all new square foot gardening by mel bartholomew

Perhaps you’ll want to build a smaller planting box that can be a tabletop or portable garden.īartholomew has a gardener’s sense of humor when he talks about “a novel idea, don’t waste seeds.” In this section he provides some new thoughts on planting just a pinch of seeds in each planting square and then thinning by using scissors to clip off all but the strongest plant.

A great tip is to place several boxes throughout the yard for more flexibility in what you plant and where. The author explains that a boxed garden takes up less space, so it can be placed closer to the house. One of the improvements promotes a change in location. In his new book, All New Square Foot Gardening (Cool Springs Press 2013), Bartholomew expands on his original ideas about square foot gardening that include 10 major improvements designed to make vegetable gardens more productive and easier to manage, while reducing the costs of gardening, too. The key to gardening success is reducing the size of the garden and planting in square foot sections. The best-selling author, gardener and engineer, began promoting his ideas for small-space gardening that convinced millions of gardeners to try his simple methods. Square foot gardening, made popular by Mel Bartholomew in the 1980s, is making a big comeback in a small way-a small garden way, that is. Then you need to plant a square foot garden. Would you like to grow 100 percent of your harvest in only 20 percent of the garden space?

All new square foot gardening by mel bartholomew