A look at the vegetable garden design software I use
A Cool Vegetable Garden Design Software Program This makes vegetable garden planning quite easy What I tell people when they ask how I design my home gardens When it comes to designing your home...
View ArticleCreating Healthy Organic Garden Soil From the Ground Up
It’s Alive! Good healthy soil is be a living organism, able to regulate it’s own health. Without the web of life in healthy soil, you have a sterile, lifeless piece of dirt. Unfortunately, many of us...
View ArticleCompost – the secret ingredient for building healthy organic garden soil
It doesn’t matter whether you are growing a garden in the ground or building a raised garden bed, healthy soil grows healthy plants. Healthy soil is a living community of a myriad small to microscopic...
View ArticleDesign Basics – Starting with a plan
Design Basics When you start to plan your garden, there’s a lot more than just what you want to plant. Consider just how much produce you can (or will) use, the size of the plot, what tools are...
View ArticleRecommended Reading
The Green Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet The first Green book from Cool Springs Press, written by popular television personality, Joe Lampl, aka ‘Joe...
View ArticleAgriculture Secretary Vilsak declares Aug. 23-29 National Community Garden Week
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today encouraged Americans to connect with the land, the food it grows and their local communities by proclaiming August 23-29, National...
View Articleanyone used ‘DiComp 3D Garden Composer’ garden design software?
I’m looking for a garden design software – this is the one I’m going for probably – partly because it is australian based plants/climate etc I’m designing an ornamental vegetable garden. There are...
View ArticleHow to Make a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden
Building your Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens Raised bed vegetable gardens are are a boon to gardeners, regardless of your native soil. With raised bed gardens, instead of fighting poor soil conditions,...
View ArticleNew Master Gardener Program
We are very happy to help spread the word on a new Master Gardener Program, Creating School and Community Gardens. This is a free, 1-day workshop that will give you the skills you need to create new...
View ArticleWelcome to Vegetable Garden Design
The purpose of this blog is to examine vegetable garden design for the new gardener. We are about to open our first community garden, and so many of the new gardeners have asked the same questions...
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