Want to start a front yard vegetable garden? Love the idea of growing food not lawns? But are worried about what will the neighbors think? In this video I will give you tips to help you urban homesteading front yard.
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38 Comments
I can't believe one of the tips wasn't give them some fruits or vegetables. Like if you have some extra
HOA no cant do it. So I am doing flowers and stuff in the front, and planning the veggies for the back.
For the record……. you and your family would be amazing neighbors in my book girl and your front yard garden is beautiful and very inspirational. Cheers!
Thank goodness for that Florida bill protecting vegetable gardens…. I'm a pretty anxious person and I don't know if id have all this back to eden stuff going without it to be honest. It was interesting to go read all the state congress-people who voted against it you might be surprised.
I know a pergola is most likely more expensive, but how have your cattle panel trellises been doing in the wind? I am closer to the east coast, and close to a river, and find it can get pretty windy. So. I was considering saving & waiting to put up something wooden. But, I do love the look of yours! And probably way cheaper…I just planted my dwarf Mulberries in the front yesterday! I could not care less what the neighbors think of my front yard garden. I painted the house red & blue, so many colorful flowers & even a repurposed, graffiti-style mother Mary birdbath! 😋🤘🏼💜✨
I'm in a HOA with the grumpy president cross corner from us with his manicured st augustine lawn, so far all I have planted are bananas and a guava tree in the front. We got the party going on in the back! Also I am still struggling to grow a vegetable garden after living in the north all my life. The potatoes prefer to grow in the compost pile more than my raised bed lol. It is a different ball game down here! (I'm in manatee county)
I love that you said your crazy is contained lol but i do think it makes a difference to keep things in containers. Keeps the “grassholes” happy 😃
I love St Augustine grass…feels so good on bare feet. I would have to have both if I lived in FL. Grew up on the FL Atlantic coast. My garden would be in the backyard keeping palms, banana trees & grass in the front just because I love them so.🥰
"Containing your crazy" is definitely the way to ensure it is HOA-compliant. This week we are doing the tree trimming so getting excited for new raised beds!
Good stuff! I’ve always wondered about this in your front yard. Not being a jerk when asking this, as I am really just wondering and interested, but is there a physical/logistical reason why you didn’t plant this in your backyard? Like not enough sunlight or too small or some other barrier to have a vegetable garden around back? Just curious so I fully understand the situation! Keep it up though! Love it! Great job!
Totally love the approach. In our front yard, I am, my family is not ready to have a garden, but we have fruiting trees along with magnolia and decorative bushes.
Have you ever caught people stealing your vegetables?
What do you plant in the summer? I’m in St Pete and I have three beautiful raised beds. I don’t want them to sit empty over the summer. Is there anything that likes Florida weather? Or should I just cover it and wait until fall for my next crop?
I'm in an apartment near St. Pete, and looking to buy in the next year. I'm glad to have found your channel now, so I'll be ready when I get that yard! I've only watched a few videos so far, but I can tell your channel is going to help me a lot. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & experiences with us!
I love your research that you put into all your videos. As another Florida gardener who has veggies 10 feet off the road, in my side lot, I have experienced some of this. We have our area open-fenced (legally) and so haven't been reported. The boundary helps. I have the slow drive-bys. My neighbors love the look. They also ask me every time if I am videoing before they start talking. 😅 I'd love to meet you one day to talk plants.
find out where you septic field lines go and dont plant over them
In our neighborhood, we have garages in the back and a shared alley so people can see what is going on in your backyard. We decided to start a garden and I will say that we met so many neighbors that way. People continually would stop and talk with us and ask us what we were planting and mention how they always looked forward to seeing what we were doing with it.
This is the first time I’ve gotten the general layout of your house & garden.
And it is gorgeous !!!!!!
You need to do another video where you really concentrate on long shots. Because it way, way, way, more absolutely GORGEOUS than I realized.
Thank your insight. I am in st.pete large lot want to expand out front for better sun spots. I already give some of what i grow so i am in good graces with them. I am going for it this fall. Thank you for all you do for us all.
Do an update on the 30 natives you put in in front of your grow boxes. Please.
So far I’ve only grown jalapeños in my front yard. My house faces south, so the front yard gets full sun all day. My backyard only has a few spots that get full sun year round. I think I’d definitely like to add more peppers, since the squirrels would likely leave those alone.
We have SUCH a strict HOA. Our neighbors love my garden and are so kind. But I constantly get letters from the HOA. "Take out your dead tree!" (It was just dormant). "Don't leave your garage door open for more than 30 minutes!" (Ok, I was literally walking in and out of it for 3 hours while I landscape on Saturday). It drives me crazy! HOAs are such a pain sometimes.
Omg I get that.. the seemingly amused people 😭 smh… Walk by and laugh and call me garden girl. I have a tiny side yard I'm dealing with and I'm actually growing alot for a tiny space but people seem to find it funny when I'm tending to my garden. Like oh hey still out there playing in the dirt and making comments like "what you gonna grow in that little spot" even telling me I'm wasting my time .. I loathe it but I don't let it stop me. If anything this is AT LEAST a learning expert for me until I DO own some nice land 🙏🏼
yeah, thats one question I don't ask myself 🙂
What a fabulous video. I'm in N.Y and last fall after thinking about it for a few years I tore out alot of the sod in my front yard. I'm gonna put in a butterfly garden after seeing some monarchs and a giant swalow tail. I'm growing milkweed under grow lights along with parsley, dill and fennel. I get more sun in the front than in the back. People I think are sceptical because of design. If you mess up in the back of the house no one might see. But the front yard where everyone is watching you is very a different story or I think more people would do it. Your yard is gorgeous. Grass is over rated!!! LOL
Your front garden looks amazing! I can’t believe someone called on you about your arches. Do you live in an HOA?
Im not God, Im not tryna read peoples minds. 🤷🏽♀️
When did you plant your cabbage? I live in Lutz and planted in Sept/October. I have one that set a head a month ago but all the rest are just starting, which seems too late. Plus now I need room for my tomatoes!
I have never seen a desert rose that big!
Smart way to approach a front yard garden! Offering neighbors some of the extra veggies you grow could help and encourage them to join you in growing their own. Building relationships makes for a happier neighborhood and better world.
BTW your dessert rose is GORGEOUS!!
I have a back yard garden, the kid next door told me "your tomatoes' taste better than Kroger's" I had wondered who had been taking them. We only have one neighbor who reports everything to the city. I made friends with her years ago. Most of them don't say anything since some of the overflow of veggies gets left on their doorstep.
People complain about the food shortage, yet choose to grow grass instead. SMH
I've been taken steps to convert my front yard into a pollinator/food garden over the spring. I planned out a foundation tructure (privacy along the property line and a more open area towards the centwe of the house) added my hardscape and picked plants with this in mind.
🤪 put your crazy in a box… I like that quote but I usually just give the neighbors a smile and a wave like you mentioned.
I can' t
remember where but it is in Europe…All the neighboors grow vegetables and echange for what f they don't grow!! The community is very peaceful and friendly as a result!
Don't ever give up !! Your husband is so lucky to have you!! You are the "Joan of arch of gardening"!! a revolutionary!!
"Viva la resistance'!!
We will survive the zombie apocalypse!!
We live in the massive lawn Midwest where farming is everywhere but for some reason people do not think to do it in front of the house. I'm slowing conquering our front and side lawns, leaving only one area in the back open, and that I just planted species tulips and naturalizing bulbs in for Spring color and pollinator food. I hope to eventually have it covered in low growing groundcovers as well. I had to convince my family it was a good idea. Part of that was mostly taking over the mowing and reiterating over and over how good it was to have beneficial, edible and ornamental plants instead of hours & days of lawn care to do for just grass. Of course there's many more hours of lawn care needed in the establishment phase, but in the end it should be less work with far more benefits.
Love the psychological play of "containing the crazy" (although my sliver of Orlando doesn't seem to have neighbors that would mind if I made the whole thing a garden, thankfully)
I love this video SO MUCH 💖