Planning my Garden with Cardboard

Spring is finally on its way, and what time is it? GARDEN PLANNING TIME! I’m dragging out my cardboard so I can plan how to best use my garden space. How are you planning your garden this year?

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Hello and welcome to the almost Homestead today I am getting ready for  spring by planning where I’m   going to put things in my garden come check it out so if you’ve watched my videos from last year you  might notice that the cardboard that I had down  

Is now gone or moved and that is because I’m  using it to Mark where things are going to be so I really really really want strawberries and  I didn’t have a lot of luck last year because  

I wasn’t able to get them in the ground fast  enough so I learned a lesson that I will only   grab strawberries if I have time to plant them  that day so anyway I haven’t planned out much  

Of this area it’s probably going to be tomatoes  and kind of whatever but over here I’ve got the   future home of Brussel sprouts and beans so  you can see where I did this last year I had   green beans brussel sprouts green beans this  year I’m just rotating it over a bit and I’ll  

Have um the brussell sprouts on top of where  the beans were and then I’ll have green beans   green beans maybe some fava beans in the middle  over here I’ve got this area planned and already   planted some actually um last year my zucchini  calendula radish area did really really well and  

So I’m doing more of those got one of those then  I’ve got a mix of peppers and alyssum which is a   really pretty uh flour I’m actually going to  be putting that kind of taking the seeds off  

Of where it grew in the back herb garden and kind  of putting them in between the pieces of cardboard   because it’s a really good ground cover um then  I don’t have enough cardboard yet but I’m going   to put another piece down for zucchini calendula  radish the radishes are actually already planted  

Um you can see I watered already too and then  another set of hot peppers probably going to   put my – either my yellow squash or my spaghetti  squash here um I actually bought the spaghetti  

Squash this um today and I haven’t decided if I  really want to plant yellow squash or if I should   give the seeds to somebody who loves them more  um and then over here you can see that I have  

A hot pepper area in the grass and isn’t that  weird well not really because what I’m going to   do is I’m going to put things down here in this  area right outside of where the garden was last   year and those are going to kill the grass  that is underneath them like underneath the  

Peppers or underneath the cardboard that way  I can expand my garden out gradually without   having to hire someone to till the soil so of  course marigolds are going to go as a border   around everything because I moved um I moved  this old blanket which is hopefully going to  

Kill a giant uh grass plant and when I was looking  underneath where the blanket was I found a slug   and honestly I don’t see it anymore it was down  here um but we get a ton of slugs and snails  

And moles and the marigolds are supposed to kill  all of those so we’ll hopefully have that working now I didn’t put anything down over  here if you watched my prior videos   you know I sowed a bunch of random seeds  for tall plants here if those don’t grow  

I’m going to toss some beans like some climbing  varieties of green beans or peas or things like   that um because I really want something  growing on this fence to provide uh the   garden with just a little bit of a break so  it’s not an intense Sun the entire day um as  

It has been in the past and also um just  a a way to use my space wisely I know I   could train some cucumbers to go up those um  but we have new neighbors on the other side  

And I don’t know I don’t know how they’d  feel about that so that’s still a mystery now we’re at the back herb garden which actually  I grow pretty much everything here um you can see  

Where I tried to expand the garden last year  in this area I covered it up in this area I   burnt things with fire um and then I’ll be  continuing that um like I said I just have  

To get some more cardboard going to take this  cardboard up and figure out what I want where   I want it how I want to do that um the stuff that  I grew last year didn’t grow partly because we’ve  

Got these Mulberry um bushes trying to take over  the world um and I think I don’t think these are   mulberries they’re I don’t know like Maple or  something bizarre that you wouldn’t expect to   be there um so to successfully grow anything  I probably need to focus this year on getting  

Those completely dead um so they’re not soaking  up the nutrition but last year you can see where   I had the cardboard down for the zucchini radish  calendula nasturtiums um I don’t want to put them   in the exact same spot because I had a lot of  problems with squash borers but I’ll probably  

Move them maybe right over here um so every year  I’m like I don’t want to go to the Dollar Store   and get boxes we have this whole garage full of  stuff that needs to be unpacked why why why would  

I go and get more boxes when we literally have all  of these and more that just need to be unpacked   so yeah we’ll see if I crack and go to Dollar  General and get boxes or if I use the ones I have time will tell right

And yes if you are wondering that was  my husband sitting in the garage um   well sitting right outside the doors  to the garage blacksmithing um which   we’ll have more videos about in the upcoming  weeks including one where I explain why it’s  

A really bad idea for someone with ADHD  to decide on blacksmithing as a hobby yeah yeah in spite of that fact I’m  actually going to go and do some more   blacksmithing so when I’m done there may be  pictures up showing the cool stuff I made  

Cool stuff that my husband’s making but  we’ll see in the meantime um I’m curious   are you already laying out the plans  for your garden how are you doing it last year I got really really OCD about it I  had a chart and I had everything planned out  

Where everything was going to be and then halfway  through the year I was like no no I don’t care   like that it’s not that deep to me I’m just going  to toss these seeds out in a place that’s open so  

This year I decided to just make my life a lot  simpler and the things that really need to go in   a specific place like your brassicas need a lot of  nitrogen your green beans fava beans things like  

That give a lot of nitrogen they need to be in an  area your hot peppers um can’t be with your sweet   peppers and really I’m afraid to put them near  each other because they do cross-pollinate so I  

Had to spread those out through the garden and the  strawberries just need a place so I don’t forget   and not save them any space um because I have  to drive a lot farther to get the strawberries  

Um that I want so anyway I said all that to say  I had fun planning my garden today and planting   the radish seeds I hope you’re also having a  great adventure in your garden and as always don’t forget to like this video subscribe to my channel and eat something wild

Maybe one of the radishes I’m growing