Food for Everyone Foundation

Provides simple straight-forward instruction and illustrations on the Mittleider Method.

The most educationally sound gardening book available anywhere.

Provides simple straight-forward instruction and illustrations on the Mittleider Method. Teaches all the basic topics covered in this Web site, plus 15 advanced topics such as cold-weather gardening, pruning for maximum yields, growing plants vertically, solutions to common gardening problems, understanding fertilizers, home seedling production, building an inexpensive greenhouse and more.

Also available in Russian and Spanish. Please contact us if you are interested in obtaining a copy in these languages.

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Download Chapter 16: Automated Watering (PDF, 356 KB) and learn how to install a simple PVC Mittleider Watering System.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Soil-Bed Basics

1. Planning
2. Preparing
3. Planting
4. Watering
5. Fertilizing
6. Weeding
7. Harvesting

Part 3: Grow-Box Basics

1. Planning
2. Preparing
3. Planting
4. Watering
5. Fertilizing
6. Weeding
7. Harvesting

Part 4: Mittleider Advanced Topics

1. Caring for Climbing Plants
2. Automated Watering
3. Understnading Fertilizers
4. Nutritional Deficiencies
5. Problem Soils
6. Destructive Insects
7. Common Plant Diseases
8. Seedling Production
9. Cold-Weather Gardening

Appendix A: Soil-Bed Garden Genius Planning Forms

Appendix B: Grow-Box Garden Genius Planning Forms

Appendix C: Reference Tables for Planning Your Garden

Appendix D: Constructing a Seedhouse

Appendix E: Learn More References