Best Practices for Growing Vegetables in a Community Garden or at Home in Raised Beds
December 1st, 2011
John from www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip to a new community garden in Boca Raton, Florida to share with you some best practices for growing in a community garden or at home. In this episode, you will learn some techniques that you will want to consider when growing food at a community garden or at home. After watching this episode you will discover the #1 secret for having sucess when gardening.
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Has anyone ever heard or seen of water conserving/water collecting raised beds that recaptures unused water runoff?
Super video, John. Most of what you talked about in this video I have already learned from you in previous videos; but refresher course is always welcome. I planned to have my local people view this video in hopes that it will spur an interest to build a community garden in my town. Thanks again for sharing your vast knowledge with us.
No Planet Rock is actually a famous hip hop song from the 80s. LOL!
Great video John!, just a few thoughts…I can understand smaller veggie types for the square foot gardening, but don’t understand larger plants like tomatoes, peppers, and others that need room to grow, you usually space tomatoes 4-5 ft at least I do , to provide them with adequate ventilation which is what they need to prevent disease.. I guess I am not understanding that concept.. with larger sized crops..but would try with smaller crops..
Awesome! Thanks SO much for visiting John! I always look forward to your videos & learning about growing food
Yes, depending on the timer, you can set some for once a week, every other day, etc.
Its always best to use rain water or well water than municipal water, as too much chlorine that can hinder plant growth and can reduce populations of soil microbes. I have an episode on installing a carbon block filter that I would recomend to filter out the chlorine. Fluoride on the other matter is probably not as “bad” as chlorine but its still bad. It can stunt growth but the bigger problem is Bioaccumulation of the fluoride in the plants which you eat, which means you get more fluoride.
LMAO I’m European but i like space too.lol I don’t know where you were in Europe.
Hi John. Another great video. I learn so much from your videos. It might be fun to be there sometime when the people are all there working and interview some of them to hear the stories behind the plots and their reasons for doing the plot. Would that be hard to do?
Load up your truck with sea weed? Then blend up in your blender? lol
Blending up a truck full of sea weed. Recommending the taking of a truck load of sea weed before the Coast Guard gets ya’ might be a great way to become a guest of the county or state for a couple nights, or worse. It’s probably best to get a permit ahead of time. Might even be free, but then, no worries. I know you jest a bit, but just sayin’ that you can’t take anything off the beach like that. Thanks again.
John do you film these the day or two before you upload or do you have a bunch recorded to upload
Optimally, if you had acreage, I would space tomatoes out 4 feet each, and let them sprawl. In a small confined space, you would ONLY be able to fit one tomato plant in a 4×4 bed, so if you single stem (cut off all suckers) and plant a smaller determinate variety- you can grow it in a 1 inch square space. Most normal tomato plants I give 4 square feet or 24 inch spacing.I have a video on this. Most of my teaching is geared to home gardeners that dont have alot of space and must grow vertical
I usually upload all my videos within a few days of filming. Rarely, I will upload old footage that I never got to edit.
@growingyourgreens , ok in that respect I understand.. I guess I have always had room to grow and did not have limited space to fit multiple plants.. at least some growing is better than none.. I would probably go crazy with limited space.. but do know that is all many have and must find what works.. yeah 4 square ft sounds much better and plant them so they do not shade the others.. thanks for responding John!
Hey John. I live in Barbados which is in the Caribbean. There’s wet and dry season basically. I finally got soil and other supplies and planted this evening right away. It’s raining alot lately. So this frost thing I keep hearing about. Will the cold from this constant rain affect them from germinating or does that only happen with snow? I currently have them in my room with two lights shining directly above growin containers to keep them nice and warm at the moment. ha ha. Give me some tips.
Each type of seed requires the “right temperture” to sprout. You can do a google search to see temperature ranges when seeds “like the most” and tend to germinate the best.. Personally.. I like nature to figure all that out- for example in my front bed, I have spinach growing from seeds that were dropped from last winters growing. I also have miners lettuce growing (sprouting) right now- when the temperature is a little cooler.
Tomatoes are not like europeans…………..but onions are………..thats kinda funny
Hey, a gate valve is actually better that a ball valve… :-/
What the hell shoes are you wearing? lol
WHATS UP WITH AZOMITE?
Sea weeds aren’t plants; they are algae.
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i stop watching your video because they are too long and i am not learning anything new from you any more john
Another great video… Thanks for sharing John! I hope you come to Orlando Fl one day! : )
You’re videos are really long. I appreciate what you do but you would serve more people if you cut down on the time and made your content more concise. Thanks.