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E-book Category: Garden, Manuals
E-book Title: Cinder Block Gardens
Author: Lynn A.Gillespie & Glen Mentgen
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  • The easiest gardening method ever, make for the busiest person
  • how to grow twice as much food in half as much space
  • how to have a 'weed free' garden
  • safe, homemade remedies for killing insects
  • how to make 'never fail' garden soil
  • how to save $500 or more annually on your grocery bill
  • the secrets to building a successful compost pile
  • and many more gardening tips that make gardening a breeze!

Table of Content for Cinder Block Gardening...

Chapter 1

Reasons To Grow Your Own Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Other Crops That Come From The Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Joy (14)
Satisfaction (15)
Peace (15)
Two Generations Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
You Are What You Eat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Turning The Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Beginning Gardeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Advanced Gardeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Chapter 2

Advantages Of Cinder Block Gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Advantages Of Cinder Block Gardens Compared To Row Gardens. . . 21
The Cinder Block Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Space Savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Time Savings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
How Easy Can It Be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Money Savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Grocery Store Prices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Cinder Block Advantage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anyone Can Garden In A Cinder Block Garden. . . . . . . . . . . 33
For Women Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How Much Money Can You Really Save? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Large Garden Savings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Save Even More. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Biggest Saving Of All!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 3

Cinder Block Garden Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Blocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Garden Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
East Garden (42)
North Garden (42)
West and South Garden (42)
Weed Barrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Size And Shape Of A Cinder Block Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Single Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Building A Single Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Single Layer High. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
A Second Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Multi Unit Beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

A Double Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
A Three Unit Bed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
A Four Unit Bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

A Five Unit Bed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Aisles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Vertical Growing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Garden Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Special Needs Garden (58)

Chapter 4

Soil: The Secret To Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Vegetable Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Insect And Disease Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Weed Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Soil Microbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
pH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Build A Soil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Magic "Soil Mix". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Compost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Sand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Humus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Soil Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Chapter 5

Fertilizer and Compost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Crop Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Organic Fertilizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Manure (68)
Compost (68)
Compost Container (70)
Compost Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How Much Compost Should I Put On The Garden?. . . . . . . . . . 71
Bagged Compost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Bagged Natural Fertilizers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chemical Fertilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Bottom Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 6

Seeds, Planting
and Transplanting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Figure Out What Your Needs Will Be. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Planting A Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Buying And Planting Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Hybrid Or F1 And F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Non-hybrid, Or Open Pollinated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Heirloom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Terminator Or Genetically Modified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Cold Hardy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Frost Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Fall Frost Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chart 6 Frost Date Averages (81)
Starting Seedlings Indoors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Soil (82)
Plant Food (84)
Water (84)
Light (84)
Warmth (85)
Transplanting Outdoors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Hardening Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Short Cuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Planting Seeds Directly Into The Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Chapter 7

Mulch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Grass Clippings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Sawdust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Bark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Leaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Cardboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Weed Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Mulching The Aisles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Once You Become A "Mulcher" You Will Never Go Back. . . . . . . 95

Chapter 8

Low Water Gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
What Happens To The Plants When
They Get Too Much Water Or Not Enough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
There Are A Few Rules Of Thumb To
Help You Decide When And How Much To Water.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Water Barrels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Color Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Watering Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Chapter 9

The Weed Free Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Cinder Block Gardening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Herbicides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Close Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Mulch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Chapter 10

Pest Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Monitoring Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
The Most Pestilent Insects
In The Vegetable Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Ants (110)
Aphids (111)
Beetles (114)
Cabbageworm (116)
Corn Earworm (118)
Earwigs (119)
Grasshoppers (120)
Slugs and Snails (122)
Squash Bugs (125)
Sow Bug (126)
Thrips (127)
Tomato Hornworm (128)
Whitefly (129)

Chart 7: Chemical Pesticides for the garden (130)

Growing Pesticides In Your Own Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . .131
A Few Other Home Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Bees or Wasps in the House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Black Flies or Gnats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Codling Moth Broth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Fly Catcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
How to Get the Skunk Smell off of Your Pets . . . . . . . . . .132
Larger Pests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Chart 8: Deterrents for Large Pests (135)
Dogs (136)

Chapter 11

Season Extenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Cold Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Frost blankets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Styrofoam Insulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Straw Mulch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Chapter 12

Planting In The Block Holes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Watering The Block Holes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Mulching The Block Holes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Crops Planted In The Block Holes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Growing In The Cinder Block Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Free Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Chapter 13

Vegetable Reference Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Dividing Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Beans, Dry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Beans, Green Bush and Pole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Beets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Broccoli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Cabbage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Carrots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Cauliflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Celery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Chard, Swiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Cucumber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
Garlic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Kale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
Kohlrabi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Lettuce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Melons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Mustard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Onions, bulb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Onions, Bunching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Peas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Peppers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Popcorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
Pumpkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
Radish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Spinach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Squash, Summer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Squash, Winter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
Sunflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Tomatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Turnips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221

Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

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