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Have a small space and love to grow food? A reprise of a popular show on “In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners", our beloved former “In the Garden” host Mark Fierle spoke to an icon of the gardening world – Mel Bartholomew. In this show, first aired less than one year before Mel passed away - Mel talks about his visionary concept called Square Foot Gardening. From learning what went wrong in his community garden, Mel developed a space-defying, compact design to solve the weed problem in his community’s row garden.  Most people now have vegetable gardens in raised beds, and it was Mel’s engineering background and ability to solve problems that led him to engineer the Square Foot Gardening method.  It has enabled people around the world, including people with disabilities and the blind, to feed themselves as well as to enjoy the joys of gardening.