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Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

August 25, 2020 By Vidya 1 Comment

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

Thanks to living in the suburbs with a super restrictive HOA I have a small vegetable garden. But it sure feeds us well during the season and provides a lot of produce that we freeze and use throughout the winter. In fact my stash of frozen tomatoes from last season ran out only in June. My garden started providing an endless supply of tomatoes in about 2 weeks after that. Do you want to see how I do it with just 3 raised beds and few pots?

These are the restrictions that we have to work with:
1. Vegetable garden area should not be more than 50 sq ft
2. Trellises should be less than 5ft tall and not permanent
3. Vegetables should be limited to only the back of the house

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

This year the garden has been slow to produce. The heat loving veggies like long beans, eggplant, bitter gourd, and okra started showing up only in late July.

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

Here’s Chinese Bitter gourd, which is actually a lot less bitter than the usual variety, peeking through the leaves and cherry tomatoes.

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

Speaking of cherry tomatoes don’t these guys look like small jewels? All self seeded from a plant that I started 3 years ago from seed.

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

My Bush sugar baby water melon that I grow in a half wine barrel seem to have stalled. Same thing happened to me last year. Do you know what might have happened?

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

My small vegetable garden is not without issues. The vine borers already attacked 3 of my acorn squash plants. Remember how I started them from seeds I saved from store bought Acorn squash ?

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

When I took the video around Aug 10th there was not a single flower on my ridge gourd. Now look at these guys. Nature is indeed amazing!

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

Did you see the traditional South Indian lunch I made at the end of the video?

Single Day Harvest From Our Small Vegetable Garden

Do you live in a community with a restrictive HOA? Are there any tips that have worked for you that you would like to share with other small vegetable gardeners?

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  1. Sonia Velez says

    August 26, 2020 at 7:09 am

    I love VEGETABLES too a d I like your style, I will like to have more information about your how I can do a mini VEGETABLES garden inside my one bedroom apartment 750 square feet space, years ago, before moving by myself after I raised my kids, I make a window garden, because my kitchen window was very big, because I lived in a townhouse, but now I live by myself and I have a small kitchen window over my sink, I have some beautiful plans, but for next year I will like to make a VEGETABLES kitchen window, do you thing that will be possible

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