How to Grow More Vegetables

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N 9 SAMPLE GARDEN PLANS GOAL: To create a sustainable garden that produces food and compost for its sustainability ow we come to ...

You will want to know: When does the main planting season start? When are your first and last frosts? When are your first and l ...

Remember that a Biointensive focus means that one of your goals is to produce your own soil fertility and diet in a reduced spac ...

garden plan as an adaption of the garden presented in that work. The designs are varied and serve as examples for what is possib ...

more pleasurable and productive. Review each chapter to see which tools are recommended. We also encourage you to start thinking ...

and mature compost crop residues saved over winter. Harvest immature compost crops planted in the previous season. Dig garden b ...

After each section Cnishes up its main season crop, consider the following possibilities: Sow buckwheat for a summer catch cover ...

determine the best times. Also check your area’s recommended planting dates for your area. One good source for information can b ...

Beds 1 and 2—Planting MAIN GROWING SEASON 6+ weeks before expected planting date START IN FLATS Crop SquareFeet SpacingBed Tomat ...

Green onions^2 3" 75 seeds to ensure 50 plants Carrots 4 3" 200 seeds to ensure 100 plants Leeks 15 16" 155 seeds to ensure 93 p ...

Snap beans 2 6" 16 seeds to ensure 13 plants 1 week before expected planting date START IN FLATS Corn, Sweet 20 12" 40 seeds to ...

Sow Winter Compost Mix (recipe per 100 square feet) about 6 weeks before first hard frost date Hard red spring wheat 100 broadca ...

quantity and/or quality in a relatively short period of time. For more calories and mature compost material in a smaller space, ...

Click here to access Sustainable Diet Designs Planting chart as a PDF. Sustainable Diet Designs Planting ALL SEASONS 6+ weeks be ...

Peppers, cayenne^5 12" 16 seeds to ensure 8 plants Tomatoes 25 21" 11 seeds to ensure 9 plants Parsley 10 5" 135 seeds to ensure ...

weather, small seeded 100 8" 426 seeds (1plants^5 ⁄^8 cups) to ensure 320 Wheat 70 5" 430 seeds (4.4 tablespoons) toensure 300 p ...

shows that it does not achieve 60% in terms of carbon and calorie crops in the main season, but comes close with 50%. Summer and ...

2 This garden is an adaption of the garden found in The Sustainable Vegetable Garden by John Jeavons and Carol Cox. 3 This is an ...

APPENDIX 1 Tools One of Ecology Action's goals has been to develop Biointensive techniques that use as few procedures as possibl ...