9 STARTING MISTAKES | Square Foot Gardening In Raised Beds (Do You Want To Avoid Them?)

Square foot gardening in raised beds is not so hard but still I made some beginners mistakes. I will show you all the errors that I did in my small kitchen garden and we will discuss how you can avoid them.
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I want to show you that making mistakes while gardening by the square foot method or any other method it’s not do or die. You can do mistakes because in the process you will learn something new. And in doing so you will grow. Not only as a person but also as a gardener.
So follow this video to learn what mistakes I did when I planned my kitchen garden, all the errors I did when I was planting my plants and all the problems that could be avoided if I took more care of my plants.
I hope I can motivate you to go and make a beautiful square foot garden!
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[@SmallGardenQuest]

Please take a moment and share one of your mistakes that you did in your garden, to show that is normal to make some mistakes. If you would like to hear 6 tips how to start a Square foot garden in raised beds follow this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4XbdHaMmNaHo5Y

[@Ms.Byrd68]

What was that that you were pulling out of your beds by the way?

[@fraukeg.facchini2691]

This year, I planted the peas too late in the season without an inoculant and in between garlic which I didn't know don't grow well together. The garlic is doing great but the peas never germinated.

[@fraukeg.facchini2691]

What is your accent? My mother was a wonderful gardener, and she told me a long time ago to put a roof over the tomatoes to protect them from the rain. I told her, that's not going to happen! Too much work! 😉😂😁

[@nikkibayo]

My first gardening year…OVERCROWDING!!!!!! Lol

[@MajesticFlyLife]

I love your positivity. Great video and channel. Liked and subscribed.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you. My goal is to inspire others to garden and show them that is not that hard after all :)

[@SColan910]

Mulch idea is a good idea but you don't have to buy mulch. I use grass clippings and it works out great. Plant the seed and the green thumb will grow. It doesn't happen overnight.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you for this tip. I didn't try grass clippings yet but I heard that they work just fine :) Thanks you again for sharing this tip with others!

[@Weissklangi]

Our house is built in the NW to SE direction, so the beds can only be made this way. We have a lot of East and South sun. Planted the tall plants in the back and small in the front.

[@andypandit1]

Thank you. You made me aware of some of the mistakes I was about to commit. Iam 80 and now beginning vegetables gardening. I have no time to gather experience. I must learn from your experience and maybe make some other mistakes. Regards.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

So proud of you that you are starting this beautiful hobby! Wish you all the best! If you want to learn more gardening tips I have them on my channel

[@fraukeg.facchini2691]

It's never too late to start! Good for you!

[@larryellis2218]

Go for it. You will love sq ft gardening. I'm 83, and my gardening days are over. But I really enjoyed it when I could.

[@amyr505]

I have planted too early, and too late. I have planted the wrong plant in the wrong sunlight. I have watered too much and too little. It is all a learning process.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

So nice of you to share your experience and failures here. I am sure you learned a lot over your gardening years and I am sure that you are still making mistakes now :) Like we all are doing them :)

[@cjontai12]

My first mistake was planting all my seeds at once not considering the seasons, zoning, location nor different soil types ect.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I can feel you. This is the first video I made and I delete it soon after seeing what mistake I made :D

[@machonr5329]

Keep a journal to keep track of everything. My mistake last year was not keeping track of stuff and trying to simply remember what I did.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

A great tip! Thank you for sharing.

[@sibylc2908]

I’ve made every single one of these mistakes! I feel better knowing I’m not the only one. 😊

[@SmallGardenQuest]

:D definitely you are not! The important thing is that we learned something in doing those mistakes :D

[@Enjoylife7794]

I made SEVERAL big mistakes. I have Asparagus growing from four years ago and it just keeps coming up, so it is planted 1- ALL SEEDS east to west and i planted everything else north to south AROUND it. 2-planted in CLAY soil smh... 3 - didn't use raised beds... but some things are STILL growing! onions tomatoes squash RADISH doing GREAT cucumber. NO lettuce, spinach, eggplant or bell pepper seeds grew, YET lol. Pray!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Lets pray :) The first step towards correcting your mistakes is to acknowledge them. So you are on the right path!

[@GardenKatt]

I tried to do a potato tower but put plastic at the bottom. So the bottom collected extra water and the end product i had 4 tiny potatoes. Lol.

[@acerpalmatum6446]

I have my raised beds set up and just waiting for warmer weather. Your channel is really helpful! Thank you!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you. My season starts at the beginning of May. When does yours?

[@juanayarza6059]

Man this channel is awesome. I learned a lot by hearing you talk about your mistakes. Thanks my friend.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

WoW

[@larryellis2218]

My biggest mistake was not making enough room between garden beds. I wanted to maximize the garden bed area, so made the aisles between beds one foot wide. Regretted not having at least a foot and a half, or maybe even 2 feet wide. Try pushing a wheel barrow down a foot wide path and you will understand.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I have the same...1 foot or maybe 1,5 feet between beds. No wheel barrow for me :D But I don't have more space to enlarge the paths :/

[@larryellis2218]

@@SmallGardenQuest I must have bigger feet than you. Thanks for responding.

[@nikkibayo]

Lol I made that mistake too! Can’t walk through hardly at all. I’ve broken zucchini plants quite a bit this year, just walking.

[@DickyBenfield]

my biggest gardening mistake is... not starting sooner... I wish I had started years ago.... I have rented, most of my life, but I wish I had done ANY kind of gardening... even as a renter... we are hoping to buy a home in the april or may time frame, but it would have been great to get a leg up on this before we owned some land.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Renting is not a problem. Look at me :) My garden is not on my land and its more than 10 miles (20 km) away from my home. But I manage. So you can do it to. Rent a garden and start enjoying :) BDW where are you from?

[@DickyBenfield]

@@SmallGardenQuest Yes, I should have started even as a renter... We are expecting to move in about 4 months and may be moving quite a distance. But as soon as we get moved I will definitely get started. I am from the United States in the state of Tennessee. It is zone 7a here.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

@@DickyBenfield Great. If you need any help just send me a massage :)

[@DickyBenfield]

@@SmallGardenQuest Thank you! I will...

[@johac7637]

I'm surprised you are pulling the plants by the roots, cut at soil level, great compost and food in the root zone.

[@joanies6778]

I had issues with self wicking buckets last year. Some of my plants got toxic. I want to do more container gardening, but trying to decide how to combat the issues. It was nice not having to water them twice a day, but I just need to fix them so they can either be flushed out periodically or drill a lot of holes in the bottom and put them on an irrigation line. The other mistake was not protecting my cucumber in the raised bed when we had hail. It stunted it's growth for 2 months, and then it took forever to bear fruit, though it had tons of flowers. So, a closer weather watch is in order. I do have a structure overhead that is hail proof, but this was at the end and open to incoming hail. (The second cucumber plant was in a bucket and ended up toxic.) This spring I planted some cool weather crops and slugs have eaten them all but a few. I had them covered while it was cold, but all that baying went for naught. They even ate all my self seeded sunflowers! Luckily, I have more to put in the ground. But slug bait will be waiting for them. 😉

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I had the same problem with hail last year...this year I was more vigilant on the weather forecast :) For slugs I have several videos explaining how to deal with them :) did you try putting woodchips at the bottom of your pots? they retain the moisture quite well. Maybe this could work

[@joanies6778]

@@SmallGardenQuest No. I think I'll try that. Thanks!

[@semsimama2191]

Thanks for the N S E W because I didn't know about that. Great video.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

No problem! I didn't know it either :D

[@nicolewinters7828]

Terrific video. It is good to let viewers know that mistakes happen! I also changed the direction of my garden. In addition, I learned that I should have planted more radishes and arugula in early September-that the gardening season isn’t over in September.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you! That was my goal to motivate people to start and dont get discouraged when something is not going to plan. Thanks for sharing your mistakes! Wish you all the best.

[@santaclausnm]

Been learning gardening, some with high subscribed KZbinrs, sharing their methods but wasnt fully share. Thank you so much for sharing, step by step and really detail!! Greatly appreciated! And of course you've got a new subscriber!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Glad to help! What is your gardening method of choice?

[@DahVoozel]

Poor drainage for my containers. No succession planting. No staggered planting. Did not get ahead of vine borers.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you for sharing that! I will try to make some content on those topics :)

[@veemcg3682]

Thank you for sharing your video. I have been gardening all my life and I still make mistakes but Mother nature is very forgiving and things eventually work out. Gardening is the healthiest hobby you can do and brings great satisfaction every day of the year. In every season we can provide something fresh for our families and enjoy the pleasure of working together to achieve a good harvest. Gently encourage children and make gardening a whole family occupation. It is wonderful to learn all the time and have fun at the same time.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Isn't that beautiful that we are forgiven every year and we can learn from our mistakes :) Yes gardening is a great hobby but it has one major drawback! You cant do it in the winter time :(

[@gilshelley9183]

I have two degrees in horticulture and 50 years experience and learn many new things every season, /Gardening is a life long adventure.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

And I love this about gardening :)

[@cuppetycake21]

I planted some seeds and seedlings on the 31 August. I've already had the benefits of lovely spinach last week and it looks like we will have some again this week. I am beginning to panic about the pumpkin, it looks like it may overtake my entire raised bed and the tomatoes look like they are going to be very tall. Problem is that we have monkeys in our area and I've had to cover the entire raised bed with shade cloth. I'm worried about how high I can train the plants.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

The tomatoes can grow really high. Mine are more than 10 feet tall! BDW where do you live that you have monkeys? Australia?

[@sandrainontario6710]

I didn't know about squash beetles

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Yes they dig holes in to the stem of the squash (zucchini) and kill the plant. I lost one plant last season but fortunately it was at the end of the season so no major damage :)

[@Ricking0]

Thank you for the share. I've watched alot of video, and as a beginner gardener with a good space, I fall into the last category of overthinking, overrplanning or trying to gather all the knowledge before starting, and so what you said at the end is crucial. Knowledge comes with experience. So thank you for this good reminder. happy gardening.

[@AdventureIndiana]

I have a small in ground garden now. It is a terrible mess due to poor planning. Even tho the garden is not what I wanted, I love it. I am currently building raised bed gardens for next season. By building now, I have time to really plan and not rush in spring

[@gracecanon2872]

Thank you for showing me mistakes can be great learning experiences. Enjoy your videos.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Glad you like them! Yes mistakes is one of the tings we all do and we always will do. We don't need to be ashamed of them we just need to learn from them and grow :)

[@tarawalker7193]

This is wonderfully helpful! Earlier this year somehow, I planted my bean seeds upside down. All my seedlings were inverted in the soil. I had to restart all my seedlings!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

But you must admit that picturing your beans with the roots in the air is funny :D I see them moving like I would move my feet if my head would be stuck in the ground :D Thanks for sharing and bdw I didn't know that beans had a correct side.

[@tarawalker7193]

@@SmallGardenQuest It really was odd to see! 😂

[@marciamalan]

Your honesty is refreshing in a world of staged up everything. Thank you for the encouragement, am now determined round 2 will be a better harvest for me

[@JewelsFromVenus]

I think the potatoes sizes depends on the starters eyes..if there are a lot of eyes on it then they will be small potatoes and if they only have 2 eyes you will get larger potatoes..I think you are only supposed to water potatoes twice per week

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thanks for that! I will see this year I bought a seed potato this time and I am testing 5 different soil types to see which performs better :)

[@AK2HI]

My main mistake was not properly planning where to put everything as well as not keeping up on slug patrol those little things can destroy a whole row of seedlings in one night

[@stevenshaw7779]

When I very first got into gardening I know absolutely nothing. I liked the way an orchid looked, so I took it out of its pot and planted it outside, because I thought it was grow. Probably done some other silly things, but that one stands out.

[@asrreyes]

My mistake is about container composting. It smells bad and lots of bugs, ants and flies. I used coffe grind, fruits peel, vegetables, dried leaves, tissue and discarded cartons plus egg shell. I used it as fillings for a raised bed, again ants swarmed in.m

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I usually put my kitchen scraps in a barrel and transport them to my compost once a month. Didn't saw any increase of and and other pests in it. how often do you turn your pile? Does it get hot?

[@apirlrain]

My garden was in the wrong place. So I just moved it last year. Now i have to learn the microclimate for each bed. Sun and location is soo important, because that's a fix issue. Sadly I'm year 6 into my garden and have yet to harvest anything from my garden hahahaah... good thing patience is a must on gardening

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you for opening your problems with us. Fortunately is always next year to improve and I am sure you will harvest your fruits this year :)

[@loominl6215]

Hi came over to your channel from Terry. I want to make a couple of my beds into SFGS so this was really useful. Tfs 😘😊🤗

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Great! If you have any questions don't hesitate to leave them here :)

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Nice information. I will give this a try for my winter gardening!! Thanks for the tips

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Great! Let me know how it goes!

[@patriciacole8773]

Yes like all good things gardening requires us to practice practice practice!!👍😁❤️

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I couldn't agree more with you

[@angelau1194]

What a great video, makes me feel a bit better when I have fails....and believe me there are many : ( Thank you.

[@garyjordan7127]

I learned a lot from your video and I really appreciate your honesty! I am new to this and you have given me some valuable information. Thank You!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Glad it was helpful! And I will try always to be honest. Is no point in faking. We all do mistakes. Lets learn from them :) Thanks for the comment it helps to grow the channel :)

[@NXavier787]

We are just starting a garden this year. I’m thankful for you sharing your mistakes as it gives us something to learn from. I’m sure we’ll make plenty of mistakes. But, like anything in life, you have to just learn and try again. In a few years I hope to have many containers and everything up and growing well! Thanks again :-)

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Great! That was the point of the video to show you that making mistakes is normal :) Wish you all the best in the new garden!

[@nastyphoenix]

Your potatoes are small because of the same mistake I made. You need to leave only 3-4 sprouts on the seed potatoes before you plant them. Too many sprouts will make smaller tubers

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Maybe. Thanks for the tip!

[@theoverworkedgardener5648]

Enjoyed the video. and we will all still have mistakes like this no matter how long you do it you'll be impatient and plant something in the wrong time or something. If your are like me that is lol I've been gardening since I was eleven or so. And I'll be thirty-seven this year and I still my fair shares of mistakes but also by doing this sometimes you can find out that there's a better way to do something. I'm going to subscribe to your channel. You should check mine out I'm always trying something new a different way of gardening than I ever had before.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you for coming by and saying hello. I will go and subscribe to your channel and I am sure I will learn something new there!

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on square foot gardening, I have gone for North South as you have seen on my plans and I will only be growing short crops so shade isn't an issue, but with salad crops needing shade they will get that on the second part of the day as it gets warmer by my structure to grow vertically. Take care my friend. 😁Happy Gardening........🍁Terry King 🌞

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Hi Terry! Your welcome! I agree that sometimes you need shade sometimes you dont. You just need to plan accordingly :) Thanks for stopping by!

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@SmallGardenQuest 👍

[@fransiedutoit7338]

Thank you so much for sharing :)

[@SmallGardenQuest]

No problem 😊 I will share more of my mistakes when I will make them :D

[@DLJFunk]

well I tried grow in buckets and also in very hot weather like the desert area. my plants started off good before the heat of summer slowly everything went down hill form guessing on how much water to put in if I needed to add fertilizer and how much. a lot of guessing for this new gardener

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Yes guessing how much water a plant need in a bucket is a challenge! I will try to find a solution to this problem and let you know :)

[@laket3927]

I planted 2 kinds of cucumbers side by side and they were cross pollinated. In addition, I over watered them...causing powdery mildew beyond treatment. Lesson learned.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Cross pollination will affect only the child not the parent and the fruit is depended from the parent. So you don't need to worry about cross pollination unless you want to save your seeds.

[@mariaanderson6503]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍thanks you for the video

[@SmallGardenQuest]

You're welcome 😊

[@beautyforashes2230]

My big mistake this year was planting squashes and beans too far into my bed of corn (I mix the three: squash, beans and corn), they got too little sun, and so I had few squashes and much less beans than I could have had. I actually grow these every year, so you're right, gardeners with a bit of experience still make mistakes too. :)

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I am sure you will know how to avoid this mistake for the rest of your life now :D Thanks for sharing!

[@beautyforashes2230]

@@SmallGardenQuest That's why mistakes are so valuable, we don't make the same one twice (or we try not to). You're welcome! I'm new to your channel but I'm really enjoying it.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

@@beautyforashes2230 Love to hear that!

[@kimmieRH05]

I am by no means a gardening guru, I have raised beds and containers. I also plant half of my veg every year into prepared straw bales that we put up against a trellis for growing cucumbers, beans, small melons, even tomatoes.growing potatoes into straw bales. I did that with sweet potatoes last year and ended up with over 40 pounds of sweet potatoes from 4 bales and about 6 sweet potato starts. Bonus* all those straw bales will become great composted dirt for your beds and containers, or for your fall garden you can use broken down bales as mulch as well. (Straw bales need to be prepped over 10-14 days with a high nitrogen fertilizer & water before planting) not all plants like being grown together, Brassica's, Corn, Dill and tomatos don't grow well together, Peppers don't grow well with Beans, cabbage family and beans. When doing a square foot garden consider the volume of fruit you get from your plants. Tomatos, Cucumbers and beans will have a higher yiels per plant than corn. When doing square foot gardens having plants that work well together will make happier more productive plants.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

First of all sorry for the late reply, kind of busy with life :D Great tips thanks. I need to try out this straw bales as planters :) Have any recommendation where I can get more info about it?

[@kimmieRH05]

Check out Joel Karsten. He introduced Straw Bale gardening. This year will be our 3rd year including straw bale in our garden. It really allows me to grow way more veg. It also increases our organic raised bed and container dirt. I live in a very hot and humid area during the summer so our bales break down fairly quickly. We have to replace them each season.

[@ramsrinivasan7947]

I love your channel. Thanks so much. I live in Zone 4a, so have to be careful with seasons. One mistake I made is that voles destroyed/ate all my plants. Therefore, to prevent it this year, I installed a steel mesh on the bottom of my raised bed

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Yes this can be also a problem (that I discovered last year)... Unfortunately I don't have the willpower to dig up all the soil and installing the mesh 😕

[@ameliarose727]

Excellent video! Thank you! My biggest mistake this year was starting my seeds indoors and not preparing their outdoor beds in time. So I had to up-pot all the seedlings as they were quickly out-growing their starter pots.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you for sharing! I feel you this is one important think in planing when to start seedlings but hack sometimes you just cant go outside and do/buy stuff (corona...)

[@barbiemagnolia3943]

I planted the brocolli to close to the royal burgundy bush against my daughter's advice🤣

[@SmallGardenQuest]

It happens :D

[@gingergilbert1347]

Planted way to close

[@SmallGardenQuest]

A common problem that is why I choose to follow the square foot gardening spacing

[@SidPresident]

I have a question please. When growing veggies, isnt the mulch too heavy for the veggies to grow out of? Thank you.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

In some cases. If you mulch with wood-chips than yes. If you mulch with a thin layer of grass-clippings then no. I do move apart the wood-chips and then plant seeds. I reposition my wood-chips after the seeds have sprouted.

[@wayneburks5872]

You didn't use Mel's mix did you? If you did you wouldn't have had the soil problems you did. Don't use dirt in the beds.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

No I didn't because I didn't had 1000$ to spend on raised bed soil :D I am doing a test for this year to see which mix works best.

[@wayneburks5872]

@@SmallGardenQuest you can make your own compost. But the peat and vermicalite is important . I just built one bed at a time

[@joshualawson7604]

My mistake - not putting up a barrier preventing the neighbor's cats from getting in my raised beds.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Is the cat a vegetarian or something? Thanks for sharing. Many forget to take in to consideration the pets of the neighborhood

[@joshualawson7604]

@@SmallGardenQuest they just paw at the dirt. I'm thinking if I go more intensive that will help.

[@ambert.3792]

@@joshualawson7604 teeheehee, usually cats do something else after theyre done pawing in the dirt. lol. im in the same boat, and put up tiny fencing around the edges until the plants grew and bushed a bit.

[@joshualawson7604]

I decided to just put up chicken wire at the bottom of the rear barbed-wire fence. No more cats!

[@stevenschnepp576]

My cats must have green paws. Only one of the local strays will pee in the beds, and mine are too much little gentlemen (and lady) to go anywhere but their litter boxes. Considering what my squirrel and varmint problem could be without them, it could be worse.

[@loretodominguez205]

Sorry I can’t remember which is the app on google to planifícate shadow/sun, can you please help me?

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I used google sketch up. I have a video dedicated to that :) How I used it to predict where the sun will be

[@loretodominguez205]

Small Garden Quest thanks very much!! 🤩

[@DuncanPepper]

awesome thank you.wonderful humble approach

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you fur the comment!

[@jborrego2406]

What u restart ur tomato’s I thought they keep growing

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I cant keep growing them through the winter :D I grow them from May until September or October if we are lucky

[@stevenschnepp576]

Indeterminate plants keep going, assuming you have the zone or setup for it, but determinate varieties will peter out and die after a certain point.

[@ricardocalderon9823]

I had to watch the whole thing because of your accent, nice! lol

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thanks! 😃 Now you can watch my other videos too, they still have my accent :D So nice of you for stopping by and leaving a comment!

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

My cabbage died too

[@laket3927]

What wonderful video...thanks

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@gardencenterwarrior8880]

Nice 👍 garden sir!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Thank you!

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

The best video

[@LolaWynns]

😍

[@jackthemuss2493]

I'm enjoying your videos mate🤠

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Love to hear that! Which is your favorite? I am having a brake because of the snow but hopefully in a month or two will continue to show you my progress.

[@SuperStarBlack73]

Great video. Thanks for sharing

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Your welcome! thank you for stopping by and commenting! Did you watch any of my other videos? I have some more tips :p

[@lisamason1279]

Peet moss is your best friend.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I prefer compost. For what you think I should use it?

[@lorrainealexander1272]

Thank you so much for sharing. I’m excited to start!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

You're welcome. How big will your garden be?

[@lorrainealexander1272]

Small Garden Quest Well, since this is our first attempt I think we will start out with two4 x4 beds I’m not sure. We live in New Mexico and our backyard is completely open to the sun on all sides.... It’s so wonderful of you to share your knowledge with us. We love what you’re doing.

[@SmallGardenQuest]

@@lorrainealexander1272 Thank you. two 4x4 is a good size to start and learn how thinks work. You can use some shade-cloth to provide some protection from the harsh sun in the summer months.

[@Phoenix196]

Better watch Charles Dowding’s No Dig Method of Gardening

[@SmallGardenQuest]

What do you mean by that? I watch him :)

[@grannysweet]

👏👏👏👏😎👍🐶

[@SmallGardenQuest]

😎

[@cqammaz53]

What is the website you recommend for garden planning

[@SmallGardenQuest]

Its not a website its a program. Its Google Sketchup. Usually is used for modeling and woodworking plans. I use it to plan my garden to see where the shadows will be over the year.

[@Dr.JulieJames]

Lots of compost materials

[@jasminelau88]

so helpful for a beginner like myself!!