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High-Yield Vegetable Gardening
High-Yield Vegetable Gardening
How to obtain incredible yields from a small urban square footage, and make it all look beautiful, too! Plant edibles. It sounds really obvious, but
Americans tend to plant way too many flowers. Fill your space with food plants and then add a few flowers in the left-over spaces. Learn which food plants are handsome: the glossy evergreen leaf of citrus rivals any ornamental hedge. Pomegranates are breathtaking in nearly every season.
Maximize the square footage of your garden. Put the most land you can to work at
growing vegetables. Much more than a small rectangle in the remote back corner of your yard, you can grow food in all the places that you used to call flower beds, and between the ornamental shrubs too!
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Pick functional flowers like beneficial-insectattractant flowers and edible flowers. Consider colored heirloom vegetable plants like red-leafed lettuces, rainbow chard, or purple-podded snowpeas. Let some vegetables go to seed their flowers are pretty, they bring in the good bugs, plus youll gain a sustainable source of vegetable seed.
Group similar needs together. Put droughttolerant black-eyed peas with drought-tolerant Mediterranean herbs. Put high-water lettuces with other high-water plants. Observe microclimates and use them as a tool. If a tall tree gives you a shady spot, use that as the place for summer lettuces and leafy vegetables. If you have bright searing sun, use that spot for heat-loving peppers and droughttolerant vegetable varieties.
The Environmental Change-Makers focus on What We Can Do about our environmental issues including
peak oil, climate change, peak everything, economic contraction, and social injustice. The Change-Makers have built two community gardens and launched the Southern California presence of the international Transition movement. The Change-Makers garden publications are available through www.EnviroChangeMakers.org
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