Growing Your Own Vegetables: An Encyclopedia of Country Living Guide (21 page)

Clay soils

Climate

geographic zones

hill plantings

warm and cool-season plants

worm bin placement

Cloches

Clove type onions

Clover

Cold frames

Collards

Comfrey

Common thyme

Compact varieties

Compost

asparagus

building a compost pile

cold frames

globe artichokes

soil composition

See also
Manures; Worm bins

Container gardens

Cool-season plants

Coriander

Corn

interplanting

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

soil enrichment

varieties and cultivation

Corn salad

Cos lettuce

Coverings, gardens.
See
Garden coverings

Craft gourds

Crisphead lettuce

Crop rotation

Crosne du Japon

Cuban squash

Cucumbers

cultivation

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

Curly parsley

D

Daikon

Daily harvesting

Dandelions

Dau gauk

Deer

Desert gardens

Dill

Dill seeds

Diseases
See also
Insects

Double cropping

Draft horses versus power tools

E

Earthworms

Edamame

Eggplant

Elephant garlic

Emery, Carla

Endive

English peas

Erosion

Escarole

Experienced gardeners

F

Fabas

Fava beans

Feeding mulches

Fencing

Fennel
See also
Florence fennel

Fertilizer.
See
Compost; Manures; Soil

Fetticus

Finnochio

Flageolet beans

Flails

Floating row covers

Florence fennel

Flowers
See also specific variety

Foo gwa

French tarragon

Fuzzy melons

G

Garden coverings

advantages

broccoli

eggplants

hotbeds

loofah sponges

nightshades

peppers

tomatoes

types

Garden layout

Garden pests
See also
Insects

Garden planning

Garden record keeping

Garden rocket

Garden tools

Garden yield, maximizing

Garlic

Garlic chives

German chamomile

Giant cabbage/mustard family
See also specific variety

Giant lamb’s-quarters

Girasole

Globe artichokes

Globe onions

Gophers

Gourds
See also specific variety

Grain amaranth

Grasses and grains
See also specific variety

Great Northern beans

Greek oregano

Green manure

Green onions

Green pumpkins

Green tomatoes

Greenhouses

Ground cherries

Groundwater contamination

Growing season

H

Hairy melons

Hand tools

Harvesting, daily

Herbes de Provence

Herbs

planning your garden

use as insect repellant

varieties and cultivation

See also
Chives; Garlic

Hill planting

Hoes

Horticultural beans

Hot peppers

Hotbeds

Hummingbirds

Husk tomatoes

I

Iceberg lettuce

Indian pumpkins

Insects

carrots

corn

cucumbers

garden coverings

repellants

tomatoes

Irrigation.
See
Watering

Italian oregano

Italian parsley

J

Jack-o’-lanterns

Japanese artichokes

Jerusalem artichokes

Jicama

K

Kale

Kareli

Kidney beans

Knob celery

Kohlrabi

Kudzu

Kyona

L

Lamb’s lettuce

Lavender

Layout of garden

Lead contamination

Leaves
See also specific variety

Leeks

Legumes
See also specific variety

Lemon balm

Lemon thyme

Lemon verbena

Lettuce

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

varieties and cultivation

Loam

Lobak

Long beans

Loofah sponges

Looseleaf lettuce

Lovage

M

Mache

Malanga

Mango squash

Manures

benefits

green manure

guidelines for use

soil nutrients

See also
Compost;
specific vegetable

Marigolds

Marjoram

Mediterranean salad

Melons

cultivation

hand pollination

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

Mexican husk tomatoes

Mexican parsley

Mexican potatoes

Mexican water chestnuts

Mice

Mint

Mirliton

Mizuna

Moles

Mountain spinach

Mulching
See also specific vegetable

Multiplying onions

Mustard

Mustard/cabbage family

N

Nappa cabbage

Nettles

Nightshade family
See also specific variety

Nitrogen

beans

carrots

corn

manure

peppers

pH analysis

soil nutrients

sweet potatoes

Nonstarchy roots

O

Oats

Okra

Onions

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

use as insect repellant

varieties and cultivation

Orach

Oregano

Oriental chives

Oriental eggplants

Ornamental plants

bamboo

beans

borage

cabbage

cardoon

chile peppers

chives

craft gourds

gardening under cover

herbs

lavender

lemon verbena

lovage

okra

pot marigold

Rainbow chard

rhubarb

rosemary

sage

salad burnet

salsify

sea kale

thyme

P

Pak choi

Parsley

Parsnips

Peas

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

varieties and cultivation

Peat pots

Peppers

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

varieties and cultivation

Perennials

asparagus

bamboo

bee balm

bunching onions

cardoon

catnip

chives

comfrey

eggplant

exotic squashes

fennel

French tarragon

garlic

globe artichokes

Jerusalem artichokes

lavender

lemon balm

maximizing your garden’s yield

mint

multiplying onions

nightshade family

peppers

pigeon peas

pineapple sage

planning your garden

purslane

rhubarb

Roman chamomile

runner beans

salad burnet

sea kale

shallots

thyme

top-setting onions

winter savory

Pests
See also
Insects

pH analysis

Phosphorus

Pigeon peas

Pineapple sage

Pinto beans

Planning your garden

Planting dates
See also specific vegetable

Plot size and shape

Pole beans

Pole peas

Pollination

Popcorn

Pot marigolds

Potassium

Potato onions

Potatoes

Poultry

Power tools versus draft horses

Pumpkins

Purslane

Q

Quinoa

R

Rabbits

Raccoons

Radicchio

Radishes

Raised beds

Rakes

Rapini

Rats

Rat-tail radishes

Record keeping

Red wigglers

Rhubarb

Rocket

Romaine lettuce

Roman chamomile

Roots
See also specific variety

Rosemary

Rototillers

Row planting

Runner beans

Russian kale

Russian tarragon

Rutabagas

Rye grass

S

Sa gord

Sage

Sakurajima

Salad burnet

Salsify

Sandy soils

Savory

Scallions

Scorzonera

Scoville heat scale

Sea kale

Seed packet planting

Seed potatoes

Shallots

Shell beans

Shelling peas

Shocks

Sincama

Sloped gardens

Slugs and snails

Small gardens

Snap beans

Snap peas

Snow peas

Soil

chemical fertilizers

cold frames

earthworms

lead contamination

mulching

nutrients

pH analysis

sandy versus clay soils

See also
Compost; Manures

Solar power greenhouses

Sorrel

Southern beans/peas

Southern gardens

Soybeans

Spades

Spading forks

Spaghetti squash

Spinach

cultivation

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

Squash

hand pollination

interplanting

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

varieties and cultivation

Starchy roots

Starting transplants

Stems
See also specific variety

Straw

Straw bed planting

Strawberry tomatoes

Succession planting

Summer savory

Summer squashes

Sunchokes/sunroots

Sunflowers

Sunlight

Swedish turnips

Sweet balm

Sweet bay

Sweet corn

Sweet fennel

Sweet marjoram

Sweet peppers

Sweet potatoes

Swiss chard

cultivation

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

T

Taro

Tarragon, French

Temperature.
See
Climate

Threshing

Thyme

Tips for small gardens

Tomatillo

Tomatoes

maximizing your garden’s yield

planning your garden

varieties and cultivation

Tools

Top-setting onions

Topsoil

Transplants, starting

Tree onions

Trowels

True celery

Turnip-rooted celery

Turnips

V

Vegetable pears

Vegetable spaghetti

Vetch

Voles

W

Walking onions

Warm-season plants

Wasabi

Watercress

Watering

benefits of organic fertilizers

liquid fertilizer

planning your garden

soil composition

starting transplants

worm bins

Watermelon

Weather.
See
Climate

Weeds

compost piles

controlling

hand tools

row planting

Welsh onions

Wheat

Windy gardens

Winnowing

Winter artichokes

Winter savory

Winter squash

Wong bok

Worm bins

Y

Yam beans

Yams

Yard-long beans

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