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Christine- You can  use old  boards and  planks for walkways or those
59cents each concrete pavers. Your could even use carpet strips if you
wanted-covered with hay. You just need something to stand on to avoid
compacting the soil and to divide the squares- keep in mind- they don't have
to be exactly 1x1 squares!Work with what you have- I have one bed that is
3x7- not a typical square foot size but it was here when I moved here so I
just divide it up intosomething that works for me- usually 2 rows of 1 foot
squares and a row a foot  wide for a trellis.

Do whatever works for you- when you get into your book you will see that
there's alot of different ways to do things- also - keep checking out the
website and visiting people's gardens-Don't feel that you have missed the
opportunity to Sq Ft this year because you didn't get raised boxed beds in!
Have fun- learn as you go and grow some tomatoes!You will do some things
right and mess  up on  other things.

 Last year  my plants were great, my soil was lovely, my beds were ok, the
water system was ok-had hardly any bug problems- but I didn't have enough
BEESand  very few things got polinated - hence- few veggies!So this year I
have planted lots of blooming things near and in the garden to make sure
things get polinated.I am sure that something else will happen that I didn't
thinkof! I will work on correcting that thing next year-- that is the fun of
it-and it really has been fun and . You will be suprized how nice this first
garden will be- find something to make walkways with--old boards- what
ever-You and your son are gonna have a ball and now that you have the
book-DEVOUR IT!-Teri ----

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From: Christine & Jeff Sagadin <cmjmpa@execpc.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Zones was:New to the list


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> I took some time to check out some of the Square Foot Gardening websites,
and I can see
> that I should have started planning this in January! I'm going to use the
garden that I
> already have this year, and next winter I can make the boxes and work on
the raised
> garden next year> My garden is 12'x20', so I can get many 4' square
gardens in it, but then I have no
> walkways. Can I make my sections 3'x3'?
>
> I am going to buy my official  Square Foot Gardening book today! I think
that will answer
> many of my questions.
>
> > My 3.5 yr old son is very excited about the garden!  We will do our best
this year and
> next year do it "right".
>
> Christine in Milwaukee
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> ScottCarlson@email.com wrote:
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