- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; Completely Rev and Expanded edition (28 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1580621236
- ISBN-13: 978-1580621236
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.1 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,261,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Produce a bounty of herbs and vegetables in a small space
I have to admit, that my early gardening efforts were pretty much flops. What a disappointment. I had degrees in botany and forestry, but I also had a brown thumb. The turnaround came when I discovered intensive gardening (the art of growing vegetables across the bed instead of in conventional rows-–in super-productive soil. Now, Karen and I have completely revised the Postage Stamp Garden Book (which originally sold 500,000 copies) to demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of vegetables in small spaces (using containers as well as in-ground gardens). The intensive, ecologically friendly techniques we use require much less weeding, watering and overall effort. If you are busy like we are, chances are you are space short and time stressed. You want to garden but you don’t have to lot of time to spend gardening –then the intensive methods described in this book will be perfect for you.
I have to admit, that my early gardening efforts were pretty much flops. What a disappointment. I had degrees in botany and forestry, but I also had a brown thumb. The turnaround came when I discovered intensive gardening (the art of growing vegetables across the bed instead of in conventional rows-–in super-productive soil. Now, Karen and I have completely revised the Postage Stamp Garden Book (which originally sold 500,000 copies) to demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of vegetables in small spaces (using containers as well as in-ground gardens). The intensive, ecologically friendly techniques we use require much less weeding, watering and overall effort. If you are busy like we are, chances are you are space short and time stressed. You want to garden but you don’t have to lot of time to spend gardening –then the intensive methods described in this book will be perfect for you.
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Read the first addition..., 28 Dec 1999
By D.S. "D.S." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Postage Stamp Garden Book (Paperback)
...and if this is as good as that one (circa 1975) then it gets 5 stars. I (like the author) too had been failing miserably in gardening - until I read his book. Unlike many other books on the subject of bio-intensive gardening, this one was encouraging and made it sound so easy. It ended up being very easy and very rewarding. Now I tell everyone - double dig, amend heavily, plant close together. Get this book!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent resource for those new to gardening!, 14 Feb 2000
By Dawne B - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Postage Stamp Garden Book (Paperback)
I am a gardening dummy and found this book to be a real "bible" for me when starting my first patio and small in-ground garden plot. This books really lays it all out for you. They go into detail about how to do things organically, as well, if you want to go to all the trouble. But they also tell you the easier alternatives (like buying store organic fertilizer). I would recommend this book to new gardeners as well as experienced ones -- lots of tips on how to get all types of vegetables producing a lot of food for you, when to plant, what to plant with, etc.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Great to have the update, 12 Mar 2000
By WHills - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Postage Stamp Garden Book (Paperback)
As the other reviewers have said, this book is an update from the 1975 (or so) edition which was an inspiration at the time. What seemed the most useful in this edition is an updated seed type and source list, since you are looking for compact forms of most items. I miss the graphic artist who was involved in the first book. The pictures in the new book are charmless. And the new book lacks the diagram of double-digging that is hard to explain verbally.
And I'm just about to get started this spring on a potato barrel. It would seem like a good candidate for mentioning postage-stamp-wise, yet is not covered.
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