Vegetable Garden Research 1996—1998

Introduction

• Organic Versus Chemical Fertilizer
• Gardeners as Guardians of our Genetic Heritage
• Gardeners and Farm Crops
• Transgenics

Cultural Experiments and Variety Trials

• An Experimental Method for Doing a Fertilizer Trial with Two Variables
• Organic Versus Inorganic
• Pea Concentration
• Pea Planting Timing
• Potato Taste Trials
• Growing Sweet Potatoes in England
• Sweet Potatoes Varieties
• Growing Extra Large Sweet Potatoes
• Soil Preparation for Sweet Potatoes
• Soil Warming for Tomatoes

Plant Breeding in the Home Garden

• Breeding Tomatoes for Flavour and High C
• Newleaf Transgenic Potatoes

Garden Observations

• Vegetable Storage—Cabbage, Celery and Root Crops
• Notes on Carrots, Turnips, Citrons and Cucumbers
• Growing Garlic
• Growing Peas
• The ‘Lazy Bed’ Method for Potatoes
• Notes on Sweet Potatoes
• Bed Warmers and Biennial Sweet Potatoes
• Growing Early, Productive, Tall Tomatoes

Reviews

• Winter Greens: The Winter-Harvest Manual by Eliot Coleman
• Organic versus Chemical Fertilizer (Jarna, Sweden): Organic, Biodynamic and Conventional Cropping Systems: A Long Term Comparison by B.D. Pettersson and E.V. Wistinghausen
• Organic versus Chemical Fertilizer (Truro, NS): three papers by Philip R. Warman
• Garlic: Growing Great Garlic by Ron L. Engeland.