Plant Grow Harvest Repeat
Grow a Bounty of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers by Mastering the Art of Succession Planting
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“Wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated, and everything you need to know to get more productivity out of your food garden.” —Joe Lamp’l, creator and executive producer, Growing a Greener World
Discover how to get more out of your growing space with succession planting—carefully planned, continuous seed sowing—and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall.
Drawing inspiration from succession in natural landscapes, Meg McAndrews Cowden teaches you how to implement lessons from these dynamic systems in your home garden. You’ll learn how to layer succession across your perennial and annual crops; maximize the early growing season; determine the sequence to plant and replant in summer; and incorporate annual and perennial flowers to benefit wildlife and ensure efficient pollination. You’ll also find detailed, seasonal sowing charts to inform your garden planning, so you can grow more anywhere, regardless of your climate.
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat will inspire you to create an even more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable garden across the seasons—every vegetable gardener’s dream.
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Seed to Fork blogger Cowden debuts with a comprehensive guide to succession gardening, a method that focuses on how "various ecosystems succeed one another across generations." The program involves fostering "plant diversity of both perennials and annuals to weather seasonal challenges with ease," Cowden writes, and after surveying what lessons the wild has to teach about growth (prairies grow "modestly in the shoulder seasons and robustly in summer"), the author moves to the home garden, for both food and flowers. She offers advice for interplanting (rather than overplanting), interspersing flowers (marigolds make "willing companions" in food gardens), direct sowing (it's a "marathon, not a sprint"), getting the right amount of sunlight, and gardening year-round ("let your seasons bump into one another"). As well, Cowden provides directions for making organic fertilizer and for no-till soil tending, and attracting insects and pollinators. The photos are gorgeous and inspiring, as is her writing: "The garden is never static except in photos," she writes, and "succession gardening is a way of life, an act of hope and renewal." This master class will entice seasoned gardeners and newbies alike.
