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How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine Paperback – September 1, 1995

by John Jeavons (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
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A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre. Updated with the latest biointensive tips and techniques, this is an essential reference for gardeners of all skill levels seeking to grow some or all of their own food.
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  1. Print length
    201 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Ten Speed Press
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 1995
  5. Dimensions
    0.75 x 8.75 x 11.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0898157676
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0898157673
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Now in its fifth edition and printed in seven different languages, Jeavon's book is considered a classic in the field (literally) and has brought about a kind of green revolution in food production around the world. This book is based on Alan Chadwick's biointensive gardening techniques. It will show you how to raise enough fresh, healthy, organic vegetables for a family of four on a parcel of land as small as 800 square feet! Nothing could be more fundamental to the needs of an increasingly crowded world than food. Jeavons and the group he heads, Ecology Action, are making a quiet but earth-shaking revolution in how people raise nutritious food.

If you have a small, flat rooftop, access to a bit of open space between your house and your neighbor's, or any small patch of land, here's the ultimate how-to manual for making the most of it to raise your own food, including ways to enhance soil fertility and productivity, non-chemical pest controls, where and when to plant what in your climate or location, the tools you'll need, and the problem-solving skills essential to success. This "ground-breaking" book is used by gardeners around the globe and is as hopeful, inspiring, and motivating a gardening book as has ever been written. --Mark Hetts

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JOHN JEAVONS is a cofounder of the group Ecology Action and the father of the modern biointensive gardening movement. He lives in Willits, California, where he has been growing more vegetables for decades.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press; 5th edition (September 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 201 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0898157676
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0898157673
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.75 x 8.75 x 11.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

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JOHN JEAVONS is a cofounder of the group Ecology Action and the father of the modern biointensive gardening movement. He lives in Willits, California, where he has been growing more vegetables for decades.

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ATC
5.0 out of 5 stars Good practical information
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2023
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This is a great reference book for gardeners who want to get a high yield of veggies
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Brian
5.0 out of 5 stars good book. I've done many of the things it ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014
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good book. I've done many of the things it recommended, Especially the companion planting, and the mulching/composting. And our productivity is up. However, water is still the biggest thing a garden needs. But we've done the mulching, and that has really cut down on the amount of watering we've needed to do.
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JJ
4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
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I haven't actually sat down and read this all the way through. My favorite thing about it is that is has sample garden plans in it, which is a great time-saver.
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Debbie D. Ortman
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a must for any organic gardener big ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2014
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This book is a must for any organic gardener big or small. I have used it for over 25 years and still give it as a gift.

The companion planting guide is very helpful for planting vegetables and herbs together.
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Melody
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for the beginner and expert
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2014
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Excellent book for the beginner and expert. Shows gardens for the first year through 5th year and how they should be planted. I use a great deal of the information in this book and will for a long time to come!
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melissa113
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2013
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This is a wonderful guide! It outlines very specifically for different types of plants the number of seeds needed for successful growth, expected yields, what plants are detrimental or beneficial for each other's growth, and much more.
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Hannah Bear
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic!
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2014
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This book is a must-have for raised bed gardening! You can grow more than you think, in a smaller area than you thought possible, by following the bountiful advice in this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Double-digging, maybe. Double pages, no.
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2000
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This title grew from a 1971 experimental garden in Palo Alto, California instigated by Alan Chadwick and Stephen Kafka. That garden showed that using the biodynamic/French Intensive method produced four times more vegetables than conventional techniques.
Biodynamic techniques were developed by Austrian genius Rudolf Steiner. French Intensive methods were developed in the 1890s by market gardeners outside Paris, a time when horses provided more-than-ample fertilizer and the city provided a ready market for vegetables. Chadwick studied under Steiner and French gardeners.
The method requires double-digging garden beds and adding compost or aged manure. Double-digging to two feet in depth provides loose soil that roots easily penetrate. Plants are seeded or transplanted very close together and form a living mulch, shading roots, causing greater water retention, denying sunlight to weeds. Other aspects of the method are planting and transplanting by the phases of the moon and daily sprinkling rather than periodical flooding.
This material has been recycled four times since the 1974 typewritten edition. I regret to report it is no longer up-to-date gardening knowledge, it will intimidate beginning gardeners, and it will bore experienced gardeners. There is only one new chapter, titled Sustainability, which is mostly promotion of Ecology Action. In addition, Jeavons seems confused. In the first four editions he wrote that he was teaching us the "biodynamic/French intensive method" of Steiner and French gardeners as learned and taught by Chadwick. Now in a chapter titled A Perspective for the Future, he writes that his work is based on the "Chinese Biointensive way of farming." Yet nowhere does he advocate or tell how to use humanure, which is the basis of Chinese food production, as first shown by F.H. King in his book, Farmers of Forty Centuries. Only in the bibliography do we find book listings under the heading: Human Waste. The huge bibliography (36 pages, was 22 pages in the last edition) apparently lists every book and catalog in the Ecology Action library but there is NO INDEX! I find the lack of an index in a nonfiction book to be unforgivable. For instance, looking for crop rotation or mulching methods means scanning the entire 201 pages--and coming up empty.
There are pages and pages of drawings and technical charts that most readers will never use. We find listings of plants and information both barely usable--seeds per ounce, pounds consumed per average person per year--and important--bed spacing, yields--although there is no recognition or advice concerning the many soil types and growing zones. One is dismayed to find--in a book titled How to Grow More Vegetables--more pages of charts about grain, protein source, vegetable oil crops; cover, organic matter, fodder crops; energy, fiber paper and other crops; tree and cane crops--20 pages in all, than about vegetable crops--8 pages.
Promotion of Ecology Action uses a fourteen-page chapter in addition to six more pages of self-promotion in the Sustainability chapter. If you want to support Jeavons' work, send a check to Ecology Action, or buy his book, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, adapted from this book by co-author Carol Cox, which is smaller and less expensive and has all his best stuff without the wasted pages of charts, drawings and promotion, and it has an index! If you want current gardening information, read authors such as Eliot Coleman and Dick Raymond who are progressive and work with all garden designs, including the mulch method first popularized by Ruth Stout and now used by hundreds of my gardening friends across the country. Most of us have tried the double-dig method and have long since moved on. I recommend you not waste your time, except maybe once for new gardens, depending on soil conditions. Thereafter, use mulch, save your back and spend your time and energy on better pursuits.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2015
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Many thanks-as advertised.
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