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"I recommend Gardening When It Counts as an excellent first book for the beginning gardener. It includes all the practical details necessary to make, prepare, and tend a garden, make compost, choose varieties and seeds, and to grow just about everything. I also recommend it to all experienced gardeners. It is guaranteed to change the way you view and do gardening. Gardening When it Counts is a magnificent synthesis of garden science, original garden research, and agricultural history." ― Carol Deppe, Ph.D., author of Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving . "In Gardening When it Counts , Steve Solomon prepares the ground by encouraging us to embrace the organic revolution by growing more food with fewer imported resources and more ingenuity. He provides a hands-on account of amendment-centered gardening, using a wide variety of sources, and exhorts us to save seeds of kinds and varieties that we like to eat, that do well for us, and that may be dropped from current commercial seed inventories." ― Alan M. Kapuler, Ph.D., President, Peace Seeds, and former Research Director and cofounder of Seeds of Change "Steve Solomon's book is delightfully informative and abundantly rich with humor and grandfatherly wisdom. A must-read for anyone wanting a feast off the land of their own making..." ― Elaine Smitha, host of "Evolving Ideas" radio and telvision, and author of If You Make The Rules, How Come You're Not Boss?
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Book Description
Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead.
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Product details
Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series (Book 5)
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: New Society Publishers; F First Paperback Edition Used edition (April 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 086571553X
ISBN-13: 978-0865715530
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
190 customer reviews
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#109,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I'm a gardening fan that actually gardens. As a suburbanite, I do raised bed gardening organically. I am also very aware of the cycle of oil-into-food and trying to do my part in eliminating it at my home. To clarify: I grow about 80% of my vegetables in season and preserve by canning (should be called Jar'ring) or dehydrating them for about 60% of my off season usage. This book was recommended to me as a counterpoint to raised bed gardening while remaining additive free.Like other reviewers I'll admit right off that the tone of the writer is quite off-putting. While that shouldn't matter to the content it does affect how people receive the content. For the experienced gardener who already has an excellent idea of input versus output and the uses of oil and resources it can bring on a few bouts of eye-rolling.As far as content, this isn't "that one" book that so many people concerned with gardening in a catastrophe are looking for. Perhaps the title brings them to think that, but this isn't meant to take a person who has never so much as tended a potted plant and turn them into a gardener that can provide all their own food. There is a certain level of assumed knowledge in the book, particularly regarding basic gardening concepts and methods.Where the book does shine is in offering a counter to the other prevailing method of gardening. It offers wide-spacing gardens as opposed to intensive. These two methods are inherently different, however it isn't as apples and oranges as the author likes to paint it and that is probably my primary criticism of the book.A very specific and singularly important point that this book misses is: Where you are geographically and what your environment is like will determine if intensive or wide-spacing works for you.And that is the bottom line on whether you, as a potential reader, should actually buy this book or simply check it out of the library. His methods and logic will work exceptionally in areas where it is inherently dry or prone to drought. Since everyone is in some way subject to drought, I'm talking about drought such as you find in the western portion of our country (excepting rainy PNW areas).If you live, as I do, on a river with wetlands and plenty of rainfall even in drought conditions, this is not for you. Even if you live in an area where drought doesn't equal no rain and are prepared to use rain catchment from your roof to store watering water, then this doesn't apply either.Through composting, storage of natural water or use of aquaculture to provide additional nutrients almost all of the east coast, southeast and even big parts of the mid-west won't need this sort of intervention. In fact, intensive gardening (whether raised bed, inter-planting or successive planting) is MORE likely to work better for you since natural shading of plants will keep your moisture in and allow the slight cool under the soil that worms will like. Not to mention that you can grow in very small spaces. I would need approximately 14 times the amount of space I use now to get the same amount of food if I used his method. And I would be wasting a whole lot of natural bounty that I had to clear in order to do it. And, let's face it, the bigger the area you cultivate the more likely others will see it and help themselves.This book is, at its heart, a good book to read if you're at all concerned with the input-output cycle of oil into food, grow your food for health or hobby or if you're simply preparing for a future in which money is much tighter. It isn't A to Z on gardening though and you'll need to buy others for those basic skills. Buying it might be best reserved for those who first determine that wide space planting is correct for them. I suggest Mel Bartholomew (Square Foot Gardening) as the other book to read in determining what is right for you.
Very useful if taken with the proverbial "grain of salt."Like so many writers, Steve Solomon tends to present his way as The One True Way. There is no One True Way.That said, this is a VERY valuable book, packed wwith useful information and ideas I had not previoulsy considered. (I never thought of the inifluence of the animals' diet on the nutrient value of manure, but when I read Mr. Solomon's take on it I felt like saying "Duh!") I tried many of his suggestions this year in my own garden, and compared results to the areas where I used other techniques. His methods work very well fo me in Middle Tennessee. I used his fertilizer formula exclusively and I am totally impressed with the results. My one regret is that I leaned toward the smaller end of his suggested plant spacings. I can barely get through my paths. My tomatoes, in particular, are MUCH healthier than last year when I used a more convenetional spacing. The vines are huge and prolific.Previously I have tried both raised beds and double-dug intensive beds, so I have some experience to compare. His arguments for greater distances between plants made a lot of sense, especially when applied to my new environment in the hot and humid SouthEast. My garden has received many compliments and I am pleased so far (late July). Just don't use it (or any one book) as a bible. Take what makes sense for your situation and try it. Compare his approach to other methods and pick and choose what works for you.In the future, I will continue to use cardboard and mulch (which he scorns) between plants, because my health and lifestyle both argue against endless weeding, but I will follow his recommendations on plant spacing and will continue to use his fertilizer formula.I strongly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in growing their own food as efficiently as possible.
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