Square Foot Gardening Secrets with Rick Bickling | The Beet

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today's episode is sponsored by LMNT, an electrolyte drink mix free of sugar, artificial colors, and other dodgy ingredients. Receive a free LMNT Sample Pack with your order at http://drinklmnt.com/Beet Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Rick Bickling shares the secrets to building a square foot garden! This efficient, space-maximizing method is a game-changer for gardeners. As a Master Gardener and Certified Instructor, Rick’s got all the tips and tricks to help you grow more in less space. Connect with Rick Bickling: Rick Bickling, a Texas Master Gardener and Square Foot Gardening Certified Instructor, pulled off a miracle by transforming a concrete basketball court into thriving Square Foot Gardens! When he's not gardening, Rick works with the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, creating "Essentials" video tutorials alongside the foundation’s directors. Find more from Rick at the Square Foot Gardening Web Site: https://squarefootgardening.org/author/rick_b/ Find more from Rick at the Square Foot Gardening YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SquareFootGardeningFoundationOFFICIAL Learn more about the 4th Edition of Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening: https://squarefootgardening.org/product/all-new-square-foot-gardening-4th-edition/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	I am really interested to know more about spacing. You've got your raised bed, you've got your
0:36.1	males mix. And this is really where
0:37.9	the square foot gardening name comes from. Instead of just planting rows or kind of putting a tomato
0:42.7	here or there, you take one square foot at a time and you plant one particular vegetable in each one.
0:48.9	With square foot gardening, not necessarily scrunch of things in tighter, it's just instead of planting them in a linear manner
0:55.9	where you have just a long row of three inches, three inches, carrot, carrot, carrot. We're kind of
1:00.2	taking that and putting it in a square. Howdy everybody and welcome back to the Beat
1:09.5	podcast, a podcast for plant lovers. I'm Logan
1:12.7	Haley with Epic Gardening. I am a former organic farmer, an author, writer, and the editor of the
1:18.9	Epic Gardening Blog. And I am here today with Rick Bickling of Square Foot Gardening to talk about
1:25.8	maximizing your space and yields in your garden and how to get
1:30.2	the most out of a small space, even if you just have a balcony or a small backyard or even a
1:36.3	basketball court, like where Rick started his first garden. This is the episode for you to learn
1:41.5	all about kind of breaking those quote rules we've been told
1:45.9	about crop spacing and about how much space you really need to grow all the veggies and fruits
1:52.7	that you love and practical ways that you can maximize your yields and flavor and the
1:59.2	nutrient density of your food in a small and compact space.
2:03.4	You don't need to have a giant farm or yard to garden anymore thanks to all of the innovations
2:10.5	in raised bed gardening, container growing, and of course the square foot gardening method.
2:16.3	So without further ado, please welcome Rick Bickling to The Beat.
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