For beginner vegetable growers, fruit growers and livestock growers. 8th Edition . , spr. - M. Moscow truth, 1990. — 96 s. Every family with a garden or garden plot should grow vegetables and fruit crops in its farm, and, if possible, raise poultry and livestock, thus contributing as much as possible to the solution of the problem of increasing the production of agricultural products. It should also be remembered that working in a garden plot is a good form of active recreation for adults and labor education of children. Along with the use of the agro-industrial complex to replenish the country's food resources, it is planned to use subsidiary farms of enterprises, collective and cooperative gardening and gardening. The realization of these reserves is realistic only with a good knowledge of the methods and features of growing vegetable and fruit crops, as well as methods of keeping animals and poultry. In this regard, the authors have prepared this guide, which in a short form, accessible to novice vegetable growers, gardeners and amateur livestock breeders, provides the necessary minimum of information and explanatory material. The recommendations given in the directory are designed for citizens who have garden plots in the Moscow and adjacent areas of Nechernozem .