All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects – NEW Solutions – GROW Vegetables Anywhere (Volume 9) (All New Square Foot Gardening, 9)

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The Square Foot Gardening Series

The world’s most popular alternative gardening method

Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Now, based largely on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today’s changing resources, needs, and challenges.

Don’t wait another season to try Mel’s brilliant approach to gardening! We’re sure it will work for you and you won’t look back.

Whether you grow in a Square Foot Garden, a straw bale garden, containers, or a traditional garden plot, you can approach harvest time with confidence.

Books In The Series: All New Square Foot Gardening All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition All New Square Foot Gardening Cookbook Square Foot Gardening Answer Book Square Foot Gardening with Kids Square Foot Gardening: Harvest Time Cookbook Square Foot Gardening High-Value Veggies Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables

Square Foot Gardening Series

‘End world hunger.’

That’s the mission of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, articulated by Mel Bartholomew, the inventor of Square Foot Gardening and founder of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation. It’s a tall order, but one we’re already tackling, one square foot at a time.

As the Foundation enters our third decade in operation, we’re continuing to spread Mel’s original message of growing more food in less space with less waste (of time, materials, and money). Here’s how we’re doing it, at home and abroad, and how you can join us!

Projects included in All New Square Foot Gardening: MORE Projects – NEW Solutions – GROW Vegetables Anywhere 3rd Edition

HOW TO BUILD A CLASSIC SQUARE FOOT GARDEN TRELLIS

Mel developed the classic trellis for a 4 × 4-foot Square Foot Garden box after years of experimentation, and it remains perhaps the best way for supporting vertical crops—ridiculously simple, easy, and inexpensive. For the vertical supports, ordinary electrical conduit has proven to be an inexpensive and very sturdy material to use. It never rots away, and it is strong enough to bear up under the winds that can buffet a trellis once it is filled with growing vines.

HOW TO BUILD A SIMPLE WIRE COMPOSTER

A compost bin can be an elaborate affair with wooden sides made of high-quality cedar or redwood, but you can create a perfectly serviceable composter from five metal fencing posts, a piece of 4-foot-wide weldedmetal fencing about 8 to 10 feet long, and a dozen or so 1 × 4 pine boards. With this composter, it’s very easy to add materials and turn your compost regularly. This design is from Joel Karsten, author of Straw Bale Gardens Complete.

HOW TO CREATE MEL’S MIX

You’re getting close now. Your Square Foot Garden box is (or boxes are) built. And with all the math out of the way, the fun now starts as you create the actual Mel’s Mix and fill your garden box with the growing medium that will make the most productive garden you’ve ever seen. Before you get started, make sure that you know exactly where you want your Square Foot Garden boxes positioned in your yard, because once you fill them with Mel’s Mix, it will be tricky to move them around.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cool Springs Press; 3rd edition (November 27, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760362858
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760362853
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.63 x 9.5 inches