Written by Alex Darc Sadly, peat is a slow growing, natural resource that hasn’t always been well managed, and in many places has been seriously depleted, leaving negative effects on the environment. Many gardeners are looking for a peat alternative. Mel’s Mix is a carefully chosen, ...
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Hot Off The Press: Winter 2021 Square Foot Gardening Newsletter!
Let us be among the first to wish you a Happy New Year 2021! And if there was ever a year we’re glad to see end, it’s got to be 2020. It has been challenging, to say the least, and we know there is more to come. But we also know that as gardeners, we have all learned to be resilient. CLICK HERE ...
Why Become A Certified Instructor?
Written by Laura BartholomewDirector – Square Foot Gardening Foundation Is it time to think beyond your own backyard? This past year has had many of us thinking differently about so many things, for instance; where our food comes from, and how our children are being educated, balancing work and ...
Square Foot Gardening with Kids
Written By: Rick Bickling “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States One of the areas being emphasized in today’s schools is giving students the knowledge and skills to gather and evaluate information, and ...
Buying Seeds
Written By: Alex Darc It’s that time of year to start browsing seed catalogs and making your seed list for next year. So many decisions to make! So many seeds, and sellers, and so many kinds of seed to choose from. Where do you begin? First, the most important thing to do is to make ...
Giving Back
Written By: Rick Bickling “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill Mel Bartholomew began developing The Square Foot Gardening method relatively late in life, after he retired in the mid-1970’s, from his first career as an engineer. He was so ...
Square Foot Garlic
Written by: Alex Darc I love garlic and use quite a bit of it in my cooking. So I plant a lot of garlic. I also love that here in my Northeast garden, I can plant garlic in the Fall and forget about it until mid-late spring, and then just water and keep it weed free. And because Garlic grows ...
Hot off the Press: Fall 2020 Square Foot Gardening Newsletter!
Our quarterly newsletter is packed with great info about growing your SFG during cold weather, inspirational photos, video links, recipes, and more. Read Now >> ...
Sweet Potatoes or Yams?
Sweet Potatoes. Yams. You probably don’t spend much time thinking about them other than when Grandma serves her candied yams, with or without marshmallows, during the holidays, or the occasional walk on the wild side when you order sweet potato fries instead of regular French fries at the ...
Short-Term Storage of Your Harvest
Square Foot Gardening is fun and rewarding from start to finish. And, probably the most fun and rewarding time you’ll spend in your garden is when you’re harvesting some of the delicious crops that you’ve planted and nurtured. But once you’ve harvested your crops, you want to be sure that you’re ...
