All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew | All New Square Foot Gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew | Better than expected

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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 118 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

All New Square Foot Gardening

This new book by Mel Bartholmew is fantastic. We are really excited about trying the square foot gardening method. This allows you to grow more in a smaller space without the hassle of the weeds taing over as it does in a single row garden.

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!

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This is great!

This system is an improvement over Mel's original system primarily due to the new perfect soil mixture recipe. I used the original square foot system for years and grew and ate fresh vegetables year round (in the Atlanta area).

If you have limited resources (garden space, free time, or experience) this is for you. Perhaps you are a bit lazy (as I am) or no longer under 40 years of age (I am nearing 60)...this is for you. You will love the ease and simplicity. After mixing Mel's perfect soil, you will no longer need to arduously prepare the soil every season. Children (even teen-agers) seem to really enjoy working (playing?) in the raised beds and eating vegetables right from the plant.

You, your family, your neighbors, and your friends will benefit from this and, more importantly, love the process and the results. Do yourself a favor. Buy the book, use it, and enjoy year round (organic) goodies.

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redundant and annoying style, but hopefully the method works...

this book is so repetitive and redundant-- it really drove me nuts. it's a quick easy read, most of the author's points are common sensical and easy to understand, so why does he have to "sell" his method so hard? i had already decided this was what i wanted to do based on his website, but hoped the book would teach me more. with the exception of the frost/planting chart at the back of the book, it didn't add anything new to my knowledge... i am still using the method and m first crop is just now coming up, so i do recommend the book, but just be forewarned that it is written as if for dummies.

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Gardening for kids

Seems like a good book so far. We don't have anything growing yet, but our 2, 4 & 6 year olds liked building the garden, mixing the soil and planting the seeds. We had a hard time finding one of the soil ingredients (vermiculite)at a resonable price, but since we have a small 2'x4' garden, we were able to buy a number of small bags from our local home center and get by with that.

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