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Storey's guide to growing organic vegetables & herbs for market, site & crop selection planting, care & harvesting business basic, Keith Stewart

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-541) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Storey's guide to growing organic vegetables & herbs for market

792889581

Keith Stewart

site & crop selection planting, care & harvesting business basic

Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, harvesting, storage, labor, debt, customer management, sales, accounting, and much more. With this comprehensive guide, you can turn your dream of a thriving farm into a profitable reality

Thinking about becoming a farmer? -- The big step: looking for a place of your own -- Getting organized: the farm plan and its component parts -- Tractors and tractor implements -- Small equipment and tools -- The greenhouse -- Growing under cover: high tunnels, low tunnels, and caterpillars -- Irrigation -- About soil: managing your soil for health and fertility -- Cover crops and green manures -- Crop rotation -- Building fertility -- Our most profitable crops -- Garlic our signature crop -- Let's not forget herbs -- Harvesting and storage -- Marketing what you grow -- More on farmers' markets -- Marketing through the seasons -- Regarding weeds -- The four-legged competition -- Insects and diseases -- Running a business -- Looking after number one

Guide to growing organic vegetables & herbs for marketGrowing organic vegetables and herbs for market