Beginner Gardening: Square Foot Planning - Opinions?, 0 by Hastur

Hastur wrote:
Hello there.

I love, love, love, love the concepts of square foot gardening. I also am in Houston where growing stuff year round is gleefully embraced.

I want to throw an idea set at you guys, in the hopes that someone can help me perhaps better plan the second bed.

Background of beds: Each bed started as a bunch of hay bales, has been layered with some manure and compost, then leaves and more hay, and finally, more compost and some regular soil. Yeah, I've got the lasagne from hell here. But the actual beds are very, very, very dark and full of worms, so I can probably grow almost anything in there now.

Each bed is about 4' wide by a rather large amount long. With a nice deep thing to hold everything in. It's awesome.

So, because I like to play, this is my layout for my first bed. Please note that it's not really to any scale known to man, but it kind of gives you an idea of how it works. It's also set with the short sides on east/west orientation, so those beans can grow something fierce. I'm showing it so you can see how much I am trying to cram into the space, but still have it all grow happy like. I figure here that the radishes will grow up a bit, then get covered by the summer squashes enough to stay cool enough to be productive, and then get pulled out before they are completely smothered by the plants.

Now, keeping in mind how tight this is, take a look at the second layout.

(To be continued...)