Jeff Ball's 60-Minute Vegetable Garden

by Jeff Ball

Book Overview

The author presents an innovative vegetable growing system that not only extends the growing season from early spring to early winter, but requires just 60 minutes of work each week. His book includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020303769
• ISBN13: 9780020303763
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

60 minute vegetable garden

This is my second copy of this book having gardened this way for years in Denver. Someone permanently borrowed that book so I bought another when I moved to Kansas. Out of print but the ideas are still very contemporary. Buy this book if you want a great garden with little effort. Work full time and still want to garden? This is the book for you! It should be reprinted.

Excellent resource

I checked this book out of the library over and over while getting my garden established. I am finally going to go buy a copy. Jeff has great ideas for making your garden less work and more fun. He gives practical advice in an engaging, readable style. If you're interested in gardening, and either a new gardener or looking to shake your style up a little bit, I recommend this book!

60 minute gardening introduced.

THIS IS A GRAND BOOK THAT CAN BRING GARDENING TO ALL OF US. WE BENEFIT FROM THE YEARS OF TRIALS AND SUCCESSES THAT WAS PUT INTO THE RESEARCH THAT BRINGS US THIS BOOK. THE COMBINATIONS THAT JEFF BALL HAS BROUGHT TO US FROM ALL THE MANY HISTORICAL TECNIQUES ARE IRREPLACEABLE. WE WOULD NOT HAVE STARTED DOING IT WITHOUT HIM. Update: We have modified a lot of his methods to suit us as we learn. Plus, keep in mind, the book was written some time ago. However, it is a great beginning for ideas and encouragement.

He's got the system!

This is the book to have if you want a beautiful and productive garden, especially if you don't have a lot of room. I've been carrying this book around with me for years, just waiting until I finally owned my own house so that I could build the raised beds and the interlocking system that he describes in this book.My neighbors were a little bemused when they saw us out in the back yard, building our garden: "Oh, those are those raised beds, eh? I've heard of those" I'll tell you, when we had a cold spring and I turned my beds into little greenhouses (by covering pvc arches with clear plastic) I got a few more odd looks, but when it finally warmed up I took off the plastic and my tomatoes were three times the size of everyone else! With that head start, they were soon over six feet tall, and producing more wonderful tomatoes than I could handle.Oh, and not needing to weed the garden (thanks to using his system of plastic mulch) and being able to water the whole garden by just turning a knob (thanks to setting up a drip irrigation system under the mulch, as he explains in the book) made taking care of my garden much easier than the traditional row gardens my neighbors have. As time passes, and my soil gets better and better, the advantages of this system will continue to accrue.It's sad that this book is out of print, but it's definitely worth some effort to find a copy!

Practical, specific and very useful

I read this book in one afternoon. I applied the ideas and have had a far more productive garden in less space with far less effort than before. Ball's book presents specific information, complete with shopping lists for materials and sources of hard-to-find products. He also includes information on companion planting, scheduling and organic approaches. I wouldn't be without it!