The function of this blog

A couple years ago I read the the book All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew.  I was absolutely fasinated by the ideas he suggested for building garden boxes using a square foot grid and his special soiless 'Mel's mix' instead of dirt.  He explains how it is possible to use a very small space to have a huge crop of vegetables.

Last year I built my first square foot garden.  It was 4 feet by 8 feet and was extremely functional.  I was excited during the entire gardening season about how it worked.  It was so easy to water and I never had to fertilize because I had used Mel's mix.  This Spring I moved to a new townhouse and decided to leave my box behind.  I did however dig up all my Mel's mix because it was quite expensive to originally make.  I've now made a new box in my new backyard.

Once again I am very excited about gardening this year and in particular, my square foot garden for my vegetables.  In fact I even started working at a greenhouse over the summer to see what hints I might pick up from other people.  I really would like to share the progress of my square foot gardening, hence this blog.  Maybe I'll get some cool comments from people out there who share my enthusiasm!  In my next post I plan to share some pictures and comments about what I did last year.  After that I'll plan to share what's going on with this year's garden.  Maybe I can get more people interested in what I think is a truly phenomenal way to grow a vegetable garden!