Table of Contents Introduction The Importance of Vitamin C in Your Diet Vitamin A Proteins Gaining Full Benefit of Vegetables and Fruit How to Use Vegetables Effectively Fruit Juice Cures Fruit Peels Time-Tested Tips Diarrhea Traditional Khichri Jaundice Eczema Cough and cold Chickenpox Sciatica Healthy Vegetarian Dishes Traditional Pizza Traditional Pizza sauce -Passata sauce Spinach With Cream Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction For centuries people have been very particular about the things they eat. What should be eaten, what should not be eaten, what should be eaten within its...

Table of Contents Introduction Heavy Clay Sandy Soils Organic Matter Stop Those Bonfires Compost Layers Amount to Use Using Sedge Peat Poultry Manure and Bone Meal How to Make Leaf Mold Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Before one plans a garden or plants it, he takes a good look at the soil in which the seedlings and the plants are going to grow in the future. After all, you, being either an experienced gardener or a newbie, are the one who has to cope with the particular soil that you are blessed within your garden. So it is of course not going to be any use at all, telling you...

A Beginner's Guide to Sustainable Gardening Table of Contents Introduction Important Points of Sustainable Management Principles of Sustainable Gardening Some General Talk on Natural Ecosystems and Sustainable Forestry Water Harvesting Making Holding Pools Concrete Pools How to Make Your Own Pond Prefabricated Pools. Miscellaneous Containers Making Natural Compost My Best Friends - Earthworms Using Barnyard Produce for Making Compost Enriching The Soil with Natural Nutrients Chemical Fertilizers Seaweed water fertilizer More Natural Herbicides Saving Seeds from Last Year's Crop Maintaining...

Table of Contents Knowing the Value of Green Manure Using green manure for a richer fertile soil Table of Contents Introduction A Green Manure Experiment The Green Manure Revolution Taking Care Of the Green Manure Crop Types of Green Manures Mustard As a Green Fertilizer Ryegrass Purifying "Dirty" Land "The Little Man" Paucity of Water? Conclusion Lime in Your Soil Author Bio Publisher Introduction A good example of green manure - Phacelia tanacetifolia For a number of us gardeners out there, experienced as well as newbies, the moment somebody tells us about nourishing the soil, our minds...

Table of Contents Introduction What Is Rotation Addition of Lime Three Crops Rotation Knowing More about Successional Sowings Lettuces and Broad Beans Cauliflowers and Cucumbers Peas and potatoes Spinach and French beans Potatoes spring cabbage, broad beans and Lettuce Broad Beans and Potatoes Shallots and Broad Beans Growing Catch Crops in Trenches Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Since ancient times, man has been growing different types of crops, on the same plot of land, so that the essential nutrients in the soil do not get depleted. The same crop is not grown again after it...

Table of Contents Introduction Water Can Using a Hose Pipe Water Sprinkler or Artificial Rainer Water Needed for Different Crops Quantity of Water Needed for Your Garden Overwatering And Under Watering Where Do You Get the Water from? Disadvantages of Overhead Irrigation Soil Erosion Conclusion Water Tanks and Canals Author Bio Publisher Introduction Some people are just going to look at this topic of watering methods and wonder, why anybody would want to write on different ways of watering. You just sow the seeds, you just pick up the cans, and hosepipes, and water the plants, don't you? Ah,...

Table of Contents Introduction No Digging Gardening Compost Alternatives Sedge Peat and No Digging Improving Your Soil Structure The 4 Crop Rotation Method Sawdust and No Digging Birds in Your Garden Importance of Mulching Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction For centuries, this has been the lot of human beings, working the fields. Digging the ground before hand in order to prepare it for a new crop. Some people are going to wonder about this topic. What is this idea about no digging. As far as they know, any gardening without any digging is like having breakfast eggs without...

Table of Contents The Art of Sowing, Transplanting, and Planting Your Garden Table of Contents Introduction Choosing the Best Seeds Things Not to Do Sowing of Seeds Different Types of Drills Right Hole Size Preparation of the Soil Sowing in Stations Covering the Seeds Soaking and Treating of the Seeds Thinning of Your Plants Transplanting and Planting Protection of the Seedlings Proper Planting Methods Seeds and Germination Table Table for Reference - Conclusion John Innes Compost - Potting and Seed Compost Author Bio Publisher Introduction I am certain many of us out there are quite capable...

Table of Contents Introduction Importance of Organic Matter Improving Soil Structure Soil Improving Crops Proper Selection of Soil Improving Crops Legumes Cow Peas and Soybean Sweet Clover and Hairy Vetch White, Yellow, and Blue Lupines Crotolaria and Sesbania Non-Leguminous Plants Field Brome Grass and Domestic Ryegrass When to Turn the Soil Improving Crops Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction One of the most difficult problems facing the experienced or amateur gardener whether he is a vegetable grower, or a future market gardener is to maintain the organic matter content of the...