We rent, we asked the landlord and revealed amazing soil under our grass! (score!) We have 3 lettuces, kale, green/purple bush beans, radish, carrot, kholrabi, aramanth, euchanasia, strawberries, gooseberry, and elderberry! It's possible folks! Just get out there and DO THE THINGS! We used neighbors left over starter planting containers, plastic cups, you name it.
I used a bunch of Dollar Store "wastebaskets" that are basically like 10 inch buckets; then some tubs with handles and some actual pots. I just sat and drilled holes in all of them. You can listen to an audiobook while you do it. Each container only cost a buck and I was able to buy tons of them. I'll be doing tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, flowers and other stuff in them this year.
Only yesterday my friend was on about starting a garden. I live in the Uk and she has moved out to Greece, they have really struggled during lockdown accessing food and really want to grow thier own. Your vlog is perfect timing so ty x
Love how you are such a encouragement to people and present so many great ideas. Whether you only have a small balcony/patio to a large piece of property, you can raise your own food! And the benefits are far reaching beyond the food, gardening brings peace and contentment.
Love the broadfork instructions...you crack me up! The word I would use to describe the chicken run next to the garden (in your FRONT yard) is classy. Your hens are living the good life! Thanks J & R and family for living and growing clean and sharing the how to and results.
I had front yard gardening in the past. Many neighbors loved it - but some loved it so much they ripped my plants out by the roots and ran with them - leaving the stem down the street where they had stripped off the leaves! I was not happy and put up a sign educating the thief they stole a meal but if they had asked and left the plant - we could have gotten many meals. So I posted if anyone wants or needs fresh vegetables to eat - come ask - I gave away bags of food but have had to move most stuff in back yard :(
This is a good video. A couple of years ago I was short on money but was looking for some compost. Our greenhouse didn't sell it so I asked them for their spent plant soil. I figured that was better than nothing. It was high in perlite, I think. I got a horse trough full of old mums. It was very nice. They weren't diseased, they were just mums that didn't sell at end of season so they piled them up out back. I felt a little funny asking for it but they were very nice. I'm going to our tree dump today and get some wood chips the city cuts the trees down in the power linezone and chips them. Shared.
Thank you for inspiring me in container gardening. My family have been struggling and I had no money to buy expensive containers and potting soil. I decided to do a diy garden and use the empty milk jigs and other containers. I was able to plant broccoli and other vegetables in them. Even tho I spent a total of $2 I was able to get a good amount of organic produce. Wish I could show you a picture, unfortunately yt wont let me.
Yes! I am disabled and raised beds are so helpful for me. They have revolutionized my gardening experience. I am now looking into how I can keep hens and make it as accessible as possible for me to take care of them independently.
I have started one raised bed this year and have also planted in about 10 10 gallon containers and many other smaller containers. So far I'm doing good lol. I cant do lettuce and spinach because we are skipping spring where I live and jumping straight into summer lol but hey I'm happy with my summer crops and very excited 😁 thank you for all your knowledge Edit: I'm a first year gardener and learning as I go lol so far my battle today is caterpillars on my cucumbers and tomatoes
I love tomatoes too! Sadly I can't eat them. They are a nightshade. Nightshades cause inflammation. I have Hashimotos and it causes me too much inflammation.
Justin I love how you eat whatever for any meal. I had never heard of just breakfast food until Mom remarried. After that it wasn't always as tasty eating. Lol
Great agree with you more. I learned to garden by just doing it! Learning along the way, and what my budget would allow. 😊 Over time I’ve been able add more and more to my garden. I absolutely love it.
Just love how excited u get about your farm justin anytime i rethink my honestead decision i just watch one of your videos and i get excited and motivated love you and your family
Y'all inspire me to keep going, trying and growing! Hopefully the cooler temperatures are done for this spring and the summer crops can come on in! Trying my hand at seed saving from the winter and early spring crops: collards, kale, chard, parsley and spinach!
I just built 12 raised beds with the steel roofing and did not realize how much work it is to fill them. We filled five and a half of them but need way more dirt to fill. We are doing the organic fill at the bottom to help with the amount of soil. Thanks for all the information.
I planted my starts yesterday. Broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, radishes, beets, andbrussel sprouts. Started a asparagus bed and got about a third of the potatoes in the ground! Today hopefully get the English peas with a trellis. I am so excited to finally plant this year! Winter has just been hanging around so long this year. Maybe we will have a long summer. Stay safe and God bless you my friends. 🌱🐷🐄🐓🐓🐐🌱
Thanks for this, Justin. We have been working on implementing some of your advice and processes on our small farm this year that we’ve watched in your videos. We live in a harsh climate (zone 3) so any symbiotic tasks we can do to get plants off to the best start are invaluable to us. Appreciate your daily videos!
Thank you, Justin!! For putting this out. My favorite for urbanites...food scrap rooting and a window sill-near 0 cost. Use a washed "disposable" container find some soil "dirt" that is not toxified and plant the rooted cabbage stub, scallion bulbs, rosemary sprigs, leave 12 needles at the top. Easy, zero cost! AND...you have a large plant ready to go. Put a sprouted potato in a potting soil bag with 5" of soil, make sure there are a couple of holes in the bottom and they grow up, put more soil in the bag, always leaving like 8" of potato plant sticking out of the top of the soil. Note water will come out bottom; adapt according to your situation. The beauty of this you do not have to wait until fall to harvest potatoes. You can make holes in the plastic and see if you can find potatoes. You can use wire fence cylinder and a potted potato n the bottom and fill with un chemically treated straw. Same idea. Leave 8" of plant sticking out of the top of the straw. They grow roots out of their stems, which produce potatoes. "Grow potatoes in bags."
Happy afternoon y'all. I've grown in milk cartons & jugs, old sneakers & holey boots, buckets, Thule tops, 1- gal & 5 gal buckets the buckets clean kitty litter come in, dented trash cans (metal or plastic), raised beds of wood, stone, oh and walmart storage bins. There are so many ways to grow food. It's ALWAYS fun to find a new way I can grow food as opposed to just saying I can't. Lol.
We've built the first of our 4x8x2' hugelkultur raised beds. We put drip irrigation on it, with an automatic timer. If this one goes well, will probably put in a second one next to it. It's some work and expense up front, but we hope it will pay for itself in a couple of years if we're attentive and keep it up. Next spring, maybe will add chickens to the mix. Thanks for the inspiration, hoping to take your courses one of these days!
Hey Justin, I was watching RU-vidr Bald and Bankrupt and he visitied Eastern Europe, these tiny villages in the middle of nowhere! And those people live like you and your family, off the land in some of the harshest climates. Might give you inspiration if you ever get discouraged, and perspective too. One lady was in her 90's and still making her own sour cream!
Loved the video! Your channel and a couple other homesteading channels here on RU-vid have inspired me to get started. I planted a couple things in containers back in March, and they're growing great! I even started a RU-vid channel because I want to share my journey of learning to garden and grow my own food. It is very easy to get bogged down in the details, but you really do have to JUST PLANT!
You could also take storage totes and make a hydroponic garden ( with no soil just in water). Check it out on RU-vid. Is also another way of gardening.its really fun as well
Brilliant........ the kitchen garden is coming along nicely. The tubs and pots could of had some silica gel crystals added in order to retain water and some homemade wetting agent made from Agar agar ( kelp seaweed ) this will make watering easier if the pots crust over when the surface dries out. Also you have lots of roof on your property, have you thought of collecting rain water for your vegetables, most plants prefer slightly acidic water around 6-6.5 on the ph scale........ plus get lily a little watering can with a flower on it so she can water them when she does the chickens, for a few pots it’s much quicker than dragging a hose around.
Gardening with Leon and Daniel from Arms Family Homestead have some excellent tutorials on how to make self-wicking containers for gardening using 5 gallon buckets and empty pop/water bottles. I am trying them for the first time this year AND I have a Justin Rhodes raised bed, too. I wish I could post pictures of what they all look like. I still have my pineapple plant that I "just planted" during the farm tour. :) Hopefully, it will fruit this year. For soil, I just went to Home Depot and got organic garden soil. I added organic fertilizer 3-4-4, worm castings, and coir and I am only watering once a week. The raised bed is watered twice a week - it's 50% rotted logs, 25% compost, and the rest is purchased garden soil. Just be warned - it's addictive. Every time I go out, I manage to bring home a few "extra" 5 gallon buckets! LOL I was just going to use 3 - I have 18 and will be planting more this weekend. Just Plant!
I can't grow lettuce in the ground.We have so many slugs and snails,that eat all the plants.I've tried everything to get rid of them without any luck,so have finally given up.They even get eaten when I've grown them in pots/containers.
Working on planting some veggies this year! Broccoli that is with strawberries! I wonder if you could add more tips on a video about them,I’m still thinking of making a raised bed but it’s on an uneven surface so that would be tons of testing involved....I’m currently using as mulch is some Rabbit Hay Bale Food,Which I am sure is fine and not toxic since Animals can eat them in my garden.
At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year at my Culinary Class at school we want to plant a garden and since most of the school year is centered around winter we need cold hardy plants. Any ideas of what we can plant? Love your videos!! Keep up the good work !! ❤️ 😊
I love the chicken garden miracle. But I can't have CHICKENS! HOA Suburbs! Can you, Please, do a Rabbit Garden Miracle? 2 does+ 1 Buck, pretty much same space as the chickens. And they should be happy, eating weeds and garden scraps too. A Rabbit garden miracle system would work for any suburbanite, even if they don't breed for meat rabbits. Will they till (or do anything), I know they fertilize beautifully. I could fit that in my South facing side backyard, and fit 9 silent Miracle Gardens. I know that I would have to supplement feed them.
