How To Avoid the Grocery Store As Long As Possible // Gardening & Self-Sufficiency
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My grandfather, a huge influence on my young life, lived through the Great Depression and it shaped how he saw things in a big way. I learned how to avoid the grocery store, and lots of other kinds of stores because of the things he taught me. He taught me many valuable lessons, but my favorites have to do with gardening and self-sufficiency, how to make do with what you've got to get what you need and, better yet, how to barter with friends and neighbors as a way of caring for yourself and your community. In a time with lots of uncertainty, it feels great to have planted an imperfect garden that offers some level of security as to where my food comes from. Call it a pandemic garden, a victory garden, or just a first try in a new climate garden, I'm just happy to save money on groceries and have fewer reasons to go to the grocery store. In this video I'll take you on a tour of my first organic garden in Tennessee. This garden tour shows some successes and some failures, but my vegetable garden has been an incredible, low cost way to provide food for my family without having to go to the grocery store during the pandemic. I don't spend a lot of time weeding or watering, and my garden answers my need to save money and grow the food we eat.
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You do know that asparagus is left to fallow the first two years to establish a healthy rootstock for the next twenty years that you will tend them, right?
Stan Ervin yes, that’s why I said I planted other stuff around it that will be useful in the meantime ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades
Rhubarb is another good one. Found some growing wild by a stream in the mountains of NC, took home a root cutting from it, and enjoyed rhubarb for probably 12 years. Some wild critter foraging dug it ALL up overnight. Didn't even leave us enough to even re-root.
Stan Ervin I actually had some rhubarb planted next to the asparagus but it was too hot in that spot and didn’t get enough shade so it died. Rhubarb really prefers cooler weather which is why I was able to grow so much of it so successfully in Seattle, but I’m gonna try planting more crowns in the spring here in a shadier spot.
Anne --- I am 73 years old and was raised on adequate but meagre times, so we never really knew anything much different so everything seemed just, well. "normal". We lived in a small house, our family of 5, (I was born after WW2, my two brothers before the war). Mom took in borders -- etc etc.
But not the point of my comment, which is--
It is so nice to see a young person like yourself quickly realize that there are lots of ways to be self-sufficient, or get by on what you have without all of the whining etc. Just roll up your sleeves and go to work. Your country seems to be in real trouble with this pandemic, but you are managing it very well and need to be commended. Love your channel and please keep sharing.
My monitor screen just about melted when that wedding picture popped up.
Self Reliance is one of the guiding principles of survival, yet is also supremely satisfying....
Who would thumbs down your videos. You're so pleasant to listen to and I learn from you. Love the potato chips meme lol
Love the video. Your wedding picture was so beautiful!!!
I have lived in western Washington all my live. But my ancestors are from Tennessee. I have been there and love it. Have always wanted to live there. I am living vicariously thru you. Enjoy. I don’t have finances to move, and my husband died..so I will do what I can with what I have. May the God co to use to bless and keep you safe. ❤️🙏
Hey, I love the channel! I don’t know if you’re doing it yet, but planting some bamboo of different varieties would give you quick-growing, long-lasting and cheap building materials. They also make great fences if you control their growth - the thickets are very dense.
Also, don’t you dare minimize the Grape Depression - it was a horrible time and we had to make do without wine. :)
We've got some nearby. It's pretty invasive, so I generally encourage folks to find somewhere to harvest locally rather than planting new ;) and hahaha what a travesty
Amazing!! I'm working on growing my own food too.. It's the future 👍
Wonderful!
I always enjoy your gardening videos, especially because of the personal approach that you use to explain your methods. I really liked today's video, but I have to admit that I paused and stared at the wedding picture for quite a while. Wow! As we say back home, "You're purty!!"
Hi Anne. I have often gardened the same way...living with the weeds. I nearly always had big harvests compared to attempts at decimating the weeds. I believe its because there are more nutrients, moisture and because natural pest protection is more likely to occur. In my last weedy garden in Colorado I had a couple of toads that must have been eating well. I didn't have one single tomato hornworm! Now I am retired living in a senior apartment. I still grow microgreens and will soon set up a hydroponic system for lettuce, and other greens.
Last month: Wow, look at all the different butterflies in the garden!
This month: What the heck is devouring all my plants!?!
Hahaha oh no! Welp. That’s how we learn, isn’t it ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades I've been picking no less than 4 different caterpillar species off my veggies and herbs; tomato hornworm, black swallowtail butterfly, geometer moth (inch worm), and one still unidentified. 🐛🦋 And that's not even counting the bird poop caterpillars on my citrus trees (yes, that's really a thing; 😳).
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Thanks for the inspiration
It's nice to see a Tennessee CZcams Garden Channel. You will probably be doing the same things as me since I live in Lebanon Tennessee . You can use neem oil to keep a lot of those leaf eating pests away. I believe it's organic and it really does work if you use it once a week. I tried putting corn in different places in my garden and it also didn't work. I found that you actually have to put the corn next to each other so that it pollinates each other. I had great success with that this year. Happy gardening!
Howdy neighbor! Neem oil does work great, it’s the only thing I owe any success I’m now having with my tiny eggplants haha! Row cover also helps a lot, both just take a lot more consistency than I was able to offer the garden this season. I also use a product called First Saturday Lime which works really well for lots of those little critters. And you’re spot on about corn, I had a lot more success in the cluster I put at the back of the garden than the stuff growing along the fence line for that very reason, this garden shape just didn’t offer a good spot for a full corn crop, but next year’s (assuming things are a tad more normal then) should be much larger to better accommodate some of that stuff.
@@AnneofAllTrades thanks I'll look into first Saturday lime. I'll be expanding my garden in the fall. I worry the food challenges will get worse next year before they get better. Thank goodness just about anything will grow in Tennessee. 😁
Worm screw clamps or more easily known as radiator hose clamps can be bought in bulk and are excellent for attaching wire to posts or pipe. Just measure first and then we use a rechargeable driver with a 5/16 inch wrench socket adapter makes quick work of tightening and loosening of these clamps.
Always great to see an enthusiastic grower.
Can’t wait to get our garden started again at our new house
I love when you said you don’t have to live out in the middle of nowhere! I do live out in middle of nowhere and I’ve avoided the market by shopping at the family farm nearby. I wish I could do a garden this but I’ve got too many wild animals where I live and it wouldn’t work out. It’s a perserve were there are elk and deer and everything else but I wish I could do a garden. That’s what happens when you live out in the middle of nowhere in a forest in Oregon.
Anne, you are 1 in a billion! Never change😃
Another great video, love when you're showing your garden, and of course the outtakes, cheers!
Anne, you are so cool! Love, love, love the idea of using what you've got!
You are an amazing individual. Thank you for the tour of your garden.
You are so welcome!!
Great video Anne... Thanks👍👍
Thank you for being here!
Your hard work has definitely paid off. Your garden is awesome. 👍🏻
I was going to ask for recipes but you answered it :) off to the blog!
I love this channel. I get a lot of inspiration out of it.
That warms my heart so much to hear!
Thank you for the awesome videos! So enjoy watching and learning.
Thank you for being here!!
I learned a few things from you for my garden thanks!
So glad to hear it!
Your videos are so helpful thank you ☺️
GOOD TO SEE YOU ANNE , HAPPY TO LEARN , THANKS 👍
Thanks for watching!
Hi Anne, what a terrific attitude you have. Great garden too. take care and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for taking the time to watch!
Anne's Garden, reality meets expectations 😆
haha that's the story of my whole life!
@@AnneofAllTrades You and me both!
Nothing but awesomeness
I really love your energy! You give me so much inspiration!! I
Thank you so much!!
Great stuff!
Always the best. Great work!
Thank you!
Wow. I just found your channel but am already a member. Not sure how I miss you. clicking the bell. New member here. Thank you .
Thank you very much Anne for posting your enthusiasm on this subject has motivated me to continue working hard in my garden.please keep sending those videos it is greatly appreciated.
Absolutely! So glad you enjoy them!
Love the backstory with your dahlias 😊
Welcome to TN. I moved here 30 years ago from FL. I'm in middle TN. Nice garden.
Great to see how much your work paid off in the first season. I tried to garden on my terrace in Amsterdam and it was fun and we got a few salads out of it. 🥗
Love the video! Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Nice garden video, it’s great to be able to go with the flow and make it work.
Thank you! Absolutely agree!
You've done amazing work!
Thank you very much!
Haha I love all of your beep berp boop retakes at the end. 🤖
Wow what a productive garden in such a short amount of time. Nice work! I love how organic your style is. It definitely makes me want to get out in the garden and just give it a go.
I’ve also made lots of veg garden mistakes and failures over the years and am about to embark on setting one up again this spring in our rental 🙄 but this time I am excited to try out the German Hugelkultur style in some raised beds it sounds amazing. Happy gardening 😊🌱
This is pretty awesome.
Thanks so much! Glad you're here :)
Love your channel!
Glad you enjoy it!
We grow our tomatoes next to the peppers for shade, too! Works like a charm. Also, we mix in a few plantings of flowers in the garden among the veggies to attract bees, since its hard to get the suckers to come around here in Colorado. Great for attracting hummingbirds to the yard as well.
Glad to hear I'm not too crazy :)
Awesome channel 🥰💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🥬🍉🍅🍈🥦🥕💚🍉🥬🥕🥦❤ I'm Hispanic born in Southern California so all our food is authentic Mexican food For the Zucchini squash this is a recipe that we use in my home forever.... zucchini squash chopped onions chopped tomatoes add add roasted corn add Jack cheese or any type of melting cheese that you like I suppose and you cook it at medium heat I normally add the cheese when the vegetables are almost fully cooked it is so so good pepper seasoning as wish
Great ideas!!! Yum!
@@AnneofAllTrades We have this all the time all year round so I'm pretty sure you will enjoy it have a Blessed weekend
Nice work on the garden Anne! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👌👍😎JP
Thanks JP!
Your very welcome Anne! Have a wonderful weekend!😎
Hello from Bulgaria Anne,много ми харесва това което правиш направо е уникално и чудесно....
Thank you!
Great ingenuity ,and work arounds to getting the garden done , and what a bountiful harvest 👏👏👏
Thank you kindly Mark!
@@AnneofAllTrades you're absolutely welcome 👊👊
Got me with the Daliahs ❤️
We grow lots of different foods on our property. And we are not self sufficient. We are self sufficient (abundantly so) in garlic, asparagus, blackberries, sweet potatoes, kale, Swiss chard, beets, Tahitian melon squash, and Millard Oakley cow peas. We cannot get to self sufficiency, in other things. Because it is just the two of us, and we don't have to labor to put into growing everything we need. Then there is storage, and meal planning, and freezing/canning/drying. It gets to be a full time job. So we enjoy our fresh food, when we can, and do manage to store away a good deal for the rest of the year. Glad your garden is started. Hopefully you can expand as you have time.
Self sufficiency in asparagus is practically enough just by itself 🤪
Such good stuff. Especially that wedding pic.
Thanks brother!
nice activity mom anne
Growing a solid garden and joining a local bulk food coop were two of the best social distancing practices that worked for us.
Couldn't agree more!
Hey Ms Anne we are from North Alabama welcome to the south. Good harvest
I love it! I’m also a female gardener that went at it head first. I also believe zip ties can be a great quick fix hahaha most of my corn this year was put in an above ground makeshift planter surrounded in chicken wire and zip ties away from my fenced garden. Hey whatever gets the job done, and the corn was amazing this year.
That is awesome! I am not anywhere near as self sufficient as you are, but for the first time I'm planting a fall garden this year. I've been gardening for years, but have never done a fall garden. I'll still have to go to the grocery store, but between what I've preserved from my summer garden and whatever produces in my fall garden, I'm hoping to at least buy much less produce.
Great
Yummy looking watermelon. Okra is kind of like a weed. Easy to grow in the South. Weeds are a good source of compost. Pull em, let decompose and place back in garden.
Arugula flowers are delicious!
Aloha and good morning!
I love your videos
I'm so glad to hear it!
Wow, that is realy impressive. And it looks so nice too! I am very curious so see what you'll make of that place over time.
Thanks so much! I'm excited to see how it changes as well. It's fun to document the process here, the transformation in Seattle was incredible, but it's always hard to see that in the moment and remember just how bad it was when I started there.
@@AnneofAllTrades Yeah, the progress that was visible at your old place in Seattle was so interesting to watch. And I was quite surprised when you said that you were starting all over again :-). From the looks of it your new place has so much more opportunity. So I wish you the very best! And thanks for sharing your endeavors!
That photo of you in your wedding dress, makes you look like you could pass for April Wilkersons sister, explains your friendship. 😎
So glad I'm not the only one with a garden overgrown with grass lol. Missouri has a lot of clay in the soil too I feel your pain! Our town actually had a clay pit and a brick factory at one point in the past.... So much clay 😲😢
Millet ... at the corners.
Birds are a gardens bff.
Potato chips . . . 🤣
Great video.
I'm loving the wild garden so much! Pretty certain when we set up the farm we will have spaces we just let run like this instead of trying to keep things neat. Permaculture design is somewhat similar.
Everything we do around here is done with permaculture theory in mind- as little human investment as possible, ten hours of thought for every hour of work rather than the other way around ;) we’ve gotta make the farm work for *us* ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades 100% the smart way to do it!
Very nice 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Try the back to eden gardening type method for your next garden method - it seems so simple and yields a lot - would love to see someone follow up on that full force !!!!
Make some ghost pepper Indian pale!!!
I’ve been doing BTE gardening for 5 years. Check out some of my older garden videos so you can see how well it works when given the time it needs. This garden will be there soon!
Nice to hear that it is not only me that have issues growing water melons. We have tried for several years and no fruit or maybe some that wouldn't get ready. Living on the west coast of Sweden and I guess the climate is comparable with Washington state where you used to live. Regarding cale you need to have them under a net to avoid the butterfly's to lay their eggs on them. The larvaes will eat it down in no time. (We have the same issue here)
I’m sure you figured it out, but that okra is just a wee bit too big. Once they get going, if you wait a day too long they’ll be too big and tough. Crazy how well they grow in the heat. So good!!
It was a tad big, but it's actually still fine if you stew it, but for pickling, it's much better when it's small.
thank you Anne . what a nice pic of you . i though okra if it got big was woody ?
I like that green thumb and all that bounty. I've used the Florida weave for a couple decades for staking my tomatoes. I've used one of those fence panels stood tall and staked for growing my cukes. I really liked the cukes hanging off the ground and also easy to see.
I had a growing tunnel in Seattle, and when I have a few extra panels I'm definitely gonna make another one for that exact reason!
@@AnneofAllTrades I haven't seen that though I can imagine one. I look forward to seeing it when you show it - next year or so!!! Cheers from Phoenix.
6:54 So beautiful...🤗🤗
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing some good tips on gardening. In regards to your corn a good tip is to plant multiple rows so that there is cross pollination. This will give you a better yield. Three rows would be the minimum. And as others have mentioned, if you have room plant some potatoes. 😁
You’re spot on with the corn, if you actually look behind the okra, you’ll see my four rows of corn, the corn I planted along the fence line was actually just a way to use up vertical space that wasn’t otherwise being used. I didn’t expect it to work, but I ended up getting about 15 extra ears I wasn’t expecting as a result, so win win. I was too late for potatoes this year by the time I got the garden done it was too hot, but potatoes were my favorite crop in Seattle, I’d usually grow a few hundred pounds. First thaw next year there will be many potatoes.
You are welcome. Naiber
That was a boo boo
I'm with you on the potato chips. 😁🇦🇺👍
Wait, what...you don't grow your own potatoes and make your own chips/crisps? 😳
Wow, what a haul and in such a short time, awesome effort. 👍🏾
Make do with what you got, is a top motto! 👌🏾
🤣love the out takes, you started to sound like a Mupoet🤣
Your life Is my dream. At least the garden portion. I think owning land is worth its weight in gold. The fresh air, the harvest, the sweat and tears. All of it is worth while. I hopefully will be financially well off in the future. I would live a garden or even garden space. Becoming less likely for my generation in canada.
There are tons of ways to garden and keep livestock even if you don’t own your own land. Reach out to some elderly neighbors who could use some help keeping their place up, join a community garden, volunteer With a local CSA, join wwoof.org
Come for the bloopers, stay for the educational content. 😀
I love it Farmer Anne , can I now place my order for a veggie pie?😊
Anne: Keep going with all the common sense fun and adventure! I love seeing how you do things, wherever you are. I've got some things growing, too, Basil, oregano, rosemary, keffir lime, tomatoes etc. But what the heck to do with Tarragon? Just never know what things will grow really well until you plant them. A question: would a few chickens running around in the (fenced) garden help with pest control? Thanks for sharing your journey!
Thank you for the encouragement! Hahaha I was just talking to my friend about that, Tarragon and Sage seem like such useless spices, and you use them so infrequently, but they always grow SO well!
You have to plant corn in blocks rather than rows for proper cob development. If you do have corn planted thinly, you should hand pollinate them.
That is true! My actual corn cluster is in the back of the garden by the okra, but the stuff on the fenceline was just a way to use up extra space and get a possible harvest. Got quite a few extra husks from it!
You should grow potatoes using the ruth stout method which is basically you plant it and forget it and nature does it's thing.
I’ll plant potatoes next year for sure, I grew several hundred pounds every year in Seattle, but I was too late in the season this year to get them going.
@@AnneofAllTrades okay thanks
Hello again Anne first of all great garden I wish I had the space and time to spend on something like that, I do have a small one and all my favorite veggies and fruits and my favorite fruit is Cherokee Purple Tomatoes I can't get enough of them. second of all what do you have against watermelons you aren't supposed to weed whack them LOL poor watermelon anyway great video as usual.
Omg...You certainly look so different compared to your wedding day....guess time to subscribe. Ty😊
Awesome work Anne! 😃👍🏻🥒🍅🍠🍈🍉👊🏻..... Maybe it's just that my brain works differently...... 🤔🧠 ....but besides for the bounty of vegetables and information that you've presented us with in this video, what I've actually gleaned from it ( with high probability, at least in my mind ) is the potentiality of there being a "Grow Your Own Potatoes And Make Your Own Potato Chips" video at some point in your future! 😉🥔
Hahaha oh that’s coming, just the wrong season
Squash flowers are great. I keep clicking the thingy above but don't get nuthin'. (JK. I've seen them.)
Come up to jersey and show us how it’s done
Cool Zip fence. Zippy
hahaha you gotta use what you've got!
Everytime I see okra in a dish - I remember you hehehe. I eat okra but I don't like like it. I wonder what fried okra tastes like.
So good! You've gotta try it.
If you grew hemp, you could show us how to make rope. Here in Oregon, hemp fields everywhere, hate it, can't smell flowers anymore.
Just a heads up on the audio for this video: I don't know if it was your fast talking speed and/or microphone placement, but we had a hard time hearing all of your words clearly. Otherwise, it was fascinating. Keep up the good work! :)
It looks like you're having a problem with Bermuda grass (very common issue here in the South, I'm your neighbor in Arkansas). The best way to deal with them I've found is to find a way to kill all of it (probably just weeding but drowning it in cardboard and woodchips works too), then dig about a 10 inch wide trench on both sides of your fence. Doesn't have to be very deep, just enough to get under the Bermuda roots. Then put some roughly 6" tall lawn edging, you know the metal stuff that people use to edge landscaping beds along your fence. Bermuda spreads by runners, so what you'll do is come out with a weed eater and weed eat the outside of it thoroughly, then check the inside of it and hand weed that stuff, throwing it back over the fence. The stuff spreads like wildfire but that should help slow it down a lot and save you work in the long run. Happy homesteading!
Another great way to deal with it is to use a weed torch to exhaust the roots, I am currently just not practicing what I preach because... time ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades I hear that, you're a busy girl! I've never tried a weed torch, I'll have to try that on my next bed :) Thanks!
@@D_A_D_thanks for the non flammenwerfer (weed torch) weed-with-runners foil. I've used the torch, but never tried the "trench" idea. We have morning glory & the perennial buttercup...both which reproduce from seeds & aggressive root spreading. I'm curious if the trench would work with those pernacious weeds.
Those okra are huge! Did you have any issue with them being tough? We usually pick ours much smaller (2-4 inches) and they're not nearly so fibrous and chewy. Thanks for the great video!
I definitely learned some good lessons about okra this year, larger than 6” it’s really only edible if it’s stewed. You’re totally right, it’s best when smaller. Up north it never got this big so it was kind of a funny thing to have to learn 😂
I don't know why ... but when i hear you speak, it always brings a smile to my face.
You have very good building vids. Thanks
That makes me happy to hear! Thank you
Where's the meat? ;) Do you raise your own meat too or are you a vegetarian? I really admire what you are doing, starting over from scratch and being self-sustaining. Way to go.
I am certainly not a vegetarian. We raise chicken, lamb and beef, and someday hope to raise pork as well, but one thing at a time ;)