New to Square Foot Gardening

If you have never heard of Square Foot Gardening, basically it's a new home gardening method invented by a retired engineer. It's meant to a simplified way of gardening in a limited space. I was definitely intrigued by the idea the first time I flipped through the book from a book store's shelf and finished reading it in half a day.

(example of a square foot garden)

So today I finally made my first step in square foot gardening.

After some amendments to the soil, I started dividing one of my vegetable patches into square foot plots. To-do item is that I still to find better material to be the dividers. I temporarily used twines that are nailed on both ends to the edges of the vegetable box, but I just read from the Square Foot Gardening's website that wood laths or vinyl strips make better dividers.

I planted about ten broad beans into the first three squares. Alice and James gave me the beans. I planted them in early spring this past year and they seemed to do well with low maintenance. I also planted three square foots of Chinese cabbages. I did about 10 of them. Additionally, I planted one square foot of 16 radishes. I suspect that it's too crowded.

I found on the internet that most cities have a compost program and sells to their residents compost bins for lower prices. I found that I could get a home composter for $39 at stopwaste.org I think I'm going to order one. The idea of composting although kind of grosses me out.