December 23, 2024

VIDEO: 7 Essential Tips When Planning Your Vegetable Garden | Plan For Year-Round Food Abundance


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0:00 Introduction
0:48 New Course
1:30 Tip 1
3:21 Tip 2
3:53 Tip 3
4:27 Tip 4
6:15 Tip 5
7:20 Tip 6
8:09 Tip 7
8:53 Bonus Tip 1
9:33 Bonus Tip 2
9:54 Closing

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25 thoughts on “VIDEO: 7 Essential Tips When Planning Your Vegetable Garden | Plan For Year-Round Food Abundance

  1. Mine are:
    1. Try to grow enough veggies sow e don*t have to shop for veggies from April – December.
    2. Grow more flowers in the garden, including these gigantic sunflowers I am super excited about.
    3. Establish 5 new beds in the autumn for next year.
    Bonus goal 4: Create all my own compost for the autumn.

  2. From a muddle headed gardener, I would like to 1. provide veg all year round by reading the blurb thoroughly on the seed packet. 2. Try and organise my growing area for ease on my arthritic knees and hips. 3. Be more organised. Happy new year to all gardeners who can't wait to get back in the garden. In the coming days I will be able to find mine again when the snows gone

  3. This year I'd like to get rid of my filler plants that aren't beneficial to the garden, successfully grow from seed without rabbits munching my sprouts first, and learn as much as I can from the experience.

  4. Ahhh i think my problem is I have too many goals. I finally have the opportunity to start a real garden and so all of it is goals. Plant more than I ever have. Do no dig, make use of compost. Save seeds, make raised beds, grow vertically as much as possible……

  5. This will be our 2nd year to garden at the spot. 3 goals for the season 2021:
    1) get the composting going
    2) study the light/wind/temperature conditions etc for proper planning
    3) plant more fruit trees & berry bushes

  6. My 3 Goals: (I have just moved home) 1. Try Composting for the first time! 2. Use Succession Planting (I live alone so need less all at once!!) 3. Discover what works best and where. Wish me more successes than failures!

  7. Love your videos, so very helpful. Am very new to gardening, having recently inherited a very large plot of land which was tended to by my father in law and he always grew the best vegetables. I don't know the first thing about growing your own veg so I'm trying to take in as much information as I can and I find your tutorials really friendly and helpful.
    1. To learn more about growing from seed
    2. To understand what to grow and when
    3. To learn what can grow together and what cannot. I gather a fair few things do not get along in the same growing space and that is clearly important to understand. I'm hoping to be able to build some raised beds, revive the existing soil and grow something my father in law would be proud of.
    Keep those super videos coming please, they're an absolute life-saver. Am looking at both our course and your new book and hopefully one day soon I can call myself an actual gardener 😀

  8. Fantastic in depth information about growing your own veg. You and Charles Dowding not forgetting the lovely Liz Zorrab are my Gardening heros in the UK. Regenerative / Permaculture Agriculture is the way to a sustainable future.

  9. You have a lot of good tips. One correction; a wigwam is round, built by woodland indians. A teepee is conical, traditional for plains indians. Your beans were growing on a conical trellis, a.k.a. a teepee.

  10. Please don't burn newspaper. It's toxic, containing not only toxic chemicals but also natural rubber latex, which is toxic. (Follow the money- corporations LIE.)

    Not only will you be inhaling those aerosolized toxins, if someone with a latex allergy catches a whiff (it can be up to a mile away that someone may be impacted), you can trigger life-threatening anaphylaxis and potentially kill them.

    https://non-toxic-home.org/f/is-latex-toxic

  11. Please tell us how to deter rabbits from our plants. What is the netting you use? We’re in Portland Oregon and we get a lot of miles, rabbits and squirrels. Also, how do we get rid of slugs? We’re considering using wood chips in the walkway but we’re told that slugs like them

  12. Underground or sunken greenhouse . Will be the future. No acid rain from chimtrail and dropping gravity independent water sistem . Grow all year around, termo regulated.

  13. It's spring here in NZ it's my first year of owning my own home and I am rearing to get into the garden, I want more garden beds but I've been told (partner) that I need to fill what we have first

  14. Huw, I love to see how much you've grown as a gardener. Constantly challenging yourself and learning from other gardeners. Bravo. You might consider growing edible flowers as a beneficial pollinator in your garden this year. I used to have a list of 40 edible flowers and how they are best utilized as food. However I've misplaced it at the moment. Ugh. So I have a general list of perennial food that I continue to add to. I'm adding it here just to see if there are any plants that would fit into your plan of adding more perennials to your land. Best wishes and keep up the great work. The following list doesn’t reflect what I have on the property, but rather a list of possibilities.

    Vegetables

    Asparagus

    Artichoke

    Jerusalem Artichoke

    Lovage

    Tree Collards

    Tree Kale

    Perennial Kale

    Perennial Broccoli “Nine Star”

    Yacon (excellent prebiotic)

    Welsh Onion

    Sea Kale

    Sea Beet

    Good King Henry

    Perennial Arugula

    Wine Cap Mushrooms

    Shallots/Scallions

    Hosta

    Ostrich Fern

    Egyptian Walking Onion

    All Peppers

    Herbs

    Oregano

    Thyme

    Mint

    Sage

    Chives

    Garlic Chives

    French Sorrel (tastes like granny smith apple)

    Red vein Sorrel

    Richters Herb Sorrel

    Echinacea

    Horseradish

    Fruiting Shrubs/Vines/Canes

    Grapes

    Blueberries

    Blackberries

    Raspberries

    Currents

    Gooseberries

    Rhubarb

    Honeyberry

    Elderberry

    Fruiting Ground Cover

    Strawberries

    Wintergreen

    lingonberry

    Fruiting Trees

    Fig

    Paw Paw

    Persimmon

    Apple

    Pear

    Peach

    Nectarine

    Plum

    Hazelnut

    Walnut

    Common Landscape Plants not found in veggie gardens but are edible

    All lily flowers are edible.

    Angelica

    Anise Hyssop

    Bachelors Buttons

    Bee Balm

    Begonia

    Borage

    Black Locust

    Calendula

    Carnations

    Chamomile

    Chicory

    Chives (and other alliums)

    Chrysanthemum

    Clover

    Daisy

    Dame’s Rocket

    Dandelions

    Daylilies

    Elderflower

    Fireweed

    Forsythia

    Fruit Blossoms (Apple, pear, plum, citrus, etc)

    Hibiscus

    Hollyhock

    Honeysuckle

    Hostas

    Lavender

    Lilac

    Linden

    Marshmallow

    Meadowsweet

    Milkweed

    Nasturtium

    Peonies

    Phlox

    Rose

    Scented Geraniums

    Sunflowers

    Tulips

    Violets

    Trees and Shrubs

    Fruit and Nut Trees

    Fruit bearing bushes

  15. I have some lofty goals for 2022 and I thought I'd share them…..
    Plant the beds to avoid disease transfer.

    To water using drip irrigation.

    Plant only the quantity I will personally use.

    To seed save from 4 or more plants this year.

    Continue to add perennial food sources to the property.

    To amend and grow short season melons successfully.

    Turn most of the garden refuse into compost tea.

    Intensively plant all greens to harvest as baby greens.

    Trellis even more types of plants this year.

    Trim all the trees and shrubs for max. Light.
    And here is the list of melons I'll be growing out in Aurora, Oregon zone 8b.
    Kajari Melon

    Griselet (F1) Melon

    Escorial (F1) Melon

    Brilliant (F1) Melon

    Savor (F1) Melon

    Ha'ogen Melon

    LILLY Heirloom Melon

    ALVARO Melon

    Mango Melon (Vine Peach)

    Infinito F1 Hybrid Melon

    Charentais Melon

    Ginger's Pride Melon

    Bateekh Samarra Melon

    Sweet Passion Melon

    Petit Gris de Rennes Melon

    Orange Silverwave Melon

    Madhu Ras, Rajasthan Honey Melon

    Kiku Chrysanthemum Melon

    Rich Sweetness 132 Melon

    Minnesota Midget Melon

    Old Time Tennessee Melon

    Honeyrock Melon

    Aphrodite Hybrid Melon

    Banana Melon

    Goddess Melon

    Golden Jenny Melon

    Sakata's Sweet Melon

    This is especially challenging as I garden a small house lot that is almost fully shaded on the south, West and North side leaving only the front yard that gets sun until about 5pm. Wish me luck!!!!

  16. Hi huw im teaching my old school gardening skill on our allotments im make note of ur advise and im going to buy some ur books as well 1 very useful tip is 2 use creasote and old engine 1 part oil 8 parts creasote to protect all ur wood and raisebeds like they in war times the water lrols off the wood xx

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