Book Review: Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work – By Mel Bartholomew
By Reggie Solomon
Square foot gardening is the ultimate urban gardening solution!
I stumbled upon this book at the Yale Bookstore this afternoon, and it has changed the way I will forever approach urban gardening.
The Square Foot Gardening book by Mel Bartholomew who also once hosted a similarly-titled television series on public television, is built around gardening in a 4’ x 4’ square subdivided into a grid of sixteen 1’ squares. Mel’s system, which can be organized via a raised bed or at ground-level, incorporates an ingenious vertical trellising design to accommodate vining vegetables such as tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, squash and melons.
The square-foot gardening system is ideal for the urban gardener because it’s suited for small spaces, maximizes growing space by eliminating wasted space between rows, and accommodates vertical growing.
