wheat grass! I’ve never done this before and I’ve never known anybody to grow it. I didn’t follow any of the 1,4,9,16 spacing rules for planting either. I just sprinkled it over the square, covered it my homemade compost and watered it in. I think you can see the label-it must grow pretty quick because it’s supposed to be 4″ tall in a week. I’m growing this for two reasons. First, we’ve got a couple of people in our family who juice the stuff. Not me-I wouldn’t want anything to do with it. Second, when it’s done I will turn it over and will effectively compost this square with a cover crop. This will add a significant amount of nitrogen. I’m telling you, this soil is just loaded with all kinds of good stuff. No wonder why everything grows so well and so easily! If it does grow that fast I suspect I’ll be growing a square every other week. Today the weather was sunny, a little cool with a light breeze. I’ve been experimenting with a new technique that I will be sharing with those attending my workshops. It makes your square foot garden more productive in terms of time and yield. I think I can say it works because I’ve duplicated it three times now. Things in your SFG should be coming along pretty well if you’re in zone 6. You’ll have about 3 more weeks before you can begin to really load up your gardens with all the fun summer things-like squash, zucchini, pole beans and tomatoes. Do you know how to grow zucchini in 1 square foot? If you’re not then it’s taking up 9 spaces. Come to one of my workshops….I will show you how to only use 1 square for zucchini and all the other ninja secrets, and there’s quit a few of them..and by the way-that thing below the post asking for your email if you like this blog?  It’s not quit ready to go yet  That’s the other project I’m working on and I’ll have that fixed very shortly. Pretty slick though, isn’t it?…..[ois skin=”below post”]

if you’re in the same zone as northern Utah.  Now is the time to start thinking about really cranking things up in your SFG.  Things like lettuce, carrots, radishes, spinach, and onions should be planted if they aren’t already.  In the meantime, if your starting things from seed you should be thinking of everything else.  Tomatoes, flowers, cucumbers, etc.  Because most squash plants come up so quickly, you can grow them directly in the garden once the danger of frost is over.  I like to start my squash inside.  The extra few weeks of early growing gets them up earlier and gives your later forming fruit time to finish(especially things like banana and butternut squash.)  If you’re a serious SFGer and are willing to do the extra work of watching the forecast and covering with plastic at night and during colder days, you can start you cold things outside.  This does not include tomatoes, flowers, herbs, and squash though.  By the middle of may you should have everything in your gardens: all produce with the addition of direct seeding of beets and garlic, squash, beans, carrots, onions, and flowers.  If you run into weather you should be prepared to cover them for protection.  The one item I did not mention was potatoes.  This is all dependent on what you’re trying to do.  I like to grow red Pontiac potatoes and I like them large.  So I will plant those this weekend and let them grow until the first of November.  Some people like to grow new potatoes so they will start theirs anytime between now and the middle of May.  This don’t need the whole growing season since they ar pulled up when they are smaller.  The picture in this post shows what some of my seeds are looking like in my little pot maker cups.  It was taken a few days ago.  Of the first 24 pot maker cups I planted, 23 of them are up, with Heliotrope the only one not up yet.  This is only because Heliotrope takes a longer time to sprout.  The smell of this plant is great in your square foot garden.  Keep this one in mind if you’re looking for adding scent in your SFG…..

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