How big should your garden be? Vegetable Garden Size / Time / Lifestyle

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What size garden is right for you? This video breaks down a bunch of different sizes of gardens and how long it typically takes to care for them based on dozen’s of gardener’s experiences.
Intro - 00:00
Things to consider when planning your garden size - 2:43
Factors that influence the time it might take -5:21
Sample Size Gardens & Typical Timing - 9:08
1-2 hours/week - 9:19
3-5 hours/week - 13:31
6-10 hours/week - 17:11
11-20 hours/week - 20:51
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If you are looking into how to start a vegetable garden from scratch, you’re probably going to wonder what size vegetable garden is right for you. When planning your garden from scratch, it’s important to consider garden size. But its also about how long it takes to care for an average size garden, and some sort of garden size calculator that looks at time versus size. This is part of my beginner gardening guide on how to start a garden from scratch.

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@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

What size garden do you have? Want to jump to a certain point in the video? Things to consider when planning your garden size 2:43 Factors that influence the time it might take 5:18 Sample Size Gardens & Typical Timing 9:03 1-2 hours/week 9:13 3-5 hours/week 13:27 6-10 hours/week 17:06 11-20 hours/week 20:47

@lexington476 4 жыл бұрын

I grow only vegetables. I have 3 8x5 raised beds, one 4x4 low raised bed, and a 11x6 in-ground bed, plus two half barrels for herbs. I have another 11 by 3 foot in ground bed that is real poor soil so I'm converting that back to grass this year.

@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! How long does it take you in mid-summer to take care of it?

@lexington476 4 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingHarvest about ab hour week maybe, and most of that is watering if it has not rained.

@pastorpfp1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your good advice! Here in north central Iowa we have a somewhat short growing season. But with some planning you can grow a lot of veggies.I have raised beds, 1. 4 X 17 feet. 2. 2 x 4 beds. 3. 1. 3 x 3. I have made a new bed last week 4 x46. Plus i have 2 apple trees and a 3 x 20 foot floor bed. I try to spend as much time as possible in the garden. :) I am 67 years young and been gardening all my life. I think you would call that a life-time gardener. I am thankful for my father who taught me and made gardening fun. Thank you and God bless you and your husband!!!!

@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input Paul! That sounds amazing :) How long would you say you spend on average each week in the garden?

@pastorpfp1 4 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingHarvest I would say 6 to 7 hours per week. i love it and could spend twice that much.

@angelasbusybeesgardenandho4627 4 жыл бұрын

I grow enough to be able to harvest meal size portions. Also for storing/freezo/canning.

@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome!

@lexington476 4 жыл бұрын

10:15 also if you're growing food crops, some do better in ground beds. Some corn varieties can have a route up to 15in deep. Another would be for growing deep root crops, and your raised bed is only 6 inches you might want to put those in an inground it is well.

@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

great tips. thanks for sharing!

@lexington476 4 жыл бұрын

Oh I love sweet corn. Takes about 10 minutes to plant it 😎. Takes about a half hour to harvest it 😎. Then it can take about an two two hours to pull out all the dead stocks 🤔😕😔... yeah I grow a lot of corn 🤓.

@EmbracingHarvest 4 жыл бұрын

Haha you must love it! 🌽

@lexington476 4 жыл бұрын

@@EmbracingHarvest i do. There is something about having 6 to 8 foot corn stalks in the yard and crowing corn the growing my other crops does not bring. A real feeling of 'i grew this'.