Favorite Things Friday #5

Square-Foot Gardening--the simplest way to garden. All I did was follow Mel Bartholomew's book and website and wala! I'm a gardener. I'm convinced the soil mixture is the secret: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 of a variety of composts.

With a 4 x 4 foot square, we've planted:
onions, 2 varieties of lettuce, 3 varieties of tomatoes, beets, squash, radishes, beans, peas, cucumbers, and peppers! And our carrots have their own box that is a little deeper. We transplanted the tomatoes but everything else we started from seed.

Here are my radishes up close. Check back in a few weeks and I'll have tomatoes.