The Healthy Vegetable Garden

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Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide helps you reduce chemical inputs, enrich your growing ecology, and cultivate nutrient-dense, delicious crops. Expert organic gardener Sally Morgan shares natural methods to address the challenges of a changing climate, drawing on principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture to help your green space thrive. You will learn how to combat disease and pests using natural predators, companion planting, and trap crops. Discover how to choose plants that attract pollinators and pest predators, build healthy soil rich in organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi, and regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching. Boost biodiversity with crop rotations and polyculture, and rewild your garden by creating diverse habitats using walls, fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners. Understand plant defenses and implement biocontrols, along with natural barriers, traps, and lures. A healthy, productive garden works in harmony with nature to yield delicious fruits and vegetables while fostering rich, vibrant soil. This guide empowers growers of all levels to reduce pests and diseases and create a flourishing habitat without relying on fertilizers, pesticides, or weedkillers.