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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 McLaughlinJune 25, 2025

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Buying Seeds

Written by Alex Darc It’s that time of year to start browsing seed catalogs and…

Alex DarcMarch 4, 2025

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

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Hardening Off Vegetable Seedlings

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

Chris McLaughlinJune 10, 2025

All Blogs DIY Mel's Mix ™ & Compost

How to Make Your Own Compost

Compost is a huge part of Square Foot Gardening. It makes up 1/3 of Mel's…

foundationMarch 4, 2025

All Blogs Harvesting & Preserving

Short-Term Storage of Your Harvest

Square Foot Gardening is fun and rewarding from start to finish. And, probably the most…

Rick BicklingFebruary 8, 2024

All Blogs Mel's Mix ™ & Compost

Composting with Kitchen Scraps

We all know that one of the integral components of Mel's Mix™ is compost, and…

kelpJune 8, 2023

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

All Blogs Harvesting & Preserving

When to Harvest. . .

How do you know when it’s time to harvest your late summer vegetables? Luckily, we…

foundationFebruary 8, 2024

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

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Daikon: A Bigger, Often Sweeter, Radish for your SFG

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

Chris McLaughlinFebruary 8, 2024

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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

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

Buying Seeds

Hardening Off Vegetable Seedlings

How to Make Your Own Compost

Short-Term Storage of Your Harvest

Composting with Kitchen Scraps

Small Yard? Make Our Easy DIY Compost Pile

When to Harvest. . .

Daikon: A Bigger, Often Sweeter, Radish for your SFG

Keen on Green Beans? Grow Flavorful Vining and Bush Varieties

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