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The Well Planned Vegetable Garden

A Grower's Guide

Jean-Martin Fortier author Laurie Bennett translator Flore Avram illustrator Pierre Nessmann editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Society Publishers

Publishing:7th May '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 7th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Save time, reduce work, and grow more crops with this practical year-round guide to small-farm and garden success

Organization is the key to growing success. The Well-Planned Vegetable Garden covers everything you need to know from optimizing your space and selecting seeds and equipment, to sowing, transplanting, maintaining, and harvesting your crops. It's all rounded out by an extensive perpetual garden calendar that will help you manage time and effort while maximizing yield and profit.

This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color reference contains:

  • An introduction to the Market Gardener Method — a proven formula for successful, biointensive, small-scale farming suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professionals
  • A comprehensive strategy for success, covering budgeting and financial goals, environmental and climate considerations, year-round growing, crop rotation, timing, spacing, storage, and more
  • Monthly objectives and task summaries to help dial in and streamline garden and farm management, working in harmony with seasonal rhythms.

Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.

Jean-Martin Fortier has done it again! Incredibly beautiful, this series of pragmatic and professional instructional manuals makes it easy for anyone to start market gardening at a professional and regenerative level with a tailored focus on each aspect.
—Matt Powers, author, Regenerative Soil and Regenerative Soil Microscopy

Applying a market gardening mindset to your home garden will improve your yields and greatly reduce the amount of work involved. To do this, look no further than this series from Jean-Martin Fortier, who is a pioneer in regenerative, biointensive, and organic market gardening.
—Rob and Michelle Avis, Verge Permaculture / 5th World and co-authors, Building Your Permaculture Property

ISBN: 9781774060209

Dimensions: 178mm x 133mm x 8mm

Weight: 138g

128 pages