Alright here it is, the SUMMARY you've all been waiting for... (0:20) Hasn't started any seeds yet (Zone 6), starting onions Feb01. (0:37) Maximize small space with proper planning. (1:13) Focus on purpose of garden (juicing, salsa, stir fry, etc) (2:08) Don't grow in small space: squash, melons, sweet potatoes, onions, corn, dry beans, (4:15) Limited space, focus on purposeful harvest. (4:40) JG: JUICING GARDEN (4:50) JG: Tatsoi, chijimisai (5:10) JG: Cucumbers for electrolytes (Marketmore 76, China Jade) (5:20) JG: Beets for minerals (Cylindra, Bulls Blood) (5:31) JG: Coral Carrots (5:38) JG: Celery (Utah Tall) (5:46) JG: Parsley (start early, slow start) (6:10) JG: Slicer tomato (Cherokee Purple) (6:18) JG: Melon if can trellis (Sakata Sweet, small and very sweet) (6:35) SG: SALSA GARDEN (6:37) SG: Tomatoes (Cherokee Purple, Purple Bumble Bee, Amish Paste) (6:55) SG: Onions (Yellow of Parma, Wethersfield Red, Australian Brown less pungent) (7:14) SG: Green Onions (he just harvested some today). Cut and come again, they multiply. (7:38) SG: Garlic (can still Spring plant, get cloves from organic store) (7:51) SG: Peppers in order of spiciness (Ivarsky, Lesya, Etiuda, Poblano, Shishito, Thai Red Chili) (8:33) SG: Cilantro (8:38) SF: STIR-FRY GARDEN (8:52) SF: Peas for stir-fry (need trellis). Mammoth Melting Sugar (he loves it), Carouby De Maussane (hasn't tried it yet) (9:30) SF: Peas for fresh eating. Sugar Bon (snap pea), Lillian's Caseload & Progress 9 (shelling) (9:48) SF: Carrots. New Kuroda (great in hard soil), Nantes Scarlet (his fav for SF, needs loose soil) (10:23) SF: Turnips. Purple Top White Globe. (10:28) SF: Green Onions. (10:35) SF: Leafy Greens (can SF or juice). White Stemmed Pac Choy, Purple Lady Bok Choy, Old Tokyo Komatsuna (most cold hardy of all green, mustard flavor), Winter Choy (very cold hardy), Golden Beauty Chinese Cabbage, Late Nagasaki (11:46) SF: Japanese Minowase Daikon Radish (11:52) FG: FLAVOR GARDEN (12:07) FG: Basil (can dry, use fresh, freeze) (12:17) FG: Sage, Summer Savory, Rosemary (can hang them upside down in kitchen) (12:34) TG: TEA GARDEN (Chamomile, Lavender) (13:01) FG: Oregano, Thyme, Dill (13:10) FG: Peppers. Ivarski (smokes on oak wood and dehydrates), Tobasco (ferment and make tobasco). (13:33) FG: Bulb Fennel (Florence), can drizzle with oil and grill it in Summer.
Take Nate's advice - there is a LOT you can do in a small space. I had a very productive 15X20 ft. garden for 15 years. I dug out the space 1 1/2ft. down and loaded it with leaf mulch and compost, mixing it in and topping it off. It's ALL ABOUT THE SOIL! Square foot gardening was a topic then, so every year I planted 78 various tomato plants, 6 zucchini, grew snow peas up the fencing, and dotted the rest of the garden wherever I could with green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, scallions, chives & garlic chives, red peppers, lettuces, cucs, mache, various herbs inc. cilantro for salsa and a few other veggies. Yes, it was tough to walk thru, but EXTREMELY productive all 15 yrs. I lived next to a ball park and my garden attracted the attention of the folks going thru. I don't think there was a day that someone didn't come up to the fence to comment on my garden being glorious. I even had a few people take pictures! So, YES! You can do it and make it wonderfully productive! I wouldn't suggest 6 zucchini, tho! I gave it away to everyone I could think of and was getting 10-14 zucs a day. People got tired of it, so I gave them my recipe for zucchini bread and a veg pizza crust using the zucs. They didn't "have time" to make the bread, so I made it for them, then ended up delivering it to them, too. Talk about "The Little Red hen"!! That ended after one season! I made gallons upon gallons of spaghetti sauce and salsa and enough pesto to last until the next year's harvest. Not to mention fresh veggies for every day's meals. At the end of each season, I had plenty of space for garlic. My basil (due to consistent clipping) had to be moved out into a new 3' X 8' bed as it grew to be 6' X 5'! So in that new bed I added lemon verbena for fun. Follow Nate's instructions. Plant what you will utilize and watch your garden flourish! ThanQ for reading my long post. I hope it will inspire someone. Love and success to all! 💖
I use SFG too! It really helped me figure out ways to grow as much as possible in the space I have when I first started about 4 years ago. My main growing space is about the same size as you describe and I've been pushing the boundaries farther with containers of all kinds. I really appreciate reading your experience.
@@ofrecentvintage ThanQ so much! I'm glad you enjoyed that read. Just keep going for it! You don't know what you can do until you try! Mel Bartholomew really got me to open my mind to "packing it all in there" and then I pushed a little farther! haha Best of luck to you!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yep, you can get "zuced out" in a few weeks! Bread, veggie pizza crust, stuffed w/sausage - cheese - onions - bread crumbs - spices, steamed, breaded, Ugh! But it's delicious (for a couple/3 weeks!)
@@momcomputer6461 Mel really encouraged me and expanded my thinking as well. I knew my goal of growing 95% of my own veg had to be possible and wasn't a pipe dream but didn't have a strong plan for "how" until coming up on SFG and a few other ideas. I'm grateful for everyone who has come before and passed their know-how/"crazy ideas" along! Thanks for the encouragement to keep pushing. All the best to you this garden season!
I am in Iowa zone 5 something. I am rejuvenating old lawn. I have 6 raised beds and a huge yard. I am trying cumin again this year ! I have a Mexican plot….black and pinto beans, cilantro/coriander and cumin. I have a tea garden with mint, cilantro, lavender. Cooking garden of herbs. And my fave….popcorn.
@@vikkiwalton6229 I bought Japanese Hulless. (Got thru Migardner). 85 days. 4 ft high. I am making the rows as wide as lawn mower and planting Crimson Clover in between. Hope it works. My soil is terrible.
I live in Estonia, 9th floor. I have about 15 meters long porch and you bet your ass im having a garden up here. Mostly buckets. I grew last year about 14 cucumbers, and over 20 tomatos (mostly indet. Like black cherry, ananas, beefsteaks, but also hanging basket, like tumbling tom and garten perle). Some lettuces and kale, last year I also threw in couple of really long string beans. Bell pepper or two. And few hanging flowerr baskets. usually we get a small side salad to go with lunch. Its not a lot for a gardener, but for city person living on 9th floor, its CRAZY I can go to my garden, and pick myself a salad.
Zone 9 So California. I grow everything in 5 gal buckets on chairs, to confuse my gophers and ground squirrels. I planted Oct 1st, harvested Feb 1st and got peas, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Swiss chard, beets and radishes.
Just found, and love your videos! I’m in CT, zone 6a, on a very small piece of property. The bulk of my rocky, hilly space goes to culinary and medicinal herbs. On the north side of the same area I grow some fruits and berries. In my sunny spot I grow rhubarb (yes, it’s large but rhubarb juice is the best!), hard neck garlic (because I love the scapes), Pink Fang, Amish Paste and several different cherry tomatoes, and green beans on a trellis. Pots of peppers and potatoes line the driveway. (I can’t wait to try your potatoes in a bag idea!) I’ve been building my soil for 40 years so even though it’s tiny, my garden space is very productive. Thanks so much for this lovely, garden focused space!
@KathyFitz1113 , hello! There’s plenty of room in the ‘Garden like a Viking tribe’ & it’s quite a blessed community of like minded souls that love to nurture nature harmoniously (thanks to Nate)! I hope you check out his live Q&A Saturday mornings, if you haven’t already. Of course his sharing of soo much knowledge & wisdom is stellar but it’s also great seeing what everyone in the chat is doing & asking questions about too. While you’re binging(!?!) or watching his videos you might want to write any curiosities &/or thoughts down & ask about em/share em in the Saturday morning livestream’s chat. Just some food for thought perhaps… ❤️🙏🏻🌻
@@ryansearles6078 Howdy neighbor! So many medicinals grow well here and many of our Ct weeds have medicinal properties too. 😀 I’ve had great success in my garden with comfrey, echinacea, elderberry, feverfew, horehound, mint, raspberry, and yarrow. The great forage medicinals are burdock, elderberry, mullein, plantain, and rose hips. I just need to preserve more as our winters are pretty long and one broken toe used up much of my preserved comfrey stash! 😂
@@KathyFitz1113 Amazing! I was on the fence about comfrey and just bought some feverfew/yarrow seeds so glad to hear things should go smoothly :) Last year I set up a little herb bed w/ oregano/thyme/sage/rosemary and they’ve been huge Ws so looking forward to add to it this year 🪴
Over here in Cape Town, South Africa, I am still expanding my garden. We have Kikuya grass that takes over if given a chance, difficult to kill. Eventually I will have a mix of survival and salad veggie patch in my back yard. In my front yard I started a food forest. This is to save money, I am a pensioner.
Pennsylvania Zone 6b: My kids tallied my garden list at 122 different tomatoes, peppers, beans/peas, onions, garlic, brasicas, & herbs. Most excited for Sugar Rush Peach Peppers, Abe Lincoln Tomatoes, Red of Florence Onions, 3 sisters: Oaxacan Green & Amethyst Dream Corn, T.Melon Squash, and Anasazi & Appaloosa Beans.
I grow sweet potatoes in containers (20" x 26" x 12" plastic bins) outside my garden. Sometimes deer eats the leaves, but the plants are still able to survive and produce huge tubers. You cannot compare the flavor to what you buy in the store to what you grow in your garden. Also, I grow lots of beans interplanting them between tomato plants for trellising. I use a lot of beans in cooking, canning and shelling. My garden is small - 15' x 26'; however, I use trellises on every raised bed and try to grow vertically as much as possible. Basically, I grow everything Nate recommends plus potatoes in a small 8'x4' bed. In addition, I grow sorrel - a leafy perennial for salads and soups. You can start harvesting them in early spring all the way to November. Zone 6b You can really plant a lot in a small space utilizing every square inch of your garden space and fence.
Going to be a great year of abundance, the season is quickly approaching my friends! I usually get a late start but not this year thanks for the solid info!
In central Missouri, planted onions this morning, after seeing the garlic and walking onions I stuck in the ground in November starting to peek out of the ground
Going in the complete opposite direction: Squash not regular squash like zuccini, but the weird ones; Zucchino Da Fiore and Tromboncino Squash. They produce the biggest and best of flowers and if you haven't done it, stuffed squash blossoms are Purely Divine~!!! It's a bucket list thing. Take several blossoms and chop them finely for a pasta sauce. The blossoms are so marvelous fried, stuffed, or blended into things. It's a flavor profile like no other. It gets even wilder if you add a little tiny dash of Fennel Pollen.
Dried bean varieties for limited space are Tigers Eye, Hidatsa Red and Hutterite Soup. All are semi pole and max out at around 4 feet producing pods from the ground up. Can be grown perfectly on tomato cages with 6-8 plants on each. Can get around 50-60 plants in perhaps a 5-6 foot area. MA zone 5b.
@@CinnamonBear-xv4eq just plant the seeds in a circle around the base. 😉 They'll climb up. could also use 4-5 stakes in a teepee, but it doesn't work as well. Those 3 varieties work great this way, the hidatsa and hutterite type are pretty small (but really great soup beans), tiger's eye gives you more bang for the space. They might overgrow the cage a little, but you can just keep twining them to the top in a circle till they die off. yellow indian woman is also a variety this works for (also small). Use the big cages. It's also a good way to get use out of tomato cages since they suck for actual tomatoes... lol... I also do this on top of a squash hill, just keep the squash off it. Heh, I had a stuffed bear as a child named "cinnamon".
I just found you and I am so excited. I live in East Idaho-Zone 4. Not growing anything now as I am in Los Angeles caring for my mother after a bad fall. I miss my garden, but taking this time to learn more for next season!
Zone 5a, Ontario. I've had a small balcony veg and herb patch for the past 20 years or so. My biggest piece of advice would be to use smaller varieties like cherry tomatoes and pickling cucumbers to get a higher yield over the course of the summer. Everything is in plastic 5 litre tubs and a variety of terracotta pots. Having a shelf to stack the herbs on is a game changer. I use some of the railing to support the vining varieties like the cantaloupe. Also, flowers are very important to have in order to feed the pollinators if you live on the 10th floor or below. Happy growing! _This season's brag_ - over a dozen herbs, 3 types of cherry tomatoes, marigolds, morning glories, pansies, beans, peas, cantaloupe, summer squash, winter squash, pickling cucumbers, wild flower mix, green onions, lettuce (I usually use nasturtium as ground cover and food source but wasn't able to find seeds this season), and a patch of grass to feed to the guinea pigs. I also have a tub for building compost off of the used guinea pig shavings, veg and kitchen scraps. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
I'm in 8b, and this is the first time in this zone so I really appreciate the cold zone tips because Arizona gets snow where I am at. I planted Elderberry, blackberry and grapes, blueberries and raspberries in large planters. We can't have citrus here or morenga olifera like I used to plant. But, I am doing very well with my edible cacti which is doing great in ground. I'm growing agave for the edible flower stalks, prickly pears for the fruit, and many native trees for the bean pods su h as mesquite beans and paloverde. I'm also planting cholla cacti which has edible fruit and you can scrape off the spines and roast the new growth. I'm trying out veggies this year and have high hopes with the fermented fertilizer from Nates videos,but as a back up I am planting an edible cactus garden.
I have a small yard so I have 9 Vego beds and after couple years I found one bed is Thornless Blackberry, one Raspberry, one Asparagus, one Blueberries and Strawberries, one Garlic (wife is Chinese and cooks with lots of garlic) and that leaves 3 left for Tomatoes, Cucumber, Squash (butternut didn’t grow this year) in the ground I planted 5 Columnar Apple Trees and this year one Italian Prune that I put in the front yard, also use grow bags and garbage cans for potatoes…Western Washington State 8b
Did over 100 veggie plants Last year so too many to list. But got a bunch of the recommended varieties from the last video. Looking forward to the purple Cherokee and bumble bee. Love to have the long videos back Nate. Thanks brudda
Thanks Nate. going to rethink my dry bean garden. LY we planted in a 4 x 12 raised bed, planted 4 verities, didn't get enough beans to warrant the space. But did plant a couple rows of green beans in there. That was the best, wasn't a big fan of green beans till I tasted those home grown green beans!!! Also planted dragon's tongue in cloth grow bags and that worked out great for us here in northern Arizona high desert. The vining beans took to long to produce and were lost in the first frost.
Zone 7 I am doing 24 grow boxes: 4 will have spaghetti squash/Anasazi beans/lemon balm (2 boxes on either side of a squash tunnel). 2 will have pickling cucumbers with a cucumber trellis between them 4 will have determinate tomatoes (San Marzano paste) and basil 2 will have eggplant 1 will have leaf lettuce 1 will have spinach 2 will have Scarlett runner beans and parsley 2 will have zucchini 2 will have snow peas and calendula 1 jalapeno pepper 1 poblano pepper 1 bell pepper 1 bush beans I'll plant my Tahitian melon near my apple tree I have a Huglekulture mound that already has my garlic. I'll plant carrots, beets and radishes there. Also Amish paste and tomatillos.
I did eggplant for the first time - and it was a total banger. Compact plants each produced ~4-5 small eggplants. Best eggplant I've ever had, I grilled them whole, chopped them up into cubes and they melted into homegrown tomatoes and basil for an amazing pasta sauce. Great flavor and a slight tang / puckering of the mouth. Traviata F1 from territorial.
With nothing! Haha. I leave them whole and roast / grill em hot. Then chop them up and they should fall apart, add them into the marinara that you are making and they mostly melt away. I use the skins and all and don't notice tough skins in the pasta., maybe thats because they are so fresh compared to store bought @@gardenlikeaviking
Northern indiana, I love peppers and I can get an amazing amount of peppers in 6-8 10 gal containers. I have had great harvests by putting 2-3 peppers in each container, depending on mature plant size. Maybe less harvest per plant doing this, but I am able to get a great variety of peppers. I had a container with a cayenne and a habanero that I got about 50 habanero and 100 cayenne in one container, more than what I could use from one pot. When growing bigger peppers, I did see smaller harvests with this technique and will be giving them more area this year.
I'm so glad i saw this before I purchased the seeds waiting in my cart. This video influenced me to add some of the varieties you recommended 👍🏼 happy growing!
Great video. I'm a new gardener. I love roasted veggies so I'll be growing root veggies, tomatoes and zuchinni. I'll also grow kale to add to my smoothies.
I’m in northern Virginia. I don’t have much full sun space. Tomatoes are a high priority and I’m going to try Cherokee purple and Amish paste for first time this year. I’m going to plant basil onions and nasturtiums for companions. Biggest take away from last year is succession gardening to maximize space. I’m also looking to tuck in a few veggies around my yard. Ornamental cabbage is grown all the time why not edible cabbage? It’s pretty too! I’m going to try alpine strawberries and ginger in my landscaping and see if they tolerate less sun. I’m going to try hibiscus in a pot to grow for tea. I also found a dwarf coxcomb you can use for tea and as companion plant. Nate’s slurping has inspired me to grow some plants for tea!
Great ideas, Nate. Thanks! I love the idea of making a garden essential for A pillar of your kitchen. Categorize your garden on how it goes into your house. If you're just starting out, learn how to grow a favorite veggie well. Then learn how to grow a salad. Then learn how to grow a pantry. Yeehehes! I'm Indianapolis zone 5,6.7? My pillars are resupplying my spice racks, canned goods, and fresh produce. I've been growing for 3 years seriously. I've failed, and I'm retooling my 5 gallon fabric pots. I have a dozen and I've learned that they are too small for potatoes. However, they will do just fine for peppers this year. I will grow Hungarian peppers and Jalapenos for paprika and chipotle powder. Dried and smoked spices for the fall and winter. I have raised beds with trellises and lots of garlic planted on the south side. I also grow lots of tomatoes and strawberries successfully. The strawberries are everbearing and a snack to get me out in the heat of June and September. Tomatoes are for slicing, canning and salsa. My long-term plan for the next 2 to 3 years is for macronutrients like potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn. Man, I love that corn is 0.25c an ear here in Indiana. Sometimes the juice ain't worth the squeeze. Carrots remain frustrating. Oh, and the San Marzano tomatoes pull double-duty. I water bath can them for tomato sauce and I outsource them to a buddy of mine for salsa. Him and his wife have a killer recipe and I get a great kickback for giving them 10 pounds of tomatoes. Talk to other people who are enthusiastic and see what you can do TOGETHER. I've got this, if you've got that. I think the one thing I'll push back on here, respectfully, is that if you have room for a row of tomato plants, you'll have room for pole beans. It's vertical gardening. I had a 1` x 10` run of Good Mother Stallard beans produce 5 or 6 pounds of dried beans. They're very prolific and worth buying a cow panel trellis for your garden if you have 5` available. It's up to you to define SMALL GARDEN though. :)
wonderful information my friend thank you for sharing!!!... yes definitely potatoes would be a good macro and Yukon golds do really well and store a long time for us in Indiana... thats a pretty good harvest from a single 10ft row or GMS!!
First, I want to thank you🙏 Your videos are so much better than most that i've seen👍 . I live in South florida. I'm sure I'll be following you for a long time.
I think my best advice for a small space is to pick a couple plants you really want results from and double down on those. My original garden was 7x7 and we got roughly 50lbs of food mainly from beans and squash.
Butternut squash and melons and sweet potatoes are my favorite... So I just made space 😅 Bought some 50 gallon grow bags. If i have to tip toe through my squash, still happening.
We’re in 7b / Alabama. Planning fill the belly staple vegetables like pinkeye purple hull peas, green beans, green peas, several herbs, vertical sweet potatoes, collards, green onions, leeks, celery, tomatoes: Cherokee Purple and Black Cherry and Roma, Malabar spinach, garlic, sweet peppers and some hot peppers, Irish potatoes, sprouting broccoli, and more. Our goal is to stock up the pantry and freezers.
sounds wonderful my friend do you have experience eating the malabar spinach??... I've grown it several times but just cannot find a way to prepare it that I really enjoy
I heard a suggestion to grow beets in clusters of 3 to save space.. I had success with this last year! So agree with Nate about the oversized squash; pattypan only for me this year! Ground cherries can be grown in containers and are heavy producers (and heavy feeders). The onions are so good I’m going to interplant even more in my flower beds. I had good luck interplanting them with tomato last year; even if they weren’t as big as in the onion bed. Small urban garden in Z3 Canada
Brother, you have such a rich store of information to share. I have learned much from you in the past 6 months or so since I first learned about Mychorrhizal Fungi and Regenerative Gardening. You are one "heckuva" guide for the great mass of information associated with gardening. I very much look forward to this spring when I can begin applying all that I have learned in the past several months. Moreover, you are gardening in Indiana, and I am a native born Hoosier now living out West. You are so practical too.
I really appreciate these suggestions for the small garden. FYI it would be good if you could hold the seed packets steady and not shake them as you show them. (I know you are excited about this subject.) My eyes are going crazy jumping up and down looking at the names. Turning on the subtitles doesn't help much because it tries to spell according to your voice and not according to the seed names. For some reason, your screen is getting more and more misty. It doesn't happen when I watch other channels.
I use a modified three sisters setup with a nice sturdy trellis at the back to maximize the output of my high desert garden. My main suggestions are to study your microclimates, figure out which rules are more like guidelines, and choose cultivars carefully. Also, if you like mushrooms (or if you regularly barter with someone who does), planting winecap or oyster mushroom spawn in the damp and shady spots is a great way to squeeze out an extra crop and improve your soil.
Very interesting and innovative approach to finding satisfaction in the small garden. Your specific recommendations are great! Would be so wonderful if you could expand on this matrix, adding details on succession planting and companion planting (friend/foe combinations) and garden design/layout.
What a great video, packed fully of vital info, thank you. This vid is definitely a keeper, a handy referral. I’m from South Australia. It’s the middle of summer here and we’ve had so much summer rain our paddocks are bursting with green grass.
My WI zone 5a garden is on the small side, I take advantage of trellising as much as I can. I vertically grow zucchini, winter squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, small melons, bird house gourds, luffas and vining flowers for the hummingbirds. This year I will be filling empty spots with grow bags. Totally agree how awesome Utah and Pink celery is compared to store bought. I have a friend in Chicago that has a balcony garden, he has every square inch figured out, I sent him a Greenstalk last year, he just loves it. Biggest concern with small space gardens is sun light, have to be very aware how big things get. I use cattle panel arches to create shaded areas for mushrooms. Setting up a hydroponic experiment using worm casting extract and comfrey tea as nutrients. Never tried hydroponics before, wish me luck. My main tomato bed and celery bed have a perennial living mulch of thyme and oregano, never have to do any weeding, and the soil always have living roots for the soil food web. My favorite paste tomato is the Opalka, huge tasty fruit with very few seeds, try them sometime, Amish paste are a close 2nd. Have a good day! Stay Well!!!!
@@gardenlikeavikingI will be posting a video on my new channel here is a link ua-cam.com/video/K138oKe-5BQ/v-deo.htmlsi=FGSzP2xGqirGGrOi When our computers got hacked in Oct, I lost access to my original channel ua-cam.com/video/YpH16ktXrFs/v-deo.htmlsi=vQ4fM8jKAvOtrNOS It is still out there I just can't post new videos or add comments. I have a bunch of videos on jumping worms if interested. Stay Well!!!
Some fantastic suggestions there Nate and I love the way you split them into different garden groups. I'm starting again after moving house here in Melbourne Aus (zone 9 ish?) First up will be 3 raised beds 8ftx4ft and all the pots from the old place. So starting an Autumn garden. Beans, peas, and greens will be my first priority. Plus many herbs from the old place. I'll basically be following your suggestions to fill up any available space. Cheers!
I clearly need to learn how to stir fry! This video made me ready for spring planting as well as hungry! Zone 5b 6a central Indiana... We have a suburban box garden, and we grow basics like tomatoes and peppers, but I will be trying some of the seeds you listed here in the future.
orack, hablizta tamnoides,dang shen and oerprei are a couple of funny things that im now growing in my zone 3 garden in norway, the hablitza have 2 inch shots now and the oerprei have grown grens tru the winter, they are outside and looks happy, and this came along couse i suck on growing cepa onions and let me self to be klondyked by the the seed catalogs, fun do;)
Thanks Nate, last year was a disaster for growing with the sky spraying, even the farmers got it tight, this year should be much better as solar cycle 25 gets into action, I've still got some turnips, parsley and romanessco growing from last year, kale too, the winters aren't as cold here, things just stop then start as it warms up again.
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for the mention, I doubt my neighbour's will doing much as their gardens are full of wendy houses, patios, sheds for more junk and trampolines etc, they're deep in the Matrix and still watching the Tell A Vision programming.
I'm planning to plant lots of beets and turnips. I was inspired to start fermenting veggies because of Nate's success with those tiny tomatoes and I was so impressed that he could slice it! So that is a big focus. There a recipe on youtube for fermenting rhubarb as well and I had some at a winery a few years ago and didn't know how they made it until very recently - Rhubarb patch in the tiny orchard. I've got eight (I think) big feeding troughs for cattle and those are the raised beds. Even though I had a slow start and the soil was not good (first go with this set up) I did get a few nice acorn squashes. So - I am going to give some squashes a go as the tubs are big and last fall I amped up the nutrients in them and I'm also giving more good stuff to them before "lift off". They have to grow up the bank on that side but it did work out to a fair degree. I'm in the throws of a huge learning curve. Spuds in grow bags. Those little tomatoes & lots of greens. I can't wait!
I'm in NH and have 20x30ft surrounded by fencing. Elevated planters, window boxes suspended on the fence, a few pots and a tower. (No tomatoes, onions, broc, peppers or melons. I buy those at the farmer's market.) Carrots, scallions, salad turnips, radishes, all types of peas, Persian cukes, bush and pole beans, a zuch, a bush delicata, herbs, spinach, and greens of all kinds. I need to feed two and a dozen birds. Whatever I don't eat fresh, I dry for the winter months.
I will grow Beit Alpha types, full sun, 55 days and NOT frost hardy, so I'll need to wait until the first week of June to get them started. I plan to grow them over the fence.@@gardenlikeaviking
Well, right now I'm just growing frost crystals as it's -45F, zone 2a. For the last few years I've mostly done tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, pretty much all in containers. I have a new property with quite a bit more space but it will be a couple years before I have it all done, I do have a 8x12' green houses now, so that should give me some more options, I need to get some temp data recorders so I can see how soon I can actually get plants going in there.
I have limited space only because I don’t have my deer or rabbit fencing. I only have 4- 2’x4’ garden beds, two GreenStalk planters and a bunch of grow bags. I also grow most things under my covered porch to shade from the blazing hot sun here in the middle of the day here in east Texas, zone 9a. If I don’t partially shade them they will all die in June! It’s crazy. Even my cow peas were burning up in the direct sunlight last year. I have invested in some shade cloth and we are in the process of installing the deer and rabbit fencing but in the meantime I use what I have. I focus heavily on cherry tomatoes, growing in the fall and mild winters and focus on things I can plant heavily or will give me cut and come again harvests. I’ve actually been able to grow celery pretty well under my covered porch and cut and regrow those. I have some celery plants that are nearly a year old! I plant my carrots in fall and overwinter them thickly in one of the garden beds and plant huge amounts of garlic in my one earth bed which is 4’x 8’ and was able to plant 200 cloves in December. They’re growing wonderfully there with lots of compost and organic granulated amendments some I made myself and some I purchased. I grow lots of onions all in grow bags because they don’t do well in the GreenStalk or the garden beds (not enough sun exposure to bulb up). So out in the full sun they go! I grow pole beans because I have trellising over my garden beds and this year I put bamboo pole teepees up over grow bags for more beans. I plan to grow rattlesnake beans for their dual purpose as fresh green beans and drying beans. One other thing I do grow but probably shouldn’t is lots of squash. I grew Tahitian melon squash, butternut, Tromboccino (my favorite), and I did grow one watermelon this last fall and it was personal sized lol. It was amazing though. I also grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in grow bags. I line them up in a row. The sweet potatoes are also one of the few plants that thrived on full blazing sun here. Also I do have a small 6x6” greenhouse which helps me start my seeds with heat mats. I’m planting more seeds tomorrow for more plantings of cauliflower but mostly of my favorite greens like chard, collards. I’m waiting for my root veggies to finish up in one bed so I can plant more beans in there. My peppers are going out in full sun this year so hopefully they’ll do well. My cucumbers take over the front of one a frame trellis in one bed and shade my celery keeping them cooler. We had as much fresh pickling cucumbers as we wanted last year and they were so fun to grow. I also got a couple quarts of snow peas from that same trellis a couple months before the cucumber was up. I do succession planting strategies to help with my small growing space. However this year I may be growing my tomatoes out in full sun with grow bags possibly moving them into shade when the summer comes to help cool them and keep them alive. I like grow bags because I can and do move my crops around a bit to suit them. It helps a lot! They all love the JLF I make (I live in the forest so leaf mold is plentiful) and the granular stuff too. I’m hoping to make more amendments this year for a continual harvest. Also my collard plants are also nearly a year old and survived this latest freeze which is awesome. They are thriving in one of my GreenStalk planters along with several herbs. I also regrow my onion roots which are planted all around the garden beds to hopefully help with pests and hopefully keep me in fresh seed. I like making salsas, soups, stir fries, and canning tomatoes and green beans because we use those the most.
@@gardenlikeaviking I planted two plants, one died, one survived and gave me two large squash. I was happy with that. It was a fall planting so it got killed by an early frost in October this year. I think if I’d had the seed earlier I’d have gotten way more from it for sure. Still, the squash is delicious! 😋 I do plan to let it sprawl this year and see how it goes. My tromboccino plant lasted last year from March until October and gave me quite a lot of squash so I think if I plant the Tahitian squash earlier this year it will produce a lot for me. It’s already back up in the 60-70’s so I’m going to start those seeds in the greenhouse and see if I can get a jump on it soon - maybe March 1st like I did for other squash last year. I’m considering growing them in ground though in my super sandy soil but with lots of compost to see how it does. 🤷🏻♀️I grew spaghetti squash last year in that earth bed and got a decent yield. It could work! Wish me luck. 🍀
Hey there Nate! Loving the vids & so grateful for the knowledge & wisdom my friend, thank you kindly!! I need to see if you have already done a “grow it vertical video” yet that covers all you would recommend be done that way & if you haven’t then hopefully you will soon!?! I’m so stoked for the gardens this year & hope I make em as efficient & thoughtful as ever! Much love to you & the tribe❣️🙏🏻🌻
Hi Nate, I used your recipe to roast and dehydrate my pablanos it is fantastic all my friends love it , so excited to grow new things you’ve recommended to us !!! Thanks for all your advice you rock 👍🙏🏼❤️
I learned the hardway with zucchini in my metal trough beds last year. Dinosaur size plants and quickly shaded out my eggplants. Any suggestions on what to plant after pulling garlic? Thinking bush beans. Same zone as you.
Thank you Nate you are the gift that keeps on giving… question Now that spring is I’ll be trying for the third time beets. But every time I try they get infested with root maggots and they destroy my beets… I’ve been told to spray with insecticide but I refuse that stuff is bad for nature… any remedies? Or just the home made natural insecticides that you taught us… Thank you
it sounds like they don't have adequate drainage... so be aware of that... then sprinkle a liberal amount of wood ash into the area before planting.... also look into using the "ultimate slug solution" on the soil a few times if the outbreak is bad...
Zone 6B… Last year my peas and beans were dismal. But now I know why-I interplanted with onions, which I since learned are incompatible with legumes. ☹️😣😖😫
I'm in NY zone 6a. I have a limited growing space and focus on smaller varieties of most vegetables (look for names that include "dwarf", "bush", "little", "midget", etc). I have herbs (divided into tea herbs, medicinal herbs & culinary herbs) that I started in an elevated planter (but am expanding into pots and a 4x4 raised bed), fruits (columnar apple trees, figs and berry bushes--all growing in large pots) and flowers (via seeds and bulbs), mostly growing along the edge/my garden perimeter. I can share specific varieties but don't want my comment to be too long. Any questions, please feel free to ask!
@@gardenlikeaviking You're welcome! Thanks for the info you share! The figs are Panache/Striped Tiger (to zone 7), Fignomenal (to zone 7), C's Red Fig (to zone 6) & Chicago Hardy (to zone 5). I kept them outside in a somewhat sheltered microclimate until the end of December/early January because we had an unseasonably warm fall/early winter. But when temps threatened to dip below 15 degrees for an extended time, I brought them inside and am keeping them in an unheated space inside my back door until the coast is clear, temperature-wise. Trying to make sure the space stays within the 20-50 degrees F range so they don't break dormancy prematurely. (Got the temp advice from Ross Raddi here on YT)
@@gardenlikeaviking I currently have 3 columnar apples from the line Stark Bros. had in stock last year. They've since added at least 3 more. I have the Emerald Spire, Scarlet Spire and Ultra Spire apple trees. All three are hardy down to zone 4 and stay outside.
@@gardenlikeaviking My berry plants are Baby Cakes blackberry (to zone 4); Peach Sorbet (to zone 5), Pink Icing (to zone 5), Blueberry Glaze (to zone 5), Pink Lemonade (to zone 4) and Toro (to zone 5) blueberry plants. All of the berry plants stay outside as well.
Looking forward Nate. Zone 6b.Wets see what the weather man brings our way. Bed of garlic gotta keep covering sprouts, 37 degrees. Potatoes, onions, zucchini, tomatoes Pole string beans a first. Slicing and cherry tomatoes, carrots and beets, chard. Basil etc and marigolds. Can't wait for cucumbers to slice and ferment. Planted tiny garlic cloves wall not for harvest around the garden earlier and now to keep out moles and voles. Low voltage also going up. It was a success last season keeping out woodchuck. Deer don't like spring onion, another wall surround. Not bad for being in our mid 70's. Thanks for all the suggestion of what works and delicious
@@gardenlikeaviking Woodchucks stayed out. Deer.... never had a problem. Could be because I always plant spring onion on border. It's been enough but the moles and voles dig under. Never has enough spring onion I guess. My thinking is if I leave the cloves there all season and fall, they repel moles voles all year 2024. Shoulda used razor wire for large animals to begin with.
Nate, is it possible to grow the Tahitian melon squash vertically or is it just too heavy? I have lots of large open heavy-duty wire fencing around my allotment but not a lot of ground space... 🤔
I've seen your allotment area and yes you could grow it up the fences if you were highly motivated... it will climb mostly by itself but you'll want to help it along each time you visit the plot to make sure its attaching itself to the fence... then once the fruits set you will want to place each one inside something like a women's leg stocking or a soft netting of some type... then attach that to the fence so the squash is supported.... it'll work yes I've done it this way.... if you have a compost pile grow it out of the base of the compost pile for a Jurassic plant!!!
Great, thanks, Nate. I will give it a go and let you know how I get on! 😊 I spent the day adding another layer of manure to the whole allotment, that should help it go Jurassic! @@gardenlikeaviking
Great advice on which plants to choose. When holding the package up to the camera for us to read the lable, please hold the label steady. It's difficult to read the shaking image.
My daughter and son in-law just bought a house with a big yard for gardening. That I believe is close to your area in Indiana. It's suburban New Haven. I would like to know some good nurseries and garden centers near by. Thanks my friend.
THANK YOU NATE for another jam packed video, full of awesome ideas and options to suit your needs in your space. So all the seed packets you showed in this video NATE, did you buy from Bakers Creek? I think South Africans can order from them. We googled Egyptian Walking onions, you can buy them here, Rather expensive, but they will multiply quickly I am sure. Much love from South Africa 🌍🇿🇦❤️👍👍👍👋👋👋
thank you for the love my friend and yes rareseeds.com is where I get them but don't feel obligated because I'm not sponsored by them in any way lol I just love the seeds!!
Belleville Ontario Canada 🙏🇨🇦👊🏻👨🌾💖(N side of Lake Ontario, my city's on the Lake👌🏻) I made an 11' × 15 garden bed. I scarified it down to the dirt, & the soil was typically hard. I saved all the stuff I ripped up, and hopped it up with good food then re added it to the dirt. I covered it with newspapers, then biochar laced compost, then covered it in deep mulched up leaves. Hoping it werks. I have not finished planning it yet, but there will be a bean wall protecting my cannabis and tomato patches from a serious bright parking lot light all night long. I have carrots, cantaloupe, peppers. I want to stick potatoes all over so they can help break up the soil. I will probably compost all the root veg in year 1, because of possible toxic chemicals present, that we need to get the biology digesting, and get it back to safe soil. I am winging it 😂 But Its gonna be great anyway. I have a huge winter composter thats gonna give me lots of soil by middle of spring, and will add it to the garden as well, then cover that with wood bedding shavings for mulch. My raised bed has garlic raspberries & wildflowers in it. I am new at this and love this video. Very helpful Nate.
I am feeding it LABS, & JMS, Liquid Chicken Manure Jadam Nitrogen, & JLF from Cannabis, because I have way more than I could ever use on the 3 Legal plants. And it was free to make😂 I am starting the rice wash right now for it, as well as Fish Hydrolysate( I am too late to make FAA for spring, but still making that next) I also have stinky JADAM Fish fert on hand still to feed the garden bed & composts. Leaf mold I started last year, after learning the Viking existed is very healthy and diverse and digesting even in tye freeze, in fact its more active than my hydrolitic compost 😂 weird eh? I started a huge leaf composter this fall, and it should make some sweet black fungal compost by next year. ❤
I have lots of room for a bigger garden but only put the plastic down on a 16x16 ft spot. I’d really like to grow lots of juicing things and peas beans peppers and tomatoes. Onions garlic and some ground cherries celery beets and carrots for juicing plus the greens Swiss chard and kale and spinach. I am going in to an old garden spot that has been a field now for some time. The soil is great but the top is grass. The lady thing I want is burnout before I even get started. What should I do? Make it big or keep it simple?.
Hi I have a question that I'm leaving here because it's your newest video and I wasn't sure if you check comments on old videos... I'm starting a compost bin, kind of new at this. 1. Junk mail... is it okay to throw my junk mail into the compost pile? My concerns would be the ink, as well as glue on the backs of sticker labels and also any chemicals that could possibly be in it. 2. Is it okay if I'm pretty much staying away from composting most food? I know that food is something that most people are composting but years ago when we tried composting, it drew in the rats and this is why my husband didn't want to compost anymore. He has okayed me to try it again as long as I am not throwing in lots of food that would attract the rats. My biggest addition to my compost pile would be hay from my pet chinchilla and wild rabbits. My wild rabbits are in fact wild, but I rescue, rehabilitate, and set free in my yard. I have a couple bunny doors in my Greenhouse so they come and go as they please and I always provide them lots of hay because it helps their digestion, especially the ones with weak immune systems. So I always end up with tons of leftover hay that I don't like to waste. So, will I end up with good compost if I am pretty much just composting hay, animal poop and urine, tons of plant clippings, and maybe occasional food that isn't so smelly? Also I was going to occasionally throw some peat moss and soil from old planters. Thanks!
yes that will work for you.... just remember Hay is full of weed seeds and cold composting will not destroy them so your compost will have lots of seeds in it so just be aware of that.... personally I would make my own "rat proof" container to compost from a 55gal drum with tight fitting lid and drill lots of 1/4 inch holes into it.... they can't get it... thats what I do... so you can compost all your food scraps as well
i planted my potatoes first phase....next week or so i will plant phase 2...i started the corn seedlings, beans, cilantro...but i am also wondering what else to plant... i have some tomatoes growing as well...zone 8
Great video but disagree on thw squash...i grew some Burpees butterbush butternut squash and they grow a max of 3 foot vines. Very conpact and get alot of squash on a small plant...i grew them vertical on a small mesh fence i made.....highly recommend baker creek for the seeds
I’m in central Indiana and have put up a low tunnel that is 5x16 that I am transplanting cold crop salads and cabbages. I have a 25 cord of water pipe heater cord that I’m going to throw out there for supplemental heat, don’t have old style Christmas lights, plus it turns on at 34 and shuts off at 42. Just wondering what your experience is with low tunnels and if you think the supplemental heat will help on cloudy cold days. With moderate sun it’s up to 65 in there now but I haven’t looked and seen how long it will hold heat.
tunnels have basically zero factor insulation so keep in mind the minimum temps at night will be the same in the tunnels... it will give you a solid month head start on the really cold hardy stuff like onions, cabbages... kale, collards... etc.... but don't use it for your tomatoes and heat loving stuff they'll die at night
Thanks man. My cold hardy veggies are a month old and I’m just experimenting with how far I can take different things under plastic. I know that night and day can make a difference in life. I really do appreciate you reaching out
I push you to move your content to a complete year round garden. Even if it’s hillbilly gardening it works if it works. Everyone’s gotta eat. And I just say this bc people that want to learn are a sponge. I’ve learned a lot from you and now I’m trying to see how far I can take that just for the simple fact I own some dirt and live in uncertain times
Excellent info. But I need to grow in containers part of my garden as well. Will compost tea be good for a container? Compost tea video would be great. I use Matt Powers "secret recipe", he advises no molasses. :) Eva
Pruning my Sweet Potato vines down to 5 ft long this year ( per Nate’s advice) in 7b, should get better crop and take LESS SPACE 🥧PIE GARDEN , Pumpkins and Sweet potatoes
wow something is off!... give them plenty of root space and lots of nutrients with consistent moisture from the soil being covered with a thick layer of leaves after the really hot weather arrives.... although the Cherokee is naturally a shy producer you should still get at least a dozen full size delicious tomatoes from each plant and often two dozen per plant!!
@gardenlikeaviking thank you sir! I'll give them a try again. Do tomatoes cross pollinate? If I save the Cherokee seeds but have other strains of tomatoes also will the seeds be hybrid or stay true to the Cherokee?
Alright here it is, the SUMMARY you've all been waiting for...
(0:20) Hasn't started any seeds yet (Zone 6), starting onions Feb01.
(0:37) Maximize small space with proper planning.
(1:13) Focus on purpose of garden (juicing, salsa, stir fry, etc)
(2:08) Don't grow in small space: squash, melons, sweet potatoes, onions, corn, dry beans,
(4:15) Limited space, focus on purposeful harvest.
(4:40) JG: JUICING GARDEN
(4:50) JG: Tatsoi, chijimisai
(5:10) JG: Cucumbers for electrolytes (Marketmore 76, China Jade)
(5:20) JG: Beets for minerals (Cylindra, Bulls Blood)
(5:31) JG: Coral Carrots
(5:38) JG: Celery (Utah Tall)
(5:46) JG: Parsley (start early, slow start)
(6:10) JG: Slicer tomato (Cherokee Purple)
(6:18) JG: Melon if can trellis (Sakata Sweet, small and very sweet)
(6:35) SG: SALSA GARDEN
(6:37) SG: Tomatoes (Cherokee Purple, Purple Bumble Bee, Amish Paste)
(6:55) SG: Onions (Yellow of Parma, Wethersfield Red, Australian Brown less pungent)
(7:14) SG: Green Onions (he just harvested some today). Cut and come again, they multiply.
(7:38) SG: Garlic (can still Spring plant, get cloves from organic store)
(7:51) SG: Peppers in order of spiciness (Ivarsky, Lesya, Etiuda, Poblano, Shishito, Thai Red Chili)
(8:33) SG: Cilantro
(8:38) SF: STIR-FRY GARDEN
(8:52) SF: Peas for stir-fry (need trellis). Mammoth Melting Sugar (he loves it), Carouby De Maussane (hasn't tried it yet)
(9:30) SF: Peas for fresh eating. Sugar Bon (snap pea), Lillian's Caseload & Progress 9 (shelling)
(9:48) SF: Carrots. New Kuroda (great in hard soil), Nantes Scarlet (his fav for SF, needs loose soil)
(10:23) SF: Turnips. Purple Top White Globe.
(10:28) SF: Green Onions.
(10:35) SF: Leafy Greens (can SF or juice). White Stemmed Pac Choy, Purple Lady Bok Choy, Old Tokyo Komatsuna (most cold hardy of all green, mustard flavor), Winter Choy (very cold hardy), Golden Beauty Chinese Cabbage, Late Nagasaki
(11:46) SF: Japanese Minowase Daikon Radish
(11:52) FG: FLAVOR GARDEN
(12:07) FG: Basil (can dry, use fresh, freeze)
(12:17) FG: Sage, Summer Savory, Rosemary (can hang them upside down in kitchen)
(12:34) TG: TEA GARDEN (Chamomile, Lavender)
(13:01) FG: Oregano, Thyme, Dill
(13:10) FG: Peppers. Ivarski (smokes on oak wood and dehydrates), Tobasco (ferment and make tobasco).
(13:33) FG: Bulb Fennel (Florence), can drizzle with oil and grill it in Summer.
Take Nate's advice - there is a LOT you can do in a small space. I had a very productive 15X20 ft. garden for 15 years. I dug out the space 1 1/2ft. down and loaded it with leaf mulch and compost, mixing it in and topping it off. It's ALL ABOUT THE SOIL! Square foot gardening was a topic then, so every year I planted 78 various tomato plants, 6 zucchini, grew snow peas up the fencing, and dotted the rest of the garden wherever I could with green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, scallions, chives & garlic chives, red peppers, lettuces, cucs, mache, various herbs inc. cilantro for salsa and a few other veggies. Yes, it was tough to walk thru, but EXTREMELY productive all 15 yrs.
I lived next to a ball park and my garden attracted the attention of the folks going thru. I don't think there was a day that someone didn't come up to the fence to comment on my garden being glorious. I even had a few people take pictures!
So, YES! You can do it and make it wonderfully productive!
I wouldn't suggest 6 zucchini, tho! I gave it away to everyone I could think of and was getting 10-14 zucs a day. People got tired of it, so I gave them my recipe for zucchini bread and a veg pizza crust using the zucs. They didn't "have time" to make the bread, so I made it for them, then ended up delivering it to them, too. Talk about "The Little Red hen"!! That ended after one season!
I made gallons upon gallons of spaghetti sauce and salsa and enough pesto to last until the next year's harvest. Not to mention fresh veggies for every day's meals.
At the end of each season, I had plenty of space for garlic. My basil (due to consistent clipping) had to be moved out into a new 3' X 8' bed as it grew to be 6' X 5'! So in that new bed I added lemon verbena for fun.
Follow Nate's instructions. Plant what you will utilize and watch your garden flourish!
ThanQ for reading my long post. I hope it will inspire someone. Love and success to all! 💖
I use SFG too! It really helped me figure out ways to grow as much as possible in the space I have when I first started about 4 years ago. My main growing space is about the same size as you describe and I've been pushing the boundaries farther with containers of all kinds. I really appreciate reading your experience.
lol 10-14 zucs a day haha I know exactly what you mean!
@@ofrecentvintage ThanQ so much! I'm glad you enjoyed that read. Just keep going for it! You don't know what you can do until you try! Mel Bartholomew really got me to open my mind to "packing it all in there" and then I pushed a little farther! haha Best of luck to you!
@@gardenlikeaviking Yep, you can get "zuced out" in a few weeks! Bread, veggie pizza crust, stuffed w/sausage - cheese - onions - bread crumbs - spices, steamed, breaded, Ugh! But it's delicious (for a couple/3 weeks!)
@@momcomputer6461 Mel really encouraged me and expanded my thinking as well. I knew my goal of growing 95% of my own veg had to be possible and wasn't a pipe dream but didn't have a strong plan for "how" until coming up on SFG and a few other ideas. I'm grateful for everyone who has come before and passed their know-how/"crazy ideas" along! Thanks for the encouragement to keep pushing. All the best to you this garden season!
I am in Iowa zone 5 something. I am rejuvenating old lawn. I have 6 raised beds and a huge yard. I am trying cumin again this year ! I have a Mexican plot….black and pinto beans, cilantro/coriander and cumin. I have a tea garden with mint, cilantro, lavender. Cooking garden of herbs. And my fave….popcorn.
what's the brand of popcorn seed you get?
@@vikkiwalton6229 I bought Japanese Hulless. (Got thru Migardner). 85 days. 4 ft high. I am making the rows as wide as lawn mower and planting Crimson Clover in between. Hope it works. My soil is terrible.
@@GinnyGrubb-le7qbI grew that popcorn last fall (in grow bags!) and it grew so well! It was fun too.
@@Happy2Run4Me TY for info. I can’t wait.
I live in Estonia, 9th floor. I have about 15 meters long porch and you bet your ass im having a garden up here. Mostly buckets. I grew last year about 14 cucumbers, and over 20 tomatos (mostly indet. Like black cherry, ananas, beefsteaks, but also hanging basket, like tumbling tom and garten perle). Some lettuces and kale, last year I also threw in couple of really long string beans. Bell pepper or two. And few hanging flowerr baskets. usually we get a small side salad to go with lunch. Its not a lot for a gardener, but for city person living on 9th floor, its CRAZY I can go to my garden, and pick myself a salad.
Zone 9 So California. I grow everything in 5 gal buckets on chairs, to confuse my gophers and ground squirrels. I planted Oct 1st, harvested Feb 1st and got peas, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Swiss chard, beets and radishes.
Always stoked when you put up a new video Nate!
Just found, and love your videos! I’m in CT, zone 6a, on a very small piece of property. The bulk of my rocky, hilly space goes to culinary and medicinal herbs. On the north side of the same area I grow some fruits and berries. In my sunny spot I grow rhubarb (yes, it’s large but rhubarb juice is the best!), hard neck garlic (because I love the scapes), Pink Fang, Amish Paste and several different cherry tomatoes, and green beans on a trellis. Pots of peppers and potatoes line the driveway. (I can’t wait to try your potatoes in a bag idea!) I’ve been building my soil for 40 years so even though it’s tiny, my garden space is very productive.
Thanks so much for this lovely, garden focused space!
sounds like you've got a great system my friend thanks for sharing!
@KathyFitz1113 , hello! There’s plenty of room in the ‘Garden like a Viking tribe’ & it’s quite a blessed community of like minded souls that love to nurture nature harmoniously (thanks to Nate)! I hope you check out his live Q&A Saturday mornings, if you haven’t already. Of course his sharing of soo much knowledge & wisdom is stellar but it’s also great seeing what everyone in the chat is doing & asking questions about too. While you’re binging(!?!) or watching his videos you might want to write any curiosities &/or thoughts down & ask about em/share em in the Saturday morning livestream’s chat. Just some food for thought perhaps… ❤️🙏🏻🌻
Hey Kathy fellow CT resident here! SUPER interested in creating a (perennial) medicinal herb garden. What have you found success with so far?
@@ryansearles6078 Howdy neighbor! So many medicinals grow well here and many of our Ct weeds have medicinal properties too. 😀 I’ve had great success in my garden with comfrey, echinacea, elderberry, feverfew, horehound, mint, raspberry, and yarrow. The great forage medicinals are burdock, elderberry, mullein, plantain, and rose hips.
I just need to preserve more as our winters are pretty long and one broken toe used up much of my preserved comfrey stash! 😂
@@KathyFitz1113 Amazing! I was on the fence about comfrey and just bought some feverfew/yarrow seeds so glad to hear things should go smoothly :)
Last year I set up a little herb bed w/ oregano/thyme/sage/rosemary and they’ve been huge Ws so looking forward to add to it this year 🪴
Over here in Cape Town, South Africa, I am still expanding my garden. We have Kikuya grass that takes over if given a chance, difficult to kill. Eventually I will have a mix of survival and salad veggie patch in my back yard. In my front yard I started a food forest. This is to save money, I am a pensioner.
Pennsylvania Zone 6b: My kids tallied my garden list at 122 different tomatoes, peppers, beans/peas, onions, garlic, brasicas, & herbs. Most excited for Sugar Rush Peach Peppers, Abe Lincoln Tomatoes, Red of Florence Onions, 3 sisters: Oaxacan Green & Amethyst Dream Corn, T.Melon Squash, and Anasazi & Appaloosa Beans.
Also trying Sugar Rush Peach peppers and Oaxacan Green corn for the first time this year. 😀
I grow sweet potatoes in containers (20" x 26" x 12" plastic bins) outside my garden. Sometimes deer eats the leaves, but the plants are still able to survive and produce huge tubers. You cannot compare the flavor to what you buy in the store to what you grow in your garden. Also, I grow lots of beans interplanting them between tomato plants for trellising. I use a lot of beans in cooking, canning and shelling. My garden is small - 15' x 26'; however, I use trellises on every raised bed and try to grow vertically as much as possible. Basically, I grow everything Nate recommends plus potatoes in a small 8'x4' bed. In addition, I grow sorrel - a leafy perennial for salads and soups. You can start harvesting them in early spring all the way to November. Zone 6b You can really plant a lot in a small space utilizing every square inch of your garden space and fence.
Going to be a great year of abundance, the season is quickly approaching my friends! I usually get a late start but not this year thanks for the solid info!
In central Missouri, planted onions this morning, after seeing the garlic and walking onions I stuck in the ground in November starting to peek out of the ground
Going in the complete opposite direction: Squash not regular squash like zuccini, but the weird ones; Zucchino Da Fiore and Tromboncino Squash. They produce the biggest and best of flowers and if you haven't done it, stuffed squash blossoms are Purely Divine~!!! It's a bucket list thing. Take several blossoms and chop them finely for a pasta sauce. The blossoms are so marvelous fried, stuffed, or blended into things. It's a flavor profile like no other. It gets even wilder if you add a little tiny dash of Fennel Pollen.
Dried bean varieties for limited space are Tigers Eye, Hidatsa Red and Hutterite Soup. All are semi pole and max out at around 4 feet producing pods from the ground up. Can be grown perfectly on tomato cages with 6-8 plants on each. Can get around 50-60 plants in perhaps a 5-6 foot area. MA zone 5b.
Can you describe how to fit 6-8 bean plants in a tomato cage? I want to try this
@@CinnamonBear-xv4eq just plant the seeds in a circle around the base. 😉 They'll climb up. could also use 4-5 stakes in a teepee, but it doesn't work as well. Those 3 varieties work great this way, the hidatsa and hutterite type are pretty small (but really great soup beans), tiger's eye gives you more bang for the space. They might overgrow the cage a little, but you can just keep twining them to the top in a circle till they die off. yellow indian woman is also a variety this works for (also small). Use the big cages. It's also a good way to get use out of tomato cages since they suck for actual tomatoes... lol... I also do this on top of a squash hill, just keep the squash off it. Heh, I had a stuffed bear as a child named "cinnamon".
I just found you and I am so excited. I live in East Idaho-Zone 4. Not growing anything now as I am in Los Angeles caring for my mother after a bad fall. I miss my garden, but taking this time to learn more for next season!
wishing your mother a fast and healthy recovery!!!
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I would like to see a video on how to organize plants in the garden to get the maximum benefit of productivity.
Zone 5a, Ontario. I've had a small balcony veg and herb patch for the past 20 years or so. My biggest piece of advice would be to use smaller varieties like cherry tomatoes and pickling cucumbers to get a higher yield over the course of the summer. Everything is in plastic 5 litre tubs and a variety of terracotta pots. Having a shelf to stack the herbs on is a game changer. I use some of the railing to support the vining varieties like the cantaloupe. Also, flowers are very important to have in order to feed the pollinators if you live on the 10th floor or below. Happy growing!
_This season's brag_ - over a dozen herbs, 3 types of cherry tomatoes, marigolds, morning glories, pansies, beans, peas, cantaloupe, summer squash, winter squash, pickling cucumbers, wild flower mix, green onions, lettuce (I usually use nasturtium as ground cover and food source but wasn't able to find seeds this season), and a patch of grass to feed to the guinea pigs. I also have a tub for building compost off of the used guinea pig shavings, veg and kitchen scraps.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
wow I'm surprised you were able to get good winter squash from a small balcony garden but well done!!!.. thank you for sharing!
Last year started growing peppers in containers (30 gal) two per container, with good success, eggplants the same, got good production. Eva
I'm in 8b, and this is the first time in this zone so I really appreciate the cold zone tips because Arizona gets snow where I am at. I planted Elderberry, blackberry and grapes, blueberries and raspberries in large planters. We can't have citrus here or morenga olifera like I used to plant. But, I am doing very well with my edible cacti which is doing great in ground. I'm growing agave for the edible flower stalks, prickly pears for the fruit, and many native trees for the bean pods su h as mesquite beans and paloverde. I'm also planting cholla cacti which has edible fruit and you can scrape off the spines and roast the new growth. I'm trying out veggies this year and have high hopes with the fermented fertilizer from Nates videos,but as a back up I am planting an edible cactus garden.
I have a small yard so I have 9 Vego beds and after couple years I found one bed is Thornless Blackberry, one Raspberry, one Asparagus, one Blueberries and Strawberries, one Garlic (wife is Chinese and cooks with lots of garlic) and that leaves 3 left for Tomatoes, Cucumber, Squash (butternut didn’t grow this year) in the ground I planted 5 Columnar Apple Trees and this year one Italian Prune that I put in the front yard, also use grow bags and garbage cans for potatoes…Western Washington State 8b
Peas , pole green beans , okra, garlic,tomatoes , peppers,potatoes, cucumbers, radish, flowers,herbs
Did over 100 veggie plants Last year so too many to list. But got a bunch of the recommended varieties from the last video. Looking forward to the purple Cherokee and bumble bee. Love to have the long videos back Nate. Thanks brudda
Thanks Nate. going to rethink my dry bean garden. LY we planted in a 4 x 12 raised bed, planted 4 verities, didn't get enough beans to warrant the space. But did plant a couple rows of green beans in there. That was the best, wasn't a big fan of green beans till I tasted those home grown green beans!!! Also planted dragon's tongue in cloth grow bags and that worked out great for us here in northern Arizona high desert. The vining beans took to long to produce and were lost in the first frost.
Love everything you're doing! Especially seed recommendations!!
Green beans are hard to beat for a large harvest from a small area.
Midwest Minnesota. started onion seeds 5 days ago.
I also give offerings to the landvættir and Húsvættir and germanic deities to ensure a good crop
Zone 7
I am doing 24 grow boxes:
4 will have spaghetti squash/Anasazi beans/lemon balm (2 boxes on either side of a squash tunnel).
2 will have pickling cucumbers with a cucumber trellis between them
4 will have determinate tomatoes (San Marzano paste) and basil
2 will have eggplant
1 will have leaf lettuce
1 will have spinach
2 will have Scarlett runner beans and parsley
2 will have zucchini
2 will have snow peas and calendula
1 jalapeno pepper
1 poblano pepper
1 bell pepper
1 bush beans
I'll plant my Tahitian melon near my apple tree
I have a Huglekulture mound that already has my garlic. I'll plant carrots, beets and radishes there. Also Amish paste and tomatillos.
I did eggplant for the first time - and it was a total banger. Compact plants each produced ~4-5 small eggplants. Best eggplant I've ever had, I grilled them whole, chopped them up into cubes and they melted into homegrown tomatoes and basil for an amazing pasta sauce. Great flavor and a slight tang / puckering of the mouth. Traviata F1 from territorial.
I could really use some additional eggplant recipes!!... you just grill them whole with what??
With nothing! Haha. I leave them whole and roast / grill em hot. Then chop them up and they should fall apart, add them into the marinara that you are making and they mostly melt away. I use the skins and all and don't notice tough skins in the pasta., maybe thats because they are so fresh compared to store bought @@gardenlikeaviking
Dwarf tomato project - indeterminate tomatoes on small plants
Northern indiana, I love peppers and I can get an amazing amount of peppers in 6-8 10 gal containers. I have had great harvests by putting 2-3 peppers in each container, depending on mature plant size. Maybe less harvest per plant doing this, but I am able to get a great variety of peppers. I had a container with a cayenne and a habanero that I got about 50 habanero and 100 cayenne in one container, more than what I could use from one pot. When growing bigger peppers, I did see smaller harvests with this technique and will be giving them more area this year.
I'm so glad i saw this before I purchased the seeds waiting in my cart. This video influenced me to add some of the varieties you recommended 👍🏼 happy growing!
Great video. I'm a new gardener. I love roasted veggies so I'll be growing root veggies, tomatoes and zuchinni. I'll also grow kale to add to my smoothies.
I’m in northern Virginia. I don’t have much full sun space. Tomatoes are a high priority and I’m going to try Cherokee purple and Amish paste for first time this year. I’m going to plant basil onions and nasturtiums for companions. Biggest take away from last year is succession gardening to maximize space. I’m also looking to tuck in a few veggies around my yard. Ornamental cabbage is grown all the time why not edible cabbage? It’s pretty too! I’m going to try alpine strawberries and ginger in my landscaping and see if they tolerate less sun. I’m going to try hibiscus in a pot to grow for tea. I also found a dwarf coxcomb you can use for tea and as companion plant. Nate’s slurping has inspired me to grow some plants for tea!
ginger for sure will tolerate more shade than any other plant!... turmeric too... so happy the slurping has inspired you!!! lol
Great ideas, Nate. Thanks! I love the idea of making a garden essential for A pillar of your kitchen. Categorize your garden on how it goes into your house. If you're just starting out, learn how to grow a favorite veggie well. Then learn how to grow a salad. Then learn how to grow a pantry. Yeehehes!
I'm Indianapolis zone 5,6.7? My pillars are resupplying my spice racks, canned goods, and fresh produce. I've been growing for 3 years seriously. I've failed, and I'm retooling my 5 gallon fabric pots. I have a dozen and I've learned that they are too small for potatoes. However, they will do just fine for peppers this year. I will grow Hungarian peppers and Jalapenos for paprika and chipotle powder. Dried and smoked spices for the fall and winter. I have raised beds with trellises and lots of garlic planted on the south side. I also grow lots of tomatoes and strawberries successfully. The strawberries are everbearing and a snack to get me out in the heat of June and September. Tomatoes are for slicing, canning and salsa. My long-term plan for the next 2 to 3 years is for macronutrients like potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn. Man, I love that corn is 0.25c an ear here in Indiana. Sometimes the juice ain't worth the squeeze. Carrots remain frustrating. Oh, and the San Marzano tomatoes pull double-duty. I water bath can them for tomato sauce and I outsource them to a buddy of mine for salsa. Him and his wife have a killer recipe and I get a great kickback for giving them 10 pounds of tomatoes. Talk to other people who are enthusiastic and see what you can do TOGETHER. I've got this, if you've got that.
I think the one thing I'll push back on here, respectfully, is that if you have room for a row of tomato plants, you'll have room for pole beans. It's vertical gardening. I had a 1` x 10` run of Good Mother Stallard beans produce 5 or 6 pounds of dried beans. They're very prolific and worth buying a cow panel trellis for your garden if you have 5` available. It's up to you to define SMALL GARDEN though. :)
wonderful information my friend thank you for sharing!!!... yes definitely potatoes would be a good macro and Yukon golds do really well and store a long time for us in Indiana... thats a pretty good harvest from a single 10ft row or GMS!!
First, I want to thank you🙏 Your videos are so much better than most that i've seen👍
. I live in South florida. I'm sure I'll be following you for a long time.
I think my best advice for a small space is to pick a couple plants you really want results from and double down on those. My original garden was 7x7 and we got roughly 50lbs of food mainly from beans and squash.
Butternut squash and melons and sweet potatoes are my favorite... So I just made space 😅 Bought some 50 gallon grow bags. If i have to tip toe through my squash, still happening.
We’re in 7b / Alabama. Planning fill the belly staple vegetables like pinkeye purple hull peas, green beans, green peas, several herbs, vertical sweet potatoes, collards, green onions, leeks, celery, tomatoes: Cherokee Purple and Black Cherry and Roma, Malabar spinach, garlic, sweet peppers and some hot peppers, Irish potatoes, sprouting broccoli, and more. Our goal is to stock up the pantry and freezers.
sounds wonderful my friend do you have experience eating the malabar spinach??... I've grown it several times but just cannot find a way to prepare it that I really enjoy
I heard a suggestion to grow beets in clusters of 3 to save space.. I had success with this last year! So agree with Nate about the oversized squash; pattypan only for me this year! Ground cherries can be grown in containers and are heavy producers (and heavy feeders). The onions are so good I’m going to interplant even more in my flower beds. I had good luck interplanting them with tomato last year; even if they weren’t as big as in the onion bed. Small urban garden in Z3 Canada
Brother, you have such a rich store of information to share. I have learned much from you in the past 6 months or so since I first learned about Mychorrhizal Fungi and Regenerative Gardening. You are one "heckuva" guide for the great mass of information associated with gardening. I very much look forward to this spring when I can begin applying all that I have learned in the past several months. Moreover, you are gardening in Indiana, and I am a native born Hoosier now living out West. You are so practical too.
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend!!
I really appreciate these suggestions for the small garden. FYI it would be good if you could hold the seed packets steady and not shake them as you show them. (I know you are excited about this subject.) My eyes are going crazy jumping up and down looking at the names. Turning on the subtitles doesn't help much because it tries to spell according to your voice and not according to the seed names. For some reason, your screen is getting more and more misty. It doesn't happen when I watch other channels.
With you 1000% on the peas. Best veggies to grow fresh
Two appropriate videos for '24
Super useful video, lots of helpful info, thanks, Nate!
I use a modified three sisters setup with a nice sturdy trellis at the back to maximize the output of my high desert garden. My main suggestions are to study your microclimates, figure out which rules are more like guidelines, and choose cultivars carefully. Also, if you like mushrooms (or if you regularly barter with someone who does), planting winecap or oyster mushroom spawn in the damp and shady spots is a great way to squeeze out an extra crop and improve your soil.
solid advice!... yes the mushrooms in the shady spots is the way to go!!!
Very interesting and innovative approach to finding satisfaction in the small garden. Your specific recommendations are great! Would be so wonderful if you could expand on this matrix, adding details on succession planting and companion planting (friend/foe combinations) and garden design/layout.
that is a fantastic idea my friend and definitely something I can do!... thank you!
C ya on Saturday my friend
What a great video, packed fully of vital info, thank you. This vid is definitely a keeper, a handy referral. I’m from South Australia. It’s the middle of summer here and we’ve had so much summer rain our paddocks are bursting with green grass.
My WI zone 5a garden is on the small side, I take advantage of trellising as much as I can. I vertically grow zucchini, winter squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, small melons, bird house gourds, luffas and vining flowers for the hummingbirds.
This year I will be filling empty spots with grow bags.
Totally agree how awesome Utah and Pink celery is compared to store bought.
I have a friend in Chicago that has a balcony garden, he has every square inch figured out, I sent him a Greenstalk last year, he just loves it.
Biggest concern with small space gardens is sun light, have to be very aware how big things get. I use cattle panel arches to create shaded areas for mushrooms.
Setting up a hydroponic experiment using worm casting extract and comfrey tea as nutrients. Never tried hydroponics before, wish me luck.
My main tomato bed and celery bed have a perennial living mulch of thyme and oregano, never have to do any weeding, and the soil always have living roots for the soil food web.
My favorite paste tomato is the Opalka, huge tasty fruit with very few seeds, try them sometime, Amish paste are a close 2nd.
Have a good day! Stay Well!!!!
sounds lovely my friend thank you for sharing and please keep us updated on how the hydro using living nutrients works for you!!!
@@gardenlikeavikingI will be posting a video on my new channel here is a link ua-cam.com/video/K138oKe-5BQ/v-deo.htmlsi=FGSzP2xGqirGGrOi
When our computers got hacked in Oct, I lost access to my original channel ua-cam.com/video/YpH16ktXrFs/v-deo.htmlsi=vQ4fM8jKAvOtrNOS
It is still out there I just can't post new videos or add comments.
I have a bunch of videos on jumping worms if interested.
Stay Well!!!
Here is a link to my new channel @brianseybert192
I will be posting videos as it grows, or not, Stay Well!!!@@gardenlikeaviking
Some fantastic suggestions there Nate and I love the way you split them into different garden groups.
I'm starting again after moving house here in Melbourne Aus (zone 9 ish?)
First up will be 3 raised beds 8ftx4ft and all the pots from the old place. So starting an Autumn garden.
Beans, peas, and greens will be my first priority. Plus many herbs from the old place.
I'll basically be following your suggestions to fill up any available space. Cheers!
I clearly need to learn how to stir fry! This video made me ready for spring planting as well as hungry! Zone 5b 6a central Indiana... We have a suburban box garden, and we grow basics like tomatoes and peppers, but I will be trying some of the seeds you listed here in the future.
In N Texas, and blessed to have a large garden space.
Good to see your videos again 😁great video, as always, thank you!
Love Baker Creek! I planted for the first time many of the greens you recommended, so far, I’m a happy man with the baby greens I’ve tasted so far.
orack, hablizta tamnoides,dang shen and oerprei are a couple of funny things that im now growing in my zone 3 garden in norway, the hablitza have 2 inch shots now and the oerprei have grown grens tru the winter, they are outside and looks happy, and this came along couse i suck on growing cepa onions and let me self to be klondyked by the the seed catalogs, fun do;)
Thanks Nate, last year was a disaster for growing with the sky spraying, even the farmers got it tight, this year should be much better as solar cycle 25 gets into action, I've still got some turnips, parsley and romanessco growing from last year, kale too, the winters aren't as cold here, things just stop then start as it warms up again.
did you hear the PSG got a shoutout!! lol
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks for the mention, I doubt my neighbour's will doing much as their gardens are full of wendy houses, patios, sheds for more junk and trampolines etc, they're deep in the Matrix and still watching the Tell A Vision programming.
I giggle every time you talk about the T. Squash. It looks like D&B’s
lol lol don't think I don't know that!!
I'm planning to plant lots of beets and turnips. I was inspired to start fermenting veggies because of Nate's success with those tiny tomatoes and I was so impressed that he could slice it! So that is a big focus. There a recipe on youtube for fermenting rhubarb as well and I had some at a winery a few years ago and didn't know how they made it until very recently - Rhubarb patch in the tiny orchard. I've got eight (I think) big feeding troughs for cattle and those are the raised beds. Even though I had a slow start and the soil was not good (first go with this set up) I did get a few nice acorn squashes. So - I am going to give some squashes a go as the tubs are big and last fall I amped up the nutrients in them and I'm also giving more good stuff to them before "lift off". They have to grow up the bank on that side but it did work out to a fair degree. I'm in the throws of a huge learning curve. Spuds in grow bags. Those little tomatoes & lots of greens. I can't wait!
you're going to love the fermented tomatoes my friend so tangy!!
I'm in NH and have 20x30ft surrounded by fencing. Elevated planters, window boxes suspended on the fence, a few pots and a tower. (No tomatoes, onions, broc, peppers or melons. I buy those at the farmer's market.) Carrots, scallions, salad turnips, radishes, all types of peas, Persian cukes, bush and pole beans, a zuch, a bush delicata, herbs, spinach, and greens of all kinds. I need to feed two and a dozen birds. Whatever I don't eat fresh, I dry for the winter months.
I'm interested in the Persian Cucumber what specific seeds and growth habit??
I will grow Beit Alpha types, full sun, 55 days and NOT frost hardy, so I'll need to wait until the first week of June to get them started. I plan to grow them over the fence.@@gardenlikeaviking
Big fan of your videos! Would love your take on having proper drainage of a new in ground garden bed!
Well, right now I'm just growing frost crystals as it's -45F, zone 2a. For the last few years I've mostly done tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, pretty much all in containers. I have a new property with quite a bit more space but it will be a couple years before I have it all done, I do have a 8x12' green houses now, so that should give me some more options, I need to get some temp data recorders so I can see how soon I can actually get plants going in there.
You can do the summer squash and melon if you grow vertical
I have limited space only because I don’t have my deer or rabbit fencing. I only have 4- 2’x4’ garden beds, two GreenStalk planters and a bunch of grow bags. I also grow most things under my covered porch to shade from the blazing hot sun here in the middle of the day here in east Texas, zone 9a. If I don’t partially shade them they will all die in June! It’s crazy. Even my cow peas were burning up in the direct sunlight last year. I have invested in some shade cloth and we are in the process of installing the deer and rabbit fencing but in the meantime I use what I have. I focus heavily on cherry tomatoes, growing in the fall and mild winters and focus on things I can plant heavily or will give me cut and come again harvests. I’ve actually been able to grow celery pretty well under my covered porch and cut and regrow those. I have some celery plants that are nearly a year old! I plant my carrots in fall and overwinter them thickly in one of the garden beds and plant huge amounts of garlic in my one earth bed which is 4’x 8’ and was able to plant 200 cloves in December. They’re growing wonderfully there with lots of compost and organic granulated amendments some I made myself and some I purchased. I grow lots of onions all in grow bags because they don’t do well in the GreenStalk or the garden beds (not enough sun exposure to bulb up). So out in the full sun they go! I grow pole beans because I have trellising over my garden beds and this year I put bamboo pole teepees up over grow bags for more beans. I plan to grow rattlesnake beans for their dual purpose as fresh green beans and drying beans. One other thing I do grow but probably shouldn’t is lots of squash. I grew Tahitian melon squash, butternut, Tromboccino (my favorite), and I did grow one watermelon this last fall and it was personal sized lol. It was amazing though. I also grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in grow bags. I line them up in a row. The sweet potatoes are also one of the few plants that thrived on full blazing sun here. Also I do have a small 6x6” greenhouse which helps me start my seeds with heat mats. I’m planting more seeds tomorrow for more plantings of cauliflower but mostly of my favorite greens like chard, collards. I’m waiting for my root veggies to finish up in one bed so I can plant more beans in there. My peppers are going out in full sun this year so hopefully they’ll do well. My cucumbers take over the front of one a frame trellis in one bed and shade my celery keeping them cooler. We had as much fresh pickling cucumbers as we wanted last year and they were so fun to grow. I also got a couple quarts of snow peas from that same trellis a couple months before the cucumber was up. I do succession planting strategies to help with my small growing space. However this year I may be growing my tomatoes out in full sun with grow bags possibly moving them into shade when the summer comes to help cool them and keep them alive. I like grow bags because I can and do move my crops around a bit to suit them. It helps a lot! They all love the JLF I make (I live in the forest so leaf mold is plentiful) and the granular stuff too. I’m hoping to make more amendments this year for a continual harvest. Also my collard plants are also nearly a year old and survived this latest freeze which is awesome. They are thriving in one of my GreenStalk planters along with several herbs. I also regrow my onion roots which are planted all around the garden beds to hopefully help with pests and hopefully keep me in fresh seed. I like making salsas, soups, stir fries, and canning tomatoes and green beans because we use those the most.
sounds lovely my friend thank you for sharing!!... how did the Tahitian squash do for you in that heat and limited space?
@@gardenlikeaviking I planted two plants, one died, one survived and gave me two large squash. I was happy with that. It was a fall planting so it got killed by an early frost in October this year. I think if I’d had the seed earlier I’d have gotten way more from it for sure. Still, the squash is delicious! 😋 I do plan to let it sprawl this year and see how it goes. My tromboccino plant lasted last year from March until October and gave me quite a lot of squash so I think if I plant the Tahitian squash earlier this year it will produce a lot for me. It’s already back up in the 60-70’s so I’m going to start those seeds in the greenhouse and see if I can get a jump on it soon - maybe March 1st like I did for other squash last year. I’m considering growing them in ground though in my super sandy soil but with lots of compost to see how it does. 🤷🏻♀️I grew spaghetti squash last year in that earth bed and got a decent yield. It could work! Wish me luck. 🍀
Outstanding video of knowledge from the sultan of green.... Thank you sir
Hey there Nate! Loving the vids & so grateful for the knowledge & wisdom my friend, thank you kindly!! I need to see if you have already done a “grow it vertical video” yet that covers all you would recommend be done that way & if you haven’t then hopefully you will soon!?! I’m so stoked for the gardens this year & hope I make em as efficient & thoughtful as ever! Much love to you & the tribe❣️🙏🏻🌻
thats a great idea my friend thank you and yes I'll see what I can do about that!
Love your info man✌
From Norway 🇳🇴👍
nice user name!!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thanks, glad i found your helpful site👍🙂
Hi Nate, I used your recipe to roast and dehydrate my pablanos it is fantastic all my friends love it , so excited to grow new things you’ve recommended to us !!! Thanks for all your advice you rock 👍🙏🏼❤️
thank you my friend and yes I've given that stuff away as Christmas presents and everybody thinks its absolute gold what it does for the dish!!!
I learned the hardway with zucchini in my metal trough beds last year. Dinosaur size plants and quickly shaded out my eggplants. Any suggestions on what to plant after pulling garlic? Thinking bush beans. Same zone as you.
Thank you Nate you are the gift that keeps on giving… question
Now that spring is I’ll be trying for the third time beets. But every time I try they get infested with root maggots and they destroy my beets… I’ve been told to spray with insecticide but I refuse that stuff is bad for nature… any remedies? Or just the home made natural insecticides that you taught us…
Thank you
it sounds like they don't have adequate drainage... so be aware of that... then sprinkle a liberal amount of wood ash into the area before planting.... also look into using the "ultimate slug solution" on the soil a few times if the outbreak is bad...
Gosh I love me some lavender and chamomile tea!!
Zone 6B… Last year my peas and beans were dismal. But now I know why-I interplanted with onions, which I since learned are incompatible with legumes. ☹️😣😖😫
I'm in NY zone 6a. I have a limited growing space and focus on smaller varieties of most vegetables (look for names that include "dwarf", "bush", "little", "midget", etc).
I have herbs (divided into tea herbs, medicinal herbs & culinary herbs) that I started in an elevated planter (but am expanding into pots and a 4x4 raised bed), fruits (columnar apple trees, figs and berry bushes--all growing in large pots) and flowers (via seeds and bulbs), mostly growing along the edge/my garden perimeter.
I can share specific varieties but don't want my comment to be too long. Any questions, please feel free to ask!
wonderful my friend thank you and are those fruits cold hardy to NY or do you bring them in??... what variety??
@@gardenlikeaviking You're welcome! Thanks for the info you share! The figs are Panache/Striped Tiger (to zone 7), Fignomenal (to zone 7), C's Red Fig (to zone 6) & Chicago Hardy (to zone 5). I kept them outside in a somewhat sheltered microclimate until the end of December/early January because we had an unseasonably warm fall/early winter. But when temps threatened to dip below 15 degrees for an extended time, I brought them inside and am keeping them in an unheated space inside my back door until the coast is clear, temperature-wise. Trying to make sure the space stays within the 20-50 degrees F range so they don't break dormancy prematurely. (Got the temp advice from Ross Raddi here on YT)
@@gardenlikeaviking I currently have 3 columnar apples from the line Stark Bros. had in stock last year. They've since added at least 3 more. I have the Emerald Spire, Scarlet Spire and Ultra Spire apple trees. All three are hardy down to zone 4 and stay outside.
@@gardenlikeaviking My berry plants are Baby Cakes blackberry (to zone 4); Peach Sorbet (to zone 5), Pink Icing (to zone 5), Blueberry Glaze (to zone 5), Pink Lemonade (to zone 4) and Toro (to zone 5) blueberry plants. All of the berry plants stay outside as well.
I am very curious to know your background ? you are so knowledgeable👍
Looking forward Nate. Zone 6b.Wets see what the weather man brings our way.
Bed of garlic gotta keep covering sprouts, 37 degrees. Potatoes, onions, zucchini, tomatoes Pole string beans a first. Slicing and cherry tomatoes, carrots and beets, chard. Basil etc and marigolds. Can't wait for cucumbers to slice and ferment. Planted tiny garlic cloves wall not for harvest around the garden earlier and now to keep out moles and voles. Low voltage also going up. It was a success last season keeping out woodchuck. Deer don't like spring onion, another wall surround. Not bad for being in our mid 70's. Thanks for all the suggestion of what works and delicious
nice!... you find the hot wire is enough to protect from woodchucks and deer etc??
@@gardenlikeaviking Woodchucks stayed out. Deer.... never had a problem. Could be because I always plant spring onion on border. It's been enough but the moles and voles dig under. Never has enough spring onion I guess. My thinking is if I leave the cloves there all season and fall, they repel moles voles all year 2024. Shoulda used razor wire for large animals to begin with.
Ooh k my friends here it izzzz haha love it
Great video.
Nate, is it possible to grow the Tahitian melon squash vertically or is it just too heavy? I have lots of large open heavy-duty wire fencing around my allotment but not a lot of ground space... 🤔
I've seen your allotment area and yes you could grow it up the fences if you were highly motivated... it will climb mostly by itself but you'll want to help it along each time you visit the plot to make sure its attaching itself to the fence... then once the fruits set you will want to place each one inside something like a women's leg stocking or a soft netting of some type... then attach that to the fence so the squash is supported.... it'll work yes I've done it this way.... if you have a compost pile grow it out of the base of the compost pile for a Jurassic plant!!!
Great, thanks, Nate. I will give it a go and let you know how I get on! 😊 I spent the day adding another layer of manure to the whole allotment, that should help it go Jurassic! @@gardenlikeaviking
Great advice on which plants to choose. When holding the package up to the camera for us to read the lable, please hold the label steady. It's difficult to read the shaking image.
this is true my friend thank you I will be more aware of that
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My daughter and son in-law just bought a house with a big yard for gardening. That I believe is close to your area in Indiana. It's suburban New Haven. I would like to know some good nurseries and garden centers near by. Thanks my friend.
THANK YOU NATE for another jam packed video, full of awesome ideas and options to suit your needs in your space.
So all the seed packets you showed in this video NATE, did you buy from Bakers Creek?
I think South Africans can order from them.
We googled Egyptian Walking onions, you can buy them here, Rather expensive, but they will multiply quickly I am sure.
Much love from South Africa 🌍🇿🇦❤️👍👍👍👋👋👋
thank you for the love my friend and yes rareseeds.com is where I get them but don't feel obligated because I'm not sponsored by them in any way lol I just love the seeds!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank You Nate for your quick response. Much appreciated 👍
Belleville Ontario Canada
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I made an 11' × 15 garden bed. I scarified it down to the dirt, & the soil was typically hard. I saved all the stuff I ripped up, and hopped it up with good food then re added it to the dirt. I covered it with newspapers, then biochar laced compost, then covered it in deep mulched up leaves. Hoping it werks. I have not finished planning it yet, but there will be a bean wall protecting my cannabis and tomato patches from a serious bright parking lot light all night long. I have carrots, cantaloupe, peppers. I want to stick potatoes all over so they can help break up the soil. I will probably compost all the root veg in year 1, because of possible toxic chemicals present, that we need to get the biology digesting, and get it back to safe soil. I am winging it 😂
But Its gonna be great anyway. I have a huge winter composter thats gonna give me lots of soil by middle of spring, and will add it to the garden as well, then cover that with wood bedding shavings for mulch.
My raised bed has garlic raspberries & wildflowers in it. I am new at this and love this video. Very helpful Nate.
I am feeding it LABS, & JMS, Liquid Chicken Manure Jadam Nitrogen, & JLF from Cannabis, because I have way more than I could ever use on the 3 Legal plants. And it was free to make😂
I am starting the rice wash right now for it, as well as Fish Hydrolysate( I am too late to make FAA for spring, but still making that next) I also have stinky JADAM Fish fert on hand still to feed the garden bed & composts.
Leaf mold I started last year, after learning the Viking existed is very healthy and diverse and digesting even in tye freeze, in fact its more active than my hydrolitic compost 😂 weird eh?
I started a huge leaf composter this fall, and it should make some sweet black fungal compost by next year. ❤
I have lots of room for a bigger garden but only put the plastic down on a 16x16 ft spot. I’d really like to grow lots of juicing things and peas beans peppers and tomatoes. Onions garlic and some ground cherries celery beets and carrots for juicing plus the greens Swiss chard and kale and spinach. I am going in to an old garden spot that has been a field now for some time. The soil is great but the top is grass. The lady thing I want is burnout before I even get started. What should I do? Make it big or keep it simple?.
if you do go big then make sure you watch this video here for success ua-cam.com/video/NL-ao895gY0/v-deo.html
Hi I have a question that I'm leaving here because it's your newest video and I wasn't sure if you check comments on old videos...
I'm starting a compost bin, kind of new at this.
1. Junk mail... is it okay to throw my junk mail into the compost pile? My concerns would be the ink, as well as glue on the backs of sticker labels and also any chemicals that could possibly be in it.
2. Is it okay if I'm pretty much staying away from composting most food? I know that food is something that most people are composting but years ago when we tried composting, it drew in the rats and this is why my husband didn't want to compost anymore. He has okayed me to try it again as long as I am not throwing in lots of food that would attract the rats.
My biggest addition to my compost pile would be hay from my pet chinchilla and wild rabbits. My wild rabbits are in fact wild, but I rescue, rehabilitate, and set free in my yard. I have a couple bunny doors in my Greenhouse so they come and go as they please and I always provide them lots of hay because it helps their digestion, especially the ones with weak immune systems. So I always end up with tons of leftover hay that I don't like to waste.
So, will I end up with good compost if I am pretty much just composting hay, animal poop and urine, tons of plant clippings, and maybe occasional food that isn't so smelly? Also I was going to occasionally throw some peat moss and soil from old planters.
Thanks!
yes that will work for you.... just remember Hay is full of weed seeds and cold composting will not destroy them so your compost will have lots of seeds in it so just be aware of that.... personally I would make my own "rat proof" container to compost from a 55gal drum with tight fitting lid and drill lots of 1/4 inch holes into it.... they can't get it... thats what I do... so you can compost all your food scraps as well
I am growing timber bamboo. Thinking it will come in handy one day. but who knows
absolutely!!.. bamboo is mega useful if you live in an area that can grow it well
Thank you
Thanx nate
i planted my potatoes first phase....next week or so i will plant phase 2...i started the corn seedlings, beans, cilantro...but i am also wondering what else to plant... i have some tomatoes growing as well...zone 8
when is your last frost date??!... I'm feeling like you might be way early!
Growing 4 good foood
Great video but disagree on thw squash...i grew some Burpees butterbush butternut squash and they grow a max of 3 foot vines. Very conpact and get alot of squash on a small plant...i grew them vertical on a small mesh fence i made.....highly recommend baker creek for the seeds
very nice I've never tried that variety!... it climbed up the fence itself?...
@@gardenlikeaviking yeah it's honestly a great variety...also matures very fast compared to other squash!
I’m in central Indiana and have put up a low tunnel that is 5x16 that I am transplanting cold crop salads and cabbages. I have a 25 cord of water pipe heater cord that I’m going to throw out there for supplemental heat, don’t have old style Christmas lights, plus it turns on at 34 and shuts off at 42. Just wondering what your experience is with low tunnels and if you think the supplemental heat will help on cloudy cold days. With moderate sun it’s up to 65 in there now but I haven’t looked and seen how long it will hold heat.
tunnels have basically zero factor insulation so keep in mind the minimum temps at night will be the same in the tunnels... it will give you a solid month head start on the really cold hardy stuff like onions, cabbages... kale, collards... etc.... but don't use it for your tomatoes and heat loving stuff they'll die at night
Thanks man. My cold hardy veggies are a month old and I’m just experimenting with how far I can take different things under plastic. I know that night and day can make a difference in life. I really do appreciate you reaching out
I push you to move your content to a complete year round garden. Even if it’s hillbilly gardening it works if it works. Everyone’s gotta eat. And I just say this bc people that want to learn are a sponge. I’ve learned a lot from you and now I’m trying to see how far I can take that just for the simple fact I own some dirt and live in uncertain times
Excellent info. But I need to grow in containers part of my garden as well. Will compost tea be good for a container? Compost tea video would be great. I use Matt Powers "secret recipe", he advises no molasses. :) Eva
definitely compost tea for the potted plants!!... that video will be coming in the next month or so!!
awesome! thank you a thousand times :) just finishing brewing a 5 gal bucket.@@gardenlikeaviking
Pruning my Sweet Potato vines down to 5 ft long this year ( per Nate’s advice) in 7b, should get better crop and take LESS SPACE 🥧PIE GARDEN , Pumpkins and Sweet potatoes
Pie garden I love it!!!
I'm from Sri Lanka 74 yrs. I need the Jadam for compact home veg garden
Will these seeds grow in zone 8?
absolutely!!... I'm zone 6 so yes anything you saw here will grow in zone 8 generally
I'm in zone 7 and have tried Cherokee purple for three years and if I plant 6 plants I may get 2 tomatoes TOTAL! What am I doing wrong??
wow something is off!... give them plenty of root space and lots of nutrients with consistent moisture from the soil being covered with a thick layer of leaves after the really hot weather arrives.... although the Cherokee is naturally a shy producer you should still get at least a dozen full size delicious tomatoes from each plant and often two dozen per plant!!
@gardenlikeaviking thank you sir! I'll give them a try again. Do tomatoes cross pollinate? If I save the Cherokee seeds but have other strains of tomatoes also will the seeds be hybrid or stay true to the Cherokee?
How do find out your zone
You can do a web search/ Google planting zone map