Digging In How to Use This Book Part 1: Developing Your Garden Plan Starting Small and Growing Year by Year Sizing Up Your Site and Soil Chapter 1: The Easy-Care Bag Garden Year One Year Two Year Three Chapter 2: A Bountiful Border Year One Year Two Year Three Chapter 3: The Front-Yard Food Supply Year One Year Two Year Three Chapter 4: Family Food Factory Gardens Short, Cool Summers Full-Season Summers Long, Hot Summers Angel Wings Herb Garden Part 2: Essential Techniques and More Planting Plans Purposeful Planting Plans Chapter 5: Deciding What to Grow It's All in the Timing Vegetables and Climate Chapter 6: Designing Beautiful, Big-Flavor Gardens From Flowers to Food Chapter 7: Working with Seeds and Seedlings Garden Plan: Overnight Success Direct-Seeding in Your Garden Garden Plan: Strictly from Seed Starting Seeds Indoors Starting Seeds Step-by-Step Garden Plan: Paintbrush Beds Chapter 8: Supporting Your Plants Types of Support How to Pound a Post How to Cage a Tomato Garden Plan: High-Value Verticals Chapter 9: Water: Make Every Drop Count Garden Plan: Marinara Medley Knowing When to Water Chapter 10: The Magic of Mulch When Looks Count Garden Plan: Managed Mulch Garden Chapter 11: Fertilizing Your Garden Weighing Your Options Garden Plan: Sweet Corn & Company Can You Use Too Much? Chapter 12: Your Insect Friends and Foes Organic Remedies That Really Work Garden Plan: Beneficial Border Chapter 13: Preventing Dastardly Diseases Super-Strong Varieties Garden Plan: Cajun Spice Fighting with Fungi Chapter 14: Smart Harvesting Chill Out! Preserving Your Favorite Herbs Garden Plan: Good-for-You Garden Chapter 15: Stretching the Seasons Three Ways to Bring On Spring Garden Plan: Six-Weeks-Sooner 15 CHAPTER Part 3: Pick-Of-the-Crop Veggie Varieties Making Good Choices What Is a Variety? Top Varieties for Your Garden, Crop by Crop Appendix Gardener's Basic Lingo Which Planting Plans Are Right for You? Sources for Seeds and Plants Metric Conversions Index.