10 Tips for Planning a SQUARE FOOT GARDEN - for BEGINNERS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Planning your Square Foot Garden can be overwhelming! If you’re a beginner, it’s hard to even know where to start. Here are my best 10+ tips for helping you get started dreaming, planning, and planting your edible square foot garden if you are a brand new gardener!
Feel free to skip around- here are some chapters for easy navigation.
Timecodes:
0:00 - What is a Square Foot Garden?
1:34 - How much space do I need?
2:46 - Tip #1 Make a Garden Wish List
3:44 - Tip #2 Sketch Out Your Garden
4:19 - Tip #3 Utilize Companion Planting
6:19 - Tip #4 Re-Use Harvested Squares
7:06 - Tip #5 Practice Succession Planting
8:11 - Tip #6 Know Your Garden Zone
9:24 - Tip #7 Prep Your Garden Space
10:57 - Tip #8 Know How Many Plants Per Square
12:46 - Tip #9 Label Your Plants
13:53 - Tip #10 Have a Little Faith!!
I hope this is helpful to you on your garden journey! What tips would you add??
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*NOTE*. In this video (Tip 6) I mention looking up your garden zone to find your frost dates. For an even more accurate estimation, you can search your ZIP CODE for your average frost dates instead. I wish I could update the actual video, but I can't :/ (Thanks @Samantha Bice for bringing this to my attention.)
Another new gardener not wanting to screw it up, thank you for this- i'll rewatch this a few times i am certain
Good luck with your garden!
As a gardener for over 20 years, I can tell you that even in year 10, 12 and 20....you will still screw things up. Take this advice....HAVE FUN with your garden, give yourself a lot of slack, you're human and you're trying to do something good. There will be successes and failures and although some will be your fault, many will be because nature tends to win. Don't be too hard on yourself, just keep on learning from everything you do (and don't do) because every decision and every non-decision will have a lesson you can use for your next season's garden. Overall.....just don't give up, you can do it and you will succeed ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for this video! I'm incredibly intimidated by gardening and you helped a lot!
That makes me so happy! You got this!
I like you. Trying square foot gardening for the first time this year. Thank you for the inspiration.
Thanks! Good luck with your garden!
Great information! I'm going to try square gardening this year
Good luck! I’m getting planning mine out for the spring now!
What a lovely video very informative. And you are absolutely adorable you give me teacher vibes and I love it God bless you and your family
Thank you! You’re so kind! Also, your TH-cam name made me laugh so hard 😂
I'm so glad I found your lovely channel. You have a gift of teaching! :)
Thanks, that's so kind of you!
Thank you. You were a pleasure to listen to.
Thank you!
Excellent video...!
This video is such a big help.You were amazing in xplaining the technique.Thank you.
You’re most welcome!
Such an informative and to the point video you made !!!! Hats off!!!! All the necessary informations has been given by you in a very simplistic way…. ❤❤Subscribed!!!!
Thanks! I’m glad it was helpful 😊
Great tips. Thank you. Planning to try this in 2024.
Last tip was the best! 🌱 Thank you for a great video!
Thanks 😊 good luck with your garden!
Really great video. Truly filled with Useful Information. 😊
Thanks I'm just about to start my first garden and your advice was amazing I pretty much knew nothing now I know something 🤠
That’s wonderful! I think it’s the kinda thing you just gotta go for and learn along the way. I try a few new things each season and learn so much, especially from the failures!
Love your concise and great content!! Thank you
Thanks! Glad it was useful
Great video! Hello from Washington!
Hi!! 👋🏻 And thanks!
Just got my first plot at a community garden here in Portland. I am so excited, but also a little overwhelmed, and this video helped so so much. Especially the have a little faith bit
Hooray! Hi, neighbor! I loved our community garden plot and I was amazed at how much I was able to grow in my small plot. It was also cool to learn from the other gardeners. Good luck! Here’s hoping we don’t have any more of those wild 115* days this summer 🤞🏻
Excellent Video Thank You ❤️ & Subscribed
Thank you!
Thanks so much. Your also a great teacher.
Some good tips. We are in autumn now but I am planning now for spring. I grow things that I want fresh, often like lettuce leaves, small tomatoes and herbs. I also want berries that are too expensive to buy; raspberries, blackberries, boysenberries, currants and gooseberries. If they can be found in our supermarket they cost so much, especially at Christmas when we want them the most.
Oh how I love berries!! We planted a few little berry bushes to establish last month. Hopefully we will get a little handful of blueberries this year, but I am dreaming big about the years to come!
Great tip on focusing your energy on growing things that you love to eat the freshest like lettuce and herbs! Thanks for sharing!
So glad I stumbled upon your channel and your very well done videos! I just got a community garden for the first time and figuring out the organization of my plants is the biggest challenge right now. It's also a little daunting seeing everyone else with chicken wire, stakes, tarps, netting,... the list goes on! I was happy to see your last step because for this to be enjoyable, it shouldn't take that much stress! Once again, great video and I'll be sure to catch up on the others. ✌🏻
I’m so happy to read this! We loved our community garden experience- I hope you do, too. But I felt the same way. It was so overwhelming to even know where to start. I thought unless I knew all the garden secrets, nothing would grow. Finally, I just told myself that if even a few things grew, that would be a success and we ended up being wonderfully surprised by how well several crops did! You’re right, it doesn’t have to be so stressful or perfect.
@@TheCrunchyGinger I hope to see some videos from you about what you do with what you grow, e.g. canning, freezing, baking, etc. Harvest videos are some of the most fun to watch and yet educational. It's nice to see another novice tackling the garden and not taking themselves too seriously. Can't wait to see what you grow this year and best of luck with a bountiful harvest!
Yes! You got it, friend! Good luck to you, this season, too 🌱 😊
Muy buen video, muchas gracias por la información. Yo comencé hace unos años con huertos urbanos y de verdad es un mundo fascinante que día a día nos enseña algo nuevo ya que la naturaleza es muy sabía, desde Chile ya tienes un seguidor y muchas gracias por enseñar.
Bendiciones y un abrazo grande 🙏 🤗
Well done lovely
Thanks so much!
so excited to plant my garden!! glad I found your channel!!
Yay!! Good luck 😄🌱
This was an amazing video!
Thanks! I’m glad it was helpful 😊
Great information! Thanks for sharing 💗
Thank you! ❤️
Great video thanks!
Thank you!
So helpful. Thank you!
I’m glad it was useful!
Great info 👍🏾
Your video and info are great, but I admit I wasn't all the way through and noticed you've listed the tips and time stamps and I was sold. I subscribed and I'm hitting the bell. So many creators fill that space with affiliate links (which is fine), I've never seen a "track list!" Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback! It’s awesome to know that is helpful for you- I always appreciate the time stamps when I am watching videos, too. Glad to have you!
Thanks
Just a note - your frost date is based on your area/zip code. Not your zone. People in the same zone but opposite climates can have vastly different last frost dates. Zones are for perennials. Frost dates and climate are for annuals. ❤️ It's a common mix up even for very experienced gardeners bc of the way everyone talks about gardening and zones.
Thanks for this- good catch. You are right. I will try to add a note or edit to the video to include that. Even within the same zip code, folks can have microclimates that may alter their he date of average frosts.
Thank you
I'm doing an online gardening course. Having to watch a lots of big gardening channel videos and all mostly garbage. Stumbled on you from YT recommends. Great content and style! Go gingers 🙂
Thanks so much! I appreciate your feed back ☺️
I so Nice thank you
This video was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for making this so simple to understand and know we’re to start. This is my first full garden and I’m excited!
Good luck with your garden! I’ve come to accept that I will spend the rest of my life always learning more, but just trying it out is the real way to learn!
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I was a pretty good gardener when I lived in northern California (zone 9). But I've since moved near HoustonTexas and amd am really struggling. I can't understand how this area can also be zone 9 when it's so incredibly wet, hot and humid while northern California has a very dry summer that is not quite as hot as Houston. .
This week definitely be gardening by trial and error!
No kidding! That sounds like a major shift. I’m sure it will be a season of many surprises and a lot of trial and error. Good luck with your garden! Come back and let me know how it’s going!
@Timmytoo02 it's not normally this wet. I live 80 to 100 miles north of you near Beaumont. No one has had much success this year. We usually have to water our garden nightly. The rain has devestated all the gardens this year. We will try replanting many things in late August.
That sounds so frustrating for you guys! Sometimes gardening can be so heartbreaking- we had a very hot late spring/early summer and many of my cool weather plants just gave up. 😕.
I hope your August plantings make up for it!
@@lovemybabygoat thats the problem im having right now here in south florida. I was so proud to have grown the best looking seedlings. Got them all planted out a few months ago with a strong start but now they are being killed off one by one from pests and diseases 😪 sometimes i wonder why i keep at it lol.
Check out black gumbo southern gardening. Not sure where in texas hes at but he does a pretty good job at his garden.
Do you remove the garden twine at some point? How do you use 4 squares for a tomato plant if there is twine in the way? Wouldn't that cut into the stem? Thanks
should be 4 squares for 4 tomato plants. 4 squares for one plant is a waste.
Do you feel your 4 boxes produce a lot of food for your family? Have you invested in more in the past couple of years? How many pounds of food do you feel that you got out of them? Thanks so much.
So how did the labels work? Did the sharpie written names stay readable? This is something I've struggled with in the 12 years I've been gardening. We've (my husband and I) have tried painted rocks (it washes off), popsicle sticks (the decompose), marker flags with plant names written on them (the metal flag poles rust in half and the marker faded a bit on the flag), the labels from the store (the plant hides them then they get buried), and even making a map (things were moved around and the map not updated throughout the season). Really hoping these worked for you.
Wood burn the names on a popsicle stick, or any wood stick.
Hey Christina! I’m sorry I missed this question earlier. So the copper markers worked out ok. The sharpie did fade over the season and the copper got dirty looking. But when I pulled them up, I was able to clean them off with a flour/salt/vinegar rub and they are ready to write on again for this season!
Oh that’s a great idea! Thanks.
@@TheCrunchyGinger woooo. Thank you so much for responding!
I have use old metal window blinds cut easily with points use a marker especially made not to fade and they worked. I got a couple of the blinds for practically nothing.
Good info but had to subscribe because of the name. Lol
😆 thank you!
Mixing sticks are free in McDonald's, can use them 😊
good suggestion!
Think big-start small.
Exactly!
i disagree about needing 4 squares just for one tomato plant. that is a waste imo...1 tomato per square is good enough
It depends on how you prune it. Last year, we single stemmed all the tomatoes and were able to plant them much closer and still maintain good airflow. Plus it was perfect for planting herbs underneath and between the plants.
Cheater 😛
You talk too much
and you have no content at all so you have no right to judge and if you wish to judge why not be positive as well as constructive? Valerie negative people are unliked and unwanted. Please consider how you interact in the world. Be a ray of sunshine not a big pile of .....
Everyone say a prayer for Valerie Herron….she must be a very unhappy lady……..
But you’re here learning to garden like the rest of us!
Muy buen video, muchas gracias por la información. Yo comencé hace unos años con huertos urbanos y de verdad es un mundo fascinante que día a día nos enseña algo nuevo ya que la naturaleza es muy sabía, desde Chile ya tienes un seguidor y muchas gracias por enseñar.
Bendiciones y un abrazo grande 🙏 🤗