Square Foot Garden

I was FINALLY able to mix the soil and put together my square foot garden this week!!! I has been really windy on all my days off recently, so I haven't felt that I had the ideal mixing dirt together conditions.... you know... those ideal playing in the dirt conditions we all know and love, right?

Anyhow, for those of you that don't know, square foot gardening is a newish style of gardening that uses small space (4 foot squares usually) to grow large amounts of veggies. The idea being that you use (mix your own extra fertile, water holding and weed seed free) soil that will yield high amounts of food. For example, 1 square foot of garden will grow 4 heads of lettuce or 16 carrots or 1 pepper plant. And since you have 16 squares per box you can grow all sorts of veggies! I'm pretty excited about it, hopefully it warms up now so I can actually PLANT my veggies.

The process is pretty simple. Screw 4 boards together to get the box. Tear out grass, put down weed fabric (paint your boards if you want, I wanted). Mix your soil (1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss and 1/3 compost). Put it in, put up your dividers and plant... the end!

Here's my almost finished (plantless/seedless) product. so cute....