About this title: Longtime gardening authority Eliot Coleman shares his secrets of organic farming for the commercial farmer as well as the serious extra-curricular gardener. Coleman has distinguished himself by his mellow, user-friendly approach to gardening, and believes in working with the conditions as they actually are rather than pursuing unnatural or ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780304340132ISBN:0304340138
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Date Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN-13:9780930031756ISBN:093003175X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Date Published: 1989-09
ISBN-13:9780930031220ISBN:0930031229
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Edition: Unabridged.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780930031220ISBN:0930031229
Description: Amsel, Sheri. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Slightly soiled to end pages. A black mark on top. Library distinctions on last page. Clean and unmarked pages. Cover in very good condition. Trade paperback (US). 269 p. read more
"Coleman is the kind of innovative gardener that I aspire to become. Many of the techniques in were not in use elsewhere when this book was first written. I particularly like his development of soil cubes for starting seeds, instead of using plastic containers. These little compacted cubes of a special soil mixture relieve the gardener of the need for those bothersome plastic trays where the roots end up growing out of the bottoms. With his technique, simply plop the seedling and soil cube into the prepared space, and that's it! Some of his other recommendations, like the collinear hoe he designed that cuts off weed roots just under the soil, are simply brilliant.
Market gardeners will find this book particularly useful, because it contains many ideas for time and labor-saving strategies. It covers all of the basics of organic gardening, includes plenty of the type of charts dear to garden planners' hearts, and has a pleasing layout. Overall, it is a very well done book."
"An excellent intro on how to set up a small organic farm - useful tips on site selection, soil improvement, crop rotation planning, and cover cropping. Very readable. About half-way through right now."
"One summer I decided to take over a small organic farm from a neighbor on Salt Spring Island, BC... by myself. One of the many problems with this situation was that I had zero farming experience! I spent a lot of time in the library, and this book was my bible. Eliot is renowned for his ability to farm year-round in Maine; I figured if he could do that, I could stick out a mellow season in a lower latitude. (I didn't stay quite long enough to see the squash ripen, but I did make enough money selling basil to travel to the Queen Charlotte Islands.)
My recommendation if you want to start farming: find a farm where you can work alongside people who know what they're doing! It's much easier to learn food production by watching than by reading about it in a book, no matter how great the book."
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