On Square Foot Gardening

Because we’re using a fairly small amount of space for our garden, we’ll be using the Square Foot Gardening method.  This is a technique popularized by Mel Bartholomew, who wrote a book called Square Foot Gardning (surprise!).  The way it works it that you have planting beds which are divided into grids consisting of one foot squares, and you treat each square like a separate crop.

For instance, you can plant a bunch of carrots in one square, and two weeks later, plant more carrots in the square next to it.  This will ensure that you have a constant supply of carrots.  Once you harvest the first square, you can work some organic material back into the soil and plant something else there.  Managing small plots means less weeding, watering, cultivating – less work.  You’ll be surprised at how much you can produce in such a small space.

To read more, look at the links section on the right side of this page – especially the link regarding plant spacing.