Book Description
Here--in full color--is the new standard for vegetable gardening in the twenty-first century. Chris Bird does all his vegetable gardening in thickly planted raised beds, framed in 2 X 12 lumber and filled with custom-blended soil. The results are both eye- and mouth-opening. Moreover, his method requires so little work that you'll feel guilty when you try it. Cubed Foot Gardening shows how to build these simple, inexpensive beds and how to grow the most popular vegetables in them, using innovative tricks and techniques that would not be possible to employ in a conventional garden. It explains the author's revolutionary methods for growing sweet corn as well as white asparagus, and tells how cubed foot gardening has helped him to win giant tomato contests every year. Most of us still garden the way our grandparents did, a habit that goes back to our farm heritage. But if vegetable gardening were being discovered today for the first time, the rules would be quite different. We would all be cubed-foot gardeners.

From the Back Cover
Raised beds are widely acknowledged as the way to grown the greatest yields of vegetables per alloted space. Christopher O. Bird offers a guide on how to get going with this most efficient and asthetically pleasing form of growing.


About the Author
Christopher O. Bird gardened in places as diverse as Alaska and south Texas during twenty years in the air force. After retiring in 1993, he became a master gardener and editor of San Antonio Gardener. He has published one other book, Modern Vegetable Gardening, and numerous articles for such publications as National Gardening and Organic Gardening.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Chris Bird does all his vegetable gardening in thickly planted raised beds, framed in 2 x 12 lumber, and filled with custom-blended soil. The results are both eye-opening and mouthwatering. Moreover, his method requires so little work that you'll feel guilty when you try it. CUBED FOOT GARDENING demonstrates how to build these simple, inexpensive beds and how to grow the most popular vegetables in them, using innovative tricks and techniques that would not be possible to employ in a conventional garden. It explains the author's revolutionary system for growing sweet corn, white asparagus, and giant tomatoes that win contests every year. It also shows you how to contain "reckless" cucumbers, grow trellis-contained pumpkins, avoid "thinning" seedlings altogether, and mix the perfect soil. CUBED FOOT GARDENING is filled with countless other ingenious, home-proven techniques that all make vegetable gardening efficient and fun.

Most of us still garden the way our grandparents did, a habit that goes back to our farm heritage. But if vegetable gardening were being discovered today for the first time, the rules would be different. We would all be cubedfoot gardeners.

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