Kitchen Container Garden

Kitchen Container Garden

I am sharing with you my Kitchen Container Garden. I am learning to grow the foods my family eats on a regular basis. I hope you get inspired to get outside and grow something for your family.

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I am on a quest to have a kitchen garden and grow some of the fruits and vegetables that I know me and my family enjoy eating. I’m going to show you what I’ve started and let you know how it’s going. I’m Rebecca with Learning Together by Grace, homemaking God’s way. Y’all, let’s go. [Music] This particular day in the garden, I started off by harvesting some cabbage that I started growing back in October. I got some seedlings from Walmart in their garden center, and I decided to try overwintering them to see how it would work. I’ve never grown cabbage before, but I wanted to try it out and see if I could do well and to see if I could get it to grow over the winter. And y’all, it did. It grew. So, I had two cabbage per grow bag. These are 20 lb grow bags that I use. I really like this size because number one, I get 12 for like 30 something dollars and they hold a lot of vegetables in them. So, I harvest those. Some of them um went to seed as you saw with that first clip and it was okay. Um they did get aphits and I realized the problem that I had that created the aphits. I overfertilized them and so aphits are attracted to overfertilized things. All right, so in this previous clip, I was just adding some of my food scraps from the kitchen. I had peeled some apples and I used those apple pills to put into those bins that I have. So, I use a mixture of bins as well as the grow bags for my garden. And you guys, I have found that this is very convenient for me. And I would love to do an ingground garden, but as I’ve said before, I’m not at that place where I can get my inground garden area up and running. So, this is working for now. I’m also adding some compost to these bins because I want to make sure that I’m replenishing my soil in order to grow more food in these bins and in my grow bags. And here I’m just going to add a top dressing of some organic fertilizer. I like to use the Expert Gardens organic fertilizer as well as the Expert Gardens um soil, the organic soil. It’s the least expensive organic soil that I found. I will say it is a little woody, but that’s okay because I am intentional about amending my soil as you saw here. My husband picked up some compost at I believe it was Lowe’s. I and you saw the name of it there, but I picked up some compost and I’m using that as well. So, with the table scraps, the compost from Lowe’s, as well as with me using the um fertilizer, my um soil is very healthy. I constantly get those mushrooms that are growing inside of my soil because of how healthy it is. So, for me, I honestly feel that those food scraps are probably one of the greatest things that I can add to my soil. I I do the compost, I do the fertilizer, those are good, but there’s just something about the nutrients that are left inside of those food scraps that you are adding to those grow bags that I really feel take things up to another level when it comes to gardening. Y’all, I am not the perfect gardener. I won’t even pretend that I am. But these are just things that I have observed over the years that I have been gardening. And I keep learning. I keep growing. I keep taking advice from different people that I talk to or even beautiful people on YouTube that are offering up their help in order to get us out here growing our food. So, this for me is the perfect way to compost my food scraps. I don’t have to worry about doing a compost bin because y’all I don’t like the bugs that come along with it, the larvae, all of that stuff is ew, gross. You can also blend your scraps and then pour it directly into the soil. So hopefully you guys will try it out. So we have an ant infestation. One of the fire ants got a hold of me. So we have ants in here. I have ants in here. This is my Roma and my Swiss chard. Ants and snails. As you can see, the snails have eaten up my Swiss chard. And it’s a little frustrating. There also some ants in there. I didn’t put as much dietimmacous earth in there. And there were um some ants in one of these bins. This bag of soil has ants. And I just as soon as I lifted up the bag, ants just started flooding out. So, I put some diet tomatious earth on that. Also, this one bag of compost. Haven’t opened this bag of compost and I haven’t opened up these um five bags of soil. So, I don’t know. Nonetheless, I am a determined woman. I’m not going to allow it to stop me. It’s frustrating because who wants to have to deal with pests in the garden? But this is a reality of gardening and I have to be a big girl and get over my fears. I want to show y’all one more thing. We have slugs inside of the cabbage. And this literally happened last night. And I think that is crazy. It’s crazy because my plan was to come and harvest today. And that’s of course what I did. But my husband um he came in this morning was like, “Babe, have you checked your cabbage today?” I’m like, “No, I’m going to go out there and harvest it.” He’s like, “There’s holes all in.” And I’m like, “What?” I’m like I was going to harvest today, but it is what it is. I’m just soaking these until um I get done out here and I’ll probably pour out the water and soak them again. Part of gardening, you guys. So, as the years go along, I just try different things to help mitigate the pests that are in the garden. I don’t like pests. Like I said before, the bugs, the larvae, all of that stuff I don’t like. The other day, my husband and I were out in the garden at night with flashlights, squishing bugs and snails and caterpillars and all of these lovely things. And yeah, it wasn’t fun. But you know what? It had to be done because it’s either they take my crops or either I take my crops. And I really am trying to be mindful of staying on top of the pests so that we can get better harvest. I’m learning some things too about protecting them and hopefully um we’ll be able to get around to doing that. We have found an organic slug and nail bait that’s supposed to help mitigate the slugs and snails. We have like a a big outbreak of slugs, especially this season, but I’m working on it. Right here, I’m just transplanting some of the tomatoes that I grew. You guys, I tried planting multiple tomatoes in a container, like the starter containers this year, and it actually worked out well. The the thing that gave me the idea is the fact that whenever I go to the nursery at Walmart or Home Depot, any of the different nurseries, there’s always multiple plants within one container. And I’m like, well, huh, I wonder if I can sew multiple seeds and just be more vigilant about um helping them grow, like watering them, making sure they get the light. I used some grow lights and I started my seeds indoors. So I did that and then um after they got their first set of true leaves, I started fertilizing them with a half um like h the half of the amount of fertilizer that it was required for fertilizing. And I would do that every 2 weeks. and I think that they did a good job and they are thriving in my garden as well. So, moving back to having a kitchen garden, these are some of the peppers, by the way, that I planted as well. And I did the exact same thing. But moving back to having a kitchen garden, for me, it is so important to feed my family a nourishing diet. And this is something that I talk about often in my videos. And I feel what better way to do that than to control the way that my food is grown. Even with some of the organic foods that I get, I feel that there sometimes something about them just feels a little off to me. I don’t know what it is, but sometimes it just doesn’t feel like I’m getting the best quality that I should even from my organic or non GMO foods. So, I just am deciding to produce more and more of my food for my kitchen. And I’m thinking about all of the things that we eat on a day-to-day basis in order to create my garden. And I realized that I don’t want to grow all of the things. I don’t want to necessarily grow, you know, the most exotic fruit or vegetable. I want to grow the things that I know that me and my family will enjoy eating. And so tomatoes, I realized that I use tomatoes for a lot of things. Be it in salads, be it as like tomato sauce or tomato paste. I’m constantly using tomatoes to make chilies, to make pasta dishes. Tomatoes. We’re always using tomatoes. So, I am trying to be a little more intentional about um growing more tomatoes. I have some beef steak tomatoes, some Roma tomatoes, and some sweet tomatoes um that that’s good for salads that I am going to make. So, right here, I’m just showing you guys um where I planted my tomato plants and my pepper plants. But yeah, so I’m doing that. I use a lot of bell pepper when I’m cooking and sautéing. I use onion. I use garlic, of course. I use lettuce. I have romaine here and I have some leafy lettuce. And so I use those things. This is garlic that is in there as well. So I have that growing and I am going to get started with growing more fruit. So I’m really just striving to have an overall balanced garden to feed me and my family. Well, beautiful butterfly. [Music] It knew it was going to get you. All right, you guys. So, here are some of the other things I have going on in my garden. I still have some seedlings, some tomatoes, peppers. There’s some peppermint there, sunflowers. I have some blueberry plants in these 20-gon um grow bags, as well as my peach tree, y’all. It’s not doing great. It probably won’t produce. I started some herbs in here, and they’re not really doing well. This is a sweet potato plant. And then this is my herb area with sage, oregano, parsley, basil, all the things, you guys. And I have some fruit trees, you guys. I want to encourage you, get out there, start with one thing to grow and see what happens. I hope you enjoyed this video. Don’t forget to hit that like button, subscribe, and share. And leave me a comment down below letting me know what you’ll try. God bless you and take care. Bye.