If you only had about 10 square feet of garden space, what would you grow and how much of each?

2016-05-03 5:31 pm
Assume you will be eating what you grow and take into account nutrition, taste and yield.

Again, I'm asking what you would grow, not what I should grow.
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I meant 10 ft x 10 ft or 100 sq ft. I think most who answered assumed that's what I meant, but I thought I should clarify. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

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2016-05-03 8:34 pm
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I would grow exactly what I grow now. I have been an organic gardener long before the word became popular. Most gardeners learn to space, grow, and fertilize vegetables from Home Depot. I learned as a child from my uncle in the hills of Kentucky at age three (3). Today I live in the heart of Los Angeles, and I grow Pole beans, squash, corn, turnips, collard greens, garlic, onions, egg plants, tomatoes, romaine lettuce, and eight rare fruit trees whom fruits you cannot buy in the grocery market.

1. I grow pole beans, corn, and squash using the Three Sisters. I grow only the purple pole beans because the purple color attracts almost no insects. The website below explains how the beans put nitrogen into the soil for the corn and squash to use. The beans use the corn as pole to climb, while the squash helps keep the soil moist. All three help with insect control using less space in your garden.

http://www.nativetech.org/cornhusk/threesisters.html

2. I have a collard green tree. Therefore I only need one plant. My collard tree is over six (6) years old. Always remember collard greens have more vitamins than any other vegetable, especially vitamin A.

3. Spread your garlic and onions individually throughout your garden. They take up almost no space, but they do a great job with insect control.

4. Plant your turnips in a roll, but plant a few seeds every two weeks. Therefore you will have a continuous supply of turnip greens and turnip bottoms. Because of the weather, in Los Angeles I can plant all year round.

5. I only have two eggplants. I love to slice and fried with eggs and bacon for breakfast. My wife also makes Eggplant Parmesan with onion and tomatoes from our garden. The Eggplant Parmesan freezes very nicely for a few months.
I do have an advantage because I live in California which grows 80% of all the fruits and vegetables in the United States.

http://localfoods.about.com/od/searchbyregion/a/CAFruitsVeggies.htm

I am also posting a website for you to review about rare fruits you can plant which you cannot but in the grocery stores.

http://www.fruitlovers.com/fruittreedescriptions.html

The secret to high yields in a 10x10 sq. ft. garden is great soil. Make sure you recycle all grass, leaves, egg shells, and etc. in a recycle bin. Mix in chicken manure.

I wish you and your family a beautiful day. Peace, from Los Angeles.
2016-05-03 8:15 pm
Do you mean 10 square feet or 10 feet square?
2016-05-03 6:22 pm
Taking into consideration the costs of current produce Ii would likely go with all tomato plants. I would mix in plenty of compost and space the plants about a foot apart in all directions. I would probably go with a high acid heirloom variety. Maybe a beefsteak or red Brandywine. I would plant only one variety so that I could save the seeds for the next year. This should give me a very good yield.

In an ideal situation I would first have planted some chinese cabbage or bok choy in the spaces between where I was going to plant the tomatoes and maybe a few bunching onions as well. These would be ready long before the tomatoes started getting crowded out by them as tomatoes would go in the ground much later. In mid to late summer I could plant a second crop of the bok choy or cabbage and the fully mature tomato plants would help shade them. Chinese cabbage and bok choy only need around three months or less to mature. Bok choy can be picked as early as two months. Onions can be pulled and consumed at nearly any stage of development. All three are cool weather crops where as the tomatoes are warm weather crops.

It is possible that I may also plant the odd daikon radish, leaf lettuce, and/or spinach around the corners.

All of these things can be preserved in one way or another. The greens and radish can be combined to make kimchi or the cabbages can be made into kraut by themselves.

That is what I would likely grow if it was only for my consumption. What would I expect to save on my grocery bill? The tomatoes alone would likely save me a hundred bucks or more. Organic greens can also be quite expensive. Likely in total it would be in excess of $200.
2016-05-03 9:44 pm
As we all know that 10 square feet is quite a smaller patch of yard which is 1 x 10 ft or 2 x 5 ft. by measurement. In such case, I could grow only one or two rows of vegetables. In such case,I would like
to plant 6 tomato seedlings in trellis and a dozen of lettuce or Swiss chard or bush bean seeds underneath.
Yip
2016-05-04 7:35 am
Just about anything can be grown in large pots or tubs if you lack space. Miniature fruit trees, vegetables, herbs. All my herbs are in pots, a lemon tree, even potato's. This also means you can move them around for the sun or simply a change of look.
2016-05-04 2:32 am
Anything that grows below ground; radishes, potatoes, carrots, etc.
2016-05-03 7:56 pm
Pole beans. 10 square feet is 5' x 2'. You wouldn't get a lot else into that space. Maybe tomatoes in front of the beans.
2016-05-03 7:12 pm
I really like containers.. I would probably get a dwarf citrus tree, a dwarf fig tree, some potted raspberry/blackberries... potted tomatoes and probably some cucumbers or mini carrots
2016-05-03 5:47 pm
Beans and/or peas on a climbing frame at the back, carrots, onions, asparagus in the ground in front. Maybe prefaced by lettuce early-in. Herbs in containers, ditto a couple of tomato plants. Rabbit wire all the way around.
2017-03-10 5:11 pm
Will depend on on the context really. Which is better as a snack - fruits to me. It's tastier and gives you that little of sweetness. Which can be better as a snack if you are trying hard to slice back on sugar and lose weight vegetables
2017-02-17 11:48 pm
fruits and veggies when unripe has starches as carbohydrates and becomes into fructose when it ripens.
2016-05-09 12:28 pm
I am an apartment dweller. My balcony is 10ft x 4 ft. On it I grow in window boxes: basil, grape tomatoes, dill, thyme, oregano.
2016-05-08 12:13 pm
zucchini
tomatoes
okra
2016-05-08 12:00 pm
Heck I got 8x8. Think both plants that grow straight up and crawler vines which need space but can interlace with the corn stalks and peas which can be put on a trellis and bush plants like tomatoes. Green beans grow easily, so does squash and melons.
Heck, in 64 square feet my main crop is WEEDS. So 100 square is just more weeds.
Just being realistic. Heck, I could do it on a 3x3 spot. and include salad. Still leaving plenty of room for weeds.
2016-05-07 2:42 pm
Ganja man !!!!!
2016-05-07 5:31 am
I've seen marijuana grown in closets with less than 10 square feet available. If you were to sell the buds, the proceeds should be enough to cover the cost of groceries.
This, of course, would only be advisable where it is legal to grow and sell marijuana.
2016-05-06 2:49 pm
I would get a little creative with my space and create a small portion of it as a "stacked" garden so I could get a ton of herbs in about 5 ft. of space. I would plant my lettuces on top. I would plant taller fruits and veggies such as my corn and tomato plants with the remaining space, with water melons, strawberry plants, and other ground dwelling plants. You couldn't keep this up for years, and would need fantastic fertilizer because it would suck up all the nutrients.
2016-05-06 2:15 am
apples
2016-05-05 6:47 pm
Several pepper plants - I like pimento. Several tomato plants - I like roma. Several herbs - I like basil (annual) and rosemary (perennial where it does not snow). The rest either summer squash or cucumber.

The best answer is to find a book on square foot gardening in your USDA Hardiness Zone.
2016-05-05 10:57 am
I have a small garden, and if I wanted help, I'd give people more info, like
Where I live.
the aspect of the garden
If it is in shadow from nearby fences, buildings or trees.
What kind of soil I have.

Little things like that....
You don't give info, you don't get it back.
2016-05-05 5:51 am
apple
2016-05-05 1:45 am
Corn and a whole barrel of them.
2016-05-05 1:06 am
I would grow what I eat--tomatoes, basil, zukes, string beans, broccoli, maybe some eggplant, kale, romaine, spinach
2016-05-04 10:32 pm
Some cactus and rose ^_^
2016-05-04 6:54 pm
I'd put a seven foot high trellis on the north side, to grow snow peas, and later on, some pole beans, cucumbers. A spot in the middle for a row of potatoes, to be replaced by summer crop of tomato plants. On the south side, a bed of salad greens, to be replaced by summer squash, and hot peppers.


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