Billy wrote:
Was just looking at All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less
Space by Mel Bartholomew. They sure have some nice pics of Mel, standing
among raised gardens. He says he likes to sell, excuse me, teach to new
gardeners who aren't weighed down by prior knowledge, like the need to
renew the soils nitrogen, uh huh.

Anyone tempted to buy Mel's book would do well to look at "How to Grow
More Vegetables" by John Jeavons
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/...=search-alias%
3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=How+to+Grow+More+Vegetables&x=0&y=0
first.

There is more practicle information and no necessity of laying out a
physical grid. There are no pictures of John, IIRC, but the book is
information dense. Unfortunately, he doesn't address lasagna gardening,
but then neither does Mel.

Have you got a good resource on lasagna gardening? I can't even find
the thread we had on it.

I've got about 20 SF or so of space by the curb that gets good sun from
11AM on. Too sunny for english ivy (which is everywhere else) and soil
is too poor for anything else. Even the weeds are suffering. Sounds like
a lasagna farm to me.

Jeff


Check it out at better libraries near you.
I'm sorry, but Mel looks really lame.