Sunday Square Foot Gardening

This blog post is going to be a little different than the others. I am going to take a break from writing on life lessons and experiences that happen in my life and share my Sunday with everyone.

Of course, we can't start out a Sunday without Taekwondo training, right. Aside from training a student from 7 to 9 am, we immediately hauled ourselves to The Home Depot today and loaded up the cart with all the necessities to continue our square foot gardening project we started at the end of last summer.

Rachel got really excited about square foot gardening. It's actually pretty cool, mainly because I got to use my tools to help with the project. The concept is simple. It's a portable container that has several plots for different vegetables, and stuff.

I'll have to ask what the benefit is again, because I always forget. One moment...[asking Rachel across the dinner table]

She said that people do it because it takes a lot less maintenance time, and it's movable. Aside from that, I think it's just cool. Evidently, quite a few people use the square foot gardening method when space and dirt is an issue. We qualify. We decided to put our garage in the back of the house which means we've got lots of concrete, and little yard. It's perfect for basketball, bike jumps, etc., but bad for gardening. On the other hand, we have a 13 acre park behind us that we debated cultivating. Think anyone would've noticed?

There is something about gardening that really brings the "green" out of me. We completely built our container out of old building supplies, for example... a door that came off our house when we remodeled, old cedar fence pickets, and redwood that I just couldn't get rid of years ago.

I didn't think to take a picture of the whole family, probably because I was in the mix. But, one of the things that I think is so cool with square foot gardening is that the entire family can be around the container helping. It was an absolutely amazing day because of it.

Happy Sunday!

Duncan Richardson