Square Foot Garden Designs, Tips, and Plans

• Step your garden area and plot it on graph paper executing the square gardening scale.
• Keep taller veggies on the north side. Sketch in the cool-season ranges.
• Determine when those crops will develop so they can be changed with warm-season plants.
• Combining block planting with culture strategies such as trellising or double cropping maximizes usage of space.

Square Foot Gardens for Convenience

The standard design of square gardening prevents the requirement for endless tilling, weeding, watering, and bug patrol.

The concept is to lay the groundwork of seed beds in different blocks that are not over four feet broad.

A strolling space is laid out around all sides of each block to avoid.

running over on the garden bed while working the private plots.

The square garden is sized just right so you can reach each plot quickly when cultivating.

To divide the gardens, you can use planks to serve as pathways.

An easy way to plant the garden is to allocate one squarefoot garden for each member of your household.

Test the soil for proper pH level, add amendments such as compost, fertilize, and you are prepared for planting.

Any block can be fitted with a trellis or assistance for vining plants such as beans, cucumbers, squash, or tomatoes.

in each of the squares when possible, allowing a square foot space for each separate variety.

Square Foot Garden Strategy.

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Or use our square foot worksheet to develop your own garden strategy!

Taking care of a Squarefoot Garden.

Broccoli Seedling Growing in the Garden.

Appropriate maintenance is just a little step away with the square gardening method.

Excellent care consists mainly of keeping the garden bed wet, weekly feedings, and keeping the weeds out.

Consistently growing the same plant family in similar spots each season offers illness a chance to develop in the soil.

After cultivating a crop from one of the following families, turn the crops, picking a variety from a different household.