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Square Foot Gardening
by Mel Bartholomew
I first heard about this gardening method either watching the church's annual general report or seeing a link to it on the LDS.org 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 church would go in to teach and most of the time they used this method. I was intrigued so I bought the book.
We always had a garden growing up and all I remember is LOTS AND LOTS OF WEEDING and never having lots of food at the end. We hated it. The premise of the book is to change the way you think about gardening (not in rows in a massive mud pit that attracts more weeds than plants) but in easy to reach blocks (usually 4x4 sf) and utilizing vertical plants by having them grow up (i.e. tomatoes) thus you can harvest twice as much crop in half as much space.
I got this book last year when we started planning our first garden. People think I'm crazy -- and Darik thinks I'm too into "the method" but I swear everyone will understand when it comes harvest time.
by Mel Bartholomew
I first heard about this gardening method either watching the church's annual general report or seeing a link to it on the LDS.org 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 church would go in to teach and most of the time they used this method. I was intrigued so I bought the book.
We always had a garden growing up and all I remember is LOTS AND LOTS OF WEEDING and never having lots of food at the end. We hated it. The premise of the book is to change the way you think about gardening (not in rows in a massive mud pit that attracts more weeds than plants) but in easy to reach blocks (usually 4x4 sf) and utilizing vertical plants by having them grow up (i.e. tomatoes) thus you can harvest twice as much crop in half as much space.
I got this book last year when we started planning our first garden. People think I'm crazy -- and Darik thinks I'm too into "the method" but I swear everyone will understand when it comes harvest time.
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Apr 28, 2008 10:54am
One of the sisters in second ward gave a class at enrichment night on this method of gardening and now it seems like EVERYBODY is doing it. Every year we say we're going to grow a garden, but we never do because it just feels too overwhelming. Now that I've heard several other people talk about how easy this is, I'm thinking this might be the type of garden even we could handle! We'll see how it goes... I haven't even read the book yet!
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I've heard of the book too, I've just never done it. So, if you're successful Kristine, maybe I'll do it next year!! I have to see it to believe it, heh heh.
Well, Kristine I just wanted to let you know that Randy and I went out today and bought enough supplies for two boxes and we started to assemble the boxes for FHE tonight. I'll let you know how it goes! I'm pretty excited that we've gotten this far! By the way, you might want to take a look at his new book if you haven't already, apparently its quite different from the first one. His new method is much easier, so I'm told.
