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The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden Kim Stoddart

The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden By Kim Stoddart

The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden by Kim Stoddart


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The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Gardenshakes up the old rules of vegetable gardening and teaches the resilience and adaptation required to grow food in a rapidly changing climate.

The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden Summary

The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food in a Changing Climate by Kim Stoddart

Discover a new, more dynamic and durable way to grow food in the extremes of our changing climate in The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden.

Whether its water-usage restrictions, extended heat waves, disastrous flooding, super weeds, or prolonged pest lifecycles, the coming years will be filled with daunting challenges for food growers around the world. Whats a gardener to do? Author Kim Stoddart outlines a clear path toward building resilience in your vegetable plants, your soil, and yourself. With actionable tasks that reduce resource use, stabilize the gardens ecosystem, and offer regenerative solutions to the most challenging issues faced by gardeners, Kim comes to the rescuewith advice to help you weather these storms with ease.

Learn to:
  • Foster adaptation by selectively breeding your favorite veggie varieties for local growing conditions
  • Nurture biologically active soils that are better able to support your plants
  • Create bioswales, berms, and rain gardens to improve your gardens flood tolerance
  • Plant windbreaks, erect cold frames, and make mini hoop tunnels to protect plants from wind, snow, and surprise frosts
  • Enhance biodiversity in your garden to increase pest predation and keep bad insects in check
  • Discover intensive planting techniques to improve yields while protecting your soil and reducing water usage
  • Select the most adaptable fruit and vegetable crops to grow and tend them in a climate changesavvy way
  • Recycle rainwater, repurpose household items, and live lightly on the land for amore resourceful gardening life

Even long-time vegetable gardeners will face unexpected challenges in the years to come. Take the time to build resilience in yourself and your garden by shifting your thinking today, and youll be prepared for the unpredictable future ahead.

About Kim Stoddart

Kim Stoddart, co-author of The Climate Change Garden, also writeson climate change gardening and resilient gardening for publications such as The Guardian. She has gardening columns in several magazines, including Grow Your Own and Country Smallholding, and editsThe Organic Wayfor Garden Organic. Kim alsocontributes regularly to a range of publications, such asGardeners World magazine, Bloom, The Telegraph,The Lancet, and The Daily Express. Sheis a homesteader and runs courses online and in person via greenrocketcourses.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction - What climate challenges are we facing, and whats to come?
1 How to Be a Resilient Grower
Why building resilience in the gardener is as important as building resilience in the garden itself. Plus, project ideas to gain confidence.
2 Building Resilience from the Ground Up
How to nurture biodiversity below ground, and why it matters.
3 Climate ChangeFriendly Garden Design Ideas
Tips to protect against the extremes, including the risk of wildfires.
4 Saving Resources
How to reduce water use by capturing rainwater, layering plants, mulching properly, and irrigating in a more regenerative way.
5 Save Money While Saving the Planet by Recycling and Repurposing
How to transform waste into wonderous gardening materials.
6 Breed and Propagate Locally Resilient Plants
How to select the best, most resilient plant traits for your specific climate.
7 Climate Change SOS
Quick solutions for extremes of weather, from floods and droughts to wildfires and insect plagues.
8 Natural Pest Control in a Changing Climate
How to deal with introduced pests, encourage a diversity of good bugs, and create a balance so pests dont become problematic in the first place.
9 Vegetable Garden Planting Guide
A crop-by-crop look at how to build resilience into your favorite edible garden cropsplus meet some untraditional crops that already come with resilience built in.
10 Plant Protection
Learn how to use structures and plant covers to protect your veggie plants from climate extremes.
11 Troubleshooting Guide
Helpful solutions to some of climate changes biggest vegetable gardening challenges, including timesaving tips.
Conclusion
How to connect with and enjoy your vegetable garden in a changing climate.
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index

Additional information

GOR013688230
9780760384732
0760384738
The Climate ChangeResilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food in a Changing Climate by Kim Stoddart
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
2024-02-29
208
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