You'll never garden the same way AFTER this book. So simple and easy, anybody ~ anywhere can have a garden with this guideline.
It's easy to personalize your square foot garden to best meet your needs. I cannot or will not garden without this book ~ this is literally mindless gardening ~ you get to focus on the fun part ~ the pride of a lush garden & abundant veggies ~ with very little work & effort IF you do it this way.
This book tells you how many plants (vegetables, herbs, fruits & flowers) fit into a square foot ~ One of my favorite pages is the Vegetables At A Glance page ~ He also tells you the plant's season, so you know if it's a good choice for the season you're going into and also when and how to harvest. He lists the most common concerns with the plant too and how to best avoid those issues. Oh, and tips like "just harvest the outer lettuce leaves from a few plants and leave the plant alone to continue to grow ~ it's like a never ending salad!
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Just a little fyi ~ I purchased a little "kiddie" pool for each of my daughters when they were quite little and put a pot in the center and used leftover bricks from a home improvement project as dividers using this concept so they could have their own little garden and allowed them to choose the plants they wanted to grow and eat. They planted and watered and took care of their little gardens HAPPILY and even took great pleasure in eating what they grew. They LOVED going to the garden store with me to look at new plants and "jewelry" for their little gardens. Those little pool gardens lasted almost 10 years.
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I made my own SFG before I got this book. Everytime one of my friends talked about gardening, her sentences always starts with "The Square Foot Gardening Book Says". So I had to get the book to see for myself. She got the book from the lybrary so you can check it out there first if you don't want to buy it. She followed the book to a "T". So far I have only glanced through the book, but it looks pretty good. If I would have had this book before I made my own SFG, I would have followed it too. It tells you how many plants you should plant in one square foot. That was my biggest question. I didn't know if I should plant 1, 2, 4, or 6 pepper plants in one square. This book lets you know. It has some pretty good pictures of how to do everything. The only thing that I find funny about the pictures, is that on some of the pages it has a box with a tip that says "Mel Says" and it has a picture of Mel with a big cheesy grin. It is more funny than anything. The book is a lot bigger then I thought it would be too which is nice because the pictures and are big and detailed. The book is about 10"x8". If you are thinking of doing an SFG this is a good book.I didn't do the Mel's mix of dirt. I just went to Home Depot and got some Miracle Grow gradening dirt (I bet Mel hates that stuff) and a few bags of cheap manure and my garden seems to be doing well. I also didn't put permanent wood to mark off every square foot. I used kite string. I don't know if it will make a difference, but it's working for now. I guess we will see when my plants get bigger. One thing I wish I would have done, that this book shows you how to do, is make a 4'x4' box with plywood on the bottom so you can move it around. I am renting a house right now so if I ever have to move I would like to take my garden with me if I can. I would have made 2 - 4'x4' boxes with the plywood instead of the 4'x8' that I made without plywood. The other thing I did wrong was I put the back of my SGF up against my fence so I can't get to the back plants as easy. The solution I figured out to this problem was to cut a 2"x4" just a little bigger then the width of my garden so I could lay it accross and walk on the 2"x4". This might not work well for someone that is big or has bad knees. It works for me though. I will post a picture of my garden and name it Rifesters garden if you want to see what mine looks like.
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C'est pas nouveau et c'est très bien!
Reviewed in France on November 23, 2012