Great book for beginners, highly recommend.


Great book, very informative for those who are wanting to try grow biointensive but don't know where to start. Highly recommended.

This is a good gardening book for someone who has been growing their own vegetables for a few years and is looking to increase yield and incorporate sustainable practices. A beginner might be intimidated by this book and this is definitely not for someone who is growing some herbs in pots.

This is for a serious gardener with space for garden beds in their yard. I have never grown a cover crop before and I am interested in trying it out.

Recommend for gardeners looking to grow most of the vegetables they eat.

Sadly, this simplified book geared towards beginning gardeners was still over my head in many ways. Tons of valuable information in here, so I will need to purchase it for my non-existent garden section of our library as we try our hand at real gardening.

My issue with this book was much more about timing than information. It was just a little more intense than what I can imagine doing right now. In the future when I'm ready to start my own compost pile I'm sure I'll come back to this book for a reference.

Nothing special

Very concisely written "how to" book for someone who wants step by step instructions on how to start a garden.

This was a great how-to for composting and garden planning. Short and concise, easy to read, covers most common vegetables and introduces cover crops for the winter.

One of the first gardening books that fundamentally changed how I thought about growing food and gave me some guidance toward more productivity than ever before.

I need time to do this - maybe with a new backyard : )

Good all inclusive but not too in depth on starting a sustainable biointensive garden in a small space.

I was hoping for a decent introduction to intensive gardening. This was not it. It didn't really make much sense as relevant background information in the main book is missing. And it's extremely dated. Many references to all the terrible things that would happen by the year 2000. i mean did they happen? I don't know. Needs an update. For this reason, I did decide to give the author another try by reading the most recent edition of the full text. Only 1 chapter into that one and it's already far better.

"The Sustainable Vegetable Garden" ia a small, thin and fact packed gardening book that takes you from bed preparation, through a chart to use for the planning of the use of growing seasons, space needed, numbers of seeds per crop, etc. that is important for most crops that one would plan in a home garden. There was information about what plants grow well together and what you need to plant separately. Soil composition and the building of new beds were all covered and in a very concise manner. This book was more than I needed in some ways but offered important information that many of the other books I am reading did not include. It is a good resource for someone who is concerned with the improvement of the soil and maximizing the yields in their gardens.