Intensive Gardening

Four servings with leftovers.

One Large carrots, diced.
Three stalks of celery, cut into 1/8 inch slices
One cup onions minced
Four cups of water
Five cups of minced tomatoes
One teaspoon pepper
One teaspoon salt
One teaspoon hot pepper sauce
Two tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Four cloves of minced garlic
Or just one if it is a first date :)

Pour Olive oil into a large pan. Heat and then add garlic, onions, celery and carrots. Cook for about ten minutes.

If you want some heat add 2 dashes of hot sauce adjust to taste I like lots of heat so add 5 then some to my bowl.

Add the rest of the ingredients and bring to boil, simmer covered for about ten minutes. Serve with fresh bread and butter. For an added taste add some fresh berries for desert.

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How to setup a sustainable Mittleider garden soilbed.

First off, you MUST have direct sunlight all day long for vegetables to thrive. Therefore,
use only the space that has no shade. And don't worry if it seems small! You'll grow twice
the food in one fourth the space others are using, so just do it right in the space you
have. And actually, starting small is a good idea anyway! It's easier, more fun, and won't
wear you out!

Level ground, or something with a slight Southern slope is best, in order to catch the sun's
strongest rays, and to avoid rapid water run-off that will wash out your soil, seeds, and
seedlings.

Begin by clearing your ground of EVERYTHING! No weeds, rocks, or anything else is allowed.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness" certainly applies here, and you surely want your garden
to be a thing of beauty, as well as being productive!

Measure and stake the perimeter of your garden. This gives you an important starting point
for figuring out how many soil-beds you can have, and then placing them properly. Let's use
25' X 35' as an example of what your garden area might be.

It doesn't really matter what direction your beds face, so far as sun exposure is concerned.

What does matter, though, is that the beds be level, and that you plant taller plants to the

North or East of shorter plants. This is to assure that taller plants don't shade shorter
plants, and rob them of essential sunlight. So, align your beds to maximize those factors as
much as possible.

I'll assume we are able to run the beds lengthwise along the 35' dimension. Your soil-beds
should be 18" wide and any length you choose. When you become experienced in this method of
growing, and want to specialize in growing certain crops all the time, you may want to begin
using 4'-wide beds, but let's stick to the best family garden layout for now.

The ideal size for aisles is 3.5', and since we have 25' width in our example garden, this
will give us 5 - 18" beds with 3 ' aisles. If you have only 23' you could get by with aisles
a little narrower. But don't squeeze those aisles! You will be growing plants that need all
of that space, and reducing the aisle space only leads to problems of not enough light and
air for your growing plants!

We'll make our beds 30' long. This leaves us 2.5' on each end of the garden for walking, and

30' is a good length, because it makes caring for the garden easy. More about that later.

Using 18"-long stakes, stake your 5 - 18" X 30' beds, with 4 stakes per bed.

Apply 32 ounces of the Mittleider Pre-Plant Mix, and 16 ounces of Weekly Feed Mix to the
soil under your strings. This amounts to about 1 ounce and half ounce per running foot of
those VERY important natural mineral nutrients. Dig or till the soil of your soil-bed to a
depth of at least 8".
Then, using nylon string, tie strings between the stakes, to outline your soil-beds.

Begin making raised, ridged beds by pulling about 2+ inches of dirt from the aisles into the
18"-wide bed area under your strings. Smooth and level that dirt, and then check the level
of your bed area. It must be level to make watering easy and efficient, so don't ignore this
step! Move dirt from the high spots in your bed to the low spots, until your bed is no more
than one inch higher at the water-source end than the other end.

Make 4"-high ridges all around your bed by pulling soil from the center of the bed to just
beneath the strings. When you're finished you should have a planting area that is about 12"
wide and between 1 and 2" above the level of the aisles, with 4" ridges, the top of which
are 18" apart. Re-check the level of your planting area, and move soil as necessary to keep
the bed level from end to end.
Your Mittleider "Best of Organic" garden is now ready to plant!