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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

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