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An Almanac · No. I · 丙午 2026

Uncle Chen's
Garden Almanac

The Old Chinese Way to Grow Your Own Food
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The simple Chinese method my family used for generations to grow heaps of food in almost no space. No garden, no experience, nothing fancy — just 99 plain methods that turn a windowsill, a balcony, or a doorstep into a real harvest, and save you hundreds at the grocery store every year.

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Any Space
A sill or balcony will do
Zero Skill
Made for first-timers
~3 Weeks
To your first harvest

No yard. No experience.
Just the old Chinese way.

Uncle Chen
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Uncle Chen · Qingxi Village 清溪
卷一 The Almanac

One almanac. Twelve volumes. Ninety-nine methods.

Soil, seeds, crops, herbs, small spaces, water, pests, the sowing year, saving your own seed, and the harvest. Each method written plainly — what to plant, when, and how, in whatever space you have. Start this week with a windowsill and a handful of scraps.

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The Old Village Way to Grow Your Own Food

A windowsill of greens within three weeks. Garlic, ginger, and scallions grown again and again from kitchen scraps. Living soil from your own compost. Tomatoes off a balcony rail. Seed saved so you never buy again. Ninety-nine plain methods my village used for generations — with what to plant, when, and how, in any space. Most readers grow the $37 back in a single season.

$37
$69
Launch price — ends Sunday
The Garden Almanac500+ page illustrated almanac — 99 growing methods, what to plant, when, and how
$69
The First-Season PathWhat to plant in your first two weeks for a fast, encouraging harvest
$24
The Sowing CalendarPrintable month-by-month planting calendar you set to your own climate
$19
The Seed-Saving SheetHow to save and keep seed from every crop in the almanac
$17
Lifetime updatesEvery new edition and added crop, free forever
$19
Total value$148
You pay today$37
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卷二 The Reckoning

What a few square feet can give back.

A year of produce most households simply buy. The right-hand column is the same food grown the village way — from a balcony, a sill, or a bed the size of a door.

Bought at the store

one year
Salad & cooking greens$280
Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers$260
Garlic, ginger, scallions$190
Fresh herbs$220
Beans, peas, squash$170
A year$1,120

Grown the village way

one year
Seed & starts (saved free after year one)$45
Soil & compost (mostly from scraps)$30
Pots & simple tools (once)$55
Water$20
  
A year~$150

Grow $700–$1,200 of food a year.

From a balcony, a sunny sill, or a bed the size of a door — depending on your space, your light, and how many of the 99 methods you put to use. A single crop usually grows the $37 back in one season.

Produce-cost figures from USDA retail price data; home-garden yields from extension-service garden studies. Every crop above has its own chapter, with sowing times and steps.

卷三 What's Inside

Twelve volumes. Ninety-nine methods.

A few from each volume are shown here. Take the crops and methods that fit your space and your season. Leave the ones that don't.

卷一

The Ground

Starting anywhere — a windowsill, a balcony, or a patch of earth.

  • Read your space: light, hours, and what will grow
  • Containers from things you already own
  • The doorway-sized bed that feeds a household
  • Growing on a windowsill with no garden at all
  • The first three crops every beginner should plant
卷二

The Soil

Feed the soil, and the soil feeds you.

  • The lazy compost that needs no turning
  • Kitchen scraps into black earth
  • The worm bucket under the sink
  • Old village ways to wake up dead dirt
  • Mulch: the blanket that does half your work
卷三

Seeds & Starts

Beginnings, for almost nothing.

  • Endless scallions, garlic & ginger from kitchen scraps
  • Sprouting seeds on a saucer
  • The egg-carton nursery
  • Taking cuttings that root in a glass of water
  • When to sow, and when to wait
卷四

The Vegetables

The crops that give back the most.

  • Bok choy & quick greens in three weeks
  • Tomatoes from a single rail or pot
  • Beans and peas that climb a string
  • Root crops in a deep bucket
  • The squash that feeds you for months
卷五

Herbs & Greens

The cut-and-come-again shelf.

  • Six herbs that grow on a kitchen sill
  • Greens you cut all season and they grow back
  • The perpetual spinach trick
  • Chilli and pepper in a warm corner
  • Tea and medicine plants in six pots
卷六

Small Spaces

Balcony, sill, and wall.

  • The three-pot balcony garden
  • Growing up a wall when you have no ground
  • The five-gallon-bucket garden
  • A salad bowl on the table that refills itself
  • Growing indoors through the cold months
卷七

Water

Giving just enough, for free.

  • The rain jar by the door
  • Watering deep and seldom, the village way
  • The buried-bottle method for thirsty plants
  • The wick that waters while you're away
  • Reading a plant that's too dry or too wet
卷八

Pests & Trouble

Keeping crops without poison.

  • Reading a leaf: what the plant is telling you
  • Plants that guard other plants
  • The soap, ash & garlic sprays that work
  • Keeping slugs, aphids & beetles down
  • Netting, collars, and the bee-safe garden
卷九

The Sowing Year

What to do, month by month.

  • Spring — wake the soil, sow the first seed
  • Summer — plant for the long harvest
  • Autumn — the second sowing most people miss
  • Winter — rest, plan, and grow under cover
  • The old planting calendar, set to your climate
卷十

Getting More

More food from the same ground.

  • The three sisters and other old pairings
  • Plant close, harvest often
  • Sow a little every two weeks
  • Catch crops between the big ones
  • Growing upward to double a small space
卷十一

Saving Seed

So you never have to buy again.

  • Which crops give seed the easiest way
  • Saving tomato, bean & pepper seed
  • Letting greens and herbs go to seed
  • Drying and keeping seed through winter
  • Trading seed with neighbours
卷十二

Harvest & Keep

Picking right, and making it last.

  • Picking at the moment of most flavour
  • Cut-and-come-again, so plants keep giving
  • Curing garlic, onions & squash for storage
  • Keeping a harvest without a fridge
  • Putting the garden to bed for next year
卷 Begin

A windowsill is all you need to start.

No garden, no experience, nothing fancy — just the simple old Chinese way, and your first greens in about three weeks.

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卷四 What Readers Did

Three homes. Three changes. The first month.

★★★★★

I started with the scallions-from-scraps method and the windowsill greens. Three weeks later we were cutting salad off the sill. I have honestly never grown a thing in my life before this.

— Dana R., Portland, OR
★★★★★

The soil and compost volumes changed everything for me. My balcony tomatoes actually produced this year, and I haven't bought a bunch of herbs since spring. Plain steps, nothing to sign up for.

— Marcus T., Asheville, NC
★★★★★

No yard, just a sunny window and two pots. The small-spaces volume was written for exactly me. Uncle Chen explains every step like a patient grandfather. Worth it for the seed-saving chapter alone.

— Priya S., Austin, TX
卷五 About Uncle Chen
Uncle Chen in his straw hat
Uncle Chen 陈伯

I grew up in a village where every family fed itself from the ground around the house. Not a farm — just a few beds, some pots, a strip of soil by the door. We grew what we ate, saved our own seed, and fed the soil so it would feed us, year after year.

No one called it gardening. It was simply how you lived. A handful of scallion roots became an endless supply. Kitchen scraps became black earth. A balcony the size of a table fed a family through the summer, and the cellar carried us through winter.

I show these methods on my channel, and people from cities I will never see write to tell me they grew their first greens, their first tomato, their first jar of saved seed. So I have gathered the methods into one almanac, in the order I would teach them, with what to plant, when, and how.

It will not turn you into a farmer. It will only show you how to grow real food wherever you are — the way my grandmother did, without ever thinking it remarkable.

— Uncle Chen, Qingxi Village

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卷六 Get the Almanac

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Illustrated ebook · 500+ pages · First Edition

Uncle Chen's Garden Almanac

99 growing methods across 12 volumes — soil, seeds, crops, herbs, small spaces, water, pests, the sowing year, and saving your own seed. What to plant, when, and how, in any space. Take the crops that fit your home; skip the rest.

$37
$69
Launch price — ends Sunday
The Garden Almanac500+ page illustrated almanac, First Edition
$69
The First-Season PathWhat to plant first for a fast, encouraging harvest
$24
The Sowing CalendarPrintable planting calendar set to your climate
$19
The Seed-Saving SheetHow to save seed from every crop in the book
$17
Lifetime updatesEvery future volume and added crop, free
$19
Total value$148
You pay today$37
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卷七 Questions at the Gate

What readers ask before they begin.

I have no garden — just a windowsill or a balcony. Will this work?
Yes — that is exactly who much of this almanac is written for. A whole volume covers small spaces: pots, balconies, walls, buckets, and a sunny sill. Greens, herbs, scallions, chillies, and even tomatoes all grow without a scrap of open ground. You grow what your space allows, and the book shows you how.
I've never grown anything and I seem to kill every plant.
Then start with the three foolproof crops in the first volume — the ones that forgive a beginner. Every method is plain steps: what to plant, when, and how much to water, with nothing assumed. Most people who thought they had a black thumb were simply never shown the village way.
How much time does a garden take?
As little as a few minutes a week to begin. Start with one pot on a sill, and add more only when you want to. The almanac is built so you can grow at whatever pace your life allows — a windowsill today, a balcony next season, a bed the year after.
Will these crops grow in my climate?
The Sowing Calendar adapts the planting times to a cold, warm, or short-season region, and each crop notes what it needs. The methods themselves — soil, seed, water, small spaces — are the same everywhere. You plant what suits your light and your season.
What format is the Almanac?
A PDF you can read on any phone, tablet, or computer, or print at home. It arrives by email within a minute of payment. Pay once — no subscription, nothing to install.
Are more volumes coming?
Yes. New crops and editions are added over time, and because you have lifetime updates, every one reaches you free. You buy the Almanac once and it keeps growing alongside your garden.
What if it isn't for me?
Then you pay nothing. Write within seven days and the $37 is returned the same day, no questions asked. The risk is mine, not yours.
最后 Last Call

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