I think I am about two weeks into the growing season but I finally got my square foot garden planted! It was neck-and-neck there for a while, between me and the mosquitoes, to see who would prevail, but I did it!I first laid down two layers of weed barrier cloth, and then started mixing up my soil. I think I finally ended up with about 1/3 compost which we made ourselves over the past two seasons, 1/3 dirt that our local ants dug up for us, 1/6 coconut fibre (instead of peat moss) and 1/6 vermiculite. It reminded me of my old Tree Nursery days! Except that I had no fancy dirt-mixing equipment, just a wheelbarrow, buckets, a spade and my two hands.
It took me about 5 1/2 hours from when I started putting down the weed barrier cloth, to when I finished planting 14 of my 16 square foot sections. I have no idea if I've planted the seeds too close together or too deep, but I guess I'll find out. I'm not sure if the soil is deep enough either, but I will wait and see. I don't want foot-long carrots anyway!
The two sections with no label on them are for pre-sprouted lettuce I will buy from the Root Seller and plant there - it's cheating a bit, but what the heck, I want something to be growing. I do have two kinds of parsley, thyme, oregano, rue and chives growing already in my little flower bed beside the house, which I can harvest already (a bit at a time).
Here is the grid/list of things that I have planted:
| Sugar Sprint Peas | Rainbow Chard | Senger Farm Spinach | Leaf Beat |
| Red Comet Radish | Slobolt Cilantro | Feverfew | Lettuce |
| SF Nantes Carrots | Italian Sweet Pepper | Glacium Flavium | Lettuce |
| Chanteray Carrots | Cutting Celery | Basil Thyme | Catgrass Oats |
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