Personally, I like to see you here, John. Miss your posts...and I think you are probably a better fit here than at the conventional vegetable forum, given you do use raised beds and Mel's spacing.

John - I think you belong wherever the most bloody marys are at. Ha.
Seriously....you've been fighting with this "raised bed versus square foot garden thing" for a couple of years now...I think you should be classified as an intensive raised bed gardener. There, I hope that helps. Hehe...

EG

Agree with EG.

"Raised Bed" is what I do as well. I don't go with six inch depth - all of mine are at least a foot deep - or more if I put the raised bed in the yard. I don't use Mel's Mix either - 100% compost from the compost facility.

I have noticed that there isn't a lot that goes on with the Sq Foot forum - not nearly as much in the veggie forum.

However, "Raised Bed" gardening is really the new way to garden in my opinion. I've seen countless articles in our local newspaper highlighting folks who do raised bed gardening. Just with the overall idea, I'd say raised bed gardening falls closer to Sq Foot Gardening than it does conventional row gardening - because you do build up a bed and do concentrated growing in all directions - as opposed to growing directly on the ground in a typical row fashion.

Here is a link that might be useful: BsnTech Gardening Blog

John you are not the only one. I have square foot raised beds and a square foot non-raised bed, but not all my plants are planted in a square foot grid with square foot spacing I do however Intensive garden. Is that not what this post is all about? No matter I look forward to your posts and knowledge so post away! How about 64 Nantes Carrots to a square foot started in mini-soil blocks Is that square foot gardening? Thanks for the soil block ideas John! 5 Copra onions Dutch multi-planted in the center of a square foot(all in a group touching each other)? Well you get the idea.

Curt#

I am really glad you posted this. I've been trying to figure out where I fit, too. My new beds are raised, 10-12" deep, made of stacked stone and measure 4'x5'. I don't intend to use physical grids nor would I even know how to do that on stone beds. I also use 100% compost at this point.

I'm hoping I can take ideas from here and adjust them to fit my circumstances.

Lisa

Sounds like there are a lot of us with hybrid growing methods: raised and SF, raised but not SF, not raised but intensive, raised and SF and container. I think you get the point.

Whatever your perferred method, these folks are accepting and understanding types and welcome one and all to the forum.