This practice was started in 16th-century France, where French Intensive gardening, also known as biodynamic gardening, helped produce a lot of yield in less space. By using methods such as deep ...

With rising prices, people are growing their own vegetables. They are finding or rediscovering that vegetables harvested from their own garden at their peak of quality are more nutritious and tastier ...

Shazam! All of a sudden everyone is thinking about growing a vegetable garden. Essentials disappearing from the local supermarket is, at best, a wake-up call. But you also may be thinking you have no ...

John Jeavons, the guru of bio-intensive gardening, is best known for his masterwork, "How To Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops)" (Ten Speed, 268 pages, $19.95).

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Because of the drought, I am trying French intensive gardening (also known as small-space gardening or square-foot gardening) this year. Rather than spread my vegetables out, I am using the French ...

John Jeavons makes me feel lazy and guilty and I'm not going to take it any more. Jeavons (for the few who don't know) is our premier intensive-vegetable- gardening guru, determined to save the world ...

Why is sustainable gardening important? Learn how to best use these intensive gardening methods for sustainability, including aquaculture, straw bale gardening and hugelkultur. Novel gardening methods ...

The students in my Sustainable Food Production course were recently asked to read an article from the Gardening Channel titled "10 Weird Intensive Gardening Methods That Really work." The assignment ...

Intensive gardening techniques maximize yield from limited space while improving soil health. Square-foot gardeningutilizes intensive spacing, which is not a new concept, but American gardener Mel ...