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Re: Garden Size Question

Last year I worked off of 64 square feet (2 4x8 beds).  This
(even though partially shaded by trees, but those went away) was more than
adequite to provide salads every day.  In some cases the lettuce and
spinch crops failed (or were bunnyized) and I had weird salads (nothing
but a little lettuce from the store, and lots of salad toys, carrots, green
onions, radishes, peppers...).  This year I plan to be more deligent about
planing replacement lettuce.  Last year I got caught up with everthing else
I was growing.  A comment on Mels definition of feeding someone,
he specifically said veggies for salads.  That is far different then
trying to do subsistance completely out of the garden.  To feed yourself
three times a day out of the garden with nothing but food from the garden
would require more room.  Of couse there is no reason you could not
sqft it...
Ron Souliere

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> From: Kurt McCullum <kdmccullum@bigfoot.com>
> I have some questions about garden size which some of you may be able to
> answer. I have been reading Mel’s book again and in the chapter where he
> describes garden size he says that one block (4’x4’) is enough to feed
one
> person with fresh vegetables for salads for the year. He also writes that
a
> typical family of four can have fresh vegetables for every meal plus
canning
> with 6 to 8 blocks. That said, has anybody put this to the test? I
question
> this because Ecology Action puts out the book ‘How to grow more
vegetables
> than you ever thought possible...’ and they say that 400sqft is needed to
> feed a family of four using intensive gardening methods. I have a family
of
> three, soon to be a family of four and I am trying to grow as much of our
> food as I can. This is especially important because my daughter is highly
> allergic to many foods in the store. I expanded my garden this year from
> 32sqft to 70sqft in hopes of a bigger bounty. So what have you in
cyberland
> experienced? Are 6 to 8 blocks enough?

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