Horticulture/Gardening: Vegetables

You don't need lots of time or space to have a beautiful garden. Containers give you the freedom to grow flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, vegetables, fruits, and herbs on a balcony, deck, or even a windowsill.

Providing a comprehensive guide to identifying arthropod pests and their natural enemies on crops grown in United States greenhouses, this book contains over 450 colour photographs of pests and the damage they do, and is a guide for identifying unknown or unwanted pests.

An authoriatative, profusely illustrated guide to successful gardening, with many tips for dealing with the unique soil and climate conditions of the Rocky Mountain region.

This book takes the gardener through each season in detail, covering tasks to be planned and executed in the garden and the greenhouse at each stage.

The Encyclopedia of Natural Insect and Disease Control helps you tell just what's ailing your plants; it then suggets natural controls — safe alternatives to toxic dusts and sprays.

Each plant entry describes major pests and diseases, many of them illustrated with color photographs or line drawings. The controls first stress preventing trouble, and then recommend sterner measures. This book tells you how to:
~Protect crops by interplanting with herbs, flowers, or even other crops
~Take advantage of bugs' natural cycles so that crops grow when the bugs are not around
~Select resistant varieties
~Keep weeds and wildlife from reclaiming the garden
~Use the latest biological controls — insects, mites, and pathogens that give lasting control
Some of these controls are centuries old. Others have just been developed. Around the world, researchers and growers alike are discovering effective nonchemical measures, some sophisticated and others simply accomplished with garden tools.

This highly practical book contains all the information you need to successfully grow more than 50 common vegetables. There are specific step-by-step instructions for each crop: soil requirements, variety selection, raising transplants, direct sowing, protection, harvesting, seed saving, and storage. After telling you what to do (and when), the Handbook also tells you why, by explaining in detail how crops grow. A book with imagination, it also discusses many unusual crops, culinary herbs, and more. It then goes on to unusual growing ideas, edible flowers, enhanced nutrition foods, additional uses for common crops, and even how to use common edible wild plants and garden weeds. There is also a small selection of outstanding vegetarian recipes.

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