Small Vegetable Garden Layout Ideas: Square-Foot Gardening Guide

Garden plans and designs for square-foot gardening include companion plants.

By Mel Bartholomew
Updated on January 9, 2023
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Mel Bartholomew’s square-foot gardening guide popularizes a high-yield method that’s among the best for small vegetable garden layout ideas.

Square-foot gardening is one of the many great small garden ideas that can simplify the growing process and help train the grower’s focus, eliminating the overwhelmed feeling that some folks face year after year. Every year, there are about 15 million people who fit into each of these categories:

  • would like to begin gardening.
  • tried the traditional single-row gardening method, but failed.
  • don’t want to begin gardening, because they’ve heard of all the hard work, time, and cost associated with gardening.
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