Square Foot Gardening

At Square Foot Gardening for the Red River Valley, we are focused on providing training, education, and instruction with the highest levels of customer satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations. Square Foot Gardening for the Red River Valley is working towards providing gardeners of today's hectic world a chance to grow gardens that not only are beautiful, but productive. Square Foot Gardening for the Red River Valley provides ongoing training and educational opportunities for individuals of all experience levels and abilities.

Square Foot Gardening is an innovative grid-based method of gardening that was created by Mel Bartholomew in 1976. Mel Bartholomew retired from a career as a civil engineer and took on the challenge of finding a better and more efficient way to garden. Mel searched for many answers to questions that he had as to why we had to till large areas to plant gardens in, why we had to have big, wide paths between long rows of plants, and why we thinned out over 3/4's of the plants that came up from the seeds we sowed a month earlier.