Garden Gold: Grow Maximum Veggies with Minimum Effort

Garden Gold equips you with the knowledge to have 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 the 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 get into our bodies. Nutrient-rich Super Soil is naturally loose so there's no backbreaking tilling and plants thrive!

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 200 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. 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 lots of 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.

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!

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*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 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 4 Special Ingredients 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 No Browns? - Do Worms Worm Composting – 5 Easy Steps Be A Gracious Host Life Span Collecting The Rewards Using Worm Compost Troubleshooting Winter Composting 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? 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 Head Start: Grow Seedlings to Transplant Frost / Freeze Dates Hardening Off Transplants 10: Starting the Garden Cold Crops, Warm Crops Planting Dates Based on Relative Frost Dates Figuring Fall Planting Dates 11: Early Planting Row Covers Clear Plastic Mulch Plant Protecting Teepees Extended Growing Season 12: Weather Protection Frost Row Covers Floating Row Covers Plastic Row Covers Weighty Issues	12: Weather Protection (Cont.) Wind Feel The Burn All Stressed Out Shade Cloth Chemtrails 13: Pollination 14: Insect and Pest Protection Prevention Row Covers Cure Pluck the Pest Organic Pesticides Homemade Pesticides Border Patrol Simply Shocking! 15: Harvesting Fruits of Your Labor When to Harvest 16: In the Beginning, There Was…the Seed Getting to the Root of It Terms of Confusion Quickie Definitions What's Wrong With Hybrids? The Terminator 17: The Art of Seed Saving First Fruits When to Collect Seeds Cleaning Drying Storing Seeds Burying Seeds Outside 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 18: Fall Cleanup 19: Resources Guide Seeds Worms, Bins and Castings Shade Cloth 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 When to Start Seeds and Seedlings APPENDIX E 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 F Plant Hardiness Zones – US, 48 States Plant Hardiness Zones – Alaska Plants Hardiness Zones – Hawaii APPENDIX G Plant Hardiness Zones – Western Canada Plant Hardiness Zones – Eastern Canada APPENDIX H Average Frost Dates for Canada APPENDIX I USDA Hardiness Zones – Old Version APPENDIX J Companion Plants Companion Herbs APPENDIX K Heat Factor of Chilies (in Scoville Units) APPENDIX L Bibliography and Endnotes
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