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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
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 ->
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
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
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