Organic Gardening
How to grow your own nutritious food and enjoy superb, chemical-free flavors.

• Zesty Sorrel: The Garden Green With Zing!
  

  Sorrel is the garden green with zing!

• Yummy Yacon
  

  Easy to grow and store, high-yielding, supernutritious and crunchy like an apple, yacon (pronounced ya-kon) is one of the many “new” vegetables coming to us from South America. In reality, this fruitlike vegetable has been cultivated throughout the Andes for more than a millennium. South Americans eat it as a fruit; they also use the huge leaves to wrap foods during cooking, in the same way cabbage leaves are used in Germany, grape leaves in the Mideast and banana leaves in the tropics.

• YUCCA BRINGS R E L I E F !
  Suggestions that the yucca plant may give relief for arthritis sufferers.
• Your Garden + Natural Mulches = Better Harvests
  

  Your Garden + Natural Mulches = Better Harvests July/August 1971 by BETTY BRINHART When my parents migrated from the Ukrain region in Russia to the rich farm lands of Illinois during the late 1800's, they were already experienced organic mulchers...not from choice, but fr

• You Can Work Your Way
  

  You Can Work Your Way September/October 1977 Through Southern France by ROGER MANN You may sleep in an outbuilding with other vendangeurs or, if you're lucky, you might be given a room in the f armer's house. Either way, if you're not allergic to ha

• YOU CAN RAISE GRAINS ... RIGHT IN YOUR OWN GARDEN!
  

  YOU CAN RAISE GRAINS ... RIGHT IN YOUR OWN GARDEN! January/February 1978 by GENE LOGSDON I remember the first year we grew grains in our garden. A good gardening buddy dropped by one day early in July just when our wheat was ripe and ready to harvest. He didn't know that

• You Can Make Money Harvesting and Selling Botanicals
  Almost every relatively green region on the U.S. and Canada boasts at least one native "medicine plant" which homesteaders can make money harvesting.
• You Can Grow Oca!
  

  Oca is a highly productive perennial plant with waxy, brightly colored tubers that are perfect as a season-extending crop. It is an excellent source of carbohydrates, phosphorus and iron, as well as essential amino acids that promote the health and proper function of muscles, organs, nails, hair, skin and more.

• Wrapped Green Tomatoes
  

  Wrapped Green Tomatoes April/May 2000 Issue # 179 - April/May 2000 We're always reading about wrapping green tomatoes individually in paper to ripen them for canning and eating. Up here in northern Maine, we're lucky if we get any ripe tomatoes outside before frost. If I had to wrap and check on each fruit, I'

• Woody’s Folding Tomato Cages
  

  Here's an easy DIY plan for sturdy tomato cages.

• Wintering Well Whatever the Weather
  Facing up to the realities of global warming and recipes for curried sweet potato latkes.
• Winter Bloom, Green Thumb
  

  Winter Bloom, Green Thumb December/January 1993 GARDEN &YARD by Gail Damerow 5 1/2 houseplants that even a black thumb couldn't kill Houseplants and I had a less than auspicious introduction. During the first winter I spent in Alaska, I was desperate for something green and cheerful. When I sp

• Winning Against Weeds
  Four simple weed control tips and the two best weeding hoes.
• Winning Against Weeds
  

  At first, weeds seem innocuous enough — just green confetti scattered among flowers and vegetables. In fact, weeds bestow a multitude of gifts on us — from holding and protecting bare soils and providing habitat for beneficial insects, to their use as edible and medicinal plants (see “Get to Know Your Weeds”). But weeds compete with garden crops for space, water and nutrients, and if not kept in check, they can seriously affect crop yield and quality.

• WINGS OF LIFE: VEGETARIAN COOKERY
  

  WINGS OF LIFE: VEGETARIAN COOKERY March/April 1978 At 26, Julie Jordan already has quite a number of accomplishments to her credit. She's studied cooking at the Cordon Bleu in London, and graduate nutrition and food science at New York's Cornell University and at Cabrillo

• WILD GOOSEBERRIES AND CURRANTS
  

  There's no better time than now to grab a berrying bucket and hit the trail, including recipes for apples mount banner, berry pancakes, berry syrup, Danish-style red cabbage and gooseberries.

• WILD FOODS IN YOUR GARDEN
  Turning weeds into food, including purslane, dandelion, violets, chickweed.
• Wild Flower
  Enjoy lots of color, less mowing and more wildlife in your back yard by planting a wildflowers.
• Wild Edible Plants
  

  Wild Edible Plants September/October 1975 WILD RICE (Zizania aquatica) This plumy grass, 4—10 feet tall, grows in shallow waters of eastern North America from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The grain is harvested in late summer or early autumn by paddling a canoe among the plants and k

• Why We Dig Gardening
  Mother’s Garden Essay Contest prompted many responses — here are our favorites!
• WHY I STILL USE A SCYTHE
  The benefits of weeding the old fashioned way.
• Who Are Those Strange People In Our Garden?
  

  Who Are Those Strange People In Our Garden? March/April 1978 I'm not exactly wild about plastic (few of us are), but-like everyone else- I end up using it anyway. And-like more and more folks these days?I end up reusing what little plastic I come in contact with again and

• What's New in '81
  The best new garden varieties for the upcoming growing season, including spicy books, Gurney girl tomatoes.
• What to Do in Winter
  

  Learn how to improve garden soil, encourage beneficial insects and wildlife, and enjoy a year-round garden harvest by using these expert gardening tips and planting the best crops for a winter harvest.

• WHAT IS ORGANIC FOOD?
  Understanding these special crops with definitions, history of agriculture, and organic standards.
• WEEDS SEEDS AND CAMPINGS NEEDS
  Sue Peeler recycles weeds as garden mulch; Maureen Engle leaves seedlings in her car - parked in the sun - all day during work, to germinate; Leroy Marchand suggests starting a farmer's market for extra income; Rob Benshoof shares how to make an alcohol camp stove; Dennis MacDonald uses plastic grocery bags as paint tray liners; William Grover says by heating Formica with a infra-red light, the plastic will easily p