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.
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50 Comments
I love trellising on cattle panels that are attached to T post about a foot to 18” above the ground.
What do u mean about root style
Corn?
what is the tent you're getting for the brassicas, looked on growers solutions and only found large structures? I'm desperate to find something!
I would have lots of onions. Not sure how much I use in a year, but lots. Ordered from Dixon as you suggested.
Cantaloupe might be something I try with cucumbers this year. I read they don't cross pollinate. This is fun and promising it won't be long
What a great, inspiring video Rachel! Do you rotate your planting?
Rachael, love your channel. Do you buy tomato plants or do you start your own?
I would love to see you try hugelculture beds!
Thanks so much for sharing your plans. I only have 4 square raised beds. It really helps to see that I can grow more in small spaces.
How are you doing your potatoes?
I am so very lucky Rachel as we can grow all year round here in sub-tropical except you have to ( Like Me ) have a big shade sail over your garden during the extreme part of our summer. This year has been quite humid but milder temps & boy plenty of rain to fill our tanks. Cheers Denise – Australia
I like the way you lay your garden out. It helps me out a lot. Thank you
We just moved so won’t get to do. Our garden this year. Our garden last year was pretty good.
Our garden 2 years ago and 3 and 4 years ago was excellent.
I always make a garden plan, then at some point every spring I stray, lol! Good luck!
I'm trying Chinese cabbage and collards again this year and will use a row cover. Every cabbage I have grown has ended up being fed to the chickens. I have had some luck with collards.
love your garden lay out and you have some awesome variety's for this up coming gardening season I wish you lots of luck with everything
Link to the brassica tent?
Mine were completely devoured last year
It's so close!☺️ excitment for Life 🌱 I can't Wait to see your Garden. Stay well and safe.
I'm so glad i found your channel! I live in the area and we are building a house on 15 acres, hoping to do a TON of gardening!
It looks great!
No squash?
Don't forget jalapenos lol
You should watch this video on trellis by josh sattin called a trellis to make you jealous. It wasnt very ecpensive either. Just a tjought to help.
Ordered for the first time from Hoss Tools and from Dixondale Farms on your recommendation. So excited to see how everything grows here in our Ohio soil !!
FYI Johnny's is only selling to commercial farmers at this time.
Building a hugel mound is a good idea; you will have is for a long time, however.
May I suggest the salad greens on the north side of the beans for some cooling shade, and your peppers on the warmer, sunnier south side of the beans. Just a thought.
Ah, now I seeyou have peppers on both sides. 😉
Can you use PVC, wire fencing, old pieces of junk laying around for your peas?
Even rope and whatever boards y’all have
Have y’all ever used pallets?
How will you keep the strawberries from freezing over winter in the garden stalk? Also we built a tall raised bed and filled it using the hugonaut method, combining both methods into one. Works great.
I would love to see hugelkultur going into your garden space.
What is the cover you purchased for your brassica?
Loved how you apologised for not looking at us and I was like I wasn't looking at you but the garden plan lol
Thank you thank you thank you!!! This was super helpful! We have a brand new 30×30 space this year and I had no clue how to lay it out.
Oh so jealous of all your space. Haha
Yes!! Show how to start a raised bed garden!!! Thank you!!
Straw bale gardening!!! I love it for plant starts but am still learning how to plant seeds with success. I have had major success with squash, zucchini and pumpkins. They have a group on Facebook that has been a lot of help. Where is your asparagus?
I have seen onion starts at Blocks in the spring before, have you ever looked at those while there? I have never grown onions in my adult gardening life so I have not looked at the starts closely there.
Hi Rachel, love your channel! Instead of wood trellis you can use a cattle guard. Either straight as fence or arch it into u shape, like your green beans. Roots and Refuge did this for peas. 🌻😌 question… what do your tomato T post hanging look like, do you have pictures from past season?
Crucial tomato question, if you need 32 tomato plants to harvest enough to can everything you can for 2 people…and I want to can about all the same things for…5-7 people…you think I really need 96 tomato plants?? I'm being serious and we are trying to plan. Last year my tomatoes did not do well, brand new garden spot and too many experiments. My husbands did well and he had maybe 15 and just cans tomato juice only. This year I want to put up as much as possible and do soups, sauce, salsa, etc. We have room for 96…I'm just wondering if that sounds insane!?! Lol!
I did square foot gardening in my raised beds this fall and I fell in love!! I will continue with this method in my big in ground bed this spring!
Did you know that onions deter brassica pests? It said it right there on my onion package so I'm trying it this year!! I think I'm going to draw the grid with the onions and plant brassicas in the squares. So excited!
We are expanding our garden this yr.. but we have fields around us & a leech field in the middle & black walnuts around too..ugh..
Really learn a lot in such little time thank you. I have been working on producing more food for myself and the last two years I been more serious . I have raised beds because it's more comfortable for me and I can really know what my dirt has in it 🏡😊❤️🐶😺
I had to come back and watch this again…..so enjoyable! I need to plan mine like this….honestly after gardening for over 40 years I have never done a plan on paper ahead of time….I have so much room, I kinda wing it….
Can you tell us exactly what product you bought from Growers Solution for the brassicas? I used a floating row cover last year and the results were perfect….BUT….I really really did not like not being able to easily uncover them to look at where they are in the growing season…..I don't know if I want to repeat that again….so I would love to see your plan on what you bought.
Thanks
Wow!! So much fun to watch! Especially when its cold & nasty outside.
Make sure you get straw that's not inundated with herbicides! I heard some gardeners have been having crop failures because of tainted strawbales.
Ruth Stout—-wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Hi! Love this channel! Just curious why no corn? New Brunswick Canada:)
Do you grow corn, bush beans, watermelon?
my garden is easy as I do not like a lot of Veg, so it is Potatoes, peas, carrots, onions, Tomatoes, peppers and a herb garden that is it : ) If I could Grow a ´beef´plant all my food would be covered lol