Category Archives: Gardening

Friday Footprint: 10 Green Ways to Enjoy Your Weekend

This summer I have really noticed that the best weekends are those spent outdoors or doing things that don’t cost much money. It seems like many people have the idea that you need to spend a lot of money to have fun, but that simply isn’t the case. Those activities also tend to be harder [...]

HowTo: Create a Square Foot Garden

As most of you know, over the past little while I’ve been preparing and building my first square foot garden. I have written some posts about this process and thought that I would create a new one that links to each of the different steps involved in making the garden. Enjoy.
Square Foot Gardening [Intro post]:
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SFG Parts 6-8

I am happy to say that my square foot garden is practically complete. Other than adding a mesh wall for my vines to grow up (not necessary, but more efficient), all steps are complete.
On Sunday, a cold and wet day, Rita and I mixed the soil and filled the boxes with it. We called it [...]

SFG Parts 2-5

The square foot garden is almost complete! Yesterday, with Rita’s help, I completed four more steps in the process. After marking all the pieces of wood, I began cutting them manually. This was a ton of work but it was well worth it. I didn’t need a stinkin’ electric saw (although it would have greatly [...]

SFG Part 1: The Skid

Well, I started my Square Foot Garden by ripping apart a huge skid so I could make the garden box. It took quite a while to get the boards off with a crowbar but I finally had the wood needed to make the frame of the box. The 144 nails that I had to pull [...]