Square Foot Planting Guide

Vegetable Gardening the Easy Way—in a Raised Bed Grid Garden

De: James Paris

Narrado por: Brent Nasworthy

Advantages of a Grid Garden

Growing vegetables in a raised bed grid garden (a.k.a. square foot garden) is a great way to maximize your vegetable growing efforts, and at the same time dramatically reduce your workload.

A grid garden is simple to assemble and operate, and can be used in a tiny space from a four-foot square to whatever suits your growing needs.

Growing in one-foot squares means that you can truly maximize your vegetable production in an environment that is great fun to operate and will assure a regular harvest of healthy vegetables.

If you are growing vegetables in raised beds, then your production and crop rotation can be maximized by using the simple techniques employed in grid gardening.

What You Will Find in This Book

How to grow healthy, organic vegetables in square grid-style raised bed gardens.

If you have limited space but would like to grow your own healthy vegetables, then this is the book for you! Best-selling author James Paris shows you just how you can get the best out of your small space by using the grid gardening system to its fullest advantage.

With this grid gardening method of growing vegetables in small spaces, you have the combination of raised beds sectioned into grids to form a "plan of action" that combines all the best elements of horticultural techniques for growing amazing vegetables—with little fuss!

Coupled with many other methods for growing organic, including fertilization and companion planting techniques, grid gardening is another way to take back control of your food requirements from the big corporations—and benefit from your own freshly grown "clean" vegetables.

You can only be sure of what your are putting into your (and your family’s) bodies when you personally are in charge of growing your own food!

Here’s a summary of the main points in this book:

1. How to construct your own grid garden

Simple, straightforward instructions for constructing a basic grid garden frame.

2. How to mix your own special compost for your grid garden

The "secret sauce" behind the success of this intensive gardening technique is in the growing mixture. Find out how to make top-quality organic compost to improve your soil and subsequent vegetable harvest.

3. Guidelines for planting out your GG.

Clear diagrams and pictures showing in detail just how to get started on your own GG.

4. An introduction to companion planting—good and bad companion plants

Companion planting plays a crucial role in the success of any garden—whether growing food or flowers! Some great tips here to get the most out of your raised bed GG.

5. Beneficial herbs and organic pest control

Growing herbs can play an important role in your garden to control pests. Find out which herbs are more beneficial for your plants.

6. Instructions on plant support and growing methods

Some instruction on how to go about supporting your plants so that you may get the best out of them and minimalize damage due to heavy crops.

7. A list of popular vegetables and herbs to grow in your raised bed GG, including planting, plant maintenance/care, and harvesting/storing your vegetables.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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