Square foot gardening

We started the Square foot garden on April 18th 2011 and within 8 weeks have already harvested beetroot, cress, chard, parsley and rocket.  This really does show that square-foot gardening is an easy way to harvest a succession of fresh produce from the smallest of  spaces.

We have 27 12" squares containing: beans, tomatoes, perpetual spinach, strawberries, rhubarb chard, sweet basil, chives, boltardy beetroot, parsley, dwarf french beans, huttertite heritage dwarf beans, spinach, thyme and sage, carrot, cos lettuce, white lisbon spring onion, mange tout peas, onions, parsnip, marigold, raddish, nasturtium, cress and rocket.

Developed by Mel Bartholomew in the early 1980s, the concept remains popular today because it offers a simple plan for growing vegetables in compact, raised beds that can be intensively planted with a variety of crops.

A 18th April 2011	B 18th April 2011	C 18th April 2011	D 18th April 2011
E 24th May 2011	F 16th June 2011