It is the perfect book for gardeners at any level. The book is fully updated and packed with pictures, project details, and all information to guide you how to build high yield garden in a small space with less work.
Gardening Tips By Using Square Foot Garden Box
It is doable to build the garden in a small space especially home gardeners. This book provides all the information you need to grow a square foot garden.
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The author Mel Bartholomew develop this type of raised box, and he pours all of his knowledge into a book back in the 1980s, and his book encourages lots of gardeners at any level. Now, he creates the third edition All New Square Foot Gardening fully updated book that sold for over 2.5 million copy for proof that his method of gardening works.
What is square foot gardening
According to Mel’s method that square foot gardening is the way you garden to maximize the space, less weeding and uses the proper growing medium. As we all know, that we don’t want to waste our time to weeding the garden often, his method works well for any home gardeners and beginner gardeners. The typical square foot garden is 4 x 4 raised garden box and divided into 16 squares by using the grid.
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The square foot garden is not only for vegetables. It is a perfect raised garden box to grow flowers or fruit like this strawberry planters. As you can see, this strawberry planter is a tiered square foot garden with triangle divider.
Square foot gardening pros and cons
Pros
This type of raised garden box has many benefits that include less weeding, fit in small space, less watering, well drained, the right growing medium mixes, and high yield. It is also a great gardening project with kids.
Cons
The startup to build the square foot garden might be costly, from the material you need, growing mix, plant starter/seeds. But it will last longer if you use durable materials.
Below is the sample image of square foot garden construction, as you can see, that you can attach the trellis on one side of the box for climbing vines.
Photo by J. Paul Moore.
Square foot gardening layout
In the book, you will get the complete plan guide of square foot gardening. The image below is the sample of square foot gardening layout plan. You will find any garden layout you want like a salsa garden, herb garden, salad garden and much more on the book.
I highly recommended The All New Square Foot Gardening book if you need a complete guide on how to build a garden in a small space. The book will guide you from planning to harvest time. You will get the full information on how to make the garden box, planting schedule, vegetable planting guide, harvesting guide and everything you need to start the garden. You can order the book through Quarto Knows or here.
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I love this book! I couldn’t garden in coastal Florida without it!
Glad you love this book, it is the best gardening book and encourage you to garden anywhere in any weather condition.
I do square foot gardening for certain plants like lettuce, spinach and garlic. I grow over 100 tomato plants. I do like square foot gardening.
Wow, 100 tomato plants? I can imagine the big harvest you get every summer, it must be an excited thing!
This is so helpful! I’ve been wanting to try something like this for years, but have never been sure how to start. Thank you!
Thank you, gardening always full of experiments but it is a rewarding activity, on this book you get so much information how to start a garden.
I have a Tower Garden, but I love this idea!!!
How do you like the Tower Garden? I like both ways too, gardening always a fun thing to do.
You’re making me so excited for spring to finally arrive! I love choosing seeds and plants from garden catalogs this time of year. I love the SF gardening method, too, though we have way too large a garden for it to be effective. Thanks for the great review!
These seed catalog always cheer me up too in this deep winter here, can’t wait for spring coming soon.
This sounds like such a great book for me – I have a balcony, so I don’t have a lot of space to work with., Will definitely have to get this book.
It does a really good book, you can do container garden in a balcony with the square foot garden’s plant lay out system.
After dealing with SO many weeds in my garden last year this is definitely something I want to try out! There is actually a Canadian company (can’t remember right now the name) who sells premade square foot gardens to help you start out – which sound good to me! I’ll have to pick up this book and learn more.
Oh it is not fun when you just spending more times on pulling those weeds, even better if you can find some company who sells the premade one, I thought I saw it online too, the book has tons of information you need for this gardening method.
This looks like an amazing book! I have not gardened in a long time, but am planning a small raised garden this year. I will have to check this out further. Thanks!
It does, the best investment for gardening, raised garden will give you lots of benefit how to care the garden.