“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together. In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed: 1/3 vermiculite 1/3 [...]
Archive for January, 2008
SFG Series: Filling Your 4 x 4 ft raised Bed
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SFG Series: Building a 4 x 4 ft Raised Bed
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Different Types of Raised Beds There are many kinds of raised beds to fit any budget and style. For our 4 x 4 ft square foot gardening project, I’ve tried to keep it simple and affordable by going with a plain wooden box frame that can be made and installed in less than an hour: [...]
Square Foot Gardening With Children (and Kid’s Tools!)
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction I started putting in a 100 sq ft kitchen garden for myself last summer. I’m still nowhere close to being done installing beds and I’m still learning as I go along when it comes to growing edibles. But I’ve really gotten to love spending time with my preschooler puttering around in the yard. I’ve [...]
Purple Dragon Carrot Harvest
Posted in Garden, SFG, tagged carrot, dragon, harvest, purple on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was fun — carrot harvest day. Out of the 32 seeds I put in, we got 23 out. Though next time I will plant 9 per sq foot rather than the suggested 16 because they get fluffy, and then the bigger ones cover up the smaller ones and they struggle for light. They were [...]
One New Shelf, Two New Beds
Posted in Garden, SFG, Self-Watering on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Julia and I have been busy. Going through a fit of spring cleaning indoors and outdoors. We also had a little freeze one day so we had to cover what few plants are left in the mini garden. So today’s entry is eye-candy! I bought a 4 ft wide chrome shelf at Target on New [...]
