Year round vegetables, fruits, and flowers from metro Houston: A natural organic approach using ecology [Spiral-bound]

Bob Randall (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 257 pages
• Publisher: Year Round Gardening Press; [11th ed.] edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970520700
• ISBN-13: 978-0970520708
• ASIN: B0006FDYFC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,674,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Metro Houston's Gardening Bible - 12th Edition, July 6, 2009

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cr0ak (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Year round vegetables, fruits, and flowers from metro Houston: A natural organic approach using ecology (Spiral-bound)

There are a lot of Texas gardening books on the market but none can compare to this one. From setting up your garden bed to soil fertility to ecological pest control, Dr. Randall has covered all the bases for growing organically and with the least amount of damage to the environment.

Included is an extensive chart for when to plant which veggies/fruits. In the twelfth edition, Dr. Randall has made it a lot easier for the gardener to avoid planting the same vegetable family in the same garden location in consecutive years. He has grouped vegetables into fourteen major families, making it easier to rotate plantings every year. e.g. Tomatoes and peppers are in the same family. If I plant both of them this year (locations A and B), then next year I would plant them in locations C and D, the following year in locations E and F, and (ideally) the year after that in locations G and H. Then I could plant them in A and B the next year, and so on. This helps lessen the pests that can/will build up in the soil that can attack those plants.

Dr. Randall also gives recommended varieties to take the guess work out of what will work best for the Houston area. At the back of the book is a list of sources for supplies, tools, seeds, etc.

There are 300 pages chock-full of great info!

If you can't tell by now, I highly recommend this book for anyone living in the metro Houston area (although it has so much great information on the soil food web, how to organically control pests, and irrigation that everyone reading it can benefit).

This book is available locally through Urban Harvest ([...]) and at select nurseries, etc. in the Houston area. Arbor Gate in Tomball, Nature's Way Resources in Conroe, Wabash Antiques and Feed Store on Washington Street in Houston, and at the Urban Harvest Farmer's Market - just to name a few. (See: [...] for all locations)
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