About Seeding Square

I used to be a school teacher - and it was during a science class where we were learning about how plants grow, that one little guy was adamant that carrots came from the store, not the ground. Which dialed me into a disconnect in the understanding of where our food comes from. Years later, my husband and I wanted to give our kids the experience and fun of vegetable gardening - something we had both enjoyed as kids. So, we rolled up our sleeves and dug into our backyard lawn to create the layout for our first vegetable garden. The problem was that while we remembered eating the fresh veggies grown in our backyards, our parents were the actual gardeners. We were vegetable gardening beginners, and there were a few surprises in store! Reality struck after the excitement of seeing the little green shoots come up: we realized we couldn’t tell the weeds from the veggies. Weeks later, it was not the harvesting success we had dreamed of. That experience made us realize the importance of optimal vegetable seed and plant spacing, and that led us to the concept of Square Foot Gardening. However, it was trickier than expected to apply to our own vegetable garden: we didn’t have raised beds and our garden plot had an unusual shape that made it hard to fit the grids. We knew there had to be a better way, so after much research, trial and effort in our own garden, we created a seed and plant spacing tool based on Square Foot Gardening principles that is super easy for anyone to use.Read their story