Planning is almost as important as maintenance when it comes to gardening, and choosing one of these spacing methods can help ...

This practice was started in 16th-century France, where French Intensive gardening, also known as biodynamic gardening, helped produce a lot of yield in less space. By using methods such as deep ...

Key Points Raised beds, whether small and portable, medium and pre-fab, or large and custom, are easy on your back and knees, ...

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 tastier ...

John Jeavons, the guru of bio-intensive gardening, is best known for his masterwork, "How To Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops)" (Ten Speed, 268 pages, $19.95).

Shazam! All of a sudden everyone is thinking about growing a vegetable garden. Essentials disappearing from the local supermarket is, at best, a wake-up call. But you also may be thinking you have no ...

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 ...

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Don’t stop with just those first crops. With some careful planning and a little more planting, you can have fresh produce almost year-round, according to John Fendley of Sustainable Seed Co., a ...

Because of the drought, I am trying French intensive gardening (also known as small-space gardening or square-foot gardening) this year. Rather than spread my vegetables out, I am using the French ...

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 ...

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 world ...