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    No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified: Food and Nutrition Series, #1
    No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified: Food and Nutrition Series, #1
    No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified: Food and Nutrition Series, #1
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    No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified: Food and Nutrition Series, #1

    By Joyce Zborower, M.A.

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    Want great tasting veggies from your own garden but cringe at the thought of doing all that back-breaking work of maintaining your garden?
    or
    If you're currently gardening with chemicals and have decided that gardening organically would give you plants with better nutrition and better taste but you don't want to hang up your tools for 7 years waiting for your soil to heal.

    GREAT NEWS!


    NO WORK VEGETABLE GARDENING by Joyce Zborower provides simple, easy-to-follow instructions for building and planting a new organic gardening bed right over an old chemical bed, a grassy spot that's never been planted before, a rocky area or even in a raised planting bed so you won't have to bend over to harvest your goodies. And once the bed is ready and planted, any further work on your part is very minimal.

    And there are full-color photos to show you exactly what to do.

    Is it really "no work?" . . . No, but it's as close as you'll ever get without hiring someone to take care of it for you.

    About the Author

    Living in a second floor apartment in Chicago was okay for raising herbs and flowers on the window sill, but Joyce wanted a vegetable garden outdoors in the sunshine where she could grow tomatoes and potatoes and squash and beans. After moving to Arizona, she was able to plant a small garden in the back yard of her rented house but the organic gardening books she had at the time recommended tilling and weeding and etc., etc. She thought there must be a better way.

    There was. After extensive searching and reading, she found what she was looking for . . . a method of planting and growing veggies with a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure. And, in No Work Vegetable Gardening she’s sharing what she found with you. To instantly download your copy and begin enjoying your organic gardening, scroll up to the top of this page and click the Buy button now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoyce Zborower, M.A.
    Release dateDec 8, 2015
    ISBN9781519900647
    No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified: Food and Nutrition Series, #1

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      No Work Urban Front Yard Vegetable Gardening Simplified - Joyce Zborower, M.A.

      Anybody Want To Talk About ... Gardening

      An essay about gardening – written September 19, 2001

      Gardening. ...a pleasant weekend activity. ...a hobby. A way of providing a little bit of food — perhaps unusual kinds of food not found at the grocery store — to supplement our weekly trips to the super-market.

      Some of us try to garden organically. Very difficult when your neighbors are killing your bugs and the lizards with poisons. (I want to say, ...and frogs if you happen to have them in a water-garden., but I don’t know that for sure.)

      Some of us try to garden using a combination of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, compost and organic mulch.

      We all have varying degrees of success — and failure.

      Some of us, the non-gardeners, look at the gardeners with awe. They don’t know how it’s done at all. As far as they’re concerned, it’s magic! Growing plants? How do you do it? I certainly couldn’t do it, they say.

      Gardening concepts are not that difficult to understand, really. ...especially when you realize that stone-age humans were cultivating food crops (sugar cane, wheat, olives, beans, rice) around 4000 to 6500 B.C. If they could do it, how difficult can it be? Obviously, theirs was a completely organic form of agriculture. Gardening is just small scale agriculture.

      In 1840, a scientist named Liebeg introduced the NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potash) theory of plant growth. Around 1900, it was noticed that plant diseases and insect damage was becoming more troublesome and that soil deficiencies, as evidenced by chemical analysis, were not always corrected by the addition of the called-for amounts of synthetically produced, non-organic nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potash (K). Chemical fertilizers, and Liebeg’s theory was on its way out. Scientific interest was beginning to focus on producing hybrid plants for the purposes of: (1) increasing yields, and (2) developing better disease resistance.

      1914 saw the beginning of World War I. Many factories were in the business of fixing atmospheric nitrogen for the purpose of making bombs. WW I ended in 1918. Manufacturers needed a new market for their mass-produced, low priced, easy-to-apply product. The over-cropped, semi-impoverished agricultural land seemed to be waiting with open arms. The major food shortages during the war of wheat, beef, pork (cattle and pigs eat corn), and refined sugar needed to be replenished.

      The concept and practice of cleaning the fields developed between 1900 and 1930 as an attempt to stem the spread of plant diseases that had become so rampant because of the indiscriminate and over-use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

      Prior to this time, it had been common practice to always plow under the remains of the spent crop while preparing the fields for the new seeds. Now, the fields were either stripped of all organic matter prior to planting the next crop or they were set afire to remove the remains of the previous crop and, hopefully, destroy whatever diseases were present that might attack the next crop. Either way, these practices resulted in greatly reduced organic matter available to bind the top soil and to provide nourishment for the seeds.

      During The Great Depression of the 1930’s, the bulk of the U.S. agricultural land became known as The Great Dust-Bowl. Government and private interests decided that the land was in too depleted a condition to support the food needs of the population if a massive return to organic agriculture was undertaken. They decided to continue chemical agriculture and add organic amendments.

      During this same time period, organic agricultural methods were being developed in other countries, primarily in India by a man named Sir Albert Howard. His work demonstrated that by using completely organic methods, the soil gradually improves, each succeeding generation of plants is just a bit healthier than the last, the food tastes a whole lot better, and its nutritional quality is higher. From his research, 1931 – 1940, he came to believe that using chemicals without organic augmentation is disastrous — and using both together is self-defeating!

      World War II began, for us, on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

      Prior to WW II, though the fertilizers were synthetic, the pesticides were not. They were derived from naturally occurring minerals and plant products. Post-war pesticides grew up as a by-product of chemical warfare research and are completely a product of the laboratory. It was not by accident that researchers who were developing poisons that were to be used as weapons against people would choose to test them on insects. Humans share a common evolutionary heritage with insects. Many poisons that kill bugs also affect our nervous system. A new industry was born, having its own unique set of potential hazards.

      Here in America during WWII, the war to end all wars, we had our Victory Gardens and rationing of foodstuffs and gasoline.

      WWII ended in Europe in 1945. During the post-war period in Germany, 1945 – 1949, food shortages for the wealthy and influential? ... not many. Major food shortages for ordinary people (like us) —  everything! Vegetable gardens sprung up everywhere. Vacant lots; parks; anywhere where there was some available ground. Many citizens ate only 400 – 900 calories/day. Deaths from starvation were an every-day occurrence. The very young and the very old would often be seen in the parks eating grass as their only food for the day. There were even recorded incidences of cannibalism.

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      Have any of you seen the play Cabaret? Remember, in the first act how the

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