by GHart | Jun 13, 2019 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
Simple Garden boxes A garden box can be anything with sides and open on the bottom: tires, old canoes with holes, bathtubs, window boxes and of course the simple wood box. To start a single simple 2-foot by 2-foot box, you will need an eight-foot length of 2x6...
by GHart | Mar 24, 2016 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
Excel as a garden planner? For those who utilize square foot gardening of any sort, excel can become an essential and easy tool to design, manage and track your garden. Square foot gardening is divided into equal squares, excel is a bunch of squares. Excel allows all...
by GHart | Jul 31, 2014 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
With a late start and cool weather here, we’ve only had a couple 30+ degree days, the gardens are slowly coming along. Of course despite the cool weather, the cool weather plants still bolt as soon as the sun shines. I am betting on a late fall as well as...
by GHart | May 13, 2014 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
So, with a proliferation of “store” pre-made garden boxes with some assembly required maybe ist time to see how easily and cheap making one the old fashioned way is. I assume you have access to a drill and screws or hammer and nails. That really is all...
by GHart | May 12, 2014 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, SFG Examples
Planted my “privacy” sugar snap peas fence. I have a 1×10 foot fence with a five foot vertical trellis which acts as a privacy fence for my fire pit. The Sugar Snap peas easily grow the full height of the fence very quickly. So with privacy, a wind...
by GHart | Apr 24, 2014 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
This is a simplified “when to plant” guide based on the garden planner I have located HERE! Per square is the current square foot gardening spacing I use – More on Square foot Gardening in Raised beds HERE! Transplants are planted indoors on the...
