You can start Square Foot Gardening now in a small space and grow vegetables with fewer weeds and less work—and reap big ...

Apr. 12—This story was originally published in March 2019. If you watched PBS in the 1980s, you may already be familiar with the work of Mel Bartholomew, a retired engineer and the father of ...

Maybe you’ve seen them - those highly organized raised beds divided into perfect squares, each featuring their own variety of plant. They sure are look beautiful, but is this method - known as square ...

For years, I tried to grow a decent vegetable garden. It was the high cost of fresh produce -- $3.50 for a few measly, wilted basil leaves; ditto for a pound of somewhat reddish tomatoes or mostly ...

Square foot gardening is exactly what it sounds like — growing vegetables in a square foot pattern in a raised bed. But it is more than that too: It is a gardening method that reduces the work of ...

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I’m intrigued by the square-foot gardening (SFG) method; will it work in an urban setting? Where suburban and urban dwellers may lack a yard, their balconies, decks, and porches can fit an SFG box’s ...

So you’ve decided to start a home garden. You’ve pored over seed catalogs to pick out which plants you want to grow and you’ve read some books to learn more about home gardening. But there’s one big ...