The Tao of Vegetable Gardening
Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity
Paperback; 350 pages; 16 pages full color; list price: $24.95
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The Tao of Vegetable Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening. In her latest book, groundbreaking garden writer Carol Deppe (The Resilient Gardener, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties) focuses on some of the most popular home garden vegetablestomatoes, green beans, peas, and leafy greens—and through them illustrates the key principles and practices that gardeners need to know to successfully plant and grow just about any food crop.
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Deppe's work has long been inspired and informed by the philosophy and wisdom of Tao Te Ching, the 2,500yearold work attributed to Chinese sage Lao Tzu and the most translated book in the world after the Bible. The Tao of Vegetable Gardening is organized into chapters that echo fundamental Taoist concepts: Balance, Flexibility, Honoring the Essential Nature (your own and that of your plants), Effortless Effort, NonDoing, and even NonKnowing. Yet the book also offers a wealth of specific and valuable garden advice on topics as diverse as:
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The EatAll Greens Garden, a laborand spaceefficient way to provide all the greens a family can eat, freeze, and dry—all on a tiny piece of land suitable for smallscale and urban gardeners.
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The growing problem of late blight and the future of heirloom tomatoes—and what gardeners can do to avoid problems, and even create new resistant varieties.
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Establishing a DoItYourself Seed Bank, including information on preparing seeds for longterm storage and how to "dehybridize" hybrids.
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Twentyfour good places to not plant a tree, and thirtyseven good reasons for not planting various vegetables.
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Designed for gardeners of all levels, from beginners to experienced growers, The Tao of Vegetable Gardening provides a unique frame of reference: a window to the world of nature, in the garden and in ourselves.
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