Square foot gardening is a wonderful way to introduce anyone to the first time gardening experience. It requires so little work! Once you have the right soil, there is no tilling, no weeding, and no backaches! You can also be assured of greater success in growing those delicious vegetables. Square foot gardening requires a box that can be made in many different sizes according to your needs and desires. A 4×4 size can hold enough food for one adult for the season. The soil for your box must be carefully mixed with the right ingredients. It should be a mix of three equal parts of vermiculite, peat moss, and several composts. Once you have these components for your box garden, all you have to do is water! The common mistake of novice gardeners is over watering. This will be avoided because the soil mix has natural moisture retainers. The excess water will simply run off. You can place your box garden just about anywhere as long as it has a lot of direct sunlight.

It is much more convenient than a large plot located way out in the back of the yard that seems to attract every weed imaginable. A box garden will have very few weeds because the soil consists of specific clean ingredients.

In every garden there are many things that make it extremely difficult to want to take the time to garden at all. Weeds are a great hindrance to most when it comes to gardening. We all want to enjoy the payoff of having a garden, we all want to be able to say that, “I planted this garden and I grew it and the salad on this table tonight was all home grown.” When it comes to actually having to garden, however, the payoff seems so very far away and the path along the way seems difficult and not worth it. To keep a nice garden the maintenance is extreme. While growing up I spent every day during the summer waking up early in the morning to avoid the blistering sun and to weed the garden. Over the summer I would spend countless hours digging trenches so the water would flow to the plants, tilling the garden so the ground was soft enough for plants to grow, lining up dirt beds for the plants and the list goes on. Gardening is no walk in the park. Now as time has gone on, people have looked for ways to create an easier way to garden; and a way has been discovered.