All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew | Excited Again About Gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew | No dig gardening

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	All New Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew Cool Springs Press, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening?

Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it's even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don't have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you'll be growing above the ground.

But, the best feature is that anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.

But, let's get back to the ten improvements. You're going to love them.

1) New Location - Move your garden closer to your house by eliminating single-row gardening. Square Foot Garden needs just twenty percent of the space of a traditional garden.

2) New Direction - Locate your garden on top of existing soil. Forget about pH soil tests, double-digging (who enjoys that?), or the never-ending soil improvements.

3) New Soil - The new "Mel's Mix" is the perfect growing mix. Why, we even give you the recipe. Best of all, you can even buy the different types of compost needed.

4) New Depth - You only need to prepare a SFG box to a depth of 6 inches! It's true--the majority of plants develop just fine when grown at this depth.

5) No Fertilizer - The all new SFG does not need any fertilizer-ever! If you start with the perfect soil mix, then you don't need to add fertilizer.

6) New Boxes - The new method uses bottomless boxes placed aboveground. We show you how to build your own (with step-by-step photos).

7) New Aisles - The ideal gardening aisle width is about three to four feet. That makes it even easier to kneel, work, and harvest.

8) New Grids - Prominent and permanent grids added to your SFG box help you visualize the planting squares and know how to space for maximum harvest.

9) New Seed Saving Idea - The old-fashioned way advocates planting many seeds and then thinning the extras (that means pulling them up). The new method means planting a pinch- literally two or three seeds--per planting hole.

10) Tabletop Gardens - The new boxes are so much smaller and lighter (only 6 inches of soil, remember?), you can add a plywood bottom to make them portable.

Of course, that's not all. We've also included simple, easy-to-follow instructions using lots of photos and illustrations. You're going to love it!

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Excited Again About Gardening

I had been burned out from the work in my last garden and have not gardened in years. Now I am ready to try again. This method was recommended by a friend who has gardened successfully for years. When she switched to this method, she got 3-4 times the harvest she got before!

No dig gardening

I got this book from the library and loved it and could only find it on Amazon. I intend to follow the system in my new vege garden

Awesome! Fun!

I originally got the book from the library. I liked the book so much I bought it on Amazon. Great book! Looking forward to growing my own vegetables.

All New Square Foot Gardening

This is my vegetable gardening bible. It contains more inovative ideas than any other gardening book I've ever read.

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Awesome Book

All New Square Foot Gardening, is a really good book for those who want to grow lots of vegetables and stuff in an extremely limited area. SFG's ideas greatly increase the efficiency of growing in a specific area.

I'm giving the idea 5/5 stars. BUT the book, i going to have to give a 4/5 stars. Reason being, the book has a very odd flow, probably because it is a rewrite. Its a little choppy and slow in some areas, so I usually end up skimming over those areas. Also, some of the ideas are a little odd, and no alternatives to these odd ideas a presented. Its like, "if its not done MY WAY, don't do it at all", some examples include his soil mix and his raised bed height. His soil mix is good and all, but its really expensive, and it will break down into dust in an extremely short time. And his recommendation of 6 inch high beds and NO higher are pretty ridiculous, i mean that is not that high, and if you planting lots of crops in one of these, they probably are going to compete with each other for root space...

Another thing i didn't like with this book, was that it was written with the market target being old people and little kids. Being right inbetween, i felt like it was grannying and babying the reader at the same time. I mean, this book would be so much better if it didnt lead to those "feelings", and was written to convey "Square Foot Gardening" and ONLY Square foot gardening... NOT how little kids can do it, and how old and disabled people would enjoy it. I mean thats great and all, but old peoples' enjoyment of gardening has NOTHING to do with Square Foot Gardening... I mean really. If i wanted to learn about old people gardening, id read something else...

Final note, he recommends growing flowers in a square foot garden. I dont know about you, but my personal opinion torwards this is that this is the dumbest idea ever, i dont think it looks good at all... If you want to grow flowers, id apply this SFG knowledge into putting them into pots and planters, and not 4x4 cubes in some random spot on your lawn.

Good book, recommended, just beware feeling that your getting babied and grannied. Dont buy it for retail price, get it only if you can get a real deal.

Also... little unrelated, i noticed the majority of the books information can be obtained free from previewing this book on Google Books, it goes over the entirety of the square foot gardening method, but doesn't go into detailed specifics on growing certain veggies.

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