Square foot gardening - phase two

We finished the "installation" of our square foot garden this weekend. It turned out GREAT!

The individual boards - 2"x12"x8'
Frank helping out with his rubber mallot

Gelsey getting her garden on

The kiddos all helped out

We used the lasagna method to get rid of the grass under and around the planter boxes

In order to do the lasagna method we dug up about 4" of grass and dirt, made a layer of about 12 sheets of newspaper, and then topped it with mulch

The boxes went in the middle of the mulch and were filled with the standard square foot gardening mix: 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite

ta da

I've already planted all of the vegetables that I had germinated - keep your fingers crossed that they all love their new home and decide to play along : )