Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew (1981, Hardcover)

Been doing the Square Foot Gardening method for well over 20 years since I bought my first copy of Mel's Square Foot Gardening book when it first came out. That's when I first learned about Mel's method way back then. My gardening plots varied in size over the years, with raised beds, 4 ft wide X 20 ft long, in my mini farm area of 125 ft long by 35 feet wide, about 25 years ago, to just a 10 ft X 30 foot area 8 years ago, to now doing senior citizens gardening with just 23 gallon plastic tubs for container gardening. Learned a lot from Mel's book and his gardening TV Shows. He taught me things Mom never taught me, and, I'm a 3rd generation gardner. No matter what size your garden area is, you should get plenty of veggies from each square foot when following Mel's instructions in this book. Weather the book has a hard cover or a soft cover, it's all the same instructions for the Square Foot from Mel in his books.

My parents were avid vegetable gardeners, but I could never duplicate the success they had with row gardening. I did notice, though, that they tended to get a lot of their produce harvest all at once, and they struggled to find good uses for the stuff they grew, even though it was of high quality. This book is written for beginners, but introduces an innovative way to use limited space for good and staggered produce yields. Can't wait to try the methodology, which is basically dividing growing space into 1 foot squares and dispersing the different crops grown so that you get rotation and complementary crops.

Excellent book. Great for a different way of gardening. Mel's idea helps cut down, on weeding time, watering time, and over planting. I recomend this book to any vegetable gardener.

great book. For those people that have limited space but want a garden this is a great book to have on hand. Even for those whom have large areas its a great book. Very informative. I have reccomened this book to others.