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Backyard Homesteader : How to Save Water, Keep Bees, Eat from Your Garden, and Live a More Sustainable Life.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Candlin, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Agriculture.
- Farm life--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Farm life.
- Home economics, Rural--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Home economics, Rural.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (471 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Backyard Homesteader
- Place of Publication:
- Newburyport : Gibbs Smith, 2021.
- Summary:
- All you need to know to provide you and your family with homegrown food throughout the year. Alison Candlin offers advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm, an allotment, or a backyard garden. With instructions and more than 350 photographs and illustrations, this book is a comprehensive guide to living off the land.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Starting Out
- Planning
- Clearing Overgrown Land
- Improving the Soil
- Composting and Amending
- Improving Drainage
- Digging
- Fences and Other Boundaries
- Tools and Equipment
- The Greenhouse
- Greenhouse Management
- Cloches
- Crop Rotation
- Watering and Irrigation
- Calendar of Seasonal Tasks
- The Year in the Garden
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Winter
- Growing Vegetables
- Raising Vegetable Seedlings
- Growing Cole Crops
- Growing Root Vegetables
- Growing Beans and Peas
- Growing Potatoes
- Leafy Salad Greens
- Growing Tomatoes
- Other Vegetable Crops
- Growing Asparagus
- Greenhouse Vegetables
- Growing Herbs
- Growing Fruit
- Planting Out
- Growing Apples
- Growing Pears
- Other Tree Fruit
- Growing Figs and Grapes
- Greenhouse Fruit
- Growing Rhubarb
- Growing Strawberries
- Other Berries
- Directory of Pests and Diseases
- Preventing Pests and Diseases
- Treating Plant Problems
- Visible Pests
- Leaves with Holes
- Distorted Leaves
- Discolored Leaves
- Distorted or Wilted Shoots
- Problems with Stems, Bark, or Branches
- Wilting or Withered Plant
- Fruit Disorders
- Problems with Beans, Peas, Tomatoes, and Leafy Vegetables
- Root Vegetable Disorders
- Keeping Animals
- Keeping Pigs
- Keeping Goats
- Keeping Chickens
- Ducks, Geese, and Turkeys
- Keeping Bees
- Food from Nature
- Gathering from the Wild
- Herbs and Plants
- Fruit and Nuts
- Mushrooms
- Fishing
- Food from the Seashore
- Hunting
- Gathering Firewood
- Preserving your Produce
- Preserving Your Produce
- Preserving Vegetables
- Equipment for Making Preserves
- Pickles, Chutney, and Relishes
- Preserving Herbs
- Preserving Fruit
- Canning Fruit
- Making Jams and Jellies
- Making Wine and Cider
- Goat Milk.
- Preserving Meat and Fish
- Water and Energy Conservation
- The Self-Sufficient Home
- Conserving Energy
- Keeping in the Heat
- Solar Power
- Alternative Energy Sources
- Saving and Recycling Water.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4236-5679-2
- OCLC:
- 1257085022
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