{"id":168,"date":"2012-04-15T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-04-15T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T05:37:57","slug":"square-foot-gerdening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/square-foot-gerdening\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Foot Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently decided to get back into gardening.  I had previously grown various vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and various herbs.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, I created a 4&#8242; x 12&#8242; x 1&#8242; raised garden bed.  I decided to try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefootgardening.com\/\">&#8220;Square Foot Gardening&#8221;<\/a> method, which I have never tried before.  This method calls for 6&#8243; of loose, nutrient rich soil and a raised bed divided into 1&#8242; squares, with each square containing a unique crop.  As my raised beds are 12&#8243; deep, I used 6&#8243; of semi-composted tree material to fill in the bottom half, and commercial &#8220;Mel&#8217;s Mix&#8221; for the top half.<\/p>\n<p>My current garden contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomatoes (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Bell Peppers (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Jalape\u00f1o Peppers (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Red Chili Peppers (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Carrots (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Radishes (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Green Onions (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Leeks (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Zucchini (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Straightneck Squash (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Rhubarb (bulbs)<\/li>\n<li>Garlic (bulbs)<\/li>\n<li>Shallots (bulbs)<\/li>\n<li>Basil (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Thyme (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Oregano (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Chives (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Cilantro (transplants)<\/li>\n<li>Peppermint (transplants)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some items will be grown in large plastic pots rather than the raised bed as required due to space constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Initial progress pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120415-225632.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120415-225632.jpg\" alt=\"20120415-225632.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120415-225642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120415-225642.jpg\" alt=\"20120415-225642.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently decided to get back into gardening. I had previously grown various vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and various herbs. This past weekend, I created a 4&#8242; x 12&#8242; x 1&#8242; raised garden bed. I decided to try the &#8220;Square Foot Gardening&#8221; method, which I have never tried before. This method calls for 6&#8243; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}