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Chapter 1 Garden Paths and the Path Through This Book
3(14)
Garden Paths
5(10)
The Path Through This Book
15(2)
Chapter 2 Gardening in Tune with Nature
17(8)
What Does Garden Biodiversity Look Like?
18(1)
Synthetic Fertilizers Reduce Soil Biodiversity
19(1)
Consult the Genius of Your Place
20(1)
Dropping "Pest" from the Gardener's Vocabulary
21(4)
Chapter 3 Nurturing Healthy Garden Soil
25(20)
A Nutrient Management Primer
27(3)
Nutrient Management Produces High Garden Yields
29(1)
Soil Testing
30(1)
When and How to Test Garden Soil
31(1)
Would You Like Red Ants or Horsetail with that Loam Order?
31(1)
The Minimum-Till Garden
32(1)
Organic Mulches
33(1)
Compost: The Search for Black Gold
34(3)
Nutrient Management Produces High Garden Yields
35(2)
Winter Cover Crops and Green Manures
37(2)
Wood Ashes in the Garden
39(1)
Biochar: Part of the Future of Gardening
40(1)
Breaking New Ground
41(4)
Tips for Improving Your Garden's Soil
42(3)
Chapter 4 Planning the Vegetable Garden, by Marjorie Peronto
45(16)
Laying Out the Garden
46(4)
High-Value Vegetable Crops
47(3)
Choosing Vegetable Varieties
50(11)
Intensive Cropping in Small Raised Beds
51(6)
A Suggested Crop-Rotation Schedule
57(1)
The Humble Bumblebee
58(3)
Chapter 5 The Garden in March
61(28)
Monitoring Growing Degree Days in the Garden
62(1)
Growing Your Own Transplants
63(6)
Sowing Schedule for Transplants of Flowering Annuals
67(1)
Sowing Schedule for Transplants of Herbacious Perennials
68(1)
A Moveable Feast: Container Gardening
69(1)
Stalking the Cultivated Asparagus
70(1)
Recommended Varieties of June-Bearing Strawberries
71(1)
March Pruning of Raspberries and Blueberries, by Marjorie Peronto
72(4)
Pruning the Old Apple Tree
74(2)
Forcing Branches of Flowering Trees and Shrubs
76(3)
Homemade Floral Preservatives
78(1)
Get Those Native Bee Nest Boxes Ready
79(1)
The First Green of Spring: Lichens in the Garden
80(3)
The New England Garden In March, Zone By Zone
83(6)
Chapter 6 The Garden in April
89(24)
April in the Vegetable Garden
92(2)
Is the Garden's Soil Workable?
94(1)
Tips for Sowing Small Seeds
94(1)
April in the Strawberry Patch
94(1)
An Old Gardener Discovers Rhubarb
94(2)
Heeling in Early Arrivals
95(1)
The Compost Pile
96(2)
Composting Indoors with Worms by Marjorie Peronto
98(3)
Formative Pruning of Young Trees
101(2)
Pruning Spring-Flowering Shrubs
103(2)
Deadheading Lilacs
104(1)
The Blooming of Shadblow Serviceberry
105(1)
Rock Gardening New England Style
106(1)
Remembering the Trees of Our Youth
107(1)
The New England Garden In April, Zone By Zone
107(6)
Chapter 7 The Garden in May
113(30)
May in the Vegetable Garden
114(7)
Minimum Soil Temperatures for Planting Summer Crops
114(3)
Self-Sowing Annuals and Biennials to Scatter through the Vegetable Garden
117(4)
Three Types of Garden Peas
121(5)
Leek Varieties for All Seasons
123(3)
Native Groundcovers
126(2)
May-Flowering Trees and Shrubs
128(5)
Planting Trees
133(3)
Two Non-Native Shrubs Worth Growing
134(2)
Dandelions
136(2)
The New England Garden In May, Zone By Zone
138(5)
Chapter 8 The Garden in June
143(34)
June in the Vegetable Garden
144(9)
Tomato Flowers but No Fruits
146(2)
Protecting Young Plants from Wind
148(3)
Sex in the Vegetable Garden
151(1)
A Mailbox in the Garden
152(1)
Irrigate without Wetting Leaves
153(1)
June-Flowering Native Shrubs
153(4)
Bringing Mountain Maple from Woods to Garden
157(1)
Managing Garden Herbivores
158(11)
Leaf Beetles
163(3)
Coming to Terms with Neem Oil
166(1)
Aphids, Ants, and Sooty Mold
167(1)
When and How to Use Floating Row Covers
168(1)
Container Madness
169(2)
Welcome Garter Snakes into the Garden Food Web
171(1)
The New England Garden In June, Zone By Zone
172(5)
Chapter 9 The Garden in July
177(24)
July in the Vegetable Garden
178(4)
Mariellen Eaton's Garlic Scape Pesto
179(3)
Converting Lawn to Garden
182(1)
The Vegetable Garden's Second Season: Planning and Planting for Fall
183(2)
What Can We Do with All This Basil?
184(1)
Raspberries, the Queen of Summer Fruits
185(1)
Native Shrubs: The Scent of Crushed Leaves
185(3)
An Imaginative Use ofBayberry in a Cape Cod Garden
186(2)
Steeplebush
188(5)
Summer Perennials for Pollinators
188(2)
Be a Deadheader
190(2)
Swamp Milkweed and the Great Black Wasp
192(1)
Enjoy Nasturtiums---In the Garden and on the Table
193(1)
Guttation Adorns Even Common Weeds with Early-Morning Jewels
194(2)
The New England Garden In July, Zone By Zone
196(5)
Chapter 10 The Garden in August
201(20)
A Lesson from a Chipmunk Named Theodore
202(1)
August in the Vegetable Garden
203(5)
Squash Surgery
205(3)
Exuberant Herbaceous Perennials
208(3)
August-Flowering Native Shrubs
211(3)
Ripe Elderberries in August
214(1)
The Joy of Gardening in Tune with Nature
215(6)
The New England Garden In August, Zone By Zone
216(5)
Chapter 11 The Garden in September
221(18)
September in a Different Sort of Garden
223(1)
Composting in Autumn
223(2)
The Vegetable Garden in September
225(4)
Trees and Shrubs in the September Garden
229(2)
September Is for Planting Trees and Shrubs
231(2)
Gardening with Reilly
233(6)
The New England Garden In September, Zone By Zone
235(4)
Chapter 12 The Garden in October
239(18)
October in the Vegetable Garden
239(3)
Give Hardworking Garden Tools a Good Cleaning Before Putting Them Away
240(3)
Bringing the Season's Harvest Together in a Soup Pot
243
Herbaceous Perennials for the October Garden
242(4)
Native and Non-Native Trees in the Autumn Garden
246(4)
Tipping the Balance toward Native Trees and Shrubs
246(3)
Screening for Invasive Potential
249(1)
New England Native Shrubs: Autumn Color Closer to the Ground
250(4)
The End of a Season
254(3)
Chapter 13 Gardens in Tune with Nature
257(34)
Nate and Berta Atwater's Garden in Little Compton, RI---Zone 7a
257(6)
What Is a Dwarf Conifer?
260(3)
Berta's Roasted Butternut Squash in Balsamic Glace with Parmesan
263(1)
Ron and Jennifer Kujawski's Garden in West Stockbridge, MA---Zone 5a
263(6)
Colored Plastic in the Vegetable Garden
264(2)
For the Savory Smell of Success, Grow Garlic, by Ron Kujawski and Jennifer Kujawski
266(3)
Patricia Crow's Garden on Cape Cod---Zone 7a
269(4)
The Ghostly Indian Pipe
270(3)
Tom and Jan McIntyre's Garden on Mt. Desert Island, ME---Zone 5b, by Jan McIntyre
273(6)
Pond Diversity at Spruce Hollow, by Tom McIntyre
278(1)
Theresa Guethler's Garden in Bucksport, ME---Zone 5b
279(2)
Dr. Charles Richards' Seacoast Garden---Zone 5b
281(5)
Astilbes in the Summer Garden
285(1)
Moss Gardening
286(1)
The Vegetable Gardens of Dorcas Corrow and Eva Eicher---Zone 5b
286(5)
A Year-Round Labor of Love
288(3)
Chapter 14 The Garden in Winter
291(7)
Persistent Winter Fruits
292(2)
`Donald Wyman' in the Winter Garden
293(1)
Forcing Paperwhites
294(1)
Protecting Trees and Shrubs from the Ravages of Winter
295(1)
Hunkering Down, Waiting for April
296(2)
Appendix: Non-Native Invasive Woody Plants and Suggested Native Alternatives for New England Gardens 298(2)
Index 300(8)
Index of Scientific Names 308(3)
Acknowledgments 311(1)
About the Authors 312