17 Brilliant FREE Vegetable Gardening Hacks Grandma Used
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She didn’t buy fertilizer… yet her garden fed a family.
17 Brilliant FREE Vegetable Gardening Hacks Grandma Used takes you back to a time when growing food wasn’t about products — it was about understanding the soil, using what you had, and trusting simple, natural methods.
From milk jugs and eggshells to overlooked kitchen scraps, these old-fashioned techniques turned even the smallest backyard into a productive, thriving garden — without spending a single dollar.
These aren’t just gardening tips… they’re lessons in patience, observation, and working with nature.
Simple. Free. Surprisingly powerful.
Watch until the end — because Hack #11 is the one that changes everything, and might make you see gardening in a completely new way. 🌱
🍂 Watch Next:
Part 1 → 27 FREE Gardening Hacks Grandma Grew MORE Food With LESS Work
Part 2 → 27 CLEVER Gardening Hacks Grandma Used to Grow MORE Food With LESS Work
Part 3 → 35 Old Home Hacks Poor Families Used to Save Money
Part 4 → 100-Year-Old Life Hacks from Grandma That Still Work Today
Part 5 → 35 Forgotten Gardening Hacks from Grandma That Have Disappeared!
00:00 Don’t miss this
00:54 The Buried Milk Jug That Watered While She Slept
03:13 The Last Cup of Last Night’s Coffee
05:09 Eggshells, The Secret Vitamin of the Tomato
07:12 Banana Peels And The Kitchen Potassium Bank
09:21 Cardboard, Newspaper, And The One Warning Grandma Never Had To Give
10:35 “Only plain brown. No PFAS”
11:08 Onion Skin Tea, The Garden’s Medicine Cabinet
12:49 Garlic Spray, The Perfume Of A Determined Woman
14:18 The Good Neighbors Of The Vegetable Garden
16:02 Epsom Salt, The Magnesium Candy
17:42 The Mason Jar Greenhouse Army
19:23 When The Body Gets Low, The Garden Climbs Higher
20:29 “The garden bent down with me”
21:02 The Old Gutter That Became A Nursery
22:34 The Labels Made From An Ice Cream Tub
23:53 The Bramble Fence That Guarded With Beauty
25:25 The Seed Was Never Money. It Was A Promise
27:12 The Fish Tank Water Nobody Wanted
28:49 The Christmas Tree That Went Back To The Garden
30:28 Zero dollars, One grandmother
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41 Comments
Kathy
Eliza,my grandmother used many of these same tips.Good to see this info still being circulated.
. Thanks
Edna
Roma
Basil
I tear he banaba peels of organic bananas into little stripes and let it dry.
Perfect fertilizer! Our roses love them
Sarah
Basil
Always have planted basil with my tomatoes. YUM! And, they do LOVE each other! 🙂
Basil.
I still use eggshells to provide calcium for my plants.
Basil
Бабка супер!!!
What a god awful voice! And Grandma didn’t have plastic milk jugs.
Although b.e.r. can be caused by lack of calcium in the soil, the most common cause is due to inconsistent watering.
Bananas we're a luxury… unlikely she had a sack full but you never know.
Basil
Sliding seedlings from the gutter nursery sounds interesting, but if the ends are capped with wood siliconed in place, how does one slide them out?
Basil
Thank you for this God Bless you ❤
basil
"Have everything we want and still dont know where to put it." So true.
What can I use instead of buried plastic containers. A bit concerned about micro plastics.
Basil
Ai trash
This se for gal does a few of these things, I've put flower pots on ladders, too. Really good information, thank you. One fine day , Jesus promise of the best inheritance will come true, remember ? He said the meek will inherent the 🌎 earth. Clean , beautiful, friendly 😊 the damage that man inflicted on it , undone , Jesus as our King and Redeemer along with righteous mankind will make it fresh and new again into paradise restored, after all our Creator , Almighty God blesses us , He doesn't make mistakes, we do. All things new, Revelation chapter 21 verses 3 through 5 , Isaiah 65 : 15 through 25, homes we build our own, o cost , wild animals all like puppies, and the exquisite delight in the abundance of peace Psalms chapter 37 verses10,11 and 29.agape 🎉❤😊
Don't forget, if you bury those milk or water jugs, add some food scraps, without oils , meat or cheese, they can lure the wrong pests, but add a bit of scraps now and then, easier at times , than a compost pile, and that's been done for many years as well around the world. Agape❤😊
Granny's name was Ovie❤ …salt of the earth! Excellent content and presentation 🎉 Peace, love and light to you and yours ❤
I hope to start my very first garden this year and starting out with simple things. This is somewhat overwhelming, but will be saved to come back to. Thank you.
these are great ideas. hope will help everyone get better yields. thank you
Бабушка Софья
Basil please.
I use many of these hacks but watching this nudged my brain into gear to remember the hacks I’d forgotten.
Basil
Бабушка в горбу перевернулась от такого вранья. Если конечно у ИИ есть бабушка.
This is gold. My grandma used to do a few of these and I never realized how effective they were until now.
Oh my! This video brought back so many memories of my childhood. Thank you
Basil
Shirley
Basil, please and thankyou
Basil