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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47270216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 is more or 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 garden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4045735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such an anal approach to gardening that you can't help but succeed at it.  I love an anal approach (that's what she said) so I was all over this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I first heard about this gardening method either watching the church's annual general report or seeing a link to it on the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://LDS.org">LDS.org</a> website.  It was highlighted in a story about teaching poor people in third world countries or in big cities with tiny plots of growing space to start gardens.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21134689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess whatever works for people is great, and it seems like he has a lot of converts...but 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, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20000410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this idea!  I would love to give it 5 stars, but I haven't actually implemented the book yet, so I thought I'd wait for the fifth star to see if I actually think it works!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Mel!  I've been gardening using his old book (circa 1985-ish?) for several years, and I thought I knew what love was when I discovered that treasure.  Then I picked up his ALL NEW SFG book and was thrilled at how Mel took a simple system and made it even simpler!  The book's step-by-step, ful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59918258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/112157.Mel_Bartholomew" title="Mel Bartholomew">Mel Bartholomew</a> 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, more like a whine, because it takes a drill.  He doesn't emphasize enough, though, that the gardens tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56989296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, by far, the best vegetable gardening book I have read.<br/><br/>You hear a lot about square foot gardening, but Bartholomew really details every step to make your garden successful. The book is knowledgeable and detailed, but also an easy read. I also found that this book is very easily b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54184508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a Christmas gift that I had almost finished by the time we arrived back in St. Louis. <br/><br/>I found it helpful to read through the entire process of preparing the soil in spring, planting seeds, harvesting, and then preparing the soil for the harsh winter. The unusual method of p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42782697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my small yard a good principle.  I apply to the Ronco school of gardening--you know set it and forget it.  That's right, I plant my seeds, let the sprinklers and sun do their thing and pray that I'll get more that 4 tomatoes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an excellent reference for beginning to garden in a small space using the square foot method. The reference section at the end describing many common crops and how and when to plant them is especially useful. However, a lot of the book comes across sounding like an infomercial for his m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63605047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is somewhat dated, like including a long harange about automatic watering systems which I consider to be critical to a successful garden, however, the book is groundbreaking in eliminating the 'farming' structure of sowing seeds.  Urban gardens are small and needed new thinking.  Most of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42804222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This looks like a great way to garden! I don't think I will use all of the techniques, but I want to incorporate a lot of them into my gardening this year. I signed up for a community garden plot and I am going to try to square-foot-garden it. The drawback is that I can't use Mel's Mix because the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53343190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My garden is based on this book, so I'm giving it 5 stars - positive thinking to ensure an excellent garden!  The writing could be better, but I HAVE to say - although it's not sophisticated, the advice is sound, logical, and easy to follow.  The book is organized fairly well, so it's pretty easy to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23615360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a farm boy who never really wanted to farm, I do spend a great deal of time being nostalgic about my bucolic days in the country.  At any rate, even though I refuse to have anything to do with cows (with the exception of eating them), I do at times return to the soil and grow a mess of vegetables...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17112014">more...</a>]]></body>
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