Planning a Vegetable Garden to give you the highest yields from your growing season. Our Garden space is 40ftX40ft. This is enough space to grow the staples we need to build our pantry out for the year. We grow primarily in Raised Beds and No Dig garden beds using high intensity planting guides to give us the greatest return on our growing space. Growing in a small space has many rewards, such as a limited footprint to manage weed pressure and watering needs. I hope you are encouraged that you do not need lots of land to produce a lot of food. This size is totally feasible for the standard suburban backyard.
Squarefoot seeding square:
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Squarefoot growing guide by Mel Bartholomew:
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Hoss Tools and Garden – @Hoss Tools
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MI Gardener Seeds: @MIgardener
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Sow True Seed:
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Seed Savers Exchange: @SSEHeritageFarm
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Johnny’s Seed:
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Dixondale Farms: (Onion Starts) @DixondaleFarms
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Michigan Herb Co: (Garlic and Herbs)
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I had Ruth's book No work garden but lost it in a house fire if someone knows where I can get another book please let me kmow
Mixed plants in the rows, and spinach rows used as markers then hoed to provide a mulch. Well worth a read!
Have you thought of trying Gertrude Franke's 'Companion Gardening'? The ideas are so inspiring……..very different
I draw my garden spaces out every year! Loved watching you talk us through yours! Coffee and garden planning ❤️
its so funny that we are both moving our strawberries to a green stalk this year. I ordered mine last fall, its still in the box waiting to fill and plant. I also can't decide whether to take it to the garden or leave it here by the house.Im still thinking about where to plant what in my beds though. I love watching your channel. We met Todd at the Hootenanny a couple years ago (what a nice guy). Happy Gardening!
Can you link the tent that you mentioned? Thanks!
Great plan!
Do you pay attention to rotating the place of your plants – not planting a specific thing in the same place two years in a row?
You cannot say you're No Dig and No Till and then say you broad fork your garden every year.
Love this! So motivational. One quick tip: Planting peppers and green beans together is a bad idea. We planted those together and neither produced a single fruit/beans until we pulled the beans. Then our peppers went crazy but it took a few weeks before they started production. There's something about the root structures that shuts both down.
I recommend you grow shelling beans. It’s so much food with little effort. After some trials, I only grow the Haricot Tarbois bean. It produces like crazy! It’s a meaty bean that cans up beautifully! It’s meant for casseroles but it’s excellent in soups. I love it as a chicken substitute in pot pie. It’s so yummy! I just plant a couple at the bases of each tomato cage and they share the space beautifully. It really is the perfect homesteading shelling bean because of how much it produces. Hope you give it a try!
I need to plan out my garden still. I’m playing with Ruth Stout, back to Eden, Charles Dowding, and lasagna bed gardening – a hodge podge of good fertility in the garden. I used to only do wood chips/back to Eden, which I absolutely LOVE, but have been doing more and more experiments to see what gives back the most. Really, you can’t go wrong layering on organic material in the garden. It only creates more fertility. I prefer to compost in place versus creating mounds, so I just layer up the beds in the winter. I collect manure for compost heaps, and also harvest chicken pen compost in the spring since most everything from the yard and kitchen gets thrown there for the hens to go through. Wish I had some goats for extra manure!
You can’t go wrong using organic materials in the garden. I’d like to see you try a lasagna bed and a hugelcukture bed! I do lasagna gardening in some beds. The fertility left behind is AMAZING! I like to layer chicken manure, plant leaves from the garden, tree leaves, hay, and finally wood chips. Sometimes I even scrape the walkways and add to the layers, and the refill the walkways with new wood chips.
Check out Dan on his YouTube channel Plant Abundance. He does hugelculture and permaculture gardening, using woodchips as his mulch. Cool guy. Hope you get a chance to binge his channel.
Hi Rachel! Your plan looks fantastic and gave me some ideas. Thank you! I wanted to share something with you. PLEASE know I’m NOT telling you what to do nor suggesting anything at all. You know what you’re doing, I know that. And I don’t want to offend at all. I just wanted to share my experience so you’d have a different perspective from someone who’s done it. (Some channels get upset with you for sharing your experiences and I truly do not want to be offensive.) Ok, all that said…I grew my strawberries in my GreenStalk and I personally hated it. The problem is the runners. Being able to start new runners gets terribly difficult and super fussy. Now some may enjoy the giant puzzle that it becomes but I just don’t have time for that. It truly limited my growth and harvest. It was quite the bummer because I am limited on space and budget now that I’m on medical disability due to my MS. I spent $25 on crowns and never have gotten enough of a harvest to even make my money back. I’m actually taking them out this year and just giving up on strawberries this coming season. Just until I can find a way to grow them better. Anyway, I hope this helps you. Maybe you’ll be able to come up with something that will help you. Thanks so much for all you do. God Bless ~Lisa
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You may want to consider that the hugelkulture will not be very productive the first year, as the wood will not have rotted to provide water storage and/or nutrients until at least the second year. It is a long term planting area, one which gets more productive for about 10 years.
I was wondering if the seeding square takes in consideration the from center spacing. I think it was MI Gardner who talked about this and it sounds as if you get several more plants per space than what is normally suggested? Also I was not able to catch the kind of method you use for your potatoes if you could share that. I didn't have much success with my potatoes last year though it was my first year trying and didn't know what I was doing (still don't 😉 Love your red glass BTW- I have been wanting to get brave enough to get me a pair for years….
Hello! I finally got around to watching your videos. I remember you from watching others' lives a year back. You have an AMAZING channel!!!! I'm going to be binge watching you for days. I'm so eager to get outside and plant. Unfortunately, I'm in Northern OH. I do Back to Eden gardening and so far, it's been working well. I'm very interested in Ruth Stout though. Straw has to be much lighter than hauling mulch!