Comments for Square Foot Gardening in South Africa

Comment on Building Your SFG Boxes by Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:14:40 +0000

Hi Fran, not as far as I know unfortunately. Or should I say, not specifically “Square Foot Garden” boxes. I have seen a few ready-made raised bed frames/boxes for sale, some from garden centers and one or two on the internet. Suffice to say that these would work perfectly well as long as they can be divided into 30cm squares (90cm x 90cm boxes or 1,2m x 1.8m for example).

Comment on Building Your SFG Boxes by Fran

Fran — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:07:12 +0000

The thought of wielding a hammer brings me out in hives.
Is there perchance a place where one can buy these ready-made?

Comment on Growing Vegetables in Winter by Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:03:21 +0000

Hi and welcome to Square Foot Gardening Simon. Do you guys do smaller tunnels as well?

Comment on Growing Vegetables in Winter by SAGREEN

SAGREEN — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:53:15 +0000

If you are searching for a good quality vegetable tunnel, contact SA GREEN.

The tunnel consists of galvanized steel pole and is including 30% shade cloth. 10mx4mx2.3m is only R3990 (incl vat).

Check our facebook page , like it and you get an other R150 discount!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SAGREEN/108582929206987

Imagine what you can grow in that size? Perfect for your hobby organic graden, or the hydroponics. Give your veggie’s the protection they need and deserve.

You can contact me at info@sagreen.co.za , we can send you all kinds of pictures and help you with all your questions.

Kind Regards,

Simon

Comment on Choosing what to plant and where to plant it by David

David — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:14:20 +0000

Hi Mark,

I find your site very informative and I would also like, Carmen, really appreciate it if you restored the link to the “Planting and Harvesting Calendar”. I have spent a lot of time looking for one on the Internet but cannot find one for SA. I am looking at planting a basic array of vegetables and herbs for daily use and would like to get the planting seasons right.

Thank you
Dave

Comment on Mixing Your Square Foot Garden Soil by Marius

Marius — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:21:00 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Mixing Your Square Foot Garden Soil by Debra James

Debra James — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:47:50 +0000

A few years ago when I started my SFG long before the book was available here and I had only seen Mel on a telly program, I could not source peat moss for love or money. I spoke to a nursery owner and he told me to try bark until we could source something else, it worked like a charm. Cetainly kept my costs down while I experimented with what worked and my salad veg and flowers have always been beautiful.
Just saying

Comment on Growing Vegetables in Winter by KATHY

KATHY — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:12 +0000

THANK YOU 4 SHARING YOUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR CITY BEINGS!

Comment on Eating your sprouts? by Trish

Trish — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:43:33 +0000

This might sound like a daft question, but once you have sprouted the seeds can they be planted to develop into a full size plant? I have the kitchenGarden sprout kit and regularly grow my sprouts for eating, but have always wondered if i could grow them further in soil! if so, which ones would work for proper planting?

Comment on Planting our first seedlings by Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:22:38 +0000

Hi Pat
Yes, we have had a small worm bin going for about two and a half years now. We committed ‘mass wormicide’ a few times in the beginning but once we got the hang of it (and the worms settled down to a regular feeding pattern) it was/is quite an easy and painless process.

When we started the worm bin I did a lot of research on how best to use the end products and I came across a lot of info online about the difference between worm ‘tea’ and worm ‘leachate’. Basically, the worm tea is made by steeping the finished vermicompost in water (just like making normal tea) while the leachate is the liquid that naturally drains from the bin during the normal operation of the bin. The overwhelming consensus of the info I found was that the worm tea is one of the best natural fertilizers known to man while the leachate can be really, really bad for your plants – something about the leachate being the liquid from half rotted vegetable matter and containing all sorts of bad pathogens.

I decided right in the beginning not to test this info on my own plants and to rather go with just using the plain vermicompost. I would like to make worm tea but I don’t presently harvest enough vermicompost to be able to do this. I have only harvested a couple of 20lt buckets of vermicompost in the 2+ years of having the bin and this I keep for my seedlings. The worm leachate I throw onto my normal compost heap just to give it a kick and, hopefully, where the leachate will continue to break down normally.

I would be very interested to hear of your experience using the either the leachate or the tea (if you make it).
Mark