BIOINTENSIVE GARDENING

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BIOINTENSIVE GARDENING

John and Jerrie do biointensive gardening in most of our garden. We us the book HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES( AND FRUITS, NUTS, BERRIES, GRAINS, AND OTHER CROPS) THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE ON LESS LAND THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.

BY JOHN JEAVONS.

This book tells you about the bio-intensive way that you can produce more food for you or your family.

The biointensive method of gardening is how you can get high yields in very small spaces.

You may plant this garden in a place where you have little space or in the country. We have a heavy clay soil. Heavy soils can be improved by adding soil supplements in the space whee you add a seed or a plant; adding manure or sand to the soil.

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HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES (AND FRUITS, NUTS, BERRIES, GRAINS, AND OTHER CROPS) THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT ON LESS LAND THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.

BY JOHN JEAVONS, 7TH EDITION

FORWARD BY ALICE WATERS

This a fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the book that helped revolutionize production around the world, as well as in our badkyard gardens.

This is a classic book on GROW BIOINTENSIVE gardening for beginners to advanced gardeners, The most complete and practical book of its kind, proven effective in all types of garden conditions. This book is every gardener's guidebook to healthier and more beautiful gardens. Everything you need to know to grow the best crops.

The major revision updates everything, with the most current information, techniques and data.

Everyone who has used and enjoyed previous editions owes it to themselves and their gardens to have this book. All the charts and plans are updated, the bibliography is expanded by 25 % more information about how to work towards sustainable soil fertility is included.

IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE biointensive garden method are :

DOUBLE-DUG, RAISED BEDS

The gardener digs 12 inches down and then loosens the soil to a dept of 24 inches. This loose soil enables plant roots to penetrate easily, allows more air in the soil.

COMPOSTING

The higher yields offered by intensive planting would not be sustainable without a way of maintaining the health and vigor of the soil. We use kitchen waste, gardening trimmings and other forms of organic matter, when properly composted; it provides the elements necessary to maintain the biological cycles of life that exist in the home garden.

COMPANION PLANTING

Research has shown that many plants grow better when near certain other plants. Green beans and strawberries, for instance, thrive when they are grown together. Some plants are useful in repelling pests, while others attract benefical insect life.

OPEN-POLLINATED AND HEIRLOOM SEEDS

With the BIOINTENSIVE techniques yields can be obtained with normal open-pollinated seeds which have been selected over the decades and centuries because of their beneficial characteristics. In this way a wonderful variety can be grown while the world's genetic diversity is preserved.