It’s finally here! The week long class dedicated to Square Foot Gardening! Because I am no expert on gardening, I’ve enlisted the help of Belinda Jensen the Square Foot Gardening pro from Home Gardens To Go to teach us all how to have successful, virtually weed-free gardens this year! Belinda was trained under Mel Bartholomew (Mr. Square Foot Gardening, himself), teaches square foot gardening classes in Utah, and trains anyone who wants to become Square Foot Gardening certified! If you haven’t met Belinda yet, make sure you check out the first day of the class posted yesterday which introduces Belinda and goes over the basics and benefits of Square Foot Gardening. Remember, I’ve decided to dedicate all of this month to gardening and specifically this week long class with Belinda…because this is MY year and YOUR year to have a thriving hassle-free garden!
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SQUARE FOOT GARDENING 101 DAY THREE: The Boxes!
Alright, today is all about boxes. What you can use to make square foot gardening boxes, tips for making your own, information on how you can buy them, box accessories that will help protect and extend your garden, and the boxes NUMBER ONE benefit!
Tomorrow’s video will be all about how to CORRECTLY mix the soil (Mel’s Mix). If you’ve had marginal success with your Square Foot Garden-you NEED to watch this video. Most people make their mistakes in mixing the soil and tomorrow Belinda will show us how to do it CORRECTLY.
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DID YOU MISS A DAY OF THE SQUARE FOOT GARDENING CLASS?
No problem! Click one of the links below to see what you’ve missed!
Day One: Basics of Square Foot Gardening
Day Two: Secrets for Planning a Successful Garden
GET PRO HELP FOR YOUR GARDEN!
Need more help with your garden? (Like me!) Belinda would love to help! Check out all she has to offer to help you set up your garden correctly. I personally had her come set up all of my boxes since I a) wanted to make sure it was done correctly and b) my husband works a lot of nights and Saturdays and didn’t have the time to dedicate to building and setting up boxes.
- Local (Utah) Square Foot Garden Packages
- Shipped Square Foot Garden Packages
- Square Foot Gardening Accessories (Mel’s Mix Soil, Drip Irrigation Systems, Grids, etc.)
She is also offering all of you a FREE copy of Mel’s book The All NEW Square Foot Gardening with a garden package purchase-use the code “Q44I63MPGWH9Q” at check out.
Hi! I greatly appreciate you and Belinda putting forth all this hard work to share with us. Just wondering if you have a written transcript of the dialogues that some of us with hearing loss can read, because it’s really hard to understand the videos with all the background traffic noise. Thank you!!
This series is wonderful. Thank you. Questions about the vinyl boxes. We live in ND and it is very windy here most of the time. I think we have about 5 days per summer where there isn’t wind. Do the vinyl boxes hold up well and stay in place in higher winds? Also, what are the slats that make up the grid made of? Thanks.
I am catching up on these videos! Haha… I started a SFG last year. I was really pleased with how they turned out but want to do a little better this year. I never built a trellis because I didn’t know how to do it. I have my boxes on an asphalt patio so the rebar trick in this video wouldn’t work. I don’t want to put something inside my beds so not sure how to deal with that.