Front Yard Lawn to Food - Planning your front yard edible landscape

John shows an overhead view of his front yard garden. He discusses his design criteria and gives you some things to think about when designing your front yard edible landscaping project.

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• front
• yard
• edible
• garden
• estate
• design
• criteria
• designing
• planning
• plan

[Andreas748]

what's cheaper.....buying vegetables form the super market or growing your own...after the cost of seeds, supplies, fertilizer, wood for raised beds, etc?...

[growingyourgreens]

Please see

watch?v=rxLV3vM-t_w

where I address this question.

[redhulublue]

I live in Michigan. Is something like you have possible in Michigan? It looks like the walls of your beds might be made from something other than cedar fence post. Was the fence post you bought all 4x4 and is that the same for the walls?

Your videos are awesome. How did you get into gardening? Did you go to college and major in horticulture or similar?

[growingyourgreens]

Yes, you can grow food in michigan. The walls of the beds are cedar fence boards.1x3' the 4x4's are redwood. I have other videos showing the exact construction and how to build them.

[ShaunnaIsHere]

What are you growing the row that has the squared off partitions with what looks like chicken wire on the partition walls? What was the advantage of this for you?

[growingyourgreens]

They are used as a trellis.  I grow things vertically up them. I have grown cucumbers, peas. I could grow other vining/climbers such as beans.

[rawfoods]

1) 7900 square feet (approx). House takes up about 2000 square feet.

2) 60% of food requirement met for 3 people (could feed more, I have excess) (I do not eat any meat or animal products)- need to plant more fruit trees to get closer to 100%. They are growing :)

3) I would estimate if you put in 5-10 hours a week, that would cover it.

4) untreated wood. Cedar or Redwood are best from my research.

5) Yes, I do compost and recycle

[PhotoNika]

your growing neighbors!

You have done a simply fantastic amazing and inspiring job and I am so glad you do it in your FRONT yard, its a teaching tool for everyone.

I stopped the video to comment so am not sure if you address this later but I had a question. What fertility inputs are you using? I dont know how draconian it is where you live but you might want to add some chickens in the backyard (sell the eggs to neighbors? Your raw foodist right? neighbors will love you even more)

[mentalitees]

@Andreas748 Seeds/plants they are just lying in your kitchen.

For raised beds, rocks, old containers,old wood/branch = you don't have to buy them.

For fertilizers you may use you pee,"rice wash" water, compost, or aquarium water .

For me, in long term, its cheaper and safer to grow your own veggies.

and I think it taste more delicious especially when you think about how you grew them. :)

[snaps81625]

Also, how much money did you spend total for it all!

[snaps81625]

Its beautiful... but being its in your front yard, was their food being stolen, we own the lot next to us, its frnced in and we found out our neighbors were hellping themselves to our garden while we were out of town. Also, did you have any problems with the city because it is in your front lawn?

[giddymoon]

I am really curious to what your water bill is every month.