[Homestead] Article From Bev
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Sun Nov 19 14:44:45 EST 2006
Well, if he loves potatoes, like his mum, then get him a plastic garbage can
and tell him about the "fill as it grows" method and he can have potatoes on
a little over a square foot!
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy J" <tracy9j at frontiernet.net>
> This was a good read. I remember back in the 70's when I first started
> working on biointensive methods. I had no big tools so I had to make my
> garden with a little spade and my hands. In 2 years, I was growing an
> awful
> lot of tomatoes, cukes, peppers, etc. No potatoes, which really bummed me
> out. I LOVED potatoes. My kid now lives in a trailer park and has almost
> no yard and was really wanting to atart a veggie garden. I gave him
> "Square Foot Gardening " for his birthday this year and he's really
> excited
> about it. He had no idea you could grow so much in such a small area. I
> guess he never realized how much food was coming out of the little gardens
> when he was growing up. Anyway, the book is still in print and still is a
> great starting point.
>
> Tracy Julian
> in East North-Central Minnesota
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