Suburban Homesteading Edible Victory Garden Edible Estate on 1/10th of an Acre
John shares with you his suburban homestead where he is growing the majority of his food. Remove your lawn and grow food. Start your victory garden today! See what he has done with only 1/10th of an acre of land.
won't dispute that suburban lawns are a PIA but how is watering them wasteful? even the water that runs down the street just evaporates and reenters the environment as rain.
Dude, what are you doing living in 1/10th of an acre? Looks like vegetable farming is your passion. You just need to start a real farm and enjoy your life working on what you love!
Gorgeous garden! But, what cant grow in California?….Also he fails to mention all the beady eyed suckers, fat green caterpillars w/horns, leaf walkers that crawl in & out of pomegranites, microscopic spiders, so on & so forth. it is a monumental task requires vigilance. I know, I tried & had the most success with California Early Girl tomatoes,(delicious) but the cherry tomatoes I bought @ Lowe's brought the caterpillars to them…….and extreme temps in June killed all the flowers , so no more tomatoes thru the summer & fall like I wanted. And organic pesticides are expensive. He has a green thumb/wonder how his beautiful garden is now
We have 1/3 acre and have done much the same thing as this guy. I just have one question. How does he keep the neighborhood out? they are the biggest pests in our garden and orchard!
At 8:58, where it says "(unclear)" he says "nasturtiums" which is a plant with edible flowers, leaves and seed pods. The seed pods are sometimes called "poor man's capers".
Please excuse my pet peeve, but water is something that is never wasted. If you water until it runs in the street, you have raised your water bill and wasted your money…but the water itself soaks in somewhere else, or evaporates into the atmosphere and is rained down somewhere else. If your toilet runs constantly, you do not waste water. You waste money, but the water treatment center uses that water and it goes back eventually into the earth cycle. GAH! Unless you are indulging in breaking the oxygen/hydrogen bonds and destroying water molecules, you are not "wasting the earths resources". Thank you for indulging me.
The amount of 'you know' is ridiculous – you're grown up now, can't you string a couple of sentences together without all those 'you knows' – !! – and how much water have you had to save and how many vegetables have you had to eat before you cover the costs of setting up ? i.e. cost of raised beds, or wood to build them, hoops, compost etc. etc., ?
Ok..for those who cannot grow year round and have more than 1 or 2 ppl to think about.. Gardening and feeding our family is a pretty big task.I see why "Family Gardens" were common.No one wants to work and let another get 100% benefits! *🌽Corn~ It Takes.. 6-7 ears to make a1qt jar. A dozen ears will make 1-1/2 qt.. A bushel weights about 35#-thats 60 ears..processes to 14-17 pints or 7-8qts.. *🌱Greenbeans ~ It takes about 4# to fill 1 qt jar. You can harvest nesrly30-50# of GB per 10ft row,in a season.(?) 38-30# per bushel will yield 30-40 pints.. **We harvested about 9 bushel from 9-24ft rows. 🌿Carrots ~..30 plants could yield 7-10# It takes 17.5:# for 7qts . 50# a bushel=30-40 pints 🍀Beets~ 52#a bushel= 30 plants yield about 7-10# It takes 2-3.5 # for 1 qt.. 🌿Lima -shell beans~ 40# a bushel…3-5# per 1 qt.. *In pod…you could expect 30-50 pounds in a complete season for a 24 ft row… 🌳Cabbages– 3# head =1qt canned 🍃Collards~ 5-7 plants is about 4#=1 qt canned. 🌵Cucumbers~ 48-50#-is a bushel..=24 qt processed.. Each plant can produce 10–+6oz fruit.. or 2-3# per plant… 🌴Okra~ 26-30# per tall bushel.. 17 qt or 34 pt frozen.. 5-10# per 10 ft row 🌲Field peas~ 25# in pod..a bushel..==13 # shelled It takes about 3.5-4# per qt 🍠Potatoes ~ 60# per bushel= 20 qt jars .. Each plant can produce 3-6# of produce.. 🍆Summer squash Is 40-44# a bushel. 40 pts frozen..2-4# needed to can 1 qt jar. 🍋Winter squash 3#-= 2 pt frozen..2.5-3# for 1 qt 🍅Tomatoes Bushel is 53#..it tKes 2.5-3.5 for 1 qt…. each plant can produce 3-7# of fruit or more..
Fabulous! Dream garden. Only sunny spot available to me is my front yard. So last year I put in a no dig organic cottage garden. Awful last year but much better this year. Just heaping on my home made compost, topsoil and composted organic manure. So far so good this year.
I just love this video. I watched it first years ago and I still look at it from time to time when I want to be inspired or when I start questioning why I garden. Thanks.
I love your front yard! I wish everyone did that instead of a lawn. Its beautiful! I am fortunate enough to live on several acres but if I had a 10th of an acre it would look like your yard! Keep spreading that important message! GET RID OF WASTEFUL LAWNS!!!
Wow! Those people who are in foodstamp needs to have a garden like yours. They just have to work there ass so that they don’t defend anymore on taxpayers
I live in a suburb near Chicago but I can grow in front and have chickens! Just don’t know how/where to start! 😞 My house front faces west. I have some room on back facing east. Ideas needed please!!!!
LOVE the idea of growing your own food and having a homestead WHEREVER you are! But there’s no way you’re growing enough calories for 4 people: especially with all those greens! Great and inspiring video!
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This is so helpful. How do you deal with slugs and other pests?
won't dispute that suburban lawns are a PIA but how is watering them wasteful? even the water that runs down the street just evaporates and reenters the environment as rain.
Dude, what are you doing living in 1/10th of an acre? Looks like vegetable farming is your passion. You just need to start a real farm and enjoy your life working on what you love!
Gorgeous garden! But, what cant grow in California?….Also he fails to mention all the beady eyed suckers, fat green caterpillars w/horns, leaf walkers that crawl in & out of pomegranites, microscopic spiders, so on & so forth. it is a monumental task requires vigilance. I know, I tried & had the most success with California Early Girl tomatoes,(delicious) but the cherry tomatoes I bought @ Lowe's brought the caterpillars to them…….and extreme temps in June killed all the flowers , so no more tomatoes thru the summer & fall like I wanted. And organic pesticides are expensive. He has a green thumb/wonder how his beautiful garden is now
Lawns are ugly. I prefer exploring the garden looking for fruit.
no can food for you!
must be nice not to have an HOA??!!
are the sides of the bed 4 single wide planks, or individual planks? .. how do you keep the wood from rotting?
We have 1/3 acre and have done much the same thing as this guy. I just have one question. How does he keep the neighborhood out? they are the biggest pests in our garden and orchard!
Love it. Sooooo common sense.
awesome, can you feature more of your own garden!!!
Some great ideas!
Be careful, if you get big with this some very rich corporations are going to get very very irritated 😮
How much is your water bill?
At 8:58, where it says "(unclear)" he says "nasturtiums" which is a plant with edible flowers, leaves and seed pods. The seed pods are sometimes called "poor man's capers".
awesome example of what we can do.
where did you buy the gardening supplies like the trellis
Your yard looks attractive from the street, which I think is a good thing so you won't have neighbors complaining.
Please excuse my pet peeve, but water is something that is never wasted. If you water until it runs in the street, you have raised your water bill and wasted your money…but the water itself soaks in somewhere else, or evaporates into the atmosphere and is rained down somewhere else. If your toilet runs constantly, you do not waste water. You waste money, but the water treatment center uses that water and it goes back eventually into the earth cycle. GAH! Unless you are indulging in breaking the oxygen/hydrogen bonds and destroying water molecules, you are not "wasting the earths resources". Thank you for indulging me.
John-
–WE DON'T KNOW—-Please–STOP using "U KNOW" I like your videos, If u cannot drop the UKNOW"S==try subtitles.The amount of 'you know' is ridiculous – you're grown up now, can't you string a couple of sentences together without all those 'you knows' – !! – and how much water have you had to save and how many vegetables have you had to eat before you cover the costs of setting up ? i.e. cost of raised beds, or wood to build them, hoops, compost etc. etc., ?
where did you get all your soil from??
Love your videos dude. Who's down to taking a shot every time he says "you know?" lol…
Ok..for those who cannot grow year round and have more than 1 or 2 ppl to think about..
Gardening and feeding our family is a pretty big task.I see why "Family Gardens" were common.No one wants to work and let another get 100% benefits!
*🌽Corn~
It Takes.. 6-7 ears to make a1qt jar. A dozen ears will make 1-1/2 qt..
A bushel weights about 35#-thats 60 ears..processes to 14-17 pints or 7-8qts..
*🌱Greenbeans ~
It takes about 4# to fill 1 qt jar.
You can harvest nesrly30-50# of GB per 10ft row,in a season.(?)
38-30# per bushel will yield 30-40 pints..
**We harvested about 9 bushel from 9-24ft rows.
🌿Carrots ~..30 plants could yield 7-10#
It takes 17.5:# for 7qts .
50# a bushel=30-40 pints
🍀Beets~ 52#a bushel=
30 plants yield about 7-10#
It takes 2-3.5 # for 1 qt..
🌿Lima -shell beans~
40# a bushel…3-5# per 1 qt..
*In pod…you could expect 30-50 pounds in a complete season for a 24 ft row…
🌳Cabbages–
3# head =1qt canned
🍃Collards~
5-7 plants is about 4#=1 qt canned.
🌵Cucumbers~
48-50#-is a bushel..=24 qt processed..
Each plant can produce 10–+6oz fruit.. or 2-3# per plant…
🌴Okra~
26-30# per tall bushel.. 17 qt or 34 pt frozen..
5-10# per 10 ft row
🌲Field peas~
25# in pod..a bushel..==13 # shelled
It takes about 3.5-4# per qt
🍠Potatoes ~
60# per bushel= 20 qt jars ..
Each plant can produce 3-6# of produce..
🍆Summer squash
Is 40-44# a bushel. 40 pts frozen..2-4# needed to can 1 qt jar.
🍋Winter squash
3#-= 2 pt frozen..2.5-3# for 1 qt
🍅Tomatoes
Bushel is 53#..it tKes 2.5-3.5 for 1 qt…. each plant can produce 3-7# of fruit or more..
You talk to much
Fabulous! Dream garden. Only sunny spot available to me is my front yard. So last year I put in a no dig organic cottage garden. Awful last year but much better this year. Just heaping on my home made compost, topsoil and composted organic manure. So far so good this year.
I just love this video. I watched it first years ago and I still look at it from time to time when I want to be inspired or when I start questioning why I garden. Thanks.
I love your front yard! I wish everyone did that instead of a lawn. Its beautiful! I am fortunate enough to live on several acres but if I had a 10th of an acre it would look like your yard! Keep spreading that important message! GET RID OF WASTEFUL LAWNS!!!
I would love to visit your garden!
This is so Ameture … my phone takes better videos than that cheap camera
I've been wanting to start a garden for the last 4yrs
Wow! Those people who are in foodstamp needs to have a garden like yours. They just have to work there ass so that they don’t defend anymore on taxpayers
There is no reason to let thing grow so big I don’t think it will taste good and juicy 🤔
My grandma great didn’t have a lawn on her property- only gardens. She thought lawns were a waste of money.
My favourite garden teacher. Love your videos
I live in a suburb near Chicago but I can grow in front and have chickens! Just don’t know how/where to start! 😞
My house front faces west. I have some room on back facing east. Ideas needed please!!!!
LOVE the idea of growing your own food and having a homestead WHEREVER you are! But there’s no way you’re growing enough calories for 4 people: especially with all those greens! Great and inspiring video!
LOVE!
Johnnn yee kno?
Very relevant today.
outstanding garden, you did a great job
I’m all about foodscaping! I wish everyone would do this.
Love your videos John! Thank you for all you do and sharing such valuable knowledge with us!
Do you have any plants on your backyard 😁 ,just curiosity, btw,your garden is beautiful 🤗
Good stuff, John
Do you know that you said "you know" SIXTY-EIGHT times in 8:48?