Barnabas Ory: The 3-Hour Garden

Have you always wanted to garden but never known how to start? Have you already taken the plunge but haven’t been as successful as you’d hoped? Would you like to be self-sufficient and grow vegetables for yourself and your family? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you are holding the book you need.

Barnabás Őry shares his years of experience as an organic farmer with all new and would-be gardeners. Why three hours? By following Barnabás’s simple and easy to-apply principles, anyone can become a successful vegetable gardener with only three hours of gardening per week. Whether it’s just a few beds or a full-size garden, cooperating with nature and paying special attention to soil life will reward you with a significant bounty of organic vegetables.

This book presents the tips and tricks of biointensive vegetable cultivation in an understandable and detailed manner. The useful appendices and beautiful photos by Ákos Rúzs-Molnár make the book a complete and enjoyable read, deserving a special place on the shelf of any organic gardener.

Original price was: €39.00.Current price is: €29.00.

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3 hours

gardening per week

100

square meter organic garden

more than

€3000

worth of organic vegetables

more than

15000

copies sold

Content

I. Establishing the garden

01. Design

02. Getting started

03. Permanent beds

04. Irrigation

05. Tools

06. The greenhouse and the nursery

07. Compost

08. Crop planning

II. The 3-hour garden

09. Bed preparation

10. Direct seeding and transplanting

11. Weeds

12. Soil and nutrients

13. Extending the season

14. Pests and diseases

15. Leafy greens

16. Brassicas

17. Root vegetables

18. Alliums

19. Summer vegetables

20. Legumes

21. Herbs

22. Storage and preservation

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Appendices

1. Plant list

2. Planting dates

3. Sample crop plan

4. The layout of my 3-hour garden

5. Sample garden layout

6. Harvest diary, 2021

7. Metric and US equivalents

8. Fahrenheit – Celsius temperature conversion table

Reviews

the most inspiring feedback from my readers

There are many books available about organic gardening, the reason why I recommend Barnabas Ory’s book is the author’s personal experience and knowledge of a new form of gardening in many ways. The book contains a practical, detailed description of the planning and implementation of the most important work operations in the garden, and can be used successfully by both beginners and experienced gardeners. Based on what is described in the 3-hour garden, they can create a garden full of well-known and special vegetables that are not available in markets and stores, from which a variety of tasty and healthy vegetables can be put on the family table.

Kati Allacherne SzepkuthySenior consultant, ÖMKI

We watched all the videos all the way through, very great, high-quality, understandable material. Thanks to Barnabas for sharing the knowledge, we need great soil, professional seeds, irrigation and mulch.

Ferenc Bognar

I have known Barnabas for a long time, our professional cooperation goes back several years; in the light of my personal experience, I can say that this is not only a book with good-sounding “romantically exaggerated” theories and results, but its practical, reliable compass contains new professional information not only for beginners and hobby gardeners, but also for experienced, professional farmers. It implements the elements of the profit-oriented cultivation technology also used on our farm, MagosVölgy, tested in commercial production, into a system that can be used successfully even on a small garden scale, with ecological solutions in mind, as well as efficiency.

With 10 years spent in farming behind me, I myself often take out Barnabas’s book and recommend it to others with love.

Judit Dezsenyne BorosMagosVolgy Organic Farm

I have wanted to grow my own vegetables for years, but due to a lack of knowledge, I kept putting it off, until last February I saw your ad on Facebook. I ordered seeds from you, I took everything I learned from your videos about planting. It didn’t take long and my first seeds sprouted, it was a huge feeling of success. Then the seedlings were planted in my first beds, and we harvested the fresh vegetables all summer (and autumn as well). I can’t tell you how grateful I am to you for what you have created, gardening has become my true passion.

Barnabas’ online videos (which are produced in beautiful quality) do not only provide advice, but offer a complete change of perspective. From the bottom of my heart, I boldly recommend him to both new and more experienced gardeners, as Barnabas’ knowledge and passion for gardening are guaranteed to bring success to everyone.

Andi Erdos

Barnabas’ professional background and diverse experience as a farmer make the concept of “The 3-hour garden” perfectly authentic for me. The book is a reliable compass for future vegetable gardeners with an experimental spirit. Pragmatic, easy-to-understand, and rich in detail, it provides a lot of useful practical advice and reference points for all planning and implementation processes of backyard organic production. It supports and orients with sober arguments and counter-arguments, all of which is illustrated with eye-catching, sophisticated images. I reserved my 100 square meters in advance for the spring season in my grandmother’s garden, so that I could adapt what I read in the book and create my own experimental beds.

Gergely HalaszHuman Ecologist, Agri Kulti Research

The 3-hour garden course takes you through the basics of organic gardening in a very easy-to-understand way, starting with the specific cultivation instructions. Barnabas presents the techniques he has tried in a really easy to understand way and helps even experienced gardeners a lot by recommending new, practical methods. For those who have learned from several sources so far, this is an exciting summary of the successfully operating methods of the various “schools”.

Marton Horvath

We planned to build our vegetable garden on a clayey and steep hillside, but we didn’t know exactly how to go about it. At that time (at the best time) I took part in the “The 3-hour garden” course, which captivated me. It was very useful, I think with gratitude that I was there. We created our own wonderful garden based on what we learned from Barnabas! Of course, the book was also put on the shelf (and is in continuous use).

Edit Kaposvari

I came across the 3-hour garden on the Internet when I was looking for ways to implement mini-farming in a city garden. The principle itself and the easy execution of simple beds immediately piqued my interest. There was no question that I would buy the book, where I can read every detail of gardening in detail and pick it up again if I get stuck.

The first spring and summer season went amazingly well, there were so many tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and peppers that the whole family and friends had enough for the whole summer.

We were already in the middle of the season when we personally visited the workshop, where my husband could also gain an insight into the practical teaching of the 3-hour garden. This year we are expanding the number of beds so that we can produce more fresh vegetables for ourselves and our family. I recommend it to everyone, even if you can only fence off a small area of land for this purpose.

Betti Kis-Szucs

I always dreamed of a garden like my grandmother’s. I’ve tried many things, but I’ve had more failures than successes.

By following Barnabas’ advice step by step, I managed to create my own “fairy garden”. I produced many colorful, tasty, organic vegetables in spectacular beds for the joy of my family and friends.

Growing cucumbers and tomatoes under a greenhouse, as the pictures show, opened up new horizons in my gardening.

Kinga Popovics

I’ve been calling myself a beginner gardener for about 20 years. :) I have a lot to thank Barnabas, his videos and the book, as I needed this kind of detailed knowledge from beginning to end, from A to Z. It is very effective, succinctly and thoughtfully presents exactly when what needs to be done if we want to be time efficient and above all successful in gardening. Thank you very much!

Zsolt Savanya

I’ve already digested quite a few gardening books, I’ve gone through two online courses, countless videos, but this practicality, which you convey, has been missing from everywhere until now.

Dori Seregely

I’ve been calling myself a beginner gardener for about 20 years. :) I have a lot to thank Barnabas, his videos and the book, as I needed this kind of detailed knowledge from beginning to end, from A to Z. It is very effective, succinctly and thoughtfully presents exactly when what needs to be done if we want to be time efficient and above all successful in gardening. Thank you very much!