GARDEN WITH ME | Finding Room to Grow More Food
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2021
- So many peas so little space. Come garden with me and learn how I strategize on how to grow more food in my garden so that I am able to produce a large enough harvest to fill my pantry.
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My grandfather always said a crooked row produced more.!
I was wondering if anyone else had heard that saying!
I was just told that by someone yesterday when I said it looked like I had been drinking when I planted my corn haha
😅 gotta love the old folks
I love this. I've never heard that. I work at a community garden with someone who is a stickler for the lines to be straight so I'm thinking about buying one of these spacers. That will be my new response to him!
I love the size of your garden. I have about 1/10th of the space to garden, but I'm grateful for that. Love watching play in the garden. 👍😀🌱🌻😎🌷🌼
I am a backyard gardener. My husband and I are now empty nesters and when we built our home last year opted for smaller sq ft in our home and a larger backyard. I utilize as much space as I can including growing in the ground in between the raised beds. I enjoy your channel very much and the practical advice, canning videos, baking/cooking vidoes and the fact that you are so down to earth are much appreciated!
Awe thanks!! I nearly killed myself last year putting up more food than ever before so I just know my personal limit
My whole garden is done with T posts amd chicken wire. Not the prettiest fence but it works.
t posts and hog wire!
Mine too
Mine too! Works well to keep the bunnies out.
Mine too is made with T post and old fence wire plus chicken wire....it works!
My starter garden bed is chicken wire and decent sized branches pointed to a tip and pounded in. God willing I'll be using my previous chicken run as a new garden bed too. Then the chickens get a new playground too.
If you are growing shelling peas, yes, it would take a ton of plants to grow enough. Personally, it would drive me mad to have to shell on those peas. I prefer growing snow and sugar snap peas so I can eat the whole pod.
We grow those too but love our english peas as our staple crop
@@1870s School cafeteria English peas ruined them for me. I cannot make myself like them. But, love me some blackeyed peas and all kinds of beans. I will add, I can't do the dried blackeyed peas nor the canned blackeyed peas from the store that are dried and then cooked and canned. But fresh ones are Oh My Goodness so good. And canned fresh ones are awesome.
Oh Rachel the other thing I have done for years is put my pea fence up and plant a row of peas on either side of the fence so I have 2 rows of peas growing in one row...it works great.
That exactly what I'll be doing but 3 rows, one down the middle and 2 on each side
@@1870s I am interested to learn how u get all those to climb on the fence....I am a visual learner (of course I love youtube :) so I will get it when I see it. I love ur channel, thanks for putting out so many videos! It really brightens my day!
As someone that manages the garden and all the landscape for our property I understand what you’re saying. It is a lot of management 💕
Interplanet peas in your tall stuff, I squeeze in 1400 peas into our tiny space by growing them not only as an 800 stalk main bed but also they grow among the sweetcorn, up the squash trellis, on the rose arches etc. Don't do the numbers haha gardening turns scary when you do that lol, but that said we're normally a family of 6 & we haven't bought fresh produce since hubby & I got married and started our first garden, we're now 2 but still grow for 6, our oldest 2 now have their own gardens & the youngest 2 are at college and sharing a flat together & we also fill that pantry, all off a combined space of around 50 x 50, we do a lot of container gardening in yard (driveway and parking area) space from carrots right through to tomatoes & climbing beans, adventurous use of available space will help you push the numbers & besides, its fun thinking up new and wacky ways to increase your harvest.
Do wish we could grow sweet potatoes though, it's just too short a season for them here so they are eat outs only for us.
There's nothing tall in my spring gardens
I've grown my peas on chicken wire with those plastic coated stakes for years and it works great!
I love, love, loooove my garden square! I never would has known that it existed if it wasn’t for you!
Hi. Rachel. You are a jem. Going out in the garden planting seeds to have a harvest for this year. You go girl. But, don't work so hard, because; one you need to be around more for Today. And second, you need to take care of your health. God Bless you Rachel. Take care. Maria. 🙅☕️🌷🌷🌷🍍🥦🍆🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💗💗💗💜💜💁🖐️
It's just a hard work season we've get tons of rest November-March
Thanks for the great video! Your so right about keeping it manageable. Last year I planted way more than I could manage and ended up with a smaller harvest than the year before. Sometimes my plans are bigger than my physical abilities lol. Thanks for keeping it real, you and your husband are a great team. God Bless you all and happy gardening.
You can always, as a temp measure, put up tall stakes with fishing line or twine between them along the fence line to cheaply train and grow more peas this year.
I did winter sowing on almost everything, and just yesterday I had to up-pot my chamomile. ONE milk jug yielded 24 potted plants! I just hope all the other stuff does as good 😁 and this year I have stuff planted EVERYWHERE. I did some in recycled kiddie pools and buckets and raised beds. It's becoming an addiction!
Awesome have fun growing
I normally put 2 peas in each hole and have no a lot of yield from a small area so no need to extend the garden, great video Rachel thanks for bringing us along to enjoy your day.
Do you think them or just let 2 pea plants grow together? I know that works for many crops so I may try it
@@1870s Dont thin them out theyll not appreciate the roots being pulled just leave them together
Since it's peas and they are fairly light weight try woven wire fencing, we have our whole yard fenced with that and it looks good. We buy ours at Tractor Supply.
I find i am changing the way i eat to accomidate all the fresh vegetables that i now produce, before i started growing most of what i ate was fast food /convenient stuff, I've found exploring different cuisines helps you find good recipes for more vegetable based dishes
Same here, it's so fun to learn to cook and eat new flavors and dishes based on the foods we grow
I hear you. I love just about any roasted veggie. Prepping them, or even blanched and frozen veggies (at the ready) makes eating healthy so easy and convenient. Save ourselves from ourselves!
my Dad always did the chicken wire on posts and reused these every year for his peas
Love your channel. I get so many ideas from your videos, for a small space Gardner such as myself.
I have used chicken wire for peas for 4 years. It works perfectly for me. When I am finished with and change to a different crop I just roll it up for the next go around in the fall.
Hi Rachel! I am getting ready to make some raised beds from some rough lumber I scored from someone that has their own portable mill!!
So excited...gotta get planting 😋😋😋
How exciting!! Happy gardening!
Last year I planted 90 pea plants....didn’t even touch the sides of what we would normally eat in a year lol so I understand your pea situation all too well. Looks like you had a fab day in the garden. Weather looked lovely
Oh yeah probably had enough for a couple dinners, lol
A market gardener I watch says to dig a trench and dump peas in! I'm in Lansing, Mi, & I've ALWAYS spaced them out. This year I tried the mass planting. Hope it works OUT. Maybe you could try it too! Love your channel. Thanks for sharing🌱
I'm enjoying your planting and gardening videos. Have to order one of those square foot planting templates. I'm changing up my entire garden this year. I'm doing square foot gardening. I have a 20 x25 space, the woven fabric is down, the boxes have been built and are in place, we went and got some of the materials needed to fill the boxes. We live due west of you, so with such a beautiful day we mixed compost, vermiculite, and peat in our cement mixer. Was so much fun! We chose SFT because of less weeding. I have spinal problems and just about did myself in last year between the bending, pulling weeds, and the heat. Our soul is gravel so big 4 x 12 x 18 inch high boxes for the back yard get built starting next week. And hubby had sticker shock filling the short boxes! Worth every penny. Planned this out all winter and can't wait to plant!
Oh sounds wonderful! Once my raised beds rot away I will definitely build mine higher
Awwwww I ♥️ you guys!
I quite get your staples garden. I grow and preserve all our vegetables and fruit for the year. Keep going with the tomatoes, last year I grew 250 of them. You can never have too many tomatoes! Love your channel. Weather in UK still a bit too cold for planting sadly.
I am using a lot more containers this year. We got root Knot nematodes and we have been fighting them for two years. So this year I am using more containers and crossing my fingers..A friend from Florida.
Love the mood boost you get from the first span of warm, sunny days! Here in NW Ga, we have had a few and are now entering the dreaded, "Bradford Pear, sneeze-your-head-off" season. I feel like I need a sign around my neck, [Not Covid, just allergies.] 🤣🤣 Happy gardening!
Lol we call those cat pee trees, the blooms smell horrible
Look at the youtube channel simplify gardening. He does an intensive planting of peas. I am trying it this year. You may want to try it in your fall garden. So far mine are doing well. I didnt start them in a gutter like he did but I may try that for my later fall planting. How Richard's also plants his this way. It doesnt seem to bother peas to be crowded.
Planting peas like that would take me forever. Personally do one row and plant on both sides every 2 inches. My garden is 1/4 of a acre with 90 foot rows. Prayers for you to have a great harvest. 🍀
Also wanted to say that the plastic orange construction fencing does wonders for growing on and it is easy to manage.
I love your energy!! Glad I stumbled upon your channel :)
Lumber prices surprised us too! Gone is the dream of my shed...at least until prices come down next year! Your videos are inspiring. It makes me feel like I’m right there with you. In these times of pandemic, that’s really nice. Thank you.
The price of lumber is crazy just built a 4x8 raised bed 15 inches high cost almost 300 dollars will take awhile to pay 4 itself
I garden by myself too. I garden over at my Mom and Dads Place, and I have a garden at my place too. And, I want to put in 4 or 5 4' x 8' raised beds. Pray for me! LOL.
Cattle panels are on sale at tractor supply right now, $20 each. I just bought 50 to use for building a garden fence, goat fence, trellis, and greenhouse.
Love the layout of your garden! Looks better than mine 😊. Someday....
I think Todd really likes you!!!!!
Definitely trellis your peas for more space!
Yep
Need to plant more carrots here myself, i have been going a bit crazy with it all lately planting greens out around the base of an avocado tree not digging all kinds of experimenting going on, my Ruth Stout-ish potatoes turnd out awesome i would call it a modified version as i had already hilled them with soil before i gave it a go but i am also trying the Charles Dowding method but with some sugar cane mulch to compensate for the aussie sunshine. Not that there has been much of that here lately ebverywhere is flooding I'm just happy i am in a good spot and have been lucky, other than autumn rain knocking over some field corn everything has survived the wild weather well, today i just saw the first actual ray of sunshine in two weeks or more
Oh my goodness I've been watching the news, hope y'all pull through safe and well.
I was hoping to have the construction done on my land and be able to start just a couple of raised beds up there. But I'm still in a supply chain/holding pattern. Meanwhile, I am going crazy thinking about what to plant in order to get enough for it to matter. Thank you so much for sharing your story about planning for 20 qts of spaghetti sauce in the beginning and only getting around 8. For some reason, that helps me to feel less pressure. That it's okay to start smaller and get better over the years. I'll be lucky to grow this one container of carrots while I'm waiting to get moved to my new house. And... that's ok. Maybe someday in the future I'll also grow thousands of carrots.
this price gouging is really bugging me with lumber and construction. just unreal. I told my hubby people are going to get creative and look for old buildings to get permission to deconstruct.
Grow snow peas & eat the whole lot YUMM !!
Yep I did up in my greenstalk but we love shelling peas those are our main crop snap peas we just eat fresh
Thanks for taking us along today while you plant Peas. You and Todd have a nice day!
Thanks, you too! ♥
Great job with the peas I have fence I should be using for climbers thanks for the ideas
It hard to think about every detail
Happy Gardening, Rachel !!
Just reading a few of the comments after watching your video and l think you do a wonderful job at gardening! Your garden is not only beautiful but it’s producing....so guess what you’re doing a great job!! As always l really enjoyed your video and appreciate you Rachel ❤️
Thanks Denise I love my garden too and it's manageable but I'm still near death by the end of October 😜
@@1870s lm sure you are! It is definitely a lot to manage!
Have a wonderful rest of your day🥰
Doing more container gardening , adding more big bins to grow more ❤
Brilliant idea, making perimeter fencing 'growable'... thanks Rachel
Lumber prices are crazy! I want to build a tiny 4’x4’ bed and choked lol.
My 4x8 cost close to 300 crazy it will take a few years to pay for itself
I'm not all the way through this video, but before you expand that fence, growing upward on trellis is DEFINITELY wise. It's just more efficient and way less work than expanding the garden space outward. You can always do more with more sq. ft., but as you said, it's just you. I have a toddler and work from home and consider myself pretty lucky to do so, but a 40x40 still seems like plenty of work during an after the growing season lol
Yep only so much I can do and I found my limit last year. I do grow vertical where I can, beans, peas, pumpkins
I laughed when you said it's mostly just you because, while you're husband helps with infrastructure, gardening really isn't his thing... TOTALLY me and my husband and I giggled when you said that because he's right next to me and you just described us. He (with my help of course) built everything from the ground up, with mostly repurposed materials, and he does enjoy watching his hot peppers grow, but other than that he really doesn't care. It doesn't excite him at all, so it's just me.
I am growing Mr. Big also this year. Ours were planted two weeks ago in zone 7b VA and started sprouting this weekend.
well done Rachel!
I really enjoy watching your videos. I am trying to start my very first garden this year and your knowledge and information is helping me so much. Thanks for Sharing. ❤
I got a lot deer and turkey here, so fencing we got to have a ta fence. Thinking of t posts and the cattle panel or something like that.
I would puta wire fence so that it doesn’t shade out the plants. I love your garden and the fence that’s there now. If you had a wire fence you could burn the spring grass out of it.
Are you a spy??? I just told Todd this last night!
You are very encouraging! I’m hoping to have my biggest garden yet this spring (80x60). It will include corn, potatoes and sorghum along with the usual suspects (cuke, toms, zuke, squash, etc). As my growing season starts slightly later than yours (I’m in Northern Canada) your videos let me know what I soon need to get done. ❤️
Alright last minute planning and preparations! Happy growing soon
I think you should extend the garden and you can always leave some of the beds fallow or plant in cover crops till fall and then plant in them so you don’t have pressure to move stuff out of other beds before you’re ready. You’d also be able to overwinter more things and still have beds to plant fresh stuff in before the overwintered stuff had gone to seed.
Another thing I have decided after trying to compost....I had my hubby build me another raised bed just to compost in. It makes is so much easier to let it sit and not have it drain away....my intention is to "grow" compost in part of my raised bed then the next year use that to top dress the other beds and then pick another bed to repeat that process again. .
I'm doing carrots and potatoes in buckets this year, so I can tuck them all over the yard. Good info on Home Grown Veg channel.
Great
Looking good! We are preparing our little raised garden now.
Good luck Dawg!
smashing video
Thank you Steven
Love your channel, regarding peas we planted tall telephone double row 50 ft. on t posts and 4 inch wire. They grew 8ft tall got 50 gallons ,not shelled. Almost got us through ran out March 1.
Wow!! I'll look up that variety may be just what I need
@@1870s I am zone 4b, I think you will like them, they will be a main crop here from now on!
Peas are yummy yummy. There's never enough! My husband is the same way. He will help with infrastructure but not the gardening part. Having a different fencing would help tremendously with yielding a bigger crop for sure! I will be gardening with 2 toddlers and a baby this year over on my channel. I love your concept of a staple garden. I've never heard that term before.
You can do it momma!
Certainly
Check out deepsouth homestead. They have grown peas in there greenhouse that are vertical. They had tons of peas . I asked them what kind of peas and they were called little marvel green peas. Check it out! Nancy from Nebraska.
My yard and garden area's not huge, plus I have 2 lg dogs that are mischievous, and I want to plant peas for the first time. My former Swedish neighbor used an old swingset that she draped strands of string vertically and grew peas up the string. It was the first thing she planted outside.
A lot of times I have used the trimmings from pruning my fruit trees to use for my peas to grow up. I just stick them in the ground along the row. It works pretty well. It’s even a thing, they call it pea brush. I need to get mine planted!
Sounds cute
I planted a short row of sugar snap peas today and got the bed ready for purple potatoes. Our greenhouse is almost finished so i will be able to get the summer garden seeds started soon. Spring is here. 🐞🕷🌼
Awesome
Last year I tried to trellis my peas on my corn, I planted the peas a full 5 weeks before the corn and the corn still grew too fast and overshadowed it. This year we put up new fencing for the chickens, it's farm fencing, but we have some left on one roll and a whole other roll I'll be using for tomatoes, tomatillos, and pepper trellising, and that's what I'm using for peas also, with some t-posts. I'm hoping it'll be super easy to take up in the fall and store over winter.
You will be harvesting peas non stop ! That's a big garden and by fall you will be pooped out .
Yep, pooped and proud
Rachel, We were trying to build a tool shed. Lumber for 2x4 stick is over 10 each. My hubby found that the metal galvenized studs 2x4 were about half that. So maybe thats an option. Normally the metal studs are higher price than lumber.
I planted peas this season myself some of them I have had to plant twice of course that won't be the first time I have ever had to do that well good luck I hope everything goes well
Good luck Jackie
I just made my order from dixondale farms ! I’m excited to plant !
Awesome have fun
My black eyed peas, cucumbers, squash, potatoes, onions ( in all winter), dill, loofah, birdhouse gourds, and corn are all up in the garden. My tomato and pepper starts are growing really well. Can't wait till things get big enough that it doesn't just look like dirt lol
Wow your so much further along
That's good to know. We are family of four. And preparing our garden space and it's roughly 50ft long by 30ft. We are good 30 to 45 min away from shopping centers for bulk buying. So trying to do what we can here for us. Our store here is to expensive cuz the convince I think.
Would you do a spring pantry tour. Just an update on what you have left at this time of year.
We kind of did, in this video: ua-cam.com/video/q_s431jUosk/v-deo.html
The extra peas can be stored in a jar in the fridge or freezer for next year if needed.
You guys are too cute!
You would have to plant a whole lot of peas to can. I hope to plant green beans thanks for sharing your planting day. What scares me about gardening is knowing what your soil is lacking for your plants. Seems there is so much to figure out and it could get expensive and mind blowing.
Use the chicken wire for the rabbit holes. Protect those pea plants.. 🐰🥗
No kidding gotta do something
Hi Rachel
Hello again Holly
I only have 1 long garden bed, a small standing raised bed, and a green stalk planter. I will use 5gal buckets for certain things (corn grows great in those and I can arrange them in squares to ensure pollination). Normally by now I'd have a lot more prepared. I'm in southwest Detroit and I'm about a week behind you for frost date. I'm doing what I can now, but I'm quickly running out of energy. My baby is due April 24th and at 35.5 weeks my energy is just zapped. Hopefully by the time I need to plant my tomatoes and summer crops I'll be back on my feet and functioning a little better...just with a wee one attached to my chest
There are many seasons in life, right now your happens to be growing babies over veggies! Focus on that and when your up to it you'll have time for a fall garden I bet ☺️
rachel, I was just wondering what you do with all those peas? do you freeze them, only eat them fresh? can't remember seeing you can peas.
so glad spring is here. I am looking forward to this new growingseason, in my own garden, but also seeing what my "youtube friends" are doing in their gardens. 🍅🥔🥕🙋♀️
We freeze them
Have you grown white Dixie butter peas? They are soooo prolific and tasty. They're actually a small butter bean. They are a bush bean
Tried last fall didn't get them in before the first freeze
Yes ma'am wood is getting expensive. It was cheaper for me to get the plastic stakes for my chicken wire than the wood I actually wanted. Saved about $30! And the plastic ones have a metal core and will last so much longer!
Get an electric fence or wire that you can wrap around garden down low. Just make sure to mow the weeds down. That what we will be doing
I know lumber is high, but what about t posts, cattle panel, and chicken wire along the bottom to keep out Peter cotton tail?
Brie the plant lady swears by planting onions and garlic tight as an outside border for your plants deters voles and rabbits.
Rachel if you know of anyone that has bamboo growing in a thicket near you maybe you can fashion a cheap bamboo trellis.
No bamboo growers around here that I know
@@1870s Perhaps just use some good sturdy oak or some other kind of limbs to make a temporary trellis. Ive seen people use repurposed chain link fence too. Sometimes they sell on market place or for free.
40 X 40 = 160 foot perimeter - 3 foot for gate = 157 feet = 684 inches / 2 = 342 pea plants
I would plant 9 per square foot run of fencing, ok I loose the gate but I get way closer to my target
Do you have problems with field mice eating your peas?
One tip I was told to prevent this is to soak the seed in petrol before planting. It does the seed no harm but the mouse won't eat more than one.
We don't so far
I have seen homesteaders par boil greens and freeze them for frying and putting in soups and quiche. Just a thought.
Oh we do that too but not salad greens
Have you thought about cattle panel arch trellises between the raised beds? To add more vertical growing space?
Yep have several seasons and in the plan this year for my beans
I am using chain link fencing for my peas in kzoo
Great!!!
I was looking up the variety of pea you are growing. They stay pretty short, maybe you need to grow a taller variety?
That may be a case of length of season, but something to explore.
They are heavy producer of 4-4.5 inch long pods with average 8 peas per pod. That's pretty good, not sure I know of a variety that grows longer pods
Rachel pricing is not going down only up and up. I talked to my roofer and he said metal for roofs have gone up 1.10 a foot just this year.
Yikes we planned to replace our barn roofs this year
Please show us videos on onion planting..I can't wrap my head around the board you use..lol
I won't use my board for onion planting.
Ooooh I love the seeding jig 😍 We could use that in our garden...where did you get it?
Link in description 👍
The Garden of a Thousand Peas....seems fitting lol
I have thought about recording some garden stuff for my channel just to have some company. 😅
Do it!!
I just put my peas in.
Happy growing
Grow ALL the PEAS😂😂
Girl I'm trying
I’ve started seeds indoors. Not peas yet. My yard is small less than 1/4 acre. I need to make verticals gardening things. Might freeze next week even though it’s so warm this week. I’ve never harvested more than a handful of this and that. I’m a veg gardener wannabe. I’ve never canned. Got a canner I don’t know if it works. I don’t get it.
You can do it! Check with your county extension office, they have classes on canning you can take.
@@cynthiafisher9907 thank you Cynthia :)
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