It is March 20th and the temperature is going to be close to 80 degrees. Usually the garlic is just poking through on the warm days and there is no thought of planting anything else. However, we are going to take advantage of the weather and put in some radishes, spinach, and lettuce. The garlic however is loving the warm weather. You can see it is up to almost 8 inches tall and about 1/2 of the onions have sprouted already.
There are 9 plants per square foot, equaling 36 heads of garlic and 108 onions. The best part of square foot gardening, is that I can have a box prepped for planting in an hour or so. Fill up the boxes with some new compost, put down new strings to mark off the square feet, and start planting. No tilling, very little weeding, and a lot of food grown in a small area.
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