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Generations Gardening Together – Sourcebook for Intergenerational Therapeutic Horticulture

Generations Gardening Together is a wonderful book describing how children and the elderly can have quality time together gardening. To work side-by-side, and watch the garden take shape and grow, allows generations to bond and relax in each other’s company. The book provides information on how to create sensory gardens for the young and the … Continue reading

All New Square Foot Gardening

The book All New Square Foot Gardening develops Square foot gardening which is an idea made popular by Mel Bartholomew in the 1980s. It is ideal for the smaller organic garden, because it is an intensive method of gardening based around ideas of companion planting, water conservation and avoiding pesticides and weed killers. Square foot … Continue reading

Is a Raised Summer Garden Right for You?

Is a Raised Summer Garden Right for You? Raised gardens are becoming quite popular as more and more people are renting property or find themselves in high rise apartment buildings with little to no lawn space and even less access to actual soil in which to plant the flowers and vegetables they desire to have … Continue reading