This morning I posted a new video sharing seven tips for growing the best garden ever in 2024.
Keep it simple, and prosper!
You really don’t need anything fancy to grow lots of food.
My latest book Minimalist Gardening: The Good Guide to Growing Food with Less came out last week, and we did this video so you can sample just a little of what I write about in the book.
If you are busy and feeling guilty about not being able to grow as much as you would like, don’t get overwhelmed. Gardening may seem too complicated, and you might think you need some sort of magical “green thumb” to make it happen. Yet don’t we want pesticide-free food? And survival calories in the ground in case of an emergency? And the best, freshest, tastiest produce in the world?
Wouldn’t you like to know how to grow food without all the complexity? To just walk out into your garden and enjoy the aroma of fresh dill and rosemary? To pluck sun-warmed tomatoes? To dig rich, orange sweet potatoes from healthy soil?
You don’t need to buy lumber and build beds, or create some fancy watering system.
You can see clips of our gardens in the video above. They’re lovely, and we got over 2500lbs of food from our backyard last year. In my new book, you’ll learn how to cut through the complexity and grow food with simplicity. You’ll discover how to find easy-to-grow varieties, and you’ll learn how to put food on your table without expensive and time-consuming methods.
If you have a little land, a little time, and the desire for a healthier life, you can put fresh produce on the table, grow an abundance of hearty roots and greens in your backyard, and stop feeling overwhelmed about gardening.
Minimalist Gardening shows you how.
2 comments
Excellent video! I will definitely purchase a copy of the book. Some brief comments on minimalist approaches; these might or might not be in your book:
Composting: there are many ways to do composting, with hot compost the most labor-intensive approach. There are easier methods: cool composting, sheet compost, trench compost, heavy mulching.
Seed planting: you can plant seeds wet, right out of a tomato, pepper, papaya, melon, etc. No need to clean or ferment the seed. Some alleged gardening experts insist on elaborate seed cleaning processes; this may be appropriate for seed saving/sharing, but is not necessary for immediate planting. I refer to the belief that all seeds must be dry, clean and pristine for planting as the “clean seed fetish”. (After all, the seed is to be planted in dirt, so it will get – gasp! – dirty, anyway!)
Yes, good advice. We’ve taken seeds right from a fruit and stuck them in the ground.