We are attempting to do Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening this year.
At Lowe's we had the fella in the lumberyard pick out 2 - 4 X 6 boards eight feet long for each box we wanted to make. Then he graciously cut them in half for us. 4 feet each. We also got a bundle of wood laths for the grid and some 2½ inch screws.
At Lowe's we had the fella in the lumberyard pick out 2 - 4 X 6 boards eight feet long for each box we wanted to make. Then he graciously cut them in half for us. 4 feet each. We also got a bundle of wood laths for the grid and some 2½ inch screws.
My husband pinned them together with a nail gun and then I was able to screw them together.
We put them on cardboard in the 'old' garden.
Here are the ingredients to fill the boxes with.
The vermiculite (in the colorful bag with the flowers) was just more expensive than we could go. So after talking with the greenhouse lady she suggested that we mix the vermiculite with top soil to make up the 'vermiculite' part of the mixture. So we did. Two 40 pound bags of top soil mixed with 1 cu.ft. of vermiculite.
We then mixed that with two 40 pound bags of blended compost and two 40 pound bags of peat moss.
Put it on a tarp and then pull the tarp back and forth causing the ingredients to mix.
(this is the hardest part-physically)
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