Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01AVE4WYO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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An excellent starter-guide to gardening. Once again, David the Good has inflicted upon the world yet another of his maniacal screeds. Will he ever stop?I hope not. I've had an interest in gardening my whole life (thanks to my mother and my grandfather.) But I've only recently really gotten into it after a few false starts, and David's books have helped me already. This one will be no differentWinter is Coming.The book itself is exactly what it purports to be. It's a. Patrice Stanton said Beware of page 166 and the vegetable that Must-Not-Be-Discussed. I wish I could write fiction as entertaining as this informative book. I loved the small format because it's convenient to stash and read anywhere. It won't take long to "devour" this inspiring volume, though, and I only wish I'd gotten Mr. Good's companion book on composting at the same time. The most surprising concept I took away is the importance of Crop Rotation, even for a home-gardener. I'd presumed it was only for com. John said Inspiring and Informative. After finishing this book, I felt inspired to go out and grow anything and everything I could.The daylight and the reality of living in an apartment squashed this compulsion, for now, but I'll pick it back up when I no longer have these constraints.There's a bit of it that's not applicable to those north of the climate of Florida but the rest seems to be good information for anyone wanting to learn how to grow food as a hobby
From hand tools that will till the ground better than a tractor, to plans for growing all the calories you need in a crisis, to easy-to-follow crop rotations that will beat the pests, this book is the cheapest insurance you can own against the crash we all know is coming sooner or later. Expert gardener David the Good, author of the best-selling Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting, has written the gardening book that could one day save your life. It's perfect for those interested in preparedness, low-tech gardening, and living with a lighter, more ecologically sustaining footprint.. Easy to follow and entertaining, Grow or Die doesn't bog down in the technical details, but focuses on how you can turn your garden into a tool for survival. You'll discover how to scrounge for seeds in unlikely places, how to till without a tiller, how to preserve your harvest, how to beat pests without poison, how to convert a lawn into a food factory, and how to garden to survive in emerge