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Article: Gardening by the square foot.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- April 1, 1986
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GARDENING BY THE SQUARE FOOT
Mel Bartholomew of OldField, New York, gardened all his adult life. But not until he retired from engineering and ran a community garden did he ask himself: Why do gardeners use antiquated farming methods that often lead to unwelcome results? He set out to devise a no-work, foolproof, small-space, continuous-harvest garden method that would work for beginners and experts alike.
Euclid would have lovedMel's solution--the Square Foot Garden, so-called because the garden is built in a series of squares. Each 12" X 12" square holds a single species of vegetable, herb, or flower. The number of plants in each square depends on the ...