John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits a viewers house that lives in a new development with a home owners association planet and has HOA restrictions to learn how he is growing food in his front and backyard despite the HOA rules
In this episode, John visits a viewers home in the San Diego, California area to show you how he has carefully planted decorative edible plants along with his ornamental plants in the front yard to have a productive and function front yard that can feed him and his family.
You will learn which specific edible plants he planted in the front yard and why.
Next, John will take you on a tour of the backyard where the majority of edible fruits, vegetables and herbs are growing on the property.
You will discover some of the techniques being used to grow the various fruits and vegetables as well as learn many of the different edible plants that are being grow.
You will learn how you can keep many plants alive in a pot before you buy a property that you can plant them in the soil.
You will discover some organic garden tips and tricks along the way as John tours this organically grown vegetable garden.
Finally, John interviews Z, the homeowner and asks him the following questions:
35:52 What Motivated You to do all this work?
39:44 What are some of your favorite plants you grow?
42:01 How important is the soil to your success?
43:44 What are some of the additives you like to add to your soil?
44:33 What is the biggest lesson you have learned in the garden?
48:16 Any words of wisdom you would like to share with my viewers?
After watching this episode, you will learn how you can incorporate edible plants into your landscape if you live in an area with a homeowners association. You will also discover many different techniques that you can use to have a better garden.
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27 Comments
Best interview ever.
Hey I dropped by to check out this video while looking up something similar. I see oyu're knowledgable and care about the environment and people getting good food and stuff…but come on man. Someone allowed you to film their place and you're just ripping it when you really don't even need to. I stopped at 17:33
i love you dude but smooshing bugs isnt vegan
Hiding your edibles are a good idea in California even without an hoa. The population here is so dense that theft is a huge concern. Honestly I don't plant fruit trees or well known edibles in the front because I don't want to attract the attention of thieves or beggars. I've seen whole families roll up and strip a tree in minutes while the homeowner is at work. You don't want anyone to know you have food in an urban area. So plant edible flowers or weird stuff in the front and save the veggies and fruit for the back…that is what I do.
Take a lesson from the preppers. You don't want anyone to know you have resources in case of a long or short term emergency or natural disaster.
Step one, don't make the un-American decision to get oneself in an HOA. End of transmission. Problem solved.
must be nice to be rich and buy your way to the top enjoy looser
We call the cape berry plants Ground Cherries here in the NW. It looks like you had the Pineapple Ground Cherry. At Territorial Seed they are listed with the Tomatillo's and are in the same family. They carry 2 varieties; Aunt Molly (traditional) and the Pineapple Ground Cherry. They will keep for months in their husks and continue to ripen. They are high in pectin.
Please go back and show us what Z's place looks like in 5 and/or 10 years, John!
Sorry, but people who live in h.o.a. neighborhoods deserve every bit of hassle they get. If it's just a h.o.a. for street maintenance or trash pick up, that's fine, but what's the point in living in the U.S. if you can't even have a garden, or a couple chickens in the back yard, or your flags can't be over certain height. F*ck you!!!
Besides, the neighborhoods that usually have them also have tiny postage stamp lots, so their houses look bigger. Give me 1,500 square feet on 40+ acres, with no one telling me what I can and can't plant in my garden.
One year I had some collard greens that were left over from my winter garden and they started to go to seed, and I was so busy with the rest of my garden that when I noticed there was Athens on them I didn't get a chance to do anything about it. Time went by and pretty soon I noticed that there was tons of ladybugs killing the aphids. Sometimes maybe we just want to leave some plants with aphids on them because they will naturally attract the ladybugs.
I cant believe any American would SUBMIT to this. I get not allowing yards of bindweed and Tribulus terrestris or abandoned cars, because those things literally cause hardship for the neighbors and are a health risk, but this is not communist china or Nazi Germany.
Good advice not to buy into a HOA. However, in March 2019, the Florida legislature passed a law allowing Florida residents to grow vegetables in their front yards. However, it's my understanding that HOAs can still prohibit vegetables gardens.
poor Z got busted and fined because of John!
This guy is sneaky, passionate, and resourceful!
No HOA. My 110 year old grey brick house has orange, lime green, and white trim. A 600 sq ft veg garden, apple and pear trees, haskap bushes, raspberry canes, medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, and more. Each year I add more. No need to sneak around. This property is beautiful but I would not live in HOA.
This was great. Thank you.
Wow,, love your guest Mr Z! Between the two of you, what inspiration 🌱
I love watching your videos your like an encyclopedia of gardening.
I never knew tomatillo was edible until I moved to north america. They were just growing everywhere in my village and nobody was eating them, and this includes those teeny weeny cherry tomatoes. I now know they are expensive
After SIX YEARS OF BATTLE: As of July 2019, residents of Florida have the right to grow their own food in their front yards. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 82, brought by Republican Senator Rob Bradley, on July 1, which prohibits local governments from banning vegetable gardens on any part of a residential property. The plaintiffs had been growing a front yard garden for 17 years, but in 2013, the Miami Shores Village (not an HOA) DEMOCRATS municipal government changed its city ordinance. making it illegal.Miami Shores Code Enforcement Board ordered the couple to destroy the garden or face recurring fines of $50 per day. They had been getting 89% of their food from their garden.
I live in south Florida aside from my veggies being totally devoured by the Florida critters and omg, the ants of many, many types will literally hitch hike on your cuttings right into your home I mean the bugs down here permeate EVERYTHING, the poisonous frogs will hovel down into your garden and then there are the lizards of many different varieties, haven't seen snakes yet although I've heard many horror stories about them from my coworkers so I won't be growing out in my yard, however I do have a big closed in porch that gets an abundance of sun and that's where I'll make an attempt to grow small amounts of tomatoes, peppers, lavender for their beauty and some herbs. But we are allowed to hire someone to put down pavers and create barbeque grill area, and plants small flowers and bigger potted plants, we have a huge pool for the condo residents, billiard room, arts and crafts room with sewing machines for people who like to make things, we have a theater hall with stage for performances, to each his own right?
Could you do an updated video on growing edible food in your front yard that HOA may not notice or mind? Pretty please 🥺
Hello John, I have a townhouse in Miami dade county. It is a HOA community. So I planted a mango and a coconut tree on my backyard. The HOA had sent a notice that my mango tree should not cross the fence height,it's barely a very young tree of about 10ft. I don't know what to do and I don't want to cut it down. Don't know about the landscape rules for the backyard.
I'd like to grow berries in the front yard. If they look like trees or take up the required grass percentage, that would be a problem. Has anyone grown a Ranch elderberry?
Best gardening information about ornamental plants along with fruit and vegetable plants. Thanks for sharing.
If you have to hide your garden it’s time to move. 🤬
Lol, stop, drop, and roll 🙂