Our First Organic Square Foot Garden: Take One
Yep. We’re trying to practice what we preach. We’re getting ready to launch a new project/site and this is going to be part of it. Even though we have limite…
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Awesome, you two!
So, happy for you! First step…
.o)
Fox Mulder
June 30, 2014 at 10:25 am
Nice! We lived off the garden when I was a kid.Make sure drain holes in
buckets. Buckets will dry out quick in hot weather but YOU should not keep
plants water logged continuously. White plastic can be used to cover the
green house plants.Protects from harmful rays. Good airflow needed or they
will roast.
amy2x
June 30, 2014 at 10:55 am
You’re going to get raided you domestic terrorists.
ibotibo
June 30, 2014 at 10:55 am
Put one in the front yard and see how long it takes before the police show
up at your door. Then film them and post it.
enginekid88
June 30, 2014 at 11:15 am
Yep. We’re trying to practice what we preach. We’re getting ready to launch
a new project/site and this is going to be part of it. Even though we have
limited resources and space, we’re trying to grow some organic food on our
small back patio. We built a little square foot garden box and planted some
stuff.
We’re gardening noobs with a bunch of books and no real experience, so
let’s just see what happens…
TRUTHstreammedia
June 30, 2014 at 11:58 am
I’ve been doing that for quite a while on my rooftop, and I’ve harvested
quite a bit. Tastier but smaller in size than store-bought produce. I have
an integrated chicken coop in the 8’x4′ garden, and get at least 1 egg
daily from the 2 hens, which are fed greens from that garden as well as
store-bought chicken feed. The yolks are orange instead of your normal
yellow color, thanks to the pigmentation in the greens. So I consider my
eggs partially organic.
Fitzgerald Mistral
June 30, 2014 at 12:53 pm
You can do what you are trying to do with ginger with celery and potatoes.
GuysCallMeShawna
June 30, 2014 at 1:34 pm
😀 I’m jealous of you guys. I grew up around a gigantic greenhouse my
grandfather owned and I played around the geraniums all day. Now I live in
a big city in AZ and I can’t grow crap in my apartment. :< I just wanna stick my hands in the soil again. Last time I was able to do that was 3 years ago when I went back to PA to visit ma. She has her own garden. But I digress. I love you guys! :D
anavash
June 30, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Nice, I am doing that too. So far, I haven’t eaten anything yet from my
SFG.
didanhtennis
June 30, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Quick, friendly tip for you all if you don’t mind. Tomatoes get really big
so limit your tomato plants to one per square. Check out Mel Bartholomew’s
books, “All New Square Foot Gardening.” I do a combo of square foot and
aeroponic gardening. Works awesome. Way to go — start growing and learn as
you go along. It’s so worthwhile and rewarding! I messaged ya with some
info on aeroponic growing :)
Leah Brooks
June 30, 2014 at 2:12 pm
Have you got a license for that radish?
Haloween Tiger
June 30, 2014 at 2:40 pm
What a wonderful thing, please keep us updated on how your garden is doing.
I can’t wait to be able to do this myself. I love your videos they have so
much substance; keep em coming. Peace and blessings. :-)
Goober Fries
June 30, 2014 at 2:54 pm
Awesome! No matter what happens keep trying to keep learning. You guys
have a good growing season so you have plenty of time. Have you ever seen
this guy on youtube? He is a super resource to learn from:
https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens
Mark Oliver
June 30, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Nice 8 ) glad to see you going back to what made us humans prosper in the
beginning.
UnknownTrance87
June 30, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Right on. Every little bit helps. For your carrots, check to make sure the
soil isn’t too wet, and make sure there are plenty of drain holes on the
bottom of the bucket.
MindOverEverything
June 30, 2014 at 4:57 pm
This is change, you guys are going to do great, all the luck with this
little but significant project, and remember to eat your fruits and drink
your vegetables.
Fabricio D'Lorean
June 30, 2014 at 5:05 pm
Nice vid guys,, Hey Melissa and Aaron, I have a question?? Why do you think
no one will report on this huge pedophile pornography sting that amounted
to 25,000 people getting busted by the FBI worldwide, which amounted to 50
British Police Officers getting arrested and possibly more than 500
American police officers getting arrested based on numbers? I posted the
story on my channel the best I could. I am not good at this kind of stuff,
but the information is there for anyone to read research,, good vid guys. I
know it is a sick story, but we have children we must protect. Sorry for
going off topic
Road Dog 50
June 30, 2014 at 5:25 pm
You probably already know: Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow
gardens.
Only in the US could this happen :P
SoulSpireROTMG
June 30, 2014 at 5:38 pm
Nice! Put the tomatoes in the bucket. They will take over that box. You
will also need to thin out the cucumbers depending on how much light you
have. I suggest looking at pictures of full grown plants to decide how to
thin them out and where to plant them. My new place has no light for
growing:( nice start though. The only thing I can think of as far as the
carrots is that the dirt may be bad. Also one more thing you might want to
do is check out in a book which season each plant is. I’m in California and
I think broccoli and cauliflower are for winter.
mmyr123
June 30, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Great job, thanks for all you do!
Nicholas Goudoras Jr.
June 30, 2014 at 7:01 pm
Awesome guys! Remember, though, some of those plants take up a TON of space
per plant and will quickly shade out their neighbors (each one of those
broccoli plants could take up more than one square foot apiece). Thin
ferociously or they will compete for resources and wipe each other out. No,
I’m not a globalist. ;)
mpflaherty1
June 30, 2014 at 7:46 pm
You will need to put something up for your snap peas. They are vines and
need something to climb.
Kim Biondi
June 30, 2014 at 8:22 pm
They are way too close together, you”ll have to thin them out in order to
let them reach their potential. It’s generally not a a good idea to plant
cole crops next to each other, they have a high nutrient demand and slow
down each others gorwth.
I’d plant them in rows or in a checkerboard pattern with herbs and other
low-nutrient demanding plants. You could also start planting an covercrop
that keeps the weeds down; Brassicaceae are fast growing, large plants that
work well with an understory covercrop. I’d use a nitrogen fixing covercrop
like white clover and/or insect repellent herbes. Cheers.
bugsbugmenot
June 30, 2014 at 9:21 pm
The cucumbers will need a bucket each at least. I see you have topsoil in
your garden, so i would plant them straight into the ground, they have a
very dense and far reaching root system. They do okay in buckets (2 per
bucket max.) because buckets accumulate more heat. But they’ll definitely
do better in open soil with some stones next to them for heat accumulation.
And i hope your buckets have some pretty large drainage holes at the
bottom, otherwise the soil will turn acidic, the roots will start to rot,
and your plants will die.
bugsbugmenot
June 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm
You need to watch and learn from this guy. He’s funny and knows his stuff.
http://m.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens
Christine Ebertshauser
June 30, 2014 at 10:36 pm