I started my first square foot garden this past week. I am using the above book for a reference guide. I started off with a kit I purchased at Sam's club. For soil, I used 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 blended compost. The vermiculite was the toughest ingredient to find; I had to go to a plant nursey. The big box stores don't carry it. Maybe one day I'll have my own compost pile, but for now I purchased a couple of different composts. To mix all the ingredients together, I layed them onto a tarp and mixed them up, then shoveled them into the boxes. My daughter had a lot of fun mixing the dirt with me. I have cute pictures but need to find the thingamajig that allows me to upload from the camera. :)
I measured some latts I bought at the hardwared store and cut them to size to divide each box into squares. Latts are cheap; I spent about 4 dollars and had leftover wood. Each square is about a foot, give an each or so. I planted seeds of different veggies into each square and labeled the squares on the latt.
Voila!
I will keep you posted on how this turns out! Hopefully I will find the thingamajig so I can share some photos soon.
