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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Casey76 on June 14, 2009, 12:54

Title: Square foot gardening
Post by: Casey76 on June 14, 2009, 12:54

Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

I though I might experiment with one of my new raised beds (which is, conveniently, 6' by 3')

Title: Re: Square foot gardening
Post by: mumofstig on June 14, 2009, 13:22

Well depends what you think is woth it :)
Is this? (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=39107.0)

Title: Re: Square foot gardening
Post by: richyrich7 on June 14, 2009, 13:25

Yes we did it for about 3 yrs and did very well with it, best carrots I've ever grown .
I'm seriously considering going back to it! as I'm finding it hard to keep up with 2 lottie plots at the minute   

Title: Re: Square foot gardening
Post by: Casey76 on June 14, 2009, 19:08

Well, decided to give it a go.

One of my raised beds now contains:

Multicoloured radishes (red, yellow, white, purple)
Round radish - National
Cos lettuce
Batavarian lettuce
Ice berg lettuce
Butterhead lettuce (I have rabbits ;))
Spring onions - white
Sping onions - red
Carrots - Marché de Paris (golf ball type)
7 unidentified tomatoes (choice of Golden nugget, yellow pear, 2 red cherries and a "normal" red one - all transplanted as 6in plants)
Butternut squash
Unidentified curcurbit - either cucumber or courgette (transplanted as seedlings with 1 true leaf)

So we'll see how it goes!

Title: Re: Square foot gardening
Post by: Elcie on June 14, 2009, 20:19

As Mum posted above, I am very happy with mine.  Get so much stuff from it that it is definitely worth it.  My biggest problem is thinning out enough to stop each square from invading the other.

Title: Re: Square foot gardening
Post by: Riala on June 14, 2009, 20:25

Here is mine:

(http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs003.snc1/4402_1152827667355_1427551540_412541_7494508_n.jpg)