I was relieved to see that my veggie plants weren’t damaged by the recent really hard rain. I made the decision to plant only one plant in each square, although Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening says that you can plant 4 plants in a square. I wanted to give these plenty of room, particularly since I probably won’t be planting anything other than radishes with the pandemic.
This is one of the head lettuce plants. It is already taking up about 2/3 of the square. It looks healthy and happy, so I’m glad about my decision to spread out more.
I this picture, you can see three of the six boxes we built for our raised bed square foot garden. You can also see the irrigation system, in which the sprinkler in the center of each box waters the plants in that box. We have a timer attached so the plants are watered at the same time each day. We can either cut back on the time or increase it, or turn it off altogether, as needed.
Right now my head lettuce plants are a lot larger than my spinach plants. I’m carefully harvesting leaves from both, encouraging growth and trying to keep the plants producing.
So far, everything is going well.
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I’m thinking of starting a raised bed square foot garden too. How deep did you make your beds? And are you only planning to grow leafy greens in them?
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We made wooden boxes that are 4’x4’x8″ and put them on top of metal supports that hold the boxes at about my chest level. We filled each with Mel’s Mix (2 parts vermiculite, 2 parts peat moss, and 1 part each of as many different kinds of compost as you can find.) Then we cut up hoses to attach to a sprinkler in the middle of each box, tied together so we can turn on water daily controlled by a timer. I am now growing spinach, red onions, and head lettuce. The spinach and lettuce are cool weather crops, so it will get too hot for them soon. I’ll replace them with yellow squash and whatever else I can find at that time. I’m also growing tomatoes in deeper brick planters that we converted. I will also add radishes. I hope this gives you an idea of how to get started. Feel free to ask more questions if you think I can help. Best of luck to you, Penne.
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That’s great, thanks Linda!
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Good. I’m glad that helped some, Penne. I wish you the best of luck with it. Please let me know how it goes.
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