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The updated version of this book would never have happened were it not for Katie Elzer-Peters, who introduced me to Bud Sperry at Fox Chapel Publishing, and everyone at Fox Chapel, who gave new life to Gardening for Geeks. Special thanks to Andrew Cheeseman, for always encouraging the best in me, and to Jonathan Blank, who knows a thing or two about book publishing and willingly spent time sharing it with me—I cannot thank you enough.
I must draw particular attention to the garden geeks who have inspired my gardening exploits throughout the years (in no particular order): John Jeavons, the late Mel Bartholomew, the late Geoff Hamilton, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, David King, Jere Gettle, Louise Riotte, Barbara Kingsolver, and everyone at Ocean View Farms organic community garden. To those who helped clarify the material for this book, I appreciate the access you afforded me: Victoria Boudman of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, Eben Fodor of SunWorks, Master Preserver Rose Lawrence of Red Bread Bakery, irrigation wunderkind Russell Ackerman, and, again, John Jeavons of Ecology Action.
Special thanks to Martha Brown at UC Santa Cruz and David Rosenstein of Our Food for taking the time to show me around their fabulously geeky gardens. Last, but never least, I must thank my parents, Frank and Jo Wilhelmi, for being the engineer/carpenter and nurse/wonder-cook geeks who begat this geek.
Contents
Creating Your Garden Ecosystem
Keeping Order: Trellises and Cages for Crops
Appendix A: Browns and Greens for your Compost Bin
Appendix C: How to Build an Eight-Plant Tomato Crib
