Designing Beautiful Outdoor Living Spaces with Edible Gardens! 🏡🌼 Renter-Friendly DIY Landscaping

Our backyard is getting closer to becoming the beautiful outdoor living space and edible home garden I've envisioned! After months of research, planting, watering, and some budget-friendly solutions, our backyard has officially become an extension of our day-to-day living. I'm showing you the surprising changes we've had since we first started planting 2 months ago, and we'll discuss more future plans for improvement as we start working some renter-friendly DIY landscaping tricks alongside our edible gardens. The goal is to really elevate the visual interest of this yard, while also making it functional, and edible!. So we're going to build some affordable structures, and visit the CUTEST local nursery to find some more plants that bring us closer to creating a thriving edible home garden!

Which part of the garden should I work on next? I'm thinking the cement wall and the walkways! Let me know in the comments below!

✌🏼 LK

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✶ If you're new here, my name is LK and I'm a design focused renter in San Diego. I love California aesthetic, Thrifting, DIY + Vintage Home Decor!

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0:00 Let's Go Outside!
1:26 Backyard Updates
7:07 Greenhouse
8:29 New Blooms
14:26 Creating the South Bed
17:25 Off to the nursery!
19:39 Home Depot
21:04 Planting the haul!
29:36 The Arch

[kimsleger]

YES, LK!!! As a renter myself in Milwaukee, WI, the universe will give back to you 10 fold what you have given out! Cultivate that garden and beautify your space you occupy right now! ❤ Whether the landlord appreciates it or the next tenants do or not does not matter. You are giving to yourself the therapy and joy your mind and body craves. You grow girl!!

[outofhere]

The outdoor area is as important as the indoor. I spend a lot of time outdoors redoing my gardens and digging in the dirt. Love all the possibilities in your space.

[nlvmruu]

I love when you're in the garden yard! I think more home decor youtubers need to have a wholistic view of their homes and spend time on their patios or in their yards, garages, etc. Thanks for this!

[GardenreetLighting]

Your dedication to transforming your backyard into a beautiful and functional outdoor living space is truly inspiring!

[kb]

Farm girl and life-long gardener here. What an outstanding backyard space. And you're a natural! A few tips that came to mind.

Crushed eggshells are an excellent slug/snail deterrent. Leaf lettuces do awesome in containers, like 3-5 gal bucket size. Let them grow up, give them a good haircut to harvest, "rinse and repeat" over and over. Harvest anything leafy like kale/chard/spinach from the outside only. It will rejuvenate continuously as well. Snip (top off) your herbs often and they'll grow bushy instead of leggy. You can dry what's not needed or make infused water and flavored vinegars. Do find a nice sunny place with lots of room for rosemary. It will become a lovely scented bush. Prune your tomatoes (the suckers) for more yield and go for indeterminant. They can grow almost forever in temperate climates. Start root veg/celery/green onions from cut bottoms/tops in water. Lastly, "normal" pickling is great; ferment pickling is grand.

Now I'm off to your next garden video. Loving your channel!

[nicoleflo]

What a joy to watch! I love your approach to your home and it feels like you really enjoy all of this. Wonderful content 👏👏

[MelMc]

I enjoyed watching the garden tour, all the plant additions and your future plans for the outside space. You have a beautiful yard with so much potential. I can really see your garden vision coming to life.

[jackandlill]

Well Lk - for someone who has never had her own backyard or garden - you sure are knowledgeable!! I live in a 3rd floor walkup & am so envious of your easy access to the outdoors! You seem like a natural gardener & it's been so much fun watching you navigate & enjoy this whole process!! Your gardens & backyard are looking amazing!!

[lindaroyal]

I vote option 3, make the fountain a focal point.
Considering you've never had your own yard before, you're doing a pretty good job. You seem very knowledgeable on all your plants and their needs.
I like how you have sections, north garden, south, east, etc., very nice!
Your landlord must be so pleased that you're loving the yard and investing time in giving it much attention. It's looking very nice.
Suggestion - you need a potting area/bench. Could be a project to film, thrift an old sink and something to use as a counter and shelves. Hang one of the windows, you kept from the house, above the counter, would look cool.

[pixieofjoy]

Yay!! I was hoping you would bring us back into the garden! Your yard/garden is so unique, and I love all the new additions! Perfect video!

[jackandlill]

Oh! Makes sense that you had some gardening knowledge from your formative years!! lol!

[lisapieper]

Gardening is such a great thing for mental health. You have really dove in head first & I enjoy your channel! Thanks for all the explanations as well!

[Eloiseat]

Option 1 for the trellis looks the best to me. Also, I love watching your gardening videos—they’re meditative and feel almost spontaneous as we follow your thoughts about which plants may be happy with which other plants and so on.

[freedomofreligion]

I need a little greenhouse like yours!!! Thank you for getting it, setting it up, + trialing it.

[bonniejordan]

Love your yard. Gardening is such good therapy ❤❤

[youdontspeakforme]

I have enjoyed watching your back yard come together. Can’t wait to see things grow. Be careful with that garlic. It spreads and can get out of control quickly. It will find its way under the planter bed! Best to grow it in a contain pot.

[donnapecoraro]

Amazing and a huge amount of work! Gardening looks so glamorous in the media, it’s hard! Can’t wait to see if your greenhouse fulfills its purpose, always wanted one but here in the NE, we seem to be having some epic wind events and don’t want to see it flying past me. CA weather is so great for planting, our season is too short. great garden centers, good prices, I started planting but we just haven’t had the sun needed. I’ve lost count of all your beds! I totally agree with your philosophy about the rental garden, it’s the earth and it’s there for you to use, and it’s wonderful that you’re using it. Good luck, keep us posted!!

[mello]

So excited for you darling you have done a GREAT job. You’re so inspiring..the only way I’ve been able to keep pest and birds away from eating my seedling etc. was to put up a quick easy cheap temporary netting over the bed until they grow a little also I think another help to me was getting dollar store wind steaks with wind blowing birds that constantly fluttered in the wind helped a lot to keep the birds out of the seedling new growth all this can be removed after they grow a little I hope this helps take care and God bless you and your family 🙏🌻😍

[christieglenn]

Yay, another great video 🙋‍♀️🌸, cheeky thumps up, I just started watching but I know it will be good.👩‍🌾happy gardening. It’s cold today in Germany.

[lauradicristofano]

I think your videos are great! You show so much enthusiasm, makes it interesting and entertaining. So happy to see you discovered gardening! I love it too. It is so good for the mind and soul! Can’t wait to see how your gardens do. I moved from IL to TX a couple years ago and planting has been a challenge so far. Had to relearn everything about what to plant in this new environment. Good luck, keep doing what you’re doing!