5 Reasons to Try Square Foot Gardening For Growing Vegetables

The basic idea is to build a box of manageable size, like around 3 x 4, add soil, section off areas of 1 square foot each and plant one type of vegetable within each square. There are so many great reasons this type of vegetable gardening is so great that it's no wonder even beginning gardeners are having great success.

So if you're still on the fence about whether square foot gardening is for you, keep reading!

Reason #1 - Grow Vegetables Anywhere!

Look, with square foot gardening, you no longer are limited to having a great yard with plenty of space. This method will work on a sunny balcony, an urban rooftop, a backyard deck or even a tabletop in your small yard. As long as the area gets lots of sun, you can place your vegetable garden there. Just build the size of the box or boxes to fit your particular location.  But make sure it's not too wide that you can't easily get to the center squares.

Reason #2 - Much Less Work!

This is a great reason to me. With this gardening method there are no heavy gardening tools to wield, no hard soil to dig through and no tough weeds with which to contend. You'll be working with soft, weed-free soil that makes growing your own vegetables a pleasure, not a punishment.

Reason #3 - Utterly Accessible

If you want your garden on the ground, you can put it there. But, if you're one of the millions of people who have mobility issues, you can place your square foot garden up on a table top for easy accessibility!  Don't go to the plants...bring the plants to you. Simply measure the surface of the table you're planning on using and build the box accordingly. Just be sure to add a plywood bottom to keep the soil in.

Reason #4 - Little or No Pesticides (Organic Friendly)

First of all, depending on where your garden is located, you'll drastically reduce the amount of pests that can get to your plants. It's a simple factor of location. And second, when you have a close grouping of different types of plants, it's easier to keep fungus from spreading from plant to plant. A regular spraying of compost tea usually does the trick.

Reason #5 - It's Just Plain Fun

Square foot gardening has brought the fun back into this wonderful hobby. It gives more people in more locations a chance to grow their own vegetables, it provides those with mobility issues a way to stay in the garden and it takes away a lot of the guess work that's usually present with traditional gardens. Plus, it's an easy way to get the kids involved in growing vegetables for the family.
Now that you know more about square foot gardening, hopefully you'll decide it's for you and you'll take a stab at it. It's really a wonderful way to jump into gardening for beginners and experienced gardeners will enjoy the break from all the typical work a vegetable garden takes.
So get out there and start gardening!
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Radioactive: A Dirty Bomb Prepper Survival Story

Radioactive: A Dirty Bomb Prepper Survival Story was a free book for the kindle when this post was written.

A devastating attack on the San Diego Naval Base leads to a chain of mysterious bombings across the country. One man, Jim, a contractor and former Navy analyst, finds himself in the middle of the chaos with his friend, Coyle, a fellow mechanic. Together, with Jim's cat, Tigs, they must find a way out of the city to relative safety, amidst the chaos of mass pandemonium, traffic jams, military checkpoints, and immediate danger around every corner. Everything is up for grabs and nothing is as it seems in this must-have installment of prepper fiction. This real-world nightmare scenario provides instructional skills and tips on how to plan for and survive a deadly attack. Download this exciting, edge-of-your-seat thriller today and get the vital information you need involving the very prepper survival tactics that could someday mean the difference between life and death for you or your family.

Cool Dollar Tree Find

 

 

Just another cool Dollar Tree find that could come in handy during a emergency andif you have no lights.

 

Cute little 5 LED desk top lights. They use 3 AA batteries that I also buy at the Dollar Tree and as you can tell from the picture they are very bright.

 

You might check to see if you Dollar Tree has them. I just found these by accident. They were on the bottom of a shelf in a box with other little trinkets, like sticker collector albums and other small things. Totally hidden. I grabbed one of each color just to see how they work. Might get a couple more just to put back. I always have a stockpile of AA batteries. Everything in our house seems to use them.  

Surviving Doomsday: Techniques to Help You Survive After a Bio Attack

Surviving Doomsday: Techniques to Help You Survive After a Bio Attack was a free much needed book for the kindle when this post was written.

You wake up in the middle of the night, and there’s no electricity. Thunderous crashes sound from outside. Screams echo from down the street. There has been a biological attack in your town. The worst has actually happened. What should you have done to prepare? What do you do now?

Surviving Doomsday provides tips and techniques to help keep you and your family alive in the event of mass warfare.

This guide covers the following and more:

Biological & Chemical Attacks - How to survive in the event of a biological or chemical attack
Fallout Preparation - What to do before and after you become contaminated
Quarantine Rooms - How to set one up and how to use it
Food Storage - What to stockpile in the event of an attack
Bugging Out - What you need to know if you must leave your home
Weather - How to forecast the weather using only your senses
Home Defense - Weapons and tools needed to keep you and your loved ones safe

*** Also included is a special bonus section about using herbs as highly-effective survival medicine.

This guide is a must-read for any family that wants to be prepared for a potential biological or chemical attack.

Convert A Hot Water Heater Into A Wood Stove

http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert-a-Hot-Water-Heater-Into-a-Wood-Stove/?ALLSTEPS

has all the pictures and info on actually turning an old hot water heater into a wood stove. This could really come in handy.

Hit the junk yard!!!