Posted in Chiropractors, Fun Stuff for Kids, Local "Green" Events, Nontoxic Lawn Care, Organic Gardening, Organizations/Activism, Parenting Groups, tagged benefit, Chiropractor, fair, festival, garden, Holistic Moms Network, kids, music, organic, Orlando, photograph, planting, storyteller on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Lynne Whitson-Rosemellia of Hands On Family Chiropractic is hosting a Spring Fling to benefit the Orlando Area Chapter of the Holistic Moms Network. The event will take place from 11-2 on Saturday, May 10th at 2876 S. Alafaya Trail in Orlando.
There will be plantings and paintings for the kids, a photographer to get pictures [...]
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Posted in Organic Gardening, tagged extension office, garden classes, home depot, lake mary, orange county, pest control, SFG, square foot garden, vermiculite, water conservation on April 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
SFG mini-series reader Ryan reports that over at the Home Depot in Lake Mary, square foot garden enthusiasts can buy 4 cu feet bags of vermiculite from the Home Depot for $12.99.
When setting up my kitchen garden I was unable to find it near me in large quantity so I ordered from Home Harvest instead.
There [...]
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Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged flowers, harvest, kids, petunia, plants, SFG, square foot garden, vegetables on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While getting a harvest wasn’t part of the goals set out by the mini series of articles, I thought I’d share some pictures of our harvest. I always consider any kind of harvest as “bonus” when gardening with kids. It isn’t the point of the project, but it is fun when a batch of kids [...]
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This weekend, Progress Energy is giving away free trees at various Central FL locations. The types include Dalhoun Holly, Eastern Redbud, Firebush, Simon’s Stopper, and Wild Coffee.
Here’s the text from the email I received about the event:
Wind-blown trees and limbs are a leading cause of power outages. Pick up a native, low-growing tree — a [...]
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Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged bush beans, children, garden, gardening, kids, marigold, mel bartholomew, miracle gro, organic choice, petunia, SFG, square foot gardening, sunflowers on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
PLANT FOOD
If you’ve been following along at home, your little square foot garden plot is now about six weeks old and needs some plant food/fertilizer. We’ve been giving Miracle Gro Organic Choice a whirl, and while a bit whiffy on the nose, it seems to be ok.
We got it for about $10 ish. I’m not [...]
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Some of the things you may want to grow in your garden are going to have teeny, tiny seeds.
These can be hard for adults to plant, so young children will have an even harder time with them. The answer? Make seed tape!
You can sometimes find seed tape already made in local garden centers like this [...]
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Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged children, flowers, growing, kids, planting, raised bed, seeds, SFG, square foot gardening, vegetables on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DECIDE WHAT TO PLANT
What you decide to grow is up to you. But if you are gardening with very young children, you may want to consider fast growers and/or chunky seeds like radish, bush beans, or teddy bear sunflowers. For even faster results transplant marigold, bush or patio tomato, basil, parsley, etc.
Just take care to [...]
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Posted in Breastfeeding Support, Local "Green" Events, Natural Baby Care, Natural Housekeeping, Natural Products, Nontoxic Lawn Care, Organic Gardening, Organizations/Activism, Parenting Groups, tagged alternative, breastfeeding, Dad, green, holistic, Holistic Moms Network, Mom, natural childbirth, parenting, support, vaccination on February 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A new chapter of the Holistic Moms Network is now forming in Orlando and will be holding an Open House at the University UU Society, 11648 McCulloch Road in Orlando on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. There will be several items raffled off at the Open House and food and beverages will be [...]
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Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged square foot gardening, raised bed, backyard, vegetables, growing, wood, flowers, oraganic gardening, making grid, string, screws, gardener, insecticide on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Let’s get back to the beginner’s square foot garden… we’ve already made the box, and we filled it up. The next thing to tackle is marking off the squares for planting.
MAKE THE GRID
It is up to you how you want to do this. Some ideas:
Screw in deck screws or eye screws into the wood [...]
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Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged garden, compost, square foot gardening, SFG, children, vegetables, peat moss, vermiculite, flowers, grow, project on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together.
In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed:
1/3 vermiculite
1/3 peat moss
1/3 compost
In [...]
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