Advantages Of Square Foot Gardening

Square foot gardening is a situation in which plants and crops in a raised bed and cash. Also known as intensive gardening. To plant and grow plants and vegetables in places that vary in size but are usually of one square meter each. It is a combination of organic gardening, which focuses primarily on compost, planting beds or nearby plants and plants and bio-intensive agriculture and gardening in an area clearly marked and defined. This type of farming or gardening is very good and very suitable for people with disabilities, beginning gardeners, and places that have a soil fertility and poor soil composition.

There are many benefits and advantages of this form of gardening.

Advantages of square foot gardening

• Reduced workload - workload and the amount of work that are required and must be very small. This is a very simple and easy gardening. In normal and traditional gardens, there are a lot of work is required and must be done. This is not the case of square foot gardening. Weeding, watering, fertilizing and cultivating has it all in one place rather than top down. The whole garden can be watered, removed and grown in a very short space of time, as it is in a unique area. Easy access to your garden because of the beds for weed control, cultivation and irrigation of the beds is much easier and takes less time.


• Maximum use of space - with the square foot gardening, you will fully utilize the space you have. You will provide a higher percentage of crops per square meter. In the classical and traditional gardens, most of garden space used to create roads, paths and lanes running, as opposed to square foot gardening all available land and space is used to plant and grow vegetables and plants. Square foot gardening tends to be much more successful and fruitful, as there is a rich mixture of soil, crops, appropriate and suitable intervals, and there are no weeds.

• efficient use of water resources - irrigation gardening square meters is very simple and fairly easy. There is no waste of water because the soil composition has been very good capacity of water. The soil is a very good store and retain water. In a more conventional and traditional gardening most of the water is wasted, and you end up watering the weeds, and many other unwanted plants. You will need a garden, and use less water, because of the good status of soil properties. Young plants and tender sprout and seedlings also survived due to irrigation methods and water use efficiency.

• Fewer weeds - square foot gardening reduces the appearance of weeds. Planting close, no room or space for weeds to grow and even if they grow, are easily and quickly discovered and removed. Vegetables are a kind of live coverage that does not give weeds a chance to develop.

• No need for insecticides and pesticides - square foot gardening uses large natural parasites, insects and insect repelling methods such as planting company. As the rotation of the rotation and a bed significantly reduces the occurrence of plant diseases.

• Accessibility - the garden is easily accessible and is usually easy.

These are just some of the benefits and advantages of square foot gardening, and if you have not tried I suggest you start today you will not regret or be disappointed.