John Jeavons makes me feel lazy and guilty and I'm not going to take it any more. Jeavons (for the few who don't know) is our premier intensive-vegetable- gardening guru, determined to save the ...

An intensive garden minimizes wasted space, but there is a limit on how tight you can plant. When you go beyond certain limits, you open the door to disease and insects.

With rising prices, people are growing their own vegetables. They are finding or rediscovering that vegetables harvested from their own garden at their peak of quality are more nutritious and ...

Square Foot Gardening is a gardening technique that was developed by Mel Bartholomew in the 1980s. It is a method of intensive gardening that involves planting vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a ...

"Thank you so much!" New gardener discovers way to grow food without much yard space: 'Intensive approach' first appeared on ...

Intensive gardening techniques maximize yield from limited space while improving soil health. Square-foot gardeningutilizes intensive spacing, which is not a new concept, but American gardener Mel ...

Mixing Intensive Gardening Methods All of these unconventional methods invite experimentation, and you can choose which you want to try in your own garden to suit your needs — perhaps even ...

My wife and I would like to do a small, intensive vegetable garden in the rear of our rowhouse. Must we double-dig the soil to garden intensively? Yes, I think it is critical to double-dig the soil… ...

In French intensive gardening, crops are planted two to five times tighter, and there is very little to no bare soil, which makes it more difficult for weeds to grow.

Square Foot Gardening is a type of intensive gardening based on the idea that the wide rows in conventional home gardening are a waste of time and space, and that more quality vegetables can be ...

The first mowing of the lawn has already passed for many and I see people tilling garden areas. The 2023 growing season is almost upon us and many gardeners have planted peas, lettuce, radishes […] ...