Cool Videos Showing Urban Homesteads: Get Ideas For Planning Your Garden This Year
By JULIE - 10:10:00 AM
I've been watching videos of urban homesteads to help visualize and plan our garden this year. We are planning on tripling the size of our garden, so I am in full planning mode right now. I will also be very busy this spring with landscape projects. Watching these videos are so making me antsy for spring to come. It's hard to look outside at a foot of snow and think about starting plants indoors soon. So here's the best videos I watched today:
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/2011/02/28/my-urban-garden
This garden is 260 sq ft in a Canadian city, (love seeing what people in my zone 4 or colder are doing, all those CA homestead's just aren't comparable to my growing zone). It goes through all 4 seasons in a bit of a step by step manner. It's from 1984, so You Grow Girl must be truly a great gardening resource. My favorite idea I got from this video was using a ladder as a trellis for cherry tomatoes. I put mine in a cage last year not realizing they were vining and ended up with a mad jungle of tomatoes.
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/2011/02/28/my-urban-garden
This garden is 260 sq ft in a Canadian city, (love seeing what people in my zone 4 or colder are doing, all those CA homestead's just aren't comparable to my growing zone). It goes through all 4 seasons in a bit of a step by step manner. It's from 1984, so You Grow Girl must be truly a great gardening resource. My favorite idea I got from this video was using a ladder as a trellis for cherry tomatoes. I put mine in a cage last year not realizing they were vining and ended up with a mad jungle of tomatoes.
CA Suburban 1/10 acre lot using raised beds with square foot methods(10 min.) Although this is a suburban homestead it still is relevant to Urban homesteading since he has such a small lot. He makes good use of his space. Shows his tree kale I thought was very interesting. I also like his case against lawns. I think it's good to have a reminder of the uselessness of lawns, because it seems wrong to tear up your lawn. I should know, It felt a bit crazy to tear up our lawn at first but we are so glad we did.
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