August 2009
All New Square Foot Gardening
Planting a small vegetable garden using square foot gardening is exciting, as you imagine the bountiful harvest. You can almost taste the sweet, juicy, plump tomatoes and the fresh, healthful salads you’ll be making. Don’t let your enthusiasm get ahead of your capabilities though. If you’re short on space and time, we have some really [...]
Gardening Tips : How to Plant Grass
The best time to put grass seed down is in the fall, when the nights are still warm, or in the spring, when the night’s start to warm up. Rake in grass seeds after placing them in the dirt with help from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening tips.
Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: [...]
Raised Beds in the City
Patti shows you how to make hoop houses for your raised beds.
Duration : 0:2:30
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How to Plant Square Foot Gardens : How to Pick Square Foot Garden Plants
Learn how to pick plants square foot gardens with expert gardening tips in this free video clip on growing grid gardens.
Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
Duration : 0:1:49
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Square Foot Gardening Tips: March
Patti Moreno, The Garden Girl & Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening, discuss what gardeners are doing in the month of March. Don’t forget to visit squarefootgardening.com and gardengirltv.com for more. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 0:3:46
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Gardening: Hydroponics and Square Foot Gardening Update #1
http://HydroponicsFriend.com
This is just a simple update from my first video.
I set up a little corner in the laundry room for a work area.
I use a plastic four shelf unit and had to remove the top shelf
so there would be enough room to suspend a grow light.
As you can see you don’t need an entire room [...]
How to Plant a Vegetable Garden : Weed Control Tips for Your Vegetable Garden
Learn how to control weeds in your vegetable garden in this free online video guide to vegetable gardening.
Expert: Scott Reil
Contact: www.safelawns.org
Bio: Scott Reil is an accredited nurseryman and longtime horticulturalist with over two decades of experience in the field. Scott is now working for www.safelawns.org.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:2:37
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Having trouble getting healthy vegetables in a raised bed?
I have a 4 foot by 12 foot raised bed garden. I put in very good soil I thought. I have good drainage. I planted carrots, cucumbers, canteloupe, green beans and some flowers. The flowers did pretty well but the vegetables never got big at all. The green beans did [...]
how to figurge square foot of an oval flower garden?
It’s a simple formula almost like finding the area of a circle (pi) x r(squared) where r = the radius of the circle
For ovals it’s:
(pi) x (r1) x(r2)
Where pi= about 3.1415, r1 = the longest radius and, r2= the shortest radius
Get it??
here’s a pic of the area formula for an oval:
http://www.math.com/tables/geometry/ellipse.gif
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Our "square foot garden," Mel Bartholomew method, isn’t working very well?
If you have used this method, please share ideas.
I’ve read in some previous questions that you may have to "tweak" the soil mix, (peat, vermiculite, compost) but I’m not clear as to what changes would have to be made.
We installed the system last year, so this is our second summer. The plants seem to [...]
