Garden Gold: Grow Maximum Veggies with Minimum Effort

Garden Gold equips you with the knowledge for a superior space-saving garden wherever there's sunshine. You'll grow more fruits and veggies with less time and effort spent, yet with more taste and nutrition than you ever thought possible. It will spoil you having to eat commercial produce again!

Stan and I have gardened for many years using a variety of techniques. We are convinced that biointensive gardening practiced by the ancient Chinese makes the best sense. Biointensive just means that a lot of food is grown in a small area. Garden Gold shows you how to do it – with modern improvements.

Who has time (or inclination) to weed and many of us lack the room for traditional huge gardens. All we want are healthy, flavorful fruits and vegetables with TASTE instead of cardboard imitations.

By using the special Super Soil recipe you won't need fertilizers or chemicals. This eliminates one avenue where poisons enter our bodies. Nutrient-rich Super Soil is naturally loose so there's no backbreaking tilling and plants thrive! In Garden Gold 2010, a special ingredient has been added to Super Soil's formula. It performs miracles and costs only pennies.

Garden Gold is primarily written for Americans and Canadians – in US and metric measurements, but anyone can use these techniques. You'll just need to locate suppliers, and the revised climate and zone maps for your country.

Garden Gold lists over 350 suppliers with their contact information and websites. You'll spend less time hunting for open-pollinated seeds and supplies, which leaves you more time to get your plants going.

Access to open-pollination seeds is especially important when you see how completely 6 companies have taken over most of the world's supply. A full-size, high resolution image of the Seed Industry pictured below is included in Garden Gold. You can see just how bad this problem is and which companies to avoid.

There's no time to waste in starting seeds and to get your beds ready – especially if this is going to be a hotter-than-normal summer for much the U.S.

Garden Gold is filled with over 180 photos and easy to understand instructions. It takes you from seed starting on through harvest. It's filled with dozens of time-saving tips and plenty of information how to foil foul weather and beat bad bugs. It also shows you clever ways that lets you start gardens early and extend them for several months into cold weather. It's written in plain English so even those who've never grown a tomato will find it easy to do.

Twenty-seven chapters listed in the click-to Table of Contents give you everything you need to know for an outstanding garden.

If you plant an extra bed, you'll have plenty of produce for canning and to share with neighbors, or to sell for added income. When friends taste your vine-ripened veggies and see you've made extra cash in the process, they'll want to mine their own Garden Gold! [back]

*Table of Contents*
*1: Raised Beds: Get More for Less* Benefits of Raised Gardens 2: Enjoying Nature's Best 3: Poisoned Progress Pesticides in Grocery Fruits & Vegetables Health Issues and Pesticides Superweeds A Little Poo with Your Salad? Home Gardens: Clearly Better for You Culprits Go Organic *4: Building a Better Box* Materials Needed Wood Selection Materials to Avoid Other Options Building a Raised Bed String Along *5: The Secret of Successful Raised Beds* 5 Special Ingredients What is it? The Old Is New Again More Benefits Depleted Land Super Soil + ? - a Natural Nature's Supply *6: Make Your Own Compost* Basic Composting Compost's Big 4 What Goes Into Compost 5 Easy Composting Steps Preventing Pests Uninvited 4-Legged Guests Uninvited Winged Guests Compost "Recipes" Is It Compost Yet? You Know It's Ready When Where To Use Compost Winter Composting No Browns? - Do Worms Worm Composting - 5 Easy Steps Be A Gracious Host Life Span Collecting the Rewards Using Worm Compost Troubleshooting *7: Mix It Up!* Overview How to Mix For a Single Box Mix For Multiple Boxes How Much Super Soil Is Needed? Measuring Super Soil 8: How Much to Plant Oops! Did I Plant Too Much? Vertical Gardening Laying Out Your Raised Beds *9: Jumpstart Your Garden Indoors* Starting Your Seeds Germination Test Sprouting Containers Seed Starting Medium Damping-Off Disease Seed Soaking = Faster Germination Sow On Germinating Temperature Water, Gift of Life Light Thinning Labels Fertilizer 10: Getting Seedlings Ready to Transplant Moving Day! Hardening Off Transplants *11: Starting the Garden* Cold Crops, Warm Crops Frost / Freeze Dates Master Planting Chart Master Planting Chart - Herbs Spring Fever Figuring Fall Planting Dates Keeping Crops Rolling *12: Early Planting* Row Covers Clear Plastic Mulch Plant Protecting Teepees Options Extended Growing Season *13: Growing Tips for Arctic and Sub-arctic Regions* Too Much of a Good Thing Getting Busy Dirty Cold. Brrrr. Solutions Seeds for Northern Climes Rocky Mountain High Easy Growers		*14: Weather Protection* Frost Row Covers Floating Row Covers Plastic Row Covers Weighty Issues Wind Feel the Burn All Stressed Out Shade Cloth To Use Chemtrails 15: Pollination 16: Insect and Pest Protection Prevention Row Covers Cure Pluck the Pest Organic Pesticides Homemade Pesticides Border Patrol Simply Shocking! *17: Insect I.D.* 26 Most Common Garden Pests – Pictured 18: Harvesting Fruits of Your Labor When to Harvest 19: In the Beginning, There Was…the Seed Getting to the Root of It Terms of Confusion Quickie Definitions What's Wrong With Hybrids? Monsanto, Mon-satan? The Terminator 20: The Art of Seed Saving First Fruits When to Collect Seeds Cleaning Drying Storing Seeds Burying Seeds Outside How to Find Your Mean Soil Temperature Key Takeaways for Long-Term Seed Storage How Long Will Seeds Stay Viable? Shelf Life of Stored Vegetable Seeds Shelf Life of Stored Herb Seeds 21: Fall Cleanup 22: Seed Resources US Seed Suppliers Canadian Seed Suppliers 23: Seeds for Arctic and Sub-arctic Regions 24: Seeds Specially for High Altitude US Worm Suppliers Canadian Worm Suppliers 25: Worms, Bins and Castings Resources 26: Other Resources US Suppliers Canadian Suppliers 27: Shade Cloth Sources APPENDIX A Wood Durability *APPENDIX B* Growing Strawberries Planting Sun, Water and Fertilizer Run Away Runners Animal Control Harvesting Berries Frost - Winter Care APPENDIX C Plant pH Reference List APPENDIX D Last Spring Frost Map - US, 48 States Fall Frost Map - USA, 48 States Last Spring Frost - Alaska First Fall Frost - Alaska Last Spring Frost - Hawaii First Fall Frost - Hawaii *APPENDIX E* Plant Hardiness Zones - US, 48 States Plant Hardiness Zones - Alaska Plants Hardiness Zones - Hawaii *APPENDIX F* Plant Hardiness Zones - Western Canada Plant Hardiness Zones - Eastern Canada *APPENDIX G* Average Frost Dates for Canada *APPENDIX H* USDA Hardiness Zones - Old Version *APPENDIX I* Companion Plants Companion Herbs *APPENDIX J* Heat Factor of Chilies (in Scoville Units) APPENDIX K Bibliography
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