How to start an EASY Vegetable Garden!

by Filed Under: DIY Projects, Gardening

You asked for an EASY gardening video so here it is.  If you are working with a small space, looking to start vegetable gardening, here’s exactly how to do it!

? BEST Gardening Book (the bible of simple gardening!)

?BOX & TRELLIS
2″ x 10″ x 8′ Untreated Wood Pallets (3, cut 1 in half)
4″ Exterior Screws
Weed Barrier
This builds 2 trellises…
4 rebars (this is what you stake into the ground for your pipes to rest over)
5 ft. conduit pipes (4)
4 ft. conduit pipe (2)
Corner Joints (4)
Garden Trellis String

▶STEP-BY-STEP Video Instructions to build:

?SOIL:
Peat Moss (1/3)
Vermiculite (1/3)
Compost (1/3)
The box featured requires about 24 cubic feet of soil.

?Find your Heartiness Zone

?Plant Spacing


*This is not a sponsored video.  All opinions are genuinely my own.  Links contain affiliates.*

Fall Garden 2015 {One Minute Update!)

by Filed Under: Gardening

Here’s a super-quick update of all we have going on in our garden this year.  Transitioning from summer to fall, here’s how we prepare for the new crop.  Plus simple tips and tricks (even for new gardeners).  I know we’re looking forward to all the cabbage and lettuce!

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*This is not a sponsored post.  All opinions are genuinely my own.*

One Minute Garden Update | June 2015

by Filed Under: Gardening

Come on a garden tour with me!  Here’s what we’re growing along with tips on…

  • container gardening and how to fertilize
  • growing healthy tomatoes
  • growing and storing picked green beans
  • growing raspberries

…all in just one minute (and 40-some seconds).  Hope you enjoy!

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*This is not a sponsored post.  All opinions are genuinely my own.*

Easy Container Gardening

by Filed Under: Gardening, Money Saving

If you rent or are in any kind of temporary dwelling where you can’t “install” garden beds, a great option is simple container gardening.

Here’s how we took old water bottle tubs from our wedding and turned them into a staple of our garden for growing zucchini.  PLUS, a few garden tips and a tour of what we are loving.

Truly, ANYONE can garden!

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*This is not a sponsored video.  All opinions are genuinely my own.*

 

IT’S MONSTER HUGE!

by Filed Under: Gardening, Money Saving

Before we grew zucchini, I was always intimidated by having it in our garden.  Like if WE tried to grow it, we would end up with some shriveled looking alien food.  REALITY: It’s one of the easiest plants to grow.  I talked about my zucchini obsession in my last garden video.  All of our plants have started producing enough food that we haven’t bought veggies in the past 5 weeks.  Hello, savings!

Just to give you an idea of the size of the zucchini yield…here is a giant zucchini… and Carson… for scale.  We get about 2-3 of these a day from just 3 plants.  And oodles of beans and tomatoes.

Yup.  The kid was trying to eat it raw.  Luna would also like to say hello.

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Zucchini takes up about 4 squares of a garden using the square foot gardening method.  It’s a big plant… but worth it.

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OUR GARDEN ESSENTIALS

(yup, we use dollar tree buckets to gather our produce and bring it inside!)

                         

Last year (when I was still pregnant) Char and I filmed this video about how to make your own raised bed garden on the cheap.  So this is sort of like a #tbtuesday?  Yay cheap, healthy things!

BEHIND THE SCENES NOTE:  I was so tired when we filmed that I sat down to hold the camera for most of it.  Oh first trimester…how I don’t miss you. 😉

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