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[...] An Introduction to Square Foot Gardening at Get Rich Slowly.  Ah, the post that started it all!  For those that weren’t around I took on my own square foot gardening project based on J.D.’s post....

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By: Heidi

It seems to me like square foot gardening would combine very naturally with the theories behind self-watering containers. Has anyone tried to build a square-foot garden with some kind of water...

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By: BillinDetroit

Heidi, Raise the boxes higher than for SFG. Orient them east-west so that the south side of the box is the long one to capture max heat from the sun. Keep a LOT of rotting vegetable material / manures...

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By: Heidi

Bill, Thanks for the advice! I think building the boxes high up is a great idea, and I was just thinking last night that since I’m going to have to replace the windows in my home soon, I could adapt...

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By: Mary

This will be my first vertical garden. I want to trellis pick-n-pick yellow crookneck squash from Burpee. Will it take to a trellis? If not, I can trellis butternut, but I’m going to plant new seeds...

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By: lexi

There is a great tutorial video on how to put in these beds, for those more visually inclined: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/454-square-foot-gardening It was made by a restaurant in Austin, East Side...

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By: Janna

What type of wood are the raised beds generally made of? I imagine people just use pine, but here in the south I think I would only get a couple of years out of pine. Just wondering if something like...

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By: Jim Kirby

@Janna: Last boxes I build I made with 1″ cedar. They were still going strong on their 6th season when I had to leave them behind last summer. This year I plan to use redwood instead. DO NOT use...

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By: Jeff

I have some guard railing 1′X16′ I am considering using for the sides of raised beds. They are painted over Galvinized steel. Do you see any problems? loading....

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By: Jim Kirby

@Jeff: Personally, I’d take the paint off of any surface that touches dirt. But otherwise it sounds like a cool idea. Should look good. loading....

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By: The Happy Rock

Just delicioused the article so that when we finally have a house with some land we can do this. I love the idea of less work. I am hoping to do a couple of fruit trees too. It will make a nice dent in...

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By: ursula

Thwy tell about the bed but nobody gives any advice on how many of each vegatable to grow in each square 1′x1′ For example, how many carrot, or cauliflower, corn, romaine lettuce and so on.My tomatoes,...

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By: Ransome

Dear Ursala, squarefootgardening.com provides detail but you must look for it in text and visually. There are descriptions in FAQ and visuals in teaching aids. There is a forum about individual plants....

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By: EastrnGrl

There are even web-based garden design applications. ZipHarvest.com has an actual online garden layout tool that can be used to design custom gardens or people can purchase an existing garden built by...

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By: Paul@Zip

Hey thanks for the shout out EastrnGrl. Yes, our web-based Garden Design tool does much of the work of calculating plant and row spacing, seed qty, bed placement, etc. Just choose your crop, click and...

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By: Lizzy

I am excited about my 40×40 fenced in square foot garden. I wished I would have done this 30 years ago. It’s amazing how much you can actually grow and produce. I am working on another 30 foot section....

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By: ddm

I’ve been trying to decide between Mel’s square ft. method and the Mittleider method. I’ve heard that the Mittleider method has an even much greater yield and deals more with lowering acidity levels....

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By: carol in il

Hi. There are some great posts here, but I wanted to add my two cents on bed building. I used cinder 4″x8″x16″ cinder blocks to build my beds. They came out slightly larger than 4′x4′. I only managed...

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