Santa Monica officials are moving to triple the prices of community garden plots as they tackle a $60-million budget ...

Weeds are typically nonexistent in a well-planned square-foot garden. Grow up. ... Window boxes can be used to grow herbs, radishes, beets, small carrots and lettuces and greens.

Square-foot gardening employs a system of laying out, planting and maintaining a productive garden in almost any amount of space, utilizing small plots based on a grid of squares measuring 1 foot ...

Square-foot gardening employs a system of laying out, planting and maintaining a productive garden in almost any amount of space, utilizing small plots based on a grid of squares measuring 1 foot ...

One strategy to maximize production in a raised bed is to use a square-foot garden production system. Square-foot gardening employs a system of laying out, planting and maintaining a productive garden ...

Square-foot gardening employs a system of laying out, planting and maintaining a productive garden in almost any amount of space, utilizing small plots based on a grid of squares measuring 1 foot ...

Weeds are typically nonexistent in a well-planned square-foot garden. Grow up. ... Window boxes can be used to grow herbs, radishes, beets, small carrots and lettuces and greens.

Lettuces and herbs are great choices for the square-foot garden because they can be harvested young and replanted often during the growing season. Vertical Gardens Getty Images/ Natalia SERDYUK ...

Square foot gardening was invented by backyard gardener, retired engineer and efficiency expert Mel Bartholomew. Typically set up in a small garden bed divided into 1-foot squares, they make for a ...

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