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Yesterday, walking through the Vineyard on an incredible autumn afternoon after brunch at García’s at 4th and Mountain, Joe asked how my square foot garden experiment had gone.  I said I’d have to call it a success.

Wouldn't you?

That’s only a relatively small part of it – just what I picked today. I’ve [...]

How does my garden grow?

Pretty well, actually.  Especially since I started ignoring all the bloodthirsty warnings about overwatering. It’s the desert. Jeez.

Support your local vines!

Above you can see the vine-support frame I added to the SFG this afternoon. It’s made of two five-foot lengths of half-inch steel conduit for uprights, connected by a four-foot piece and a couple [...]

OMG, It’s My SFG!

So this time my TracFone decided to email the picture I took a week ago:

It's my SFG. Yeah, you know: me.

Don’t think it looks like much? It’d look like a whole lot less if I hadn’t bought some seedlings from Plants of the Southwest.

Also, appearances notwithstanding, it’s set on (mostly) bare [...]

Now it can be told

I’ve got a Square Foot Garden!

“WTF’s that?” I pretend to hear you ask.

This (photo credit Frostcall.com)

To start with, it’s the Seekrit Projekt I’ve been mystifying about these last few days. Yes, a huge anticlimax; I know. I just can’t resist tormenting Sara by tweaking her curiosity.

Basically it’s an intensive, organic, space and resource-efficient form [...]