The Project Gutenberg E-text of Gardening Without Irrigation

About this eBook

Author

Solomon, Steve, 1942-

Title

Gardening without irrigation : or without much, anyway

Credits

Produced by Steve Solomon. HTML version by Al Haines.

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Vegetable gardening -- Northwest, Pacific

Category

Text

eBook-No.

4512

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4512

Release Date

October 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Cascadia Gardening Series — Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
2. 2.Steve Solomon
3. 3.CONTENTS — Chapter — 1 Predictably Rainless Summers 2 Water-Wise Gardening Science 3 Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation 4 Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round 5 How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A-Z 6 My Own Garden Plan 7 The Backyard — Introduction — Starting a New Gardening Era — Gardening with Less Irrigation — Chapter 1 — Predictably Rainless Summers — Chapter 2 — Water-Wise Gardening Science — Plants Are Water — Soil's Water-Holding Capacity — How Soil Loses Water — How Plants Obtain Water — Lowered Plant Density: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening — Dealing with a Surprise Water Shortage — Chapter 3 — Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation — Building Bigger Root Systems — Evaluating Potential Rooting Ability — Eliminating Plowpan — Curing Clayey Soils — Spotting a Likely Site — Using Humus to Increase Soil Moisture — Keeping the Subsoil Open with Green Manuring — Mulching — Windbreaks — Fertilizing, Fertigating and Foliar Spraying — Increasing Soil Fertility Saves Water — Vegetables That: — Chapter 4 — Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round — Early Spring: The Easiest Unwatered Garden — Later in Spring: Sprouting Seeds Without Watering — Handmade Footprints — Summer: How to Fluid Drill Seeds — Establishing the Fall and Winter Garden — Chapter 5 — How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A-Z — First, a Word About Varieties — Seed Company Directory* — Plant Spacing: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening — When to Plant — Arugula (Rocket) — Beans of All Sorts — Beets — Broccoli: Italian Style — Broccoli: Purple Sprouting and Other Overwintering Types — Root System Vigor in the Cabbage Family — Cabbage — Carrots — Cauliflower — Chard — Corn — Successfully Starting Cucurbits From Seed — Cucumbers — Eggplant — Endive — Herbs — Kale — Kohlrabi (Giant) — Leeks — Lettuce — Water-Wise Cucurbits — Melons — Onions/Scallions — Parsley — Peas — Peppers — Potatoes — Rutabagas — Sorrel — Spinach — Squash, Winter and Summer — Tomato — Chapter 6 — My Own Garden Plan — The Raised Bed — Row 1 — Row 2: Semi-Drought Tolerant Brassicas — Row 3: Kale — Row 4: Root Crops — Row 5: Dry-Gardened Salads — Row 6: Peas, Overwintered Cauliflower, and All Solanaceae — Row 7: Water-Demanding Brassicas — Row 8: The Trellis — Row 9: Cucurbits — Row 10: Unirrigated Potatoes — Chapter 7 — The Backyard — Water-Wise Gardener — Water Conservation Is the Most Important First Step — Optimizing Space: Planning the Water-Wise Backyard Garden — Water-Wise Efficiency of Vegetable Crops — More Reading — About the Interlibrary Loan Service

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