Square foot gardening
mamarati wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
I’ve been reading a lot about square foot gardening lately. I think that this really makes sense and would be a great way to start a garden in a child care setting where you may not be able to “give up” much of your playground space.
I would advise that you make the boxes 4×2 however, to allow the small arms of children to reach their own squares.
If you buy the book, be sure and get the newer version. They’re both about the same price, so that’s not an issue… but the author has made some advances in the technique that are particularly welcome. For instance, in the past, he recommended that you dig down into your existing soil where the box is going to be. In the new version, this step is not necessary.
There’s a Yahoo! Group for this that I’ve been following, and almost nobody [...]
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