Square Foot Garden
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I think the thing that can become a lot of work in gardening would have to be the weeds. There isn’t much about gardening that I don’t like and weeding is at the top of the list.

This year we started with square foot gardening and it really does rock. We had a lot of vegetables and very few weeds at all.

Today our easy gardening tip is about having less weeds to weed which is alright with me.

We had a great year in the garden with few weeds I might add.

The way we did it was to plant things very close together so that there is no space between the rows and it worked great for the most part.

We definitely had very few weeds, mostly at the start of the season before our vegetable plants had any size to them. This gave a lot more free garden area for the weeds to grow in.

As soon as the vegetables started to grow the weeds started losing their foot hold on the garden and after a few weeks there were virtually no weeds.

Better Planning Next Year

Raised Beds, mid-August
Creative Commons License photo credit: greengardenviennaWe didn’t take the height of our vegetables into account while still in the planning stages so we ended up some vegetables that were over grown by other vegetables.

Next year we will plant or arrange our garden so that we have the heighest plants where they won’t smother or block other smaller plants from the sun.

I think we can also add a little more space between the rows so they have a little more elbow room to grow.

Example: I planted the peas and beans too close to the tomatoes and in no time the tomatoes were towering over the peas and beans blocking out the sun.

The peas also grew up into the tomato plants and made quite a mess. We did get plenty of peas and beans but nothing like we would have if we had put the tomatoes on the opposite side of the peas and beans.

Just a simple placement like that can make a huge difference in your end result.

We love square foot gardening and how easy it is too keep the weeds down, we will just change the order of things.

That’s your easy gardening tips for today, enjoy. Live long with much produce.

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