Backyard Cash Crops: The Sourcebook for Growing and Selling over 200 High-Value Specialty Crops. [Paperback]

Craig Wallin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 231 pages
• Publisher: Homestead Design; 3 edition (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933239327
• ISBN-13: 978-0933239326
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,516,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best market gardening book of all time!, March 8, 2002

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Mr. C. Oliver (Newcastle UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Backyard Cash Crops: The Sourcebook for Growing and Selling over 200 High-Value Specialty Crops. (Paperback)

This book is probably one o the best books on market gardening tht you can possibly get. In a age when the government is telling us in Europe that we must diversify. This book provides a great insight into how to grow Niche crops for a particular market. It provides detailed information upon plants to grow and indeed offer an insight into the uses and statistics of the particular plants in question.

Worth getting!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Backyard Cash Crops, April 14, 2009

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J. Jordan (Asheboro, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Backyard Cash Crops: The Sourcebook for Growing and Selling over 200 High-Value Specialty Crops. (Paperback)

The good thing about gardening is, it rarely changes. Even though the book is very old, the tools and techniques are timeless. This book is organized very well. It speaks about the benefits of each crop, how to select the correct variety, how to grow, and how to market. It's very easy to apply everything in modern-day fashion. I gave this book to a friend who works for himself, but only seems to scrape by most of the time. He details cars, plays guitar, writes music, and spends the rest of his time in various non-wealth building activities. This may give him focus on something which can make him money and will take attention when he can spare it--even in the rain. This may be the extra boost needed to go from barely making it to being happy and completely self-reliant.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a primer, June 8, 2011

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This review is from: Backyard cash crops: The sourcebook for growing and selling over 200 high-value specialty crops (Hardcover)

This book is OK for a basic understanding of the subject. However, it is dated material going back to circa 1944. Being refurbished and "updated" in 1989. Technology has really advanced over the last 20 years. Also the book has many address and websites that are no longer valid.

It is not all bad; there is much useful information to get your creative juices going, especially when it comes to deciding what to grow.