The Easiest Way to Plant Carrots in Your Backyard Garden!
Carrots have tiny seeds and they can be hard for kids to manage them. This video shows how we use seed tape to make it easier to grow carrots in our deep Smart Pots!
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Growing Your Own Greens Cheap & Easy with Grow Bag Raised Bed Containers!
This video shows you how easy to use to start growing your own greens!
We also talked about our overall strategy when using these 15 gallon fabric raised beds.
Eat Your Thinned Down Seedlings!
When planting indoors we typically place 2-3 seeds in each section to see which one will do the best. We then go back in after they start growing to thin the seedlings down to the recommended space. We use these thinned down seedlings as “microgreens”. Not only are they extremely tasty, but very nutritious as well! Help Your Seedlings Transition Outdoors Before You Transplant by Hardening Off: https://ift.tt/2EUbn6Z See what you need to get started […]
Video: How to Start Growing Food / What We’re Growing in Our Oklahoma Urban Backyard Garden
Dale was a featured speaker at the OKC Home + Garden show on January 20th, 2019.
Video: Planting & Growing Carrots in Our Backyard Raised Bed Garden!
Carrots are super simple to plant and so much fun to grow! Learn about planting and caring for carrots.
Video: Peas Are One of Our Favorite Things to Grow! See How Easy It Is to Grow Them in Your Garden!
Peas are a vining plant and will require a trellis to help support them as they grow. We plant them in the winter time 4-6 weeks before our first spring frost. See how simple it is to plant!
Video: How to Start Growing Your Own Food Easily Today!
Check out how easy it can be to start growing your own food with Smart Pots! Carrie will walk you through our garden and show you examples of our Smart Pots that we grow our food with.
See more information on these fabric raised beds and also purchase at seedtospoon.net/smartpots.
Check out the blog post that goes into more detail about simple ways to get started growing your own food at seedtospoon.net/getstarted
Homesteading Tips for Kids: Making Water From Ice!
We’re experiencing unusually cold temperatures in Oklahoma and our pipes have frozen up, leaving us without running water. We have plenty of bottled water inside for us, but her chickens are in our garage and she’s worried about making sure we have enough for them too! Mary realized she knew where she could get water from and wanted to make a video about it!
How to Grow Microgreens (Baby Kale, Cabbage, Broccoli, etc.) Indoors Under Grow Lights!
Growing your own microgreens is such a simple way to add a ton of nutrients into your diet!
We Built an Easy DIY Greenhouse to Thaw Our Frozen Well!
Oklahoma City is in the midst of some of the coldest temperatures in recorded history, and as a result our well froze up! I woke up at 2 am with an idea for how we could fix it and got to work promptly this morning. By the evening, our water was back on again! Watch to see how we used an IBC tote and a heat lamp to thaw out our frozen well! https://youtu.be/ZQ4fKTkh7kg Dale […]