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Introduction
Bed Layout
Site Selection
Site Preparation
Plot Layout
Recycled Auto Tire Beds
Rubber Board Fabrication
Multiple Tire Design
Recycled Auto Tire Bed
Plastic Mesh Beds
Material Preparation
Bed Assembly
Corrugated Sheet Metal Beds
Material Preparation
Bed Assembly
Preparing Beds for Planting
Soil Preparation
Seed Bed Preparation
Installing a Drip Irrigation System
Plastic Mulch Application
Planting Techniques
Water Management
Feeding the Growing Garden
Selection and Use of Fertilizer Injectors
Overcoming Weather Woes
Low (Mini) Tunnel Plans
Growing Vertically
Soil Solarization
Appendix
Construction and Advanced Cultural Technology for Home, Community and Market Gardens
 Steve Upson, horticulturist, The Noble Foundation |
"But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands."
"Family" is the word that comes to mind when I describe both the people assisting with this publication and the environment in which it was developed.
I'm deeply grateful to all my Noble Foundation "brothers and sisters" who have made this publication possible. I want to give special thanks to Tommy Smith, Felix Peña, Steve Howe, David Miller and Dusty Pittman. Without their contributions, there would be no Noble Foundation Horticulture Center. Also, special thanks goes to the NF Publications and Visual Media Department and fellow Agricultural Division staff for editorial work, design and printing.
Most of all, I thank the patriarch of our "family," Lloyd Noble, founder of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and visionary extraordinaire, without whom this work would not have been possible.
– Steve Upson, Horticulturist
An Old Chinese Proverb:
If you wish to be happy for a few hours, drink wine until your head spins pleasantly;
If you wish to be happy for a few days, get married and hide away;
If you wish to be happy for a week, roast a pig and have a feast;
If you wish to be happy all your life, become a gardener.
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