She Grows 70% of Her Produce in Her Backyard
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- I'm thrilled to share my journey of self-sufficiency in gardening, where I grow an incredible 70% of my own veggies, fruits, and herbs right in my small backyard garden. 🌱🍅🌿
Join me as I walk you through how I grow so much of my own food, demonstrating how even with limited space, anyone can achieve a remarkable level of food self-reliance. From vibrant vegetables to luscious fruits and fragrant herbs, witness the abundance that can be achieved with passion, dedication, and simple yet effective gardening techniques.
Throughout the video, I'll be sharing valuable insights and practical steps that have helped me become more self-sufficient in my garden. Whether you're a seasoned gardener seeking to enhance your yield or a beginner eager to embark on your gardening journey, these tips will empower you to grow more of your own nutritious and organic produce.
I believe that everyone can experience the joys of harvesting their own food, no matter the size of their garden. My mission is to inspire and equip you with the knowledge and confidence to embrace self-sufficiency in your gardening journey.
If you're eager to cultivate a more sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle by growing your own fresh and healthy produce, this is the video for you!
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Excellent video, as always. Congratulations on your levels of self-sufficiency with your gardening efforts... impressive!
Pop grew up during the end of the great depression. Their farm and hard work kept them alive and well. He talks a lot about those good old days when things were simpler. Part of their survival included their community, sharing, and bartering. He says nobody had any money, but a young pig could be traded for flour and sugar.
Anything extra you grew could be traded for a neighbor's bonus harvest.
Some of the old ways sound great.
They really do! I was born at the wrong time
Congrats. Regarding the broccoli, would the head gets bigger if some of the leaves were taken off?
@@amyhoang9140 People say it doesn’t affect it but I actually found that by taking the leaves off the head gets smaller. Maybe it was because of other reasons but I leave them alone until the heads are fully formed.
You are so smart and I appreciate all your teachings! Though you are likely half my age, I feel like you share a wealth of wisdom! Thanks for leading us to as sustainable a life as we can achieve!
Wow, thank you so much for your kind words 💚
RoseRed homestead did a fantastic video testing the different pressure canners to see which ones got into the kill zone and for how long. A must watch! A tested meat sauce recipe was too thick for some of the electric pressure cookers.
I’ll definitely check that out
I just watched the one about my canner and it was a great video! So informative
I totally agree each year I work on being more self sufficient I currently grow all my own greens,sweet potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, green beans, herbs , celery, squash and some fruits still working on adding more
That’s awesome 👏 sounds like you are doing great.
Thank you for breaking that down! Sometimes it can start to feel overwhelming. I have to remind myself to enjoy the journey. 😊
Exactly! You got this 💚
Yay .. I'm the first commenting... Just wish I would have grown my food when my kids were at home. Now I grow for myself and friends/family. I'm eating a lot of okra right now.
It’s awesome you are doing it now!
Fresh okra right out of the garden is so yummy, I can hardly collect enough to make a meal 😂 I'll plant a lot more next spring.
I do not have as many beds as you, this summer I turned a large flower/plant bed into a vegetable bed. This is my second year, enjoy every minute of what ever food I can grow.
That’s amazing. I started with 1 bed and it’s really grown since then.
I'm at about the same level with my produce, 60-70 percent. My biggest problem is I like most vegetables, so I grow a large variety, Alabama, 7B. I am just starting with fruit production, and have cantaloupe and strawberries growing. Next year, I will add watermelon to my garden, and plan on planting three fruit trees, a Lapins Cherry, and two plum trees. It gets down to about 7F in my area, so citrus trees are out of the question. The soil, red clay, is the wrong type of soil for peach trees, apples literally bake on the tree with the heat, but pear trees do okay. For herbs, I grow lemon thyme, three types of basil, Greek Oregano, dill, and mint. I am working on gardening year round, but at worse, I can grow from mid February to mid December. I use pressure canning, water bath canning, dehydrating, and freezing for food preservation. I am looking at an electric canner for doing smaller batches. If you like spinach, try growing New Zealand Spinach. It thrives in the heat, and will continue to produce until a heavy frost or freeze kills it.
We sound like twins, lol. That’s so cool. I’ll definitely check out New Zealand spinach.
Start with twelve plants, and be prepared to harvest/prune back frequently. It not only thrives in the heat, it is also drought tolerant storing water in the vines. The flavor is the same as spinach, and the texture is good.
Congrats on 10k!🎉🎉🎉. That's my goal for this year.😊
Thank you! It’s been a fun adventure. Good luck with your channel 💚
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a thanks so much😃
That was an excellent video. Very informative. This was my first year trying the seminole pumpkin. I had some room along the edge of one of my beds. I really wasn't expecting much but the vines are very long and i have already eaten 3 of them. Really good so i am hopňing i can get enough for the whole year. I do well on the sweet potatoes and Texas Legend Onions. I also freeze a lot of herbs and make sauce from tomatoes. So all in all not too bad. I started planting fruit trees in 2019. I watch James Prigione and he says the best time to plant a fruit tree was yesterday. So we have quite a few as i am twice your age so i don't have too much time to waste so i plant about 5 or more trees every year. I love them. I just started to brine olives. I got about 60 of them. So it will be a couple of months before i will hopefully be eating some. Life is good! Gardening is addictive you just can't stop. Love watching your videos and learning.
Florida Gardener
Zone 9a (your Citrus County neighbor).
It sounds like you are doing amazing!
I have the Carey/ Nesco, I love it!!!!!!
They are so easy. Im in love with mine.
Great advice. Love your reflection words. Gardening is my therapy more than anything else. ❤❤
Same! It’s been such a huge improvement to my physical and mental health.
Great video. Keep 'em coming! FL 9B Gulf Coast.
Thanks neighbor 💚
Lol I am planting bell peppers because they came with my greenstalk. We don't use many bell peppers, but I figured I can chop and freeze some and give away what we don't need
It’s fun to grow things you haven’t grown before, even if you don’t eat them lol
Me too, I grow my own vegetables
That’s awesome!
Soapberry. Soap grows on trees! I have potted up cuttings at the nursery I accidentally got a job at. You can produce soap in a garden. I haven’t seen the final product yet. Not sure if it’s a great soap alternative yet. You can get it at Scrubland Farmz North of Ocala. The nursery is only open on Sunday.
I have soap ginger in my yard. I cut a lot down when I moved in because I never knew about its uses. I just found out this year. Now I'm protecting what I haven't killed off yet. Great surprise for my homestead.
I have shampoo ginger, I wonder if it’s they same thing. Now I have to look up all its uses
I stand corrected 💚 I’m definitely going to have to check that out
I bought a shampoo ginger from Jerras and it’s doing great
I just looked it up, the flower or cone of the plant gives off a sap that can be used as a shampoo
That was a really good video. Very informative. I hope that you’re having a great day. God bless you and your family. Duane.✝️💜🙏💒
Many blessings to you too 🙏
Your channel has grown by 97% in a year, that’s fabulous. Congratulations.
What kind of blackberry do you have?
It’s crazy. I’m so excited that people are enjoying it. Sadly I can’t remember the blackberry variety because I lost the tag. I got it at Home Depot and it’s thornless but that’s all I really know about it.
I’ve seen things online where they were canning and fermenting water, watermelon and watermelon rind. Just something to think about.
I’ll check that out
If I decide to buy the electric canner I'll make sure I go thru your channel 😊
Aww thanks Cindy. I appreciate your support
I bought the Arcadia broccli seeds and is trying the first time
Awesome 😎 let me know what you think
Thank you for giving me food for thought. Growing enough food got easier after my kids moved out, 6 heads of broccoli was enough for me for 2 months. Now they always ask what I've got, but I consider that a win.
Haha. That’s awesome. I’m always giving stuff away. I think I enjoy giving it to people more than eating it, lol
Amazingly helpful video, I just found your channel, I love it! I’m in zone 10A in Florida. Thank you:)
Welcome neighbor 👋
Good morning. I live in nw central florida and just came across your channel. Just subscribed. I will check out more of your channel today. Ive been gardening for my second year looking for good tips to grow in florida.
Happy Gardening
Hi neighbor 👋. Welcome. I’m in Spring Hill, just north of Tampa
Wow! Great job for growing and getting that much food off your growing space of 288 square feet and your fruit. That's amazing!
Thanks! The greenstalks help a lot along with the fact I can grow year round. I know that not everyone has that ability so I’m lucky.
I am growing four lettuce at a time and plant more each time I use one I plant one
Great succession plan!
Excellent video! It took me a year to arrive to most of your conclusions. This saves a lot of time and money to any beginner gardener.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it 💚
I bought 100 Arcadia broccoli seeds on Amazon for $5
Nice. I usually get mine from Amazon too
Yay! The 10K milestone!!! Congratulations!!!! So well deserved, and you keep getting better with every video: amazing!
I love the 70/30 or 80/20 rule in most things in life, except my interpretation of the ratio is Results/Effort, especially for tasks that I do not enjoy: housekeeping, yard maintenance, mending. I have also taken that approach to waste management: compost, reduce, reuse, recycle: I want to get my big chunky waste out of the landfill and return organic matter to my garden, but NOT get my annual waste to fit into a mason jar.
This video was very thought provoking: I am going to review my fall/winter garden plan accordingly, and focus more on preserving. I thought I am in the experimental stage of my gardening journey, and have let too much of my greens and herbs go to compost because I have been too casual about the abundance of my summer garden.
I think all your followers should take a moment to think about what their garden actually produces for them: that realization of OMG, I am there, or could be at self-sufficiency on XYZ - THAT is a WOW moment that is so addicting!
Thanks, Petrina for all the great ideas and encouragement!
I was so stoked when I saw I hit 10k. I’ve made a ton of new garden buddies including you 🤗. Thanks for all your support. I’m right there with you on the 80/20 rule, especially with your waste example. Perfection is impossible to achieve but progress feels just as amazing and attainable! And it is addicting once you get going 💚
I am definitely thinking about canning, not sure I am ready to invest a couple hundred but what about just regular canning the old fashioned way. The ball canning kit.
Absolutely! That’s a great way to get started. The ball kit is great. I sometimes still use a regular pot with a silicone trivet on the bottom for Waterbath canning because it’s easier than pulling everything out.
Should we be looking out for your upcoming book with your homegrown recipes? 😁
That would be very cool but not something I’m working on yet. I am working on a gardening book first. Maybe a cookbook is right around the corner.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a that's awesome! I look forward to the gardening book. And the cookbook in the future! 😉 I was curious when you said you make your own spice mixes!
@@sanalmeida7782 oh yeah. Can’t forget those!
Hats your favorite tomatoes for holiday florida
That’s a hard choice but probably red currant
Great information as always. You have a knack for explaining things in wonderful detail. I need a video that says go plant this today lol. Just curious what store is that in the opening with all the vegetables?
You are in luck, I put out a video at the beginning of every month that shows exactly what I’m starting from seed that month. The store video is actually stock footage so it’s not really a store here.
Awesome I'm going to make sure I pay close attention. I did start a few pepper and floradale tomato seeds this month.
@@cindywoods4645 perfect timing. Those will do great started this month
it cant hurt to save a head of broccoli seeds. it may not grow exactly true to seed but if you pollinate itself to another plant that's the same variety you might get something close. cant hurt to try.
I’m going to try that. Maybe it could be even better!
Please can you make a video to squish bugs ?
Awesome video. Wondering if you know , i planted 2 dwarf orange trees near a fence that i need to relocate. Is there a best time to dig them up and transplant?
Early spring would be best. After the last of the cold weather passes would be best.
If you have tomato paste, you can make ketchup. It only takes a 6oz can to make.
Really? I didn’t know that. I’ll have to check that out.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Google a recipe for it. I make my own sugar free ketchup. It's homemade mustards and mayo that are more costly to make. Ketchup is easy.
Muscadine grapes supposedly grow well here according to someone on youtube in tampa. I also know blood oranges grow well in central florida, even in containers. I dream of having mango, blood oranges, muscadine grapes, blueberries, bananas, and strawberries.
I also want a lime tree.
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I’m picky with grapes so I really need to try the muscadine grapes. I hear they grow really well here too.
I have a muscadine in my back yard. The previous owner planted it. It produces quite well. I'm on the space coast of Florida. 9B zone I think.
I'm new to the channel and I just love your videos. I can follow the information you share because of your calm, happy demeanor. Thank you for your hard work ❤️
@@joannamills4510 awww thank you so much for watching. Do your muscadine grapes taste like the red grapes in the grocery store? I’ve always been curious.
Great video. I’ve been trying to find your video discussing how you handle beets. I’m also 9b, and I’ve not been able to get my variables right.
It’s funny you ask that. I grew beets my first year with great success. Every year since then have been ping pong size but I think I figured out a few new things that I’m going to try this winter. I’ll be starting mine in October and I’m going to do them in pots with lots of bone and kelp meal. I don’t think they are a fan of nitrogen or rich soil which is why I’m doing them in containers rather than my raised beds.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a , thanks! I’ll give that a try. Ping pong balls would actually be OK for most of them, as I want to pickle and can them. But, I DO want to CHOOSE for them to be minis.
Haha. I know what you mean. If I have good luck, I’ll put out a video for you.
I'm looking forward to the video AND your success, and my own!
Me too! I only buy meat and dairy now, except for chicken.
That’s so awesome 👏 Great job!
Is there a book that gives planting times for central Florida. When I have gone to bookstores looking for gardening books specific for Central Florida, I have not found any.
I haven’t found anything like that, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The University of Florida has a good website that shows month by month for what to grow but if you want a physical book unfortunately I don’t know of one.
What is your fav tomatoe holiday fl.
My favorite small one is red currant. Larger would be Neptune. And then San Marzano for paste tomatoes 🍅
Patrina, on the beans...how do you shell them? My hands are so sore of a quart mason jar full of cowpeas I grew. I am not sure it is worth it unless there is an easier way.
Are you waiting until they are completely dry and brittle? If you wait for them to turn brown and crispy, you should be able to crack the pods along the seam and they will just fall out.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Thank you...that is problem. I noticed the really dry one fall out. And these are from the packet of cowpeas you sent me.
@@fishingpinky3165 yes, much easier when they are dry. Also the dried ones are best for saving seeds from.
Ok well not to be nosey but put a cover on that light switch. 😂 makes me nervous since i have been shocked like that before.
On a gardening note I would like to suggest Oakra. It does well in the summer and produces daily. Dont forget to whoop it 😂.
So here is a question, what do you do for protein? No, chickens for eggs?
🤣🤣🤣 I’ve been saying the same thing to my husband. I’m afraid I’ll shock myself! We purchase all our protein currently. We still go on RV trips for long periods of time so I would have no way to take care of animals at the moment, but it is a goal in future.
Do you woop your okra? I had to Woop up on my maringa to get it going 😅
@@joannamills4510 yes. It's funny when I say that to people they think I'm joking. But it is a thing. The okra like it. That's why they are great summer addition.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I'm in the process now of finding customers for my duck eggs. I have lots of them. And they are delicious but I can only eat so many. I get about a dozen duck eggs and a dozen chicken eggs a day. I also have two turkeys. I raise my own meat chickens as well.
@@boonmsgt that’s so cool!
Broccoli microgreens more nutrients too
I should try those. I’m not sure why I haven’t tried yet 💚
How do you cure your fall sweet potatoes that you planted in August?🧸🥰 my sweet potato patch has okinawa Sweet potato, orange, and white sweet potato . I'm So excited. Sad i germinated a mango because its the indeterminate kind
I just lay them on a piece of cardboard in my garage for two weeks. It stays pretty hot and dark in there.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Thank you so much. I am excited to see if my garage stays hot enough to cure these when they are ready to harvest. probably in november or december.
@@ms.penguin6252 if it’s cooler during those two weeks, give them an extra couple weeks. All you really need is >70 degrees
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a when you say give them an extra couple of weeks, do you mean leave them in the ground ?
Or do you mean leave them in the garage on a piece of cardboard for a few more weeks? I plan on harvesting when I see the green slips die and turn yellow. About 120 days from now...
Leave them in the garage. Not sure where your located but If you are located in zone 9 or above, they may not yellow and die off. Mine sometimes live through the whole winter if it’s mild.
Honey❤?
I get my honey from a local farm near my house. It’s amazing!