Why was Square Foot Gardening Developed?
Reading assignment: Square Foot Gardening, Chapters 1, 2 Mel Bartholomew developed the square foot gardening method after studying how Americans garden. He managed a community garden where gardeners began the season with high expectations. It was noted that by the second weekend, people were finding excuses to not work in the garden. Some were intelligent enough to give their individual plots back to the community garden so they could be assigned to those people still on the waiting list. Others simply stopped showing up. Virtually every gardener started out eager to hoe the garden, plant seeds, and pull weeds. After the initial planting of the garden, it became difficult to find time to cart bottles of water to the plants and to pull the weeds growing between rows or in the row itself. Each week that went by resulted in tougher weeds that needed pulling because they had been allowed to grow good root systems. After a few short weeks, most of the garden plots were totally overrun with
