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by Mel Bartholomew Foundation (Author)
Is it ripe? Take your gardening to the next level with this practical guide to ripeness. Whether knee deep in the garden or shopping at the market, you'll learn the best time to pick edibles and how to identify the most perfectly ripe produce. Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables includes more than seventy edibles with details on varieties, history, tips on when to pick and when to buy, what to look for when buying produce in the market, best places to grow certain produce, picking advice, what to avoid buying, storage, and ripening tips. With dozens of photographs of ripe, over ripe, and under ripe edibles, as well as details on nonvisual signs of ripeness such as taste, feel, and smell, Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables will leave no doubt in your mind whether you're dealing with ripe or not ripe.
Author Biography
The Mel Bartholomew Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation based in New York. It was created to carry on work of Mel Bartholomew, originator of the Square Foot Gardening method and author of All New Square Foot Gardening. With more than 2.5 million copies of Square Foot Gardening books in print, Mel's method of efficient, productive gardening has spread across the world. The Mel Bartholomew Foundation is dedicated to it mission of bringing fresh food into the lives of just about everyone on the planet.
