All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew

All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew | Brilliant!

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All New Square Foo...

	All New Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew Cool Springs Press, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great gardening book

My husband insisted on this book and it provides great detailed information on container gardening. He has used it to build a large garden area full of containers as well as protective mechanisms to protect the new plants from frost. If you are considering container gardening - I would recommend this book.

Brilliant!

Square Foot Gardening is a brilliant concept. The book is a little wordy and could be condensed down - but Mel wants to make it exceptionally clear that this is the EASY way to garden.

The new Square Foot Gardening

This soft-back book has helped get me out in the garden. It is well-organized, gives tables of how many seeds go in each square, and has a certain humorous approach that makes the reading far from dry. Following these directions, we spent about $200 to put two frames in (32 squares), planted according to directions, and I've got 2-inch tall seedlings of beans, peas, corn, watermelon and some herbs. Quite satisfied with the book and the price of it.

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Better than expected

In these days of so much hype to sell products, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book is and does exactly what was promised. Well worth the money for the information contained between the covers. We have already made and planted our garden. By the seventh day we have radish, squash, zucchini, spinach and green bean sprouts!

Easy way to do intensive gardening

I've heard of Mel's book for quite a few years, with friends using his techniques. I have used the old Victory Garden intensive gardening techniques with great results, and hydroponics for most of my edible crops like toms, cukes, melons etc. I got this to try growing something without using energy for pumps, etc. Just got the first spring plantings in, will know the results soon.
Very easy to follow, he uses the old 'first I'll tell you what I'm going to tell you, then I'll tell you, then I'll say what I told you' repetition format to drive home the basics, so even a modern public school graduate can understand it.
He uses a home made planting mix and standard intensive gardening techniques to great affect, well organized for easy reference, worth a read if you love to play with gardens, and even better if you have any handicaps, or are just getting a bit older like me.
Recommended highly!

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