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Author : Bartholomew Mel
Title : Growing perfect vegetables A visual guide to raising and harvesting prime garden produce
Year : 2017

Link download : Bartholomew_Mel_-_Growing_perfect_vegetables.zip

Introduction. WHEN MEL BARTHOLOMEW FIRST THOUGHT UP THE SQUARE FOOT Gardening system in 1975, he was frustrated. He had seen a lot of ripe produce go to waste in his local community garden simply because of inefficiency and gardener burnout. Mel was a math-minded engineer to the core, and he believed gardening could be made more efficient, with success that could be put into numbers. He wanted his garden to produce more ripe edibles per square foot than any other. He thought it should require measurably less effort and inputs than any other garden. The numbers had to make sense. He was a man on a mission. Of course, as a gardener, he also wanted a nice-looking, self-contained bed that didn’t need any of that awful back-breaking weeding. He considered himself an environmentalist, and wanted his gardening method to use 90 percent less water than conventional row gardens did, and it had to do fine without pesticides or fertilizers. Like all gardeners, Mel preferred the fun and flavor of gardening to the repetitive hard work. He wanted his garden method to capture the enjoyment, not the drudgery, of gardening. ...