Secrets to Growing a Successful Victory Garden

As we all know, the pandemic has been a big interruption to our usual routines. Many people, for good reason, have re-focused on the importance of access to food during the disruption.
Most of our food at supermarkets relies on industrial agriculture and the requisite farmworkers, distribution networks, and commercial infrastructure. Even though we don’t have a food “shortage,” we certainly have a food system that has been disrupted.
In this video, we explore secrets to growing a successful Victory Garden so that you can feed your family regardless of the economic and supply challenges in the future.
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To learn more about biointensive Victory Gardens visit the post written by Tom Bartels:
Biointensive Victory Gardens: Higher Yields with Less Work
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You can watch Tom’s free video workshop at training.growfoodwell.com/thr...
If you are interested in learning more about the training course, Food Gardener’s Video Workshop, Tom is offering a 50% discount and you can find it at training.growfoodwell.com/thr...
It is a great course for the beginner as well as someone who has been gardening for years like me.
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As promised, these are the supplies for starting seedlings indoors that we used for our new setup.
We started with an indoor/outdoor 5-tier wire shelving unit from Home Depot. I liked this one because it would be easy to hang the lights from and I could adjust the shelves to the height that I want them to be.
Trinity 5-Tier Indoor or Outdoor Wire Shelf - homedepot.sjv.io/DooMy
These are the inexpensive lights that we created to work as grow lights. We purchased the shop lights from Home Depot online so that we didn’t have to go out in the crowd.
Fluorescent Residential Shop Light - homedepot.sjv.io/2DD77
Grow lights should be at least 2500 lumens and between 5000K to 6500K. Home Depot wouldn’t deliver the light bulbs to our home so we purchased them from Amazon amzn.to/2Kx2Mue
We also purchased a surge protector - amzn.to/3avbXGl and to simplify things you may want to put the system on a timer using a device like this one amzn.to/2VC50iB.
We hope that you will join us in upping our game and growing more food than ever before.
Thanks for being part of the solution!
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[@christiana_mandalynn]

We have a very small property but we have two mini garden boxes on the East/South side of our house, and about 6-8 half-barrels around the yard. The barrels have container berry bushes (raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry) and summer crops (will be zucchini and tomato). I currently have cold weather crops growing in the garden boxes ( kales, chards, peas, herbs) and we have Walmart galvanized containers on our patio full of dirt with pollinator plants and herbs (Butterfly weed, dill, chives, chamomile, marigolds, nasturtiums). You can grow so much in containers, don’t let lack of space hold you back! You can repurpose so much with drilling a few holes, adding some potting soil, and a little starter plant.

[@tinkerbell9396]

WOW! I did not know that there were that many gardens in 1943! Learned a lot! Rebellious chicken's!🤣🤣🤣 Love it all! 🥰

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

I'm trying to get my head around precisely the opposite of your storage challenges: instead of winter ice/snow, I need to store through desert heat/dry. Which is why I've mainly given up on storing whole foods and instead focus on solar dehydrating slices and quarters of things. Although hanging whole peppers works well...and its pretty, to boot! I am gardening like a madwoman this spring...so far so good! Thanks for the intelligent guidance.

[@joeljones6728]

thanks for the GREAT INFO.. we are planting 3 small gardens this year.. about 30 days apart. hope to have produce all year long. we may need it too.. stay safe

[@erikadebenny]

Thank you; another wonderful video! Your family is my favorite channel for teaching me about how to prepare. KZbinrs “Roots and Refuge” have a video explaining how to save seeds in a simple way so you don’t get overwhelmed.

[@christiana_mandalynn]

If you don’t have a lot of space for a garden (eg, apartment, townhome, etc) get a TOWER GARDEN!! I’ll post a link in a comment to this. We are putting ours together today, it is a vertical aeroponic gardening tower that you can put inside or outside. Ours in going in the kitchen in a 2’x2’ corner next to the computer. It uses no dirt, no weeding, less than 10% water that a regular garden uses, also uses 90% less space, and you can grow plants 3x faster for constant harvest.

[@fancythat5136]

Just found you, wow! Great instructional videos that are thorough, fast moving and educational!

[@bearrivermama6414]

I know I sound like a broken record but..... fantastic info!! I'm building seeding carts this weekend! I'm tired of lugging trays and trays of seedlings in and out all the time. I'm hoping to simplify and time save my process! Toms teachings look like a fantastic resource!

[@bearrivermama6414]

The Provident Prepper for sure! I'm hoping to find the supplies to build them so I can put removable poly covers on so I can utilize the sun on warm days before my seedlings are hardened off. Than I can pop them off, roll the cart back under the grow lights and I'm done. I will share what I concoct. It may not be a thing of beauty but I'm hoping it will ease the workload a bit! I spent 2 hours shuffling seed trays around yesterday, I'm over it! 😂😂😂

[@JColtF]

Thank yall for the info, the videos yall post are great

[@raincoast9010]

Lots of great information. I liked your videos about examining food that was kept in long term food storage even if it wasn't in optimum conditions.

[@frustratedmajority851]

Just discovered jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes). Can't believe it took me this long but its literally fed nations during famine. It's like the poor man's potato that's borderline invasive. Planting 2lbs of tubers along my fence line. In a few years I wants hundreds of pounds of tubers. Ordering comfrey next as chicken fodder and fertilizer

[@elliotlambert3817]

Straight from uncle Ho's victory garden they call it Hanoi gold.

[@christiana_mandalynn]

For a few months I’ve been eying a little see-through worm compost farm that is $20-30 on Amazon, that the kids and I could start together. It’s super small compared to what you’re talking about but I think it is a good investment!

[@teca1775]

Do you have any suggestions for growing in an apartment? There is no community garden within a short walk.

[@Jean2235177]

Te Ca do you have a balcony/porch with good light? Container gardening is good. Amazon sells gardening bags. Just add soil and plants. Boom. A garden!

[@teca1775]

@@Jean2235177 Thanks. My patio is covered by the one above so it's gro lights for me. And I even found a pattern to make potting bags. :-)