Organic Kitchen Gardening Made Easy - Growing Vegetables for Pleasure and Profit

Dueep J. Singh · John Davidson

feb. 2015 · Mendon Cottage Books

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 Table of Contents 
Introduction 
Let Nature Decide for You 
Permanent Crops 
Catch Crops 
Annual Crops 
Manure and Crops 
Crop Rotation 
Why Go in for Crop Rotation 
4 Course Rotation 
3 Course Rotation 
Tuberous Crops 
Potatoes 
Soil 
Sprouting 
General Potato Cultivation 
Best Organic Manure 
Storing Potatoes 
Root Crops 
Carrots 
Soil 
Using Seed Drills 
Cultivation of Carrots 
Beetroot 
Parsnips 
Turnips 
Tips for Sowing Seeds 
Permanent crops 
Growing Herbs 
Growing through Cuttings 
Appendix 
Natural Manure 
Types of Fertilizers 
Conclusion 
Author Bio 
Publisher 

Introduction 

Voltaire once said “Happy is the man who has his own garden and true contentment is when he grows things in it.” 

Having your own garden may not be possible for many of us today busy in the rat race of the 21st century. Nevertheless, there are still many people fortunate enough to have open land outside their houses where they can make their own flower gardens or kitchen gardens. 

This book is going to tell you how to make an organic kitchen garden for pleasure and also for profit. Just like any other garden, a little bit of planning has to go into making your vegetable garden. It should have sufficient paths in it so that you can wheel about manures etc. in barrows, if necessary. You may also want to remove all the green vegetal rubbish accumulating while gardening. 

There is absolutely no need for your garden to be all paths if it is pocket-sized and you are strapped for space. In small gardens one path at one side is more than enough. 

Whatever the size of your organic vegetable garden may be, this book is going back to traditional methods of growing vegetables in a healthy manner. We are not talking about chemical fertilizers and poisonous pesticides. Instead, we are going to talk about natural manure, compost, and other traditional methods used by our forefathers to get a good healthy crop for family and neighbors. 

Many people out there would not want to grow all kinds of vegetables because hey, how many of us like eating greens? But then the moment we see them growing in our gardens and we pluck our first harvest, we begin to think in terms of healthy eating, especially when the meals have been made of organic vegetables grown in our own backyard. 

Your main priority is to see that the ground is fully occupied for most of the year and that no part of your garden is wasted. Think Japanese gardens. They know how to utilize every single inch of space and get the most out of it. All right, you may see their gardens on a small scale, but no inch of soil in a farm is left uncultivated if they can help it. This may look crowded, but it is not. So let us consider ourselves gardening newbies and begin our journey towards achieving the goal of the perfect long-term organic vegetable kitchen garden right now. 

Remember that your kitchen garden is not going to be restricted to just vegetables. You can also grow herbs in it. Who is stopping you from growing flowers in it? Your aim is to plan your kitchen garden in such a way that you gain lots of pleasure from it, and then you may decide to carry on to the profit stage.

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John Davidson

Born and raised in Wyoming and Canada on Ranches. Studied at Utah State University and taught drafting at Bridgerland Applied Technology College for 20 years. Own and run several businesses, an architectural design business, a web design business and a Sawmill business. Married to Karla for over 30 years and have 4 great kids, living in Mendon, Utah.