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If You Love to Garden But Hate to Dig, This is for You. |
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I have to admit it, digging the rocky soil of New England never appealed to me. So when I started a garden in our New Hampshire backyard, even though I had a half acre to work with, I used this book and the square foot principles. |
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A Must Have for Greenhouse Owners ! |
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Great ideas in each chapter. I use these methods in my income producing greenhouse. The info on growing cut flowers for market and herbs for chefs was very helpful. If you are interested in a Fun and Profitable home business, see Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse and Business, 2000 edition. Reviewer: Dominique Johnson, from Melbourne, Florida - |
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Among the Best Organic System Books Anywhere, Anytime. |
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This is a classic. If you're a novice gardener, it will be your bible. If you're experienced, it will give you great ideas. I've actually bought this book twice over my gardening career. First I was a novice gardener working the back 40 square feet in an urban garden. It became the talk of the neighborhood. Over the years, I let someone borrow it, and lost track of it. So now, 20 years into gardening, I needed a little boost of enthusiasm after having a couple of bad years. I now garden about 1/4 acre, and used this book this year to manage my vegetable crop. I've got my green thumb back. Reviewer: Eric from Boothwyn, PA - |
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Essential Gardening Guidebook. |
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This book is a classic. If you want to know how to garden in an organized, easy, time and money-saving manner, this is an essential book for you. It is also great for those gardeners who are elderly or physically challenged. It tells you, among other things, how to make the most out of limited space, how to rotate your crops, how to set up your beds, what and when to plant. Reviewer: Melody A. Fitzgerald from Woodway, TX - |
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High Yields ! Less Work ! Gardening Nirvana is Here ! |
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This book completely revolutionized my way of garden use when I first bought it in the 1970s. WOW is the only word I could think of. Easy, fast, great for the 5-minutes-in-the-evening-after-work gardener. Fabulously effective with raised beds, and especially well suited to organics. |
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I have done square foot gardening for 15 years based on his book. It is excellent. I have one in my cement patio in the back leading to my garage. It truly takes very little time and produces lots of vegetables and looks very decorative too. It gives me a calming effect when I cook and look out my kitchen window. When you buy his book, you will not be disappointed. Also, it produces a lot of lettuce which you can pick fresh each day. Reviewer: Richard from Garden Grove, CA - |
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Are you like I was. . .grab a handful of seeds and sow them like grass then worry about thinning later? Of course, thinning was an arduous chore and never really got done; which meant, I'd usually end up with a lot of small useless vegetables.
"Square Foot Gardening" has done away with the old traditional method of raising vegetables, especially, the plant thick, thin later approach. The first year I used the square foot gardening method I couldn't believe how many carrots I grew, and each carrot was picture perfect. What a difference square foot gardening made for our family garden. No longer is it like fifteen little carrots then one big one. The same is true for all the other produce. My radishes were the biggest I'd ever grown and not a hollow one in the bunch.
Each plant gets undivided attention in an easy almost carefree environment. Also, in arid areas such as Utah--where I live. I use only a fraction of the water with the square foot method. It's all explained, and more, in Mel Bartholomew's book: "Square Foot Gardening". Reviewer: M.D. Cummings from Kanosh, UT - |
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Get Up ! Get Out ! and Get Dirty ! |
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The information in this book will change you from a couch potato to a green thumb overnight. The techniques are easy, clearly explained, and inexpensive! In fact, you'll save money because you won't be over planting. The planting information and timetables for each individual crop, located at the back of the book, are themselves worth the purchase price. Reviewer: Rose from Memphis - April 14, 2000.
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