This year, in addition to growing herbs, strawberries and tomatoes in our three little square foot gardens, I’ve been experimenting with some container gardening. I have two large planters that sit on either side of our garage door. I usually fill those with some kind of tall grass in the middle surrounded by flowering annuals. This year the tall grass…
Last year for Mother’s Day, Dave and our son gave me four strawberry plants which I transplanted into one of our square foot gardens in the backyard. Now according to Mel Bartholomew’s book, All New Square Foot Gardening, you shouldn’t allow the shoots to take root because they sap the energy from the mother plant. So throughout the spring, summer…