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Title: Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space With Less Work by Mel Bartholomew, Kim Morrow, Anne Moyer Halpin ISBN: 0-87857-340-2 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: March, 1981 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.98 (50 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: EVERY gardener needs this book!
Comment: I am a beginning gardener -- ambitious, but not very experienced. I have a shady backyard, and I LOVE tomatoes -- not factors that really go together. This book explains how to save space, time, effort, and resources while you get more out of your harvest. It turns gardening into a few-minutes-at-a-time proposition, something you can easily do every day to keep up. Now I have an idea of how I *can* grow tomatoes, despite my big trees.

Square Foot Gardening offers specific information (valuable for a beginner!) in just about every area. I can't think of a single thing I still need to know. Mel Bartholomew also offers suggestions for wheelchair-bound gardeners (build planters and raise them to a comfortable level) that are also great for anyone who can't get down on the ground easily. He suggests good plants to try in a garden for kids. In short, this book is thorough and fascinating.

My seed catalogs are coming in the mail, and I have NEVER been so excited about the prospect of growing stuff -- because I have the tools to succeed at it now. Square Foot Gardening made it much less daunting.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best vegetable gardening book to start with
Comment: This book transformed me into a gardener, from a former self who would buy a few tomato plants or pepper seeds and watch nothing much happen. We've all read generic gardening books with nice photos and a long recitation of suggested, common methods for doing what needs to be done. One of the reasons that Square Foot Gardening is different is that the author has strong preferences. Start seeds in vermiculite! Plant oak leaf lettuce! Read the seed catalogs in december! --Because of Bartholomew's enthusiasm, these specific things are fun to start with, and because his method works so well, you wind up happy and with lots of vegetables. One warning though, I tried to build a Bartholomew style trellis from copper plumbing and string, a bit too close to a neighbor's property line. "I'm sorry, but this looks like a soccer net." I tore it down and worked considerably harder on something nicer. (But yes, do build the trellis, it's worth it.)

Rating: 4
Summary: The Easy Way to Garden
Comment: Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening is one of the best gardening books on the market. It shows you how to maximum your gardening effeciency by growing the plants in a wide bed instead of the more traditional narrow row method developed for tractors. By reducing the rows and maximizing the area of planting, you reduce the amount of wasted water and compose. You get more out of this important resources and your gardening efforts. The book is 20 years old and a little dated, but still worth the purchase for the beginning gardener.

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