So cool! You will have tons of veggies in no time!
Square Foot Gardens
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Things are finally starting to really shoot up here.
The stuff you see in rows is radishes, beets and lettuce that I'll thin down the line into true square foot garden spacing, and we'll eat the thinnings. Today's chore is to transplant the eggplant and tomatoes. I thought I'd experiment with the red plastic mulch for the tomatoes to see if it makes as much difference as they say in fruit setting.
I also uncapped half liter water bottles, buried one upside down next to each plant and cut the bottoms off of them so I could make sure each plant would get at least that much each time I watered without it running off of the plastic mulch.
The stuff you see in rows is radishes, beets and lettuce that I'll thin down the line into true square foot garden spacing, and we'll eat the thinnings. Today's chore is to transplant the eggplant and tomatoes. I thought I'd experiment with the red plastic mulch for the tomatoes to see if it makes as much difference as they say in fruit setting.
I also uncapped half liter water bottles, buried one upside down next to each plant and cut the bottoms off of them so I could make sure each plant would get at least that much each time I watered without it running off of the plastic mulch.
that water bottle idea is very cool! the runoff is why i didn't do the plastic and opted for real mulch again this year
Looking good, have you tried 16 pepper plants and if so, what was the result?Chewi said:These are last years SFGs. This year is bigger and better, just a little behind.
I'll get a picture of the veggie garden tomorrow when weather clears. That area has exploded!
If you every wondered if your soil mattered, here is a small bit of proof.
Savoy cabbage from the same batch that is in the square foot garden. First picture I just planted in the flowerbed for landscape.
Savoy cabbage in square foot garden
Wiri Wiri
Orange Habanero
Savoy cabbage from the same batch that is in the square foot garden. First picture I just planted in the flowerbed for landscape.
Savoy cabbage in square foot garden
Wiri Wiri
Orange Habanero
millworkman
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Nice nice!! This is kind of the mix I use in my pots and it works great.
Pepper-Guru
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Feeling the flow 
A quick couple pics of my two raised beds. I find I can get more carrots planting in rows in a raised bed rather than using the square foot spacing. The second bed uses square foot spacing for the most part, I have extra dill and basil plants shoved in there.
Now i just need some sunshine so things can really take off. It looks like it is going to be mostly overcast and rainy again for the next 10 days.
Now i just need some sunshine so things can really take off. It looks like it is going to be mostly overcast and rainy again for the next 10 days.
So the potatoes were taking over the garden, they had to go! Here is the updated 8 * 4.
So I replanted the 6 spots where I ripped out the potatoes.
looks awesome!
So everything has gone wild...this cuc was 6 inches last night and today is 12.
Head over to my GLOG, check out the growth in 1 week. There is a picture from 6/20 and today 6/27 where they have doubled in size!Jeff H said:
You will see it a lot in older gardening books. Especially ones from the library.westin said:
First year growing something other than herbs in containers on the deck. I decided to try the square foot method because it seemed like an easy way to learn (have to start somewhere). I built this, loaded it with Mel's mix, and filled it with mostly different types of peppers (habs, thai, poblano, and regular green) and some basil that I got from the local nursery.
Woke up one morning to see a family of groundhogs eating all of my pepper plant leaves. So off to Home Depot I went. The PVC allows me to swing the chicken wire directly up for easy access.
Woke up one morning to see a family of groundhogs eating all of my pepper plant leaves. So off to Home Depot I went. The PVC allows me to swing the chicken wire directly up for easy access.