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Square Foot Gardening

April 9, 2015 By lpilewski

Gardening is such an overwhelming task for a beginner! The idea of getting the soil tilled, making sure that it was more nutritious than our current SC clay, planting, thinning, weeding, watering – WHEW – that was so much to think about.

SLight Bulbquare Foot Gardening

Enter Square Foot Gardening. Someone at work lent me a book on the square foot gardening method and suddenly this seemed doable to me. All of the chores that seemed like such an undertaking were pared down to basics.

A thought as simple as only plant what you’ll eat was a light bulb moment for me.

Another – if the plant has to be thinned down to 6″ apart, only plant four in a one foot square and you won’t have to thin them. Instead of planting a whole package of seeds and then pulling out most, only plant four seeds and don’t do extra work.

So, I sat down, read the whole book front to back and started thinking that maybe I can do this. Maybe fresh vegetables will be in my future. Now the planning started…

 

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In the beginning…

April 9, 2015 By lpilewski

vegetables

Welcome! Follow along with me as I try gardening for the first time! My grandfather and mother are both amazing gardeners who could grow anything. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, flowers, figs, mangoes, papayas – nothing seemed to wither on the vine.

Then there is me.  I’ve never had success with plants, but that is going to change this summer!  The picture above is what I see in my mind. I’m hoping that my kitchen counter will look like this. (OK, not the mushrooms, but you get the idea).

I intend to detail the journey here on a weekly basis. We’ll have to wait to see how my garden grows. Hope you stick around!

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In the Beginning

vegetables

Welcome! Follow along with me as I try gardening for the first time! My grandfather and mother are both amazing gardeners who could grow anything. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, flowers, figs, mangoes, papayas – nothing seemed to wither on the vine.

Then there is me.  I’ve never had success with plants, but that is going to change this summer!  The picture above is what I see in my mind. I’m hoping that my kitchen counter will look like this. (OK, not the mushrooms, but you get the idea).

I intend to detail the journey here on a weekly basis. We’ll have to wait to see how my garden grows. Hope you stick around!

In the Garden

  • Pineapple Tomato x2
  • Hillbilly Tomato
  • Mortgage Lifter Tomato
  • Sweet Million Cherry Tomato
  • Bush Cucumber
  • Fooled You (no-heat jalapeno)
  • Sweet Sunset Banana Pepper
  • Orange Bell Pepper
  • Marconi Red Peppers
  • Mad Hatter Pepper
  • Garlic Chives
  • Wandering Onions
  • Hot and Spicy Oregano
  • Spice Island Rosemary
  • Silver Thyme
  • Julep Spearmint
  • Sweet Basil
  • Sage
  • Lavender
  • Carrots
  • Orange and Yellow Marigolds
  • Firepot Dahlias
  • Heliotrope

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District Programs Coordinator at Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District
Square Foot Gardener in Taylors, SC

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