One of my favorite gardening references, interesting perspective helpful in calculating amount of seeds needed to generate yields based on your own consumption. It easy to grow whatever looks pretty or sounds good at the time. I found I needed less tomato seeds and more lettuce , Brussels, carrots, onion, peas, potatoes and green bean plants in order to produce based based on our family's consumption. Nice to calculate and get the most out of your growing season and preserve enough to last for the year and cut money spent on produce at the grocery store.

This is probably a better place for most people to start than How to Grow More Vegetables. It introduces the concepts outlined in great detail there and provides a place to start for a method that is probably unfamiliar especially for raised bed gardeners. A method at least worth considering for those interested in economical and space efficient gardening, and as a contrast with permaculture.

Skimmed book borrowed from DC Library.

Useful charts and lots of information. Not sure that it will work well with my current garden layout.

VERY HELPFUL! I'm an intermediate gardener and I found some great tips. It doesn't assume you already know anything so the details are helpful. perfect for a beginner.

This is a great source if you want to become a serious vegetable gardener.

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden was written as an introductory supplement for Jeavons' other book, "How to Grow More Vegetables." With that purpose in mind, it does its job well, introducing basic concepts and laying out the general rules of a biointensive garden. It focuses rather intensely on dates and maths and assumes the reader has at least a bit of gardening knowledge to them, which means it might not be easy reading for some, but it is a good little booklet with a good pool of general information.

Going to try to grow my own food this year to reduce my carbon footprint. I'm starting here with this "engineer's guide to gardening".

Excelente tratado para comenzar un huerto urbano. Se lo recomiendo a todos...

It had some good information, but its really complicated and restrictive in the advice given. It would be a much better book if you were just starting out with gardening and didn't already have beds built all over your backyard and overflowing boxes of seeds.

A deep dive into biointensive beds, from 1995. I learned the word cotyledons and it made me feel excited about the prospect of composting.