My Square Foot Garden
Here are a list of posts if you want to follow my progress in the garden! See photos at the bottom of the list.
2012
- 2012 Gardening Season in Review
- August 2012 Garden Update
- Technology Crash
- Swimming in Greens – Recipes Please!
- Summer Slump
- Walls O Water and Broccoli
- May 2012 Garden Update
- April 2012 Garden Update
- Starting Seeds and Planting Onions
- Brighter Blooms Nursery, part 1
- My 2012 Square Foot Gardening Plan
- Adventures in Eating
2011
- The Last of the Onions
- Merry Christmas to Me!
- My Gardening Christmas Wish List
- Storing Onions
- Summer Veggie Harvest 2011
- Fall 2011 Square Foot Gardening Plan
- Spring Success, Summer Failure
- It’s finally summer!
- First Harvest of 2011
- It’s still winter. . .
- The Longest Winter Ever–Delayed Planting
- All In A Week’s Work. . .
- Spring has sprung
- My 2011 Square Foot Gardening Plan
2010
- Harvest Time! (and August update)
- Gardening Problems, Solutions, and Update
- The weather is holding. . .
- Back in the Garden, again. . .
- The strike is over. . .
- My 2010 Square Foot Gardening Plan
- What the . . . hail?
- It’s Not Too Late!
2009
- Harvest Update
- My (Square Foot) Gardening Therapy
- Summer Fun
- Fun With Food Storage features. . . Me!
- How does your (square foot) garden grow?
- Not kidding. . .
- I’m not lazy. . . I’m just a wimp!
- Adventures in Broccoli
- Sometimes, Gardening is Ugly
- My 2009 Square Foot Gardening Plan
- Little Packets of Joy!
2008
- 2008 Garden in Review–Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Broccoli
- 2008 Garden in Review–Onions, Potatoes, Cucumbers
- 2008 Garden in Review–Squash, Peppers
- 2008 Garden in Review–Tomatoes
- End of August
- Harvest Rainbow
- Potato Harvest!
- Fourth Week of July
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of July
- 2008 Garden, Second Week of July
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of June
- 2008 Garden, Second Week of June
- 2008 Garden, First Week of June
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of May
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of May
- 2008 Garden, Second Week of May
- 2008 Garden, First Week of May
- 2008 Garden, Fourth Week of April
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of April
- 2008 Garden, Second Week of April
- 2008 Garden, First Week of April
- 2008 Garden, Fourth Week of March
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of March
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of March
- 2008 Garden, First Week of March
- 2008 Garden, Fourth Week of February
- 2008 Garden, Third Week of February
- 2008 Garden, Second Week of February
- My 2008 Square Foot Garden Plan
Photos
My Square Foot Garden beds with trellis (left) and pvc support for corn (right)
6 inch (single vinyl rail) garden beds
12 inch (double vinyl rails) square foot garden boxes
Square Foot Garden in the middle of the summer.
4'x8' bed with horizontal tomato supports and 4'x4' bed
12 inch square foot gardens in the middle of the summer
I grew in 6″ the first year, but I did not feel like I could grow good root vegetables like carrots and potatoes. Also, my garden beds are surrounded by gravel and they got too hot. I doubled them the next year, and saw a significant improvement. The final reason I did that was because the soil settles, and you end up growing in more like 4-5″ of soil, which is not enough. So I’m a big proponent of taller beds. It is more expensive to fill with soil, but I feel my improved results were worth it.
I was reading a post where you talked about 14″ high garden beds. When I read Mel’s book he said to stay at 6″ high. What is the best way to go?