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Bartholomew, Mel
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Vegetable gardening -- Economic aspects.
Square foot gardening.
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Bartholomew, Mel
Vegetable gardening -- Economic aspects.
Square foot gardening.
Rate of return.
MARC Display
Square
foot
gardening
high-value
veggies
:
homegrown
produce
ranked
by
value
/ Mel Bartholomew.
by
Bartholomew, Mel
Cool Springs Press, 2016.
Call #:
635 B287sv
Subjects
Vegetable
gardening
-- Economic aspects.
Square
foot
gardening
.
Rate of return.
ISBN:
9781591866688 (lib. binding)
1591866685 (lib. binding)
Description:
128 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
What is a garden investment? -- Garden investment plants -- Garden investment alternatives.
Summary:
Which
veggies
should you plant in your garden, the answer really comes down to math. It doesn't matter where you garden, in a community garden plot, in containers, in raised beds or straw bales, or in a
Square
Foot
Garden, deciding which edibles to plant is perhaps the biggest factor in whether or not your garden succeeds. While success means many things to many gardeners, there's no getting around the issue of cost versus payback. Does it make sense to spend $5 and use up three feet of garden space to grow one cabbage when you can buy a beautiful one at the farmers market for $2? The author has been a gardener and engineer for many years and can tell you this, even in the garden, math is your friend. In
Square
Foot
Gardening
: High
Value
Veggies
, we've
ranked
the 59 vegetables that are most common for home growing and concluded which ones give you the most bang for your
gardening
buck. We looked at a lot of factors and crunched a lot of numbers and the answers all become clear.
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