BROADCASTS.com

Here’s the RAW episode of my interview with innovativehttp://www.seedingsquare.com/ ( Seeding Square) inventor Jennifer Pratt! I edited while driving today so the show notes are a bit raw to say the least. And I cut out a few major mess-ups in the audio but other then that it’s just live! http://www.seedingsquare.com/ () http://www.seedingsquare.com/ (Benefits of Seeding Square) Simplifies planting process Save money on food bills Can double or triple the harvest Optimizes & organizes garden space Weeds are fewer & easier to identify Gives depth accuracy for seed holes Plants grow in beautiful uniform grids Planting is done quickly Great for teaching kids & new gardeners Spoon & funnel great for kids & seniors Features of the http://www.seedingsquare.com/ (Seeding Square) Color coded for simple planting Space is optimized for each plant type Leaves perimeter impressions in the soil Magnetized to the Wand/Spoon Small profile for easy storage Comes in a reusable storage bag All materials used are RoHS compliant Tell me about your first gardening experience? Actually I grew up in Alberta, my mom always had a vegetable garden I was a big fan of the peas the carrots and the strawberries   She liked that! as an adult I didn’t have a garden I was very career focused time to put in our own, dug out a piece of the lawn and put in our own garden had a lot of fun in the end all these little sprouts started coming up didn’t know what was a weed and We had a good time but didn’t grow as many vegetables as we had hoped So we do have the family gardening background! I know listeners are going this woman has the answer to my prayers because I’ve had that problem!  Do you want to tell listeners what is a seeding square they’re probably like what is a http://www.seedingsquare.com/ (seeding square)? What happened is after our first year we decided we’d be a little more systematic we went into our local whatever tool there is to make gardening simple  to simplify the process of growing your own food in the background hunting around on social media came across http://www.squarefootgardening.org/ (square foot gardening) http://www.squarefootgardening.org/ () really liked the spacing system that http://www.squarefootgardening.org/ (square foot gardening) has x number of plants per square foot in our case we didn’t have a garden box you lay out a grid formation poke x number of holes didn’t have the set up to put in this whole grid set up we ended up making a whole bunch of spacing jigs based off the square foot gardening grew so much food it was unbelievable if they don’t know of http://www.squarefootgardening.org/ (square foot gardening) it’s high yield gardening it’s being spaced and optimized and utilized perks is that you don’t get weeds harvest we couldn’t believe how much food! My husband said: “I dropped the ball and you have obviously been on it!” I was just gonna same thing plants were still small but once your plants get a little bigger you don’t get a lot of weeds our jigs got super high yield low maintenance new gardeners kept having friends and neighbors your garden looks amazing everything with jigs everything comes in laser beam straight rows makes weeding a non-issue such little time so obvious it takes no time our ahha moment came because we had all these different jigs Friends and family One square foot Jig and stacked them all together and realized none of the wholes were overlapping each other. We thought if we could color code this we could combine all the jigs into one unit and we could offere this to teh world! Growing food should be something everyone should be able to do and it should be simple to do! And we could help others like we helped us! What’s a jig? is it... Support this podcast