Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Mitch this applies to home growing as well since what we don't grow will
cost us to buy.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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 TOP 15 VEGETABLES IN ECONOMIC VALUE & intensive spacing guide 
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-335/426-335.html#L3
http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/intensive.html 

Tomatoes        
Beets
Green bunching onions   
Carrots
Leaf lettuce    
Cucumbers
Turnip (greens + roots)         
Peppers
Summer squash   
Broccoli
Edible podded peas      
Head lettuce
Onion storage bulbs     
Swiss chard
Beans (pole, bush)

1 Values based on pounds produced per square foot, retail value per pound
at harvest time, and length of time in the garden. 


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On 1/15/2008 at 5:40 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
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>
>True, Tomatoes are the #1 market garden item, but they don't offer many
>calories.  I've never eaten a Turnip, or many other root crops.  Beans,
>squash, greens, tomatoes.  Corn is not a good use of space.  What else?
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz