Square Foot Gardening

Square Foot Gardening

What is square foot gardening? A simple, unique and versatile system that adapts to all levels of experience, physical ability, and geographical location. Grow all you want and need in only 20% of the space of a conventional row garden. Save time, water, work and money! I am following the square foot gardening method, and I'll be using it as a reference through out the blog. Square foot gardening invented by the genius Mel Bartholomew! Learn more about it in his website , Or order his very very valuable book. It may come in downloadable PDF files too, if you search.

Here are the 10 things that make SFG different from traditional row gardening:

  1. Layout. Arrange your garden in squares, not rows. Lay it out in 4′x4′ planting areas. Companion plants can help each other grow bigger and tastier!
  2. Boxes. Build boxes to hold a new soil mix above ground. Your existing soil doesn't matter! forget about it, and just worry about the new soil called Mel's Mix.
  3. Aisles. Space boxes 3′ apart to form walking aisles. It makes it easier to walk and sit around the boxes, especially when your plants get really big and spill out of the boxes a little.
  4. Soil. Fill boxes with Mel’s special soil mix: 1/3 blended compost (please please make your own! The compost sold in Kuwait is a little shady) , 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite (All available in True Value).
  5. Grid. Make a permanent square foot grid for the top of each box. A MUST!
  6. Care. NEVER WALK ON YOUR GROWING SOIL. This is how the soil stays so fluffy and airy for the roots stay happy. Tend your garden from the aisles.
  7. Select. Plant a different flower, vegetable, or herb crop in each square foot, using 1, 4, 9, or 16 plants per square foot. You might, for example, plant a single tomato in a square, but you’d plant 16 carrots in another. Using this system, you can cram a lot of garden into a small space and still get excellent yields.
  8. Plant. Conserve seeds. Plant only a pinch (2 or 3 seeds) per hole. Place transplants in a slight saucer-shaped depression. This means you wont waste seeds! The traditional way is to plant lots of seeds then cut off the majority and leave the strongest.
  9. Water. Water by hand from a bucket of sun-warmed water.
  10. Harvest. When you finish harvesting a square foot, add only compost and replant it with a new and different crop.
Here's how Im starting my square foot garden : I decided how big of an area I want to use, I am placing my SFG on the roof of my house, which I made sure received at least 8 hours of full sun. I am going big and starting with lots of boxes. So after thorough planning I decided I want two 4x4 square foot boxes (which is the standard) two smaller boxes for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes, and one long box for herbs. You can download the guide I created for the carpenters here . Its not the most accurate illustration of what the boxes look like in the end, but the numbers are right. You can change the measurements how ever you like, most importantly, you have to make sure each square is 1ft squared in size= 30 cm. Also Most vegetables require 6 inches of soil, I've decided to use around 20cm. If the boxes are placed over a garden/soil, they don't need bottoms. In my case, I have to apply bottoms since they're going to be in the roof. The bottoms are waterproof 2cm thick plywood. The plywood has to have around 0.6 cm holes drilled in each square, plus in the corners. My boxes have weird squares in the plywood because the carpenter mistook 0.6cm for huge 6cm holes, I had them fix them without problems. Potato/Carrot beds: One of the 4x4' beds with the herb bed: You can of course build your own boxes, and a very detailed guide is in the book. Im sure its much more fun.I don't have the skill or time, so I had the boxes done for 50KD total, 30 for the wood and 20 for the building. The work was done by Ibrahim in Classic Design Carpentry : Don't forget, you can collect sawdust for free and use it as a carbon source in your compost! Maybe I'll paint the outsides of the boxes with the kids before the season starts, what do you think?
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It’s unbelievable

Who are the Jews

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SEB3w3A98rU

it is our money

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wiu9N1H0Huc

The most devastating genocide in the world is being carried out by the follwoing :

1- AIPAC, brows ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COx-t-Mk6UA ).
2- Miriam Adelson brows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr0LkA7VW7Q.
3- Elon Musk.
3- Timothy mellonand brows https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1XJ893-kAh0
4-The Evangelical Church,

Which kill innocent women and children in Gaza.

The most devastating genocide in the world is being carried out by AIPAC ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COx-t-Mk6UA ) and the Evangelical Church, which kill innocent women and children in Gaza.

AIPAC and The Evangelical Church (America) provided Israel with TNT (explosives) for their GENOCIDE.

Gaza has been declared a disaster area and lacks essential resources for living in it, as follows.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed 90% of Gaza, destroying 437,600 homes, and killing one million people, including 50 thousand who are currently under rubble, 80% of whom are women and children.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed 330,000 meters of water pipes, resulting in people not being able to drink water.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed more than 655,000 meters of underground sewer lines. Now people have no washrooms to use.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed 2,800,000 two million eight hundred thousand meters of roads, causing people to have no roads to use.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel have destroyed 3680 km of electric grid, which has caused people to lose electricity.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed 48 hospitals and leveled them to the ground. Now, no one will have a hospital to save their lives.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (USA), and Israel destroyed over 785,000 students’ ability to attend school and learn. Their actions resulted in the complete destruction of 494 schools and universities, many of which were destroyed by bombing.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, (America), and Israel destroyed 981 mosques to prevent homless people from asking God for help.

AIPAC, The Evangelical Church, Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and timothy mellon and America tax payer, have made over 39000 small children orphans and left them without parents or relatives to care for them.

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population has been displaced, and 50% of the deaths are children.

Don’t hesitate to call it what it is

AIPAC ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COx-t-Mk6UA ) and The Evangelical Church (America) are creating a GENOCIDE.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IrX9v6DKH1g

see why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer money

1- see Why Israel is in deep trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfIYtpcBxo

2- Because the God of Money of our World is a Jew who supports and lives in Israel. For more details, click on the following link.

https://mega.nz/file/FqhzGKbB#bsX4PD-O59HEA0-rynD29xkk47dmddycY5CjZfoDLYg

3- Because what USA president say about AIPAC and The Evangelical Church (America)
https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555

See how innocent children are killed by the most powerful Israeli using American bombs at

Al Jazeera Arabic Live

at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COx-t-Mk6UA

Watch the real news at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo

Laws of jews Taurãt (Torah) wich is a part of the Bible

We ordained in Taurãt for them: “A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth and for a wound an equal retaliation."

The Torah, which is part of the Bible, has commanded that the same be done to the Jews. The order of the Torah, which is part of the Bible, is to immediately kill any Jew you see on the street. Since the Jews in Gaza have also killed women and children, you should kill any Jews – men, women, and children – as soon as you see them, whether on the street or anywhere else. And because they have killed everyone in Gaza without mercy, you must do the same to them. If you carry out these actions, you will be following the order of the Torah, which is part of the Bible, and you will be rewarded by going to heaven.

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“That’s because just nothing is being shipped over,” port commissioner Ryan Calkins told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

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