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Grow-Bed Gardening

by Dr. Jacob Mittleider

Grow-Bed Gardening

Paperback: 143 pages

ISBN: 0882901753

Book Description

In this compact volume the author presents a concise look on growing fresh vegetables to meet the needs of the family with a surplus to share or sell - is the outgrowth of many years of research and experimentation im more than two score countries around the world under most unusual and varied circumstances, most recently in Africa, Southern Utah Indian reservations, Trinidad, Tobago, W.I, and Russia.

After these years of research a simple garden method has been perfected. The method is not limited by poor soils, rocks, hillsides, swamps, city limits, long seasons, short seasons, rain, arid regions, waste land, weeds, lack of powered equipment, or no equipment.

The Grow-Bed garden program outlined in this book is simple, inexpensive, and easy to implement. It will help you to eliminate failures and experience the best in gardening satisfaction and enduring success.

Also available in Russian. Please contact us if you are interested in the Russian version.

Comments
"I have been completely converted by the simplicity and soundness of the system and above all the results . . . Dr. Mittleider, no matter how short or how long your stay in this country you have lit a torch which will burn for a long time."
C.D. Promnitz, Agricultural Officer, Zimbabwe, Africa

I am pleased to write concerning our experience using the Mittleider Method of growing a large variety of fresh vegetables for the L.D.S. Welfare System . . . My personal feelings and those shared by my associates are, that the Mittleider Method is a most enjoyable means of growing food . . . The results are fantastically more rewarding than I have ever had in my 30 years of growing vegetables by conventional means. The production is heavier, quality higher, and the results more dramatic in every way. I am pleased to recommend the Mittleider Method to everyone for pleasure or profit.
(President Charles A. Jones, Sandy, Utah Central Stake, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

Dr. Mittleider knows one thing that can change the face of the earth, and he's trying to get someone to listen. No matter how poor man, or man's soil is, if there's a way to get water to it, with only a plot of ground 20' X 100', a man can feed his family better than it has ever been fed before . . . He has proven his claims in just about every type of adverse situation in the world . . . The Idaho baker-turned-agricultural wizard, specializes in turning what is known as "devil-land" into unbelievably productive land. The beauty of the program is that the transformation can take place anywhere from three to six months, with food to spare and to share for the effort . . . There's no reason why there is a single person in the world who has to go to bed hungry.
Dr. William Willoughby, National Courier Correspondent

"As an agriculturist myself I can assure you that you are in good hands when gardening from any of the Mittleider books or other training materials."

Hein,
South Africa

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Table of Contents:

  1. Amazing Food Yields
  2. What Are Grow-Beds?
  3. Why Grow-Beds?
  4. Into Your Grow-Bed Garden, Step-by-Step
  5. The Objective
  6. Monument Valley, Utah -- A Garden Challenge
  7. A Primer on Soils and Plant Growth
  8. Factors Involved in Growing Food
  9. Seeds and Seedlings
  10. Building an Inexpensive Seedling Greenhouse
  11. media for Starting Plants from Seed
  12. How To Grow Plants From Seed
  13. Problems with Common Soil in Seedflats
  14. Preplant Fertilizer Formula and Application
  15. Transplanting Seedlings
  16. Filling transplant Pots with Soil
  17. The Mittleider Weekly Feeding Formula
  18. Why the Mittleider Weekly Feeding Formula
  19. How to Keep Seedlings Short and Strong
  20. Basic Rules for Gardening Success
  21. About Osmosis
  22. Effecctive Water Systems
  23. The Solusi Challenge
  24. First Solusi Garden Demonstration
  25. Halchita, Utah, Grow-Bed Demonstration
  26. Fertilizer Formulas
  27. Deficiency Symptoms for Specific Crops
  28. Nutrient Deficincies and Corrections
  29. Functions of Plant Food Elements
  30. Plant Spacing for Grow-Bed Method
  31. Equivalents
  32. Grow-Bed Topics

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Tip of the Day

It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.

The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.

If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, 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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