|Intensive Vegetable Gardening for Profit and Self-Sufficiency
(Peace Corps, 1978, 158 p.)| In this book we have presented the
basic knowledge needed to do intensive vegetable growing. The
most important part of intensive vegetable production is soil
preparation. In intensive gardening the idea is to increase the
number of plants that a given area of soil will support. There
are two ways this can be accomplished: by increasing the depth
of the root zone (double-digging) and by increasing the
fertility of the soil. If the farmer or gardener follows the
intensive planting chart and plants many plants very close
together without giving due attention to the soil fertility the
result will be poor yields. The intensive planting methods must
be combined with intensive soil building. Again we emphasize the
importance of the soil. To get the most from this book the
farmer-gardener should spend the time it takes to really
understand the chapters on soils; soil fertility, fertilizers,
composting, and soil preparation. T