Grow More Food in Small Spaces

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When Margaret Park of Salt Lake City , Utah , started experimenting with little space gardening , she was n’t aware of any methods that focused on garden size .

“ I was faced with the reality of my cramped urban backyard and adjudicate I would test what seemed like dear estimation for small - scale growing , ” she said .

The successful results of her experimental methods are now available to gardeners everywhere in her new book of account . “More Food From Small Spaces : Growing Denser , Deeper , Higher and Longer Gardens”(Great River Books , 2013 ) shows how anyone can farm healthy , constitutive vegetable in a very pocket-size area .

In her 8 x 24 foot garden maculation , she spaces plants close together , trains them togrow up instead of out , and seed newfangled crop throughout the year .

“ I think the discoveries that are unique to my Holy Writ are my Center Square Plan for maximizing the proportion of polish blank to work space , the various towers and trellis I designed for growing vertically and the multiple - function greenhouse for winter and early spring harvest time that can also be used in summer for refinement or supernumerary trellis support , ” she explain .

The source and groundbreaker built elementary , snap - together trellis social system out of PVC tube . The structures are stalwart , durable and space saving .

Park said she even designed some trellising for magniloquent tomato and cuke . A doubled - responsibility trellis is used to in turn graze pea and wintertime squashes for gravid yield in less quad .

She also has discovered a number of method that help lengthen the grow season .

“ build a dewy-eyed glasshouse can bring three month of food harvest , ” she say . She details the various cool strategies in red-hot weather and warming strategy for cold conditions that can also gallop the harvest .

Park said a key to success with such intensive gardening is rich , fertile soil and she explicate all the how - to ’s in Chapter 2 . This chapter also explains the bokashi compost system of rules .

The bokashi compost method acting was modernize by a Nipponese flora scientist , grant to Park . She said this method for composting is a means to tot up friendly germ to the soil .

“ It ’s a very firm and space - economize means to recycle plant materials from the kitchen and yard into compost , ” she said . “ Bokashi compost transformed my vegetable - growing plot of land from dead scandal to living soil in a year , and my soil keep getting better . ”

nurseryman are pay for to keep up with Park ’s pocket-size - infinite grow efforts on herCenter Square GardenFacebook Sir Frederick Handley Page .

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