Square Gardening

Even if you have a large garden utilizing this planting technique will help increase your garden s yield per square.

Square gardening. Before you get started creating your new garden there s a few things to keep in mind. Heavy clay soil amended for 3 years with horse manure leaf humus household compost sand wood chips fish and organic fertilizer includes chicken manure and minerals. Square foot gardening commonly referred to as sfg is a planting method that was developed by american author and tv presenter mel bartholomew in the 1970s.

Sfg rapidly gained popularity during the 1980s through mel s first book and television series and since then has. Square foot gardening typically starts with a 4x4 foot raised garden bed filled with amended soil. Square foot gardening yields 100 of the harvest of a traditional garden in 80 less space and with a mere 2 of the work.

So what is square foot gardening anyway and where did it come from. Square foot gardening is a popular gardening method that is a neat and organized way of expanding your garden. Using square foot gardening you can comfortably grow two cucumber plants per square foot.

Square foot gardening is a simple method of creating small orderly and highly productive kitchen gardens. It s a simple way to create easy to manage gardens with raised beds that need a minimum of time spent maintaining them. Popularized by retired engineer efficiency expert mel bartholomew square foot gardening allows you to get a high yield from a small area a win win situation for beginning gardeners and experienced ones alike it s especially beneficial to gardeners who don t have much time or yard space.

It was invented by backyard gardener retired engineer and efficiency expert mel. In essence it is an approach to growing food that incorporates companion planting intensive spacing and getting the most food possible out of a small space. Square foot garden for a front yard organic vegetable garden some traditional left but moving toward all square foot garden.

A healthy square foot gardening cucumber plant has a yield of approximately 5 pounds and can also be grown vertically with support from a trellis. If you use the square foot gardening method. This method was invented by mel bartholomew an american tv presenter and author around 1970s.