Square Foot Gardening

We got our garden beds assembled!!

 I was looking into soil and my mother in law mentioned that she saw something about Square Foot Gardening. After reading into it I was able to go to http://www.gardeners.com/ and use their layout design to plan my beds. My daughters and I had a planting party last week and we were able to get a lot of different things planted into solo cups.

 I also ordered more seeds from Ark Institute and will hopefully get those planted soon. I took time to buy organic seeds, find Redwood to make our boxes and research planting methods and I don't want to buy soil that is just a bunch of bark and empty filler type material. I don't have the time to compost 96 cubic feet of organic soil. I am going to take some time and call around for places that sell organic soil by the cubic yard because buying it by the cubic foot from Lowes is going to cost about $11.00 each bag! Ouch. Last Sunday when the girls and I went to the local dairy to get milk I saw some guys shoveling manure into the back of a truck so maybe that would be a good place to start. I could at least use it as a mix in right? Who knew there was so much to this!