Product Description

Perfectly natural, perfectly delicious and perfectly healthy! The Organic Home Garden leads newcomers and seasoned growers step-by-step from spring’s first salads and asparagus to June’s prized strawberries; from summer’s vine-ripened tomatoes and melons, sweet corn, new potatoes and red peppers to fall’s crisp carrots, vitamin-rich broccoli and colourful radicchio. Patrick Lima discusses each vegetable and fruit in detail from start to harvest. Topics include: - soil preparation - transplanting techniques - insect control - seed selection - using cold frames - growing organic food in small spaces - renewing the garden in midsummer for a fresh harvest into fall - how to make neat, odourless in-ground compost - mulches, manures, and natural fertilizers and insecticides - recipes Abundant colour photographs open a window on Larkwhistle, Patrick Lima and John Scanlan’s lovingly tended organic garden. Whether you tend a small city yard or a large country garden, you’ll find The Organic Home Garden full of valuable advice on an all facets of organic gardening at home. (February 2004)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #635535 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-09
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Lima's fourth gardening book shares his extensive knowledge of agriculture gleaned from years of tending Larkwhistle (his own home garden in Ontario, Canada) without use of chemicals or pesticides. Larkwhistle, Lima states, "grew out of a flat, sandy hayfield thick with twitch grass and weeds. Seasons of organic care and cultivation have transformed the field into a lush and productive garden." Scanlan's mouthwatering full-color photos of Larkwhistle and its harvest certainly add to Lima's credibility. Lima talks would-be gardeners through the planting of the first seedlings-early and indoors-and explains how to feed the soil with compost and natural fertilizer. He advocates designing the garden around small beds rather than long, tedious rows, and offers specific tips for fruits and vegetables from apples to zucchini, always providing line drawings to illustrate finer points. The book covers natural, effective methods of pest prevention and removal, and includes a comprehensive seeding, sowing and transplanting schedule to ensure fresh foods year round. Lima even tosses in several simple recipes in which to use the resulting bounty. The author's passion for natural gardening is infectious, and his language often borders on poetic ("Watermelons sit there, fat and inscrutable"). His knowledge provides an invaluable source for those just beginning their organic garden, as well as more experienced growers looking for some new tricks.
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