Woodbury Community Garden Demonstrates Space Optimization Techniques
The Woodbury Community Garden hosted an educational demonstration on maximizing growing space in small garden plots, showcasing techniques for the facility's 9-by-13-foot garden spaces.
The presentation focused on vertical growing strategies to help gardeners increase vegetable production within limited plot boundaries. Demonstrators showed how three walkways provide access while maximizing planting area on either side of each plot.
Vertical growing methods featured prominently in the demonstration, with caged tomato plants preventing fruit from rotting on the ground and trellised pea plants maximizing upward growth. The sample plot included strategic placement of various vegetables, with kale, lettuce and peppers positioned throughout the space.
Cucumber varieties were highlighted for their different growing patterns, with vine cucumbers trained up trellises while squash plants were positioned near plot edges to accommodate their spreading growth habit. The demonstration emphasized growing upward rather than outward to avoid encroaching on neighboring plots or pathways.
Gardeners seeking additional information were directed to the University of Minnesota Ask a Master Gardener website for further guidance on space optimization techniques.
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“The optimum thing is to grow up.”
“close to the edge of the garden so that it has room to spread.”
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[0:06] We're here today to
look at some of the plot spaces
[0:08] in the Woodbury
Community Garden,
[0:10] and we're going to talk about
how to optimize the space.
[0:16] These plots are nine
by thirteen.
[0:19] The gardeners want to get
as many vegetables as they can
[0:22] so I'm going to show you
[0:23] some of the things
that were done in this plot
[0:26] that optimizes the space.
[0:27] What this particular garden
[0:29] has done,
they've put three walkways.
[0:30] The walkways
give them access to the garden,
[0:33] but it also gives them
ample access to the vegetables
[0:37] on either side of the garden.
[0:38] What you want to do
is you want to grow up.
[0:40] You can't grow out
because you'll interfere
[0:43] with somebody else's space.
[0:44] You'll go into the pathway.
[0:46] The optimum thing is to grow up.
[0:48] This particular garden, they put
cages on the tomato plants,
[0:52] and so the tomato plants
will grow up,
[0:54] but it'll keep the tomatoes
from falling on the ground
[0:58] where they rot.
[0:59] And then they put some peas
here in the front,
[1:02] also with a small trellis
for them to grow up there.
[1:06] They put kale in the back
corner.
[1:08] They put the lettuce,
They put the peppers over here.
[1:11] In the back corner,
we have eggplants.
[1:14] This is cucumbers.
[1:15] Cucumbers
that come in two types.
[1:17] They put the vine cucumbers
so they'll grow up the trellis,
[1:21] fall over,
and then they can pick them.
[1:23] Squash plant is right here.
[1:25] The squash grows out,
stays low to the ground.
[1:29] So they put it out
[1:30] close to the edge of the garden
so that it has room to spread.
[1:34] If you have any questions,
there's a website,
[1:37] the University of Minnesota
Ask a Master Gardener.
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