Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Doing it and doing it well - Square Foot Gardening

So as I plan my first garden Kate suggested I look at "square foot gardening".   Square foot gardening is great for beginners as it allows you to grow a variety of vegetables and fruits in a small space.  For those living in a city you can be trapped on the top of a building in the middle of a city during the zombie attack and still enjoy fresh produce.  Two thumbs way up on that!!!!

The garden plots at our local community garden are the same size as a piece of plywood so therefore 8'x4'.   I used http://vegetableplanner.vegetable-gardening-online.com/ to design how I will use this space to grow food.  It is a really cool resource on this gardening technique.  With it I was able to make the following garden plan.


I picked most of my vegetables based on their ability to re-grow next year without needing to be replanted, and others for ease of seed propagation.  I won't be able to order out of a seed catalogue or pop in the van to go to the nearest garden centre with thousands of wandering zombies hungry for my brain.  I just won't! 

Watch for the walkers,

Errin

1 comment:

  1. Bad news, don't grow your potatoes and tomatoes next to one another, big no no in the gardening world.

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