Includes index

You don't have to be Italian to grow good peppers -- Why bother? -- Productivity is growing $7,486 worth of fresh, organic produce -- Rabbits and raised beds -- More on garden architecture -- Grow into gardening -- Breaking even in the first year -- How to read seed catalogs -- Other sources of gardening savvy -- Ask Uncle Sam -- Big is not bountiful -- Chaos in the vegetable kingdom? -- Practical vegetable groupings -- "Build soil" -- The ABCs of N, P, and K -- Feeding your garden for 12cent a day -- Triggering the nutrients in soil -- Production-plus planting procedures -- Watering -- Much ado about mulch -- Weather -- Bugs & Co. -- Herbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table -- Plant your personality -- Shopping for seeds and seedlings -- Gardening in small spaces -- Maximum-production techniques for over fifty popular vegetables -- Make compost as you make good lasagne -- Garden plants that keep on giving -- Uses of a cold frame -- Starting from seed -- Did I plant that?

"Originally published in the United States under the title Home Gardening at Its Best by Atheneum, New York, in 1977."