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How to Start Vegetable Gardening to Feed Your Family
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items Here are gardening basics to help you grow your own vegetables, build organic gardens, create raised bed gardens, and no till gardens. These sustainable gardening tips will help you companion plant in your DIY garden, build greenhouses that serve you...
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Gardening Basics
Seed Starting
Vertical Gardening
Raised Bed Gardening
Urban Gardening
Greenhouse Guide
Gardening Basics
Here are some resources that I've found to help me get started with learning how to start my first vegetable garden! 🪴
The Spruce has become my best friend. I seriously cannot believe all this information is FREE on the internet! It's been a big help learning about the basics of caring for the plants I plan to grow in my garden.
The Spruce | Gardening Basics for Beginners
Brian is one of my “teachers” on YouTube. He has over 30+ years of experience gardening and is down to share so much of that experience with all of us for free. I love love love love this series and think it should be on everyone's beginning gardenin...
Brian Lowell's Organic Gardening Basics Master Class
Kevin is just beyond anything when it comes to the wealth of knowledge that he's willing to share, him and his team. He's another one like Brian that I aspire to when it comes to their gardening skills.
Epic Gardening | Basics Archives
Not only is this a brilliant place to get seeds (hint hint) but their Grower's Library is much like the Spruce for me and a WEALTH of information from generations of people who know what they're doing.
Welcome to the Grower's Library at Johnny's Selected Seeds
Jill is amazing. I'm just amazed how God worked everything out for me to come into contact with her blog. I love how much information she has compiled together from her decade plus of homesteading. These articles are severe must reads.
The Prairie Homestead | Grow a Garden Archives
I actually have this book right next to me (no kidding!) It's the basis of how I plant to start raised bed gardens when I have the space. I'm absolutely in love with the author's teaching style and have been able to glean so much from her wisdom!
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System
When I first decided that I was going to obey God and get into homesteading, I had to make a decision. I do not regret buying this book whatsoever because the information is just top notch. It's one of the forms of gardening I know is extremely helpf...
All New Square Foot Gardening
There are other books out there on this subject, but this is the one. I promise you: this is the one. 💎
Companion Planting for Beginners: Pair Plants
If you're an American, this is great for you. My grandfather used this religiously and the weather patterns are usually (somehow) blazingly on point. (Canadians can preorder the 2025 version too, here.)
The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
Seed Starting
Here's everything you need to know about starting your garden from seeds, from where to buy organic seeds, how to sow seeds, and more.
If you're gonna buy your organic seed, go here. Just do it. These heirloom seeds are generations and generations of fantastic breeds and the wealth of information you'll get on each of them when you order their free catalog is just outstanding.
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds | RareSeeds.Com
Now listen, this is my FAVORITE PLACE to get information on seeds and their properties, companion plants, etc. You can buy seeds here too (hint hint) 😘 But seriously, go here, click on a seed you're looking for in your garden, scroll down and just r...
Eden Brothers | Vegetable Seeds
This is another wonderful place to get heirloom seeds for your garden.
True Leaf Market Seed Company
I own two of these! This is perfect for storing your seeds in!
Photo Storage Box 4x6 (18 Boxes)
Here is a break down of all the blog articles written by Kevin and the Epic Gardening team on how to work with seeds. You can also enjoy his epic playlist on YouTube.
Epic Gardening | Seeds Archives
Listen: this isn't starting from seed but from seed cuttings, and is just as useful. You have PLENTY of experienced gardeners ready and willing to just give you all their time tested advice for FREE in these videos shown here.
A Playlist: How to Propagate from Cuttings
This is honestly one of the best free articles I've read on the web about seed saving. It comes with a TON of pictures and she just shows you what it looks like and what it's supposed to look like when saving seeds (very important read, imo.)
Growing in the Garden | How to Save Seeds
This blog article was just very helpful to me and I hope it's helpful to you too. ♥️
How to Grow Free Food Every Year by Saving Seeds
If you only invest in ONE BOOK for seed saving and growing techniques, buy this one. I own it, I'm so glad that I trusted the Lord and just bought it, and you will be too. The other two books recommended are soon to be in my library, but this is the ...
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving & Growing Techniques
Absolute must have book.
The Seed Garden: Art and Practice of Seed Saving
This is another one you're gonna be thanking me you invested in, truly.
The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Plants
Vertical Gardening
One of the best techniques to utilize every square inch of your garden.
Must. Watch. Immediately.
A Complete Guide to Vertical Gardening (On A Budget!) | Growing Food Made Simple
Just save this playlist and thank me later. Seriously. ♥️
GrowVeg: Vertical Gardening Playlist
Must watch. Simply must watch.
VERTICAL GARDENING TIPS & IDEAS: Why and how to add VERTICAL SPACE to your garden for EVERY BUDGET
Love.
40 Garden Trellising Examples for Growing Vegetables Vertically: All DIY Budget Friendly Options
There's a reason that these are so popular! You can even utilize these on patios and balconies! Start your garden TODAY with a Greenstalk!
GreenStalk Vertical Planter
Raised Bed Gardening
After vertical gardening, this will really be instrumental in helping you create the vegetable garden of your dreams!
You're really gonna love this awesome DIY guide. ♥️
Homestead and Chill | How to Build a Raised Garden Bed: Step-by-Step Guide
These are just common mistakes to avoid and take into consideration when creating your own raised garden beds.
Next Level Gardening | 7 Beginner Raised Bed Garden Mistakes to Avoid
This one is very nice (though the first one breaks a lot down) showing you a time lapse with all the equipment that was used in the description box. It's very informative even if you're just using it to watch and learn a different technique to creati...
How to Build a Beautiful DIY Raised Garden Bed | Backyard Gardening
Urban Gardening
If you are starting out in the city or suburbs, you can still garden even if you don't have a yard. I mean it. Here's some expert tips to help you do just that.
This honestly helped me put so much into perspective. I hope this helps you like it helped me.
The Rooted Farmhouse | How To Start Planning Your Urban Homesteading Goals
Don't be dismayed! This is one of the BEST YouTube channels that I've found showcasing just how you can get off the ground starting your garden in an urban setting.
Urban Gardening
These guys are pretty cool. I honestly love their resource page with links to brands and websites that they trust (which some of which I happen to trust a lot too!) But they're dedicated to helping people really get into gardening even in urban setti...
Seattle Urban Farm Company
Greenhouse Guide
For when you're ready to take things to the next level in your garden!
This podcast episode is sure to answer a bunch of your questions on which build is right for you!
The Prairie Homestead | Cold Frames, Greenhouses, High Tunnels... Which Do You Choose?
Sometimes we can learn lessons from people in cultures different than ours, and this Japanese greenhouse may be just what you're looking for when it's time for you to build your own!
How to build a Japanese Style Greenhouse
This is mainly for inspiration (as there aren't specific guides given in this DIY) and it's a beautiful inspiration at that.
Making a Korean-Style Wooden Greenhouse
Now this goes into hydroponics, (which Kevin of Epic Gardening goes into extensively, since that's how he started his channel) but this is super cool, creative, and I knew God just wanted me to put this here for somebody.
Farmer taught how to DIY aquarium and greenhouse to grow aquatic vegetables
Inspiration
This is a series of blog posts, videos, vlogs, etc to help you discover that the lifestyle God may be calling you into is POSSIBLE and to work on it NOW! 🪴
Listen: Kelly's testimony is POWERFUL! She's provided a WEALTH of knowledge on just one page with things she would've done differently to begin gardening when she didn't have anything left over and barely enough to make ends meet. This is a GEM of in...
Gently Sustainable | How to Homestead With No Money
Love love LOVE this playlist by Exploring Alternatives that shows different ways people are building their homesteads in the modern world.
Exploring Alternatives: Homesteading