Square Foot Gardening

by Mel Bartholomew

Paper Book, 1981

Status

Available

Call number

635

Genres

Collection

Farming, Gardening, Plants

Publication

Rodale Books (1981), Edition: Reissue, Paperback, 347 pages

Description

Square Metre Gardening is revolutionising the way the modern gardens are grown today! After 30 years perfecting his methods, Mel Bartholomew's Square Metre Gardening, shows you how to grow an abundance of produce from such a small space. No worrying about weeds and fertilisers, no back breaking digging, just an Earth friendly approach to gardening. Grow vegetables, salads, herbs, flowers. Grow on a patio or balcony, in shade or sun, on a hillside or slope no matter what space you have, Square Metre Gardening is for you. Create a kids corner, a community garden or a garden for those with special needs. Square Metre Gardening even shows you how to create a vertical garden! Packed with full colour photographs and seasonal planting charts it is no wonder over 2 million copies of this book have sold around the world. If you think you don't have the time, space, energy, knowledge, experience, money, tools... then Square Metre Gardening is for you!… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Gold_Gato

This is a very good book for anyone who wants to grow a market garden, even if there is little open ground to do so. By creating squares divided into specific grids, the author provides an easy guideline for would-be gardeners, who want results without too much work. For me, I found his chapters

nicely laid out with tidbits on pests, water, soil, and structures.

While I don't use too much square footing as I have plenty garden space, I've seen it in action at a neighborhood open garden, where each owner successfully follows Bartholomew's advice as gospel. His chapter on vertical gardening is eye-opening, so it's hard to go wrong with this book as a basic bible for first-timers.

Book Season = Year Round (each season has its seed)

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LibraryThing member VVilliam

A great guide to gardening. Bartholomew gives a nice, enthusiastic outline of square foot gardening with some essential planting tips and time tables. I wish the book went into more technical detail on how to construct the frames and which varieties of crops work well, but overall there's very

little to complain about. Got me very excited about gardening.

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LibraryThing member NonFictionFan

I thought this book was very interesting to read. I'm actually going to try the square foot method next season and see how it goes. If it works as well as it sounds, I'm definitely glad I bought this book.

LibraryThing member jeanned

I am always reading this book.

LibraryThing member sachachua

Interesting method worth trying.

LibraryThing member golfjr

A great book for the beginning gardner.

LibraryThing member Daisydaisydaisy

This is an introduction to square metre gardening, and covers everything from why you'd want to do it, constructing raised beds and accessories to planting them.

I thought it would be a very useful book, but it's written in a really patronising style, and the author makes it sound like he knows

everything (perhaps he does, but it didn't come across very well). He also uses peat, which I don't agree with. Although it is written for a British audience, it does read like the author is used to vast spaces for gardens - I thought this was a method for saving space, and it is, but there doesn't seem to be much content for the gardener who can only fit one or two of these raised beds in. It does have very clear illustrations however, and if you want to construct raised beds from scratch this would be a good place to start.

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LibraryThing member Mirandalg14

Great instruction to maximize produce while cutting down on time weeding and watering. I definitely want to try this.

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

Makes me want to garden NOW! I swear, I'm sitting here plotting this year's gardening.

A plan to grow in a metre square plot, how to go about doing it, how to build a plot and how to get working on it.

I want to use some of the ideas in my tiered garden.

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