The Soil

Now that the beds were made, I had to fill them with something. I used a soil recipe recommended to me by Jackie Owen which she got from The New Square Foot Garden book. I have since bought that book, and found it to be very helpful. It makes things WAY simpler than traditional row gardening, and the results are great.

The recipe:

1/3 sphagnum peat moss
1/3 vermiculite
1/3 compost

When I started this process, I had to buy all these things separately and mix them together. Now they sell them all combined in a bag for about $10, which is about twice as much as making it yourself but it's organic and much quicker.

March 2010 - The beds are filled, and I've got my tee-pee for the watermelon.