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Gardening for Life
                      By Wayne & Connie Burleson
        Ways to triple your food garden production




                                            Square Foot Gardening




GO WILD! Ideas to Work Less and Grow More       Long Box Gardens
Why Grow Your Own Food?
  The   E.A.R.T.H provides the answer
E=   To capture free sunlight ENERGY
A=   To help ALLEVIATE world hunger problems and
     help improve your family’s nutrition – save lives
R=   To make use of you own local RESOURCES

T=   To save TIME, money and less TRANSPORTATION

H=      To grow your own HEALTH
     This method is based upon:
Healthy soils produce - healthy plants - produce healthy people
 All done with very little money, & with work less to grow more
Class Outline
               You can do it!
•   Introduction Class introduce themselves
•   WHY SMALL GARDENS WORK?
•   Prove it!
•   Ownership, purpose
•   Soils/compost (the foundation to success)
•   Garden designs, location, layout, construction, shade trees, drainage
•   Starting seeds, transplanting, controlling light, temperature, water
•   Planting and plant spacing
•   Garden care: watering ideas, weed and pest control, shade hoop houses
•   Which vegetable to plant
WHY SMALL GARDENS WORK?
                      … Planting seeds for those in need …


•   Small gardens are very easy to assemble and they draw crowds
•   Simple. Anyone can do it. Anywhere in the world
•   Requires very little water (safe to use waste water)
•   Gardens are constructed without money or commercial fertilizers
•   Very easy to take care of (less work, less weeds, less water, more food)
•   Highly productive from very small spaces
•   Can produce 45 kilos (100 pounds) of food from a 4’ X 4’ area
•   Each home can construct several of these handy small kitchen gardens
•   Literally help feed millions of people
•   Also an evangelistic outreach – presents an opportunity to share the good news
•   Empty stomachs have no ears

          These gardens are sustainable, lifetime, hand-up endeavors,
                                  not a hand-out
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Prove it!!!!!!
This one box is 4’ by 8’ (122cm by 244cm). It has 32 carrots per square
    foot = (32 carrots/sq (times) 32 square feet box = 1,024 carrots)
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70 Days




 The success has started as these boxes held together in several torrential rainfall
    events (like several inches of hard rain in a matter of minutes). The miracle
  happened, for soil amendment we ended up using several sacks of old chicken
manure mixed in with small wood chips that we added to each box. The native soils
are mostly hard clay, which is a poor growing environment. The wood chips became
a surface mulch and held the soil in place during the wind driven downpour. Strong
 mulching is a great aid for any gardening efforts in the tropics. We thank the Lord.
The wood chip mulching protected the soil surface from rain drop impact
         This is especially on sloping on hillside gardens
Success in Africa
                    A Church Demonstration Garden
                    Small Village in Rwanda, Africa




Growth in 61 days
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
Begin with the end in mind
       salsa, guacamole, chips
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
Economics of the
       Long Box
Long Box 4' by 40' = 160 sq foot
Each 40 days cut 3 bags greens
  3 bags X 160 = 480 bags of
            greens
    Each bag sells for $3.00
 $3.00 X 480 bags = $1,440.00
       For a 40 day crop
Then you replant the Long Box
The potential for 4 crops/ year =
    $5,760 Gross
   Income in US$
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African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
Teaching with
 photos helps
Step #1 Soils/compost (the foundation to success)
             How to make your own Top Soil
            Go On a Treasure Hunt - Searching for Hidden Resources

           Step 1 Walk-about looking for then bag up the following?
                •Old dry livestock dung
                •Leave mold
                •Black looking top soil under bushes
                •Old dry chicken manure
                •Anything looking like dark soil
           Step 2 Dig up sod from garden plot 1.3 meter by 3 meters,
           and then remove old plants and root for plot



                               African Cow House
                               = decomposed
                               organic matter
                               Mix with native soil
                               which makes great
                               topsoil
How to Make Good Compost
Ingredients needed:

                                          Why compost?           Compost is decomposed organic matter
                                          that has turned into black colored humus that is called “black
                                          gold.” Compost makes excellent organic plant food. Millions
                                          of micro-organisms digest (eat) the dry grass and green grass
                                          causing the pile to heat up. Compost does not feed the plants
                                          directly. Instead it feeds the soil microbes which in turn
                                          release insoluble minerals for the plants to feed upon
                                          (fertilizers). This amazing process makes your garden a
                                          sustainable food factory - if you keep adding compost to your
                                          soils.




                             Repeat all layers until
                              1 Meter high
                      Add small amount of wood ash
                         Add water to dry layers 
                         Vegetable waste ------
                      Thin layer old manure -
                      Thin layer top soil-----
                      Green grass 30 cm ---
                        Dry grass 30 cm----
                      Bottom layer maze for air ->
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Step #2 Garden Construction; Garden location; Raised beds




                           2.64 Meters




               1.32
               Meters
Step #3 Planting/plant spacing




Why have a grid
How to Precisely Plant Your Seeds

                                      Take your time                                       For 1 or 4 plants
                                      and plant each                                       per square make a
                                      seed correctly                                       small dish shaped
                                      for good success                                     depression in the
                                                                                           soil and place the
                                                                                           seeds in the
                                                                                           center. Water only
                                                                                           where the seeds
                                                                                           are located



                                        Mr Brite
                          16 Plants    Mr Brite
          30 Plants                             9 Plants         4 Plants                  1 Plant
             Per             Per                   Per              Per                      Per
           Square          Square               Square           Square                    Square



33 cm




            33 cm                                  Pea          Lettuce         These
                                                                                             Tomato
                          Radish                                                              Pepper
        Onion Seeds                               Beet        Swiss chard       Plants
                          Carrot                               Broccoli        Can also      Cabbage
          Green                                   Bean                                      1.5 cm deep
                         Onion Sets                            Marigold       Be started
          Onions          2 cm deep              Spinach                        from       Cucumber
                                                               1.5 cm deep   Transplants   Cantaloupe
          Small                                 2.5 cm deep                                 2.5 cm deep
         Carrots                                                                      Potato 8 cm deep
        1 to 2 cm deep
Steps to make Crops in Small Plots

Step 1 Research which vegetables is there a demand for in your area and at what time of year
      Come up with a list of marketable vegetables that you could grow & sell.

Step 2 Plan your harvest according to the market … hint: Have your crop ready before other
       people offer the same vegetables. Also think about adding value like cooking.

Step 3 Construct several raised beds and/or garden boxes with in your water limitations.
       Fill each area with your best soils & compost to at least 12 to 24 inches (30cm to 60 cm)
Step 4 Plant each raised bed with the correct plant spacing and timing for the market

Step 5 Harvest early when vegetable are young and prime.
        Hint: Share and/or trade for your other needs.

        A Garden Box                     First planting
                                                          Second planting
                                                                            Third planting




  Seed different block areas within a raised bed at different times for multiple harvests.
Which vegetables seeds to plant




 Tomato
  Pepper
  Squash
Cucumber
  Lettuce
Swiss chard
  Radish
    Beet
 Cabbage
 Spinach
 Carrots                       What do you love to eat?
   Beans
Step #4 Garden care:
Water, Weeds, and Ownership
Wise water use
This lady in Shone, Ethiopia, Africa is a
                                                    very good gardener as she knows how to
                                                    place valuable water on each seed zone,
                                                    which saves her much labor - hauling
                                                    hard to acquire water for her garden.




         Re-cycled Water

  Ladies washing dishes and clothes in Malawi.
         Look where the water is going!

                  Question:
Could you dump this waste water safely on a small
              kitchen garden?
Why Add Mulch to Your Gardens
                                                                                                       Don’t let
                                                                                                       your soils
                                                                                                       see daylight




                                                                                                                Mr Brite
                                                                                                                One smart farmer




Cool shaded soils = 22 deg C (72 deg F) = holds water,
   Adds soil nutrients and slows weed germination            Hot bare soils - 55 deg C (130 deg F) = evaporates water fast,
                                               Cooks and kills valuable microorganisms, no added soil nutrients and weeds can germinate
Don’t Weed Instead Cultivate
Step #6 Vegetable harvest and replanting
Add a scoop of compost and
 replant harvested squares
Worms provide
  fertilizers
THEIR WORM CASTINGS
AND they work for free
12-Day Compost
                   To use as fertilize
Spread completed compost around the base of your plants
When you keep your soils healthy and look what can happen




      One Radish growing in Ethiopia
One Radish makes
                                             a great salad




 Seeking information outside the box
Radish leaves have 3 times the nutrient
           value as the roots             And taste great!
Think Holistically
from seed to stomach
A Life Giving Story
Salmon River Pumpkin (A Winter Squash)
           From Seed to Seeds
African gardening for life power point small file pdf format
Seed saving techniques
                                                                                                         Beets
                                        Cucumber
                                                                                                Biennial as it takes
                                     Let ripen past
                                                                                                two year. Store roots             Pumpkin
                                     edible stage and
                                                                                                for several months,           Cut ripe & mature
         Spinach                     turn yellow. Cut
 Pick out the strong                                                                            replant to grow               pumpkin open.
                                     lengthwise, scoop
 plants and let them bolt                                                                       seeds, harvest seeds          Remove seeds.
                                     seeds out seeds
 into a flower stalk and                                                                        when dry.                     Wash with water.
                                     and dry
 go to seed. Pull the seed                                                                                                    Place on screen or
 stalks out of the ground                                                                                                     cloth to dry.
 and let dry. Thresh the
 seeds into a container.



                                                                                                                                          Pepper
                                                                                                                                     Let ripe to full
      Onion                                                                                                                          color, no sign of
Let a few plants                                                                                                                     disease.
form round                                                                                                                           Remove seed
flower clusters.                                                                                                                     off core and
When dry, pick                                                                                                                       place on screen
and thresh the                                                                                                                       or cloth to dry.
seed out.

                                                                                                                                   Lettuce
                                                                                                                            Allow plant to bolt,
         Tomato                                                                                                             to form a seed stalk.
     Pick ripe                                                                                                              Cover to protect
     tomatoes from                                                                                                          from birds & rain.
     several plants.                                                                                                        Harvest seeds for 2
     Squeeze seed                                                                                                           to 3 weeks. This will
     out, wash and                                                                                                          require repeated
     spread on cloth                                                                                                        harvesting.
     to dry.                 Certain plant varieties will cross-pollinate with other members of their same family. If you
                             are raising your own pure seeds, only plant one variety within that family.
                             Visit www.seedsavers.org for more information
Sharing the harvest and teaching others
Gardens open the doors to teaching others & building life giving skills
Closing YOU CAN DO IT!
Planting seeds for those in need
Gardening for Life
           By Wayne & Connie Burleson




“Planting seeds for those in need”
     A Humanitarian Effort

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African gardening for life power point small file pdf format

  • 1. Gardening for Life By Wayne & Connie Burleson Ways to triple your food garden production Square Foot Gardening GO WILD! Ideas to Work Less and Grow More Long Box Gardens
  • 2. Why Grow Your Own Food? The E.A.R.T.H provides the answer E= To capture free sunlight ENERGY A= To help ALLEVIATE world hunger problems and help improve your family’s nutrition – save lives R= To make use of you own local RESOURCES T= To save TIME, money and less TRANSPORTATION H= To grow your own HEALTH This method is based upon: Healthy soils produce - healthy plants - produce healthy people All done with very little money, & with work less to grow more
  • 3. Class Outline You can do it! • Introduction Class introduce themselves • WHY SMALL GARDENS WORK? • Prove it! • Ownership, purpose • Soils/compost (the foundation to success) • Garden designs, location, layout, construction, shade trees, drainage • Starting seeds, transplanting, controlling light, temperature, water • Planting and plant spacing • Garden care: watering ideas, weed and pest control, shade hoop houses • Which vegetable to plant
  • 4. WHY SMALL GARDENS WORK? … Planting seeds for those in need … • Small gardens are very easy to assemble and they draw crowds • Simple. Anyone can do it. Anywhere in the world • Requires very little water (safe to use waste water) • Gardens are constructed without money or commercial fertilizers • Very easy to take care of (less work, less weeds, less water, more food) • Highly productive from very small spaces • Can produce 45 kilos (100 pounds) of food from a 4’ X 4’ area • Each home can construct several of these handy small kitchen gardens • Literally help feed millions of people • Also an evangelistic outreach – presents an opportunity to share the good news • Empty stomachs have no ears These gardens are sustainable, lifetime, hand-up endeavors, not a hand-out
  • 7. This one box is 4’ by 8’ (122cm by 244cm). It has 32 carrots per square foot = (32 carrots/sq (times) 32 square feet box = 1,024 carrots)
  • 10. 70 Days The success has started as these boxes held together in several torrential rainfall events (like several inches of hard rain in a matter of minutes). The miracle happened, for soil amendment we ended up using several sacks of old chicken manure mixed in with small wood chips that we added to each box. The native soils are mostly hard clay, which is a poor growing environment. The wood chips became a surface mulch and held the soil in place during the wind driven downpour. Strong mulching is a great aid for any gardening efforts in the tropics. We thank the Lord.
  • 11. The wood chip mulching protected the soil surface from rain drop impact This is especially on sloping on hillside gardens
  • 12. Success in Africa A Church Demonstration Garden Small Village in Rwanda, Africa Growth in 61 days
  • 19. Begin with the end in mind salsa, guacamole, chips
  • 21. Economics of the Long Box Long Box 4' by 40' = 160 sq foot Each 40 days cut 3 bags greens 3 bags X 160 = 480 bags of greens Each bag sells for $3.00 $3.00 X 480 bags = $1,440.00 For a 40 day crop Then you replant the Long Box The potential for 4 crops/ year = $5,760 Gross Income in US$
  • 27. Step #1 Soils/compost (the foundation to success) How to make your own Top Soil Go On a Treasure Hunt - Searching for Hidden Resources Step 1 Walk-about looking for then bag up the following? •Old dry livestock dung •Leave mold •Black looking top soil under bushes •Old dry chicken manure •Anything looking like dark soil Step 2 Dig up sod from garden plot 1.3 meter by 3 meters, and then remove old plants and root for plot African Cow House = decomposed organic matter Mix with native soil which makes great topsoil
  • 28. How to Make Good Compost Ingredients needed: Why compost? Compost is decomposed organic matter that has turned into black colored humus that is called “black gold.” Compost makes excellent organic plant food. Millions of micro-organisms digest (eat) the dry grass and green grass causing the pile to heat up. Compost does not feed the plants directly. Instead it feeds the soil microbes which in turn release insoluble minerals for the plants to feed upon (fertilizers). This amazing process makes your garden a sustainable food factory - if you keep adding compost to your soils. Repeat all layers until 1 Meter high Add small amount of wood ash Add water to dry layers  Vegetable waste ------ Thin layer old manure - Thin layer top soil----- Green grass 30 cm --- Dry grass 30 cm---- Bottom layer maze for air ->
  • 30. Step #2 Garden Construction; Garden location; Raised beds 2.64 Meters 1.32 Meters
  • 31. Step #3 Planting/plant spacing Why have a grid
  • 32. How to Precisely Plant Your Seeds Take your time For 1 or 4 plants and plant each per square make a seed correctly small dish shaped for good success depression in the soil and place the seeds in the center. Water only where the seeds are located Mr Brite 16 Plants Mr Brite 30 Plants 9 Plants 4 Plants 1 Plant Per Per Per Per Per Square Square Square Square Square 33 cm 33 cm Pea Lettuce These Tomato Radish Pepper Onion Seeds Beet Swiss chard Plants Carrot Broccoli Can also Cabbage Green Bean 1.5 cm deep Onion Sets Marigold Be started Onions 2 cm deep Spinach from Cucumber 1.5 cm deep Transplants Cantaloupe Small 2.5 cm deep 2.5 cm deep Carrots Potato 8 cm deep 1 to 2 cm deep
  • 33. Steps to make Crops in Small Plots Step 1 Research which vegetables is there a demand for in your area and at what time of year Come up with a list of marketable vegetables that you could grow & sell. Step 2 Plan your harvest according to the market … hint: Have your crop ready before other people offer the same vegetables. Also think about adding value like cooking. Step 3 Construct several raised beds and/or garden boxes with in your water limitations. Fill each area with your best soils & compost to at least 12 to 24 inches (30cm to 60 cm) Step 4 Plant each raised bed with the correct plant spacing and timing for the market Step 5 Harvest early when vegetable are young and prime. Hint: Share and/or trade for your other needs. A Garden Box First planting Second planting Third planting Seed different block areas within a raised bed at different times for multiple harvests.
  • 34. Which vegetables seeds to plant Tomato Pepper Squash Cucumber Lettuce Swiss chard Radish Beet Cabbage Spinach Carrots What do you love to eat? Beans
  • 35. Step #4 Garden care: Water, Weeds, and Ownership
  • 37. This lady in Shone, Ethiopia, Africa is a very good gardener as she knows how to place valuable water on each seed zone, which saves her much labor - hauling hard to acquire water for her garden. Re-cycled Water Ladies washing dishes and clothes in Malawi. Look where the water is going! Question: Could you dump this waste water safely on a small kitchen garden?
  • 38. Why Add Mulch to Your Gardens Don’t let your soils see daylight Mr Brite One smart farmer Cool shaded soils = 22 deg C (72 deg F) = holds water, Adds soil nutrients and slows weed germination Hot bare soils - 55 deg C (130 deg F) = evaporates water fast, Cooks and kills valuable microorganisms, no added soil nutrients and weeds can germinate
  • 39. Don’t Weed Instead Cultivate
  • 40. Step #6 Vegetable harvest and replanting
  • 41. Add a scoop of compost and replant harvested squares
  • 42. Worms provide fertilizers THEIR WORM CASTINGS AND they work for free
  • 43. 12-Day Compost To use as fertilize Spread completed compost around the base of your plants
  • 44. When you keep your soils healthy and look what can happen One Radish growing in Ethiopia
  • 45. One Radish makes a great salad Seeking information outside the box Radish leaves have 3 times the nutrient value as the roots And taste great!
  • 47. A Life Giving Story Salmon River Pumpkin (A Winter Squash) From Seed to Seeds
  • 49. Seed saving techniques Beets Cucumber Biennial as it takes Let ripen past two year. Store roots Pumpkin edible stage and for several months, Cut ripe & mature Spinach turn yellow. Cut Pick out the strong replant to grow pumpkin open. lengthwise, scoop plants and let them bolt seeds, harvest seeds Remove seeds. seeds out seeds into a flower stalk and when dry. Wash with water. and dry go to seed. Pull the seed Place on screen or stalks out of the ground cloth to dry. and let dry. Thresh the seeds into a container. Pepper Let ripe to full Onion color, no sign of Let a few plants disease. form round Remove seed flower clusters. off core and When dry, pick place on screen and thresh the or cloth to dry. seed out. Lettuce Allow plant to bolt, Tomato to form a seed stalk. Pick ripe Cover to protect tomatoes from from birds & rain. several plants. Harvest seeds for 2 Squeeze seed to 3 weeks. This will out, wash and require repeated spread on cloth harvesting. to dry. Certain plant varieties will cross-pollinate with other members of their same family. If you are raising your own pure seeds, only plant one variety within that family. Visit www.seedsavers.org for more information
  • 50. Sharing the harvest and teaching others
  • 51. Gardens open the doors to teaching others & building life giving skills
  • 52. Closing YOU CAN DO IT! Planting seeds for those in need
  • 53. Gardening for Life By Wayne & Connie Burleson “Planting seeds for those in need” A Humanitarian Effort