Your Vegetable Garden
Using Frames and Supports for Veggies
Dealing with Vegetable Pests
Chapter 17: Adding Flavor to Your Garden with Herbs
Recognizing Common Culinary Herbs You Can Grow
Planting Herbs: A Lesson in Adaptation
Taking Care of Your Herbs
Chapter 18: Sweet and Crunchy: Growing Fruits, Berries, and Nuts
Choosing the Fruits for Your Garden
Finding and Buying Your Fruit Bearers
Planting Your Fruit
Taking Care of Fruits
9 Part 5: Designing Special and Fun Gardens Chapter 19: Mini Gardens and Microcosms: Gardening in Containers Exploring Different Kinds of Containers Getting the Container Soil Right Picking Plants for Your Containers Arranging Containers for a Container Garden Taking Care of Your Container Plants Chapter 20: Taking the Plunge: Gardening with Ponds and Fish Planning Your Water Garden Picking Out Your Parts and Supplies Installing and Filling Your Pond Choosing Plants for Water Gardens Adding Goldfish to Your Water Garden Maintaining Your Water Garden
10 Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 21: Ten Great Perennials for Northern Climate Gardeners Achillea Astilbe False Indigo (Baptisia) Bellflower (Campanula) Coneflower (Echinacea) Ox-Eye Sunflower (Heliopsis) Plantain Lily (Hosta) Rose Campion (Lychnis Coronaria) Catmint (Nepeta) Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Fulgida) Chapter 22: Ten Garden Projects for Children Create a Dinosaur Garden Grow a Sunflower Fort Make Sunprints Plant Mini-Pumpkins Write with Seeds Trap a Zucchini Make a Home-Grown Salad Grow Paperwhites Set Up a Birdbath Attract Butterflies to the Garden
11 Appendix A: Basic Gardening Resources Examining Gardening Information Online Turning to U.S. University Resources Referring to Gardening Organizations Canadian Gardening Frost Dates by Region
12 Appendix B: English-Metric Conversion Tables
13 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 4TABLE 4-1 Plant Nutrients in the Air and WaterTABLE 4-2 Differences between Natural and Chemical FertilizersTABLE 4-3 Pounds of Limestone Needed to Raise pH (per 1,0000 Square Feet)TABLE 4-4 Pounds of Sulfur Needed to Lower pH (per 1,000 Square Feet)TABLE 4-5 Comparing Mulching Options
2 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 Appearance and Habits of Annuals
3 Chapter 7TABLE 7-1 When Perennials Bloom
4 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 Cool-Season, Northern GrassesTABLE 11-2 Warm-Season, Southern GrassesTABLE 11-3 Grass Seed Amounts and Time until
