Home Vegetable Gardening

By Nancy Garrison
Urban Horticulture Advisor, Santa Clara County
University of California Cooperative Extension

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 What You Should Know about Selected Vegetables and Herbs - a description of the following tables:

• Table 2 - Vegetable Gardening at a Glance
• Table 3 - Family Relationships
• Table 4 - Approximate Yield for Selected Vegetable Crops
• Table 5 - General Problem Diagnoses for Vegetables
• Table 6 - Disease Resistance Key
• Table 7, Part I - Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
• Table 7, Part II - Recommended Daily Allowance (U.S. RDA)
• Table 8 - Estimated Sodium, Chloride, and Potassium Minimum Requirements of Healthy Persons and Estimated Safe and Adequate Daily Dietary Intakes of Selected Vitamins and Minerals
• Table 9 - Culinary Herb Culture in the Home Garden and Their Uses

 Individual Crop Information: The key to the abbreviations for disease resistance in the following publications is in Table 6.

Portions of this document are adapted from or taken directly from:

• Home Vegetable Gardening by Dennis R. Pittenger, Area Environmental Horticulturist, Southern Region, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 21444 (c 1992 by the Regents of the University of California);

• Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide to Using Less Pesticide by Mary Louise Flint, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 3332 (c 1990 by the Regents of the University of California); and from the

• Texas A&M Master Gardener Handbook