[Before I get to the post, a little blog housekeeping: I just changed my settings so that once you've had a comment approved, all your future comments will be approved automatically.  That way regulars won't have to wait two days for me to get around to checking them, especially on weekends.  Now back to the show.]

Gardening actually began a few weeks ago, but this is my first report on it this year.  We’re trying something new this year, called Square Foot Gardening, where you physically divide your garden up into one-foot-square sections and plant them each individually.  I’d tinkered with the idea before, but I tried to do it halfway, dividing the spots by measuring them instead of building a physical grid.  That doesn’t work very well, because a square foot seems like a bigger area than it really is when you’re planting tiny seeds, and when things grow, they’re way too crowded.  So this time we’re doing it by the book, building the actual grid and planting what it says a square foot can support. Read more »