The Big Book of Organic Gardeners - Sebastian Ehrl, Jutta Langheineken

There's only one hobby more fun than gardening - organic gardening! Homegrown vegetables and herbs not only make you happy, they also make you healthy. The book shares decades of organic gardening experience and offers lots of practical advice for urban gardening. Whether you want to be self-sufficient or just want to harvest a few grains of delicious tomatoes from your balcony, the book suggests that almost anything is possible.
- Gardening basics - soil quality, fertiliser and compost, biological control, biocontrol, weed control, watering, DIY planters, sowing and planting
- Delicacies from the organic garden - first steps in the kitchen garden, planting plan, making beds, growing vegetables and herbs, harvesting and processing
- Flowers in the ornamental garden - easy to care for flowers, flower beds and borders, living screens, climbing plants, garden ponds, propagating organic plants
- Animal friendly gardens - hens and ducks, birds, insects, butterflies and their companions

From the contents

Organic basics
The role of soil quality
What you need to know about fertilisation
Composting basics
Plant protection the organic way
The role of weeds in organic gardens
Plant sprays
How to make a garden organic
It's not a fat wallet that makes a garden beautiful
Buying plants organic
Beautiful too, "green" too

Delicacies from the organic garden
First steps in the vegetable garden
A good plan is half the battle
Let's get started
Special dishes
Garden on the balcony
Fresh herbs
Don't throw it away, use it!

An intoxicating floral bounty
Flowers for our land?
Flowers for the organic garden
Edible flowers
Reproduce, multiply
Seed bomb

Animal garden
Welcome to the garden!
Unwelcome guests
Snails, get out of here!

Important addresses, organisations
Directory
About the authors