HOW TO GARDEN VEGETABLES FOR BEGINNERS | OUR FIRST GARDENING EXPERIENCE | THE SIMPLIFIED SAVER

Hello guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I will share with you our

garden

ing process. This is our

first

garden

and we have definitely learned what not to do and what to do so I will share it with We walk you through the whole process of how to do it easily and on a budget and I hope this helps you if you are trying to do the same. I know for us we have always wanted a garden, but especially having a large family and inflation in the price of everything, especially produce, is going up.

We knew this is something we wanted to do this year, so it's going really well. I will say I'm very impressed with how it's going. It's actually a lot easier than we thought and I really hope this helped you. I'm going to share with you the whole process and then at the end I'm going to share with you the things that we've learned along the way so you can apply it, so let's get into the video, what I need for a heavy duty job. one that's not good enough, it's not getting deep enough oh no I think it's just because it's the

first

time and we have some thick grass, yeah I think once you get to the top it will be easier , did you know how?

How long do you think it will take um 100 minutes? So, do you have to take all that Augustine says out of there or is it just pure garbage? I have another one, well we could order that black stuff and you could do it on Thursday, I guess that's okay. So, we're totally improvising with this garden thing, but it looks great. Trey tilled all the top layer and we have a very thick grass, he tilled all the top layer and then they took out all the grass and now he's tilling a second one. layer and then I think it will pull that grass out again and then it should be good enough to plant.

We may need some topsoil just because it's our first time planting, but this is what it looks like, it's digging deeper, it really looks like. Well, you did all this, think about how it started today. I've been taking pictures. I'm trying to go deeper at the edges and in the middle. It looks very, very good. I'm trying to get this top. What are you doing? Video okay for YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube looks very very good okay it's been a couple of days because my husband has been out of town but this is what the garden looks like now it looks very good and in I'm actually quite impressed, so my husband has Put it all in rows, so I'll try to explain it.

He's okay, he's divided it into three main rows and then a walking path, another three rows, a few more rows and then this area here for some other plants that don't. We don't need a lot of space so we can group together and there is still some grass, but it's okay, there aren't many roots and I'm very proud of it, I think it looks great just to have a small cultivator, don't think it's okay, today It's planting day and here are our seedlings that we planted here are our seeds and then here are the plants that we bought already grown and mommy, what we are going to see in just a second drawing fixed leaves on paper okay, go back, it's okay, I'm going to do the next one, go ahead, a sticker there in the hole in the middle, oh, don't step on that plant, you can't walk on it, okay, Vera, come on. show me the little pod you're holding closer, okay these are like these little pots where you put seeds and they help, yeah oh that's cool you ate them oh you can eat them okay that's a plan what type of plant?

It's a melon, okay, go to the line and help dad, okay, no, you can't do it right, so this was the watermelon, there are five of them, they're making melon right now, okay, here's an update, um pretty much this is all Planted now all those rows are still in the bag but after this we're going to water so basically all Trey does is Google each plant and figure out how far apart the plants should be and measure them with your feet to plant them. covering it again and then we're going to water so I'm laying here with the baby but we're basically Googling everything and weaning him so I hope this all works what a captain I don't want you to break that. a really pretty tree, so this is what it looks like now.

I bought a rain gauge to help us know how the gardens receive water. Trey also found these sticks and put them next to the tomato so they can grow and he can make it bigger, let's see, everyone is doing much better, they were getting droopy and heavy, so Trey removed some of the leaves, but You can see that things are sprouting and everything looks so, so good. The strawberry plant here looks better, but we have peas, everything is sprouting here. I mean, it looks great and we're very impressed. Well guys, I'm here to talk to you about some things we learned in our garden.

The first thing I will say is that it was very easy. I know my husband liked the planting and farming. Which is what is the most work if it is your first garden, but what we decided was, above all, what we wanted. planting now I'm the person who would have just put plants anywhere without doing any research and just thrown them in the ground and assumed they would grow, but my husband is a planner when it comes to things like this and thanks to him I really think the garden It's going to do well or much better than it would have done on my own, so I went to the feed store and bought seeds.

Now I didn't go for the typical seeds that I guess you'd get at Lowe's or something I bought, uh, they're not organic seeds, but they're like, I don't know, they were in a different section where you had to scoop them out, put them in a bag, label them. and buy them. It's like they don't come pre-packaged from a manufacturer, so we went that route. It wasn't expensive, well, in the grand scheme of the garden, it was like ninety dollars for all the seeds and plants in our garden, and I think we're kind of going to make our money back very quickly um with what it's going to produce so they went around a hundred dollars for the seeds something I did was buy a pot um I'll find one on Amazon but basically it was like This black pot had little pods and you filled it with water and you could put some seeds in it so the seeds would sprout and germinate so , really, really, you could do it for any guy. of seeds, but I made it for the smaller seeds, so carrot seeds are Itty Bitty, so I planted carrots there and started them at my house so it would be easier to transfer them.

Well, we did it in our dyed melon. I think the transfer maybe surprised them and they died within a couple of days and I had a very large Sprout on that melon so overall do you need one of those seed starters? No, I don't think so, like it's only like twenty dollars, but I probably won't do that again, like just stick the seeds in the ground and plant that way, so we replanted the melon like my husband put melon seeds in the ground, because they died and hopefully removed, so another. What I think was really cool is that my husband made a diagram on paper of where everything was going to be and I showed them all of that in the video, but also for each plant we planted, he looked up to what extent to plant the seed in the soil and how far to place them from the neighbor as from the neighboring plants and that is something I probably would not have done.

I just would have liked to put them in there, but he did and I think that's really helping. our plants, so be sure to research them, something we didn't do. I think my husband did it, but I wasn't aware of it and I don't know if he did it with every plant, um, but there's like one um plant. complementary list of similar plants that like to grow next to each other and plants that don't, so I don't think tomatoes and cucumbers like to grow next to each other. I don't know why I saw that as if he was reading. about that so you can try to figure out where to plant things next to it and I think that will increase your chances of growing.

My husband also built the garden in mounds. You can see that the roses are a little thicker. and I think it also helps hold water instead of being flat, so that was another really good thing it did, but the rain gauge has been good to see how we get water throughout the day, and I bought a water hose as a nozzle which has different settings to be able to water the garden, so now we are watering every day just because they are germinating and it hasn't rained, it hasn't been very hot. We live in Texas so it can be very hot and I know we will have to water a lot when it is very dry but now we are just watering every day checking the soil and looking at the leaves to see if they are fallen. or not and everything seems to be going well.

I don't know how long it takes for

vegetables

to grow. We haven't gotten that far yet, but the initial planting has been super easy and it has grown back very quickly. The next thing will be to find some type of fence to surround it so my chickens don't eat it. I love letting my chickens free range, but right now we won't let them because they will eat. We collected all of that, so the next thing we're going to do is figure out how to fence it. I'll try to do another garden update video once everything starts growing or doesn't start growing and I have more feedback to provide. 'Everything, oh, the helm.

I wasn't going to tell you about the helm, so it turned out well in the end. I know my husband initially said yes, we needed a sturdy one, but he was actually fine. I found that rudder on Amazon. and I'll link it below. I got that one. I had amazing reviews on Lowe's Home Depot and Amazon and I got it because it was Amazon Prime and it would be at my house in about 24 hours, so it's electric, you don't have it. I didn't have to worry about gas, but since it's electric I was worried it wouldn't be tough enough and it was fine, just if you have thick grass the first layer of tillage will be a little difficult, but then each layer after that. that's going to get better so my husband ended up tilling two or three times and did a pretty good job for about 130 bucks, if you look at growers online they can go up to 500 and we weren't going to spend.

So we bought the tiller, we spent about a hundred dollars on everything like seeds and plants, we didn't buy topsoil or mulch, that's something I think we're going to need to buy and we're starting to get a little small. bugs, so that's going to be something else we'll try to figure out, but I'll be sure to include it in the next

gardening

video for all of you. I hope this was helpful and maybe this has encouraged you to try it yourself. I know. The chickens have been a learning process and it has been easy, so I hope

gardening

will be easy too.

Anyway, I'm very excited. I'll post another gardening video in about a month or two, depending on what we know. um Harvest seems very Pumpers, but I'll see you all in my next video, bye everyone.