Raised Bed Gardening: Starting the first garden on our Off Grid Homestead

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Enjoy our videos? Want to see more? Learn how to support our channel here: http://purelivingforlife.com/support/ Have spring fever? Green thumb throbbing to start your vegetable garden? Join us as we plant the first seeds in our off grid garden. Rookies and experts alike will find our no nonsense advice on how to not suck at starting a garden humorous and refreshing. We share the 5 simple steps to getting veggies to stuff in your favorite soups, canner or in right in your face. Up to you! With some seeds laying around and some fresh compost / top soil we're ready to get planting. Raised beds fit our needs well and were easy to make using some materials from our local landscape supply and around the property. We even found some random hay on the side of the road which is helping us reduce evaporation! Alyssa shares her simple planting steps and a couple ideas on keeping your garden low maintenance. Learn more about our off grid homesteading adventure... ✔ POSTS FROM OUR BLOG Preparing our raised bed garden for spring planting: http://purelivingforlife.com/improving-clay-soil/ Building an Off Grid Cabin: http://purelivingforlife.com/building-a-cabin-for-winter/ Our Must-Have Homesteading Tools: http://purelivingforlife.com/homestead-tools/ How to Make Lumber with an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill: http://purelivingforlife.com/making-lumber-with-alaskan-chainsaw-mill/ Honda EU3000i Handi Generator Review: http://purelivingforlife.com/honda-eu3000i-handi-generator-review/ ✔ ENJOY THIS VIDEO? SUPPORT US WITHOUT PAYING A DIME! It takes us 40+ hours a week to document our journey on both our blog and our YouTube channel. If you enjoy watching our videos and want to help us to produce more of them, learn how you can help us without spending a dime! http://purelivingforlife.com/support/ ✔ GET SOCIAL Follow us as we build our off grid homestead 100% from scratch! We post a lot of stuff to both our blog and our other social media channels that don't make it to YouTube, so be sure to follow us there for the full scoop of what we're working on! Blog: http://purelivingforlife.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/purelivingforlife Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/purelivingforlife Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/purlivforlif Twitter: https://twitter.com/pureliving4life ✔ EQUIPMENT USED TO PRODUCE THIS VIDEO Camera #1: http://amzn.to/1QFKSyJ Camera #2: http://amzn.to/1RWKXyp Tripod: http://amzn.to/1OcF5X4 Macbook Pro: http://amzn.to/1OGJjPP Editing software: http://bit.ly/1oTH5av OTHER WORDS TO FIND THIS VIDEO starting a garden container gardening vertical gardening gardening for dummies seed starting indoor gardening vegetable garden how to grow vegetables home vegetable garden purelivingforlife

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I love peas and also they're nitrogen fixers!

should build a green house... gotta consider Winter

Any news on the garden?

dont use pine needles. the acid in them kills other plants

How has your garden worked out? Hope you do a follow-up.

do an underground garden, can grow food during all seasons due to the sun light creating heat going through the clear top of it

It will grow unless the seeds are to old. This year I'm happy because I have my raised bed fenced and everything is growing great I loved your rain dance lol I had to laugh. It was really funny.. Loved and Subbed.

With really small seeds you can use old news paper and cornstarch paste to space them and plant them news paper and all. Makes it super easy and super organized.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf87461360.tip.html
My mom does it with carrots and it works a treat.

Just a side note - I don't recommend using pine needles directly in your garden. Pine needles are typically acidic and most veggies do not like acidic soil. You can use some in your compost pile but use very sparingly. I would recommend using the pine needles in areas that you don't want things to grow or use them around other pine trees and/or roses as they like acidic soil and will thrive with the extra needles.

Cold frames with storm windows is a good option cause it acts like a greenhouse in the spring so your plants won't get cold and you can lift the window on hot days plus have a fall garden that goes into November. Use potting soil so you don't have to weed. You really need a DIY green house next year to give you that extra month growing time. Heat speeds germination rate so much.

Pls read up on the "back to Eden" method , it realy works , realy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFWilwxMyE&index=25&list=PLiTzQ1uXMIJh9xGpwqn6iny38Rsg6ccBR
greets from Gerard

Almost 6 weeks later. How about a follow up ?

It will be interesting to see how that garden pans out. Soil doesn't look good, as I couldn't tell if you had enough top soil down to be big enough for the whole root system of those plants.

Did it Rain?

I love gardening and could probably be more or less self sufficient on foods if I made a serious effort. But I also realized that it's not food purchases that drain our budget. It's taxes. Taxes on heat, electricity, water and land.
Without the insane levels of taxation We'd save serious cash every month and get a lot closer to financial independence.

Nice Garden!

Hmmmm. Maybe my gardens never grew because I never learned the proper dance steps. Oh, well .....

I noticed a lot of comments saying "too early to plant". So what. Look at the way nature does it. it drops the seed the previous fall, the seed has to survive the entire winter and then will come up when it is ready. So if you plant seeds a little early it is no big deal. They will figure it out.