We are a family of gardeners and it doesn’t help that we live on a large amount of acreage. Our garden is only as small as the tractor (driven by my father-in-law who does not consult with me) turns over. Last year it was a whopping 100 feet by 75 feet. Too big, too much work, and too little consistency means we all usually give up on the garden before the end of the season. There has to be an easier way to garden.

I’ve heard about square foot gardening, but I’ve not researched it as much as I should. Just looking over a website online was enough to convince me this is the direction we will be going in the up coming season. It was motivating enough that I’m seriously considering a fall and winter garden.

The hard part won’t be building the raised beds or even filling them with soil (we have a bucket on the tractor that will do most of the work) but it will be convincing my father-in-law that this is the right path to take. He’s a firm believer of “we’ve never done it that way before.”

It would be nice to only have to work what we plant instead of having to worry about a huge pot of dirt that only produces five cucumbers. It would also be nice not to have to fight the crawling grass that loves to invade our garden.

If this works out well, I might be moving my flower beds in to the raised position.