Description
This book masterfully teaches the Mittleider Method of container or Grow-Box gardening using hundreds of pictures. It is an excellent step-by-step guide to raising great quantities of tasty and healthy vegetables in small areas using containers of any size. Many years of world-wide research and demonstration have created these scientific techniques for super-intensive food production.
Applies to large and small gardens. Great gardens can be produced on any terrain, on patios, driveways, or even flat roof-tops – in any climate, and in any soil.
Read a Chapter
Download Chapter 3: What are Mini Grow-Boxes? (PDF, 560 KB) and learn what grow-boxes are and how to assemble them.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Why use Mini Grow-Boxes?
- What are mini Grow-Boxes?
- Choosing a Location
- preparing the area for Mini-Frames
- Tools and Materials
- How to Make Mini Grow-Boxes
- Filling Grow-Boxes with Soil
- Preplant Fertilizers
- Starting Plants from Seed
- Planting Seed in Mini-Boxes
- Transplanting into Mini-Boxes
- Making markers and Marking Mini-Boxes
- Fertilizing Crops in Mini-Boxes
- Common Garden Problems
- Increasing Yields in Everbearing Crops
- Transplanting Gallon-Size Plants into Mini-Boxes
- Installing an Automated Watering System
- Harvesting
- “A” Frames and Greenhouses
- Installing Strings to Hold Tall Plants
- What To Do With Trouble
- Soil Maggots
- Nutrient Deficiencies and Corrections
- Units of Measure
“This is the first year I have used the Mittleider Method of Gardening. I am thrilled with the results. “
Marianne Coburn,
Preston, Idaho
