Video - Tips for Building Square Foot Garden Boxes

This video offers some helpful tips and ideas for building your boxes for your square foot garden - from materials, to sizing and placement, to trellising, to covering your square foot gardens to make mini-greenhouses or offer protection to plants. Lots of great info here!

Square Foot Gardening 101: The Boxes!
Learn all about the box aspect of Square Foot Gardening! Well, today Belinda will go over just that. Tips for building, buying, and how to use your box to extend and protect your garden easily! Belinda Jensen (the Square Foot Gardening Expert) from ...


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Video - Easy Raised Bed Garden

If you don't want to cut lumber, drill holes, and all the other typical work required for building a raised-bed garden, this quick video shows a great alternative method, which takes only a few minutes, and is super-easy. This is great for Square Foot Gardening, or just creating a raised bed garden to provide some added height and ease of maintaining.

Raised Garden Bed: Natural Cedar
Watch as we assemble an innovative raised garden bed in just a few minutes. See more at www.eartheasy.com

To learn more about this nifty and easy raised-bed garden technique, visit www.eartheasy.com.

Interesting Article on Companion Planting

Image via WikipediaI recently came across this sustainable gardening article, and thought it might be of interest to some of our readers. There are various sustainable gardening methods that are helpful, and a number of them are described here, besides companion planting. He also mentions a “No-Dig” garden — this can be especially useful for city gardeners, or those gardening in a small space. (We particularly like the Square Foot Gardening concept.)

Companion Planting Vegetable Growing
One of the key components of any Permaculture course is about learning how to grow some of your own food from your own garden. It is possible to supply approximately 80% of your annual food requirements within 50 metres of your home….
http://sgt-blog.sustainable-gardening-tips.com/3/companion-planting-vegetable-growing

Related articles on Sustainable Gardening:

• Planning Your First Vegetable Garden (backyardgardeningtips.com)
• The Principles of Organic Gardening (backyardgardeningtips.com)
• All About Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening (brighthub.com)
• Gardening week ahead: No-dig technique (telegraph.co.uk)