Don Alm
December 29, 2014, 01:46 PM
Back in Dec 1990 we moved into our new home in Oregon (from Colorado) and there was a guy on Home and Garden Channel promoting his "Square Foot Gardening".
So.....I bought the book and watched the program religiously. Dug up a 10 by 20 section of back yard.....down 3ft and added amendments to enrich the soil and planted my first Square Ft Garden.
It was WONDERFUL. The author even showed how to grow tomatoes on a 4x8 sheet of chicken wire stretched over a frame. I planted 4 plants at the base, making 4 columns and as the plants grew I'd snip off the flowers as they came out until the plants were at the top of the 8ft frame and WHALA, from those 4 plants we had MANY POUNDS of tomatoes all summer.
Plus.....cucumbers and eggplants like we've never seen before.....including the largest pumpkin we've ever grown. We named it "Big-Boy".
2 yrs ago our church bought 2 acres of land next to our church. A few of us planted a garden on 1 1/2 acre and raised 12,000 lbs of veggies and in 2014 brought 22,000 POUNDS of veggies to 3 local charities. We're looking forward to 2015 to see how much we can grow.
I haven't checked but I'll bet "Square Foot Gardening" is available somewhere.
Don Alm.....looking forward to Spring Planting
So.....I bought the book and watched the program religiously. Dug up a 10 by 20 section of back yard.....down 3ft and added amendments to enrich the soil and planted my first Square Ft Garden.
It was WONDERFUL. The author even showed how to grow tomatoes on a 4x8 sheet of chicken wire stretched over a frame. I planted 4 plants at the base, making 4 columns and as the plants grew I'd snip off the flowers as they came out until the plants were at the top of the 8ft frame and WHALA, from those 4 plants we had MANY POUNDS of tomatoes all summer.
Plus.....cucumbers and eggplants like we've never seen before.....including the largest pumpkin we've ever grown. We named it "Big-Boy".
2 yrs ago our church bought 2 acres of land next to our church. A few of us planted a garden on 1 1/2 acre and raised 12,000 lbs of veggies and in 2014 brought 22,000 POUNDS of veggies to 3 local charities. We're looking forward to 2015 to see how much we can grow.
I haven't checked but I'll bet "Square Foot Gardening" is available somewhere.
Don Alm.....looking forward to Spring Planting
