The Small Commercial Garden

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• Subject: The Small Commercial Garden
• From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@mercury.interpath.com>
• Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 21:47:24 -0400
• Organization: Venaura Farm
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The Small Commercial Garden

How to Make $10,000 a Year in Your Backyard

What makes this book unique is that it was not written by a writer who researched commercial gardening. It was written by a successful commercial gardener who is also a writer. That provides readers the opportunity to learn not only from those things that have been proven to work well, but also from the mistakes that were made along the way. This book provides the details you need, specifics written by a person who has been there, who has received the superb education that can only be achieved through commercial gardening success.

For the home gardener, For the commercial gardener, Table of Contents, About the video, Ordering Information

For the home gardener

Who wants to become a commercial gardener or to improve hobby performance by using commercial production techniques. Major topics include:

• The four popular misconceptions that keep home gardeners from enjoying the profits of commercial gardening. The five principles that assure success as a commercial gardener.
• Design information for a model garden that will produce over $10,000 of vegetables from less than 1/3 acre. How to construct an irrigation system, trellises, cloches, tomato cages, and raised beds. How to operate a small greenhouse.
• Planning techniques that bring the right produce to the market at the right time.
• How to harvest, prepare, price and market your produce.

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For the commercial gardener

The book explains proven and innovative ideas to increase your production and profits.

• Growing ideas guaranteed to consistently bring the first tomatoes and cucumbers to market when prices are highest.
• A sales-enhancing marketing stand that is easy to transport and set up at the market.
• Numerous details on intensive gardening to include raised beds, wide rows, vertical growing, drip irrigation, and the extensive use of protective plastic.
• Marketing ideas to improve your image and increase your share of the market.
• A unique harvest management system that will increase efficiency and reduce the need for hired help.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 11. Cabbage
2. Commercial Gardening 12. Carrots
3. Marketing 13. Cucumbers
4. Commercial Design 14. Onions
5. Planning 15. Peas
6. Growing Transplants 16. Peppers
7. Growing 17. Tomatoes
8. Harvesting 18. Zucchini
9. Recommended Crops 19. Other Crops
10. Beans 20. This Business of Gardening

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The Video

The supportingVHS video is almost nineteen minutes long and covers the more difficult tasks explained in the book to include:

• Constructing a raised bed
• Constructing and installing our unique tomato cage system
• Constructing and installing the cucumber trellis system
• Raising onion plants and transplanting them into wide rows.

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How to Order

The book was written by Dan Haakenson, a commercial gardener. It has 208 8 1/2 x 11 pages, with over 100 photos and drawings. It sells for $19.95 postpaid.

The video sells for $19.95 when purchased separately, or $10 when purchased with the book.

To order call 1-800-871-4296 or write to PC-Services, PO Box 7294, Bismarck, ND 58501-7294.

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