How We Fixed Square Foot Gardening And Grow More Food, Intensively!
We are huge fans of intensive gardening and integrate a lot of square foot gardening practices into our growing efforts. That said, the square foot gardening technique, as written in Mel Bartholomew's book is not as good as it can be!
A lot of newer growers fall into the trap of square foot gardening and think it's the solution for growing everything. That couldn't be further from the truth! In fact, it's a very poor technique for some plants and the smart grower will use alternative techniques to grow these things.
Over the many years we've practiced SFG and other intensive intensive gardening, this video discusses all of the major changes we've made to the technique as far as we practice it. In our opinion, we've improved on the practice and are finally quite happy with the food it produces in our gardens.
For a very detailed guide, including our full plant spacing guidelines, please check out this in-depth article:
https://frostygarden.com/topics/how-we-use-square-foot-gardening-and-intensive-planting/
As always, you can check out a ton of cold-climate focused growing information that we've produced at https://FrostyGarden.com!
In case you're curious, these are the plants we grow in our intensive, square foot gardens:
Radish
Beet
Rutabaga
Turnip
Carrot
Lettuce (leaf & head)
Spinach
Mustards
Bok Choy
Onion
Green Onion
Leek
Chard
Celery
Peas
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