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Ian Cooke. Self-Sufficiency: Grow Your Own
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Getting started
Quickstart guide
Where to grow fruit and vegetables
Allotments
Community gardens
Growing vegetables in small spaces
Containers
Growing fruit in small spaces
Tools and equipment
Harvesting and storage
The basics
Soils for fruit and vegetables
Clay soils
Sandy and silty soils
Soil pH
Life in the soil
Gardening organically
Composting
Soil cultivations
Single digging
Double digging
Using a rotavator
Dealing with weeds
Water in the soil
Watering fruit and vegetables
Water conservation
Feeding fruit and vegetables
Using fertilisers
Nutritional deficiencies
Pests and diseases
Control of pests and diseases
Dealing with pests and diseases
Biological control
Companion planting
Pesticides
The pests themselves
Slugs and snails
Aphids
Red spider mite
Whitefly
Flea beetles
Leaf miner
Vine weevil
Caterpillars
Diseases
Powdery mildew
Rusts
Botrytis (grey mould)
Armillaria
Viruses
Cultural problems
Growing vegetables
Buying seeds
Crop rotations and planning
Bed systems
Succession and intercropping
Soil preparation and seed sowing
Vegetable crops. Brassicas
Early summer brassicas
Winter brassicas
Spring cabbage and sprouting broccoli
Legumes
Runner beans
French beans
Broad beans
Peas
Root vegetables
Carrots
Parsnips
Swede and turnips
Beetroot
Potatoes
Onion (allium) family
Onions
Leeks
Salads
Lettuce
Salad leaves
Mediterranean vegetables
Courgettes
Sweetcorn
Outdoor tomatoes
Celery
Spinach and chard
Asparagus
Growing fruit
Types of fruit
Fruit basics
Top fruit
Apples
Pears
Plums
Cherries
Peaches and nectarines
Soft fruit
Strawberries
Raspberries
Blackberries and hybrid berries
Blackcurrants
Redcurrants and white currants
Gooseberries
Rhubarb
Greenhouses and polythene tunnels
Polythene tunnels
Greenhouses
Heating a greenhouse
Greenhouse equipment
Greenhouse management
Plant production
Greenhouse tomatoes
Glasshouse cucumbers
Suppliers
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Getting started
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Carrots, turnips and beetroot will quickly produce small tender roots. Choose the leek ‘Armor’ for harvesting when young. A range of salads and leafy crops such as spinach can be grown in a small space. Calabrese will produce small central heads at a close spacing but it is probably not worth growing them on for the secondary crop. ‘Avalanche’ is a good small cauliflower and ‘Minicole’ a reliable cabbage for close spacing.
Tomatoes, peppers and aubergines can easily be grown in pots or growbags. The small trailing cherry tomato known as ‘Tumbler’ is happy in a hanging basket. Dwarf French beans can be grown in pots. Tall climbing runner beans need to be planted in the soil but a wigwam of five canes and plants does not take up much space and will yield several pickings over many weeks. Cucumbers can be grown up a trellis or over an arch.
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