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Introduction To Square Foot Gardening - Part Two

June 1st, 2007 by Bill · 3 Comments

In part one of this series I described how I built my SFG boxes and frames. In this post I’ll describe the soil that goes into those frames. The basic idea is to create your own soil mix using equal amounts of blended compost, peat moss, and coarse vermiculite. Many pre-packaged […]

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Introduction To Square Foot Gardening - Part One

May 3rd, 2007 by Bill · 3 Comments

A great way to improve your sustainable living is to grow your own food. Since most of us don’t have our own acres of land to farm on, we turn to gardening. For those of us who are “rurally challenged” (i.e. city dwellers), or just have land in short supply, there is a […]

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Tags: Habits · Gardening