We've added yet MORE planters yet again this month and the winter brassicas are still growing. We are just about to mix more soil together this weekend. It's a bit of a complicated soil system but for each planter you would find approx:
1/3 of it vermiculite
1/3 of it sphagnum moss peat
1/3 is a mix of: organic manure compost, organic chicken manure, organic multi purpose compost, organic soil improver, organic miracle grow compost
We have to mix a lot of it at the same time as it takes quite a while to do it. But as we have to 'create' the soil we are using for our square foot gardens, it was very important to get it just right.
Here are some pictures:
The Brassicas are coming along nicely
Herb planters
The dwarf apple, blueberry bush and dwarf cherry tree are in!
Raspberry / Blackberry planters
Shelving and tomato planter built to fit the greenhouse
Galvanised wire to hold up the squash and pumpkin vines vertically
Cloches over the strawberries along the left planter
March's Square Foot Gardening Update
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6 comments:
wow!
i happened to come across your blog- I am also learning to go green and garden organically-
i LOVE the herb boxes on the side of the building and your recycled cloches!
Welcome Tera Rose!
Well the square foot gardening is a bit of a radical idea but I'm totally hooked and am convinced I WILL turn my urban back garden into a vegetable / fruit haven.
I just wanted you to know that there is a square foot garden website that tells more if you were interested. http://www.squarefootgardening.com
Good luck and thanks again for looking at my blog! :D
Wow! I just read this, and I must say, I am impressed by your square foot gardening! This shows so much skill and forethought, good for you.
I've read the book, and I plan to put out a few planters this summer. It looks like you've gone beyond that and created a truly fruitful garden! It looks like it will be fantastic in the summer.
Just trying to be green -
Well, me and Simon's heads just swelled up so big we barely got out the back door at hearing at skillful we were at the square foot gardening! ahahaha
Yes it did take some forethought and designing but in the end, you are just building a box.
Good luck with your planters too!
Let me know when you get some pictures up!
How are the blackberries and raspberries doing in the pots? I'd love to plant some thornless blackberries but spent the first year I moved into my house fighting off Himalayan ones trying to take over the yard, heh. I was thinking pots might make it easier to keep those canes contained. ;)
HI Lindsay
The raspberry and blackberry did fine in the containers! I kept cutting them back their first year to get them a bit more bushy so they are still smallish.
You could get a window box type container and put your raspberries in there along a wall or similar as they like to spread out and you could train them up and out like a climbing type plant.
Good luck! :D
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