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Grow Food For Free: The sustainable, zero-cost, low-effort way to a bountiful harvest [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, height x width x depth: 235x197x19 mm, weight: 652 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 1465491589
  • ISBN-13: 9781465491589
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, height x width x depth: 235x197x19 mm, weight: 652 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 1465491589
  • ISBN-13: 9781465491589
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Zero cost, low effort and a long-term solution to your fresh produce needs! 

Grow your own food in your home garden, acreage or container, and look forward to a bountiful harvest year-round. You can plant fruit and veggies at home without spending a penny, and Huw Richards shows you how.

Packed with tried-and-tested advice, this gardening book covers:

    Finding a space to grow in the yard or on a terrace or balcony and sourcing the materials you need     Deciding what to grow your crops in (the ground, a raised bed or containers)     Clear growing instructions on more than 30 species of popular annual and perennial crops     Huw Richards 52-week journal of how he grew his own food for free for a year without spending a penny     Advice on how to go about selling your produce to raise money to expand your growing area

Author Huw Richards is a man on a mission. He is passionate about teaching you how to garden and grow your own food. Years of experience and trying different things has taught Huw how to garden with little money (or without a garden) and he shows you how to do the same! Grow Food for Free teaches you how to produce no-cost, low-maintenance fruit and veggies and finding low-cost ways to overcome common gardening worries. 

Learn about the space you need and how to prepare it, make your own compost, tackle weeds, pests, and diseases, and how to get hold of your first set of seeds! Discover strategies to expand your garden. Cant afford a raised bed? Try repurposing an old wooden pallet. Dont have money to buy lots of different seeds? Look in your kitchen cupboards for food that you can plant. This home gardening book shows you everything you need to barter, borrow, repurpose, and propagate your way to a bountiful harvest without burdening your bank balance!

Recenzijas

"Millions of people are waking up to the reality of our industrial food system and are thirsty for an alternative. What many dont realize yet is the alternative can be growing right in their own yards. Hu[ w]s book, Grow Food For Free, is the resource that these millions need. Not only does it make gardening accessible for beginners but it also makes it extremely affordable. This is THE guide for anyone who doesnt know where to start and is on a tight budget." Rob Greenfield, environmental activist

Contents 6(2)
Introduction 8(2)
The Power of Barter 10(2)
SET UP YOUR VEGETABLE PATCH
12(38)
What Your Space Needs
14(2)
Tools to Share or Borrow
16(2)
Use Somebody Else's Garden
18(2)
Grow Food on a Patio, Terrace, or Balcony
20(2)
Establish a Water Supply
22(2)
Work with Your Climate
24(4)
Choose Your Setup
28(2)
Create Your Own Containers
30(4)
Cheap Raised-Bed Solutions
34(2)
Create a Raised Bed for Free
36(2)
Fill Your Raised Bed
38(2)
Grow in the Ground
40(2)
Starting Crops on the Windowsill
42(2)
Organize Your Space
44(2)
Make Your Own Tools
46(2)
Make Your Own Watering Devices
48(2)
PRODUCE YOUR OWN COMPOST
50(26)
Soil and Compost: The Essentials
52(2)
Using Homemade Compost
54(2)
Your Compost Bin
56(2)
Budget Compost Bin Solutions
58(2)
Build a Compost Bin for Free
60(2)
Compost Recipes
62(2)
Source Free Compost Materials
64(4)
Permaculture
68(2)
Woodchip and Biochar
70(2)
Make Your Own Liquid and Comfrey Feed
72(4)
SOURCE SEEDS AND PLANTS FOR FREE
76(12)
Annuals and Perennials
78(2)
Planting from Your Kitchen Pantry
80(4)
Swapping Seeds, Making Contacts
84(2)
Plant Swaps
86(2)
HOW TO GROW PERENNIALS
88(28)
Perennial Crops
90(2)
Herbs
92(6)
Rhubarb
98(2)
Jerusalem Artichokes
100(2)
Blackberries and Hybrids
102(4)
Strawberries
106(4)
Fruit Bushes
110(6)
HOW TO GROW ANNUALS
116(42)
How to Sow
118(2)
How and When to Water
120(2)
How to Transplant
122(2)
How to Weed
124(2)
Harvesting and Storing
126(2)
Save Your Own Seed
128(2)
Peas and Beans
130(4)
Brassicas
134(2)
Root Vegetables
136(8)
Salad Greens and Leaf Crops
144(2)
Cucurbits
146(2)
Tomatoes
148(2)
Peppers and Chiles
150(2)
Alliums
152(4)
Keep Your Soil Healthy Forever
156(2)
FIGHT PESTS AND DISEASES
158(12)
Slugs and Snails
160(4)
Common Pests
164(2)
Common Diseases and Disorders
166(2)
Crop Rotation
168(2)
LOOKING AHEAD
170(14)
Make an Investment
172(2)
What to Sell
174(2)
How to Sell
176(2)
Setting Up a Seed or Plant Swap
178(2)
When to Expand Your Growing Area
180(2)
A Three-Year Plan
182(2)
HUW'S JOURNAL
184(34)
Index 218(4)
Resources 222(1)
Acknowledgments 222(2)
About the Author 224
Huw Richards With 15 years' experience growing organic, sustainable food in his family's garden, Huw Richards has seen that cost is often a barrier to people growing their own food, so he wants to help everyone grow fruit and veg sustainably and inexpensively. Huw's YouTube channel has over 168,000 subscribers and his videos have over 25 million views in total. In 2019, Huw released his first book Veg in One Bed, also published by DK.