[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll butt in! Read these books in preparation. They are the ones that were my bibles in my learning curve about 20 years ago, along with all I’ve learned from my Grandma and my in-laws:

‘The Garden Primer’ - Barbara Damrosh (She’s married to Eliott Coleman and all of his books are great, too!)

‘The Square Foot Garden’ - Mel Bartholomew

‘How to Grow More Food on Less Land...’ - John Jeavons

‘Lasagna Gardening’ - Patricia Lanza (I think?)

And if you can find a copy of ‘The Have-More Plan’ pick that up as well; but that one is hard to find. :(

Any of the ‘Foxfire’ books will help you as well, and so will ‘Basic Country Skills’ but Storey publications.

Have fun! Good luck! Pray for enough rain and no skeeters! :)

[wastoute]

Thanks! I am making a list and will start the reading program. I just hope I an get up to speed fast enough to feed us before TSHTF. It may be close. My list of questions just keeps growing and growing. I have been reading some of Elliot Coleman's stuff on the internet but his problems in Maine seem different from what I may face in Virginia.

I grew gardens twenty years ago when we lived out west and one thing I could never do is harvest my sweetcorn. I could grow beautiful sweetcorn but just as I got to the point where I told myself, "Tomorrow I will harvest this stuff", that night the raccoons did it for me. I could never get a single ear. Now I have a hound dog and I figure he could keeps the coons out but how do you keep the dog out? LOL. Lots to learn and it will be frustrating and fun I am sure.

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[dennisw]

‘How to Grow More Food on Less Land...’ - John Jeavons>>>>>>>

I read that one in 1971. I visited his guru Alan Chadwick
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Alan+Chadwick%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS277US278&ie=UTF-8