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age plants, soil dwelling creatures, and hu- with a different one. This will help you to
If you havent got much space to grow mans. rotate crops, but you still need to plan a
vegetables at home or at school why not try formal crop rotation.
square foot gardening? Improve the soil inside the bed with garden
compost mixed with some well-rotted Crop Rotation
The square foot garden is an American manure. Make sure that the soil is weed
method of growing as many vegetables as free and remove as many stones as possible. As with any organic garden you need to ro-
you can in, as small a space as possible, us- tate the crops around the space. This is es-
ing a plot 120cm x 120cm (4ft x 4ft). Divide the 120cm x 120cm area into sixteen sential to ensure pest and disease control
30cm (1ft) squares. This can be marked by and prevent the same nutrients been taken
This space is all you need to grow a wide nailing long shoe laces or string across the from the soil all the time.
variety of crops. If you have more space you box. See below.
could double the area.
However, the 120cm x 120cm (4ft x 4ft) is See Crop Rotation - HDRA factsheet
enough to get you started.
1 2 3 4
2x 4 x Hamburg Leaf Lettuce 16 x Garlic Further Reading
Strawberries Parsley
2x 12 x Radish
Pot Marigold French Square foot Gardening -
Breakfast HDRA newsletter issue 153
5 6 7 8 A teachers guide to
8 x Buck- 9 x Spring 16 x Carrots Potato The square foot marches on -
lerleaved
sorrel
Cabbage Nante Swift The Organic Way issue 159 growing in a square foot
4 x Little
Gem Lettuce Square Foot Gardening - garden.
9 10 11 12 Mel Bartholemew Rodale Press
16 x Carrots Radish and Potato 16 x
Nantes Cress Swift Turnip Beds -
Snowball
Pauline Pears HDRA/Search Press, 1992 DUCHY ORIGINALS HDRA
13 14 15 16 Organic Gardens for Schools
2x rows Pea Spring onion 9 x Summer
Douce Provence mixture cabbage