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Re: I search THE bock

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At 08:57 AM 4/2/01 +0200, Patrick Forget said,

>I'm french gardener. I wish to buy the book of Mel
>Bartholomew  in french but I don't find it.

I don't know if Mel's book is available in French, but he didn't invent 
square foot gardening.  The French did!!!

Outside the United States, it's called the "French intensive method," and 
Patrick can probably find Internet resources about it by using a good 
search engine like www.google.com and typing in that phrase.

The most beautiful book in my garden library is about this very 
subject.  It's Louisa Jones's "The Art of French Vegetable Gardening" 
(1995, Artisan, ISBN 1-8883-09-751).  Jones is an American living in the 
south of France for many years (the book is in English).

On page 15, she says, "Today, French romantics often belong to the 
ecological persuasion.  The magazine Les Quatre Saisons, bible of French 
organic gardeners, is full of ideas for cheap structures to be made of 
recycled materials, companion plantings, gardening by the moon, and son 
on.  The spaces between vegetables are filed with green manures, either 
growing strong or cut and piled deep as mulch, or with flowers and herbs 
chosen for specific beneficial properties.  The result is often a garden 
design submerged by the density and variety of plantings."

The color photos in Jones's book are to drool over.  Maybe Patrick can get 
hold of a current issue of Les Quatre Saisons and access French-language 
info on the French intensive method via that method if Mel's book has not 
been made available in French.

--Janet


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