SFG

So, we’ve decided to start growing our own food… well… at least some of it anyway. Jim and Debi (Traci’s parents) started a garden at the bottom of their yard and have invited us to join them, as we currently don’t have much space available at our place. We have decided to use half the garden space for a gardening technique that perhaps some of you have heard of, or even tried yourself: it’s called “square-foot gardening”.

We just finished building the 4-foot squared, six-inch deep planting boxes that the technique calls for, and mixing the prescribed blend of compost and vermiculite, and are going to begin planting tomorrow. The guy that came up with this idea has apparently been successfully doing it for years in many parts of the world. He markets his method as “no work, organic gardening” and claims that it yields 100% of a harvest in 20% of the space. So far, the prep work has been relatively simple and rewarding; hopefully the planting, maintenance and harvest will leave us in a similar mood - I have a feeling it will.

Have any of you tried this gardening technique or any others that you found to be successful?