Our Favorites For Our Garden
People ask what we use out in the garden, so I’m going to share the tools and seeds that I used this year. Truth is, you do not need a shed full of gear to grow food. You need dirt, water, seeds, and a willingness to be wrong about things for a couple of seasons.
But there are a few things we come back to every single year, and I think it is worth telling you why.
If you want to start homesteading but have no idea where to begin, that was me too. I put everything I learned the hard way into a beginner guide. It’s yours. Click here.
Here and at the very bottom of this blog there is a list to literally everything I used in my garden. This blog is just to spotlight some of my favorites.
The Tools
What all of these have in common is that they let more than one of us work at the same time. That is the whole reason they stuck around.
For a long time the garden was mostly mine. I would be out there before it got hot, and everyone else would come outside eventually to see what I was doing and then go back in. It was peaceful and it was therapeutic. But it was also a little lonely, I quickly realized, the whole point of learning to grow food and a garden was that it would be something our family did together.
Tools that a kid can actually use are a BIG game changer. Once that happened, I was not calling anybody outside anymore. They were already out there, arguing over whose turn it was with the weed puller like it was a video game controller.
That is what I would tell you to spend money on. Not the fanciest version of anything. The version that lets someone else help you.
- Green Garden Plant Ties with Cutter
- Wells Lamont Women’s Gardening Gloves, 3 pack
- JB XpandaHose 100 ft Expandable Hose
- Woven Willow Picnic Basket
- Auger Drill Bit for Planting
- Fiskars Stand Up Weed Puller
The Seeds
These are the ones that produce without a lot of drama and end up in our kitchen. The seed vault is what I hand to anyone who tells me they want to start and has no idea what to buy, because you should not have to make thirty decisions before you have grown a single thing.
- Gardeners Basics Survival Seed Vault
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber
- Golden Acre Heirloom Cabbage
- Utah Tall Organic Celery
- Green Curled Ruffec Endive
If you are thinking about starting
Start smaller than you think you should. One bed. A few pots on the porch. A single tomato plant you will absolutely overwater.
You are going to kill some things. I still do, every year, and I have been at this a while now. But something is going to come up too, and the first time you carry something inside that you grew yourself, you will understand why people get weird about gardening.
If you have no idea where to begin, that was me too. I wrote down everything I learned those first few years, including all the parts I got wrong, and turned it into a beginner gardening guide. Not because I know everything. I absolutely do not. I just remember exactly what it felt like to know nothing.
Everything I wish someone had handed me when we started. Grab the beginner homesteading guide here.
