Vegetable Garden Planning | Raised Bed, No Dig & Ruth Stout Methods
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- Planning a Vegetable Garden to give you the highest yields from your growing season. Our Garden space is 40ftX40ft. This is enough space to grow the staples we need to build our pantry out for the year. We grow primarily in Raised Beds and No Dig garden beds using high intensity planting guides to give us the greatest return on our growing space. Growing in a small space has many rewards, such as a limited footprint to manage weed pressure and watering needs. I hope you are encouraged that you do not need lots of land to produce a lot of food. This size is totally feasible for the standard suburban backyard.
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Garden planning is almost as rewarding as the actual planting.
Wow!! So much fun to watch! Especially when its cold & nasty outside.
So funny.....I got all my seeds out today, layed them out, wrote down the plan.....I am super stoked.
Ordered for the first time from Hoss Tools and from Dixondale Farms on your recommendation. So excited to see how everything grows here in our Ohio soil !!
I recommend you grow shelling beans. It’s so much food with little effort. After some trials, I only grow the Haricot Tarbois bean. It produces like crazy! It’s a meaty bean that cans up beautifully! It’s meant for casseroles but it’s excellent in soups. I love it as a chicken substitute in pot pie. It’s so yummy! I just plant a couple at the bases of each tomato cage and they share the space beautifully. It really is the perfect homesteading shelling bean because of how much it produces. Hope you give it a try!
@armindaheart they look a lot like cannellini beans. Where do you buy them for planting?
Loved how you apologised for not looking at us and I was like I wasn't looking at you but the garden plan lol
I have started some of my seeds to transplant. I bought strawberry seeds to do in my garden tower, too. It's my second year having a 'garden' since I have to garden in containers, but I have been buying some grow bags and we hope to buy a house in the spring, so I can move my garden with us in the containers and bags.
Yes!! Show how to start a raised bed garden!!! Thank you!!
I like the way you lay your garden out. It helps me out a lot. Thank you
I have over 2.5 acres to grow on so my list making is big...🌻❤
I’m starting all over at a new homestead this year have lots of work to do.
Good luck
Best of luck. We do reap what we sow and learn each new location as we go. Never lose sight of your goals. God bless you!
Same here. Good luck!
I draw my garden spaces out every year! Loved watching you talk us through yours! Coffee and garden planning ❤️
I used about 4ft garden fence and short T-post (from Home Depot).for my cucumbers to grow up on, so much easier to pick. I also planted Nasturtiums with them. Great companion plants. The leaves and flowers are edible. Beautiful in a salad.
I also companion plant Brazil with my tomatoes. Throw flower seeds throughout the garden. Great pollinators, the bees and butterflies love it. Rotate all of your plants every year in the garden. Don't use the same rows/raised beds year after year for your plants. Each plant adds and takes away certain nutrients from the soil.
Love your Garden Plan👍👌
Have a blessed evening, stay safe and healthy 🙏🥰👍👌🙏🦅🔔🗽🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏
Dill attracts all the good guys:) plant some on the outside of the netting to ensure the beneficial insects stay around a while to help with that darn cabbage moth!! 🙏🏼love this channel 💯
My dill always gets overwhelmed by aphids, when nothing else in my garden does. It’s usually when the dill goes to flower. So weird. But then the lady bugs show up so it’s all good.
Always love your videos - thank you!
Love your garden plans!
This is so motivating! I need to do the same! I can’t wait for spring to get here!
Thank you for sharing your garden plan! I learned so much!
Awesome plan. Can't wait to see how beautiful it will all be. I am pumped for gardening season this year.
I'm so glad i found your channel! I live in the area and we are building a house on 15 acres, hoping to do a TON of gardening!
It looks great!
love your garden lay out and you have some awesome variety's for this up coming gardening season I wish you lots of luck with everything
Just came in from “mapping out” where our new raised beds will go, watched your Canuary video while making lunch and now see this one...Perfect timing!!
Take care..grow on and...
Sending Blessings to y’all!!!
I’ve planned and replanned my garden for this year. I will probably have another go at it. Today I spent some time figuring out what I need to start indoors and when. I can’t wait for this season!
It's so close!☺️ excitment for Life 🌱 I can't Wait to see your Garden. Stay well and safe.
Here's a tip I found for summer squash 1. Plant squash and put a tomato cage around them makes viewing the produce so much easier. 2. Borage keeps squash bugs away
Thanks so much for sharing your plans. I only have 4 square raised beds. It really helps to see that I can grow more in small spaces.
Hello!! I love your videos. 🥰
I bought the square foot tool last year and used it a bit but this year I got the book as well. I struggle trying to max out my garden like you do. We are like you guys and there is just the two of us and then grown kids. This year I really want to hone in on getting the most out of my garden as I can. I look forward to seeing how you do yours this year.
Thank you for all that info. 💚
Great plan!
I always look forward to your garden every year, my yard is to shady so I can dream watching yours.
Brassicas, lettuces, spinach, carrots, potatoes and so much more would grow. Unless your temps remain very low. Then I'd suggest a cold frame or DIY trellis tunnel. Never say never... Many herbs and lettuces prefer the shade. You will never know until you try. God bless you!
Really learn a lot in such little time thank you. I have been working on producing more food for myself and the last two years I been more serious . I have raised beds because it's more comfortable for me and I can really know what my dirt has in it 🏡😊❤️🐶😺
Hugaculture for sure!! Been wanting to do this myself! ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you thank you thank you!!! This was super helpful! We have a brand new 30x30 space this year and I had no clue how to lay it out.
Mixed plants in the rows, and spinach rows used as markers then hoed to provide a mulch. Well worth a read!
I am so very lucky Rachel as we can grow all year round here in sub-tropical except you have to ( Like Me ) have a big shade sail over your garden during the extreme part of our summer. This year has been quite humid but milder temps & boy plenty of rain to fill our tanks. Cheers Denise - Australia
👍✌️ Awesome
Ruth Stout--wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Cabbages already being harvested and more going in. Last frost Feb.12 love you first plan mine is on my fridge to look at daily 💖💖💖
Good plan.
Rachel, thanks for sharing your garden plans version 1!! I'm SO excited about starting seeds for this coming garden season! I've already started my peppers and some herbs...most will be started March 1 (I'm in zone 5 , really zone 4ish as we live at 8600' in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.)
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Oh my gosh Laurie peppers already? I'm in Colorado also and I wasn't even thinking peppers! You must have a trick on keeping going in the cold or have a wonderful greenhouse? I did try and overwinter a few of mine- 2 are still alive out of 4 so we'll see! I also have winter sown some seeds in jugs to give it a try this year , mostly herbs and flowers with some kale and misc mixed in.
Rachel, I have three Green Stalks with day-neutral strawberries that produce late spring through early fall. I used a small bed for perennial herbs and plant herbs like dill, cilantro, and basil throughout the garden. What will you grow when it is too hot for spinach? Maybe you could plant your collards there and succession sow lettuce that thrives in the heat. You also could sow your collards in a seed tray and then transplant them when the spinach is finished as not to waste growing time. Thanks for sharing your plan. It really helps her what others are doing. Take care, 💕😊Francine
Building a hugel mound is a good idea; you will have is for a long time, however.
May I suggest the salad greens on the north side of the beans for some cooling shade, and your peppers on the warmer, sunnier south side of the beans. Just a thought.
Ah, now I seeyou have peppers on both sides. 😉
I need to plan out my garden still. I’m playing with Ruth Stout, back to Eden, Charles Dowding, and lasagna bed gardening - a hodge podge of good fertility in the garden. I used to only do wood chips/back to Eden, which I absolutely LOVE, but have been doing more and more experiments to see what gives back the most. Really, you can’t go wrong layering on organic material in the garden. It only creates more fertility. I prefer to compost in place versus creating mounds, so I just layer up the beds in the winter. I collect manure for compost heaps, and also harvest chicken pen compost in the spring since most everything from the yard and kitchen gets thrown there for the hens to go through. Wish I had some goats for extra manure!
You can’t go wrong using organic materials in the garden. I’d like to see you try a lasagna bed and a hugelcukture bed! I do lasagna gardening in some beds. The fertility left behind is AMAZING! I like to layer chicken manure, plant leaves from the garden, tree leaves, hay, and finally wood chips. Sometimes I even scrape the walkways and add to the layers, and the refill the walkways with new wood chips.
Check out Dan on his UA-cam channel Plant Abundance. He does hugelculture and permaculture gardening, using woodchips as his mulch. Cool guy. Hope you get a chance to binge his channel.
I would have lots of onions. Not sure how much I use in a year, but lots. Ordered from Dixon as you suggested.
Cantaloupe might be something I try with cucumbers this year. I read they don't cross pollinate. This is fun and promising it won't be long
I always make a garden plan, then at some point every spring I stray, lol! Good luck!
I'm trying Chinese cabbage and collards again this year and will use a row cover. Every cabbage I have grown has ended up being fed to the chickens. I have had some luck with collards.
I love trellising on cattle panels that are attached to T post about a foot to 18” above the ground.
I also love seeing other gardeners design layouts. I also love the look on paper, but the reality, like you mentioned with your bug tents, has to be incorporated because the devastation can be so disheartening otherwise.
Learning year to year, and pressing on with new ideas, desires and hopes 🙌🏻🌱♥️
And most of all sharing with other like minded and hopeful gardeners/homesteaders.
May the Lord bless your planning, the ground, the growing and the harvesting 🙏🏻🌱
Thank you so much!
Glad you are getting brassica covers and you will love stringing your indeterminate tomatoes. So much easier to maintain them! You make an excellent canned slaw; have you ever thought about planting kohlrabi? I made the carrot soup last night (no beans) and it was delicious. Thank you.
its so funny that we are both moving our strawberries to a green stalk this year. I ordered mine last fall, its still in the box waiting to fill and plant. I also can't decide whether to take it to the garden or leave it here by the house.Im still thinking about where to plant what in my beds though. I love watching your channel. We met Todd at the Hootenanny a couple years ago (what a nice guy). Happy Gardening!
Oh yea, I ordered a square foot garden seed square from your link. Ive been wanting one for awhile now.
I got the idea when I went to a friend's house and saw hers in her grow tower. They looked so pretty and she said they did much better than when she had in the ground. I'm hoping for less slug issues too
I would love to see you try hugelculture beds!
Butternut squash is excellent too!
Oh, you would love honey nut squash then. Naturally sweeter, but smaller than butternut squash. They do not store as long either. I'm still storing both butternut and honey nut varieties. The honey nut have just started showing signs of time to use soon wrinkles. I cooked up 4 of them, brushed lightly with oil and pinch of salt- amazing flavor as is. I want to try ground sausage and apple chunks baked in them next. I believe honey nut squash is a hybrid that you can only plant seeds harvested once, true to original plant. I'm going to run a test of 2nd year harvested seeds this year to see if they are true to the honey nut variety or lean towards butternut.
Oh so jealous of all your space. Haha
We just moved so won’t get to do. Our garden this year. Our garden last year was pretty good.
Our garden 2 years ago and 3 and 4 years ago was excellent.
Love this! So motivational. One quick tip: Planting peppers and green beans together is a bad idea. We planted those together and neither produced a single fruit/beans until we pulled the beans. Then our peppers went crazy but it took a few weeks before they started production. There's something about the root structures that shuts both down.
Hmm I'll research that more, thanks for sharing
Love to see you try a hugel bed 😃😃😃
Did you know that onions deter brassica pests? It said it right there on my onion package so I'm trying it this year!! I think I'm going to draw the grid with the onions and plant brassicas in the squares. So excited!
Its definitely worth a shot
I agree about the high intensity gardening. Two years ago I put the weed fabric on my beds and burned the holes in. It worked as far as weeds go, but it also seemed to really limit the amount of food I can grow in a bed. It’s a dilemma because I tend to neglect weeding mid summer.
This year I bought what seems like a million flower seeds. I’m really excited to grow them for bouquets in the house and to give away to people. I’ve never really grown flowers for cutting, so this will be a whole new experience. I’m also going to try growing tomatoes in my greenhouse again. The only other year I’ve done it, I planted them too late and it got too hot for the blossoms to set.
I’m excited for your garden this year as well. I hope you don’t get the crazy flooding you’ve had the last two years. I wonder if you could do any swales or drainage systems that would help?
Instead of weed barrier, try using mulch as your weed barrier and stop tilling/digging the ground. If you have perennial weeds that would grow through mulch, first layer cardboard to smother them and then the mulch. The cardboard will compost in place. You can even top the cardboard with 6” or so of compost and plant immediately. You don’t have to add mulch until your seedlings are big enough to be mulched around. Hope this helps.
Rebekka Rhodes arches a cattle panel over the walkway between raised beds and trellises her cucumbers on that, saving room in the beds.
Yes many people do. Growing vertically is a good space saver
my garden is easy as I do not like a lot of Veg, so it is Potatoes, peas, carrots, onions, Tomatoes, peppers and a herb garden that is it : ) If I could Grow a ´beef´plant all my food would be covered lol
Make sure you get straw that's not inundated with herbicides! I heard some gardeners have been having crop failures because of tainted strawbales.
In the subdivision where we live no gardens allowed in our big yards.so I really on the store sales an farmers market to put up food.in the future we will be looking for a home stead as our kids are grown an many debts paid off.
Hi. Rachel. I love your planning of the garden. But I have not heard you say planting strawberries. The garden looks more for veggies. I would have liked a fruit or two. But I still like your video. God Bless you Rachel. Happy planting. Be careful out there. Maria. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
We have two bed right now, for just strawberries. But we're going to move them to Greenstalk planters this spring. Stay tuned :)
Thank you. I will. Just let me know when the next video shows up. Maria.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Straw bale gardening!!! I love it for plant starts but am still learning how to plant seeds with success. I have had major success with squash, zucchini and pumpkins. They have a group on Facebook that has been a lot of help. Where is your asparagus?
That's a great idea to take it with you when you go out ,I draw it out then try and shoot from memory ! I have changed my layout 6 times but the only bed that is nailed down is my pumpkin patch but it's outside the main garden . I am so glad you are doing Ruth Stout potatoes again ! That is how I found your channel ! Have you tried the core garden method ?
I started all my raised beds with a full " core"
Very interested in these raised beds tents! Please show! 😃
Coming soon!
Good afternoon
I had to come back and watch this again.....so enjoyable! I need to plan mine like this....honestly after gardening for over 40 years I have never done a plan on paper ahead of time....I have so much room, I kinda wing it....
Can you tell us exactly what product you bought from Growers Solution for the brassicas? I used a floating row cover last year and the results were perfect....BUT....I really really did not like not being able to easily uncover them to look at where they are in the growing season.....I don't know if I want to repeat that again....so I would love to see your plan on what you bought.
Thanks
How about an herb bed or a tea garden? That's what I'm trying in one of my raised beds this year!
I really enjoyed seeing you map everything out. I am very visual and in it will look AMAZING !!!! Thanks for sharing this good information on spacing and where the sun will be at to plant better in one area and even adding the sunflowers and erase between the zucchini plants. LOVE LOVE LOVE..... Someday hopefully we could do something like this but we currently live iin the city so my husband made boxes along our deck where we grow erbs and flowers to keep the mosquitoes away.
This year we plan to use the potatoes bags so we can set them in a nice area and planning to get some devices to hang our tomatoes and strawberries. Have had bad luck in ground with tomatoes,, the ants get in there and raise total having with thm and we have to wind up buying tomatoes at market.. We also have raised boxes along our deck where we grow peppers and onions. Everything else will go in ground though.
Do you have any advice using bone meal, mulch, straw homage compost or animal manure?
Advice how? It's really depends on what you need and what you are growing
@@1870s potatoes and tomatoes. Any advice for tomatoes would be greatly appreciated. I am in Michigan and our towns built on bad land so we pretty much have to haul in dirt and fertilize and wait to see if the city land dirt is gonna effect the garden.
You were talking about a way to do potatoes I did not understand. I saw a video today that was about using potatoe pots. But I'm only 3rd year grower for potatoes and have only done the raised bed way but did not have good yield. Only bout 50 ish potatoes from 10 plants so I am def willing to learn more about tomatoes and potatoes.
What a great, inspiring video Rachel! Do you rotate your planting?
I would love to see hugelkultur going into your garden space.
Fabulous video. Will you be doing this again this year?
Peas love cattle panels :)
Yes
This is exactly the kind of garden planning video I look for!! Thank you so much. I’m planning to build some tall raised beds and garden Hügelkultur style for those. I also acquired a couple of greenstalks and plan to devote one just for strawberries! Questions: what kind of fencing do you have around your garden? 640 Carrots?! 🥕 do you succession sow for large crops like that?
Nope all in one round, fencing currently is just Snow fencing
@@1870s Rachel you always respond so promptly! This is my first season with a large garden. Last year was my tiny container garden to see if I would like it. I have benefited so much from your channel and all the info you share on gardening and food preservation. Thanks again!
Looks good, I was wandering my space today. Can you share which bed covers you purchased for the cabbage? We have the same size beds.
Will you start any of the seeds indoors first? Such an inspiration to watch your plan cause my garden is scattered in front, back and side yards so I couldn't figure how to plant to get best production. Great ideas! Thanks!
No I do not start any seeds indoors
How will you keep the strawberries from freezing over winter in the garden stalk? Also we built a tall raised bed and filled it using the hugonaut method, combining both methods into one. Works great.
We are expanding our garden this yr.. but we have fields around us & a leech field in the middle & black walnuts around too..ugh..
So much food in a small space. Very nice. What seeds do you start inside ?
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Can you put up a link to the cover/tent you are using from growers solution for the brassicas? I would love to use a good cover/tent due to the aphids I always battle.
I love planning the garden. I think we are tripling our space this spring, so I am very excited. I have been waiting for you because we are in similar zones. I believe I heard you say that you were in zone 6? Looking at the farmers almanac it says that I am also in zone 6. When I Google it, I am in zone 5A. I am in northern Indiana. Any ideas? I'm confused.
It can depend on your microclimate. Elevation plays into it too. I'm northern Illinois, 5b. I was not able to plant out warmer weather crops until almost June last year. I hope we have a warmer, not SO wet of a spring. Hope this information helps you. Blessings to you!
How about a pollination garden for your bees.. what do you make your trellises out of.
You should watch this video on trellis by josh sattin called a trellis to make you jealous. It wasnt very ecpensive either. Just a tjought to help.
I have seen onion starts at Blocks in the spring before, have you ever looked at those while there? I have never grown onions in my adult gardening life so I have not looked at the starts closely there.
Do y'all plant clover and flowers around the bees? You could just throw out the seeds kinda like you did for the deer.
My Dad had bees and I kept all my new and flowering plants around his hives and lilies everywhere.
Our entire pasture is filled with clover
Have you thought of trying Gertrude Franke's 'Companion Gardening'? The ideas are so inspiring........very different
I haven't but I'll look her up
I’ve just looked on Amazon US version.......$151....! If you order one from Abe books here you can get it for a lot less....a few dollars.
I had great success with bag gardening
Larry Hall videos here on UA-cam.
Hi! Love this channel! Just curious why no corn? New Brunswick Canada:)
We just don't really eat enough of it. We've grown small batches a few times in past videos.
have you tried growing kohl rabi? They make an awesome cabbage replacement I believe.
Tried to grow once, they didn't do so hot. Maybe try another time.
Even rope and whatever boards y’all have
I bought the green stalk planter this year..what did u plant in yours and what do u plan on planting in it this coming season? How did things grow in it?
Herbs
Rachael, love your channel. Do you buy tomato plants or do you start your own?
I buy them, I don't own any grow equipment
A shop light with an inexpensive 6500k bulb light overtop the table will start most every seed. Some seedlings need a heat mat too.
I've found you must have heirloom seeds to continue to save seeds from year to year. My 2nd year Roma tomatoes did not produce Roma's, learning experience. They did produce, just not true to a Roma variety, more of a large plum tomato.
Starting from seed is so rewarding, but is a learning experience too. Never stop trying new things is my best unasked for advice. 😁 blessings to you all!
Can you do a video on the greenhouse/row cover you bought from growers solution?
www.gardeners.com/buy/3-season-raised-bed-garden-cover-4x8/8598282.html?trk_msg=JE3U8A28N1249AMST793AM5PH8&trk_contact=V3MD72DVPVV56JN1UPHJSBOQAS&trk_sid=U4C1CA33TCDK7QV4K7PE8MNL38&SC=GNA7200A&Listrak&Email&Product&Your+Order+Confirmation
I will but won't be here till March
Thanks for the link!
Very helpful video. Thank you so much. I have to ask, where did you get the apron hanging behind you?
My momma bought it for me on Kiawah island 20+ yrs ago
@@1870s I love it!!! Always look forward to your videos. Just watched your newest one!!!
What is the cover you purchased for your brassica?
what is the tent you're getting for the brassicas, looked on growers solutions and only found large structures? I'm desperate to find something!
www.gardeners.com/buy/3-season-raised-bed-garden-cover-4x8/8598282.html?trk_msg=JE3U8A28N1249AMST793AM5PH8&trk_contact=V3MD72DVPVV56JN1UPHJSBOQAS&trk_sid=U4C1CA33TCDK7QV4K7PE8MNL38&SC=GNA7200A&Listrak&Email&Product&Your+Order+Confirmation
I was wondering if the seeding square takes in consideration the from center spacing. I think it was MI Gardner who talked about this and it sounds as if you get several more plants per space than what is normally suggested? Also I was not able to catch the kind of method you use for your potatoes if you could share that. I didn't have much success with my potatoes last year though it was my first year trying and didn't know what I was doing (still don't ;) Love your red glass BTW- I have been wanting to get brave enough to get me a pair for years....
Yes it does
Link to the brassica tent?
Mine were completely devoured last year