Raised bed vegetable garden prep in about 1 hour

Here’s a simple 5 step process which will take your garden from overgrown and wild to ready for raised bed vegetable planting in about an hour.

What you need:

A 4 foot by 4 foot area of garden (1.2 meters by 1.2 meters). If you have a built raised bed use that, but, if you [...]

How does square foot gardening work?

What is square foot gardening?

Square foot gardening is a raised bed vegetable gardening method developed by Mel Bartholomew and explained through his best selling book All New Square Foot Gardening (2006).

Notably, All New Square Foot Gardening is the best-selling gardening book of all time. It has sold over 2 million copies.

What is different about square [...]

Kansas City Gardening for Africa

Grant and Paige Shadden – 2005

Grant and Paige Shadden are a sweet, young Kansas City couple who want to grow their own, healthy vegetables, in their own back yard. It sounds unremarkable.

But Grant and Paige know the value and power of organic vegetable gardening and they are doing something unusual. They are gardening in [...]

Garden Corner 06/04/09

I was very thankful this week for the thunderstorm which brought my Kansas garden corner some much needed rain. I’ve had a couple of days of cooler weather and I’ve been out weeding with my hoe. I just wonder, is the ability to use an old-fashioned hoe a lost art? My hoe is old – [...]

Best Raised Bed Gardening Books at Amazon.com

I decided to look for the best books for raised bed vegetable gardening at Amazon.com to share with you, my readers, online friends, buddies, and friends to be. To judge the best books on raised bed gardening, I started with the highest rated books on vegetable gardening, rather than with a list of raised [...]