Square Foot Gardening
Posted on May 18, 2008 under Gardening, Self Sufficiency |Our kids are never playing in the sandbox because of the bugs and spiders that get in there, so today we got the sand out to try something new. Since the contents of our compost bin wasn’t ready to use yet, we went into the forest to get some good compost. We filled the sandbox with it and used some rope to partition the square meter box into 9 square feet patches.
Each square has been planted with a different crop. We have planted: four heads of lettuce, one tomato plant, one cucumber plant, four cloves of garlic, some rosemary, thyme, a sunflower and two patches with some different flowers.
The size of one square meter is perfect for our 8 year old daughter to walk around and be able to reach every part of her garden. This system was taken from the book All New Square Foot Gardening
May 18th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Leave 4 one foot squares for each cabbage planted! Watch out for turnips too, they take more space, but for carrots, radishes,onions, beets and the like the square foot method works great! Try growing ‘Up’ a trellis, this is good for ‘cumbers, some small tomatoes and vining beans. Cauliflowers take about the same space as cabbages but lettuce is good planted sucessively, over the summer, in square foot spaces.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I love square foot gardening. It is a great way to keep the weeds down and the raised beds allow the plants to live longer into the winter.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I have a big trellis that I will add to the side with the cucumber and tomato plant to assist the vertical growing.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
nice idea! did not think of that
June 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Nice post. I’ve never heard of this, but makes perfect sense. This seems like a must have for sububanites or city dwellers. Im definitely going to do some homework on this one.
Best,
J
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