Moving a Square Foot Garden
Carrie, a reader from Georgia shared the following story and pictures:
I have 12, 4×4, SFG boxes and several border rows. We moved to North GA 4 years ago and built our Square Foot Garden. Two years ago, we moved homes to prepare for me to come home from work full time. The house across the street where we were moving became available at a more affordable rent.
We hired a coupe of teenagers to help us dig the mix out of the boxes into wheel barrows, wheel the mix and boxes across the street, and set up our garden again. We are now preparing to move our garden again because we are purchasing a home next week. This time, instead of the move being across the street, it is 25 minutes away. My children began helping me bag up our mix in heavy duty construction strength trash bags.
We made the investment for all the boxes and Mel’s mix when I was still working, and there’s no way we can leave it behind and start over. So if anyone asks, “can I take my garden with me?”, the answer is, yes!
Thanks for posting this! I stumbled upon it googling “moving a square foot garden”.
We are moving our single 4×4 square foot garden I just made and planted 6 weeks ago. I didn’t want to loose my mix investment or plants. I plan to pot the plants for the transplant and replant when the garden is reset. This gives me hope!
Good luck with the new house and garden. Mel’s Mix can be a bit of an investment, so that is so cool that you are taking it with you. Smart, smart. 🙂
Good luck congrats on the new house