How to Grow More Vegetables

1 Deep Soil Creation and

Maintenance

Getting Started—Correct Tools • Laying Out Your

Beds • Types of Deep Soil Preparation • General

Double-Digging Procedure • Considerations for

Initial Dig with Very Poor Soils • Prepared Beds

2 Sustainability

Sustainable Soil Fertility • The Loss of Soil Nutrients

and Humus • Initially Adding Nutrients and Humus to

the Soil • 100% Sustainability Impossible • The

Need for Up to 99% Sustainability • Ecology

Action’s Pursuit of Sustainability • How to Design for

Your Soil’s Fertility

3 The Use of Compost and Soil

Fertility

A “Natural” System • Compost Functions • The

Process • Soil and Other Materials in the Compost

Pile • Locating the Pile • Size and Timing • Building

the Pile • Watering the Pile • Compost Curing and

Application Rates • Composting Methods

Compared • Materials to Use Minimally or Not at All

• Benefits of Compost in the Soil • Building a
  Compost Pile Step-By-Step • All Compost Is Not
  Equal