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Anne Armstrong |
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Phone: 0044 1400 261061 or tel 0044 1400 250037
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I emailed some photographs of my present garden to a friend Gary who suggested I looked at square foot gardening, having looked at the web site I realised that I had already had the right layout and by changing my planting methods I could produce more in the allocated space. |
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I have a picture here of sprouts planted in April they are just beginning to form and we should be able to start eating them in about 3 weeks time. Around the second to third week of September.
Parsley is on the edge running along the sleeper, and I have planted out my leeks alongside. The planting has not been done in squares as this took place before I came across this form of intensive crop production. The picture on the right below shows sprouting broccoli, one plant to a square ft. |
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My first square foot garden bed, as you can see I have divided the area into 1 ft squares using baler twine, which is secured with nails put into the sleepers.
I filled the bottom layer with some good farmyard muck which has been left for 9 months and was well rotted. I then put top soil on the top
The sleepers are 8ft long, but I have decided to use a plank across the middle whenever I need to reach the centre squares, this is to prevent compaction of the soil. |
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My first square foot garden. |
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Sprouts, leeks and parsley. |
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Chris my husband had assisted me in building the planting area with railway sleepers, which are 8ft long and 9” high. |
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We decided on paving slabs as the pathway, as it was easy to keep clean and also practical when harvesting crops. I wanted to be able to go and pick our vegetables when I came home from work without having to change into Wellington boots and wade through mud! |
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Anne Armstrong Square Foot Gardening |
