What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast today.

We're talking about another Gardening Method. I might as well just make it a Gardening

Week because I'm having some fun with it, doing some research of my own, and this one is

near and dear to my heart. This is Square Foot Gardening. I worked with Mel Bartholomew when I first started gardening back in 2010. I was doing some work with him on his nonprofit foundation.

Unfortunately, last year he passed away, but I learned so much from him and he was just

a brilliant guy and clearly struck a chord with many gardeners around the world as the

Square for Gardening Book I believe sold somewhere over 2 million copies which is just mind-boggling because as I used to work in publishing no book

almost no book sells over a million copies almost no book in the world now to sell

two million in gardening is just insane and

clearly shows that there's something to this square foot gardening method. Now if

you're unfamiliar with it it is a simple method of creating a small

orderly and productive garden for kitchens and cooking now the reason why it is so popular is because it makes so much sense.

Now here's the basic concept. What you'll do is you will create a four foot by four foot bed.

It's a raised bed and you will divide it into a

grid of one foot squares which is where it's getting the name square foot

gardening. So in a four foot by four foot bed of course you're going to have 16 squares.

Each of these squares are going to be managed individually and almost treated as if they are one individual plot of land. So depending on the type of seed you plant, there's a

different density. So something like lettuce is typically planted at four

per square foot and something like radish is

anywhere around 16 per square foot. Tomato again it's a larger plant that's one

per square foot. Now the reason Mel chose a four foot by four foot bed is

because most people have an arm reach length of two feet which means that from

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