The Postage Stamp Garden Book: Grow Tons of Vegetables in Small Places (Paperback)

by Duane G. Newcomb (Author), Karen Newcomb (Author) "For some of us, there are few things more fun than planning the garden for next season..." (more)
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Product Description
A postage stamp garden is a small area that can produce a bounty of herbs and vegetables. Many gardeners complain that they are short on both time and garden space. The Postage Stamp Garden Book solves both of these problems. The instructions in this book clearly demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of vegetables in small spaces (using containers as well as ground gardens) by following intensive, ecologically friendly techniques that require much less weeding, watering, and overall effort.

About the Author
Duane and Karen Newcomb are gardening experts with over ten gardening titles to their credit, including most recently, The Postage Stamp Kitchen Garden Book. They live in Grass Valley, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; 1st edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580621236
• ISBN-13: 978-1580621236
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #182,990 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read the first addition..., December 28, 1999

By	D.S. "D.S." (Southern California) - See all my reviews

...and if this is as good as that one (circa 1975) then it gets 5 stars. I (like the author) too had been failing miserably in gardening - until I read his book. Unlike many other books on the subject of bio-intensive gardening, this one was encouraging and made it sound so easy. It ended up being very easy and very rewarding. Now I tell everyone - double dig, amend heavily, plant close together. Get this book!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for those new to gardening!, February 13, 2000

By	Dawne B (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

I am a gardening dummy and found this book to be a real "bible" for me when starting my first patio and small in-ground garden plot. This books really lays it all out for you. They go into detail about how to do things organically, as well, if you want to go to all the trouble. But they also tell you the easier alternatives (like buying store organic fertilizer). I would recommend this book to new gardeners as well as experienced ones -- lots of tips on how to get all types of vegetables producing a lot of food for you, when to plant, what to plant with, etc.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great to have the update, March 12, 2000

By	WHills (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

As the other reviewers have said, this book is an update from the 1975 (or so) edition which was an inspiration at the time. What seemed the most useful in this edition is an updated seed type and source list, since you are looking for compact forms of most items.

I miss the graphic artist who was involved in the first book. The pictures in the new book are charmless. And the new book lacks the diagram of double-digging that is hard to explain verbally.

And I'm just about to get started this spring on a potato barrel. It would seem like a good candidate for mentioning postage-stamp-wise, yet is not covered.