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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

In Ground Square Foot Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today's question comes in from a reader, who wonders if you can still use the Square Foot Gardening method if you're not growing in a raised bed! Learn More: Square Foot Gardens: Where Efficiency Meets Beauty Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we are taking yet another question from a

0:06.4

listener. This time it is from Jen. Here is Jen's question.

0:11.0

Hey Kevin, my name is Jen.

0:13.3

I've tinkered with gardening for a number of years,

0:15.4

but this year I've gotten kind of obsessed.

0:17.4

Well, congrats.

0:18.4

This is Kevin again.

0:19.7

Love that you've gotten obsessed.

0:21.5

I have been doing tons of research and in my research

0:23.8

I stumbled upon your podcast. I'm loving it. Thank you so much for that Jen.

0:26.8

Okay here's my question. I have a decent sized in-ground garden 12 feet by 26 feet and up until now I've been using

0:34.8

traditional tilling methods and planting schemes as I do more research though I want to

0:39.4

switch to a no-till method I'm also intrigued by the layout plan of a square-foot garden.

0:43.8

When I listen to your podcast on square-foot gardening, you talked about doing it in raised beds,

0:47.7

but does it work to use the same layout techniques in an in-ground garden?

0:51.9

My idea is to do three foot-wide

0:54.6

planting areas alternating with two-foot-wide walkways. That way my

0:58.0

planting areas and walkways always stay the same and I don't end up walking

1:01.6

on planting areas and compacting that soil.

1:04.0

Do you think this plan would work or do you have any suggested modifications?

1:08.0

Thank you so much for the help.

1:10.0

Well this is a good question.

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