Organic Garden by The Foot?
January 8th, 2010
This is the salad I spoke about in my last post – it is also my first of three raised bed gardens. A fellow volunteer acquaintance of mine lent me his Square Foot Gardening book (author, Mel Bartholomew) to get me started. It has been a delight to learn how to grow more in less space. I have plenty of yard, however the sunlight isn’t the best in many areas. As the tomatoes grow a little more, I am going to have some netting put up via some poles so the tomatoes can grow up and not out. Done correctly, even pumpkins can be grown vertically.
The idea behind square foot gardening is to plant so many of each plant per square foot. Example… 1 broccoli plant is allowed to grow per square foot, spinach and beets can have 9 plants per square foot, while carrots, onions and radishes can each have 16 plants per square. Another benefit to growing this way is you use a lot less seeds.
The benefits to growing your own garden are endless! A huge benefit to growing raised bed and/or square foot is you need less starting soil, so… it is possible to have your garden be organic from the start! No waiting years for yard soil to become healthy enough to be labeled “organic.”
Go green, get clean and stay lean for 2010!
Posted in 
Carmen D Cisneros
Author, Speaker, and Coach helping people look and feel 10 years younger in 12 weeks (or less)! ![View Carmen D Cisneros [LION]'s profile on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.gif){kind=small}