Adventures in Square Foot Gardening
Spring-like weather is helping the sprouts spring up! Arugula, mustards, radishes, spinach all coming up in nice, neat rows. Have to love that square foot garden planning!
It’s been two weeks since planting the spring greens and almost everything is growing….
Spring is in the midst of springing, so time to plant the winter greens! Doesn’t this look pretty?
It took a bit of work to get here though…….
Now we can plant! But first, we’ve got to decide what to include in the garden. I’d gone to Lowes and bought a bunch of seed packets several weeks ago and I brought those out to figure out the garden plan. Tomatoes and peppers would be purchased as plants to give them a fair head start. Here’s the plan (I even used fancy graph paper!):
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Sunday morning, ready to get it together! What is all of that?
OK – first decision made – I’m going to follow the Square Foot Gardening method as closely as possible.
This means that raised bed gardens will be the way to go. This eliminates having to till our clay soil, and ensures that the growing material will be ideal for vegetables. I’ll try to match the recommended mix for the growing material, which is 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite. The compost should be from 5 different sources….
Square Foot Gardener in Taylors, SC