No wasted space, no wasted seed, hardly any work, no thinning, and no weeds! Here’s an example of growing what you actually eat. There’s really no sense in planting your entire gardens at once. Why do that? All that means is it will come up at once. At some point these 12 squares will be all lettuces. You can see its a shaded area so I use this bed a lot in the summer to especially grow salad greens. By not planting it all at once, you can see how I’ll have a steady supply of salad greens for a while. Each square is at a slightly different stage, a few haven’t even been planted yet. You can also see the very last of my carrots that over-wintered in this box. I had over 200 of them in there.
Speaking of lettuces, my favorite thing to grow, warm weather is just around the corner. Once outside temperatures go beyond 75-80, it becomes next to impossible to even have lettuce germinate in the garden. We have temperatures in the high 90’s and even a few days of triple digits, yet I’m able to easily grow lettuces right through the summer. I wrote an ebook about how to successfully do this. Check it out.
We all know how much space one zucchini plant can take up. Ive been growing mine vertically with a t-post and a jumprope for years. If you’ve been to even my beginners square foot gardening classes you know how it’s done. It also helps you to harvest zucchini at the proper stage by not letting it get too big. This is sandwiched next to 2 tomato plants, a cantaloupe plant, basil, parsley, potatoes and beans. Everything grows in the square foot garden while being really efficient.
