Micro-Gardening Ideas for Schools, Outdoor Learning and Edible Forest Gardens

Download or read book Micro-Gardening Ideas for Schools, Outdoor Learning and Edible Forest Gardens written by James Paris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permaculture gardening using micro-gardening techniques, means that it is possible to grow your own food in a way that guarantees best quality produce even if you only have a small area to grow.This introduction to 8 micro-gardening ideas, means that the reader is well informed of the choices available, and the school teacher able to teach systems that will expand and inform the minds of gardening students.Here are just some of the things you will learn about in this book...Raised Bed Gardening: Possibly one of the best known and written about gardening systems. Easy and productive - an absolute must for anyone wanting to expand their food production.Square Foot Gardening: An exceptional vegetable growing system that offers the user all-year-round vegetable growing from a tiny area.Keyhole Gardening: A little-known but productive system used with great success in the African continent and promoted widely by the UK charity sendacow.org.Lasagna Gardening: This system using an inventive way to grow vegetables in a growing compound made from layered organic waste and cardboard. No need for artificial fertilisers - this system feeds itself! Hot Bed Gardening: Excellent for increasing the growing window as it heats the soil naturally, meaning you can plant earlier and grow excellent vegetables.All this and much more besides in this introduction to micro-gardening using these permaculture growing systems.