How to Grow More Vegetables

4 Fertilization

Soil Testing • Taking a Soil Sample • pH •

Recommended Sources of Nutrients • Adding

Fertilizers and Compost • More Sustainable

Fertilization

5 Open-Pollinated Seeds, Seed

Propagation, Close Spacing, and

Seed Saving

Seed Planting • Seedling Flats • Flat Soil • Some

Causes of Poor Germination • Pricking Out

Seedlings • Transplanting • Spotting • Planting by

the Phases of the Moon • Watering • Shadenetting •

Mini-Greenhouses • Key Water Factors • Weeding •

Planting in Season

6 Companion Planting

Health • Rotations • Nourishing the Soil • Physical

Complementarity • Weed, Insect, and Animal

Relationships

7 An Interrelated Food-Raising

System: Creating and Caring for a

Balanced Natural Ecosystem with

Insect Life