This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
Today I want to show you what I'm growing in a small space.
So this is literally a small planter box it's, let's go ahead and measure it.
Its 14 inches high and only 7 inches deep and it's about 4 feet wide.
What we're growing today is we have all these great sugar snap peas and snow peas.
So this is an example of growing in a small space.
So say this wasn't in my yard, this was just basically a space we had and we wanted to
fill in.
I got to call my buddy here.
Chico!
He's going to be in this video, Chico's going to be in this video.
So I wanted to show you growing in a space and I did have a video of growing cucumbers
in this planter during the summertime, that's the summer growth, but in the wintertime we
had these snow peas.
So here it is April and I've been harvesting the snow peas since March and it's been growing
really well.
It's really important when you're planting in a small space like this on a patio or wherever
you have, is to make sure you have a good quality soil.
So I'm using 100% organic compost mixed with rock dust.
So you want to probably get a good potting soil if you get a pot this big or if you build
something custom like this.
So yeah, you could no problem grow big snow peas or cucumbers and other things.
Some things don't like to be planted in tight spaces, so even though zucchini looks like
a cucumber they won't really work in here, they need to spread out a lot more than this
space would offer.
But cucumbers, snow peas and other peas and beans, they're going to do great in here.
If you want to have a single line of lettuce, and maybe even some bell peppers or pepper
plants spaced out maybe every twelve inches, they'd probably be alright.
The width for seven inches is pretty narrow, I'd like to have at least a twelve inches
all the way around on the bell peppers.
So when you're growing in a small space you can't really let the plants grow out especially
in this situation, my neighbor's yard is right next to there and then we have a nice walkway
here, so it can't be growing out.
So we have to grow up, so we basically use a, basically this galvanized fencing wire
and we framed it in with some wood and we basically made a custom size trellis to grow
up on.
So if you didn't want to build your own custom trellis we have another example here of just
this standard metal trellis that you could literally stick in your pot as long as your
pot was weighted down enough so it wouldn't tip over.
You'll be good.
So really important to grow vertically when you're growing in a small space.
As you can see here, it's just growing fine in that small of a space, seven inches wide
and I think we planted them about 6 inches apart.
They're as tall as these ones right next to it that have a whole bed to spread out, so
all that extra soil is not really needed for certain plants.
Now we're going to go ahead and taste some snow peas today, they're really delicious.
So here's one here.
Watch this, Chico, come on!
Chico loves his snow peas, he hears me crunching on them and he wants to crunch on them too.
Chico!
So let's talk about Chico, Chico's, he's my foster dog right now, I don't own him, but
I foster him for an organization named Noah's Bark, here Chico.
Noah's Bark is a non-profit dog rescue organization that saves dogs that may be killed at a shelter,
at kill shelters.
They take them and they keep them until they can find a good home for them.
So if you're interested in adopting Chico or another animal and you live in the Sonoma
County area or Bay area you could take a drive out here to adopt from Noah's Bark.
He's waiting for another one.
You can check their website, Noahspets.org, that's noahspets.org.
Chico!
He loves his snow peas let me tell you.
Alright, so this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com and you can grow in tight spaces and you can
even adopt dogs on my show.
We'll see you next time!