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| A few years back I remember watching a show on PBS about gardening using a square foot block at a time. The host Mel Bartholomew walked the viewers threw the process of setting up a Square Foot Garden and gave many great tips on gardening in general. That show is gone now, but I recently came across SquareFootGardening.com and it has renewed my intrest. |
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| SquareFootGardening.com is the official website of Mel Bartholomew, the author of the all time best selling gardening book “Square Foot Gardening”. The website offers a few quick how-to articles and quite a few articles in the “Mel’s Columns” section that I found to be rather informative.The site does sell many products and is heavily weighted towards the sale. I think this site could benefit greatly from a blog or a forum. I can see this becoming a very popular site quickly if a best selling author would blog about his garden once or twice a week. Having that type of interaction would entice visitors to return more often, and returning visitors equal greater sales, it is a win win! |
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| SquareFootGardening.com has a very simple design. While it is easy to navigate (and that is important) it is visually disappointing. There is nothing about this sites design that I walk away remembering. The owner of the site is not only a best selling author but was the host of a long running PBS show about Square Foot Gardening, these factors really make me long for a more appealing site, and with the large archive I am sure Mel has, I hope he decides to update the look! |
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| SquareFootGardening.com presents an innovative idea in gardening and provides enough information for an inexperienced gardener to get started. The articles are informative, but I would like to see more of them and I would like to see some sort of social addition to the site. Overall, I think the sites rating is grater than the sum of its parts because of the innovative and interesting ideas presented. |
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| Pros: |
Innovative ideas, good articles. |
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Poor design, lack of social networking. |
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