I never thought of them as modernist. Now looking at them again I guess so. We just put them like that to conserve the most space and because the placement looked pleasing. Thanks, Mazzy

My blog isn't just SFG. It's more about how we're adapting to living on a small (former pick your own) flower farm. This year we did get in 15 4x8 beds. We couldn't build them all up OR put in grids -- all a matter of money and priorities, but over time, we will! If you click on the gardening category, you can see what we did this year. I never had success with Mel's tomato spacing, so mine is custom. Here is a link that might be useful: Shenandoah Valley Flowers

Granny If I can buy chick pea flower here you should be able to find it. I get mine at the Bin Store, which is store which carries bulk candies, spices, baking goods etc. I am celiac which means I am not supposed to eat wheat so I have lots of different flours. You can also look in the organics section of the supermarket and health food stores. It has a bunch of different names: From Wikipedia: Gram flour is a flour made from ground chickpeas.[1] It is also known as chana flour (Indian), besan (Hindi), kadala maavu (Tamil), "Senaga Pindi" (Telugu), kadale hittu (Kannada), chickpea flour, garbanzo flour and harina de garbanzo (Spanish). Used in many countries, it is a staple ingredient in Indian cuisine, and, in the form of a paste with water or yoghurt, a popular facial exfoliant in India and Pakistan. EG. We get a lot of snow and wind and storms but it is not actually that cold as far as actual temperature. Snow is strange as we get a lot of it but then we can get a lot of rain and it goes quickly. What is really bad is 2 feet of snow that turns into rain at the end. It is really miserable to move. Many years snow doesn't stay on the ground until the middle of January. The biggest gardening problem is that we also never get real hot and not a lot of sunshine so stuff takes a much longer time to grow.

Well I did not find any eggs anywhere..... so I am crossing my fingers! I went out several times and squished any I found. This morning i found only 6 bugs in the flowers of the pumpkins. I sprayed the garlic, cayenne, oil, soap and water spray several times yesterday.... it rained on and off through out the day and night. I only caught 3 of them last night. I am hoping that I made it through yet another pest invasion. How long do I have to worry about the cucumber beetles? Here is a link that might be useful: My square foot garden blog it has my garden layout and pictures comments are welcome!