My Little Garden Box

This method is called Mittleider Gardening.  It's very exact, like a recipe.  No guessing what to do.  No wondering what's wrong with the soil or trying to figure out why there aren't any tomatoes on your vines.  Just follow the recipe.  Anyone can do this and be wonderfully successful the first year!

 This box is 20' x 5' and we picked 60 tomatoes a week.  That's typical of a Mittleider garden.

This is just one bush bean plant.

We grow tomatoes vertically.  Each plant gets pruned to just one main stem, then it leans on twine.  When tomato plants are pruned of unnecessary leaves there is room for more tomato plants... which means more tomatoes.   

We water everyday it doesn't rain but only for 2-3 minutes. 
Only water the ground not the leaves.

We have a simple fertilizer recipe we apply once a week. 



Good thing we left a lot of room for the squash!

We work in our garden about 10-15 minutes a day!  It's well worth the time and effort we give it - not to mention being so fun to show off!

If this is the kind of garden you've been looking for click here to get started or here to go back.