Nutrient-rich food grown right from home to boost your immune system and help fight disease… that’s what we call a homegrown health plan.
Plus, have you ever noticed how people who grow food laugh more and smile more?
When you follow Stacey’s garden recipe, you will see how it can take JUST MINUTES each day to grow vegetables and herbs for you and your family. That makes gardening a lifestyle of sheer joy.
It’s easier than you think! Get ready to grow!
Hi Stacey,
Thank you for the awesome gardening ideas and helpful advice. I’m gonna have to try out those methods one day!
What crops did you grow in your 40 day challenge?
Ii am going to try and do much better this year! I have been plagued by things like cabbage worms, powdery mildew and blossom end rot.
It has been VERY frustrating to put in so much work only to have bad results!
1 question: You mentioned 12 cu. Feet of soil and 4 cu. Feet of compost. Is that per box or total?
I’m getting started with my first garden. Really enjoyed your video and took notes! We don’t have warmer temperatures yet so I’m planning accordingly. I bought cucumber, green bean, radish, watermelon, zucchini, summer squash, and romaine seeds. We put the seeds under a light for 6 hours to help them to sprout. I bought seed starter soil with perlite, moss and a lot of different types of fungi. I want to try the volcanic dust that you mentioned and I’ll look for that next!
Right now is an in-between time of year. The seeds and seed potatoes are all ready, the seedlings have yet to be sown. The snow has just been melted by rain so the only gardening just now will be to put down cardboard to keep down weeds in the spring before I can get out to work in soil. When planting season begins, I’ll be spending many hours in the garden each day as I work more compost into the soil and sort out rocks, plant and arrange saved newsprint-type paper between rows to keep down weeds and make a mud-free path. I used to use black plastic, and still use that which is still in good shape but am not replacing it when it gets too ragged to use. Then there will be a lull in late June and into July while things are growing until the harvest and preserving begins.
I only have a apartment deck .
I live in Colorado at 6000 feet. Last years garden was slow growth and not much production. There are lots of pocket gophers so I lined my boxes with hardware wire. I used a cover for chilly nights and deer netting to keep out the rest of the critters. Zucchini grew several monster veggies followed by smaller ones but didn’t start producing until just before the first frost the end of September. I tried to save the plants to no avail. Cabbage and arugula grew great. Peppers and onions did not. Eggplant had some success. Plants grew tall and healthy but few produce before the freeze.
I am so blissed out! I’ve been in my garden 5-7 hours per day recently, because I want to and at last I can! I so appreciate Stacey’s encouragement to be in the garden, because that’s what really brings about a bond between a gardener and her/his plant-babies, and results in much better care. When i started out, I wasn’t enjoying my garden enough. The key is to allow time for bliss! Out group has a state bill we’re circulating, called The Clean Atmosphere Act, which I authored, and we can provide people meetings with their legislators to learn how to protect our atmosphere from aerosol injection, weather manipulation and other geoengineering activities.
Thanks for the measurements on the raised beds I have onions and garlic carrots jalapeños peppers and purple bell peppers and some lavender seeds that I started inside in February .
I have been trying for years to grow my own vegetables. Every year I plant seeds and sets. I have a large area with 24 8×8 beds and every year the woodchucks eat so much of it that it costs me more to grow than to buy. I am gradually learning to plant more of the things they are less keen on but we are getting a bit tired of kale and collards. Also the voles eat all the roots! I have two acres so perhaps if I can plant all of it I may get enough to eat!
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I live in the mountains of Utah, in the summer I spend hours tending the garden, mostly pulling weeds, and that mostly orchard grass that was here before we built our home. How can I get rid of the orchard grass? I use grass clippings in between the rows, but I never have enough to suffocate all the weeds.
Great information always. Thank you, Stacey, for this wonderful and much needed work. It really helped me to improve my garden. This year I want to implement a system where i produce for my family all salad, cabbage, chards and aromatics we consume. Plus some tomatoes, cucumbers, courgette, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other crops during summer.
My biggest challenge this season is going to be sunlight because I’m in a bottom floor apartment facing north that sits in the shade of the roof of the building. I have a Green Stalk that I want to set up but am worried that it’s not going to get enough sun and complex owners have gravel in my yard, so everything is in containers. I want a big beautiful garden, but will probably have to wait until I’m in my own home with land to grow lots of food.
Thx for helping me.
That’s really interesting. I’m in Australia at around 750m and our soils are heavy red clay. It’s traditionally a walnut, apple, berry & potato growing area. (Our property was never used for any of this fortunately so doesn’t have the residual chemicals however it HAS had horses a lot so high level of compaction.)
I’ve realised this summer that I really need to work on making my soil much more friable and also adding a lot more compost.
I have 4 raised beds and a paddock bed 5m x 15m and am currently planting my pre-Winter crops.
Would love to learn more about rotating in cover crops too.
I found your video very interesting.
Thanks so much.
it would be a miracle if I could do that…I have no plants in my house, because every time I bought a plant….it DIED…..no green thumb in this lady….
Love these short, simple videos with so many great tips. Thank you! I plan to spend at least a few minutes each day, and an hour or two over the weekends for pruning, weeding, etc. I am a beginner gardener in Buda, TX (outside Austin)
My challenge is HUGE this year but I am a VERY STUBBORN women and will get it done! I plan on growing as much food as I possible can. My challenge with that this year is doing that with a soon to-be 1 year old and 2 year old who will be 3 the end of August. Also, I am growing things I have never grown before and continue to try to figure out how to grow things that I have had no success with in the years past (mostly root vegetables like carrots and beets). I will be adding garden beds and fixing old ones, including making one into a medicinal herb garden. Weeds have also been a challenge for me and so I want to try growing thicker like adding herbs close to vegetables. In the past I have done things like ground covers and they work great but again, my first goal is to grow as much as I can. I don’t want to waste any soil space. I know I am taking on a lot but I am up for the challenge and in some ways feel like I don’t have a choice – failure is not an option!
Looks very doable Thanks.
I spend about 15-30 minutes each day and once or twice a week about 2-4 hours.
An hour or more. Watering, weeding, clipping…
Very little maybe an average of 15 minutes every day if you average it out But many days nil and some 2 hours some 5 minutes I have never actually taken note as I enjoy being in there.
I don’t spend as much time in my garden as I’d like to. Alas, other chores and appointments pull me away.
Spring time daily; sumemr time, mornings as it’s just too hot, Fall, I enjoy
Spring time, daily; sumemr time, mornings as it’s just too hot; Fall, I just enjoy
I followed the 8 free classes,which were fantastic with so many great tips. I’ve gardened off and on over the years,mostly when I was a stay at home mom and my kids were little through teenage years. Then I took many years break due to jobs and moving around. I’m now at a new location with tons of space and started growing a little last year. This year I’m more prepared and already started some seeds indoors and just purchased a few 6 packs of greens at the local Farmers Market. I’ve spend 5/6 hours a day getting beds ready for early spring planting. Now I need to focus on the lessons again,so I don’t hop around and get ahead of myself. I’m just so excited about the new methods of your class and at 72 years young love to being able to spend so much time in the garden.Thank you for this course and I mostly appreciate that I can make monthly payments.Warmly and in joy,Judith.
Not enough yet 😨
I am a beginner. I really need to grow my own veggies
Thank you for this presentation. I don’t have much space. I love salads… lettuces, greens, red/yellow/orange peppers, and tomatoes. Need to more know about having success with carrots, garlic, and onions. I am kind of new to this… used to help my mom as a child with her plants… but that was decades ago… Trying to get into the groove of managing my own garden. Started last year.
I live in the mountains of NM. It is hit or miss here, so sometimes I don’t spend much time at all!
Hi Stacy, I have suggested a kind of potable garden idea to Gardeners Supply in Vermont. It can be either indoor or outdoor according to weather conditions. It isn’t heavy, wheels out or in, and would be for elderly or handicapped gardeners.. Two years ago I put together a potting table and use it for blooming plants or existing flower gift plants like a birthday gift. Later, I’ll use it for new seeded plants. It is fun to have and doesn’t take up too much space.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and as I have a bed ready for planting. I will use your method. Thank you.
Very helpful😃👍Thank you🙏
About an hour a week at the moment but a couple of hours a day in spring and summer
One of the most useful tools I use is large binder clips, normally
sold as an office product. They help to keep sun-shade cloth in
place over containers when strong winds blow. Arches over the
containerized plants offer support for the cloth which is kept
securely in place by being clipped to the arch structure. Clips
can also hold bird protective screening in place over a container
when sprouts appear above the soil surface and remain
vulnerable to our aerial friends.
Clips also find great use for my microgreen setup. I put a
tray into a container (Earthbox type). After removing a
second tray that covered the seeds in the initial tray, a
bug-protective screen stretched over the edges of the
container will stay in place when clipped to the sides
of the container. If the microgreens grow higher than
the sides of the enclosing container, simply stand an
empty tray on end next to the container to raise the
height of the screen using binder clips to fasten
the screen onto the tray and container sides as needed.
By the way, the large binder clips have a terrifically strong
hold, far more dependable than clothespins.
2 hours per week
Sounds interesting- for. Real?