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Backyard bounty : the complete guide to year-round organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest / Linda Gilkeson, PhD.
Record details
- ISBN: 0865718415
- ISBN: 9780865718418
- Physical Description: xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Our gardening climate and how plants grow -- Planning a productive garden -- Preparing the soil -- Basic methods for growing vegetables -- Starting seedlings and saving seeds -- Basic methods for growing fruit -- Food crops in greenhouses and containers -- Year-round gardening calendar -- Managing pests and problems -- A to Z vegetables -- A to Z fruit. |
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| Upper Skagit Library | 635 GIL | 1015276 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Linda Gilkeson is a keen organic gardener with a passion for insects and 25 years of gardening experience on the west coast. After earning a Ph.D. in entomology, she worked as the research director of a biological control company and then for the British Columbia government coordinating programs to reduce pesticide use in the province. She is the author of Year Around Harvest: Winter Gardening on the Coast and West Coast Gardening: Natural Insect, Weed and Disease Control , as well as the first edition of Backyard Bounty , which has sold over 10,000 copies. Linda is a regular instructor in Master Gardener programs and is kept busy giving courses and workshops on organic gardening and pest management for community education programs, garden clubs and other groups. She has received a Queen's Jubilee medal and an outstanding achievement award from the Professional Pest Management Association of BC. Linda currently lives on Salt Spring Island where she enjoys harvesting food from her garden all year round. Visit her web site: lindagilkeson.ca.