{"id":74,"date":"2011-10-13T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:31:08","slug":"the-square-foot-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2011\/10\/13\/the-square-foot-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Square Foot Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Purchased from Half-Priced Books for a meager $7.95, this book just might change my life.<\/p>\n

I grew up on a farm and spent hundreds of hours pulling weeds, picking beans and every other type of vegetable you can imagine. We didn\u2019t just have gardens. We had \u201ctruck patches\u201d. From strawberries on one end of the property to potatoes on the other, we were working 40 hours a week to keep up with the harvest.<\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise when I learned that I didn\u2019t have to plant row upon row of green beans to get a good harvest.\u00a0 What if, instead, I planted just a few seeds: individual plants and only enough to meet my needs. I didn\u2019t have to hoe 40 acres of carrots but could stick a single seed in the soil to get a single carrot. REVOLUTIONARY!<\/p>\n

Everything a family of six needs for a season can be grown in a 4 foot by 4 foot plot of land, with nothing more than a small trowel and a bucket of compost.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve started preparing the soil and piling the compost. Look for my bumper crop coming in early April. I\u2019ll plant a carrot for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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