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Compost delivery:

Best in the West
565 SE Lake Road
Redmond
548-5748

Hersey Cattle Co. - $300 for 20 yards delivered
4098 S Hwy 97
Redmond
548-3949 or 548-3432. Fax: 548-3844

Hap Taylor & Sons
388-0445

My favorite varieties:

Tomatoes: start indoors Feb 15
Cherokee Purple, Pruden's Purple, Black Krim, Black Sea Man,
Sub-arctic Plenty, Alaskan Fancy, Siletz, Siberian,

Peppers:
Tequila Sunrise,

Corn: plant June 1 and 15
Daybreak, Earlivee

Cantalope: start in peat pots and cover outside
Minnesota Midget

Recommended reading:

How to Grow More Vegetables (al)
by John Jeavons

Four-Season Harvest (al)
by Eliot Coleman, Kathy Bray, Barbara Damrosch

Compost Tea Manual II
by Dr. Elaine R. Ingham

Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties (al)
by Carol Deppe

Solviva: How to grow $500,000 on One Acre and Peace on Earth
by Anna Eady

Chicken Tractor
by Andy Lee

Micro Eco-Farming (al)
by Barbara Berst Adams

Backyard Market Gardening
by Andrew W. Lee

Flowers For Sale
by Lee Sturdivant

The Grafters Handbook
by R. J. Garner

Secrets of the Soil
by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

Most books at amazon.com - (al) = Abundant Life,

Links:

Publishing:
Acres USA, New Farm, Organic Gardening Magazine, New World Publishing, Small Farmers Journal, The Square Foot Gardening Foundation,

Horticulture:
Hydroponics.com, Sustainable Farming Connection, UWash Medicinal Herbs, Seattle Tilth, UWisc Sustainable Ag, Western Regional Climate Center, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, links,