When we last looked at the different growing techniques, there was not a big difference between between the Growboxes and the Squarefoot gardening methods.
As of this weekend, there is …
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About a month ago I planted tomatoes and peppers using three different techniques. 1) Grow boxes
2) Square foot garden
Yesterday we got about 4″ of rain as measured in a 5 gallon bucket. Today it’s going to be 90! I went out early to do some weeding and “smartening up” …
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As you probably know, I converted most of my tiny patch of lawn in the back to a Square foot garden. Sadly, it looks rather tatty, and needs to be …
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In a Square Foot Garden thinning is easy. Unlike the directions on the seed packets there is no sow, then thin to the proper spacing. We’ve already sown to the …
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The seedlings in the sun room, are puny compared to the offerings at the store. Since I really only was successful with tomatoes and peppers, I proceeded to purchase tomatoes …
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14 years ago
We filled the beds with equal parts (by volume) of compost (I used composted horse manure, and purchased mushroom and cow manure compost. The book (Square Foot Gardening) suggests 5 …
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14 years ago
Learn to build simple wooden raised bed frames out of inexpensive lumber simple hardware and a little elbow grease!
The last few years, before I got more interested in vegetable gardening, I would start most of my vegetables by purchasing seedlings. There is nothing wrong with that, but it transfers some …
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