love your videos. and I started the garden just like your video 2 years ago. first year I for got fertilizer yes dumb mistake but last winter every time I cleaned out the chicken coop I threw chips a poo on it, in the spring pulled off the chips off into the walk paths which I went 2 feet apart and 4 ft apart down the centers , tilled it up and had the best garden ever. very little weeds and no bugs.Thank you!!!
I keep it simple. 20 squares with beets, 90 with potatoes and so on. Last year I mixed vegetables in squares and forgot what I planted where. Now my vegetable garden is market garden style with square foot spacing. I also made 3 dibbler stamps for 4, 9 and 16 plants. So if I want to plant carrots I stamp for example 20 squares of carrots, then some squares of lettuce and so on. Don't need grid, don't need framed bed.
I'm a biologist and I love these videos. Keep it up! :) The shade problem with block layout of tomatoes was particularly revealing. I would never have caught that mistake on my own, or figured out why center plants were struggling .... maybe even for years.
Am watching all of your videos- I absolutely adore you ❤. I’m in Texas and started to plant seeds in early February, and have two 4*8 beds and you have really helped me plan where they’ll go. Now I just have to give away a gazillion seedlings (I seriously over planted!) - my neighbors are going to get some amazing heirloom tomatoes! Thank you!!!
OMG what a great video.... It was very relaxing.... Funny you put a smile on my face the whole time... And most importantly I learned something! And it was short and sweet.. delivered with an amazing ACCENT...🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Thanks very much! Sadly I’m a little bit too late with my layout design (we built too long, we tried to make them as big as we could in a small yard), but I am happy I found you before we planted, now we can at least plant correctly. Thanks for the tips, you got a new sub. Wish us luck 👍
Thank you! You share the best information of what not to do and what to do for a new gardener! I have been debating intensive planting method verses square foot. Since my backyard has no shade I now understand intense planting of tall growth plants in the center of the beds may cause other plant growth to be dwarfed due to to much shade. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Again, thank you!
I am so glad I found this right before I started planting. I didn't take in consideration that tall plants such as corn and tomatoes can block the shade from shorter plants and I have to rethink where I position those taller plants.
Never thought about flowers. Also thanks for the tips on sunshine and space. Our garden spot is super small so this gives us good ideas in what to grow!
Love your video . I’m 70 years old and still Learning . I did gardening when I was a little kid up until I was ten yrs old . Then my mother passed away . Didn’t start again until many years later and I owns my own property . Then I only gardened a few years cause I worked 7 days a week and long hrs . Then had to retire on disability and couldn’t garden until the last few years . So I’m learning and relearning with the help of the internet and good people like you . I’m Learning to have raised beds outside of my fenced garden to plant things that the animals will leave alone like onions and garlic . Squash usually the animals leave alone but last year the deer were feasting on the zucchini plants . But this year I found solar powered animal pest repellers on ebay so far they work good except for rabbits the rabbits aren’t afraid of them I put horseradish in one raised bed that’s working out nice . I bought 10 gallon potato bags with flaps that you can put anywhere . They are working out very nice too. I plan to get more and I have several varieties of potatoes but no gold flesh ones cause my boss of 50 yrs doesn’t like them but I have red potatoes russet that I bought at store and a couple of the sprouted and I planted them and are growing like fire. Also two type of finger potatoes and Beauregard sweet potatoes kennebec and superior. I guess I’ll let you go I did enough talking on your site . Thanks again
Hey, no problem I like to read all of your stories :) It keeps me motivated. Yes animals can be devastating. I have a problem with mice eating my been seeds this year and with slugs because in May we had only 4 sunny days and the rest was raining all the time. A perfect weather for slug reproduction... but yes we will manage somehow. Gardening is an never ending learning experience full of happy and sad moments but the important thing is that we keep going forward! Wish you all the best in your gardening journey and I hope that you pass your knowledge and passion to your grandkids like your mother did pass it to you.
Great video, Love your sense of humor. I’ve been a SFGer for decades but am now in a new location and trying to use it in a greenhouse. I need all the help I can get! Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for another informative video. I usually watch them a few times to glean all I can,especially liked the graphics ie sun rise,set over your garden.
I really like your SFG Videos :) I have a small garden and discovered I can plant so much with the SFG Method. I expanded my beds this week from 1,7m beds to 4,5m , with a width of 0,60cm (2 blocks of SFG). This way I only need to harvest from one side, the other side has a small path (30cm wide), but the hedge is right behind it. There isn't much room to navigate. The part of the sun, is really important. I didn't considered it last year, with the half-sun place and the zucchini with a pole made the eggplant behind it really live in the shade, most of the time, resulting in a small harvest. Now I know, how high the plants will grow, so I can place them together. Also with the netting, made the same mistake, by planing those plants a part. This time, they'll be all planted together. Or with the tomates and kohlrabi, one needed the netting, the other not after some time. Please make more videos! There're so few video about SFG in todays time.
Sure I will make more :) I am just getting started with SFG :D Regarding the plant size I think many gardeners who have just started don't know how tall a eggplant or a zucchini can get :D So they plant plants together that will shade each other. A classical mistake that I did it to :D
Last year was my SFG debut. The only mistake (from this video) which I DIDN’T make was making it too big. I stayed with 4 ft x 8 ft ... probably suggested in one of your other videos! Now I have a question: At the 7:50 time stamp, we can see what I think is a “sail shade”. Is that for gardening purposes, or for relaxing in your garden? Thanks for all your great advice. It’s always useful to learn from others’ mistakes😏
I am glad that I manage to guide you on your decision making when deciding the sizes of your raised beds. I am sure that now you wont do any other mistakes mentioned in the video :) At 7:50 is not a sail shade but an billboard from the backside :D I received this piece of land in use by my parents in law and unfortunately I cant remove it (yet). Maybe one they when I will get enough RUclips $$$ I will buy a new piece of land closer to my home or I will pay them to remove the billboard :D
My garden was at the end of the property, and down an incline. It was also at the soggiest part of the property. Next to a huge tree. If I went to garden, I would spend most of the day there. I plan a new garden that is just outside my house. I think I will like that much better.
@@SmallGardenQuest I also have the Square Foot Gardening Book. It arrived a couple of weeks ago. It's a boon. Not my first time growing vegetables but it is my first year at SFG. So looking forward to the harvest. Will take your tips into full consideration. Once again thank you.
I'm really enjoying your videos so thanks! I have a question... you say tomatoes grow well with onions as a companion. But you also say they have way different watering needs. Which is better or worse?
@@SmallGardenQuest Yeah it was really good. I loved the little sun crossing over the screen. That made me smile. This is my 2nd year gardening and square foot gardening. I appreciate your videos.
I noticed you were mulching with shredded cedar or shredded pine. I want to mulch with shredded cedar but keep reading different things and am not sure if this will help or hinder. Would love to know what your results have been. Thanks!
Hello, thank you for this! A question about brassicas that all have the same pest... if you plant them together you can protect them all, but if you plant them between other plants, won't that disguise them from the pests?
Okay. one reason Mel developed this system was to avoid mono culture planting. My recommendations is to do exactly what you thought and place them sporadically. Blessed Gardening to you Friend.
That is a giant reflector that reflects the afternoon sunlight in to my garden to give it a boost. No just kidding :D Its the back of a billboard that is casting shade on my garden nothing more...
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I love when we admit we make mistakes. Keep it up.
you are the coolest square foot gardener on youtube. Plus your accent just puts your videos over the top! i love it!
Thanks! 😃 I will try to stay the coolest even in the hot summer time :D
love your videos. and I started the garden just like your video 2 years ago. first year I for got fertilizer yes dumb mistake but last winter every time I cleaned out the chicken coop I threw chips a poo on it, in the spring pulled off the chips off into the walk paths which I went 2 feet apart and 4 ft apart down the centers , tilled it up and had the best garden ever. very little weeds and no bugs.Thank you!!!
Your sense if humor is refreshing! Glad I found your videos, already learned quit a bit. Ty!!
Garden for me has always been trial and error. Had good and bad luck. But I love it. Been doin it since 1991.
I keep it simple. 20 squares with beets, 90 with potatoes and so on. Last year I mixed vegetables in squares and forgot what I planted where.
Now my vegetable garden is market garden style with square foot spacing. I also made 3 dibbler stamps for 4, 9 and 16 plants. So if I want to plant carrots I stamp for example 20 squares of carrots, then some squares of lettuce and so on. Don't need grid, don't need framed bed.
I'm a biologist and I love these videos. Keep it up! :)
The shade problem with block layout of tomatoes was particularly revealing. I would never have caught that mistake on my own, or figured out why center plants were struggling .... maybe even for years.
Am watching all of your videos- I absolutely adore you ❤. I’m in Texas and started to plant seeds in early February, and have two 4*8 beds and you have really helped me plan where they’ll go. Now I just have to give away a gazillion seedlings (I seriously over planted!) - my neighbors are going to get some amazing heirloom tomatoes! Thank you!!!
It’s so blessed to give😁
OMG what a great video.... It was very relaxing.... Funny you put a smile on my face the whole time... And most importantly I learned something! And it was short and sweet.. delivered with an amazing ACCENT...🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Early in Spring I plant my tomatoes at the back of the sun shine, Then I plant them as shade plants for lettuce that will bolt easily in Summer.
This is a great help. Glad it appeared in my suggestions. Love your sense of humor BTW! Thanks for sharing you're experience.
I just bought a square foot gardening book! It should be here by monday
Great! For me one of the best investments I did 👍😊👍
Thanks very much! Sadly I’m a little bit too late with my layout design (we built too long, we tried to make them as big as we could in a small yard), but I am happy I found you before we planted, now we can at least plant correctly. Thanks for the tips, you got a new sub. Wish us luck 👍
Glad I could help! I am happy that you still have time to correct :) And there is always the next season to improve even further ;)
Thank you! You share the best information of what not to do and what to do for a new gardener! I have been debating intensive planting method verses square foot. Since my backyard has no shade I now understand intense planting of tall growth plants in the center of the beds may cause other plant growth to be dwarfed due to to much shade.
I look forward to watching more of your videos. Again, thank you!
Most thought out garden video I’ve ever seen. Subbed. TY
Wow so much information! I am really glad I found you in February as I am beginning seed sorting and planning spaces.
I am so glad I found this right before I started planting. I didn't take in consideration that tall plants such as corn and tomatoes can block the shade from shorter plants and I have to rethink where I position those taller plants.
Never thought about flowers. Also thanks for the tips on sunshine and space. Our garden spot is super small so this gives us good ideas in what to grow!
Love your video . I’m 70 years old and still
Learning . I did gardening when I was a little kid up until I was ten yrs old . Then my mother passed away . Didn’t start again until many years later and I owns my own property . Then I only gardened a few years cause I worked 7 days a week and long hrs . Then had to retire on disability and couldn’t garden until the last few years . So I’m learning and relearning with the help of the internet and good people like you . I’m
Learning to have raised beds outside of my fenced garden to plant things that the animals will leave alone like onions and garlic . Squash usually the animals leave alone but last year the deer were feasting on the zucchini plants . But this year I found solar powered animal pest repellers on ebay so far they work good except for rabbits the rabbits aren’t afraid of them I put horseradish in one raised bed that’s working out nice . I bought 10 gallon potato bags with flaps that you can put anywhere . They are working out very nice too. I plan to get more and I have several varieties of potatoes but no gold flesh ones cause my boss of 50 yrs doesn’t like them but I have red potatoes russet that I bought at store and a couple of the sprouted and I planted them and are growing like fire. Also two type of finger potatoes and Beauregard sweet potatoes kennebec and superior. I guess I’ll let you go I did enough talking on your site . Thanks again
Hey, no problem I like to read all of your stories :) It keeps me motivated. Yes animals can be devastating. I have a problem with mice eating my been seeds this year and with slugs because in May we had only 4 sunny days and the rest was raining all the time. A perfect weather for slug reproduction... but yes we will manage somehow. Gardening is an never ending learning experience full of happy and sad moments but the important thing is that we keep going forward!
Wish you all the best in your gardening journey and I hope that you pass your knowledge and passion to your grandkids like your mother did pass it to you.
Your garden is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
This is an excellent video. Absolute gold. Looking forward to seeing more
This was a great video bud. Well done sir!
Great video, Love your sense of humor. I’ve been a SFGer for decades but am now in a new location and trying to use it in a greenhouse. I need all the help I can get! Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for another informative video. I usually watch them a few times to glean all I can,especially liked the graphics ie sun rise,set over your garden.
I really like your SFG Videos :) I have a small garden and discovered I can plant so much with the SFG Method. I expanded my beds this week from 1,7m beds to 4,5m , with a width of 0,60cm (2 blocks of SFG). This way I only need to harvest from one side, the other side has a small path (30cm wide), but the hedge is right behind it. There isn't much room to navigate.
The part of the sun, is really important. I didn't considered it last year, with the half-sun place and the zucchini with a pole made the eggplant behind it really live in the shade, most of the time, resulting in a small harvest. Now I know, how high the plants will grow, so I can place them together. Also with the netting, made the same mistake, by planing those plants a part. This time, they'll be all planted together. Or with the tomates and kohlrabi, one needed the netting, the other not after some time.
Please make more videos! There're so few video about SFG in todays time.
Sure I will make more :) I am just getting started with SFG :D
Regarding the plant size I think many gardeners who have just started don't know how tall a eggplant or a zucchini can get :D So they plant plants together that will shade each other. A classical mistake that I did it to :D
The shoe sole 😂😂
Loving your videos.
This is helpful thank you
Just prepared a raised bed
thankyou so much for sharing this information. God Bless
Last year was my SFG debut. The only mistake (from this video) which I DIDN’T make was making it too big. I stayed with 4 ft x 8 ft ... probably suggested in one of your other videos! Now I have a question: At the 7:50 time stamp, we can see what I think is a “sail shade”. Is that for gardening purposes, or for relaxing in your garden? Thanks for all your great advice. It’s always useful to learn from others’ mistakes😏
I am glad that I manage to guide you on your decision making when deciding the sizes of your raised beds. I am sure that now you wont do any other mistakes mentioned in the video :)
At 7:50 is not a sail shade but an billboard from the backside :D I received this piece of land in use by my parents in law and unfortunately I cant remove it (yet). Maybe one they when I will get enough RUclips $$$ I will buy a new piece of land closer to my home or I will pay them to remove the billboard :D
My garden was at the end of the property, and down an incline. It was also at the soggiest part of the property. Next to a huge tree. If I went to garden, I would spend most of the day there. I plan a new garden that is just outside my house. I think I will like that much better.
very clear! Subscribed
Good information as always very useful. Thank you SFG!
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment! Wish you the best growing season now that you know how to plan a sqare foot garden 😂😂
@@SmallGardenQuest I also have the Square Foot Gardening Book. It arrived a couple of weeks ago. It's a boon. Not my first time growing vegetables but it is my first year at SFG. So looking forward to the harvest. Will take your tips into full consideration. Once again thank you.
Your welcome square foot gardening literary change the way I garden 😊
Great video! I have a 4 foot by 24 foot bed. Is that too long
Great tips, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! And I appreciate the comment! What was the mistake you didn't expect to see in the video?
Grat video. Thank you for sharing.
very good explanation of to plan
I'm really enjoying your videos so thanks! I have a question... you say tomatoes grow well with onions as a companion. But you also say they have way different watering needs. Which is better or worse?
Great editing on this.
Thank you... Spend the whole day and I was thinking if it would be worth it in the end. But it did I like the end result
What was your best part?
@@SmallGardenQuest Yeah it was really good. I loved the little sun crossing over the screen. That made me smile.
This is my 2nd year gardening and square foot gardening. I appreciate your videos.
Well done 👏 thank you for sharing your experience... I made similar mistakes. Big fan of your videos 📹 Good Job 👍👏
gracias
de nada
Well done. Thank you
Great info
I wish I had seen this video before I planned my garden.
Bon courage bro 🔥
Thank you 😎🔥🔥🔥
Awesome 👍
brilliant information
Glad it was helpful!
I noticed you were mulching with shredded cedar or shredded pine. I want to mulch with shredded cedar but keep reading different things and am not sure if this will help or hinder. Would love to know what your results have been. Thanks!
Killer channel, bro!
Good tips
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Hello, thank you for this! A question about brassicas that all have the same pest... if you plant them together you can protect them all, but if you plant them between other plants, won't that disguise them from the pests?
Okay. one reason Mel developed this system was to avoid mono culture planting. My recommendations is to do exactly what you thought and place them sporadically. Blessed Gardening to you Friend.
what is the software or program you use to do the layouts?
Photoshop :) Not designed for this kind of work, but yeah, it works :)
Greetings 🐝
What is that large white screen around your garden?
Cheers,
Rachel 🐞
That is a giant reflector that reflects the afternoon sunlight in to my garden to give it a boost. No just kidding :D Its the back of a billboard that is casting shade on my garden nothing more...
@@SmallGardenQuest
Greetings,
I hope your are being compensated for that shade. lol
Cheers,
Rachel🍷
Do you plant seeds or plants using this method?
can you enable subtitles for all languages?
Whole concept unviable
but doesn't tomatoes require more than a foot spacing ?
Brilliant advice thank you
You're adorable, love your video
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Well crap, i bought 4'x12' beds
Awesome video!!! Thanks
Very informative