Biodynamic Gardening

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January/February 1980
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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And, come springtime, you car simply smile knowingly when your gardening friends question your sanity for working the earth two feet deep with hand tools. Because—once the crops start coming, and coming, and coming in ... you can explain that there's a "method" to your madness!

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You'd be hard pressed to find any better sources of information about intensive gardening than the following books.

1. How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons (Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California, 1979), $5.95. This is the book on the practical application of the biodynamic/French intensive method.

2. Success With Small Food Gardens Using Special Intensive Methods by Louise Riotte (Garden Way, Charlotte, Vermont, 1977), $5.95. A very good source of information. Ms. Riotte also stresses the idea of landscaping your yard with shaped intensive beds.

3. The Postage Stamp Garden Book by Duane Newcomb (J.P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, California, 1975), $4.95. Mr. Newcomb presents a number of techniques borrowed from biodynamic/French intensive gardening and other organic growing methods. The book includes a detailed, alphabetical, plant-by-plant information guide.

4. Intensive Culture of Vegetables by P. Aquatias (Solar Survival Press, Harrisville, New Hampshire), $5.95. This reprint of a classic 1913 volume on the original French intensive system has been reissued by Leandre and Gretchen Poisson—of Solar Survival, Inc.—who are this country's foremost proponents of the traditional French method.

See the Image Gallery for images of double digging.

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  • Jerry 4/19/2009 10:14:56 AM

    you entered your comment almost a year ago John, but if you pull up the Image Gallery in the article the bed preparation is given there.

  • John 7/4/2008 8:08:30 AM

    Is the section on "Preparing a Double-dug Bed" available? I don't have access to it on this page.

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