Growing a Fall Vegetable Garden in Grow Bags

Instant Raised Beds

Here’s a time-lapse slideshow of the Fall Vegetable Garden, growing in Grow Bags.  We love Grow Bags, and use them on weed cloth, with or without mulch.  They are affordable, portable, collapsible and help to amplify the heat (which is key if you live near the coast).

Week 1:  grow bags cleared of weeds and spent crops; bed weeded, gophers trapped, seeds sown and watered.

Week 2: (6 days later): seeds germinating and over-wintered greens and onions perking up

Week 4 (missed week 3): fall greens coming along nicely, back margin of bed sown with herb & flower seeds to attract beneficial insects and then mulched, some trouble with sowbugs eating seedlings–lots of sowbugs. Fertilized with worm tea as seedlings began to have true leaves–probably during week 3.

Week 5: broccoli is heading, potatoes are sprouting, the horseradish has got a new lease on life and the last cucumbers and zucchini of summer have finally got true leaves… Time for more worm tea