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 vegetables tomatoes, 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.Deppe s work has long been inspired
and informed by the philosophy and wisdom of Tao Te Ching, the
2,500-year-old 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, Non-Doing, and
even Non-Knowing. Yet the book also offers a wealth of specific and
valuable garden advice on topics as diverse as: The Eat-All Greens
Garden, a labor- and space-efficient way to provide all the greens
a family can eat, freeze, and dry all on a tiny piece of land
suitable for small-scale and urban gardeners.
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.
Establishing a Do-It-Yourself Seed Bank, including information
on preparing seeds for long-term storage and how to dehybridize
hybrids.
Twenty-four good places to not plant a tree, and thirty-seven
good reasons for not planting various vegetables.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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