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/><div><br />Success! Most everything was up two to three weeks
after planting. Now it was a matter of lightly watering close to the soil. One
beauty of Square Foot Gardening is that you're only watering the plants
themselves, not the weed seeds in the outlying dirt. Weeds within the squares
are easy to pull out of the nice, loose soil when they're little. This seems
prezstty efficient to me.</div></div>
Monday, March 16, 2015
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and I mixed the soil for two boxes at a time. We loaded equal parts
vermiculite, baled peat moss and compost onto a large tarp, picked up the
corners and slid the ingredients until they were combined. This stuff is really
heavy. The day after my helpers went home, I filled the boxes and nailed 4-foot
stakes across the boxes to form the planting grid. (Cue the Wonder Woman
music.)<br /><br /><a
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/><div>Everything I planted was from seed. Each square foot contains
different vegetables, flowers and herbs arranged so they help each other resist
insects and diseases. This is called companion planting. Craft sticks are handy
markers. But get it down on paper first and stick to your plan.<br
/><br />Tomorrow: Growth!</div></div>
Square Foot Gardening: Building the boxes
Square Foot Gardening: Building the boxes
Musclemen Ed and The Tattooed One made my
boxes out of 1x6x16 cedar boards that I had considerately had cut into
four-foot lengths at the lumber store. They needed two landscape screws for
each corner.<br /><br /><a
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/><br />Tomorrow: Filling and planting<br /><div><br
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