What Are Square Foot Gardens?

Series Summary

Landscaping your front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, and provide diversion in which to ponder various thoughts that have been lingering in your subconscious. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small corner garden is a simple task you could complete in just an afternoon.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make an easy garden called a square foot garden. This type of platformed grid garden is easy to maintain and requires less weeding and pesticides than normal gardens. Learn each easy to follow step for assembling your square foot garden, creating the grid, and picking the right soil. You will also get tips for laying out the soil, picking the best plants for a square foot garden and watering those plants. If you are looking to do some organic gardening but don't want to commit to a large yard garden project, let our expert show you how to make and tend a small square food garden.

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Yolanda Vanveen on behalf of Expert Village. In this series, we're going to talk about square foot gardening and how to do it in your own backyard. So, what is square foot gardening? Well, about twenty five years ago, a man by the name of Mel Bartholomew wrote a book called "Square Foot Gardening." And it really isn't that different from raised bed gardening in the fact that they are just raised studs. But, the difference is that instead of having a large rectangle for your raised bed, you have a four by four square. And, within that four by four square, you divide it into one foot by one foot squares. In those squares, you plant separate plants and that way they stay contained. So, it's a wonderful system and a great way to garden. In this series, we'll examine how to create a square foot garden in your backyard. In the first section we will talk about what materials are needed for a square foot garden."