Plant Grow Harvest Repeat Av Meg Mcandrews Cowden

In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, home gardeners will learn how the principle of succession - one of the key dynamics of the natural world - can make their vegetable garden more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable in every season. Meg Cowden wants to help home gardeners have a vegetable garden that provides a bounty of varied produce year-round. In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, she does this by teaching gardeners how to master succession gardening, a method of gardening that features staggered plantings for increased crop availability. Readers will first learn how succession happens in nature and then how to recreate it in a home garden. Plant Grow Harvest Repeat includes details on growing vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers. AUTHOR: Meg Cowden is a self-taught organic gardener with an advanced degree in natural resource management. Having lived on both coasts and settled in the upper Midwest, she has knowledge and experience living, playing, and gardening in many different ecosystems, from the eastern hardwoods of southern New England where she ran free as a child to the majestic rain forests of the Pacific Northwest where she found home in college to the edge of the prairie outside Minneapolis where she and her husband are raising their two boys. 201 photographs and 11 illustrations