Square Foot Gardening - Book Review

Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew, is an excellent book. The book instructs people how to plan, build, and plant in your garden so that you are able to maximize your space, time, and effort in your garden throughout the growing season.

As outlined in the book, in traditional gardening, we set up our gardens in rows and walk between the rows to access the plants. One of the major problems with this method, as Mel points out, is that we inevitably pack down the soil between the rows and we must then work to turn over the soil and loosen it up for the next spring.

By planting as Mel instructs your garden requires less upkeep from one season to the next but yields more produce per square foot of garden space.