Beginners Gardening

In this exclusive how-to video, you will learn everything you need to know about using the Square Foot Gardening method at home to grow your own abundant crops in a limited space. Patti shows you how to start vegetables in raised beds from scratch and maintain them throughout the growing season. Finally, Patti is joined for a special appearance by Mel Bartholomew himself to plant a square foot garden! Square Foot Gardening is a great way to get the most out of your garden. This video is a great companion to Mel Bartholomew’s book, The All New Square Foot Gardening. Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, is the host of Garden Girl TV, publisher of Urban Sustainable Living, co-host of Growing a Greener World, and Gardening Expert for HGTV.com. Visit www.gardengirltv.com for free gardening videos. Mel Bartholomew is the inventor of the Square Foot Gardening method, and author of The All New Square Foot Gardening – the best selling gardening book ever published! A civil engineer and innovator, he has redefined traditional gardening in a way that is both easy, inexpensive and efficient. Visit www.squarefootgardening.com for more. Now available to own on DVD! Visit the E-Store at www.createspace.com

Hi! Hope you all had a good week! As you can see, my husband and I got our mulch spread and now the hard, hard work is all done, now all we have to do is enjoy the coming bounty of our garden. Have a look. I hope that if you have a garden, it is doing just as well as this one. I hope if you don’t have a garden, you consider doing one. It’s not too late, in some parts of the country, it is just exactly the right time to get your tomato plants and put them in some patio pots or in your yard …

Garden Update May 17, 2009. With the help of my husband’s nephew, we were able to get all the weed barrier laid and the boxes finished and 10 of them filled and planted, we were able to lay out the remaining three boxes and hang the trellis we will need for the watermelons, cantelope and runner beans. Next week all we will have to finish is the pole extension for the hanging veggies as well as filling and planting the remaining boxes. My husband also wants to re-do the fencing at the end of …