Square Foot Gardening without a Raised Bed at a Local Community Garden

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to a local community garden to check out how people are growing the Square Foot Garden Method. In addition you will learn how you can protect your strawberry crop from the birds using CDs and how you can use handbags to prevent bugs from eating your crops.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• square
• foot
• garden
• sfg
• community
• strawberries
• strawberry
• birds
• vegetable
• safe
• safety

[paulo1149]

John, love your vids, but this one was a bit too negative. They probably fully intend on filling those raised beds as time goes on and compost comes in. Around here, topsoil is $40/yd plus delivery, and with my raised beds on granite slab, I too would love to have more soil.

[growingyourgreens]

Compost here is $16 a yard at Sonoma Compost. If someone does not have a truck they can purchase compost for $2 a 3 cubic foot bag and haul it in their car. It is NOT that expensive in this area. Im not exactly sure the reasons WHY they did not fill their raised bed, but I wanted to point it out to others that its my believe if you have a raised bed, you should fill it, of course, thats my opinion, I encourage everyone to always do they BEST they can.. and grow in the best SOIL they can.

[growingyourgreens]

first!

[budokaii69]

can we see a tour of your summer garden, thanks

[toddhoffious]

Do those CDs work?

[Vladivostok41]

one day john, your going to get flooded with comments so fast you won't even be able to comment first. lool.

[Yoga4allpeople]

Watching this, I am thinking that the gardeners might not have all that much money and are using and working with what they can get their hands on. love all the recycling and reusing going on. Buying soil to fill a raised bed is not in everybody's budget and if one has no car or truck, hard to transport. They might have been able to get the wood and waiting for next growing season to get the soil....

[AbuYusefAlHalabi]

I loved how you pointed to all the mistakes were done in this garden, and your recommendations.

[EnlightenedSky]

Interesting.

[lazarus822]

Wow, you have some challenged gardeners in your area...

[LaoSoftware]

Everyone has their own style when it comes to gardening. I like to bulid a mini fence to keep out small animals and kids in my garden.