| Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California Contributor(s): Peirce, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1570616175 ISBN-13: 9781570616174 Publisher: Sasquatch Books OUR PRICE: $28.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Regional - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Gardening | Urban - Nature | Regional |
| Dewey: 635.097 |
| LCCN: 2009047389 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 8.3" W x 10.7" (2.32 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - Northern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated Packed with more than 400 pages of reliable information, Golden Gate Gardening offers encyclopedic coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing common favorite vegetables and herbs, plus unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. She includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, cultivating fruit trees, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the crop, and creating delicious gardener's dishes. This third edition also contains new or updated information on resources for specific seeds, tomato planting, organic gardening, and vegetables not included in previous editions, including amaranth, shell beans, Chinese broccoli, broccoli raab, Florence fennel, oca, okra, and quinoa. Charts, sidebars, maps, and online resources help make the vegetable gardening experience easier and more fun. |