1 Year of Building My Dream Garden [200 kg of Fruits and Vegetables]

A well kept but ultimately boring backyard transformed into a beautiful and productive DIY raised bed garden - that's the story of our first year since moving into our new countryside home.

Follow along as we build DIY raised beds, shovel 40 tonnes of soil using an excavator/bobcat, start seeds, build trellises, care for our plants, harvest our vegetables and fruits and preserve some of them for long-term storage.

This year on our suburban homestead we grew onions, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, spinach, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, green and red cabbage, butternut & hokkaido squash, leeks, corn, cucumbers, beans, peas, beetroot, salad, coriander, parsley, nasturtium, sunflowers, strawberries, cherries, pears, blueberries.

00:00 intro
00:43 planning the raised bed garden
01:43 starting seeds
03:18 building DIY raised beds
06:02 shoveling soil
08:52 planting potatoes, onions
09:50 planting blueberry bushes
10:44 planting strawberries
11:00 tomato trellises
12:18 planting tomato seedlings
13:30 planting vegetable seedlings
15:42 harvesting garlic
16:41 bean trellis
17:56 building outdoor BBQ area
20:03 harvesting peas
20:59 harvesting blueberries
21:40 outdoor cooking with fresh fruits & vegetables
23:05 sqash trellises
24:13 harvesting onions
26:14 harvesting potatoes
29:36 harvesting beetroot
30:47 cooking and preserving beetroot
33:12 harvesting tomatoes
34:42 cooking and preserving tomatoes
38:20 harvesting beans
38:50 cooking baked beans
40:40 harvesting squash
41:00 harvesting corn
41:50 cooking with squash & corn
42:20 making sauerkraut from green & red cabbage
43:34 harvesting kale
43:54 harvesting pears
44:29 cooking & preserving kale
44:58 cooking & preserving red cabbage
45:41 cooking & preserving sauerkraut
45:59 making pear jam
48:30 the garden in fall
49:09 final bean harvest
49:42 harvesting mexican mini cucumber
50:10 harvesting physalis
50:26 winter prep raised beds I
52:05 harvesting bell pepper, chili, jalapeno, habanero
52:30 winter prep raised beds II
54:38 trimming bushes & shrubs
57:08 the garden today

Thanks for watching!

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