title: The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
author:  John Jeavons 
description: Jeavons and Cox offer a less technical version of Jeavons's best-selling book on biointensive gardening, How To Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, published over 25 years ago. Written for both the beginner and the experienced gardener, this new book shows how to cultivate 11 commonly grown vegetables, calorie crops (beans), or compost crops in 100-square-foot plots using organic, soil-enriching methods. The authors discuss biointensive gardening theory, preparing garden beds, composting, starting seeds, growing crops, and collecting seeds. They offer detailed instructions and equations showing how to calculate how many seeds to plant to get the necessary seedlings to fill the suggested garden plans and suggest ways to customize garden plots. While the equations are easy to follow, the calculations and numerous charts may intimidate the beginner, who may also need more information on gardening techniques. Recommended especially for experienced gardeners interested in biointensive gardening.ASue O'Brien, Downers Grove P.L., IL <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Copyright © 1999 by Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an
  imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New
  York.  
  [www.crownpublishing.com](http://www.crownpublishing.com)  
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  Ecology Action  
  5798 Ridgewood Road  
  Willits, CA 95490-9730  
  (707) 459-0150
  
  
  Much of the data and other information in this book has been drawn from _How
  to Grow More Vegetables_ , fifth ed., by John Jeavons, Ten Speed Press, 1995.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Jeavons, John.  
  The sustainable vegtetable garden: a backyard guide to healthy soil and higher
  yields/John Jeavons and Carol Cox; illustrations by Sue Ellen Parkinson.  
  p. cm.  
  Rev. ed. of: Lazy-bed gardening.