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SPRING 2021
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Fresh Meals to Your Door
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Shepherds Pie • Quiche
Roast Beef with Mashed & Veggies
Beef Stew • Lasagna
Pork Chop with Baked & Veggies
Roast Chicken with Mashed & Veggies
Penne with Meat Sauce
Meatloaf with Mashed & Veggies
Salisbury Steak with Baked & Veggies
Turkey with Mashed, Veggies, Stuffing, Gravy
1/2 Pound Portions - $6.00
Full Pound Portions - $9.95
SOUPS: Chicken Rice, Vegetable,
Beef Vegetable & Texas Style Chili
500 ml - $5.55 • 1 litre $7.99
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Square Foot Gardening
By Helen Lammers-Helps, New Dundee from Daytripping May 2011
Are you looking for an easier way to
grow fresh vegetables and herbs?
Twenty-five years ago, Mel
Bartholomew sold his civil engineering
business and took up vegetable
gardening as a hobby. After some dismal
failures with traditional row gardening,
Bartholomew applied his efficiency
expertise to vegetable gardening and
developed the Square Foot Garden (SFG)
system of growing vegetables. Realizing
that traditional row gardening was a hold
over from agriculture where long rows
made it easy to work the fields with a
donkey or tractor and other equipment,
Bartholomew started from scratch and
developed a new system which he dubbed
square foot gardening. Bartholomew has
released a second book, All New Square
Foot Gardening, where he describes his
methodology in great detail.
Bartholomew’s method eliminates
the walkways between the rows. This
reduces the area required by 80% and
therefore also reduces the area needed to
be weeded and tilled by 80% for a huge
time and labour savings. Bartholomew
recommends growing the square foot
garden in a wooden box 4’ x 4’ by 6”
deep and open on the top and bottom.
He found that this size allowed people
to reach in from all sides. A one foot
by one foot square grid is laid on top of
the box using twine or strips of wood.
The number of plants or seeds planted
inside each square foot is based on the
maximum size of the plant.
To make it easy, Bartholomew has
divided each type of plant into different
categories by size. For extra-large plants,
grow one plant per square foot. These
are peppers, cabbages, broccoli and
cauliflower. Large plants are planted four
to a square foot (6” apart) and include
leaf lettuce, Swiss chard, parsley and
marigolds. Medium plants are spaced 4”
apart (9 to a square foot) and include bush
beans, spinach and beets. Finally, small
plants such as carrot, radish and onion
are planted 16 to a square foot (3” apart).
The grid makes it easy to see how many
plants should go in each square foot.
Another advantage of the boxes over
one large single garden is that the boxes
can be placed strategically. Put one by
the back door for herbs for convenient
picking while making dinner, one in partshade
for lettuce, spinach and other crops
that do better without intense sun and
heat, one in the sunniest part of the yard
for sun-loving tomatoes and peppers, etc.
This also makes it easier to stagger the
harvest by staggering plantings and by
re-planting to a new crop once an early
crop such as lettuce or peas has finished
producing.
Another advantage of this system is
that there is no traffic on the planted areas
which means there is no compaction and
subsequent yield loss.
By using the box method, ideal soil
can be used in the box which is much
easier than trying to improve heavy
clay, droughty, stony or other poor soil.
Bartholomew recommends a mix of onethird
each peat, vermiculite and compost.
Finally, by using boxes with plywood
bottoms drilled with holes for drainage
and raising the boxes onto a table at
waist height, those in wheel chairs or
with back problems are able to garden.
If you’re growing lots of vegetables
for home canning, square foot gardening
may not make sense but if you just want
to enjoy some fresh veggies without all
the work of a big, traditional row garden,
it may be a good fit.
For more information on square
foot gardening, go to Bartholomew’s
website at www.squarefootgardening.com.
Check it out! There is also an excellent
description with simple how-to steps at
http://www.albertahomegardening.com/
how-to-make-a-square-foot-garden.
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