My Square Foot Garden – Awesome E-books! and Giveaway!!! Ends 2/18/12
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by Kelly under Giveaway |
Thank you to Emily at My Square Foot Garden for allowing me to review her ebooks – Gardening for Beginners and Planting by Color.
This is my first year planting a “real” garden and I’m so excited to use her books. As a beginner gardener, I can honestly say these are the only books you will need to get started. The first book I read was the Gardening for Beginners. She doesn’t waste your time with too much information or pointless rambling. The first page is a little of her gardening experience and then it moves right onto the Gardening Method. Emily did a great job with a checklist to help you design your gardening beds.
Make sure you print out your ebook, because you are definitely going to want to write in it! She provides a page where you can layout your garden. On the “Choose What to Grow” page, I LOVE that she has the numbers of how many go in each plot. Once you read the method, you will realize how important it is to have all that information in such a convenient spot. Emily even offers suggestions for vegetable and herbs that are easy for new gardeners to grow.
Next she helps you with laying out your garden. I really like how she gives a companion planting chart, since I’m told that is a great way to garden and I had no clue until reading this great e-book what I should do! She also has a good list of things to consider when laying out your garden, things that I probably wouldn’t have considered until it was too late. These pages are definitely a huge help for a first time gardener or a gardener that hasn’t had much gardening success.
Emily recommends a garden bed, but she also explains how to build your own. She covers another important area of gardening…. soil. The soil makes the difference between a successful garden and one that turns out to be unsuccessful. She even gives you the math problem to figure out exactly how much you need. Next she covers watering, when to plant and discusses plants vs seeds. She even has a really neat chart that uses adorable graphics to indication if you should start as a seed, plant as a plant, seeds preferred, but can also transplant or transplant preferred, but can also seed. The last few pages talk about how to plant and transplant into your square foot garden.
I’m very impressed with this e-book. It is easy to read, easy on the eyes, covers what is important without going into unneeded details. A great resource for a beginning gardener! Since I’m hoping many of you will be growing a lot of your own food this year, please stop by her site and check out everything she has to offer! Her website is also well laid out and contains wonderful information on gardening!
In the package, I also received a zip file called “Planting by Color”, it contains 15 e-books. Make sure you read the “How to find your color” page before reading the e-books! Wahoo! I’m part of the Green Group (green being my favorite color and all, I am happy with that). Your color group is based on the last frost in your area. Where I live they use the last frost date of May 15th. The Green Group covers May 1st through the 15th, so that is what I’m using.
Now that I know I’m the Green Group, I open the corresponding e-book. In this book she lays out week by week my gardening plans, which takes away all the guess work! There are 18 weeks spelled out… what to plant, what to buy or what you need to have, and what you can begin planting. Each page offers an easy to read chart that tells us what to start inside, what to transplant, and what to plant outside. Below each chart Emily shares more details. I really like how this “Plant by Color” ebook is laid out! This is definitely a book to print out and use again and again, year to year. There is room to make notes, so that you can refer to it again and again and know what you did the previous year.
Thank you, Emily for allowing me to read, use, and review these fabulous e-books! This will be the books I’m using to plan, plant, and enjoy my garden this year!
Make sure you stop by her website to see pictures of the ebooks and watch a video about them!!!!
Disclaimer – I received a free copy of the above ebooks to review. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
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I would love to have this book and the herb book but am not on facebook. Since you are into healthy eating, I think you would enjoy the book ‘Nourishing Traditions’ by Sally Fallon. Not only is the last half a cookbook using all your raw dairy, soaked grains, and such but the first half also gives an in depth look at why a lot of the food at the grocery store is not good for you. (No I don’t sell this book, just really enjoy and use mine)
It took me a LONG time to join Facebook, so I do understand. You can join and make yourself private, so no one will ask you to be a friend or anything. You can also limit what personal information you put on there, but once again, I completely understand! I will have to see if my library has that book, sounds really interesting! Thanks for letting me know!
This ebook sounds great!! This will be my first year planting a garden and I need all the help I can get!
It is great! I’m really excited to use it to create my garden this year!
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Thanks for the great contest!
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