There are many different layouts for vegetable gardens, from vertical gardening to raised beds to square-foot gardens. If you are new to gardening, start with tomatoes, lettuce, peas, and radishes ...

Square-foot gardening offers a lot of pre-formulated plans for almost any size garden plot. Spring's almost here (I promise). If you’re still freaking out about what to plant and where, you’re ...

Square foot gardening — how to grow a lot of food in a small space ... The basic layout is a wooden box, 4 feet by 4 feet. The height should be at least 6 inches.

If you don’t have a large space for a vegetable garden, or you are looking to maximize vegetable, herb and flower production in a small space, the square-foot gardening method may be for you.. A ...

Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition (Cool Springs Press) by the Square Foot Gardening Foundation Originally published in the June/July 2025 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS and regularly vetted for accuracy.

In addition, square foot gardening requires much less water than a row garden. ... The basic layout is a wooden box, 4 feet by 4 feet. The height should be at least 6 inches.

Square-foot gardening is a simple concept developed in the late 1970s by Mel Bartholomew, a retired engineer efficiency expert, who wrote “All New Square Foot Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to ...

Bryn Bird, who is an expert in this approach, explains that square foot gardening is so productive due to the very specific mix of soil used: ⅓ compost, ⅓ peat moss, and ⅓ vermiculite.

Laying out out the main crops, according to the precepts of square-foot gardening, which means dividing the raised bed into a series of square-foot areas, and planting one to 16 plants, depending ...