I love this video!!! I'm setting my my garden now for the next growing season and I'm using the SFG method for the first time. This video saved me a lot of time and future errors! Thank you!!!!!
Wonderful! Ive tried explaining this concept to my husband many times, but since I am no carpenter and he is no gardener, something is always lost in translation. This will help tremendously!
Thanks for sharing! I'll be working on this over the holiday :) One comment on the first step of marking every 3/4". Unless I'm missing something, looking at where the holes are being drilled, I think you can just mark every 1.5" instead to save some time :)
Excellent idea! It would reduce the temptation to just wing it and have some plants crowded and others too widely spaced. It's the same with religion, it's a guideline that we choose to follow and it helps keep us straight!
Hey! Thanks for posting this video, I am going to be building a sq ft garden this spring and this template is going to make things way easier for planting! Thanks!
Great idea, a small practical improvement: how About we print out the template from the internet, saves time measuring etc. Can even just stick it on the wood.
I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but your 8-seed spacing SHOULD be the same as your 9-seed spacing, but leaving the central hole empty. This would improve the space for the seeds and involve making less holes in your template !
Thank you very much:) If that slim piece of dowling were longer....you could slip it through one of the holes and measure off depths of planting for seeds too....then paint different coloured lines around the dowl in the top portion (having left a space) to indicate the proper depth had been reached....or keep a batch of colour coded dowls of appropriate length?
I like your concept and all. I also like your channel. But, your 9 per square spacing is off. The 9 per square holes should be 2" from edge, then 4" spacing to next hole, then 4" to 3rd hole then 2" to edge. (12" total) Then the center hole of course. This would be vertically and horizontally. (If you drew a tic-tac-toe grid with equal thirds and then find the centers, it may be easier to see.) I also agree with the commenter that said your 8 per square spacing (per Mel) should be the same as the 9 per square spacing, just don't use the center hole. I do appreciate all you guys do. Thanks!
That's different from other that I have seen. This one you can measure the depth a seeds. Some seeds are so tiny that you can't put to deep. Great project.
Ryan Floyd Generally I just start in one corner and move all the way down the row. Then go back to the center row and move all the way down. Keep doing that until you have planted the whole bed.
Your holes for 9/square are wrong. Need to add 8 more holes at 2"/6"/10" for proper 4" spacing. But don't drill the 4 holes that you paint blue w/o white.
Semper Fi! Brother, I love your vids, amazing stuff! If you get the chance, look up RGGS Rain Gutter Garden System here on TH-cam. I did my first one this year, INCREDIBLE results!!
I appreciate the idea, but your measurements are off a little. If you were to repeat this project and lay both squares next to each other, the spacing should be continuous. For example the 6 seed pattern should start 2 inches in from the edge and 4 inches from each other. Then the 2 inch from the edge holes will continue to be 4 inches apart when repeated.
Hi SSLFamily Dad - love your video. I'm a SFG Certified Instructor and was one of Mel Bartholomew's assistants until his passing. I'll be featuring your video on the Foundation's Facebook page on 3/9/18. Join us on the OFFICIAL SFG page, Square Foot Gardening Foundation at: facebook.com/squarefootgardeningorg/
Thanks for the how-to; this will be a very handy garden tool. I think I will make a few more to give away as gifts to fellow gardeners. I too could have done without the Bible verses as I see religion as nothing more than a myth created by humans who lacked the scientific knowledge necessary to make sense of the world in which he lived, but it's your channel.
I'm a beginner and this actually seems like it would be really helpful for me! if you can eye ball it that's awesome, but I'm pretty inconsistent because this is my first year
Bill Bly ok actually I take it back, not going to create the board but I will use the idea to measure the depth of the seed but yeah everything else seemed more complicated than I would want to do, good for kids though
Thank you soooo much . I’m a new gardener at 62, so any thing that keeps me at gardening is big for me. Again thanks from GE.
I love this video!!! I'm setting my my garden now for the next growing season and I'm using the SFG method for the first time. This video saved me a lot of time and future errors! Thank you!!!!!
Wonderful! Ive tried explaining this concept to my husband many times, but since I am no carpenter and he is no gardener, something is always lost in translation. This will help tremendously!
A threaded dowel with a bolt you can adjust for seed depth would be really nice, especially for the kids. Great vid! Thanks!
This is certainly going to make my life so much easier. Thanks for sharing.
+missy t glad you liked it!
Thanks, that is a great project and simplifies planting in a small area.
This is FANTASTIC!!! ESPECIALLY the hinges, color coding & pusher! 😁👍
I don't understand why the hinges 😒
Excellent tutorial. Verbal delivery is excellent, smooth & easy to follow. Thank you! I'm going to make this right now:))
Would love to try this useful aid. Thanks for the information.
What a great idea! My kids will love this, thank you
+Jennifer Borchardt Ours do too and we love using it. It makes everything look nice when it grows in an orderly fashion
Thanks for sharing! I'll be working on this over the holiday :) One comment on the first step of marking every 3/4". Unless I'm missing something, looking at where the holes are being drilled, I think you can just mark every 1.5" instead to save some time :)
you are probably correct on that, I changed the layout a couple of times and the final layout didn't use every grid line
@@SSLFamilyDad
3/4" vs. 1.5" ... the smaller gridline, while more work, satisfied my OCD
Five years later and I'm building this....Go ARMY!!
I have finished the cardboard model with kids already. Great idea. Will move to wooden one with the success. Thanks for sharing.
+Nuwan Hettiarachchi we love it, going to be getting it out here soon to get our gardens planted,
thanks buddy just made one for me and two others for some friends this will help greatly
Cute idea especially for teaching kids. I love your bible verses.
Thank you this was extremely helpful to me
Thanks for this. I’ve always struggled with correct spacing on my template.
Bravo, amigo. well done.
Great idea 👍🏻 I can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing it
loved this idea
This is awesome. Thanks.
You need to patent this and sell it. I would totally buy one!
There is already a template of this same thing. I purchased it many years ago.
Love it!! Thank you. Great instructional video.
Excellent idea! It would reduce the temptation to just wing it and have some plants crowded and others too widely spaced. It's the same with religion, it's a guideline that we choose to follow and it helps keep us straight!
GREAT IDEA...
Hey! Thanks for posting this video, I am going to be building a sq ft garden this spring and this template is going to make things way easier for planting! Thanks!
+Nicole Custer We loved using ours last year and can't wait to get started this year! Good luck with your gardens!
Great idea, a small practical improvement: how About we print out the template from the internet, saves time measuring etc. Can even just stick it on the wood.
I don't know if someone has already mentioned this, but your 8-seed spacing SHOULD be the same as your 9-seed spacing, but leaving the central hole empty.
This would improve the space for the seeds and involve making less holes in your template !
This is very smart!
Excellent video!!
I love it. Made in USA!
Thank you very much:) If that slim piece of dowling were longer....you could slip it through one of the holes and measure off depths of planting for seeds too....then paint different coloured lines around the dowl in the top portion (having left a space) to indicate the proper depth had been reached....or keep a batch of colour coded dowls of appropriate length?
+Darling Stuff yes that is exactly what I did, the dowel is color coded for different depths and it fits in the holes on the template
cool:)
Great Idea. Appreciate it.
I LOVE THIS!
Excellent video sound demonstration A+++++++++++++Thank you!
I like your concept and all. I also like your channel. But, your 9 per square spacing is off. The 9 per square holes should be 2" from edge, then 4" spacing to next hole, then 4" to 3rd hole then 2" to edge. (12" total) Then the center hole of course. This would be vertically and horizontally. (If you drew a tic-tac-toe grid with equal thirds and then find the centers, it may be easier to see.) I also agree with the commenter that said your 8 per square spacing (per Mel) should be the same as the 9 per square spacing, just don't use the center hole. I do appreciate all you guys do. Thanks!
That's different from other that I have seen. This one you can measure the depth a seeds. Some seeds are so tiny that you can't put to deep. Great project.
yack f zay Thanks! The seed depth measurement seems to work pretty good so far.
Just brilliant
Brilliant! Thanks!
fantastic idea
That's really cool. I'm glad I found this. Do you still use it?
+Daybird Aviaries not really this year at the new house but will again when we build some raised beds
You should patent this LOL. Great idea.
Jeff Sullivan lol, it is a pretty cool square piece of wood but not sure it is patentable:) Thanks for checking it out Jeff!
great idea thanks for sharing
thank you
great idea!!! thanks so much
I love your idea. I would still prefer to give you my $.
Nice video. Like the verse. Oh and Go Blue :)
Love it!
you have such nice hands
cool idea. You demonstrated one square foot of garden, what about the next, and the next square foot, how would you know where you've planted?
Ryan Floyd Generally I just start in one corner and move all the way down the row. Then go back to the center row and move all the way down. Keep doing that until you have planted the whole bed.
That background noise makes it really hard to focus
Nice little video, you mentioned a link to a site referencing types of seeds spacing & depth, did I miss that?
Dan Sunderland The link is in the description:) squarefootgardening.org/square-foot-gardening-method
Thanks
That is a great idea :)
I'm building one of those mate.
I just subscribed to your channel :)
Pople BackyardFarm Glad to have you aboard!
cool
👍👍👍. ✌️
I dig it. (pun intended)
What size drill bit for the holes??
Cant remember, just match it up to the dowel you are using. One size bigger so it slides through easily
13/64 works great
Why all the noise in the background ? Switched to another channel showing the same.
You should sell those.
Your holes for 9/square are wrong. Need to add 8 more holes at 2"/6"/10" for proper 4" spacing. But don't drill the 4 holes that you paint blue w/o white.
Semper Fi! Brother, I love your vids, amazing stuff! If you get the chance, look up RGGS Rain Gutter Garden System here on TH-cam. I did my first one this year, INCREDIBLE results!!
Or just use the card board... is an easy option
Loved the idea, had to quit the video 4 minutes in because of all the slamming around noise in the background.
I appreciate the idea, but your measurements are off a little. If you were to repeat this project and lay both squares next to each other, the spacing should be continuous. For example the 6 seed pattern should start 2 inches in from the edge and 4 inches from each other. Then the 2 inch from the edge holes will continue to be 4 inches apart when repeated.
What’s your IQ? This is an excellent idea. Eres genial!!!
Hi SSLFamily Dad - love your video. I'm a SFG Certified Instructor and was one of Mel Bartholomew's assistants until his passing. I'll be featuring your video on the Foundation's Facebook page on 3/9/18. Join us on the OFFICIAL SFG page, Square Foot Gardening Foundation at: facebook.com/squarefootgardeningorg/
Great! We will check out the page and share the post, thanks!
Very good videos but I really love the bible verses at the ends!
Ali Wehr Thanks!
#Amen
Thanks for the how-to; this will be a very handy garden tool. I think I will make a few more to give away as gifts to fellow gardeners. I too could have done without the Bible verses as I see religion as nothing more than a myth created by humans who lacked the scientific knowledge necessary to make sense of the world in which he lived, but it's your channel.
Wow the noise is so distracting!
My eyes and my finger work well and are free. Some people like to over complicate things in life.
However, when you work with children and those with fine motor deficits, this really comes in handy.
this is a great teaching tool for inexperienced folks
Some folks comment just to be ugly.
I'm a beginner and this actually seems like it would be really helpful for me! if you can eye ball it that's awesome, but I'm pretty inconsistent because this is my first year
Bill Bly ok actually I take it back, not going to create the board but I will use the idea to measure the depth of the seed but yeah everything else seemed more complicated than I would want to do, good for kids though
What size washers did you use?