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Gaia's Garden Table of Contents

Gaia’s Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. Many people mistakenly think that “ecological gardening”—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale.

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Gaia's Garden Table of Contents

Gaia’s Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. Many people mistakenly think that “ecological gardening”—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale.

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CONTENTS

List of Tables viii


Preface to the Second Edition ix

Part One: The Garden as Ecosystem


1. Introducing the Ecological Garden 3
2. A Gardener’s Ecology 21
3. Designing the Ecological Garden 36

Part Two: The Pieces of the Ecological Garden


4. Bringing the Soil to Life 71
5. Catching, Conserving, and Using Water 96
6. Plants for Many Uses 120
7. Bringing in the Bees, Birds, and Other Helpful Animals 150

Part Three: Assembling the Ecological Garden


8. Creating Communities for the Garden 175
9. Designing Garden Guilds 192
10. Growing a Food Forest 208
11. Permaculture Gardening in the City 230
12. Pop Goes the Garden 257

Appendix: A Sampling of Useful Plants 273


Glossary 286
Bibliography 289
Resources 294
Index 298

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L I ST O F TA B L E S

2-1. Differences between Immature and Mature Ecosystems 28


3-1. What to Observe—A Designer’s Checklist 51
3-2. A Pear Tree’s Connections 54
3-3. The Zone System: Functions and Contents 57
4-1. Carbon to Nitrogen (C:N) Ratios in Common
Mulch and Compost Materials 80
4-2. Cover Crops 92
5-1. Five Water-Conserving Methods and Their Benefits 98
5-2. Useful Plants from Mediterranean Climates 103
5-3. Plants for a Graywater Wetland 118
6-1. Stacking (Bodily) Functions 124
6-2. Dynamic Nutrient Accumulators 132
6-3. Nitrogen Fixers 135
6-4. A Sampling of Common Edible Weeds 142
6-5. Nurse Plants 147
7-1. Host Plants for Beneficial Insects 157
7-2. Useful Plants for Birds 163
7-3. Plants that Provide Poultry Forage 169
9-1. Members of the White Oak/Hazelnut Community 198
9-2. Guild Plant Functions 202
10-1. Plants for the Forest Garden 217
Appendix A Sampling of Useful Plants
Tall Trees, 50 Feet and Larger 275
Shrubs and Small Trees, 3–50 Feet Tall 276
Useful Plants for the Herb Layer 281
Useful Vines and Climbing Plants 285

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