Start a Garden with SQUARE FOOT GARDENING

Get the most out of your gardening space with square-foot gardening! In this video, you'll learn what square foot gardening is and the benefits (including the ones that have surprised me), and I’ll give you a year’s worth of planting ideas so you can get started right away.

Introduction 00:00
What is Square Foot Gardening 00:33
1. Raised beds divided into squares using a grid 01:14
2. Simple soil mixture added to beds 01:36
3. Follow plant spacing guidelines 02:03
Square Foot Gardening Advantages 02:39
1. Simple to understand and implement 02:56
2. Efficient use of space and resources 03:24
3. No weeds 03:35
4. Simplifies companion planting 03:46
5. Healthier plants 04:22
Download Square Foot Garden Plans 04:53

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[Kat-mfmt]

The upfront cost of getting a raised bed and irrigation always held me back. As a first time gardener, I'm trying out container gardening to see if I will enjoy gardening before jumping head on.

[JChalant]

Thanks again for hosting the event at the library last night! I'm anticipating having a more successful year this time!

[gretchenrodriquez]

Thank you neighbor, I'm in E. Mesa.

[QuiteQuietASMR]

I’ve always planted in rows but my plan is to do more “blocks” of plants this year, and square foot gardening sounds like a great thing for me to implement!

[TjTracyThomas]

This was my first season of raised beds and SFG. Some success and some failures.
Almost all pepper plants(anaheim, shoshito, bell peppers) did great. Zucchini and squash took over anything nearby and hid some plants from sun. Cucumber vines went into the squash instead of up the trellis no matter how many times we tried to coax them onto the trellis. Then there were insect problems. Learned a lot and will incorporate changes in the spring. Just purchased 3 more raised beds. Also started canning food. Hopefully the one raised bed we dedicated strictly for asparagus will yield us a crop next year. Yummy!!

[GmamaGrowz]

Thanks for sharing your square foot garden 🤩 I have the book and can't wait to get started!

[mariap.]

Thank you very much Angela.
I'm a new subscriber and I truly enjoy your way of teaching, you are a natural.
I love your trellis (square shape), and would love to do that for my garden to hang a shade cloth in the summer (Florida Zone 10). I appreciate all you do for us, the new gardeners. Thanks a million 🙏💜🌻🦋

[thisoneT]

I really love your channel. I've gotten a lot of great info! Thank you!

[OysterMilk]

Angela these plans look amazing! As a beginning AZ gardener, I'm so excited for the upcoming season now! Thank you!

[lisac]

Thank you for your amazing information and plans. My husband and I are now full time Arizona residents. We came from Washington and I had a beautiful greenhouse and miss gardening so very much. I have a empty backyard I need to fill up with square foot beds and vertical items to cover a large wood fence.

[gardenextra]

I am so glad that you are teaching / talking about the subject. The book influence to my gardening but I don't follow all the rules, so I would be a terrible teacher.🙂

[AlexasGarden]

Hey Angela! I'm glad to meet you! Thank you so much for this video! It's very useful!

[kath]

I am in the Northeast in zone 6a, so not anywhere near your zone. But you provide such great overall garden information, especially about square foot gardening and companion planting, so I am subscribed! Thank you!

[meshuggadevlar]

Excellent information. I'm just starting out with 3 8x4' beds and I'm also in Mesa. Thanks for the great videos!

[alicecowan]

Thank you so much for this Angela. I’m heading over to your website right now! ❤❤❤

[GardenMyselfHappy]

I am planning a few small beds with this method and really am interested to see how others get on.
Thanks for sharing.

[KitchenGardenTours]

Love these tips. Thank you. We are moving soon so I hope to build a beautiful raised bed garden like yours. Thanks for sharing.

[tabbybros]

Love the clarity of your videos! This is my first year gardening and I am starting with a sort of modified No-dig and SFG approach. Videos like yours are so helpful!

[GardenInMinutes]

Such useful info, thanks for sharing Angela!

And we’re really excited that you’re enjoying our metal raised garden beds 😊

[tofikalicious]

This will be my 3rd year gardening, will be trying square foot gardening for the first time :) there's one thing I still have questions about - what do you sow/plant after harvesting each square? Do you obey crop rotation just within one square? But also have to take to account which plants don't like to grow next to one another? Don't wanna end up with empty squares or chaotic sowing/planting and not having results :D