Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I agree that Mittleider Gardening Course is the best place to start. If you want more in depth help and can afford it, the Mittleider Training Videos are outstanding. The questions I had from reading the course were answered in the videos. I recommend them. The videos are training with a series of images and Jim teaching. Many lessons are over 80 images. I learn best with a mix of doing, reading and seeing. For me, reading the course book, hearing the training lessons and seeing the photographs is great.

The images show details of the real gardens. I like to spend time looking at each photograph of the gardens. Sometime the answer to my questions were answered simply by look at the photographs. Because there are many locations and different climates, you see how the method works in any location. For example lesson 43 Grow Box Crop Care has details on getting the vines growing up around the strings. I read about it in two of the books, but I did not really understand it correctly. I watched this lesson and finally understood how I should be doing it.

The video training is great!

Dale

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Cherlynn Bell <brchbell@...> wrote:
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> I've got both and several others but The Mittleider Gardening Course
>  is far and away the best one!   If you follow the directions it's a perfect garden every time!  Your soil doesn't matter.
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> Cherlynn
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> From: Jim Kennard & <gutierrez_fam@...>
> To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 5:08 PM
> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Which Book to Get?
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> Hi,
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> Just this morning I stumbled on the Mittleider Method while browsing the internet. I'm rather new to gardening (have only done it for 2 seasons), and have had mixed results - the second season, better than the first.
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> I have three raised beds: two of them are around 7 ft x 4 ft, and the smaller one is only 4 ft x 4 ft. I have no plans to do prepare 'virgin' soil for planting, as I'll hit clay only a few inches below the surface. This coming season, I will also supplement my raised beds by growing various veggie plants in containers (using SmartPots).
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> So... I'm having trouble deciding which book to read: Grow-Bed Gardening OR The Mittleider Gardening Course. It seems that both address the topic of growing in raised beds.
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> Which one should I get? Thanks!
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> Gutierrez_fam & Group:
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> I really recommend you get the Mittleider Gardening Course to begin with.
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> Grow-Bed gardening is also very good, but the GC book is so well written and presented that you'll get properly grounded in the METHOD in that book, and then reading the Grow-Bed Gardening book will supplement that very nicely.
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> Jim Kennard
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