Square Foot Gardening!

[indeliblesasha]

Or: The web design for the official site is so GOD-AWFUL BAD I want to CRY. I can't even look at it any longer. GOING TO CRY.

I need some help planning my vegetable garden, I'm doing just a 4x4 raised bed this year to get a feel for growing here in the Boulder, Colorado, US area. I literally have no idea what I'm doing, so someone who is willing to hold my hand through the process of figuring what to plant and when would be much loved.

OR, pointing me in the direction of sites with correct and detailed information? Because so far I'm finding nothing but contradictory info and stuff written for people who have degrees in botany.

HALP! I just want to grow some lettuce. Maybe some tomatoes. Broccoli? Sigh.


(edited to clarify location because I'm trying to remember that internet is not *just* in the US :D )

Comments

[rydra_wong]

You can get seeds for varieties of cherry tomato which do especially well in hanging baskets; "tumbling" seems to be a good search term. Example:

http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tomatoes/tomato-tumbling-tom-yellow-hybrid-prod001626.html

[chalcopyrite]

Thank you! I was lying awake last night trying to figure out if I had imagined the name Tumbling Tom!

[indeliblesasha]

Ooooh, those look cool. Thanks for the tip, I never would have thought of "tumbling" as a search term for tomatoes. <3

[rydra_wong]

I've always thought they look fantastic in hanging baskets:

http://dobies.hostserver1.co.uk/im/pd/VETOM10398_3.jpg

But I love the smell of tomato leaves, so having them at easy sniffing height strikes me as a bonus. *g*

Btw, I haven't tried growing regular broccoli, but IIRC purple sprouting broccoli worked well in a square-foot plot.