High Intensity Gardening

Tackle high-intensity gardening to grow more food in small spaces with these tiny gardening ideas, and create a productive growing system.

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by Clément Philippe
Square foot gardening by planting flowers herbs and vegetables in wooden box on balcony

Tackle high intensity gardening to grow more food in small spaces with these tiny gardening ideas, and create a productive growing system.

Whether you grow food on a spacious homestead or are digging into your first urban garden, ditching the plant-by-rows approach and instead adopting intensive gardening techniques can help you grow a more productive garden that’s also more efficient to manage. These methods will open up a new world when it comes to small-space gardening, which can be so much more than just a few lone pots on a balcony. If you do it right, you can grow more food in less space and put an impressive dent in your household’s fresh-food needs.

Comparing 2 Popular High Intensity Gardening Methods

Two gardening authors and their systems of intensive vegetable gardening have been highly influential in North America for more than 30 years. Mel Bartholomew’s book on “square-foot” gardening was first published in 1981, while John Jeavons’ first book on “biointensive” gardening came out in 1974. Since these books hit the shelves, millions of gardeners have experimented with and embraced the gardening techniques advocated within.

  • Updated on Aug 2, 2022
  • Originally Published on Jan 10, 2014
Tagged with: biointensive garden, intensive garden, Linda A. Gilkeson, small space garden, square foot garden
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