All You Need to Know About Square Foot Gardening
Article by TSons
Square foot gardening is the method of planting your crops which are segregated by a grid into various sections. Square foot gardening is being used across farms and home gardens to intensively grow plants of different kinds in each square. It is great for a kitchen garden and you can grow different species in each square.
It’s a gardener’s choice to choose the crops and plants they want to grow. This method of gardening can be really helpful to grow plants that require a lot of space. You can plant maize or pole beans in each square and support them with net around the square. These plants grow in an upward direction and need support to grow so the net would ensure that they take lesser space.
You need to plan the layout in your garden and choose the plants carefully before starting to sow the seeds in these squares. Unlike single row gardening where there is a lot of effort utilized and space occupied, square foot gardening saves space, soil and water too. It takes almost 80% less space, 90% less water, 95% less seeds and lesser hard work.
If you are a beginner, you can start by taking a space of around 4 square feet and covering the space with compost and adding beds for each type of crop you intend to grow. You can also indulge your kids and teach them gardening by allotting beds to each child. They would love doing it and will simultaneously learn as well.
This method of gardening would really be helpful to grow vegetables and fruits in your kitchen garden. You can grow radish, strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, etc. in different squares. This method of gardening is being used commercially and as well as by home gardeners. Once you start, you would actually be able to know the benefits of Square Foot Gardening.
Across the globe farmers have started accepting this method of gardening and are also happy with this method because lots of labor, time and space is saved which is actually helping them to utilize the extra space for more cultivation.
There is plenty of information on the internet about square foot gardening. You can also refer to books that have been published on this subject. One of the books published on this method of gardening which gives detailed information and ideas is ‘All New square foot gardening’ by Mel Bartholomew.
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