Your Garden ~ How does your garden grow?

 

No matter if you have a small space or a large space let’s talk about how you can grow a garden to help feed your family, and possibly your neighbors. One of my favorite gardening methods is square foot gardening. Basically, you take a square foot of space in your garden bed and maximize it to produce multiple items, grow more food with less space. Square foot gardening can be paired well with companion planting for the best yields. In case you were wondering, there is a book you can purchase as well as take a course to learn more, check out the following website: https://squarefootgardening.org

What if you live in an apartment or condo with just a balcony. No worries you can grow your favorites in containers. Make your outdoor space look amazing with beautiful containers and fresh produce. The drawback might be that you are limited to what you can grow but again companion planting can help add variety within your small space. You might have to water more as well since raised beds and containers tend to dry out faster.

For larger space you can utilize direct sow or raised beds. We always liked raised beds for their function and ability to reduce the amount of bending over we have to do when working the garden. Either way I think that making sure your paths are well tended helps to keep your weed pulling to a minimum. Rows and rows of beautiful veggies and flowers are the end game no weeds.

Within each type of garden, vertical growing can be utilized. By using cattle panels to create arches for food to grow upwards or to train your tomatoes and peas towards the sun. But did you know there is another type of vertical gardening, tower gardens. These tall towers grow food through a mix of hydroponics and heights. Small cutouts are placed on the side of the large tube where the plants will be placed. Their root system will live in a solution instead of dirt. No weeds should be growing here. Anything you can grow in the ground can grow in these towers. It’s expensive to get started but could be a solution for those who do not have a lot of space or time but still want healthy, homegrown food to eat.

There is so much satisfaction to growing and eating food you put the hard work in to produce. Reward yourself by starting to plan now with your new garden space and start preparing your garden for spring planting.