Square Foot Planting Guide

Are you deep in to planning  your vegetable garden? Small space gardeners tend to get good yield and lot of variety with a square foot garden. Not only that, but also they tend to have less weeds and conserve water by being planted densely. Year after year you can rotate crops around the beds to ensure that there is no nutrient depletion nor diseases introduced.

Before you plan your garden, this handy infographic created by Atlantis Hydroponics helps to provide you with information on how much space you will need per vegetable, or how many of a kind of vegetable will fit in a square foot. Click on the image to make it larger so you can print it out or bookmark it.

Printable Square Foot Planting Guide

To learn more about square foot gardening it is best to go to the source, author Mel Bartholomew and his book, All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space.

 

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Easter Basket Fairy Garden

Looking for a fun family project for Easter to get in a little Garden Therapy? You are in luck! Today we have a guest post from Beverly Turner one of the co-authors of Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden. The book covers just about anything you wanted to know about fairy gardening, a type of miniature gardening in containers or right in the ground. Little worlds created with tiny plants, furniture, and little creatures makes them whimsical and, without a doubt, a lot of fun. Today Beverly has shared the perfect fairy garden for the season as it’s contained in an Easter basket!

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The Best Pumpkin Soup You’ve Ever Tasted

Please welcome guest blogger, Megan Carroll of A Kitschy Kitchen, where sells the most fabulous vintage-inspired aprons along with other great handmade creations.  Not only can she help you look good in the kitchen, but today she’s also going to teach us how to make the best pumpkin soup you’ve ever tasted! I can’t wait to make this one.

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A Kitschy Kitchen

Feeding and fostering a healthy relationship with food can be a complex thing with young children.  Finding ways and strategies to make meals interesting can sometimes be challenging but when you find something that works, run with it.

For us it was a book, Pumpkin Soup. It was about friendship, responsibility and sharing.  The unifying element was food. From peeling the pumpkin and putting it into the pot to stirring the soup and adding the salt, everyone had a job to do. But when that fell apart and they couldn’t share, the soup was all-wrong. My kids loved this story and because of that I started making pumpkin soup for them. Having something that they could identify with and that we could talk about made it much more approachable.

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Guest Post: Painted Bottle Vases

Hi there Garden Therapy readers! I’m Hanna from Pearls and Scissors and I’d like to share a recycling project with you. I’m a huge fan of killing multiple birds with one stone, and this DIY project is no exception. I had a pile of jars and glass bottles that I wanted to put to better use and a dire need for vases, so I created some simple jar and bottle vases with glass and ceramic paint.

 hand painted vase DIY project

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Horticultural Therapy at the 2012 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show

Nicky from Dirt and Martinis joins us today for a guest post on her visit to the 2012 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.  We are so lucky to have her eyes and ears (and camera) to share all the trends and eye-candy she spotted.  Want to read more from Nicky? Check out Dirt and Martinis on Facebook and Twitter too.

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I recently attended the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show that took place on March 21-25, 2012 at the San Mateo California event center.  With over 200 green exhibitors, garden displays, design seminars and cooking demonstrations, this event is one I will remember for years to come.  It was that spectacular!

Considering this was my first garden and flower show I’ve ever attended I had no idea what to expect.  As I stepped into the show entrance I was immediately overwhelmed with beauty, color and serenity, not only in the garden displays, but in the attendees faces. The mood of the show was calm, the lighting was perfect and the setting was relaxing.  One attendee described having a horticultural hangover after a day strolling through all the exhibits and I agree.

Thankfully I brought my camera and out of the hundreds of photos I took I’d like to show you some of my favorite parts of the show.  Enjoy!

Can’t you just picture yourself here enjoying a glass of wine?  I love the use of old windows in this cozy setting.

It’s not a fantasy…any garden can be green.  Do you have some rusty shovels or garden tools?  Hang them on a garden shed as shown here at the Hillbilly Hilton garden display…

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