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ISBN: 0965661709

Paperback: 621 pages

A comprehensive treatment of the new, proven Mittleider Method of dramatic food production demonstrated throughout the world, with sixty-four chapters, 621 pages, and a thousand drawings, photographs, and color plates. Also provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of plant growth, soil and water, nutrients, disease and insect control, harvesting, and marketing. Essential material for all serious vegetable gardeners.

Also available in Japanese. Please contact us if you are interested in the Japanese verison.

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“In the middle of Monument Valley’s desert area, lush vegetation is flourishing. Dr. Jacob Mittleider, an expert on gardening . . has shown that food can be produced in the world’s worst soils.”
(Marsha Keele, Monument Valley, Utah)

“On both sides of the road we saw well laid out green and healthy growing crops. I could hardly believe my eyes as I had known this land to be a sandy waste.”
(B. D. Lakshman, Suva, Fiji Islands)

“Everyone in the Agriculture Department has been amazed at the results obtained. I didn’t think we could do it, but you have shown that it could be done in this country.”
(Bob Ackeroid, Papua, New Guinea)

“Dr. Mittleider has demonstrated that despite extremely unfavorable soil conditions, an abundance of vegetable crops can be produced by using his procedures. And this method has given hope to discouraged farmers throughout the Island.”
(General James p. Lampert, Okinawa, Japan)

“I came prepared to be critical as we are often inundated with programs that are neither practical nor sound. I left completely converted by the simplicity and soundness of the system and results.”
(C. D. Promnitz, Zimbabwe, Africa)

“His method is simple, based on the laws of nature, yet very invaluable and can be applied any time, any place, under any conditions – with sure results.”
(Sonny Ramdoth, Trinidad-Tobago, West Indies)

“His garden looks like a work of art. The neighboring collective farm field is full of weeds, but here where the land is the same, you won’t see a single weed.”
IZVESTYIA (newspaper), Moscow, Russia

Table of Contents:

1. The Big Challenge
2. The Mittleider Gardening Program
3. Winter Gardening in Snowing Oregon
4. Tropical Gardening
5. The Mittleider Plan of Action
6. Re-emphasizing Food Production in Today’s School Programs
7. The Fascinating World of Plants
8. The Parts of a Plant and Their Functions
9. Raising Attractive and Productive Gardens
10. Why Plants Starve
11. The Soil
12. Soil Water
13. Oxygen and Soil Air
14. The Erosion Problem
15. The Soil pH-Acidity and Alkalinity
16. Testing the Soil
17. Carbon, a Macronutrient
18. Nitrogen, a Macronutrient
19. Phosphorus, a Macronutrient
20. Potassium, a Macronutrient
21. Calcium and Magnesium, Macronutrients
22. The Micronutrients or Trace Elements
23. Sulfur, a Micronutrient
24. Boron, a Micronutrient
25. Manganese, a Micronutrient
26. Iron, a Micronutrient
27. Molybdenum, a Micronutrient
28. Copper, a Micronutrient
29. Zin, a Micronutrient
30. Sodium, a Micronutrient
31. Chloring, a Micronutrient
32. Review of Plant Nutrition
33. What are Commercial Fertilizers?
34. Inorganice Versus Organic Fertilzers
35. Foliar Spraying
36. Green-Manure and Cover Crops
37. Animal Manure
38. Toxic Elements in the Soil
39. Fertilizer Management
40. Fertilizer Economics
41. Settling the Weed Problem
42. Crop Quality
43. The Vital Classroom Theory
44. The Teacher in the Field with His Students
45. Results – Imperial Valley Style
46. Results When the Students Are on Their Own
47. Results When the Program is Deviated From
48. Marketing
49. Fruits, Grains, Nuts, and Vegetables
50. Plant Selection and Improvement
51. The Gardener’s ABC Program and Procedure
52. The Program for the Acreage Gardener
53. Plant Foods in the Diet
54. Modernizing Primitive Agricultural Programs
55. From Mile-High New Guinea to Sea-level Fiji
56. Supervisory Tours
57. What About Costs?
58. The Importance of the Greenhouse in Disease and Insect Control
59. First Graduating Class from Nine-Month Mittleider Course
60. The Contribution of the Mittleider Institutse ins Solving the Worldwide Food Problem
61. Mankind Can Be Fed
62. The Challenge of Okinawa
63. Conclusion