steps for drought • A very local search for congenial weather • Seedlings’ transition to the garden is helped along with tough love, timely and not in excess • Unwanted plants—that is, weeds—are best understood before they are outwitted • A sometime threat that straddles the fence between living and nonliving • In which is clarified a name as a sign, rather than a symptom, of disease • Fire blight, first noted not far from my home over 200 years ago, has the honor of being the first plant disease to be caused by bacteria
Senses
• In which I elucidate, abet, and alter the color of leaves, vegetables, and flowers • An Italian who tied together plant growth, art, and other things too innumerable to mention • Here I make sense of scents, equally so for insects and humans • The touch here is that felt by the plants • And finally, the efforts I take to grow the best tasting fruits and vegetables
Epilogue: The Scientific Method Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
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