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Creating My
Square Foot Garden
With Free Plastic Crates
Whooo Hooo
Let’s plant something!!!
First and foremost, always give credit where credit is due!
4 years ago, Mel Bartholomew http://www.melbartholomew.com/ ,”the founder and inventor of the Square Foot Gardening method, which I think is the easiest, most efficient way of gardening.
I also created the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit in order to spread the message of SFG through humanitarian projects around the world. Our goal is to end world hunger with SFG.” by Mel Bartholomew
Recently creating a square foot garden has become even more popular. Having a square foot garden allows you to garden almost anywhere. You do not have to have a backyard because a square foot garden can be grown on the balcony of a high rise apartment building. So most anyone can grow a garden!
After watching countless videos about the subject, my husband and I thought we would give it a shot. Pricing the materials to create a nice looking raised bed, we realized this was going to be expensive. Then we came across a video showing how to use free plastic crates to create a square foot garden. This is John Kohler’s video that showed us how to do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeKufjx1GZ8
We have used ten plastic crates in our garden. I like the idea that I can move them around, if one is getting too much sun.
Like John said in the above video, we put our money in the soil. The crates were free and half of the plants were free.
Our Square Foot Garden:
Now we wait! We have tons of seeds that are not up yet. But this garden will be lush before we know it. The soil mixture is the one recommended by John without the “rock dust”. None of our local shops carry it so I will have ordered mine online! My site does not carry it at this time 🙁 However we did use the worm castings!
I love the organized look of it and we were able to plant many more plants in this one small space, which uses less water!
This is what we have planted in our square foot garden:
5 tomato plants (one cherry tomato)
5 burpless cucumbers
5 okra
1 cilantro
parsley
oregano
basil
red jalapeno peppers
green jalapeno peppers
bell peppers
yellow squash
The marigolds are pretty but they will keep insects away too!
I hope you enjoyed this! Please like and share with your friends! I would love your comments as well!
Happy Gardening!
6 Comments
Hi, I love this crate garden. We have a large community garden in the complex I live at. I have been trying to figure out how to do a raised garden at little expense. This looks like the golden apple for me. I may put a space row between the two garden rows. I will have to put some sort of barrier to keep out the squirrels and other critters we have eating everyones bounty. Do you have any inexpensive ideas how I can protect the plants?
Hi Aryl, My husband found them. Someone was throwing them away.
Where do you get the free plastic crates?
I love this idea! I will have to check out the video. We are not great gardeners in our house, but you make it look so easy!
Hey Amy, you can find these behind grocery stores & restaurants! (They throw them away)
What fun, Susie! I was wondering where you found the free plastic crates. Good luck on your garden (it looks great!) and keep us posted on its progress!