How Big is a Square Foot?

Not as big as it first appears!!!!

I turned one of our garden beds into a square foot gardening grid for my summer planting. It was a great way to space out the bed and made planting somewhat easier.

HOWEVER, I think I overestimated how much space some of my plants were going to need when fully grown.

A square foot looks so big when you plant just a single seed or a tiny little seedling into it. Not so big when the plants are fully grown!!!!

My vegie patch has been affectionately nicknamed "the jungle". You could just about award a bravery award for anyone venturing in there to pick produce.

This photo doesn't show it all that well but the zucchini plants are at the back and would just about take over the whole plot if I didn't keep breaking off leaves. I can't complain too much though as they have produced some wonderful zucchini for us.

I planted the pumpkins to one side of this patch knowing they would need more room than just a square foot and figured they could make use of the space between my 2 garden plots. They've now taken over the kids bike riding path and are venturing forth onto the lawn. One thing I didn't consider was that it's almost impossible to get between the 2 garden plots without breaking parts of the pumpkin plant. Next time I need to plant the pumpkins to the left hand side of this plot. I do have some planted in the second plot (to the right of this photo) and they are growing nicely over an area that wouldn't grow anything (will take photo's in the next few days).

Over the next week or so I want to make some individual notes about each type of plant I've been growing over the summer and what I would like to try differently next year.