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AppleApricot

ArtichokeArugula

AsparagusBasil

BeansBeets

Blackberries

BlueberriesBok Choy

Broad BeansBroccoli

Brussels SproutsCabbage

CarrotsCaulifower

CeleryChard

CherriesChives

CilantroCollards

CornCranberries

Cucumber

CurrantsDill

EggplantFennel

FigGarlic

GooseberriesGrains

GrapesKale

Kiwi

KohlrabiLeeks

LettuceMelons

MintMushrooms

Mustard GreensNectarines

Okra

OnionsOregano

ParsleyParsnips

PeachesPears

PeasPeppers

PlumsPotatoes

PumpkinsRadishes

RaspberriesRhubarb

RosemaryRutabagas

Sage

ScallionsShallots

SoybeansSpinach

SquashStrawberries

Sweet potatoesThyme

TomatoesTurnips

Zucchini

Incredible Edibles

You Can Growfrom A to ZGrow your own

good food, anywhere!


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Table of ContentsChapter One: Garden StyleHow to inuse your personal style into your garden design

Chapter Two: Assessing Your SpaceHow climate, light, soil, water, and size aect your space

Chapter Three: Finding SpaceLearn to garden anywherebackyards, containers, community gardens, and more

Chapter Four: Building Your GardenHow to build your gardenin the ground, on patios, and in raised beds

Chapter Five: Planning Your GardenPick your plants and learn where and when to plant them

Chapter Six: Getting DirtyTip and tricks or healthy soil

Chapter Seven: Sowing and Growing

Sowing, eeding, planting, and transplanting

Chapter Eight: Keeping Plants HealthyGarden maintenance and how to deal with pests and diseases

Chapter Nine: Making the Most o Limited SpaceGardening on walls, in the winter, and everywhere you can

Chapter Ten: Harvesting and Preparing or Next YearHarvest your crops, save seeds or next year, and prepare your garden or winter

Chapter Eleven: Edibles rom A to ZHow to start, grow, and harvest vegetables, ruits, herbs, grains, and mushrooms


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Seeds never ail to be amazing! Incredible bounty can be harvested

rom what began as tiny, shriveled specks. Some beginning gardeners

regard seed starting with a healthy dose o ear, but the act is, seedsare designed to survive, thrive, and eventually reproduce.

What You Need to Begin:Soil:Seeds preer a light, airy medium that provides good air circulation and allows or eortless rootdevelopment; it should hold moisture but should not get soggy.

Containers: Seeds can be started in pretty much anything, rom recycled yogurt containers to store-boughtplastic cell packs.

Moisture: Maintaining consistent moisture is crucial to success in seed starting. The goal is to keep the soilconsistently sponge-damp; uctuating rom bone-dry to sopping wet is torture to sensitive seedlings.

Warmth: Some seeds, such as peas and other early-season vegetables, preer cool soil. Others, such as peppersand cucumbers, preer a slightly balmier climate. Most seeds germinate best in temperatures rom 60 to 75F.

Light: Ater seedlings have emerged rom the soil, they need a lot o light; without it, they grow leggytall, thin,and weak. Providing the light they want14 to 16 hours a dayis probably the biggest challenge in indoor growing.


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Saving Seeds Step-by-Step

Moisten the soil beore saving. It should be damp but not wetlike a wrung-outsponge.

Fill containers with soil mix. Tamp it down gently, leaving 1/2 inch or so o space atthe top.

Check the seed packet or inormation on how deep to sow the seed. As rule othumb, seeds can be planted at a depth o about twice their diameter.

When sewing larger seeds in containers, poke a hole into the soil using a chopstick or pencil, place one seed in, and cover it with soil. For smaller seeds,sprinkle them on top and scratch the soil slightly to bury them.

Label containers or rows when sowing more than one type o seed.

Place the containers in a warm, bright area, and wait. Some seeds germinate indays; others take weeks.


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No Yard?No problem!You can garden just about anywhere, as long asyou choose plants that are suited to the condi-

tions o your site. And although you probablycant change the amount o sunlight your plants

receive, or the act that your rootop space isprone to high-speed winds, you can oten make

little adjustments that will make big dierences.You may discover that you have a lot more gar-

dening space than you thought.

With pots, you can have perect soil. Plants

perorm best i you cater to their soilpreerences, and containers make it easy togive them what they want.

You can move pots around. With containers,you can move temperature-sensitive plants

into and out o the sun, extending their season.

Pots allow you to build a garden anywhere.Sometimes the only gardening space you haveavailable is on your ront steps or on the edge

o a driveway. Containers dont mind.

Pots reduce compaction. With traditional in-

ground gardening, it can be dicult to avoidstepping into your garden bed to sow, weed,and harvest.

Pests and weeds are easier to control in pots.Because your total garden space is relatively

small, it is easier or you to keep on top oweeding and pest control when dealing with a

potted garden


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The DirtyDozenStore-bought versions o these

12 crops consistently test higheror levels o pesticide residue.

Grow them organically at homeor reshness, avor, and saety!

Peach

AppleBell pepper

Celery

Nectarine

StrawberriesCherries

Kale

Lettuce

Grapes

Carrot

Pear


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About The AuthorAndrea Bellamy is a proessionalwriter and the creator o HeavyPetal, a Web site that ocuses onurban, organic vegetable gardening.Heavy Petalhas been eatured inSunset and Canadian Gardeningand has been profled on ApartmentTherapy and Design Sponge.

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Grow 100% organic vegetables,fruits, herbs, and grainsin containers, on patios, in raised beds, and just aboutanywhere. Sugar Snaps and Strawberries is just whatevery space-challenged begining gardener needs

helpul advice, un tips, step-by-step instructions, andinspiring photos. Everything a new gardener needs togrow their own good ood.

Join the grow-your-own revolution!

Sugar Snaps and StrawberriesSimple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-

Space Edible GardenBy Andrea Bellamy

ISBN: 978-1-60469-124-5, $19.95Paperback, 224 pp, ull color throughout

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