[dervish]

Thank you.

I am learning so much on the Gardening Threads. I have only been gardening for flowers and ornamentals, but this summer I want to start vegetable gardening.

I am considering a square foot garden. I don’t really understand the purpose of raised bed gardening.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Raised beds are very useful when your soil is very rocky or very clay, or similarly unsuitable. Raised beds are also useful for people who don’t bend well, if you make them high enough. I did my first raised bed last year, called it my ‘salad bar’. You could make your way around it and have a beautiful, colorful, delicious salad. I did it in a raised bed thinking that weed control would be easier, but it was only minimally so. I did bury some soaker hoses in a concentric circle with hookup at one corner. THAT was very handy because lettuces don’t have deep roots and needed to be watered almost daily.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

We have several people on the list that do square foot gardening ... hopefully someone will offer any tips that they might have learned.

I believe that one of our gardeners said that her tomatoes didn't do really well in SFG. Kinda leggy and not very strong.