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Resist corporate control with square foot gardening



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Check out The Official Site of Square Foot Gardening
and learn how to grow your own produce from
Mel Bartholomew, Originator and Author

"Welcome To My Garden

No Work, Organic Gardening the Square Foot Way

How would you like a garden filled with beautiful flowers, fresh herbs and luscious vegetables, all with NO WEEDS and NO HARD WORK?

"I've taken all the hard work out of gardening."

No more heavy digging or all-at-once harvest. Less watering, weeding, and thinning. What's left is a picture perfect garden you will be so proud of."

Go to link above for more practical info and articles on Square-Foot Gardening anywhere.
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19 responses // Resist corporate control with square foot gardening

  • Very aesthetic, excellent box design, great idea...
    recommended by  Chique, TouchArt, huntre
    PlatoTacius
  • This guy seems like the Johnny Appleseed of home gardeing; doing it more to help the country than to make a buck.
    recommended by  huntre
    jahbini
  • I have been growing my own produce for a long time, it is sooo much better and cheaper thn buying, not to mention the quality and adding more plants to areas that could us more green air cleaners
    Not_Doody
  • Great execution by the entrepreneurs who put this all together. For people in the lower income brackets and with tight budgets, this type of investment could pay for itself as fast as you say self-sustainable. There is an opportunity cost here related to the time spent on tending to such an investment, but if it is not too burdensomely high then I recommend getting your hands into some boxed-off dirt.
    JudahEvan
  • looks like fun.
    electricsquiral
  • If everyone did this, we wouldn't have to worry about these E-Coli outbreaks. What if that were to happen to all of our food at once?
    huffamoose2k
  • They're also a great way to teach kids about gardening. Not too much manual labor, fun to construct, easy to maintain, with a big payoff from great planning and even a decent payoff from poor planning.

    We had to reconstruct ours, rebuilding them about two feet higher, because everyone loves them - including the wildlife.
    recommended by  huntre
    AVtime
  • I'll be doing this since I am making veggie gardens next year at my new home. Great info!
    shroomfairy
  • Maybe one day it'll be legal to grow our own ganj in something like this.
    fauxsherrrr
  • I like how he has all different sizes showing that even the most urban dwellers with only a small deck (like myself) can have a garden.
    crazykatlady
  • I live in an apartment and there is no land I can grow on :(
    maasanova
  • smoke weed everyday
    Dut
    • Dut
    • 3 months ago
  • http://www.maineaudubon.org/explore/centers/gilsland3.s...
    I read this book around 10 years ago or more I think.
    I made my 10x10 square foot garden out back..it was very nice way to do it. After several years I stopped and it is now overgrown. I was busy with my children. couldn't get them interested in the outdoors then..Now we are moving to a condo nearer the center of Portland, since our children are leaving us to college...I am happy not to have 2 1/2 acres to care myself for but will need to find another way to grow produce. I might go over to a community garden at our beautiful Maine Audubon or try to see if others in the new neighborhood want to start one.
    CarolynGillis
  • More people should grow gardens. My grandparents lived in the suburbs and had the best little garden.

    The carrots were out of this world!
    nickwe3d
  • You can do square-foot gardening anywhere, even if you live in a tiny apartment in the inner city.
    Plant a few square-foot garden boxes and place them on the fire-escape, or attach as window boxes outside your window.
    TouchArt
  • Don't need land to grow, just some earth, a container, and some seeds.

    Rinsed coffee cans or juice cans work great, as do lots of the containers grocery store produce comes in, just put some pepples or gravel on the bottom, make sure there's holes for water to drain, and put some soil, then plant your seeds, water, make sure they get sun, and watch your plants grow to harvest.
    TouchArt
  • http://www.maineaudubon.org/explore/centers/gilsland3.s...
    Great link, CarolynGillis.

    Wouldn't it be great, if, instead of replacing the water-hogging, petroleum based pesticide and herbicide dependent grass at the National Mall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., the People planted the National Community Garden to feed the people of Washington, D.C. fresh, pesticide and fertilizer-free produce?

    Fact. The White House Lawn used to be an edible landscape. Bring the fruits, vegetables, greens and legumes back to life at the White House. They already have the seedlings for the plants at the National Arboretum and surrounding the National Museum of the American Indian has lots of indigenous plants whose seed and grafts can be used to bring food and medicinal plants back to the People's Front Lawn.
    TouchArt
  • Thank you, Vierotchka and TouchArt! This seems like such a cool way to garden.
    Hawkmang
  • You're very welcome, Hawkmang.

    Thanks for your informative posts too.
    TouchArt

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