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Best Gardening Book Bar None ! Especially city gardens ! |
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Best Gardening Book bar none! Especially City Gardens, where space is limited!!! Anything you need to know about gardening is in this book, nothing is left out. I have a 6' X 12' garden and in my first year I yielded enough vegetables to last from end of June to October and I'm still growing (I live is Mass too where it gets really cold, really fast)
This book contains the best formula for creating the best soils, plans on how to build raised beds, cold frames, vegetable support structures, charts that explain: when to plant, how to maintain, when to harvest, handling pests, and everything in between. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GARDENING BOOK! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED... THIS IS A 100% GUARANTEED, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION BOOK! Reviewer: Rick. M. from Wakefield, MA United States - |
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A Must for Your Gardening Library. |
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This is an easy to read, no nonsense book you will refer to for year to come for all the wonderful reasons other reviewers have sited.
You'll learn something new every time you pick it up. Reviewer: Violet from MO - |
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More Food, Less Chemicals. |
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I'm buying copies of this book for my gardening friends. I bought my first copy almost 15 years ago and I was able to start a food garden with less space than I thought possible. When we moved into a house I didn't waste any space and made myself a 10x8 raised bed and had lettuce, tomatoes, chard, onions, garlic, and much more. It cut my grocery bills way down and we were eating fresh veggies daily. The thing I liked best was ways to combat pests using other plants, like garlic, to reduce or eliminate my use of pesticide. A definite plus. I would recommend this to beginner and advanced gardeners alike. The techniques I've read about turn everything I had been taught before upside down, but I've never had better results. I'm a believer in Square Foot Gardening. Reviewer: email from Milpitas, CA - |
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...And They Said It Couldn't Be Done. |
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I moved to Southern California a year ago, and bought a house on a hill in San Diego's East County area. For those of you that don't know, that means HOT summers and very poor soil. As I was telling my new neighbors about my enthusiastic plans for planting a vegetable garden, I was met with nothing but skepticism. "You'll never grow vegetables in this lousy soil." and "I tried for several years - the gophers got most of it and nothing ever grew anyway." and "The soil here is so bad even the cactuses have a hard time."
They didn't know what I knew. I had purchased a copy of this book a few years earlier. I dug out a small area, lined it with 1/2 inch hardware cloth to keep out the gophers, and followed the instructions in this book for preparing the soil and planting. I now have a small garden (total of 32 square feet) that produces more vegetables than I can eat, and still has room for some colorful flowers to break the green monotony. (I wish Amazon would let us post photos in these reviews!) My neighbors are now believers, as I shower them with the excess produce.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to grow a vegetable garden! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Reviewer: A reader from El Cajon, CA - |
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The Best Vegetable Gardening Book to Start With. |
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This book transformed me into a gardener, from a former self who would buy a few tomato plants or pepper seeds and watch nothing much happen. We've all read generic gardening books with nice photos and a long recitation of suggested, common methods for doing what needs to be done. One of the reasons that Square Foot Gardening is different is that the author has strong preferences. Start seeds in vermiculite! Plant oak leaf lettuce! Read the seed catalogs in December! --Because of Bartholomew's enthusiasm, these specific things are fun to start with, and because his method works so well, you wind up happy and with lots of vegetables. One warning though, I tried to build a Bartholomew style trellis from copper plumbing and string, a bit too close to a neighbor's property line. "I'm sorry, but this looks like a soccer net." I tore it down and worked considerably harder on something nicer. (But yes, do build the trellis, it's worth it.) Reviewer: Elaine DiMasi from Miller Place, NY - |
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This makes so much sense! Eliminate over-sowing then thinning. Stop the endless weeding of empty spaces between rows. Successive plantings will avoid the over-run of ripe veggies during the busy Summer. Wow, why didn't someone tell me earlier? I can't wait for Spring so I can try it myself. Reviewer: penny-wise from La Center, Washington |
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Maximum Production - Minimum Space and Work. |
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Square Foot Gardening is innovative, quaint, and informative. However, it is difficult to explain to the neighborhood farmers who have done long straight rows since the dawn of time. But it's time for a better more fruitful way. |
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Read more... [Maximum Production - Minimum Space and Work.]
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A Lot of Garden in a Small Space. |
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This book will show you the way to get the most garden out of the smallest area. Electrical conduit used to create a lattice work for climbing plants? It works! Using Mel's method I've even successfully grown pumpkins and cantaloupe vertically. If your house sits on less than 1/2 acre and you'd still like a vegetable garden, this book is a must! Reviewer: Howard F. Osden, Jr. from Torrington, CT - |
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