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- Cascadia Gardening Series
- Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
- Steve Solomon
- 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
- Chapter
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