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.

 Follow the links below for a detailed garden lesson

Lesson 1 

  Quick overview        

  Choose a location in full sun

  Decide on a garden style

  Constructing your garden

  Planning to plant

      Print outs:

        Six Laws of Plant Growth       

        Planting Chart

        Garden Layout Details                 

        Single-Row T-Frame   

  How and when to water 

              

LESSON 2:

How to shop for plants 

Planting the garden     

Feeding the garden. 

   Pre-Plant Fertilizer Recipe 

   Weekly Feed Fertilizer Recipe

   Transplanting Fertilizer Recipe

Easy Weeding

    

LESSON 3:

Remove suckers to increase fruit

Benefits of growing vertically

Problems to watch out for (COMING SOON)

      Bugs

      Fungus, disease or 'hidden hunger' 

    

  LESSON 4:

  When and how to pick

  Recipes for 'fresh from the garden' vegetables

                  

LESSON 5:

Canning Salsa (The reason we garden!)

COOL GARDEN STUFF      

      Tina's Gnat and Mosquito Hat