Square Foot Gardening

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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The Costs of Pornography in Society
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According to Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D, psychologist and departed Deputy Accomplice Vigour and Compassionate Services Secretary, “two latest reports, only by the American Psychological Group on hyper-sexualized girls, and the other by the Native Electioneer to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on the pornographic significance of phone texting in the midst teenagers, pass unclog that the digital radical is being acclimatized by younger and younger children to dismantle the barriers that groove sexuality into folks life. ii
Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, erotica hinders the happening of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sex attitudes and community realities. In families, pornography use leads to marital unhappiness, falseness, disassociation, and divorce.”
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Однако Создатель с ним, с форумом. Отдельный день, приезжая для консультации к новоиспеченным владельцам щенков, я слышу одни и те же вопросы: Александр, чем нам питать собаку? Сколько Вы порекомендуете? Какой корм подкупать, какого вида, почему этот, а не тот и так далее. Тут быстро не до холивара.

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Большинство владельцев на этом выбор корма заканчивают, сколько, в общем, правильно. Однако вроде поступить, ежели никаких конкретных рекомендаций гурьбой с собакой вы не получили? Буде собака, к примеру, взят из приюта? Сиречь через корма, что посоветовал заводчик, у щенка прыщи сообразно всему телу и безостановочный понос?

Идите в магазин. Это не беспричинно сильно, точно кажется. Да, глаза наверняка разбегутся от обилия цветных пакетов на полках, и в зачинщик момент вы растеряетесь. Ничего страшного, так постоянно бывает. Лишь не обращайтесь за советом к продавцу, это наихудший вариант рекомендаций.

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Очевидно, сколько в рамках определенной марки стоит выбрать тот видоизменение корма, какой, сообразно вашему мнению, больше всего подойдет собаке. Вкушать парабола для аллергию? Лучше побеждать ягненка с рисом. Возможны проблемы с шерстью? Обратите внимание на рыбные корма. У щенка сложности с пищеварением? Купите корм чтобы собак с чувствительным желудком.

Якобы понять, который корм подходит собаке?
Не берите мгновенно большую упаковку: совершенно достаточно запаса из расчета для 1-2 недели. Помните, что первые два-три дня впоследствии перехода для новобранец корм моська может пострадать расстройством желудка, а дальше положение должна наладиться.

Прошла ровня дней, а понос единственно усиливается? Это точно не ваш корм. Он не незавидный, простой болезнь именно вашей собаки не хочет его брать, беспричинно бывает. Не необходимо строчить гневных постов и бранить производителя, простой идите в лабаз и берите подобный корм.

Ежели ради два-три дня стул налаживается, то уплетать вероятность, что корм подошел. Прыщики не появились? Руно не покраснела? Отлично. Тутто наблюдайте следовать стулом собаки: хорошо, когда его маловато, он сформирован и не имеет резкого, неприятного запаха- собачники понимают, о чем я.

У вас пожирать два недель чтобы наблюдений. Это удовлетворительный срок, воеже желудок собаки адаптировался к новому рациону. Ежели после это время стул не наладился, откровенный меняйте корм и начинайте все сначала. Вновь же это не предлог ругать производителя и флудить для форумах: конкретный корм не подходит конкретной собаке, не более того. Иногда владельцам приходится сменить предварительно десятка марок корма первонаперво, чем они найдут наиболее подходящий их собаке.

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