Hurray! I have a 20 by 40 plot and I grew 2 years worth of food last year! I focused on potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, carrots, beets, onions, celery, pie pumpkins, and cucumbers. I canned all of it!

Before you toss out the broccoli plants, you can save the leaves and eat them too. I save all mine and use it like I would spinach or kale in my omelets and soups…They freeze really well too.

I am 78 yrs oldand have always had large gardens. I have Never seen a better planned garden. Great job!!!🥰

Subscribed! This is what social media should be about: sharing knowledge and inspiring each other to live better. Thanks🎉

You’re right - Many new gardeners give up too easily. Every year has to be looked at as a “learning experience.” Just be sure to take notes and implement what you learn from one year to the next and in just a few years you’ll start to become more and more successful. 😊

So inspirational tbh. I’m daydreaming about garden layouts while at work.

We eat a ton of celery and I've found that half a dozen plants is more than enough using the cut and come again method. We rarely use a whole head of celery at a time so it makes sense to take the stalks we need and leave the rest of the head to keep growing.

You need to grow comfrey next to a lot of your other veggies and it will improve your soil and your vegetables, plus comfrey is a wonderful compost fertilizer. You just chop it & drop it in your beds & it will greatly energize your plants

I love people who are so enthusiastic about gardening! It makes me excited too!

I'm not sure what's more adorable... The arched trellis, or the cooing of your little one!

My favorite butternut squash recipe is cutting peel your squash by putting it in the microwave for a few minutes and then it will peel really easily cut it up and put it in chicken broth with a half a carrot until tender drain and use your immersion blender to make it into a light sauce from there add a half a cup of sour cream, chili powder, cumin, and enjoy I make it into a dip for corn chips. It’s awesome.

I really appreciate all the abundance you have in such a small space. My garden is only 25 x 35 (plus my deck) and I am able to grow much more than most would expect. Small spaces don't necessarily mean small gardens!

What I love about gardening is it's so apolitical in a world that's become black vs. white on every possible subject. You can garden because it's good for your family bonding and teaching your kids responsibility, or because it decreases how many slave-labour tomatoes we all buy. You can garden because it's healthier to eat organic, or because it's good for the environment. Personally, as an anarchist, I garden because it disrupts the five companies that create all of our processed food and keeps money out of their grubby, blood-soaked hands 👌❤ That money goes back into my community when I buy/trade for compost/seeds. There's literally no downside, no matter your values

.......nothing more beautiful and heart warming than seeing a dad carry his baby! It reminds me how my Heavenly Father carries me thru this life. Jesus said, I will never leave or forsake you....I AM with you always.

you have a good sense toward your garden. A lot of people don’t express that. PS, you have a great garden and I’m very jealous.😅

This should really help me. I am new to gardening. Last year I purchased this home with 2 acres. My dream is to one day be self sufficient. It has been alot of work getting things clear and learning the land. I got my garden laid out to be 25' x 30'. I have that space covered in woodchips now and plan to start my garden next spring.

I really like how you were resourceful with natural and repurposed elements to help build your garden. So beautiful &great stewardship! Appreciate the ideas.

Very nice! Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ! Blessings to you and your family! Happy gardening and health!

The baby steals the show

Some nut case suggested that 1 person needs 9000 square feet of garden to produce enough food to survive. It's good to see proof you provided proof that most families have yards far less than 9000 square feet that are plenty big to provide food for a family . The leaves over the potatoes is a stroke of genius!. MI Gardener is a champion too!

A trellis above the raised bed is SO genius and I never would've thought of it. Zone 3 here o season is incredibly short, but when it's hot it's HOT. This is a game changer for me

Awesome. Looking great. So precious your daughter saying, Hi”, as though she just saw you there, suddenly.

We are from Srilanka and like your video very much got some ideas for my garden too. All the best 👍👍👍👍❤

I dried and crushed my broccoli leaves, then added them to sauces, main meals, and no one knew, they couldn't taste them, and they got the health benefits. No fuss eating!!😊

Brother, what an amazing garden you have! Great use of space; abundance out the wazoo; really well done! Blessings, Jim

Year one of straw berries, I had a single plant, I then collected the seeds from the berries, by shaving the exterior skin off the ones I would eat, and stickng them to egg cartons or newspaper, and I put thousands of seeds down, getting maybe 10 plants to germinate. From those 10 plants in year two, I have somewhere in the ballpark of 50-100 plants now, due to runners. Cut them anywhere from 6" to 12" in length, and bury them up to the last 2 inches. They are able to use the 4-10" area under the soil to get moisture, so they can quickly root up. I never use anything to help them root, and I rarely wait till the runners themselves have roots, and they do just fine with this method.

Absolutely beautiful!!! Such an enjoyable tour!!

Another idea is you can use flowers that you can eat so it functions as a crop as well as a pollinator. A Good plant I've heard for attracting beneficial, as well as a bug that eats them pests, and can be used as a sacrificial is merrigolds. I may be butchering the name a bit.

Love seeing your thriving garden, and the beautiful foods growing up voluntarily to feed your family!

Your garden is absolutely stunning! Loved this tour! 🙌🍅

Sweet potatoes shoots are delicious when cooked.

I do believe this is the best garden walk thru video I have seen. You have an absolutely beautiful garden and you showed the fails with the wins and explained why. Great job, Sir!

I think she's ready for her close up.Just love it when the kids just get into the video without you asking them to 😊

I love these types of videos. And my small upstate NY garden is all MIgardener seeds with the exception of dollar general flower seeds...lol Keep the videos coming!!! Happy gardening😊

I just found your video and LOVE your garden! I am sad to see that you have not posted on a year, hope to see more soon!!!

New subscriber and I would have loved to see you pull up a potato plant to see the size. I also have way too many trees and an abundance of leaves. This year 3/4 of my 50x50 garden I harvested 135 lbs of potatoes. I also have 4 trellis's. My garden cost me a whopping $33.00 this year. I have put up 40lbs of tomatoes so far and I am sure I am going to pass the 100 lb mark. 12 heirloom plants...seed saved for 33 years!!! The real true heirloom tomatoes that are huge. You are blessed with your beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing!!! It just goes to show you can feed your family for a whole year of produce on very little money. If you seed save....next to nothing. When I see organic 3 lb bag of potatoes for $6.00 it shocks me and assures me I am doing really good. My goal for next year is $15.00 garden because of my seed saving and having a simple grow light system to start my own plants.

Thank you for this video. I am elderly and started a container garden during the pandemic. I have a granddaughter living with me, and I do feel my garden is big enough for the two of us. I also just plant the stuff that I usually buy, but I feel it is not doing so well. My granddaughter has two chickens, and I never thought of using chicken compost! This year I planted some squash and will have to see how that go. I live in the southern hemisphere and we are going into summer season now. ❤️🌹🐝

I love your garden. I enjoyed seeing your baby girl' s interaction with you and your garden. Precious

Garden looks great! If you want to prevent deer from getting into the garden, plant cucumbers all along outside perimeter of your fence every 12 inches or so. Cucumber vines are toxic to deer and many other vegetable predators. I am glad your butternut are doing well. They do not typically do well being trellised. Squash have roots at every joint of their vines, so if the main part of the plant dies, the vines will still provide nutrients and water by those rooted joints. I trellis my melons and cucumbers, but not my squash. You can vertical trellis any summer squash like zucchini and yellow straightneck squash because they don't have that rooted joint vining structure. You're right, though, it has been a horrible cucumber year. I've never struggled with cucumbers like I have this season. The tomatoes have been a bit of a struggle as well. They're finally starting to do something. Our season is really short here in Cheyenne WY.

I really enjoyed watching you walk through and explain everything. Thank you for taking the time. You guys are doing a super good job. Your baby girl is adorable saying hi to Daddy. God bless you and your family!

Great video! Really appreciate your realistic style to gardening! So many gardeners have everything perfect to where its not relatable.

Some years certain plants do well while others do not. Some years my blueberries are huge and juicy, other years they’re small and BITTER. This past year (2023) my tomatoes did amazing for the first time in 5 years, no idea why. No hints or clues or pieces of information that lets me know what I did that made them do so great. I am left in the darkness of mystery I grew amazing onions one year, can’t do it ever since. And I love the onions I grow, they’re called Patterson and they last a very long time in storage. They retain they’re sweet onion taste for a very long time as well. They’re the best onion I’ve ever had

Mi gardener really is a great option for seeds. I think his did even better than baker Creek for me.

Beautiful garden plots, the broccoli is the prettiest and healthiest I've ever seen from a home garden. It's better looking than even store bought broccoli (& much healthier and tastier too I bet!). Love the repurposed fallen tree limbs, especially the trellis in the 18 foot raised garden bed. Looks sturdy and great way to hold up those big plants. Like how you have mixed varieties of vegetables interplanted with each other.

leave the strawberries alone and in two years they will fill that bed and beyond. Juneberries do that, everbearing not as much but will to a lesser extent. I'd let them keep going through the yard! strawberries are awesome

LOVE the Kentucky Wonder Beans. They were incredibly prolific, even in Zone 10a heat, with just a few plants producing one family green bean side dish a week. Kids loved to pick the many beans as well. And so yummy when cooked in olive oil, salt and a little lemon juice.

People always ask me what they should grow, and I always say write a list of what you eat and cook with, and then find out if they grow in your region!! It’s that simple

Brilliant! This is inspiring on so many levels. I have similar access to tons of leaves, wood from the forest, plenty of wood chips, also. I never knew I could grow THAT MUCH in such a small area! Love the I-got-chickens-to-help-my-garden idea. I love the low maintenance aspect as well. You have inspired me to dream again.

The joy of seeing all this grow and all the nutrition and journeys saved.

Growing a cute kid, too!

Baby girl is soooo precious! Really love the video!!

One of the best garden tours ever!! Don't forget to plant a fall garden 🥰

Great video, You've given me a lot of ideas for next year. Definitely doing the potatoes like you demonstrated. I also have a lot of wood chips and use them all the time,

Your celery looks great. I think we should try it. I was afraid we were too far north. We've set up six raised beds to make gardening easier as we get older. Adding raspberries this year. Blackberries here have produced very well. Enjoying ground cherries last few years too. We eat them fresh from the garden and they are great to mix with other fruit when making jam or pie. I really enjoy your video. Your enthusiasm is wonderful. We've grown a lot more flowers in the last few years. It's great to bring in pollinators and it's really nice to have flowers to cut for gifts and bring into the house. We learn something new every year. Gardening-A hobby bringing health and joy!

What a beautiful garden! Everything looks so healthy. Thank you for sharing! This is my first year trying to grow more than cucumbers and sweet potatoes. I'm in zone 8a Georgia and it's been difficult keeping everything alive with the heat. The sun is the only thing growing around here. 😂 The heat index is supposed to be 110 today. In addition, I don't have any trees in my yards, not even one, for shade.

subbed today, stop by and say hi!! i have new content in process, thanks for sharing!!!

I just found you on KZfaq today and I've been watching gardening videos on KZfaq for years. Just so happens that my own garden is also 20x40. Perfect fit

Beautiful garden!

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 your garden looks good

Biden inspired me to grow my own food for the first time in my life! Nothing grew but learned a lot! Thank you, great video

I dont use mulch but instead use "stepping stones", and then grow small veggies between them I can step over. I use 1 foot square cement blocks, firewood and used bricks with a flat surface. I have to weed more but I'm transitioning more of the garden area into perennials. Annuals like giant red mustard grow fast and reseed easily and I've filled quite a few canning jars with dried leaves from just a few plants. Dried turnip greens make even the most simple soup taste delicious and they constantly put out leaves all summer, I dont grow turnip for the root. Squash takes a huge amount of space so I'm only growing zuchini this year. Cucumbers are very productive, if you can find the right variety. You can grow strawberries and asparagus together in the same bed. I harvest amaranth and pigweed, and will be dehydrating them this year. Instead of canning jars this year (for dried leaves) I will use mylar bags, they take less space and easier to open and empty out. Great video. I'm growing 150 cabbage seedlings now (zone 5a) that will be transplanted in little removable hoop greenhouses. I will use 20feet long incandescent christmas tree lights, only 5 watts per bulb. Its going to be a good year I think. Btw skirret is a perennial and absolutely gorgeous, tons of roots, tons of edible leaves which I dont really care for, and it created 5-15 offsets quickly off each main plant in the first year and deelicious; it is very crunchy and easy to chew, tastes just like parsnip. There is always more to learn and more weeds to pull. :)

Gorgeous garden!

Love your video! Your vegetable garden is a delight as is your narration. Very inspirational. Thank you so much! 🙂 Liked! Subscribed! Shared! 😀

New subscriber. Looking forward to your journey and channel. God Bless you all and many prayers. Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻

Encouraging & informative! ❤ Thank you!❤🙏🏼✝️🙌🏼❤️

thankyou you have given me so many great ideas for my vegetable garden ,keep growing great job

heck yea keep it up

This is a wonderful video, thanks so much!

Potatoes are very resilient lol. I’ve got potatoes that were meant to be composted, instead growing out of the air holes in my compost bin. I just let ‘em grow. Curious to see how many potatoes I’ll get

Best advice at the end love y’all keep on growin! ❤

Nice job. Congrats on your beauiful garden! Why use jute string? Masons line is indestructable and you won't have to rebuild your teepees.

This is the best moment in this entire video 3:53 😀

nice I am learning

Enjoyed the video

Nothing is better than gardening. Fresh foods anyday over store bought ones.

Very informative, well documented.

Wonderful presentation. I’ve been an apartment dweller in Brooklyn, NY for over two decades. I have always wanted to grow things on my own, even if it was just on my window sill. My wife and daughters love plants but for some reason or another they don’t thrive indoors. I follow Epic Gardening’s channel as well. I really like your narration and garden advice. Blessings for a fruitful harvest.

Awww the baby is too cute 🥰

Really nice and well kept garden. Everything is lush and beautiful. ❤

I’d like to see a video on how you preserve all that! Thank you for this video. Your gardens look great!

Naic ❤

Your inspector definitely enjoys the garden.

I cut the skins off the lower half of the Broccoli. Packed with vitamins. Also I add it to the Brocoli soups, give it to my Chickens and Guineas.

Just found your channel and watched this. Man you have got lots I know some hasn’t worked out but I heard that even good gardeners have problems so all gardeners have problems in my book. But I see it that if 50% or more does good in the first few years then you are doing well. I believe about 80% + in your garden. As the volunteer crops boost the ones that didn’t take. Also I believe we are always learning. And every little step that isn’t what you want you can change next year. Take what works and keep that then tweak what doesn’t then each year you should do better. But remember you have an idea outcome but pests, diseases, and weather play a huge factor in what your outcome will be. These are things you can’t change…. So have to work with or against. Well done on all you have done. Hope to look forward to more .

Incredible, beautiful garden! 😮❤

What a wonderful garden

Planting in a small area is compact and saves space. I also divided into small beds to plant but still had to plant more in pots because the area was too small. I will feed the chickens old vegetables.

Awesome setup! I'm on year 2 and still brainstorming. Never stop learning!

I ❤️ your beautiful and productive garden. Looking forward to see more videos . Good job 👏👍

Nice job. Loved the part the baby said hi

Beautiful garden arrangement, love your video..wish you success and be healthy always

For things like cucumber and tomato that can easily get diseases due to heat stress, try doing a shade cloth cover over them . The only thing you will have to build for it is a small support frame with PVC or whatever you have handy. It will really help. 40% is probably adequate)

I harvest celery stalks all summer and freeze or dehydrate them. Just a few plants give me tons of celery because the plant keeps sending up more shoots all season.

Wow! What a very nice and organized garden. Enjoyed every minute of your video as I'm planting my seeds for this year. One thing I took away from your content is that after 20 years of gardening, I need to step up my game in organizing my space. I started gardening as a self imposed therapy; and to provide fresh food to my family after our first child. Fast forward, now our children are grown and out the house. One thing you can count on is your child will always remember time spent with you gardening and an appreciation of quality food.

I stumbled upon your channel and let me tell ya, I am impressed! I’m gonna have a 30 by 35 garden soon. You have given me some ideas on how to do it. I’m subscribing right now! Thanks for sharing💚

New subscriber here! I love how you thought this all out and set it up. I am learning more every day. I began my first garden last year. It was one raised bed that was 4' by 12'. I am 66 years old. I didn't even know If I could make a garden. But it grew. I got a few tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and green tails. And a very few peppers, which were not at all how I wanted them. I couldn't have a garden this year due to Achilles tendon surgery, but I plan to have a fall garden. Last fall I planted collards, but because I couldn't walk to tend them, they were severely eaten by bugs. I hope to overwinter them and do better next year. 😊❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Thank you for your hard work in creating these videos! I have much to learn! Like how to re-claim a severely weedy, bug infested garden. 😅 I love my garden. ❤

MY garden is 30x50, and I built a remote watering system with a large IBC tote that feeds dripper. Its deer country so I have an 8 ft tall fence, but can take down one side to get the tractor in with tiller. Spend some time planning what you need, and rotate your crop placement.

Also Italian Tromboncino squash will grow yardstick long and keeps well all winter.

Great looking garden! Really enjoyed this video! 😃

Woot woot! Hi Kevin and Sarah! Love your show! Definitely interested in getting started and learning to freeze dry foods! God Bless y’all