Garden Medley

Square foot gardening is a way to make the most of your garden’s space. Rather than planting in straight rows, you garden in built up squares of soil that allow you to easily reach all four sides of the square and maximizes the space in your garden.

Start out by building or buying squares that are 4 feet by 4 feet in size. You will be planting in these containers with each plant (or groups of smaller plants) having a 1 foot by 1 foot area. Leave three feet between each container to make access easier.

The advantage to square foot gardening is that you can reach everything. You do not have to step on any plants, drag a hose across them, etc. Since you build these above ground you will have fewer weeds to deal with. The one disadvantage is that they may need more water. (more…)

Planting a vegetable garden is a real delight. You get fresh produce, fresh air and light exercise. And it doesn’t require a huge back yard to do successfully. Even a small yard or deck is sufficient.

The first thing you need to do is figure out how much space you have for a vegetable garden. This will in part determine what you can grow. Some plants take more room or need more sunlight.

With your space considerations in mind you can start looking at the plants you want to grow. If you’re focusing on containers, tomatoes are a popular choice. Some people even hang them in a planter with a hole in the bottom, with the tomato plant hanging upside down out from the hole. (more…)

Starting a garden can sound really easy. Throw some seed in some soil, water and watch them grow. So easy a child could do it.

In fact, it isn’t that easy, as my 5 year old has discovered. She loves to plant seeds, but only once has one of them actually come up. It was a pumpkin, one of literally dozens from her Halloween pumpkin, and the plant is now thriving.

In case you’re wondering, no, she doesn’t get much supervision for her experiments. Digging in the dirt is just something fun to let her do. But if she had her way, we’d have an apple tree, peach tree, nectarine tree, cucumbers and pretty much every other fruit or vegetable that you buy regularly from the grocery store growing in our yard.

But when you do want your plants to grow, you need to know what to do besides put them in soil and add water. And that’s where an ebook such as Home Vegetable Gardening can come in handy.

This ebook will help you with planning, preparing, protecting and harvesting from your own garden. You’ll find that some vegetables are much easier to grow where you live than others. You’ll learn about how to garden successfully.

This ebook comes with bonuses, and I’m going to tell you my favorite. The ebook on organic gardening. I love organic gardening. I get great results from it, and it’s so nice to not have to buy fertilizers or spray for pests. It’s a bit more work, but I find it quite worthwhile on both a personal and an environmental level.

But perhaps most important is that the ebook comes with a great guarantee. You are promised that if you cannot grow a successful vegetable garden with the tips in this ebook, you get your money back. You have eight full weeks to decide. There isn’t any risk to you. If you still have your doubts, you can try the free vegetable gardening report to get just a taste of what’s in store, but I really suggest buying the book to get the most benefit.
Order today and take a look for yourself.

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I love it! My garden is off to a simply gorgeous start this year. The weather has been cool and sunny, and the plants have just really taken off.

I credit some of this to how my husband changed things around this year. Since this past winter we had a couple freezes kill off basically all the decorative plants in the yard (San Diego area - no one plants freeze resistant plants here!), he changed the containers around and now the plants start from containers, but can get their roots into the actual soil. The containers have a mesh at the bottom now, and are on top of where the decorative plants once grew.

The difference has been simply amazing. Everything just took off after we planted. Lost our seedlings to the last freeze, but when we bought young plants and put them in the ground - wow! Everything is growing beautifully.

I’ve been watching the bee situation in my area carefully, though. For those of you not familiar with it, there’s something called colony collapse disorder that has killed off about a quarter of all the commercial behives in the United States. Pretty scary stuff when you think about it, especially since no one knows the cause. It’s being worked on, and the problem is being narrowed down bit by bit.

Here are some more garden pictures. The tomatoes are looking especially promising this year.

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