Product: Square Foot Gardening
Rating: 3.0
Good for Introduction to Square Foot Gardening
I loved Patti Moreno's Urban Sustainable Living DVD's, so I was excited when she and Mel Bartholomew created this new dvd. The first segment focuses on Patti planting several raised beds. She focuses on companion planting and gives you some plans and requirements for the various fruits/veggies/flowers that she ends up using. The second segment is a sitdown interview with Mel. They discuss the benefits of working in raised beds vs in the ground (less water usage, better soil, little to zero weeds, etc). Mel also demonstrates how to divide each square foot for planting (whether you will be planting 1 large or 9 small, etc.).Overall, I felt like this was a great introduction to square foot gardening. Patti's gardens are beautiful, and I would love to have mine be as successful as hers. I do agree with the other poster somewhat, as it was "just a taste;" it did not go into as much detail as her previous dvd's have. I would recommend getting Patti'sUrban Sustainable Living, Volume 1andUrban Sustainable Living, Volume 2as well as Mel's bookAll New Square Foot Gardeningfor more instruction. If you want to rent the videos, I believe they are available digitally on Amazon as well as Youtube. Patti's Youtube channel Gardengirltv also has many free videos that are featured on her dvd's.