Planting a ‘Rug Garden’ for Big Harvests in Small Spaces
A few class ago , while researching my bookThe Northern Gardener : From Apples to Zinnias , I come across a fantastic pamphlet from the University of Minnesota calledLet ’s All Grow Vegetablesby Grace Keen and Arthur Hutchins . Published in 1944 , the volume includes a treatment of what it would take to grow food for two from a 9 - by-12 invertebrate foot plot — what they called a “ rug garden ....