These have been indoors in small pots up until the other week when I planted them out, four plants per square. We have two square’s worth of normal sweetcorn and one of small sweetcorn. We watch and wait now, we have never tried to grow sweetcorn before and so it will be interesting to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘square foot garden’
12 Jun
Leeks in the Post
Leeks are so easy to grow it seemed a shame that we missed out this year and so I looked for some small plants on ebay and for £4 bought 20. I’ve done this before and had no problems, the leeks don’t mind their journey and they soon come to full live when you plant [...]
9 Jun
Loads of planting been going on
No time to “do the paperwork” but planting has been going on loads since the weekend. Yet to be updated are the plans, but hopefully tomorrow. We have now new additions: second square of raddish. I am a bit concerned as the first square only had 4 seedlings appear from a sowing of 36 and [...]
31 May
Pre-Sprouting Seeds
A tale of two seeds, or infact two lots of seeds. Two different squares were planted with the same mixed salad leaves at the same time. The one of the left was sown straight into the bed as normal while the one of the left was just soaked for five minutes and then left on [...]
23 May
Onion Sets starting off
On time… the late planted onion sets are starting to show signs of sprouting. The weather has been really hot for the last couple of days and the more I look each time the more sprouting onions I see
21 May
14 Days Later… We Have a Carrot!
For this Square Foot Gardening I am keep plans up-to-date on a spreadsheet, something I may share at some time. The idea being is that Square Foot Gardening is intensive growing, using space as soon as it is available to your best advantage. A spreadsheet then would be a good idea to plan for the [...]
15 May
Red Onions Planted 2010
A bit late for doing this, but I saw red onion sets for sale at Wilkinsons and so thought I would give it a go. I thought at this late stage there might be some money off, but alas not. Onions keep well and take a long time, so I have no worries about putting [...]
14 May
Square Foot Bed Two Mixed
It was been mostly cold and wet these last days which has meant we had not been out to mix up the Mel’s Mix for the second square foot garden. In the meantime we have planted 16 carrots in the first square foot bed and in a couple of weeks we will repeat that for [...]
6 May
Square foot bed one mixed
After a week of sunny days we seem to have started a phase of cold and rain, which is all a bit of a pity. We did have a little bit of warmth and sun and so we went out to mix and fill the first square foot bed. Here we have 100 litres of [...]
27 Apr
Mel's Mix – The Ingredients
Vermiculite it seems is hard to get hold of in the States from what I read on the various square foot gardening sites. Here in the UK it seems to be all over the place, I picked up 300 litres worth off Ebay which was delivered the next day! The photo here then shows everything [...]
