Mel is the creator of the Square Foot Gardening System. He is a retired engineer who saw the joys that come with gardening but saw the problems that also came with it. He spent years developing a system that would allow the average person to have the benefit of gardening without the typical headaches. He is an accomplished speaker and has written the bestselling gardening book of all time All New Square Foot Gardening which has now been adapted for Australia to Square Metre Gardening.