The Healthy Vegetable Garden: A Natural, Chemical-Free Approach to Soil, Biodiversity and Managing Pests and Diseases

Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop.

"There are few gardeners (or farmers) I know who wouldn't benefit from reading Sally Morgan's new book. . . . The Healthy Vegetable Garden is a detailed and indispensable resource."--Hobby Farms

In The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture--all to help your green space thrive.

The Healthy Vegetable Garden shows you how to:

• Combat disease and keep pests at bay with natural predators, companion planting, and trap and barrier crops
• Choose the right plants to attract pollinators and pest predators
• Build a healthy soil full of organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi
• Regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching
• Boost biodiversity through the use of crop rotations and polyculture
• Rewild your garden by creating a range of habitats, making use of walls and fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners
• Understand plant defenses and use biocontrols
• Make natural barriers, traps, and lures

A healthy, productive garden should work in harmony with nature to produce and protect delicious fruits and vegetables and build a rich soil that is full of life. With The Healthy Vegetable Garden, growers of all levels will start reducing incidents of pests and diseases while creating a verdant habitat--all without the need for fertilizers, pesticides, or weedkillers.

Sally Morgan is the editor of Soil Association's Organic Farming magazine, writes regularly for gardening and smallholding magazines and is a member of the Garden Media Guild. Sally's blog was a finalist in the Garden Media Guild Award 2019, and she also runs smallholder courses on her organic farm in Somerset.

Her previous books include The Climate Change Garden with Kim Stoddart (Green Rocket Books, 2019) and Living on One Acre or Less (Green Books, 2016).