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Gardening by the Foot

by Dr. Jacob Mittleider

Gardening by the Foot

Paperback: 143 pages

ISBN: 0882901753

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Book Description

This book masterfully teaches the Mittleider Method of container or Grow-Box gardening using hundreds of pictures. It is an excellent step-by-step guide to raising great quantities of tasty and healthy vegetables in small areas using containers of any size. Many years of world-wide research and demonstration have created these scientific techniques for super-intensive food production.

Applies to large and small gardens. Great gardens can be produced on any terrain, on patios, driveways, or even flat roof-tops - in any climate, and in any soil.

"This is the first year I have used the Mittleider Method of Gardening. I am thrilled with the results. "

Marianne Coburn,
Preston, Idaho

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Download Chapter 3: What are Mini Grow-Boxes? (PDF, 560 KB) and learn what grow-boxes are and how to assemble them.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Why use Mini Grow-Boxes?
  3. What are mini Grow-Boxes?
  4. Choosing a Location
  5. preparing the area for Mini-Frames
  6. Tools and Materials
  7. How to Make Mini Grow-Boxes
  8. Filling Grow-Boxes with Soil
  9. Preplant Fertilizers
  10. Starting Plants from Seed
  11. Planting Seed in Mini-Boxes
  12. Transplanting into Mini-Boxes
  13. Making markers and Marking Mini-Boxes
  14. Fertilizing Crops in Mini-Boxes
  15. Common Garden Problems
  16. Increasing Yields in Everbearing Crops
  17. Transplanting Gallon-Size Plants into Mini-Boxes
  18. Installing an Automated Watering System
  19. Harvesting
  20. "A" Frames and Greenhouses
  21. Installing Strings to Hold Tall Plants
  22. What To Do With Trouble
  23. Soil Maggots
  24. Nutrient Deficiencies and Corrections
  25. Units of Measure \

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Tip of the Day

It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.

The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.

If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.

Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!

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