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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>  > The neatest thing I saw in the book was called the Circle of Cages.
>  > Basically, you dig a pit, 1 foot wide and 2 feet deep in the garden and
>  > add fish emulsion, compost, manure, bone meal, grass clippings and
>  > additional manure and compost to bring it back up to ground 
> level.  Then you move out 6 inches and dig a 6 in wide and 9 in deep 
> watering trench

Circle gardening can be highly productive. I avoid it in all forms in most 
places because it is more difficult to keep the grass-weeds mowed short 
around a circle than around a long rectangle. An exception is that I plant 
some things, like peppers, around young trees a couple hundred feet from 
the main garden to avoid cross pollination. Mowing around trees is already 
inefficient so the larger plant circle doesn't take any more time to mow 
around.