MEL BARTHOLOMEW

• Inventor

• Best-Selling

Gardening Book

• PBS TV Series

• Non-Profit

Foundation

- Schools

- Humanitarian

WHAT IS SQUARE FOOT GARDENING?

Nick Bell Perth's only Specialist Trained Square Foot Teacher

Compared to a conventional single-row garden:

• Grow 100% of the harvest

• 20% of the space

• 10% of the water

• 5% of the seeds

• 2% of the work

• 0% of the weeds

SMALL OR LARGE

LUSH AND PRODUCTIVE

SPACE SAVER

GARDEN OASIS

DECK

BALCONY

COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

THE TEN BASICS OF SQUARE FOOT GARDENING

1. Layout

2. Boxes

3. Aisles

4. Soil

5. Grid

6. Care

7. Select

8. Plant

9. Water

10.Harvest

Search – “Cockburn

Intramaps”

GO TO ONLINE MAPS –.

Search your street

Initial View – Street Number

ZOOM IN ON YOUR BLOCK

Check Aerial photo 2014

(overlay) or satellite pic.

Drag your house ‘down’ to the map scale or

measure a distance. - Print Screen – export that to a

picture editor.

MAXIMISE PRINT SIZE AND ADD A SCALE.

USE PICTURE SOFTWARE TO CROP YOUR BLOCK AND ZOOM IN

•Find North on your map.

•Use a sun arc see how sun ‘helps or hinders’ your space.

The Basic SFG

The Basic SFG

The Basic SFG

Grid

WITHOUT A GRID IT ISN’T A SQUARE FOOT GARDEN!

PLANT

Grow Vertically

Wicking Pots

Vege Pods

All explained here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9J6G7WJr3E