Comments on: Rip Up Your Lawn? One Man Says “Yes I Can” http://jcarrot.org/rip-up-your-lawn-one-man-says-yes-i-can/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Rabbi Shmuel http://jcarrot.org/rip-up-your-lawn-one-man-says-yes-i-can/#comment-6136 Rabbi Shmuel Mon, 05 May 2008 01:43:49 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/rip-up-your-lawn-one-man-says-yes-i-can/#comment-6136 Think "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholemew - good stuff and wonderful for the turf challenged! Our garden was a model of inefficiency - we could have grown 10 times the food but we had wide rows (to get the horses through!) Think “Square Foot Gardening” by Mel Bartholemew - good stuff and wonderful for the turf challenged!

Our garden was a model of inefficiency - we could have grown 10 times the food but we had wide rows (to get the horses through!)

]]> By: Naomi Marcus http://jcarrot.org/rip-up-your-lawn-one-man-says-yes-i-can/#comment-5952 Naomi Marcus Fri, 02 May 2008 15:39:55 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/rip-up-your-lawn-one-man-says-yes-i-can/#comment-5952 Good luck with your garden. A number of years ago, I was involved with a gentleman who started a little garden in a 3'X4' plot next to his house in Yonkers. He learned about it by watching a home gardening show on Channel 13. The technique involved dividing his little garden up into 1-foot squares, fertilizing each one intensively, and then planting complementary crops together in each little square. He had a bumper crop of tomatoes and more cukes than he knew what to do with (they grow well in Westchester), some delicious eggplants, and lots of basil -- all from this tiny plot -- so you can do it. His daughter picked his cherry tomatoes off the vine and ate them like candy. The main problem was that whatever crop it was came all at once, so there was an overabundance of whatever and then nothing. Well -- that's how it is. Naomi Good luck with your garden.

A number of years ago, I was involved with a gentleman who started a little garden in a 3′X4′ plot next to his house in Yonkers. He learned about it by watching a home gardening show on Channel 13. The technique involved dividing his little garden up into 1-foot squares, fertilizing each one intensively, and then planting complementary crops together in each little square.

He had a bumper crop of tomatoes and more cukes than he knew what to do with (they grow well in Westchester), some delicious eggplants, and lots of basil — all from this tiny plot — so you can do it. His daughter picked his cherry tomatoes off the vine and ate them like candy. The main problem was that whatever crop it was came all at once, so there was an overabundance of whatever and then nothing. Well — that’s how it is.

Naomi

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