Front Yard Lawn to Food – Planning your front yard edible landscape
John shows an overhead view of his front yard garden. He discusses his design criteria and gives you some things to think about when designing your front yard edible landscaping project.
I have been adding compost and some composted manure and organic fertilizers. Chickens are illegal in my city.. Im still investigating this possibility.
@growingyourgreens I wish you luck with the chickens. Since we have chickens, we eat their eggs. All our kitchen waste goes straight to the chickens who thrive on it. They immediately turn that nutrition around to eggs. If you do not eat eggs then your relationship with chickens may not be quite as rewarding. Something to think about.
I love your garden. It's beautiful but if everyone used cedar or redwood there would be no forests left. We must find ways to raise beds without wood that rots.
Agreed. I choose to use Cedar and Redwood for the cost/performance. I encourage alternative materials as well, depending on eachs persons resources available, some are: wood, concrete, bricks, concrete board, plastic lumber, rip-rap (concrete chunks), logs, rocks. So many things you can use for a raised bed, or just have mounds of dirt.
to bad your neighboors dont do this! i would if i lived there, team up haha, ur land looks like a utopia if that makes any sense! the only thing that gets me, is if the people around you dont have there own food supply during a collapse, they will immediatly come to you, that shit always bothers me. like the twilight zone "the shelter",the greatest proof of basic human animals, when one man in the entire neighboorhood prepares for the future! great work! its incredible, i hope others do this too
Yes, you can grow food in michigan. The walls of the beds are cedar fence boards.1×3' the 4×4's are redwood. I have other videos showing the exact construction and how to build them.
what's cheaper…..buying vegetables form the super market or growing your own…after the cost of seeds, supplies, fertilizer, wood for raised beds, etc?…
You dont really have to buy the seeds/plants they are just lying in your kitchen.
For raised beds, rocks, old containers,old wood/branch = you don't have to buy them.
For fertilizers you may use you pee,"rice wash" water, compost, or aquarium water Gardening is therapeutic in a way it relieves stress and if you grow your own veggies at home at least you know what
@Andreas748 Seeds/plants they are just lying in your kitchen.
For raised beds, rocks, old containers,old wood/branch = you don't have to buy them.
For fertilizers you may use you pee,"rice wash" water, compost, or aquarium water .
For me, in long term, its cheaper and safer to grow your own veggies.
and I think it taste more delicious especially when you think about how you grew them. 🙂
This is really terrific, I'd love to do something like this. My city even pays people to get rid of their lawns too.
Here in Palo Alto, CA we get skunks, racoons, lots of squirrels and birds …. I have to think you are more out in the country more in a rural setting than I am – what do you do to avoid animals eating and messing up your garden … like the neighbor's cats coming by and popping or peeing in your vegetable gardens?
Wow look at the variety and LIFE in your front yard, and then look at monotony of the garden design of your neighbours. Id have a design like yours anyday. Good on you for using your space and creating food, habitat and beauty.
I really like the overview shot of your yard. It gives me a better idea of how everything is laid out. Makes me dream of one day owning my own property to do this. I have a rental now and you wouldn't believe how much I have growing on it! haha!
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Not one complaint here.. Be sure to check with your CC&Rs or homeowners association before starting a project like this.
I have been adding compost and some composted manure and organic fertilizers. Chickens are illegal in my city.. Im still investigating this possibility.
@growingyourgreens I wish you luck with the chickens. Since we have chickens, we eat their eggs. All our kitchen waste goes straight to the chickens who thrive on it. They immediately turn that nutrition around to eggs. If you do not eat eggs then your relationship with chickens may not be quite as rewarding. Something to think about.
do you have your back yard turned in to a garden too?
I love your garden. It's beautiful but if everyone used cedar or redwood there would be no forests left. We must find ways to raise beds without wood that rots.
Agreed. I choose to use Cedar and Redwood for the cost/performance. I encourage alternative materials as well, depending on eachs persons resources available, some are: wood, concrete, bricks, concrete board, plastic lumber, rip-rap (concrete chunks), logs, rocks. So many things you can use for a raised bed, or just have mounds of dirt.
I think some of them like it. I have had no major objections. That was a design criteria, to make it look "pleasant".
Yes, I am growing in the backyward. Not as efficiently as the frony yard yet..
Great Job!!
just curious, but what are you going to do when you have to move something BIG into your house??
oh, I just now realized this is on your roof! great, great idea. I should do that too.
@organotill yes, recycling materials is the best idea. alot of fallen wood is laying around though.
random bystanders walks by……."oh those are nice and ripe" *swipe*, thats the problem with the front yard T-T
what an epic front yard, very smart and i bet you save hundreds of dollars a month!
Absolutely wonderful.
to bad your neighboors dont do this! i would if i lived there, team up haha, ur land looks like a utopia if that makes any sense! the only thing that gets me, is if the people around you dont have there own food supply during a collapse, they will immediatly come to you, that shit always bothers me. like the twilight zone "the shelter",the greatest proof of basic human animals, when one man in the entire neighboorhood prepares for the future! great work! its incredible, i hope others do this too
They look "white" in the videos. They are galvanized steel. They are welded-wire fence from lowes or home depot. just make them into small tubes.
This garden is so in your face, it is awesome
You're lucky you don't live in a neighborhood where all yards are required to look the same.
They are used as a trellis. I grow things vertically up them. I have grown cucumbers, peas. I could grow other vining/climbers such as beans.
Yes, you can grow food in michigan. The walls of the beds are cedar fence boards.1×3' the 4×4's are redwood. I have other videos showing the exact construction and how to build them.
what's cheaper…..buying vegetables form the super market or growing your own…after the cost of seeds, supplies, fertilizer, wood for raised beds, etc?…
Please see
watch?v=rxLV3vM-t_w
where I address this question.
You dont really have to buy the seeds/plants they are just lying in your kitchen.
For raised beds, rocks, old containers,old wood/branch = you don't have to buy them.
For fertilizers you may use you pee,"rice wash" water, compost, or aquarium water Gardening is therapeutic in a way it relieves stress and if you grow your own veggies at home at least you know what
@Andreas748 Seeds/plants they are just lying in your kitchen.
For raised beds, rocks, old containers,old wood/branch = you don't have to buy them.
For fertilizers you may use you pee,"rice wash" water, compost, or aquarium water .
For me, in long term, its cheaper and safer to grow your own veggies.
and I think it taste more delicious especially when you think about how you grew them. 🙂
This is really terrific, I'd love to do something like this. My city even pays people to get rid of their lawns too.
Here in Palo Alto, CA we get skunks, racoons, lots of squirrels and birds …. I have to think you are more out in the country more in a rural setting than I am – what do you do to avoid animals eating and messing up your garden … like the neighbor's cats coming by and popping or peeing in your vegetable gardens?
Wow look at the variety and LIFE in your front yard, and then look at monotony of the garden design of your neighbours. Id have a design like yours anyday. Good on you for using your space and creating food, habitat and beauty.
5:33, not going to shit out a lot? jk John, lol!
how often do you have to repair your cedar fencing? or have you had to yet? so did you start gardening when you made these videos?
Beautiful!! My HOA would never aloud that 🙁
I really like the overview shot of your yard. It gives me a better idea of how everything is laid out. Makes me dream of one day owning my own property to do this. I have a rental now and you wouldn't believe how much I have growing on it! haha!
Looks like your neighbor prefers a dead lawn instead of green living plants. Sad, so many do the same.
What did you fill your raised beds with?
Great job, very inspiring 🌸
Gorgeous. I think you've totally maximized that space. Very impressive!