Back to Basics Gardening with Shawn
On this channel, I share my family's backyard gardening experiences, including growing vegetables, composting raising chickens, and more.
If you're a backyard gardener, raise chickens, or you're thinking about doing anything like this, I hope that our adventures motivate you to go for it. I hope that we as a society get back to a "Victory Gardening" kind of mindset.
Mulching garden beds with chicken coop bedding. Here's why.
Growing romaine lettuce successfully in the middle of fall
Starting a new raised bed garden from start to finish - FULL VIDEO
Starting a new raised bed garden from start to finish - Part 4 - Adding compost and soil
Starting a new raised bed garden from start to finish - Part 3 - Adding kitchen scraps, yard debris
Starting a new raised bed garden from start to finish - Part 2 - Adding layers (logs, twigs, etc.)
Starting a new raised bed garden from start to finish - Part 1 - Putting it together
We do lazy composting
Why my backyard gardening results have been not so good, and what I am doing about it
Planting sweet potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket
Planning our 2025 backyard vegetable garden | Crop rotation
UPDATE: Growing a moldy sweet potato - What happened???
UPDATE: Replanted lettuce heads
Putting egg shells, fruit and vegetable peels and coffee grounds directly in this raised bed
Why (and how) I got rid of 27 eggs from our chicken coop
I am replanting these lettuce heads in the garden (again) to grow lettuce quickly
Our backyard chickens are roosting in freezing cold!
Do chickens eat leftover spagnetti? We gave our chickens some ...
Our 2023 sweet potato harvest #FAIL
June 2022 Garden Walkthrough
Back when we got our first backyard chicken egg
June 2021 Garden Walkthrough
We harvested over 20 lbs of sweet potatoes in October 2020
June 2020 Garden Walkthrough
Putting scraps directly into a garden bed
A snake got in our chicken coop!
I buried a dead bird in the garden as natural fertilizer
Planting sweet potatoes in pots
Planting cilantro and sprouting sweet potatoes
How to find free topsoil for your garden