All New Square Foot Gardening

Posted on 01 March 2018 by Mel Bartholomew

Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening Sure, there are ten new features in this all new, updated book Sure, it s even simpler than it was before Of course, you don t have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you ll be growing above the ground However, the best feature is that anyone, anywhere can enjoy a square foot garden children, adults with limited mobility, and even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.But, let s get back to the ten improvements You re going to love them 1 New Location Move your garden closer to your house by eliminating single row gardening Square foot gardens need just 20% of the space of a traditional garden.2 New Direction Locate your garden on top of existing soil Forget about pH soil tests, double digging who enjoys that , or those never ending soil improvements.3 New Soil The new Mel s Mix is the perfect growing mix We give you the recipe, and best of all, you can even buy the different types of compost needed.4 New Depth You only need to prepare a SFG box to a depth of 6 inches It s true the majority of plants develop just fine when grown at this depth.5 No Fertilizer The all new SFG does not need any fertilizer ever If you start with the perfect soil mix, then you don t need to add fertilizer.6 New Boxes The new method uses bottomless boxes placed above ground We show you how to build your own with step by step photos.7 New Aisles The ideal gardening aisle width is about three to four feet That makes it even easier to kneel, work, and harvest.8 New Grids Prominent and permanent grids added to your SFG box help you visualize your planting squares and properly space them for maximum harvest.9 New Seed Saving Idea The old fashioned way advocates planting many seeds and then thinning the extras that means pulling them up The new method means planting a pinch literally two or three seeds per planting hole.10 Tabletop Gardens The new boxes are so much smaller and lighter only 6 inches of soil, remember , you can add a plywood bottom to make them portable.Of course, that s not all We ve also included simple, easy to follow instructions using lots of photos and illustrations You re going to love it Free Download [ All New Square Foot Gardening ] By [ Mel Bartholomew ] – kino-fada.fr I guess whatever works for people is great, and it seems like he has a lot of convertsbut I sure wasn t crazy about Mel s method and even less so about his delivery It is like listening to a used car salesman and immediately after saying that while I was reading, I read the next paragraph, where he ...Includes Photos of Our Own Garden Mel Bartholomew is famous for his Square Foot Gardens, and in All New Square Foot Gardening, he gives us the tools we need to have the garden of our dreams Pictures, easy to follow illustrated instructions, tips and tricks regardless of the level of your gardening expertise, this is a must have book We live in the High Desert of Southern California where the soil is either sandy or like clay We haven t had much success with our gardens in the past, but thIncludes Photos of Our Own Garden Mel Bartho...If I were rating this gardening method, I would give it five stars No question But alas, I m rating the book, and I kind of hate it The information in it is awesome, but the delivery feels less like a book andlike an infomerciala really, really long infomercial Seriously, the whole thing just sounds like a sales pitch Look, Mel, your method is amazing It s wildly popular and successful You don t need to sell it any We are all coming to this book because we are for the most If I were rating this gardening me...As a gardening method, Square Foot Gardening is pretty great This book, though this book is not great Mel is a big fan of science and math, so let me break down this book by the estimated numbers 20% Discussion of how amazing Square Foot Gardening is, or how amazing Mel Bartholomew is20% Actual gardening content10% Weird and or culturally insensitive stuff 10% Charts that don t render correctly in the ebook version40% Repetition of all of the aboveThe book starts with a full chapter on th As a gardening method, Square Foot Gardening is pretty great This book, though this book is not great Mel is a big fan of science and math, so let me break down this book by the estimated numbers 20% Discussion of how amazing Square Foot Gardening is, or how amazing Mel Bartholomew is20% Actual gardening content10% Weird and or culturally insensitive stuff 10% Charts that don t render correctly in the ebook version40% Repetition of all of the aboveThe book starts with a full chapter on the History of Mel and Square Foot Gardening I will be honest I don t care I am glad Mel came up with this method, and I m glad he s got all this experience teaching it and proselytizing word used advisedly , but I m here to read about gardening, not Mel or what was going on with Square Foot Gardening in the 1970s But you can t just skip the chapter and skip this content like everything else, it repeats over and over, throughout every chapter of the book He even includes, in the text, quotes from ...I agree with the review just before mine in almost every respect What I personally found most insensitive in the book was his plan to bring his method of farming to so called developing nations The way he talked about it was so patronizing that if only I had read that first it s at nearly the end of the book I would have never read any further He dismisses other cultures diets in a single sentence and, as the previous reviewer notes, acts like the only reason people anywhere are starving I agree with the review just before mine in almost every respect What I personally found most insensitive in the book was his plan to bring his method of farming to so called developing nations The way he talked about it was so patronizing that if only I had read that first it s at nearly the end of the book I would have never read any further He dismisse...Want to grow a veggie or flower garden but don t think you can Think again No excuses of not enough space, no yard or no ability This is the book for any person with any skill level with just a patio or a yard, for the professional or for the handicap in a wheel chair School children and 3rd world countries have used this technique with great success I read this book in 1 afternoon and then my 13 year old son and husband built my boxes in 1afternoon I m taking pictures along the way Want to grow a veggie or flower garden but don t think you can Think again No excuses of not enough space, no yard or no...this is my favorite gardening book what can i say there s a man with a neck beard on the cover his name is mel mel isor less my favorite person on the planet he retired from his job as an engineer at 42 and then turned to gardening when you set an engineer loose in a backyard gardening, you get precision gardening basically, he figured out how closely you can plant things so that you get the maximum yield per square foot each individual plant produces less, but the overall yield is this is my favorite gardening book what can i say there s a man with a neck beard on the cover his name is mel me...Mel Bartholomew is a huge advocate of box gardening Box gardening is a great idea, especially when you have alkaline clay like we have in our backyard Constructing the boxes is a snap okay,like a whine, because it takes a drill He doesn t emphasize enough, though, that the gardens take a huge amount of water, because the wood seems to wick the water away from the dirt.Stuff seems to grow well in Mel s Mix, if you plant it in the right part of the season Last year we planted quite la Mel Bartholomew is a huge advoc...My garden roughly follows Mel s plans, so this was clearly an influential book as I built my first garden However According to Mel, I don t have a square foot garden because I don t use a physical grid And I plant a little haphazardly I mean, it s a great system in a lot of ways, but you don t have to follow the rules This kind of garden drill sergeant business is not for me, so I just focus on the information in the book that is useful to me and carry on There is a lack of detail on some My garden roughly follows Mel s plans, so this was clearly an influential book as I built my first garden However According to Mel, I don t have a square foot garden because I don t use a physical grid And I plant a little haphazardly I mean, it s a great system in a lot of ways, but you don t have to follow the rules This kind of garden drill sergeant business is not for me, so I just focus on the information in the book that is useful to me and carry on There is a lac...Honestly, if you can get past the bragging and boasting about how great Mel thinks he is, and how the SFG method TAKES UP LESS SPACE and how it s revolutionary and how everyone else is doing it wrong, it might be an okay book But gosh, I think on every page of the forty I read, he mentioned something about how this garden takes up less space WE GET IT, MEL, it s why we picked up the book I couldn t take it any I just wanted to read about gardening You can learn all you need to know Honestly, if you can get past the bragging and boasting about how great Mel thinks he is, and how the SFG method TAKES UP LESS SPACE and how it s revolutionary and how everyone else is doing it wrong, it might be an okay book But gosh, I think on every page of the forty I read, he mentioned something about how this garden takes up less space WE GET IT, MEL, it s why we picked up the book I couldn t take it any I just wanted to read about gar...

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01 March 2018

Mel Bartholomew