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Gardening Books

Do you need vegetable gardening books that apply to YOUR unique situation – that will virtually guarantee you a successful gardening experience? If so you’ve come to the right place.

We’re a non-profit foundation dedicated to “teaching the world to grow food one family at a time,” using the best possible family vegetable gardening books, methods & materials, and everything is available on The Mittleider Gardening Library CD, or individually.

We’ll guide you to the best resources for your needs no matter where you live or what your gardening situation. For example:

• Is it too cold to grow many things where you live? Protect your plants!
• Do you have bad soil - hard to work in & won’t grow anything? Solutions!
• Is your yard too small – or do you have no yard at all? Grow in containers!
• Is it too hot to grow anything in the summer? Three sure-fire solutions!

• Do you worry about the environment & pollution of our water supply?
• Do you want to grow organically to maximize health benefits from your garden?
• Is hydroponic gardening an option – intensive growing year-round?
• Are raised beds your choice – because of comfort or health concerns?

• Are your plants sick or not growing? Let the Garden Doctor solve it!
• Is growing in the soil your choice? Traditional location with Better Results!
• Want to maximize yield in minimum space? Grow in 3-D – Vertically!
• Need a greenhouse to grow year-round? Multiple plans & How-to guides!

If your situation isn’t covered and you’d like help, email us at info@foodforeveryone.org.

Following is an introduction to the vegetable gardening books and subject-specific manuals authored by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider and included in the Gardening Library – the result of almost 60 years of unique experience in 27 countries around the world. Using even one of these books will give you “a great garden in any soil, in any climate”.

6 Steps to Successful Gardening is a simple but thorough book with great graphics that’s great for the beginner, for a smaller garden in the soil, or for getting your children involved (not childish – just simple and easy to understand and follow).

Get a paper copy from the Foundation at www.growfood.com/products, or get an electronic copy almost instantly for only $8.95 at www.howtoorganicgarden.com.

Gardening by the Foot This book will give you everything you need to grow vegetables in containers or raised soil beds. Using graphics and dozens of pictures you’ll quickly learn how to grow healthy and tasty “home-grown” produce even if you have no soil at all!

It’s obviously part of the Garden Library CD, and it’s also available in both paper from the Foundation, and electronically from Howtoorganicgarden.com.

The Mittleider Gardening Course is the combined effort of several university professors working with Dr. Mittleider to produce a simple but comprehensive vegetable gardening how-to “Lab Manual”. It includes all the basic vegetable gardening instruction for both soil-bed and container gardening, plus it covers more than a dozen important advanced topics like greenhouse growing, seedling production, controlling bugs & diseases, and automating your watering.

The paper copy is available for only $17.95 plus S&H from the Foundation, and the instantly-available electronic version is only $3.954 total at howtoorganicgarden.com.

Grow-Bed gardening is packed with pictures, and outlines clearly the steps – both basic and advanced – for successfully growing in the soil. Many thousands of gardeners love this book and credit it for their great gardens.

Available only in the electronic version right now, it can be had for $13.95. Get yours immediately, and quickly become the best gardener in your community – Click here.

Let’s Grow Tomatoes will make you the local expert on growing great quantities of delicious and healthy tomatoes. This book steps you through and illustrates every step in growing tomatoes, from planting seeds to harvesting. You’ll learn how the experts do it, but adapted to your own desires, needs, and circumstances.

For the electronic version of this long-time best seller for less than $11 total,  Click here.

The 3-volume Garden Doctor set will help you quickly solve many vegetable gardening problems that perplex most home gardeners. Instead of blindly thinking your plants have a “disease” that’s incurable, you’ll discover that very often it’s simply a nutrient deficiency. And the solution is even easier than the diagnosis.

With about 800 color pictures you’ll learn what the symptoms of deficiency look like on many different vegetables for all of the 13 mineral nutrients plants need for healthy growth. And simple corrective treatments are given for every deficiency.

Because of the huge electronic file size these are only available as part of the Gardening Library CD or in paper copy,  Click here.

Food For Everyone is a college-level agronomy text that teaches much more than just family gardening. It’s used in several colleges around the world as the primary course material for an intensive three-month gardening training course that has given thousands of people new careers – as commercial growers, greenhouse & hydroponic growers, teachers, & even radio, TV & newspaper columnists .

Such topics as plant types, parts of a plant, soils, fertilizers, diseases, insects, greenhouse growing, and many others are covered in detail in this 625 page textbook.

Many students of the Mittleider Training Course who have graduated from other agriculture programs have been quoted as saying “I learned more about growing food in three months than I learned in 5 years”.

Again, because of its size it’s only available as part of the Gardening Library CD or in paper. Click here.

The Mittleider Gardening Manuals range in size from 7-25 pages; they are provided to educate you on individual subjects; and they include:

• Deficiency Symptoms - A well organized and easy way to understand what’s really wrong with your “sick” plants.
• Fertilizers Condensed - A 25 page wealth of information summarizing important facts about all 13 essential nutrients that man can supply.
• Fertilizer Management - Teaches about soil testing, the profitable use and placement of lime and other fertilizers, the importance of drainage, crop rotation, and several other important topics every gardener should know.
• Greenhouses - Describes how you can fool Mother Nature by the use of greenhouses, greatly extending your growing season even through the winter.
• Growing Vegetables Without Fertilizers - Valuable instruction for survival situations when you cannot obtain any fertilizers, or a short-term need in a developing country.
• Manures - Gives you the knowledge you need to use manure wisely and properly, including the benefits and the hazards.
• Osmosis - The plant world depends entirely on osmosis for food and water, and yet most gardeners are ignorant of how this scientific principle works. This 9 page manual will save you from many mistakes.
• Soils - The many types of soils and their essential functions, along with the steps needed to make them productive, are discussed simply and clearly, as well as the solution to gardening in worn-out soils.
• Sprouting – You will discover the many advantages of growing your own seedlings, as well as learning the nursery growers’ secrets about successfully sprouting your seeds and growing healthy plants.

The Manuals are available as part of the Gardening Library CD or electronically, and can be had for only $15.95 Click Here.