Design Your Own Veggie Garden
How to plant and how much to grow.
Design your own veggie garden. You ll need 8 cubic feet of top quality garden soil to fill such a bed with 6 inch high sides. These are made to separate planting zones and use the space more efficiently. They also make great vertical gardens.
Instead of planting the vegetables in traditional rows however plant each veggie type in the individual squares. Avoid areas that are shaded by your house or a tree during part of the day. The square foot method in which you subdivide a raised 4x4 foot garden bed into 1 foot squares using a physical grid such as lattice strips is a specialized version of intensive cropping.
The veggies are placed to reduce overlap allowing each plant to grow strong. You determine if an area has good drainage by checking it after a heavy rain. Save space by trellising crops that produce runners or.
Fill the whole thing with some good potting soil. To begin square foot gardening prepare a raised garden box. Many gardeners know that old discarded pallets make great compost bins.
Staple some landscape fabric to the inside of the front of your pallet and the outside of the rear.