Square Foot Gardening

By Alzainah Albabtain  •  147447 comments  •   4 minute read

Square Foot Gardening

What is square foot gardening? A simple, unique and versatile system that adapts to all levels of experience, physical ability, and geographical location. Grow all you want and need in only 20% of the space of a conventional row garden. Save time, water, work and money! I am following the square foot gardening method, and I'll be using it as a reference through out the blog. Square foot gardening invented by the genius Mel Bartholomew! Learn more about it in his website , Or order his very very valuable book. It may come in downloadable PDF files too, if you search.

Here are the 10 things that make SFG different from traditional row gardening:

  1. Layout. Arrange your garden in squares, not rows. Lay it out in 4′x4′ planting areas. Companion plants can help each other grow bigger and tastier!
  2. Boxes. Build boxes to hold a new soil mix above ground. Your existing soil doesn't matter! forget about it, and just worry about the new soil called Mel's Mix.
  3. Aisles. Space boxes 3′ apart to form walking aisles. It makes it easier to walk and sit around the boxes, especially when your plants get really big and spill out of the boxes a little.
  4. Soil. Fill boxes with Mel’s special soil mix: 1/3 blended compost (please please make your own! The compost sold in Kuwait is a little shady) , 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite (All available in True Value).
  5. Grid. Make a permanent square foot grid for the top of each box. A MUST!
  6. Care. NEVER WALK ON YOUR GROWING SOIL. This is how the soil stays so fluffy and airy for the roots stay happy. Tend your garden from the aisles.
  7. Select. Plant a different flower, vegetable, or herb crop in each square foot, using 1, 4, 9, or 16 plants per square foot. You might, for example, plant a single tomato in a square, but you’d plant 16 carrots in another. Using this system, you can cram a lot of garden into a small space and still get excellent yields.
  8. Plant. Conserve seeds. Plant only a pinch (2 or 3 seeds) per hole. Place transplants in a slight saucer-shaped depression. This means you wont waste seeds! The traditional way is to plant lots of seeds then cut off the majority and leave the strongest.
  9. Water. Water by hand from a bucket of sun-warmed water.
  10. Harvest. When you finish harvesting a square foot, add only compost and replant it with a new and different crop.
Here's how Im starting my square foot garden : I decided how big of an area I want to use, I am placing my SFG on the roof of my house, which I made sure received at least 8 hours of full sun. I am going big and starting with lots of boxes. So after thorough planning I decided I want two 4x4 square foot boxes (which is the standard) two smaller boxes for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes, and one long box for herbs. You can download the guide I created for the carpenters here . Its not the most accurate illustration of what the boxes look like in the end, but the numbers are right. You can change the measurements how ever you like, most importantly, you have to make sure each square is 1ft squared in size= 30 cm. Also Most vegetables require 6 inches of soil, I've decided to use around 20cm. If the boxes are placed over a garden/soil, they don't need bottoms. In my case, I have to apply bottoms since they're going to be in the roof. The bottoms are waterproof 2cm thick plywood. The plywood has to have around 0.6 cm holes drilled in each square, plus in the corners. My boxes have weird squares in the plywood because the carpenter mistook 0.6cm for huge 6cm holes, I had them fix them without problems. Potato/Carrot beds: One of the 4x4' beds with the herb bed: You can of course build your own boxes, and a very detailed guide is in the book. Im sure its much more fun.I don't have the skill or time, so I had the boxes done for 50KD total, 30 for the wood and 20 for the building. The work was done by Ibrahim in Classic Design Carpentry : Don't forget, you can collect sawdust for free and use it as a carbon source in your compost! Maybe I'll paint the outsides of the boxes with the kids before the season starts, what do you think?
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Princess Diana’s much loved car is up for sale, 25 years after her death.

The Ford Escort RS was driven by the princess
from 1985 to 1988, during the early years of her sons William and Harry’s childhoods.

After being won on a radio station competition in the
90s, it was privately owned for a number of years before becoming part of a Ford RS collection, where it has been kept
in ‘top condition’. 

Much less flashy than her later cars, mother-of-two Diana shunned the
Royals’ Rolls-Royces and Daimlers for the modest
Escort for a time and was often pictured driving it in London.

Silverstone Auctions Classic Car Specialist Arwell
Richards told FEMAIL:  ‘We wouldn’t be surprised if it went for
over £100,000.’

Princess Diana driving her Ford Escort with Prince William in a car seat in June 1986.

The royal car is expected to fetch six figures at auction this month

After being won on a radio station competition in the 90s, the car, pictured, was privately owned for a number of
years before becoming part of a Ford RS collection, where it has been kept in ‘top condition’ 

The stealthy, black Escort RS Turbo was insisted on by the
royal and was given a special “stealth makeover” by Ford’s Special Vehicle Engineering
department

The car would have been driven by the Princess with a detective in the passenger seat.

It will go under the hammer at Silverstone Auctions, in Leamington Spa, on August 27. 

The auctioneers continued: ‘Parallels could be drawn with
the RS Turbo’s reputation as the People’s Sports Car and the honorific of People’s Princess bestowed by the
British public on Princess Diana.

’The RS Turbo was never designed to be driven by the wife of the second in line to the British throne nor to transport the future King.

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‘We note with interest that whilst Diana’s later
choice of luxury cars may have been more expensive when new,
but the Ford Escort RS Turbo far outperforms them at auction, selling in some cases for three times the price of equivalent models.’

The 132 horsepower Ford was a replacement for her previous Escort
- which was red and had a canvas folding roof.

SO14, the royal protection service, made her change this because
it gave her little privacy and no protection.

The car was given a royal makeover by Ford’s engineers for the princess’ protection during the 80’s

The historic hot hatch was driven by the People’s Princess from
1985 to 1988, during the early years of Prince Harry and Prince William’s childhoods

The engine of the 132 horsepower Ford Escort RS driven by the then Princess of
Wales in the 80’s

The royal protection service, made her change her red convertible Ford Escort because it gave her little
privacy and no protection at the height of the IRA’s terror campaign

The stealthy, black Escort RS Turbo was insisted on by the Diana and was given a special ‘stealth makeover’ by
Ford’s Special Vehicle Engineering department.

It was given a regular five-slat front grille, rather than the usual three, and a
second rear view mirror for the protection officer with a radio
in the glove box.

But it was still delivered with the blue RS striped decals and front fog lamps.

It is thought that the Ford provided a break from her official duties and would have been used for meeting girlfriends for lunch or nipping to the shops.

Much less flashy than her later cars, mother-of-two of-two
Diana shunned the Royals’ Rolls-Royces and Daimlers for the modest Escort
Turbo, pictured

The Ford Escort’s interior, which is in pristine condition decades on from it’s initial use over 35 years ago

The seats where  Diana would have sat with a detective
for protection while out and about seeing friends.

It is assumed the car was used for more casual social occasions

The steering wheel of the Ford Escort RS Turbo -which was driven by the People’s Princess
from 1985 to 1988

The back seats of the famous Ford, possibly where Diana’s close friends sat
on outings with her

Silverstone Auctions Classic Car Specialist Arwel Richards said: ’We
have sold a number of motorcars that have had a Royal pedigree but
this car ticks every box in terms of history, rarity, condition and mileage.

The market adores early Ford RS models. 

Princess Diana is photographed getting into the car in 1986,
wearing a chic autumnal ensemble and court shoes

‘When Royal cars come to auction they’re usually Rolls-Royces or Range Rovers so to offer the very best example of the working class hero’s sports hatchback with such
provenance is perhaps unique and therefore very exciting.

’Isn’t it fascinating that the Escort RS Turbo was to be synonymous with the white stilettos of Essex but it’s first champion was the most glamorous woman on earth?’

After Diana, the car was bought for modest £2,638 by Ford manager Geoff King for his
wife.

In September 1993, it was part of a promotional giveaway by radio station Kiss FM and won by a Miss Jones of
Essex.

It was then owned from 1994 to 2008 by a Mr Windsor before being added to
one of the best Ford RS collections in the UK.

The princess had a love for fords and was bought a
Ford Escort Ghia in Silver as a present by Prince Charles,
the car was famously used by Diana during her days working at a nursery

The car would have been driven by the Princess
with a detective in the passenger seat during the years
where the IRA were a larger threat to public safety

The Ford was a ‘stealth version’ of Diana’s original Red Ford Escort, which had
a folding roof

The vintage car, driven by global icon Princess Diana, is a blast from the past but looks brand new in auction photos

With less than 25,000 miles on the clock, the car
is in exceptional condition and comes with a Lifetime Tracker,
a spare key, Ford internal memos and the car’s registration documents.

Princess Diana’s  was commonly pictured in another Ford, a 1981 Ford Escort Ghia Saloon that was
up for auction last  as part of a specialist Royalty auction after having disappeared from public view for over two
decades. 

The Ford Escort Ghia in Silver was the car given by Prince
Charles to his fiancé as an engagement present in May 1981, two
months before the Royal Wedding and used by her until August 1982. 

It was reportedly owned by a female who’s identity
was withheld, and she upkept the condition of the car including a silver frog mascot on the bonnet which was a copy of a gift from Diana’s sister, Lady Sarah Spencer, to remind her
of the fairy tale of a beautiful girl whose kiss turns a frog into
a prince. 

It was estimated the Ford would reach £40,000 at auction and it sold for £47,000. 

The ‘stealth car’ pictured, 25 years on from Diana’s death, with a glossy black exterior in excellent condition

With less than 25,000 miles on the clock, the car is in exceptional condition and comes with a Lifetime Tracker

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