How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden – 9 EZ tips
Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the Front Yard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
Growing Food in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y
Here are nine easy tips for growing more food in a small garden:
1) Grow in Beds, not Rows
2) Optimize Spacing between Beds and Plants
3) Grow Vertically
4) Succession Planting
5) Interplanting
6) Grow in the Shade
7) Grow Edible Plants in the Front Yard
8) Grow Microgreens
9) Grow in Pots & Containers
Ideas from viewers
1) Interplant sweet peas with sunchokes. The sweet peas fix nitrogen, the sunchokes act as trellises for the peas, and both attract beneficial insects.
2) 3 sisters garden
3) Grow dwarf trees and plant shade tolerant crops underneath
4) Grow in window boxes
5) Optimize use of space by growing food you like the most
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured Videos:
Growing Food in Partial Shade: http://youtu.be/jNsECuNTSQY
How to Build a Keyhole Raised Bed Garden:
http://youtu.be/EXl48VNEe9Y
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Great video I have a ground level front stoop garden it's a splash of green oranges and yellows in a row of 4plexes .
Lay a bag of topsoil on the flat side. Cut an X in the bag. Plant a tomato plant in it. The roots are shallow, so it's perfect for decks and patio's.
I know it's a hard n every days work. It's my long times dream to have a fruits and vegitables garden, one day Inshaallah my dreams will come true. Urs came congrats on that's. Go green💚
Great unique list of helpful advise!!!
how deep are your beds? how deep should I set mine up?
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I have always reached optimum sunlight and ground use in rows. It is not hard to walk down a row that is fully canopied and few plants are fragile enough to be damaged walking down the row. Is lots of foilage your goal? Or produce? I can’t imagine wanting my food garden in front of my house but if it were far enough off the main road it would be fine. But this is America. If someone is going to stop me from having a garden in front they better bring a lot of artillary by gawd
Cost more money growing in raise garden beds,, use the soil you have, build up the beds 2 inches
I have a small spot in the ground but I want to maximize that space. Its 28 x 12. I dont want to have raised beds but every time I search maximize this space its always raised beds. What can I do without raised beds? I dont want to spend the time and wood to make beds and I really don't see why I can not apply the same planting processes without a raised bed. Please help?
I need your help.
Instead of plants that grow vertically I have a balcony and want plants to grow downwards from the containers. I would like the plants to cascade down.
Any thoughts on what plants are good?
Planting in my front yard led to the food being stolen.
Can you put up a video about trellising – particulatly for pumpkins
We have put in six raised beds this year and are lookinh forward to the results!
You can keep your pathway 12in if you bend your plants to create more space if you don't want to do 18 in