Hi ya from the UK

Devondigger Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:41 am

Hi Folks

Thought I’d better say Hi and give you a little of my history, Great new lookin site here.

I started SFG early 2009, My better half suggested one day before she went to work that I take a look at the SFG website. By the time she got home I had viewed loads of videos on Youtube and planned my first Garden Box. Shortly after we bought the book.

I wanted to start out BIG, we had an area of Decking to the front of our house that we rarely used, it could have taken a 3*8 foot box and also a 2*6 foot in an ‘L’.

It was suggested I down size my plan a little and try with a 3*3 Box, being a bit handy with a drill & a saw I got some 6inch*1inch gravel boards and over engineered it a bit, 3*3 posts as it was raised off the decking 12’ deep and even has a semi-permanent cover.

Like many in the UK Vermiculite(Micafil) did seem to be a bit expensive until i discovered at a local Builders Merchant sells 100L bag's for about £10.

If I recall we successfully grew the following:-

Carrots, loads of Beetroot, Little Gem Lettuce, Onions, Potato’s, Parsnips, leeks, Radish’s, Mange Tout, Peas, Leaf salad, Perpetual spinach, Tomato’s and a few other bits.

Well 2010 things have moved on a little, we still have our 3*3 box, refreshed for the New season already has Spring Onions, Onion Sets and carrots.

I have recently just made a New box to the back of the house, a 9*3 foot 12inch deep. This has been filled with more MIX and is already having a showing 5 of 9 Cos lettuces.

We’ve purchased a number of unusual seed packs to us for this year including pruple carrots, Strawberry popping corn, watermelon and celery. I have already started a number of seeds indoors, Toms, Cucumber. I also have some bags for potato’s that are about to go in so I had better stop waffling and get planting.

Hope everyone has a successful year. Lookin forward to a bumper crop, more news as it Grows.

Mike

Lavender Debs Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:26 am

If you garden as well as you write you must have an amazing crop! Fun Read
Deborah ....just doing her first year

**WardinWake** Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:38 am

Howdy Mike:

I sounds like you had a very successful first year and you are well on your way to another. I have found Square Foot Gardening to be the easiest way to garden ever invented and just love it. Have you shown off your garden to others? I bet if you became a SFG instructor you would find a ready market for classes. Give it some thought and let us know. We need more instructors in the U.K. and Europe.

God Bless, Ward.

LupinFarm Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:38 am

Whereabouts in the UK are you?

My family is from England.... Harlow, Essex to be exact (I'm first generation born outside of England).

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