![]() The main thing to know is there’s a maximum number of plants you can get in each square. I wasn’t going to go to great lengths to alter the dimensions or soil of my bed, but in theory, the principles should still hold. So I read the pages I needed to, and flipped through the pages I didn’t. Well, I skimmed it.Ī lot of the book covers ‘general gardening’ topics, and I was looking specifically for how to make SFG work for me. ![]() I read it from cover to cover in a day without leaving the house. I was stoked to find an ebook copy of Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew in my local library. Square Foot Gardening began its public life as a book. Hopefully it’ll keep me more motivated in the rest of the garden. This year I’ve decided to use the principles of square foot gardening, apply some technology (and water), and focus on having one bed that really pumps. By then, it’s a huge and overwhelming job. It’s not until winter rolls around and I have to plant the garlic that my motivation returns. Any harvests we do get are small and disfigured. Pests take over the garden, plants run away to seed. Sometimes I go out with a watering can, but if I’m honest, that doesn’t happen very often. Each year, the garden suffers as I choose to conserve our tank water over irrigating the garden. Summer here at The Outpost gets really, really hot. But when I began thinking about ripping out one of my strawberry beds and transforming it into a salad bed, I ended up turning to Square Foot Gardening. Great idea, right?īecause my garden has been rather large for a rather long time, it’s not an idea I’ve ever experimented with. The idea is you can grow a lot of food in a small space with minimal effort. It maximises garden space by splitting it into squares and then planting inside them. One technique I’ve heard about over the years is the concept of ‘Square Foot Gardening’ (SFG). Sometimes I file their existence into the back of my mind to come back to later. Sometimes I get stuck into them right away. I might not follow them exactly, rather I meld them with other things I’ve learned and have decided to be true. Everyone seems to say something different.Īs a result, I’ve learned to experiment with ideas I hear about. It can get confusing when you first pick up a spade to grow something. There’s different ideologies: organic, synthetic, biodynamic, permaculture, no-dig, companion planting, moon calendars, and so much more. ![]() Each expert you consult will have different ideas, different dos and don’ts.
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