The Mittleider Gardening Course – New & In Full Color

The most educationally sound gardening book available anywhere has now become even better!

Brand New in 2017!  co-authored by James B. Kennard, with many revisions, updates, and improvements, 149 color photos demonstrating every step in the gardening process, and dozens of new and improved illustrations throughout, making learning quicker, easier, and even more enjoyable.

The best gardening book on the planet is now the last gardening book you will ever need!  The first printing was a collaboration between several BYU Educators and Dr. Mittleider, and this edition has the benefit of an additional 26 years’ experience and wisdom, plus the collaboration of many experienced Certified Mittleider Growers.

Provides simple straight-forward instruction and illustrations on every element of the Mittleider System of growing, enhanced with color pictures and improved illustrations.  Teaches all the basic topics plus 15 advanced topics, such as cold-weather gardening, pruning for maximum yields, growing plants vertically, solutions to common gardening problems such as controlling bugs and diseases, understanding fertilizers, home seedling production, building an inexpensive greenhouse and more.

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Download Chapter 16: Automated Watering (PDF, 356 KB) and learn how to install a simple PVC Mittleider Watering System.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Soil-Bed Basics

  1. Planning
  2. Preparing
  3. Planting
  4. Watering
  5. Fertilizing
  6. Weeding
  7. Harvesting

Part 3: Grow-Box Basics

  1. Planning
  2. Preparing
  3. Planting
  4. Watering
  5. Fertilizing
  6. Weeding
  7. Harvesting

Part 4: Mittleider Advanced Topics

  1. Caring for Climbing Plants
  2. Automated Watering
  3. Understanding Fertilizers
  4. Nutritional Deficiencies
  5. Problem Soils
  6. Destructive Insects
  7. Common Plant Diseases
  8. Seedling Production
  9. Cold-Weather Gardening
  10. Building a Greenhouse

Appendix A: Garden Genius Planning Forms

Appendix B: Reference Tables for Planning Your Garden

Appendix C: DIY (Do It Yourself) Workshop

Appendix D: Learn More References

“I just have to say thank you again Jim. Our garden is just wonderful! Several of our neighbors were chatting about gardens and using the Mittleider Method. One of the “new converts” said that we should change the name to “Mittleider Magic”.”

Wendell and Linda Gubler

Six Steps to Successful Gardening

Using the Mittleider Method taught in the Six Steps book will help you grow 5 to 10 times more healthy delicious vegetables and fruits than a traditional garden in the same space.

Follow the simple steps in this book and you can save many hundreds of dollars a year on your food bills.

Probably the biggest reason you garden is to improve your health by eating fresh, naturally grown vegetables & fruit.  The Mittleider Method consistently produces the healthiest and most tasty produce possible.

This book is so fun to read even children enjoy and learn from it, and every step of the way is graphically illustrated for instant understanding.

All the basic gardening you need to grow a great garden – no matter what your soil and climate are like – is contained in less than 60 pages!

This is all while using NO pesticides or herbicides!

You’ll also save additional money because this gardening method uses less than half the water of a traditional garden.

Learn the simple secrets of the Mittleider method of gardening that’s been taught and loved by millions of families for over 40 years around the world.

And you’ll be pleased to know you are helping support the work of the Non-Profit Food for Everyone Foundation, which was set up to continue Dr. Jacob Mittleider’s work of teaching the best possible gardening methods to families throughout the world.

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Download Chapter 1: Soil and Soil-Bed Preparation (PDF, 472 KB) and learn what makes good soil and different approaches to making your own soil-beds.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Soil and Soil-Bed Preparation
  3. Transplanting and Planting
  4. Watering
  5. Fertilizing
  6. Weed Control
  7. Harvesting
  8. Planning and Record Keeping

“Thank you for the best garden ever! I had nice furrows in the garden and strawberries in the grow boxes. It worked out so well. Even though the space was the same this year, I changed to the Mittleider Method of gardening and the yield was wonderful. There was such an abundance that we donated some to the local food bank!”
Lorri Erickson

Gardening by the Foot

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.

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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:

  1. Introduction
  2. Why use Mini Grow-Boxes?
  3. What are mini Grow-Boxes?
  4. Choosing a Location
  5. preparing the area for Mini-Frames
  6. Tools and Materials
  7. How to Make Mini Grow-Boxes
  8. Filling Grow-Boxes with Soil
  9. Preplant Fertilizers
  10. Starting Plants from Seed
  11. Planting Seed in Mini-Boxes
  12. Transplanting into Mini-Boxes
  13. Making markers and Marking Mini-Boxes
  14. Fertilizing Crops in Mini-Boxes
  15. Common Garden Problems
  16. Increasing Yields in Everbearing Crops
  17. Transplanting Gallon-Size Plants into Mini-Boxes
  18. Installing an Automated Watering System
  19. Harvesting
  20. “A” Frames and Greenhouses
  21. Installing Strings to Hold Tall Plants
  22. What To Do With Trouble
  23. Soil Maggots
  24. Nutrient Deficiencies and Corrections
  25. 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

The Mittleider Gardening Library Includes The 2022 Edition of The Gardening Course Book!

NEW PDF VERSION WORKS ON ALL PC and Mac PLATFORMS – Plus your Smart TV – AND IS SEARCHABLE !!

The COMPLETE Mittleider Library on One Flash Drive (Through USB Port)!

The Mittleider Gardening Library  includes 11 searchable publications, with ALL TEN of Dr. Mittleider’s vegetable gardening books and all nine of his subject-specific manuals (as one publication). Now you can read and study everything written about vegetable gardening by the great Garden Doctor himself on one Flash Drive, and take it with you anywhere in your pocket or purse!

All TEN books have been completely and accurately digitized, including thousands of pictures, plus every word, chart, and illustration. And depending on your screen resolution, they may look even better than in the originals.

And the NEW PDF version of the Library includes a Schedule of Updates and Improvements Since Publication at the beginning of 5 of the gardening books, This gives you the advantages of having these great gardening books in their original form while also being able to do everything in the best way possible, according to the most recent and best information available.

Want greenhouse plans? Take your pick of several! How about fertilizer formulas! See how they have evolved and improved over the years with experience in every kind of soil, in countries around the world.  Grow in containers or in any kind or condition of soil with great success.  Learn to grow climbing and vining plants and multiply your yields as much as 5 to 1!

How important is having good soil anyway? You’ll be surprised, and you’ll love the answer!

Did you ever wonder what caused the black heart in potatoes? It’s not a disease at all, but a deficiency. Find out which one in a few seconds. How about Blossom-End Rot on ripe tomatoes? Another nutrient deficiency that’s SO simple to correct!

Were you told yellow plants mean nitrogen deficiency? Discover the 6 different nutrients that cause yellow leaves when they are deficient. And see several examples of each one on different vegetables and fruits, so you can become the expert in diagnosing problems others just guess at.

With The Garden Doctor at your fingertips, you’ll have better information than most college professors, and it’s so easy to use!

From 6 Steps to Successful Gardening – the fun graphically illustrated primer – to the college agronomy text Food For Everyone – with 1000 pictures that has made expert (and wealthy) commercial growers in over 20 countries – you’ll have a treasury of knowledge from the unique experience of the man who’s done it all. And he’s documented everything so thoroughly, we all benefit without the painful, time consuming, and costly mistakes!

Supposedly tough gardening subjects have been made clear and understandable – like the importance and proper use of soils, organics, pH, fertilizers, and pest control. You name it and the answers are literally right at your fingertips.

Books Included:

  1. Food for Everyone
  2. The Garden Doctor 1
  3. The Garden Doctor 2
  4. The Garden Doctor 3
  5. Mittleider Gardening Course – 2022 Publication
  6. Gardening By the Foot
  7. Grow-Bed Gardening
  8. Let’s Grow Tomatoes
  9. 6 Steps to Successful Gardening
  10. Mittleider Grow-Box Gardens
  11. 9 Gardening Manuals

“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. With my experience in the field of agriculture, I can safely say that this man knows his stuff, and he sure is an asset to the world.”
Sonny Ramdath
Trinidad and Tobago

The Garden Doctor (Vol. 1-3)

Eliminate Plant Deficiencies and Diseases for Healthy Plants

The best information to be found in one place on vegetable plant nutrient deficiencies and corrective treatments – nothing else we’ve seen comes close! Illustrates plant deficiency symptoms for all 13 nutrients on a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, using more than 800 color photographs.

Includes three volumes of detailed color photos and descriptions that teach what each nutrient does for plants and how to recognize the first and predominant symptoms of deficiency. Suggests appropriate corrective dosages for your particular garden space, different methods of application, and the best time for treatment.

Created from 50 years’ study and field experience throughout the world. Used in many agriculture colleges and universities, as well as by many agriculture agents, in the USA and numerous other countries. Works equally well on large farms and small backyard gardens to diagnose and treat plants and produce greatly increased yields of uniform quality vegetable and fruit crops in any soil, in any climate.

Also available in Russian. Please contact us if you are interested in the Russian version.

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Download Molybdenum (Mo) (PDF, 1.1 MB) and learn why molybdenum is so important and how you can spot and correct deficiencies.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1:

  1. Nitrogen (N)
  2. Phosphorus (P)
  3. Potassium (K)
  4. Calcium (Ca)
  5. Chlorine (Cl)
  6. Carbon (C)
  7. Sodium (Na)

Volume 2:

  1. Magnesium (Mg)
  2. Manganese (Mn)
  3. Sulfur (S)
  4. Copper (Cu)
  5. Zinc (Zn)
  6. Iron (Fe)

Volume 3:

  1. Boron (B)
  2. Molybdenum (Mo)
  3. Salinity Symptoms of Distress
  4. Two or More Deficiencies
  5. Miscellaneous Symptoms
  6. Garden Grow-Boxes
  7. How to Make Grow-Boxes
  8. Using Custom-made Soil

“We started seeing problems with our tomatoes this year and it took only about 5 minutes to figure out that it was a potassium deficiency using The Garden Doctor.”
Dan Harms,
Seattle, WA

Food for Everyone

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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Download Chapter 8: The Parts of a Plant and Their Functions (PDF, 784 KB) and learn the basic anatomy of all plants and understand the functions each part of a plant plays.

Comments

“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

“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