How We Grow Our Own Food (for a family of 6!) | Kitchen Garden Tips for Beginners

How do we do everything? We don’t. But we still feed our family homegrown vegetables ALL YEAR LONG! How do we do it? I’ll take you on a homestead garden tour, and show you. I’ll hand out some kitchen garden tips for beginners along the way. This is how we grow our own food, and avoid burnout on the homestead.

[jennasosa]

Dude. Y'all need to try growing figs and mulberries. 😍 Both are PROLIFIC .They are MY FAVE!!! 👌🏼

[judyanderson]

This year was the first-time I planted watermelon. Got 6 from 2 plants. Got 10 pumpkins from 4 plants. I'm in zone 8a and had a good crop of blueberries. 8 green pepper plants yielded lots until the deer found them and ate all the leaves. The leaves grew back in time for the deer to munch on them again. I got plenty to make salsa, and chow chow relish (mixture of cabbage, peppers, onions, zucchini and green tomatoes) best stuff ever! Anyway things I never planted before was a success in my book.

[chezelleconroy]

I absolutely LOVE your gardening videos!

[theabstractsunflower]

Omgoodness I loved this video so much good advice!!! Thank you thank you

[sandywetzel]

I never had any luck with onion bulbs either so I tried starting my own from seed and now grow good onions, in fact my onions took a red ribbon, 2nd at the county fair this year. We live in Ohio as well

[hurdstockxxx]

cant stop watching keep up the good work and thanks for letting us in on your lifestyle.

[darrendianebeiler]

Loved seeing your gardens! They look beautiful!

[timothyyoder]

I loved seeing all you grow! good video!

[tammyjocooke-ovnw]

Dried beans are super easy and versatile- my favorite!! Black, red kidney, pinto and cow eye are my go to’s and save seed for next year

[Jabbme]

I discovered your channel by reels on FB, which led me to here ! I've watched several of your videos, and plan to watch them all. Such great information and content.
A few questions-
1) what zone/state are you in?
2) do either of you have a background or come from a family who has farmed/gardener?
3) how did you start your garden beds and do a layout of where everything was going, like what ammendments did you add to your soil?
4) do either of you work outside the home, I Imagine that it's a full-time job running the homestead- so how did you get started and how do you live /pay bills - your food bill I assume is primarily what you grow and store, then selling eggs, a calf, some produce, and hopefully some monetary gains from being on here.
Sorry if these are a lot of questions, I'm really interested in how it all works and how you all got started.

[sgrvtl]

Thank You! Beautiful gardens. Love how you are raising your children, love that both if you are interested in growing a homestead. Super important, great environment, healthy therapy❗️💜

[tattooedgardener]

You guys are an inspiration for my family and our homestead plan first year Gardener this year but learning alot! Keep the good stuff coming we will be watching

[suzyb]

Hi! I am from North Western PA Currently living in Phoenix, AZ. Your property reminds me of where I grew up North of Pittsburgh in the New Wilmington & Grove City areas. I am going to binge watch your videos. I like your style and you are doing a great job with content. Thank you. 😊

[Zizzyyzz]

You mean her favorite fruit! 🥒 Great video. 😊

[scientificexplorergirl]

Onion cake, yumm!?!?!?! Made me laugh. Great video as always!

[artbyrobot]

my 3 year old calls asparagus paintbrushes! It's so cute she's like I want a paintbrush! And this means she wants us to share a asparagus with her from our plate!

[jwstanley]

"Everything except cake, " ROF-LMHO! Love you!

[RemJuly]

I so envy your farm, hope we can do homesteading too

[fisherman]

Nicely Done! You have a wonderful talent in smoothly transitioning your knowledge onto the video. Keep practicing and someday I hope to see you on a National Level explaining the How to's and Why not's to the starving families than really need to grow their own vegetables and down the road, bring livestock into the picture. Curious as to what state you live in, as it seems all you grow could be planted in the northern part of the country.

[mommapreps]

Onion plants grow better than onion sets because onions are biennial. The set is a second year plant and the second year plant focuses on fleet and seed production. When you plant the plant, the first year so the energy goes into producing a strong bulb.