Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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In a time of change, uncertainty, and fear, growing a rapid response victory garden will help. The idea is to pull back our lawns and replace them with a productive garden. A place to pour our energy and frustrations into and in return, find peace of mind. By its very nature, a victory garden is a triumph over adversity with homegrown food waiting along the journey -- empowering harvests good for the mind and body. With many of us under lock-down, now is the time to build the vegetable garden you always wanted.
I've created this video as a response to a piece that I shared last week. You can read it here: lovelygreens.com/grow-a-rapid...
This video is an introduction to victory gardens, along with the four main ways you can start a vegetable garden. They include:
1. Traditional garden beds
2. Raised beds
3. Container gardens
4. Hydroponics (not my area but I do introduce it)
This is the first of a series of videos that I'll be releasing over the coming weeks and months to help beginner gardeners. If you're more experienced, I'd love for you to watch and add any extra tips as a comment below.
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just pulled out 20 pounds of organic produce out of my tiny backyard yesterday, and made and posted a youtube video of it. Thanks for the videos!
Small Backyard Big Farm hazaa! 👋 high five! Im growin as fast as i can!
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Thanks so much. I will be putting out plenty new videos! I have some good ones coming.
sometimes I feel like some permaculture enthusiasts live in a different world, where everybody has easy access to land, almost trying to let people feel guilty for not being able to plant their own food. so it is really nice when I see a video with tips for small spaces and apartments. great video, hope you stay safe and healthy with your family :)
The majority of people have limited space. I hope that this week's video on container gardening will be a big help: ruclips.net/video/YUblqn-ETog/видео.html
@@Lovelygreens just amazing, thank you so much
A couple weeks ago the news showed farmers bulldozing their tomato crops because they couldn't supply fast food. so I dusted off the seed bin in the piano bench and gathered together all the planters with dirt, and spent the last two weeks getting seeds started in the windows and all the planters set up. The lettuce mix and carrots sprouted first, along with another heavily seeded tray that will be parted out into the planters. Tore up my hands a bit digging up all the dirt in the last couple weeks, and have to wait a day or so before continuing setting everything up.
I just decided that I need to grow a victory garden as well!!!! I need to do my homework first !!!. Thanks for sharing!!!!
You're welcome, and good luck
I'm a lifelong gardener, going on 60 years now. It is so encouraging to see that though we are in a worldwide crisis, there are some us us who can help and advise other new gardeners. I am in agreement with you, people should start now, hopefully without getting in over their heads. Here in Texas, many new gardeners are starting their food growing using self-wicking pots on a patio, or other small spaces. If you live in a hot climate, your plants will dry out quickly, so look into them, they are also called self watering containers. "Gardening with Leon" is a good channel - Stay safe everyone!
Thanks so much for this. I grew up watching "Victory Garden" on PBS television in the USA. I have recently restarted gardening via raised beds for the sake of my back and knees. I hope that many others will "pick up the trowel " and discover the satisfaction of growing food and beauty. Today I discovered 3 blackberries on my tiny new plant! New blueberries yet to bloom. Arugula, beets, radishes are up with lettuce, carrots and basil sown. Parsley, oregano, thyme and chives are coming back from winter. I am so excited!
Seeing life emerge from the soil is so exciting! Life will go on :) Thanks for sharing Michele and keep well
Michele Yates loved watching victory garden!! Miss it!
Michele Yates Yes! Working with my grandparents and my dad in the garden when I was little, and watching The Victory Garden on PBS were the main things that started my passion for gardening when I was young. I miss that show so much. At least now we have RUclips and channels like this one. 😊
I miss that show, too. And HGTV took the gardening out of their lineup. So I am in agreement with you. Happy gardening!
Great video Tanya! I garden in Southern California and there is a lot going on in my garden right now. Lots of citrus, blueberries and veggies. The grapes and the fruit trees are flowering. I’m out in the garden every day. It keeps me calmer and happier. Everyone take care and stay safe!
Hi Tanya! Wife and I enjoyed your video on Victory Gardens. We love their history going back to WWI and through WWII. Thanks for sharing the history. So many benefits of gardening. We are in Florida and doing just fine. Restaurants are carry out or delivery only. Everything else except grocery stores are closed. Be well and thank you! 🚜👍
Waving to the both of you from the other end of the gulf stream :) Take care and hopefully this will be over soon enough.
Thank you. Very balanced concluding summary for us all. I’m a real beginner. Not initially motivated by the current crisis. Forced into early retirement due to needing urgent heart surgery last year. Thankfully all over and mending and gardening.
I'm a beginner too. Good luck with your gardening and best of health to you!
I suggest to all my friends to SAVE SEEDS from their kitchen scraps. Squash, tomatoes and potatoes in most cases will sprout. If you can get HEIRLOOM seeds grow the TOP THREE vegetables. POTATOES (white, red and sweet varieties) BEANS climbing is best if you have limited space, and SQUASH (summer and winter). We also use MUNG beans for sprouting, highly nutritious and ready to eat in 3-5 days. NO SUN required, no fancy equipment and very simple. If all you have is RICE and Beans for sprouting you will have solid nutrition. Several good video on sprouting available.
Wonderful suggestions.
Excellent ideas! Any ideas how much water depth is needed for rice to grow. Just wondering if I could possibly grow some in the lake, river and an oft-flooded area. Lol.
Just want to say thank you for taking the time to inform with good info.
Well said Tanya about not hoarding and wasting food. What a great video, thank you for sharing this info!
Thanks Liz -- and for sharing your videos too! If we can get more people to grow food, and not hoard it, the world would be a much calmer and secure place.
Exactly what I was thinking,,,, LOL
Thanks Tanya be healthy and best wishes 🐞🦋❤️
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm wake up before it is too late. Look up hoarding as you do not know! People use this term off the cuff! I have seen hoarders in action. Can cite many examples. People who store food and items they use are doing good by securing themselves and families for what’s ahead. And getting things at todays prices. People have always done this, now taboo? You cannot rely growing outdoors, chemtrails, weather changes. Maybe, someone comes to your home and calls you out in having more than one jar of canned tomatoes...just saying. Think!
@@chrishamill3170 Totally agree with you Chris!
@@chrishamill3170 yes I agree.. Hoarding is an ugly lie right now not much different than conspiracy theory.... What we are realizing, those who've been awake awhile is that all these things we were laughed at for are coming to pass! Crops have been low yeild for years in all countries! Do stock up your food supplies, they suggest 6 months of food... Who has that? It's a difficult thing to do for most people. Now gardening.. Yes for sure as back up because as farmers know crops don't always work out so this isn't your first go to. In America they are shutting down the garden sections so people can't get seeds in places!! Find organic HEIRLOOM SEEDS! that way you can save seeds... eBay... If all else fails it start a seed swapping group on FB or other social media but be warned they probably will shut it down. So glad you added those end words of wisdom.. Go to the grocery store.. And STOCK UP just be mindful of others needs as you do so.
I have been growing vegetables for about 60 years, and have devoted much study to the subject. My grandfather grew seeds for Suttons, and taught me much also. This video does an excellent job of presenting the facts.
One small suggestion. There are a number of automated hydroponic systems on the market. Our son gave us one for Christmas. I was surprised and delighted to find that it has produced enough lettuce for our use for the ensuing 3 months, after the plants got going. Trouble free, just do what it tells you when it says so. A caveat: As gardening supplies appear to have become the new toilet paper, you may have trouble sourcing one.
These are worrying times, but I feel fortunate to have my own little growing space to escape to and take my mind off things. Videos like yours and the RUclips gardening communities are all welcome distractions also. Please keep the content coming.
Take care of you and yours 👍🏻
Thank you and the same to you. Keep growing and staying positive :)
Small Garden Escape Me too. It helps with mental health issues and gives a great sense of achievement. Best of luck with your summer veggies.
FMJ West. It certainly does and the best of luck to you and yours 👍🏻
Thank you. I am recently working on growing even more here on my balcony in the Netherlands. This to make me feel better. Today I saw that my dwarf 2 year old apple and pear trees are about to flower for the first time. I am soo happy! This is amazing. I was lazy this winter and didnt start any extra vegetable seedlings. Now I am converting an extra area of our balcony to yummies.
I am growing cherries, currants, plums, strawberries, goji berries, apples and pears along with flowers, herbs and vegetables. I even taught my mum today that begonias are edibles.
Your balcony sounds like a little piece of Eden. Keep growing :) PS -- the nice tasting begonias are called tuberous begonias. They're different from the bedding plant type of begonia.
Gardening is so fun. Is so peacefull an rewarding.
For those who dont have much money consider no dig methods. Mulch this time of year from tree crews is FREE. Cardboard to clear the beds without tilling is FREE from dumpsters and our own waste. Grass clippings and leaves are like gold. Granted this may be something that will be for this fall harvest or to plant up next season but its amazing what comes out of the no till method and how quickly they can be to establish for all age and i come brackets. Scrounged pallets as you know are also wonderful to plant in.
I have always felt we need to be prepared for grid down or something like this virus and we started a garden step by step, no dig a few years ago. Now we get more berries than we can eat, our fruit trees are now fruiting and our veg garden is doing very well. I started this when I was 59 and most of this garden I have created alone. Not to take credit away from my husband who put up a lovely sturdy fence to keep the deer out. Plants can grow in almost anything. Your guidance is spot on and certainly when it comes to NOT HOARDING. Thank you and stay well!
Hording perishables is irresponsible, having a larder of long lasting, shelf stable food is smart. But I hate to be the bearer of bad news, there very much is a global food shortage happening now that will be getting more noticeable soon. 2018 and 19 were tough years for major grain producers around the world. Erratic weather patterns have delayed planting, reduced yields, if not outright destroyed crops. All while swarms of locust are ravaging the horn of Africa and the Middle East. Swine Flu has savaged Chinese pork producers, drought has caused Australia to cull cattle herds, flooding killed over a million head of cattle in the US (destroying cropland in the process). Now the pandemic is hampering harvest of vegetables, delayed this years planting (along with wet weather in the Midwest US) and is adversely affecting transport. Fertilizer production is down, seed stocks are low, and governments around the world have been stockpiling grains, reducing if not refusing to export foodstuffs. Now is a great time to grow a garden.
My local garden store is sold out of seed starting modules and trays but a newcomer can improvise, I have Styrofoam cups that I have started tomatoes and peppers in, and these can be cleaned and re-used (with care) for at least 2-3 years so I don't feel so guilty about using a plastic product (just won't buy any new) Amazon may still have supplies as well, I haven't checked recently. Seeds can still be purchased online as well, may I suggest using some of the smaller sellers for these, I like Sherwood Seeds on etsy for example, I got an heirloom tomato from them a couple of years ago that I love and have saved seeds from it. I am so thankful for my tiny garden I would literally be going insane without it, and gardening programming like yours I find so soothing in these troubling times.
Choosing frugal, low-cost, and recycled gardening materials is more important now than ever. Plastic is not a bad thing if it has a long life and can be used repeated, so don't feel guilty. Great tip about seeds on Etsy :)
PS -- here's more recycled seed starting ideas for anyone who is interested: lovelygreens.com/seed-starting-with-recycled-materials/
I recycle paper towel and toilet tissue tubes, cut them down and fold the bottom in and fill with seed start mix. You can also use waterbottles cut down and holes punched. K-Cups for small seeds, Yogurt cups. they all work great. I even use my protein drink mix from premier boxes...
I wish in countryside now. It is my dream since when I was teenager.
All very true .. I grow my own ..👍
take care Tanya! I love to hear the birds in the garden and see Spring coming alive.
And how can that not make anyone smile? :) Stay well Connie
I'm so glad I found your channel Tanya. You gave so much information and ideas. I've been trying to grow more food than usual considering the pandemic and your suggestions are very helpful. Come late spring and summer, I have an abundance that I like to share with family, friends and neighbors. So the more I grow the better. People will be financially tight, so using our skills in gardening will help many that won't be able to afford produce.
I started mine several months ago. I'm so thankful💞
I'm in stage 4 lockdown right now. I can't work and limited to 5Km from home to exercise or buy groceries and no going out for anything else.
Closest to prison I've ever known.
So many idiots buying way more food and toilet paper (why?) than they will use.
Luckily I've been growing food for years but moved a few months ago so my garden is not very productive yet.
Still, I can grow enough leafy greens to support 2 households.
Anyone who helps people realize how beneficial growing some of your own food is, well they get a big 👍 from me.
Keep spreading the word.
Your video resonates ever more concerning food security. In the UK we lose 1000’s of acres of prime agricultural land to development. The current shortages of salad stuff should be a wake up call, but I regret it will have no effect. The Dig for Victory that ran during the war saved the nation, but I fear we will not have the land for Britain to feed itself. Thank you anyway for your wonderful videos ❤
I had thought about starting a garden a couple years ago but hesitated until I watched this crisis unfold. I planted a small garden two days ago to learn how to do this. I am clueless and appreciate all of these types of videos. Thank you so much!
Here in the U.S., the seeds and garden supplies have been in short supply. The folks who have been growing gardens for years heard the words “grocery shortage” and quickly put plans in place for a solid garden. Thank you for making this video for folks that may not know exactly how to get started. The more knowledge shared, the more people will feel capable and know things will be okay.
Not sure where you live but here in North Carolina there is no shortage of seed, starter vegetable plants or supplies. Garden and farming stores are getting almost daily restock shipments. Sorry you are experiencing that. Couldn't agree more about shared knowledge,
I do not have my own garden space yet, but I’m growing a whole lot on my balcony and in my in-laws’ yard and at my aunt’s house. It’s nowhere near enough to feed my family, but I love that I’m doing all I can to increase our self-sufficiency. I’ve discovered I can actually do a whole lot with just my balcony and a shelf for microgreens indoors!
Thank you very much. I learned a lot. I just started mines.
Aldi sells compost and seeds, onion bulbs, seed potatoes. And dry root strawberry plants very cheap and you can still go there in lockdown. They also sell lots of gardening supplies in centre isle including propagators.
Great tip, thanks Amber
Just found this site. I love it! I look forward to watching all the wonderful videos. I have 24 raised beds, a greenhouse , blueberry patch, rhubarb patch and an orchard. I am sure I will still learn lots here. I live in Canada, a ways from you but info can always be altered to suit.,
Your garden sounds amazing Denise 🙂
hi tanya and thank you for a great video...sure do appreciate the positive vibes you send us...as an ICU nurse, i sooo look forward to your island views...we all have to keep happy thoughts as negativity will brings us down quicker than the virus...my backyard (N.H.) still looks like a glacier field but is melting daily...i'll get that rake out soon...take good care
Thank you, Tanya, for your encouraging words and for realistic assessment of the situation. I've been seeing a few RUclips gardeners give great suggestions - on what to grow that stores well, also what to grow that is ready to harvest quickly. The wisest thing is that yes, you're still going to rely on the supermarket for some things and that's ok.
Hi Tatiana and thanks for the comment. My perspective is this: It's unrealistic to think that our massive world population can feed itself on what can be grown in the back garden. We need to think with your heads and not be led by fear -- that means supporting our farmers, local producers and shops, and being considerate to others. Anything we grow at home will help keep the pressure off the food supply and keep us healthy.
Last year was the first time I did not have a garden for health reasons. I did have a few potatoes, some tomatoes and cucumbers and pumpkins for the kids. This year I will be planting again but I'm still not sure of the extent.
Tanya, I’m in Nebraska and we are not on lock down, but encouraged to stay home, etc. I was in my local grocery store and they had a small display of seed packets, which they normally don’t have. I’m blessed to have collected quite a few seeds over the many years I have been gardening and always am happy to share with other gardeners. Just some alternative ideas for seed acquisition for folks just getting into gardening. Great video to encourage newbies!
How fortunate for your community to have seeds at the supermarket -- I hope that more will take that idea on board. Stay safe and well in Nebraska, Denise, and glad you enjoyed the video :)
What a lovely video Tanya! I just got my first allotment a year ago, and even now, all these months later, my family is still eating the lovely fresh produce I grew last year. Last night we had a green bean salad, which was delicious, and all the more so for being home grown!
You do such a great job of encouraging people to garden and grow their own food. Stay safe xxx
That’s wonderful Elie :) you must be so proud to be still enjoying harvests
Wonderful content. I stopped watching the news, and now am only watching videos on sustainability and gardening! We live in a very high density urban area and have a tiny little yard, and a concrete driveway to park a car. We put straw bales on top of the parking spot and are going to try to create plantings there! We also put the straw bales in the back yard. Not sure how this will work, but hoping for an adventure anyway :)
Best of luck with your straw bale garden - have fun trying it out :)
The birds sound lovely in the background 🐦
Beautiful ! I have been gardening for nearly 30 yrs & have over 600 plants--food, natives and beyond. But have never seen your terrific channel before. You are correct--nature has hardly notices any of man's trevails. Really enjoyed this--gardening & growing food is empowering with a terrific sense of satisfaction & accomplishment indeed ! Always a silver lining to the channels we face...many blessings to you ! :)
Thanks for the encouraging people to grow a vegetable garden. I've been at it for years, and can also attest to the joy of growing some of your own veg.
Thank you very much for your posts, very helpful to me. I live retired in the Philippines and we are receiving FREE SEEDS and being encouraged to plant gardens from the Philippines agriculture departments and local mayors offices. Like you said in your video, Way back in World War 2, There were over 20 million gardens. Search RUclips to see the numerous victory gardens videos. Today in 2020, things are different. If the USA government really cared about you they would be distributing seeds and encouraging you to plant just like they did in the 1940's.
Hi Tanya thanks for your advice and encouragement, before the lock down i whent an purchase a few half barrels and started planting stringbean,tomatoes kale an dasheen am a new gardener.
Welcome to the world of growing food, Erica 💚
I m Pakistani and like your video's very much.and I also like your way of talking.
We are in lockdown to and miss visiting gardens. Your message is needed at this time. Thanks and keep safe. ❤️👍🌈
You as well, Carol and Derek
greetings from subtropical Queensland Australia...I feel very blessed too to have some space to grow some vegetables and especially be surrounded by nature in these times. I have very little space to grow my vegetables so I am trialling Square Foot Gardening a method created by Mel Bartholomew an engineer who made this method for maximum yield in minimum space.
Lots of my seeds are now coming up so I am thrilled to get started...thank you for sharing....keep safe and well
I grew up planting most of our food back home in Portugal (Gafanha) ,its the best we do for us plus it gets the all family out of the house ,here in California i have. a small backyard, i have build a raised bed and some wall shelves,my seeds are most from my kitchen ,i suggest to use your on seeds from kitchen its so easy and afordabel ,it is February 2021 been home for almost a year and i thankful for my garden and all stuff we get out of it 🙏
I love it. Thanks.
Thank you for spending your precious time to teach us. I picked up on your tilted pallet idea to use here in Wisconsin, US. Health & longevity to all.
Thank you. Your voice is calming whike I'm trying to gather as much knowledge and supplies, all while trying to learn with some of the other YT videos is at best, different and difficult at times. From USA, hello ✌🏾
I'm in Australia and quite new to food production beyond herbs. I am trying seeds and seedlings and joy of joy found a volunteer spinach plant amongst my herbs today. I have planted a lime tree and planted nasturtium seedlings. I'm hardening off the broccoli, cabbages, snow peas and dwarf bean seedlings. I am looking forward to the corn salad and kale seeds I've ordered. Corn salad leaves are said to taste like butter lettuce. I'm hoping for success and it will be something to look forward to as we enter Winter here soon, and my plants will bring a promise of Spring. Encourage the world to grow food wherever they are.
A wonderful start to growing your own Natasha. Well done and enjoy this first summer of eating fresh from the garden.
I had to give up my allotment due to the arrival of our baby so I have started to dig up a section of lawn to grow some veg :)
Thank you - I'm envious :-) You have got quite a garden! And lots of space!
I started my raised bed garden last March . The pandemic made me think to start a small back yard garden. Thanks for sharing . I also have a video of my small garden here on youtube.
Your voice is very soothing, I enjoy following your videos. Watching from South Africa 🇿🇦
Watched a few of your videos now and really impressed so far. Thank you
What an incredible place to live. You do it so well.
I would like to thank you for your honest advice to new gardeners. Gardening has been my hobby for 35 years. Even as an experienced gardener, there are some things I can not grow as cheap or as good as I can buy them... Rice, Potatoes, Beans (black eyed peas, kidney beans, soup beans, Avocados, Coffee beans, Onions (in the short term), and citrus.
I grow them all...but, I can not grow enough for the family demand.
I would suggest that gardening is life therapy. I have never been happier in my life; with the added time I have had to spend in my garden. If you are spiritual... this is a great time to be a steward of the land. And please, if you have a wife, kid, or grand children share gardening (life!).
Working with seed here in central USA. Because of the lockdowns through spring and summer of last year there is actually a pretty severe seed shortage at this time. Please, if you plan to order seed this year, order early and understand we are doing our best. At the peak last year almost every seed company was weeks or even a month behind, and I am seeing signs it will be the same this year. Please be patient with us, but give us time to get it all ready, and understand you may need to buy from a variety of companies to get the seed you are looking for.
Great video!
Hello from Ireland. I am into my second year of trying to grow vegetables. Unable to find vegetable seeds (organic or otherwise), I was becoming concerned. Having watched your video, I have just realised that if I cannot grow what I want, I can grow what I've got! I've no broad beans, spinach, lettuce or cress but I have got cauliflower, beetroot, radishes, peas and a salad mix. So on we go! Happy gardening.
Absolutely! You might also want to connect with others who are growing veg in your area -- Facebook groups are a good tool. If you have a surplus of one crop, you could potentially swap with someone else. Even if we're still in lockdown over the summer, doorstop deliveries are possible.
@@Lovelygreens Thank you so much for your reply. Oddly enough, I was chatting to my neighbour today and he said that his blueberries were so plentiful that he's cutting them back yet I am coaxing mine - then I realised that I had top soil (if you can call ait that) brought in. Also, I discovered that our hardware store has reopened and I got so excited I went and bought seeds (some of which I already had!) and forgot the spinach and broad beans! Hey ho!
@Ray S Absolutely! I'm just learning about seed saving. My local hardware shop has reopened (yippee) and I asked today for open pollinated tomato seeds and got a quizzical look and then a 'no'. So I am guarding the tomato seeds on my windowsill. I was so excited that they were open, I have ended up with two different packs of lettuce seeds, no rocket, spinach or broad beans - I was so excited that I forgot to ask!
such clear advice - thank you Tanya!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I love that tons of people are now interested in grow a garden.
Thank you for your calm reassurance. There are way too many videos that incite fear. I've really enjoyed your channel. I have gardened for years, but have taken a break after moving to an urban area. We moved to a new house last year with some raised beds that had gone to weeds. We cleaned them up and amended them and got so many veggies last year. This year we are increasing our beds and planting more fruits, I noticed one of my neighbors has tilled a garden this year as well. If everyone grew some food we would all eat well and be much healthier.
I have started collecting flower pots and buckets and growing my own veggies and fruits. Pots are easily transportable to relocate. 👍
Such a wonderful You Tube site. I have been small farming for 40 years or thereabouts. My experiences started with contour farming on a sloped hill to original square foot gardening to raised bed and container gardening. After years of no-fuss raised bed and container vegetables, I went out in the back and prepared 600 square feet of soil in a 40 x 15 rectangle over the last three days, amending with our large finished compost. The irony of this global shutdown is that I will reach retirement age during the sheltering, so basically, my professional career ended early. Watching videos like this has reinforced my willpower to work 30-40 hours a week outside in the small farm. I wish you all the best. Oh, and I am linking your pages in a giant suburban community Listserv, so I hope you receive many new subscribers. One day, I'd love to visit your lovely island and see that giant water wheel.
Thank you, just the right amount of uplift I needed, all the best from Scotland 🏴.
You're welcome Steve, and stay well up there
In California, nature has taken no notice either except it may be slightly happier the sky is clearer ! My garden is booming , my dogs happily stretched out in the sun snoozing on the lawn ..
I can sense that you're spending a healthy time away from your screen each day. It really is the best way to keep stress levels down and appreciate the positive things still in the world -- like spring :) Take care Charley
Well said Tanya, Keep safe
we can get though this together
Absolutely. It's important to stay calm, focused, and vigilant while also being considerate of others.
hi tanya,thanks for the lovely,encouraging video.l have received my seed order from real seeds and cant wait to get started,very best wishes to you all
Great seed company! Happy sowing :)
Thanks for the video! A word of caution on manure: If there is hay in it you might find it's contaminated with broadleaf herbicides: Great for golf courses and lawns but not suited for veggie gardens. Ask the person you're getting the compost from if they know what chemicals were used on the animals' feed and bedding sources.
Sometimes even they don't know if the grass has been treated with aminopyralids. Last year was particularly bad with bagged compost -- so it's not just manure from farmers. Fingers crossed that farmers are taking the hint and that this year won't be so bad.
Watching you from North Carolina, USA. Thank you for sharing this information.
Nice video Tanya. I love how you spoke about the victory gardens x
Thanks Fran and keep well
Well put together. Thank you.
Peace and God Bless
Birds in background is soothing
Thanks for all the tips.
I am still using strawberry planters I made from your design (a little modified). I planted them with perennial herbs which are very happy and come back year after year.
---Jeb Gardener has some great simple hydroponic ideas on his youtube channel. As easy as a plastic tub and a bit of rock wool. Ours produced amazing lettuces especially boston lettuces with very little input :) and were pest free!
Thx u so much for sharing ur knowledge!
What an amazing garden and woman. Keep it up!
I am in love with your garden😍
Thank you so much..This a wonderful video. I just completed my Permaculture Design Certificate, have little experience growing food. I found your video very encouraging and helpful. Thank you again..stay well :)
another lovely video
Thank you Steven
We're in lockdown for 4 weeks here in New Zealand, but its absolutely going to extend.
Without my garden I'd be lost! It provides so much food and I barely brought any produce over the Summer.
Unfortunately the weather here has turned to shite, we seemed to have skipped Autumn and arrived right into Winter *sighs*
The Poisoned Moon Apothecary Just saying, learn to grow indoors under lights..year-round food.
The weather is lovely in Wellington
I’m in Auckland central so not a lot of land but the garden has provided a lot of mental health. Not a keen walker but I take breaks during the day to just walk around the garden or just pull a few weeds even.
We moved onto our new lifestyle block a month before lockdown. And didn't have a chance to prepare anything before everything shut down.
Going crazy looking at all the unused potential!
Will try to put something down, but it felt like almost a frost this morning with the change in daylight savings lol.
Whereabouts in NZ are you? We're having beautiful weather in Nelson. I have put more seeds in trays outside, although I do cover them at night with bubble wrap
The earth has everything we need. Gardening is a wonderful way to have your own supply, but also to relax and get fresh air.
great ideas and well presented as usual 🙏👍
I enjoyed this video, thank you!🙂
Thank you so much l have a garden and an Allotment and grow in pots lm loving your vlogs thank you again xxx
Great video Tanya. Its amazing how many people are looking to grow with seeds becoming real harder to find. Tony
Thank you for your informative video.
Wow! Good luck! I can't believe I stumbled upon this channel. I concur with all you've said. I have a worm bin so at least if I forget I have something, I can give it to them. Usually, it's kale that i picked too much of. Also, my ancestors came from there. So crazy. Also, I've been at home for two weeks as of tomorrow....
Corkill/Corkhill is a very Manx last name.
You should check out the Kratky method of growing. I have just started growing my greens the Kratky way and absolutely love this set it and forget it way of growing. It is a much simpler way of Hydroponics. Truly set it and forget it. No pumps or filters. It is like off grid hydroponics.
I love you. Such good info and such a great perspective.
Sending big hugs your way Erin 💚
Incredible ❤❤❤❤❤
Lock down on Vancouver Island , Canada as well. Love your show and stay healthy.
You as well, Ceci :)
Here in the US there are shortages. Dry goods are not available, such beans, rice, flour. If they are available they are restricted to one per family, which is good, so more people get an oportunity to buy some of these items. Also paper goods are limited to one per family. TP was gone for about 10 days, it is now slowly being stocked, but it flys off the shelfs each time it is stocked.
Garden seeds are also hard to find, there are some out there, but an order of seeds may be delayed in being delivered for 10-20 days. Non esential items may be dalayed for delivery about 20-40 days.
So.....no, life is not normal....but, I know we have been given, by God, an awesome ability to adjust. So, we just make limonate out of lemons 😊
Keep up the good work
God bless you
G Vas best story I have...a 105 year-old woman using a walker, stood in line at a walmart to buy toilet tissue...people grabbed it all up in front of her and behind her. She got none. My 92 year -old mother...gave her that and food. This is what they call hoarders now...someone that has the good sense to have extra, if not for themselves, for someone along the way.
Thank you for doing these videos! Sharing with my circles now :D
You're very welcome Geordie
I love watching your videos all the way from Mexico! I've been very busy this spring outside, planting veggies in my new hoop house, planting fruit trees and berry plants! Keep up the good work!
Pleased you're enjoying the videos and hope you're having a great time growing in Mexico. The climate must be lovely for all kinds of fruit and veg!
@@Lovelygreens Thanks for replying, you've made my day! I live in a Bsk Köppen semi-arid climate in northern Mexico, in about 15 days we'll be after the dangers of frost, so I'll be able to go full swing into gardening! We can grow all kinds of fruits (no citrus though) and veggies! Have a wonderful day, stay safe & healthy!
Hi from Greece!stay safe!
Excellent and good video. I agree with what you said regards people being selfish hoarding food. The supermarkets, food provider's are essential services and won't close. I am glad to have my own allotment so have the space and the previlge to grow my own plant foods. I enjoy sowing and planting seeds and plants and looking forward to the harvest season. We as a society depend too much on others to produce food and home grown food will taste better.
We do rely on food from the supermarket -- all of us. Though I love growing my own and know you and others feel the same, I hope that there's more appreciation for our farmers after this. And more support for small local growers and producers -- they're the ones that can keep a local food economy going in the worst of times.
A lot of folks aren't making use of this current issue with coronavirus to become more independent and self-sufficient. It is odd given that the weather across the globe is perfect for establishing edible perennials. In any case, I've been trying to get as much mulch as possible to improve the soil in the various beds around my yard. I just need some more fuel to do more whipper-snipping in order to get more biomass for the task.
You have a beautiful garden and you are also very beautiful !
One perspective might be to not try to grow all your calories, but a significant portion of your "nutrition". Calories should still be fairly easy to get (sugar, carbs, etc..) But empty calories won't do one for long. Fresh veg, dark leafy greens, beets etc can provide SUBSTANTIAL nutrition in a much smaller space.
I agree, apart from potatoes. Potatoes are easy to grow, calorie-dense, and can be nutritious if you eat the skin too.