Start a Garden with SQUARE FOOT GARDENING

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Get the most out of your gardening space with square-foot gardening! In this video, you'll learn what square foot gardening is and the benefits (including the ones that have surprised me), and I’ll give you a year’s worth of planting ideas so you can get started right away.
Introduction 00:00
What is Square Foot Gardening 00:33
1. Raised beds divided into squares using a grid 01:14
2. Simple soil mixture added to beds 01:36
3. Follow plant spacing guidelines 02:03
Square Foot Gardening Advantages 02:39
1. Simple to understand and implement 02:56
2. Efficient use of space and resources 03:24
3. No weeds 03:35
4. Simplifies companion planting 03:46
5. Healthier plants 04:22
Download Square Foot Garden Plans 04:53
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@gretchenrodriquez7633 Жыл бұрын

Thank you neighbor, I'm in E. Mesa.

@regatta2k Жыл бұрын

Angela is the best. Listen to her 👍

@Kat-mf7mt Жыл бұрын

The upfront cost of getting a raised bed and irrigation always held me back. As a first time gardener, I'm trying out container gardening to see if I will enjoy gardening before jumping head on.

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

That is very smart. Grow bags are an excellent way to get started with a low up front cost. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8egY6h2nt7Yook.html

@Lochness19 Жыл бұрын

Why not just an in-ground bed? Container gardening will require more watering than in-ground imo. If you can afford the time/cost of watering your containers, you can afford to water your in-ground beds. You don't have to get drip irrigation if it's on a small scale, you can just water with a water with a hose or watering can. If you live in a moist climate like the NE US/Great Lakes or Western Europe, you don't need to water too much, especially if you use mulch, and especially if your plants are large and established (ex mature squash, tomato and pepper plants)

@GardenMinistry. Жыл бұрын

Kat I did the same thing you did. I started one year with just a few simple containers of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, flowers. As one of the commenters says, the watering process was quite annoying at times because my containers dried out fast, and I had to remember to fertilize a lot more, and I also misjudged how much room some of the plants required to grow and this stunted their growth, the plants didn't grow to their full potential and I hardly had anything to harvest. This didn't stop me from loving gardening though, it just made me more determined to have a bigger suitable space to garden. Then during COVID when we were all homebound, my husband built me a 6 by 4 raised bed, we filled it with local compost, and we added a timed water system from Home Depot. This time I saw all my seeds and plants flourish, and I truly enjoyed the process. I learned a lot that year about dealing with pests, and about what seeds were practical to grow and when. This will be my 3rd year and I'm already asking my husband to build me 2 more beds, because it's just so much fun. I can't imagine my life now without some sort of gardening involved. I truly believe it's worth the upfront cost of getting started because then you'll have a lifetime of a hobby that supplies you with food spring, summer, fall, is good for physical health, and reduces stress. Hope this helps in some way!

@Pickles6115 Жыл бұрын

That also kept me till I look around and found Northern Tools and they were marking down a lot of lawn and garden supplies and found 4ftx4ftx1ft beds for $30-35 apiece. I was able to buy 10 at the cost of one named brand raised bed. Those are the perfect size for square foot gardening. If you go the grow bag was go to Amazom they have pretty good deals. Happy gardening and growing.

@victressjenkins395 Жыл бұрын

I have some container space but the rest is in the ground.

@JChalant Жыл бұрын

Thanks again for hosting the event at the library last night! I'm anticipating having a more successful year this time!

@QuiteQuietASMR Жыл бұрын

I’ve always planted in rows but my plan is to do more “blocks” of plants this year, and square foot gardening sounds like a great thing for me to implement!

@nunyabeeswax7937 Жыл бұрын

I'm a brand new gardener and am so glad i found your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@ioanagherman5952 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, have a bless weekend.

@TjTracyThomas 10 ай бұрын

This was my first season of raised beds and SFG. Some success and some failures. Almost all pepper plants(anaheim, shoshito, bell peppers) did great. Zucchini and squash took over anything nearby and hid some plants from sun. Cucumber vines went into the squash instead of up the trellis no matter how many times we tried to coax them onto the trellis. Then there were insect problems. Learned a lot and will incorporate changes in the spring. Just purchased 3 more raised beds. Also started canning food. Hopefully the one raised bed we dedicated strictly for asparagus will yield us a crop next year. Yummy!!

@GardenMyselfHappy 6 ай бұрын

I am planning a few small beds with this method and really am interested to see how others get on. Thanks for sharing.

@GmamaGrowz Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your square foot garden 🤩 I have the book and can't wait to get started!

@lisac6546 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your amazing information and plans. My husband and I are now full time Arizona residents. We came from Washington and I had a beautiful greenhouse and miss gardening so very much. I have a empty backyard I need to fill up with square foot beds and vertical items to cover a large wood fence.

@Inpreesme Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@jordiribas2883 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Angela.

@mariap.894 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Angela. I'm a new subscriber and I truly enjoy your way of teaching, you are a natural. I love your trellis (square shape), and would love to do that for my garden to hang a shade cloth in the summer (Florida Zone 10). I appreciate all you do for us, the new gardeners. Thanks a million 🙏💜🌻🦋

@OysterMilk Жыл бұрын

Angela these plans look amazing! As a beginning AZ gardener, I'm so excited for the upcoming season now! Thank you!

@thisoneT Жыл бұрын

I really love your channel. I've gotten a lot of great info! Thank you!

@gardenextra7415 Жыл бұрын

I am so glad that you are teaching / talking about the subject. The book influence to my gardening but I don't follow all the rules, so I would be a terrible teacher.🙂

@KitchenGardenTours Жыл бұрын

Love these tips. Thank you. We are moving soon so I hope to build a beautiful raised bed garden like yours. Thanks for sharing.

@AlexasGarden Жыл бұрын

Hey Angela! I'm glad to meet you! Thank you so much for this video! It's very useful!

@meshuggadevlar Жыл бұрын

Excellent information. I'm just starting out with 3 8x4' beds and I'm also in Mesa. Thanks for the great videos!

@lesszabo5651 Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@kath2606 Жыл бұрын

I am in the Northeast in zone 6a, so not anywhere near your zone. But you provide such great overall garden information, especially about square foot gardening and companion planting, so I am subscribed! Thank you!

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@GardenInMinutes Жыл бұрын

Such useful info, thanks for sharing Angela! And we’re really excited that you’re enjoying our metal raised garden beds 😊

@mariaanderson6503 Жыл бұрын

🥰🥰🥰🥰thank you for the information 🥰🥰🥰👏🏻😘

@maydanavabarnett5177 Жыл бұрын

Great tips, Angela! Thanks!

@alicecowan3499 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this Angela. I’m heading over to your website right now! ❤❤❤

@truthfactory6429 Жыл бұрын

You are an inspiration. Thank you!

@2tabbybros Жыл бұрын

Love the clarity of your videos! This is my first year gardening and I am starting with a sort of modified No-dig and SFG approach. Videos like yours are so helpful!

@ThatBritishHomestead Жыл бұрын

I love the growing space looks fab, we have a large rasied bed, we kinda do loads of different gardening techniques

@debsmith8102 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!❤️👍

@AmirsAllotment Жыл бұрын

Really helpful Angela 😊

@barbmills2756 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the information.

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@DURULUHAYAT Жыл бұрын

Thank you fantastic

@KiranVerma-cu3ei 5 ай бұрын

Nice information

@lauriesimms7560 Жыл бұрын

This is my first time using square foot gardening. I have 3 metal 3'x6'x1' beds. I'm curious about your watering grids. Are they all connected or is each bed set up separately? Any tips or things I should know about the watering grids? I have learned a lot from you. You are a born teacher! Thank you for making your videos.

@tofikalicious Жыл бұрын

This will be my 3rd year gardening, will be trying square foot gardening for the first time :) there's one thing I still have questions about - what do you sow/plant after harvesting each square? Do you obey crop rotation just within one square? But also have to take to account which plants don't like to grow next to one another? Don't wanna end up with empty squares or chaotic sowing/planting and not having results :D

@Lochness19 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't worry too much about crop rotation on such a small scale. You either have a pest/disease in your garden or you don't. It's not like the disease/pest won't be able to move to the next square over if you rotate the crop into there. The "plants not liking growing next to one another" are mostly myths propagated by gardening blogs. The main thing to consider is how much space each plant takes up above and below ground. Like planting beans between your garlic plants might get tricky because it'll be hard to harvest the garlic in early summer without disturbing the root system of the beans that you want to keep in there until the first frost. So I wouldn't plant them in the same square, but adjacent squares should be fine. And yes, you can have multiple crops per square depending on the length of your season and how fast your plants mature. Typically lettuce, spinach, radish, cilantro, arugula, bok choy, cabbage, peas, kohlrabi, garlic and more will be ready early enough (even here in the Great Lakes) that you can plant something in their place after harvesting.

@stephaniegee227 Жыл бұрын

First time viewer to your channel, but now I'm a subscriber. GOOD intro to this concept! We do a mix of raised bed/container gardening, b/c we have some unique sun/shade issues around our house. I have looked at this concept of square foot gardening, but the first time someone told me about it - well, it sounded like a lot of extra work. But you present it very well, and I look forward to learning more here! Thank you!!

@AlexasGarden Жыл бұрын

I agree with you!

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@johnwilliamson9453 Жыл бұрын

Great! In northern AZ, so it gets hot and cold and dry, a challenge for sure. What do you find the best raised bed structural materials, ie cedar, steel, etc.? Plans?

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

I'm really liking the new metal bed in the video: shrsl.com/3whqf

@annmoy8932 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. Square Foot Gardening makes a lot of sense to me now. Thank you for explaining it and for being so generous to share your SFG plans for free! I will implement SFG this year. Thanks again!

@grisespino5342 Жыл бұрын

Love this concept. Could you do a video on weed removal? My California soil is heavy, so when I pull a chunk of soil comes with it. I feel it exacerbates the problem by waking up more weed seeds. In my raised beds, in the grass and grass border. Trying to go with a more natural approach. please help, thanks

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

I would cut them off or use a hula hoe amzn.to/3HTI4mV if they have flowered and set seed, you can remove the plants. Then I would mulch as much as possible.

@deshgouri Жыл бұрын

Great information! Couldn't help notice the lisianthus though! Do you have lisianthus blooming currently??? Which usda zone are you at?

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

No - that is from last summer. I just planted mine for this year. I'm in Arizona, zone 9b

@lauraeldridge6899 Жыл бұрын

Hi Angela, Do use any fertilizer for your plants throughout the season? I love your videos!

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

Best thing I can recommend is adding vermicomposting bins to your beds - free worm castings! Then I also use this occasionally throughout the growing season: amzn.to/3jdYNI3

@heatheringram2976 Жыл бұрын

Angela do you put worm bins in a potato bed?

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

@@heatheringram2976 Yes

@lanamcgriff8228 Жыл бұрын

Hello! Thank you for this information. I have garden in a community garden for the past 3 years and will be building beds in my backyard in a few weeks. Question. Where did you get the water grids from? I would love to incorporate those in my backyard beds. Thank you in advance for your response.

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

They are from Garden in Minutes - Love them shrsl.com/3r8ny

@lanamcgriff8228 Жыл бұрын

@@GrowingInTheGarden Thank you very much. Happy growing☺️

@heatheringram2976 Жыл бұрын

Angela, does the irrigation grid shoot water out of the perimeter piping towards the bed frame, or just towards the center of the squares? I have 4x10 beds. The 3x8 grids will work if they also shoot towards the wood. From your video I can’t tell if they do. I see they shoot in both directions inside the squares. I hope that makes sense. Thanks

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

Normally no it doesn't spray towards the bed frame. To change that you can do two things - rotate the end tubes so they sprays out, or request holes on both sides of the outer grids. The customer service at Garden in Minutes is great and they will be able to help you find a solution that works.

@GardenInMinutes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for check! Angela is right, you can twist the tubes at the end of The Garden Grid around so they spray outward. This will spray roughly 3-6 inches depending on how much you open your water spigot. All Garden Grids are sized to fit the typical interior dimensions of most garden beds. For a 4x10 we usually recommend (2) 4x5 Garden Grids (each has a dimensions of 44”x55”) which you can connect together with our Garden Grid Connection Manifolds. This setup would cover ~44”x110”. Happy to help with any questions! Also, be sure to used Angela’s discount code if your decide to order from us :) Angela10 gets you $10 off any order over $100 🙌

@denisea3036 6 ай бұрын

Very informative thank you so much. I have a guestion though my apple bloomsom snapdragons say 3 - 4 " apart is that really 16 in one square? that sounds like so many lol would I not pinch?

@GrowingInTheGarden 6 ай бұрын

I would do 9 if you don't pinch and 4 if you do.

@LuvBritTV 10 ай бұрын

I live in Ontario Canada, just started veggie gardening this summer, and grew some container sweet peppers, and beans. Now I've got a metal raised bed 42" wide 30+" high which I'm now just filling with Hugelkultur and Mel's mix. But it's round, so can sq. foot gardening be done in a round container? Maybe converted to pie shapes? I suppose it could still be in squares, but with some rounded corners! I'm getting it ready for next Spring, but might try some Fall planting if I get ambitious. Thanks for the video!

@GrowingInTheGarden 10 ай бұрын

Of course - I'd lay it out in squares and then the edges and round areas would be smaller "squares"

@LuvBritTV 10 ай бұрын

@@GrowingInTheGarden Thank you! I'm going to have to buy the book!

@kajalchaudhari9163 Жыл бұрын

First time I am starting my garden. Is it mandatory to add vermiculite? Please let me know. Thank you.

@natalytressler2052 Жыл бұрын

Hi Angela, thank you for your videos. Can you recommend a mulch seller that is located in AZ? Thanks.

@GrowingInTheGarden Жыл бұрын

I use the mulch, compost and raised bed mix from Arizona Worm Farm. They are the best.

@natalytressler2052 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@sylviagranger2400 Жыл бұрын

You're right. They are the best, I've purchased your mix from them, and my garden is loving it. Angela, how much or thickness do you have the mulch? After I clean up these weeds, I need to spread mulch. Thanks, you're the Best!

@erickkajae 5 ай бұрын

I tried the square foot garden and my plants turn ned out super tiny and didn’t grow that well. Not sure what happened. It seemed they were battling for nutrients. Any thoughts? Oh my goodness 😢. Your garden is gorgeous

@GrowingInTheGarden 4 ай бұрын

Focus on your soil. Adding compost is crucial.

@erickkajae 3 ай бұрын

@@GrowingInTheGarden 💚💚💚🌺 Thank you