All New! Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition
The World’s Most Popular Growing Method to Harvest MORE Food from Less Space – Urban to Rural–Garden Anywhere! New Garden Plans & Projects – Fully Revised & Updated for Today’s Gardener
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Pub Date Jan 14 2025 | Archive Date Dec 20 2024
Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press | Cool Springs Press
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Description
No digging, no tilling, no fertilizing, no machinery or heavy tools—less watering, waste, and weeding! In All New! Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition, discover the foolproof gardening method that has helped generations of gardeners around the world raise their own organic vegetables in less space, with less effort, and for less money than traditional row gardens.
The Square Foot Gardening (SFG) technique takes the guesswork out of every step, even if you are completely new to gardening. The process is simple: set up your garden box, fill it with a growing blend known as Mel’s Mix™, and add a square-foot grid on top to guarantee proper plant spacing and maximum yields. With this easy and flexible system, you’ll reap the rewards of baskets of homegrown produce to enjoy with friends and family.
In the 4th edition, enjoy:
- Updated and beautifully illustrated garden plans to help you lay out your plantings and grow what your family eats most
- Extensive new charts with crop-by-crop information on how and when to plant and harvest each vegetable
- Flexible, step-by-step building plans for garden boxes you can build, fill, and plant in a single afternoon
- Insight on where to place your garden, how to plan your squares, and how to care for your plants organically
- Instructions for DIYing trellises, hoop tunnels, archways, and other accessories for your SFG
- More practical solutions to today’s biggest gardening challenges, including deer, extreme weather, and insect pests
- NEW – Information on building and using “top hats” to grow healthy root crops in a standard SFG bed
- NEW – Alternative options if the standard Mel’s Mix ingredients aren’t available to you or you’re looking for alternatives to peat moss
- 200 NEW PHOTOS, 30 NEW ILLUSTRATIONS – Redesigned pages with all-new illustrations for fun, easy planning and new photographs to reflect more diverse growing locations
- Plus, a Quick Start Guide to get you growing today
It is a mission of the SFG Foundation to empower gardeners with the skills to create their own sustainable, sufficient, and reliable food source. They strive to reduce world hunger by teaching people in underserved countries how to grow their own fresh produce to eat and sell.
If you’re looking for a low-maintenance, lower-cost way to grow food for yourself and your family, you will find success with this invaluable reference. If you’re already a dedicated Square Foot Gardener with a tattered copy of a previous edition, you will expand on your success with the updated and enhanced guidance. With All New Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition, you’ll discover everything you need to know about the world’s most popular growing technique to harvest MORE food from less space.
Now you can garden anywhere!
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780760388938 |
| PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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Featured Reviews
Alejandra M, Reviewer
If you’ve ever wanted to grow your own food without feeling overwhelmed by traditional gardening methods, All New! Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition is the ultimate guide. This updated classic brings new tools, tips, and plans to make growing fresh veggies and herbs simpler than ever—even if you’re short on space or experience.
The Square Foot Gardening method is genius: build a box, fill it with Mel’s Mix™, and divide it into neat grids to plant exactly what you want in just the right amount. No tilling, no heavy equipment, and way less weeding! The latest edition has a fresh layout with updated charts, creative garden box designs, and practical solutions for challenges like deer and crazy weather.
What’s new? Tons of gorgeous photos, alternative options for Mel’s Mix ingredients, and clever ideas like “top hats” for root veggies. I love how it empowers both newbies and seasoned gardeners to grow more food with less hassle.
Whether you’re planting on a patio or transforming your backyard, this book makes gardening approachable, fun, and rewarding. I’m ready to get my hands dirty (in a clean, square-foot kind of way)! 🌱
Nellie M, Reviewer
The 4th Edition of Square Foot Gardening is a comprehensive guide to square foot gardening. I didn't expect to get such a thorough overview, including all the steps from planning, building, planting, caring for, harvesting, and changing to new plants. I'd highly recommend this guide to anyone who wanted to start planting with this method.
Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press and NetGalley for an eARC of this book for an honest review.
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