Square Foot Gardening: Companion Planting

Welcome back to the California Homeschool Blog. We are working on STAR test practice, Blogging and preparing our Square Foot Gardens for planting.  

This picture of a Square Foot Garden was found on wordpress.

Here is a link to the Square Foot Gardening Foundation:

Today Hammerhead123, MCS and myself, WD, are making a tough descision about our garden layout.

Originally we had planned on transplanting vegetable starts into our garden in a dense layout that would give us two things: shade on the topsoil to reduce evaporation and benefits from companion planting. We have decided to start our gardens from seed, which is an added challenge in the heat of early summer.

Today, the students will decide how to change their garden layout based on this new information.

Some potential changes:

• Adding plastic over the soil to keep it evenly moist during germination.
• Covering the soil with mulch to slow evaporation during germination.
• Starting some seeds indoors.
• Changing to a "monoculture" style square foot garden so that each square foot can be managed individually.  This would mean planting radishes in their own square foot with no other veggies.
• I am excited to see what the students decide to do!

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Check back for Square Foot Gardening posts by Hammerhead123 and MCS later this week.