I decided this year to start a square foot garden. Being a beginner at growing my own vegetables, having limited space and horrible soil in my back yard square foot gardening seemed like the best option. Also, I dont have tons of room in my back yard to spare to make a traditional row garden for growing vegetables. I spent several hours online reading various blogs and sites about how to go about building my square foot garden and I decided based on my soil conditions and limited space that building a raised bed gardenwas my best option. I decided to actually build 4 seperate square foot raised bed gardens. Two of them I build were 4ft.x4ft and one was 4ft x 8ft. to give me a total of 64 square foot of gardening space. Multiple sites I visited recommended that for each person in the family you should have approximately 16 square foot to supply ample fruits and vegtables throughout the growing season.
Now there are many different ways you can go about laying out your square foot garden and I choose to use a free garden design tool offered on the » Read more: Square Foot Gardening For Beginners
