How I Grow So Much Food in a 15m² Kitchen Garden ｜ Small Vegetable Garden Tour

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. I'm Aga and this is my small kitchen garden. In today's video I will show you everything that is currently growing in my small 15 square meters kitchen garden. So my garden spreads to about three meters wide from one side to another and about five meters long from the fence here to the garage wall here and it's kind of tucked away behind this garage wall. As you can see straight away on the garage wall I have a small, very small, lean-to greenhouse. This is about 70 centimeters deep and 185 centimeters long. It's just big enough, if I can say and use those words, to fit nine large pots in here. I have 10 tomatoes in pots growing this year. Nine fit inside of the greenhouse, one is kind of sitting on the outside. It's taking a naughty step, although it might be actually a better condition considering the beautiful summer weather that we have still in the UK, which is great. I'm not complaining at all. So nine pots of tomatoes that I have in my greenhouse and these are a mixture of a bigger varieties of tomatoes like the beefsteak, the pear shape and things like that and they seem to be doing well. This is what I do every year, ever since I started gardening four years ago. That was the first thing that I had set up in my garden was this tiny greenhouse and it serves me in the season, in the summer season for growing tomatoes because I love growing tomatoes. So I have 10 of those in pots in here but this is not all. I also have 10 other varieties growing outside in the raised bed. So if I turn the camera around, going back, as you enter my kitchen garden, here we have this kind of large U-shaped raised bed that my husband and I built two years ago. So this is the second season that I'm growing in it. The two previous years I had six smaller, way smaller individual raised beds but they were also kind of half the height of this bed. So it was giving way less of the growing space. Anyway, on the left side I am growing my cucumbers and tomatoes. Starting from the edge I have two cucumber plants. The variety is called Maryland. This is my favorite variety. I have been growing it from the very beginning not knowing what seeds I'm buying but it turned out to be wonderful. I highly recommend it. It's very sweet, perfect for slicing into sandwiches or for salads. We have been already harvesting those cucumbers from those two plants and as you can see they are massive already. I have to take those down because I don't want them to grow too big as well. So I have those two plants on the very edge and they are tied up to this trellis. So what I basically try to do is to use the space vertically as much as I can, as you can see. I have two other cucumber plants on the other side of this trellis. This one here, you can see the cucumber that is nicely formed here. This one is called Femspot. There is another one on the other side at the back but it has decided to grow along the back of this border and I have trained it up the fence. So this is how we do it in here. In the middle, in between the cucumbers, I have 10 additional tomato plants and the majority of them, eight out of those 10, are cherry tomatoes. I have three of the rubber luscious, two of sweet aperitif, three of some gold and then close to those cucumbers on this side, on the right side, I have two beefsteak tomatoes called Favorit and they are over here. All of them are trained up the trellis so I am using the space vertically as much as I can, as you can see. Also at the bottom, the little pots that you can see scattered around, that's my pepper plants. The smaller pots are the sweet peppers and I have how many? Two, four, six, eight, nine. Nine of those and this one here, this is a chili pepper which I bought from a garden center because my seedling died. It didn't make it and my husband wanted to have a chili pepper plant so we bought it. They can reach out with the roots directly into this border there for moisture and that works well. They seem to be doing all right in there. In the very corner, if you have already noticed when I was showing the femspot cucumbers, I have one zucchini plant with humongous zucchinis at the moment. I need to pick those zucchinis and this one is doing really well in there. Happy with that. Right across, kind of in the middle of this huge raised bed that we have, I have an arch on which I am growing beans, climbing beans obviously and this one is now filling up really well. This always serves me really well. I have been doing that from the beginning of gardening so since four years ago I have used an arch to grow beans on it and it works really well for a small space. So this is another idea of how you can use space vertically in smaller spaces and specifically with the arch for the beans is great use of space vertically because if you would have used like a teepee kind of structure from bamboo canes, which is also great and most people do it, but then you wouldn't be able to grow anything in the middle of the teepee which usually sits empty. But in this setup here I have my parsnip in between the arch and salads in front as well. So this way I have my vertical space used for the beans but also I can use the ground in between which is great I think. And then on the right side behind the arch in here tucked away is a pumpkin. Yes, a pumpkin. This is a small variety called small sugar and I have... oh hello! What are you doing here? Did you come to say hi? Yeah. This is my daughter everyone, Natalia. She came to say hi. Say hello. Hello. Okay, mommy will finish the video, okay? Okay. So as I mentioned this is a pumpkin called small sugar and I have done it two years ago this way. I have trained my pumpkin up the fence because I didn't have the space on the ground to let it grow and as we know even small varieties of pumpkins they grow massive leaves and it takes space. So I trained it up the fence and currently this one plant is already giving me two beautiful pumpkins. This is a nice size as well, look. Already. And there is another one up here, also nice size, slightly smaller than the other one. And the plant keeps on growing so I am training it along the fence for as long as I will manage to. It has also given me a side shoot, a solid side shoot which in here you can see it's cellar taped because when I was trying to lift it and tie it up it kind of snapped but I immediately cellar taped it and it has survived and it keeps on growing. Now what happened because it was way bigger than it is right now, it has developed as you can see still quite a lot of side shoots which I tend to remove so that the plant focuses its energy on the main stem and forming some fruit. So a couple of days ago I was tidying up and I noticed this side shoot. The main stem was growing up here and it was trained all the way over here and to the side and I wanted to remove this side shoot and I accidentally snapped the main stem. I'm sure this happened to everyone, please tell me that this happens to everyone. Luckily there was no fruit on that stem on the top of it so there was no actual casualties and I am going to leave this stem and when it grows a little bit bigger I will tie it up so we will see if something will come out of it but yeah if not I am still... Natalia careful... I am still happy with this main stem that is giving me two beautiful fruit and this is absolutely enough and then the remaining part of my small 15 square meters kitchen garden is this bush. These are my potatoes. I have two rows of two different varieties of potatoes in here. This one, the front one, is shallot and at the back I have king edwards. Now I think at this point most people would be pulling their shallots out. However I was a bit late with putting my potatoes, seed potatoes, in the ground. I've done it a few weeks later than I would have normally so I'm giving it a little bit more time to develop the spots. I had a little dig around the other day and there was quite a lot but they were still quite small so I'm letting them be. There's no rush so yes this is practically everything that I'm growing in a 15 square meters space. So I have 20 tomato plants, 4 cucumber plants, I have a zucchini, a pumpkin, I have a row of salads and a few rows of parsnips growing in here. I have a huge arch with beans, with climbing beans. I have 10 pots of peppers, mixed sweet peppers and one chili pepper and I have a humongous bush of potatoes, two varieties of potatoes. I can't remember how many seed potatoes I have put into this section but I think it was more than 10 of each variety but let's say for the sake of the argument that it was 10 of each. So if I have put 20 different potatoes into this space, into that raised bed, that's quite a lot as well. So I hope that this video would inspire anyone who maybe considers, would like to grow some veggies but have very limited space and you think that maybe all that's not enough. You can grow a lot. You can grow a lot in a very small space. Before I had this raised bed built, like I mentioned, I had six individual smaller raised beds and I would just have pots everywhere in between those raised beds and I would grow potatoes in those pots as well. This year is the first year really when I'm not growing my potatoes in pots but I've decided to use this raised bed instead but you can do it in pots. I have successfully grown potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, carrots, can't remember what else, in pots in between my small raised beds. So there is always a way to do something in a small area. Okay, that's it. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, leave me thumbs up, leave me a comment, tell me, share your story with me of whether if you have a small garden, even maybe smaller than this, I would love to hear from you. You can also hype this video and please do consider subscribing to my channel. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one. Bye! Say bye Natalia!