Chris McLaughlin, Author at Square Foot Gardening

All Blogs Harvesting & Preserving

How to Store Homegrown Potatoes, Onions, Winter Squash

Some vegetables are great candidates for long term storage just as they are? Let's start…

Chris McLaughlinSeptember 18, 2025

All Blogs Planning & Planting Seeds

Spice It Up! 5 Unusual Herbs for Your Square Foot Garden

Ready to add some zing to your garden? Go beyond the expected parsley, sage, rosemary,…

Chris McLaughlinJune 19, 2024

All Blogs Planning & Planting Seeds

Growing Green Thumbs: Planting the Seeds of Fun and Discovery in a Kid-Friendly Square Foot Garden

photo credits to Anchor Center Kids and gardens are a natural partnership. The great outdoors…

Chris McLaughlinFebruary 8, 2024

All Blogs Planning & Planting

21 Edible Flowers to Grow This Year

Would it surprise you to know that flowers pair perfectly with your favorite culinary dishes?…

Chris McLaughlinFebruary 7, 2025

All Blogs Planning & Planting Vegetable Tips

Summer’s Sweetest Treats: Grow Melons Vertically in Your Square Foot Garden Raised Bed

Plant small melon varieties to grow vertically. If you love watermelons, muskmelons, cantaloupe, or honeydew,…

Chris McLaughlinSeptember 18, 2025

Allow your seedlings to harden off or acclimate outside for 2-3 hours per day to begin.

All Blogs Planning & Planting Seeds

Hardening Off Vegetable Seedlings

For seedlings that began life indoors under lights, there comes a time that they will…

Chris McLaughlinJune 10, 2025

Finished compost feels fluffy and smells earthy.

All Blogs DIY Mel's Mix ™ & Compost

Small Yard? Make Our Easy DIY Compost Pile

It’s easy to make your own backyard compost pile to add to your Mel’s Mix™…

Chris McLaughlinFebruary 8, 2024

If you love kimchi, be sure to plant ‘Alpine’ daikon.

All Blogs Vegetable Tips

Daikon: A Bigger, Often Sweeter, Radish for your Square Foot Garden

Daikon is an easy, fast growing crop. Around the globe, daikon radishes are called winter…

Chris McLaughlinJuly 23, 2025

All Blogs Planning & Planting Vegetable Tips

Keen on Green Beans? Grow Flavorful Vining and Bush Varieties

Dragon Tongue bush beans. Photo from Certified Instructor Sigrid’s SFG garden. If you’re like me,…

Chris McLaughlinFebruary 8, 2024

All Blogs Planning & Planting DIY

Trellis Tricks: Grow “Up” for Bigger SFG Harvests

Stems of trellised fruits will thicken, don't worry - but some gardeners do add a…

Chris McLaughlinJune 10, 2025

How to Store Homegrown Potatoes, Onions, Winter Squash

Spice It Up! 5 Unusual Herbs for Your Square Foot Garden

Growing Green Thumbs: Planting the Seeds of Fun and Discovery in a Kid-Friendly Square Foot Garden

21 Edible Flowers to Grow This Year

Summer’s Sweetest Treats: Grow Melons Vertically in Your Square Foot Garden Raised Bed

Hardening Off Vegetable Seedlings

Small Yard? Make Our Easy DIY Compost Pile

Daikon: A Bigger, Often Sweeter, Radish for your Square Foot Garden

Keen on Green Beans? Grow Flavorful Vining and Bush Varieties

Trellis Tricks: Grow “Up” for Bigger SFG Harvests

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