Square foot gardening

[sprouts2go]

My boxes are in YEAH!!!!! Hubby built them yesterday. Next comes the filling. It says several different types of compost. Not sure what they want here. Manure is a different catagory of filling so I will have to read a bit more about this one.
We have an organic farm nearby for good cow manure but was thinking of adding chicken clickin aslo.
Can one plant wheatgrass outside?

[michigan roman]

yes wheatseed , ive a great batch going in my garden now

my fave soil add is straw , prevents soil from compacting

[sprouts2go]

Thankyou Michigan!!
I live in a farm area so have access to straw and manure of many kinds LOL.
I will add to the garden.

[sprouts2go]

My square foot gardens are in yippie!
I have:
kale
broccoli
cauliflower
spinach
chard-rainbow
sugar snap peas
green beans
mixed loose leaf lettuce-gourmet blend
pumpkin (small)
watermelon-Small
yellow squash
zucchini
acorn squash( may family loves this one)
pickling cukes
slicing cukes
roma tomato
basil
rosemary
dill

a few other tomatoes NOT in the SFG

I think I got it all but could be some I forgot.

[freelive]

Yes! Square foot garden rocks! I have just 3 boxes and some free range plants in my community garden plot and they are doing great. Manure is good, just not too much, particulary cow and bird manure is very potent in nitrogen and too much might burn plants.

[sprouts2go]

Yes! Square foot garden rocks! I have just 3 boxes and some free range plants in my community garden plot and they are doing great. Manure is good, just not too much, particulary cow and bird manure is very potent in nitrogen and too much might burn plants.
I hope mine is fine. I used composted so it is not suppose to burn.
I did use all kinds of bought manure. Even got a bag of chicken manure. Hubby did not like that one :eek:

[sprouts2go]

My lettuce is coming up. Yeah.

[sprouts2go]

My peas are sprouting!!

[freelive]

My son ate our first two small cucumbers- very creamy

[T-Bird]

Cute kid!

Now I want to eat some cukes off the vine....difficult, as I haven't planted any!

[Lavendula]

My BF just got her, SF garden boxes in, she did everything according to the book, Mel's mix and all, but guess what? she has thistle too. Her garden is on a freshly cleared brush area on her new property.

[iwuvmydoggy]

i have a 4x8 SF box.. lol mainly grow tomatoes in it.. :) i have about 40 5 gallon buckets, though.. i grow all kinda stuff in those. :) haven't planted anything as of yet, but i will. :/ i want to move to the country.. :/

and you know what? i can never get any decent cucumbers. what's your secret? mine always taste bad and come out funny shaped.. like a witch nose.

[Soose]

I fit into the category of novice gardener. It's a skill I feel we MUST develop. Tried a square foot garden once years and years ago -- okay, decades ago --went exactly by the book but did not get much harvest at all. I guess I gave up.

This year, I put in a strip garden - on the back fence. Just have tomatoes and peppers in there. Then, my son has a new Sq ft garden -- we made 3x8 raised beds, against a fence, put a fence around and a gate on each open end. So he has his own little closed in 8x9 garden. Again, mostly tomatoes and peppers. We just got to it all late but at least it's in and he waters them all. I told him I'd pay him market prices for the produce from both.

We need to plant LOTS more variety. I did not order seeds in time...

Greens are a high priority. Last fall, for a short time I nurtured an indoor lettuce garden; never got as far as a harvest. But I did get the seed germination technique part to work. We used the plastic containers that organic spinach comes in (at Sam's Club). They are deep and great for this.

In our area, cool weather crops supposedly do much better in the fall. So soon, we should start some seeds for that and plant out in August or so?
Susan

[freelive]

Well-, the books say, that cucumbers taste bitter, if watering is eratic, so keep it evenly spaced out. As for shape- I put my on supports, so they hang down, and this way grow straighter, but still the ones that get tangled between wines, are not very straight- still delicious though!

[iwuvmydoggy]

Well-, the books say, that cucumbers taste bitter, if watering is eratic, so keep it evenly spaced out. As for shape- I put my on supports, so they hang down, and this way grow straighter, but still the ones that get tangled between wines, are not very straight- still delicious though!

hmmm.. well mine are always trellised on 15 foot cattle guard. so they have plenty of space to climb!.. and i have watered them regularly. :/ i think i am just bad with cucumbers. LOL