Increase your self-reliance by starting or expanding your garden – Victory Garden style. We’ll discuss what a Victory Garden is, what vegetables have the greatest yield and nutritional value to grow at home [you may be surprised at what my number one pick is], and what you can do if you don’t have adequate garden space.
*The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers* by Edward C. Smith https://amzn.to/3iNqHdH
*Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create an Edible Landscape* by Charlie Nardozzi
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*Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition* by Toby Hemenway https://amzn.to/3J66IBA
*Larry or Eyvonne Hall* https://www.youtube.com/@UCVnDfVS8raCaGEM0BOypsLg
*CSA search* https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
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The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers by Edward C. Smith https://amzn.to/3iNqHdH
Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create an Edible Landscape by Charlie Nardozzi
https://amzn.to/3GX4Okq
*Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture*, 2nd Edition by Toby Hemenway https://amzn.to/3J66IBA
Larry or Eyvonne Hall https://www.youtube.com/@UCVnDfVS8raCaGEM0BOypsLg
CSA search https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Visit my Amazon page https://www.amazon.com/shop/prepperpotpourri and support my channel by clicking here before you start shopping on Amazon. I'd appreciate it if you would bookmark the link and use it each time you visit Amazon. You incur no extra fees but I do receive a small commission.
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I have my seeds and can hardly wait to get my garden started. Thank you so much for the background on the Victory gardens and gardening in general. 🙂
This will be my second year gardening. We are adding another spot in the backyard to grow more veggies. Gotta love summer in Michigan.
Even apartment residents can grow something.
I do garden have for a few years. I love that arch. I am trying one this year for my peas. The only problem growing peas they never make it into the house 😅
I've put in a garden every year since 1992. It's not very big – maybe 20 feet by 12 feet, plus a few small places around the house. But I've learned an awful lot of about gardening over the years and that knowledge is priceless. Since I live in the south I have a few more options available to me. My garlic, that I planted in November, is about 8-10 inches high (the plants are in a small cold frame just in case the weather gets too cold).
Great video! I agree 100% with becoming more self-relient with a victory garden. We live in one of "those" neighborhoods where everyone has nicely manicured lawns; fortunately we don't have an HOA, so we can foodscape and put in a veggie garden. One problem we are experiencing is pesticide use from lawncare and spraying for mosquitoes that kills the pollinators. We're looking for several acres in a semi-rural area (to avoid large scale farm chemicals), so we can have behives and a bigger garden. Wish us luck! Love your videos – keep up the good work!!!
Im a few year into gardening, my garden space has doubled for this year!
I produce a lot of banana, breadfruit star fruit, coconuts, achiote, recao, Caimito, citrus and other tropical fruits. Hopefully this year I start my rooftop garden for veggies.
I grew up helping my mamaw and parents garden. I have 2 raised beds that I've been gardening in for few years. I definitely want to build and grow more this year. I'm doing research on beat ways to go about it. Thanks for you inspiration and insight into it.
I've been gardening since fall 2017 when I bought a summer cabin.
The very first day I made a raised bed and planted garlic. 😀
I've been increasing the number of beds ever since.
Last summer I built a large, slightly raised bed and in october I planted 498 garlic cloves.
If they turn out good I'll be able to sell some.
I've also planted 18 black currant bushes from cuttings, 2 red currants, 2 saskatoon, 9 honeyberries, 3 aronia, 2 quince, 3 sea buckthorn, roses (for the rose hips), hops, lovage, sunchokes, chives, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and rhubarb. And I have lots of nettles I harvest every spring.
Since I don't have a greenhouse my tomato harvests are never what I'd like. I live in Härnösand, Sweden…
This year I'll be growing parsnips, carrots, onions, beets, cabbage, dill, hot peppers, spinach, swiss chard, kale and much more.
I can’t figure out how to send you a question not related to any of your videos. How about doing a video on cleaning out and canning your freezer meats?
Strange, but I mapped out my garden plot for this year yesterday! Looked at seeds I have and what I need. I always try and pick one thing that I need to really concentrate on for canning and this year it’s green beans. I haven’t canned them for 2 yrs. Then I have a lot of tomatoes canned so not so many of those. I try to grow one new thing each year and I chose celery , carrots and cucumbers. I really want to can pickles and relish this year. Love your video. I agree we always had a garden growing up, some years were good and you really stored everything you grew and then year that didn’t do well and you thanked God that you did.
Some seeds and that's from the smaller and cheaper companies are up to 10 dollars. 3 dollars a pack is good now. Some little gems have cheaper be seeds but little choice.
Now the government doesn't want you grow. Look what they're doing to farmers. HoAs tend to ban them. What next? Ban home gardens? Something I've done for decades. They want to ban gas stoves, probably furnaces then natural gas altogether along with woodstoves I see attempts to ban.
Sunchokes I hope I killed them off. Was digging them up every day. A few plants went crazy. I'll stick with controllable plants.
If I need heart surgery, glad done preparing beds ready to go.this fall. Can sit on my garden scoot to plant if I do have surgery. Splitting wood is a dilemma. No friendly neighbors but all in better shape. Everyone wants a lot of money for little work.
Growing up most had gardens, fruit trees and some chickens and ducks.
I live in a small apartment that faces north, I have a small deck that I put pots on. I found a couple pots behind the dumpster that I brought up to add to the number of containers I'll be planting in
Been gardening most of my life … Hate the weeding though -this year I'm going to try 5-gal bkets to grow in, while my daughter works the larger gardens
Seed catalogs are piled up near my quilting stuff 🙂 High mowing seed company has a lot of bulk sizes which is great for me 🙂 I’m on 1/3 of a acre and have a huge garden ! Victory gardens were a amazing thing ! The government also told people to keep hens during that time ! Gardens bring peace !
Thank you for your video.
Your making too much sense. That's uncommon sense these days.
I want three or four Tandem Dump trucks of Manure dumped in a line in the back yard to sit and become compost for a year or three.
Back yard, flat ground, close to water and electricity, and overlooked by two strategic windows for easy surveillance.
Raked out into a 20 X 60 foot garden and covered with landscaping material for weed control and it would be a good start. Figure out some kind of No-Till and grow it all.
My days of tilling are over and I don't miss them at all.
This is not permitted by the current power structure here so I'm patient. It will happen. The Manure costs $100 a load last time I paid and that's what I call true "investing". $400 worth of shit so I can grow thousands of dollars "worth" of food that I'll only turn into shit.
All natural and organic and no fiat currency required except for the initial payout to the farmer because all he respects is the fiat currency.
No problem, I'll oblige. I don't aim to grow profit and that makes me the crazy one. I don't believe in the lies and corruption of "eternal growth and profit" and do nothing to support or maintain such foolishness. Such S.I.R. as I like to call it.
The last spot where I had a pile of poop dumped in back of the barn is now growing weeds higher than anything ese on the property. I'll cover it with ground cover this spring and see what grows then. Most of the pile is used up now but the spot is still fertile as blazes. Maybe a spot for that native Sunchoke and I don't care if it takes over.
I'd tear into the pile with the rototiller and wheel barrow the fertilizer to where I needed it.
Back when it was a fresher pile of poop and still "working", I threw some reject garden plants on the pile and couldn't believe how they grew. Out did my garden.
Not only that, but the heat the pile of poop generated protected the Green Peppers and Tomato plants far into the fall.
I would love to get a pile of manure and cover it with a greenhouse for the chickens in the winter. Kick them out come early spring to start the seedlings. The last time I did this I didn't have the greenhouse so I dug a small trench in the pile, placed my trays in there and covered it with plastic sheeting weighed down with poop. Whatever works eh?
I'm doing containers this summer as the Garden is Mums and it will get planted at least three times before she will remember it's planted.
No problem, it's her garden. But man, I missed my Dill last summer when she weeded it all out. lol
She doesn't touch my containers so I'm safe there.
I'll not stop Mum from playing in her Garden. She has lost too much as it is and can no longer knit, crochet, sew, or cook so if playing in the dirt makes her happy, I'm all for it.
I remember as a child how she let me play in the dirt anytime I wanted and I was always digging a hole to china or digging up pirate treasure in the backyard.
I love squash but the powers that be here are peculiar to say the least and refuse to eat any squash so I disguise it as a pumpkin pie and watch the lip smacking go down.
I can't fix that kind of ignorance so I don't bother trying. I do have a good chuckle though.
I believe we are experiencing the beginnings of the death twitches that hail "The End" to the Age of Self Inflicted Retardation with the childish win/lose mentality.
These death twitches will be spectacular to say the least as billions realize their non-viability. The "win/lose" where everyone loses eh?
With any luck at all, the poor perverted people of the win/lose mentality will wipe themselves from the face of the earth and allow for good and decent people to practice the Holy and Divine Win/Win and manifest Heaven on Earth.
I'm starting my Onion seeds in February regardless of the fact nothing grew last year, … new seeds this year eh?
Good luck with the gardens.
I'd wait until Spring but a garden requires tending and practice so for those who have never done one get out and do it
I never knew that part of our history, how cool! From now on my garden will be called my Victory Garden! Thank you 😊 I love watching your channel!!!
We plan on doing a garden this year . It will be our second time . We had done one a long time ago . So hopefully, we will have a great one .
I grew up gardening with my mother and grandmother. I raised my kids from my garden. It’s just me now, but I’m still going to garden. I love watching my garden grow and persevering my harvest. Have a blessed day!
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Thanks for the book recommendations 🙂
Thank you for dong this
Great advice. I will be expanding my garden.
Im currently planning a bigger garden in the back yard. Winter squash/pumpkin grow nearly all year here for me and I don't even have to plant them!! They all volunteer 🤣🤣 unfortunately they do take over the yard so I thought I'd fix that a little and use the yard with a bit more diversity.
Living in So. California, we don’t have a harsh winter, but our summers are very hot and I found that not only was I having to water daily, but the heat prevented my garden from flourishing. So I’m starting earlier this year by planting a winter garden. Have already harvested peas, radishes and lettuce. Other plants are coming along, albeit a bit slow. I’m experimenting with starting summer crop seeds in containers earlier too. 🤞
Great video. We have a large garden that we put in when we moved here two years ago. It is slowly coming together. Last year was better then the first year. We had potatoes, some carrots, tomatoes and hot peppers. We tried corn, peas and green beans but no luck. Rod is learning about the ph balance and all that stuff. We hope our garden will do better this year than last. Thanks for the video.
We have an inground garden but when Covid hit I started growing in containers on the patio as well.
I agree, but I'm not sure we could keep the two-legged animals out of it where we live.
Oh yeah, we are planning a garden. It's not our first but we are expanding it again
I have a garden in my back yard. But doesn’t turn out.
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I think I have all my seeds ordered.
I agree 100% with EVERYONE growing food this year. This is not the first time we'll be growing, but the amount of our planting will definitely increase.
Good idea! Let's be pro-active and positive!
I live in a HOA so this year I am hiding vegetables in plain sight. I tried a bit of it last year and was happy with the results. My other limitation is the amount of sun my available space gets. Last year I had two big plots in a community garden and was robbed of the fruits of my labor by people going in and just taking it.
I have that cookbook! Bought it approximately 1985 and still using it
My mom was a teenager during the war and living on her own. All of her older siblings were in the military or working in the factories to support the war. Mom said she gave most of her rations away, because some didn't have enough. She worked her butt off 18hrs a day and got free food twice a day from her cafe job.
Mom and dad both prepared me for what I'd coming. Thanks to my parents, I feel I was born for this.
Prepper you really inspired me!! I’ve grown vegetables in containers for a few years but I have about 5000 sq ft of grass and I can’t eat that😮!!
I am definitely going to have a garden. I am getting better every year. Considering getting neighbors involved in a community garden. There is a space right here in the neighborhood I am hoping they let us use.
Getting ready and prepared.
Thanks MaryEllen.
And my backyard is really tiny and so is the front yard. It's my mother-in-law's house and at 92 she is not interested in having a garden, so I would have to buy very large pots to put in the rock garden at the back. The container gardening book you mentioned sounds like something I need. Thank you @Prepper Potpourri.
Today at WalMart, I saw the garden seeds out. Not much longer until planting time.
Yes, I haven't had a veggie garden in a few years. Last year I grew a few dozen sunflowers to attract the bees and because they're just so beautiful and it was pretty special planting and growing them with my 3 yr old granddaughter. I'm considering converting the chicken run into a greenhouse for this season (4H chickens have been gone for a few years, but may like to have them again) I have a small space and would like to build garden boxes to grow squash, Swiss Chard, Broad beans, herbs and change a rock garden to blueberries/raspberries. So much I'd like to do. One step at a time. I was out there today digging in the dirt and pruning back a few plants including my mother rosemary plant, I have paper bags hanging in the windows sills drying sprigs today. I love having it fresh in the freezer to use.