Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition
The Complete Guide to Year-round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California
Sasquatch Books · Print & ebook · January 5, 2010
The bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated!
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- Who it’s for
- A practical guide to growing food in the Bay Area and along the Northern California coast.
- Themes
- Bay Area food gardening, Vegetable and herb cultivation, Cooking with garden harvests
- Genres
- Growing Vegetables, Western Gardening, Gardening Resources
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The bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated! Packed with more than 400 pages of reliable information, Golden Gate Gardening offers encyclopedic coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing common favorite vegetables and herbs, plus unusual ones that bring variety to the garden.
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She includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, cultivating fruit trees, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the crop, and creating delicious gardener's dishes. This third edition also contains new or updated information on resources for specific seeds, tomato planting, organic gardening, and vegetables not included in previous editions, including amaranth, shell beans, Chinese broccoli, broccoli raab, Florence fennel, oca, okra, and quinoa. Charts, sidebars, maps, and online resources help make the vegetable gardening experience easier and more fun.
Gardening, Locally
A practical guide to growing food in the Bay Area and along the Northern California coast.
Come here for
- Region-specific advice on vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, and microclimates
- Ideas for unusual crops alongside familiar garden favorites
Expect
- Broad coverage, from pest troubles to harvesting and garden organization
- Charts, maps, and sidebars to consult as you plan and grow
Where it sits
| Growing Vegetables | 77% |
|---|---|
| Western Gardening | 58% |
| Gardening Resources | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Western Gardening
- Urban Gardening
- Regional Nature
- Authors
- Pamela Peirce
- Publisher
- Sasquatch Books
- Published
- January 5, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Bay Area food gardening · Vegetable and herb cultivation · Cooking with garden harvests
- Reading lane
- Western Gardening