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Organic Cube Foot Gardening
by John Yazo
If not having allot of space to garden is stopping you from growing your own vegetables, then there is a solution. Organic Cube Foot Gardening is for you.
The method of cubed foot gardening is a practice of growing crops in raised, intensive beds. It is just being more noticed because of the desire for gardeners to grow a healthier, more productive crop while conserving the amount of water and nutrients needed.
The biggest advantage is that whether you live in a apartment, condo or house, square foot gardening is the easiest way to organically grow your own fresh vegetables in a minimal amount of space. Organic cube foot gardening can also be done on large scale gardens and can be easily adopted to your existing organic garden.
Organic Cube Foot Gardening is basically a combination of no-till gardening, container planting, raised bed gardening, and companion planting. Planting the wide rows in ordinary home gardening take allot more time and work than square foot gardens do. Also your ordinary home garden uses allot more water and takes up allot more space.
When building an organic cube foot gardening you create beds as you would in a raised bed garden leaving a path about three wide between each bed if you are building more than one. This will leave you access around all sides of the beds to easily work.Once the beds are built and filled with good organic soil divide them up into squares of aboutone square foot by one foot and you will be ready to start planting.
In a cube foot garden spacing is one plant per square for extra large plants like peppers or broccoli, large plants like lettuce four plants per square, medium plants like spinach or beans are nine plants per square and small plants like carrots or onions you can plant sixteen plants per square. Planting using this method the beds are weeded and watered from the paths around the beds so the garden soil is never walked on and compacted.
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