Square Foot Gardening - How To Grow Healthy Organic Vegetables The Easy Way: Including Companion Planting & Intensive Vegetable Growing Methods (Gardening Techniques Book 6) Kindle Edition

What I like about this is a mindset change.I used to plant ALL the seeds in a package. But that was WAY too many plants/vegetables than I would ever be able to eat before they spoil. And having different vegetables growing is more fun, than a whole bed of just one vegetable, especially when it is time to harvest and eat.It also has you start out small, and manageable. You do NOT need to turn your entire backyard into a farm that takes HOURS every day to tend do.

Before I purchased this book on Square Foot Gardening, I knew a little about the theory but was not sure about the rest of the details. Pleased to say that this ebook helped me to get a better grasp of the basics, as well as some handy tips on Companion Planting techniques that I can use even with my traditional vegetable patch - including good advice on Beneficial herbs and plants that you DO NOT want to grow together.There are some handy diagrams/pictures that give some examples of how to plant out your SFG, or for that matter Raised Bed Garden, as well as a good chart with the numbers of vegetables you can grow in each square foot.To be honest, some of the gardening information is fairly common knowledge to anyone who has grown veggies before - but that has to be expected I suppose when the author is trying to reach out to a broad market.Growing vegetables organically has always appealed to me, and so the detailed sections on making good compost as well as organic 'tea' and how to control pests without chemicals was especially welcome.All in all, I consider this an excellent introduction to SFG which has encouraged me to dig deeper into this concept.UPDATE. Here are some great results using the SFG techniques described in this book!

This year I decided to try all the different gardening tricks since all my kids have finally grown up and moved out. I have a lot more time to do the gardening.This is a wonderful way to do a quick garden plot that is easily laid out. I used 5x4 foot which gave me 20 squares, which I used purple string and stapled it to the top of the box to make my 12x12 squares. I installed a trellis (made with 1/2 inch conduit, which I spent the money on the bender tool and I tell you, that was a great investment!,) YouTube has wonderful direction on how to use the bender tool, and then how to make a trellis using that conduit and also how to tie the nylon line.I mixed up my own soil with the compost, peat, perlite, etc. Nice fluffy, I planted peas (against the trellis) carrots, bok choi, spinach, lettuce. It was very easy to grow, and then replant when the bounty of the square was eaten.It is the hardest part of my gardening, since the other things I'm trying is the Dutch bucket system (you tube it, I already have tomatoes in 28 days) the rain gutter system (you tube) and the kratky hydroponic (YouTube).The reason I say this is because it's so close to the ground, knees can't deal with that anymore. So next year I will probably build a couple of 3 foot off the ground raised beds, so I don't have to get down on my knees to weed.The veggies were great, lettuce had to deal with the slugs as always but that's remedied with slug bait or beer.So 5 stars from me, not going to ding for my bad knees, but it is a decent system for a small area.

Tthis is good stuff, except it ends quite unexpectedly... like 1/4 of a regular book. This is BS if we are going to start paying 4x the amount of a regular book! A rip off!

This book covered not only the concept of square foot gardening, but also included crop growth, timing, composting, and rotation. Everything one would need to be successful in this endeavor. Kudos to these authors. This is an excellent resource to have on hand.

This ebook is extremely user friendly as it shows in detail how to use a square foot garden for most vegetables and herbs used for everyday cooking. Good at explaining the seasons and what goes with what to have a very efficient result! It has motivated me and I'm starting my square foot garden using the information provided...

Great book full of lots of good information

This book as been extremely helpful with creating my organic garden in my backyard! I have so many pictures, however unable to upload them at this time.

Square Foot Gardening - How To Grow Healthy Organic Vegetables The Easy Way: Including Companion Planting & Intensive Vegetable Growing Methods (Gardening Techniques Book 6)  We like this a lot, it's great for first time allotmenteers as well as the more experienced. Giving good sound advice on how to get the most out of your allotment or home vegi plot available in a download format as well as a good old fashioned reference book. Delivery was prompt without any issues! Square Foot Gardening - How To Grow Healthy Organic Vegetables The Easy Way: Including Companion Planting & Intensive Vegetable Growing Methods (Gardening Techniques Book 6)

This is very easy to follow, with plenty of diagrams to follow. It contains good ideas for all growing spaces from a tiny area of 4' x 4' up to whatever size you want or need. Economical, organic, healthy home grown food in an organised plot!

a very informative book for anyone who wants to grow their own food not just those wanting to do a square foot garden

Use this as a reference while I am trying SFG. Has all the information I need.

Having seen a few videos on you-tube, I was interested to read more of the theory. This book is an easy read and explains how this system for growing vegetables in small areas really works. It includes recipes for the growing medium. Especially useful for people looking to grow a range of vegetables where space is restricted.