Will plants grown in our gardens dynamically produce the nutrients we need the same way a mother's milk is customized to the baby? According to the book Whole by a medical doctor specializing in nutrition, our bodies are like factories that dynamically process every ingredient meaning what we put in and how our bodies process it are equally important.
Meanwhile, nutrients in fruits and vegetables can vary as much as 40 times from one to another. This means while the label might say 6 mg of vitamin C in an apple which equals about 10% of our daily value, one apple might have 1 mg of vitamin C while another on the same tree may have 40 mg. The apparent cause of this is that the plants attempt to produce exactly what the person growing them needs the same as a breastfeeding mother's body automatically does the same with the baby!
This research combined with my mother in law gardening and consistent advice for me to "go outside" motivated me to start my own garden as I wrote about in my first post documenting my journey into gardening! My greater vision is to grow a significant portion of our own food as a part of living a life in this body filled with joy and health for 150+ years! Will you continue the journey with us as we see what is new this week in my garden because maybe reading this post will spark and fuel a passion for gardening?
When I said in the last post I was a complete beginner, that means I have a lot of supplies to buy to even get my garden started. After making a beginning with grow bags the previous week, I dive into all types of plant seeds at Home Depot based on what a calendar online says I can grow in Saint Petersburg, Florida!
The seeds are incredibly cheap at about $3 a package with enough to make hundreds of plants!
I prepare at home by setting up more grow bags and Home Depot buckets which I since learned are not food grade ...
The kale plant in the middle was a gift from @laurabanfield's mother and one I paid little attention to until last month!
During multiple trips to Home Depot's gardening center, I load up on organic garden soil despite having learned since that what I really need is potting soil ...
I load 10 of these into the backseat of my Toyota Corolla!
And carry them all about 50 yards at home!
All this new soil helps me add buckets with carrots, onions, and broccoli!
Madeleine loves gardening with her nana which was a big part of my motivation to start the garden because we now get to do this together!
Pretty much the same picture as above. I took a photography course and am not sure I learned anything.
The spinach plants are still alive from last week!
No dog poops in the garden thanks to this fence!
We planted broccoli in these.
Amazing how fast the gardening area is filling up!
Planted lots of kale in the black grow bags without following the instructions on the label which stated the kale needed to be further apart.
Back to Home Depot for more soil where by dumb luck or unconscious incompetence I grab the potting soil!
Well some of it was potting soil ...
Remember the white picket fence above separating part of the yard to keep the dogs out? @laurabanfield bought that for about $350 and put it together. I decided to try and build one for less ...
It seemed like a great idea until ...
I was surprised to learn how difficult it is to nail stakes in standing up and gave up on the crossbars after the first section turned out to be a royal PITA.
Here we see the task at hand and regret our choices especially when I could afford the nice fence ...
Nevertheless I pound all the stakes in and get a functional fence up.
Success! No dogs in this part of the yard and now a huge amount of space for a garden!
This fence is a good analogy for how I have built my entire business online ...
Bottom line is for under $100 it works as intended despite no experience building fences!
In the next week's gardening post, we will see the expansion of new grow bags into this side of the yard! I appreciate the huge upvotes from @hasoon, @nikolai, and @teamsteem on the last week's post which helped me pay for the supplies alongside the top comments by @nearbird, @eco-alex, and @modemser!
Thank you for joining me on this adventure and I hope what we saw here today is useful for you!
Love,
Jerry Banfield
@jerrybanfield Im so happy to see peaches is still part of your family! :-D
Thank you for noticing @newyorkdude!
Hey Jerry do you have videos teaching Steem it? I’d like to learn how the bots work and some other stuff
http://steem.guide has the best collection of my Steem tutorials!
Congrats @Jerrybanfield you picked a great time to start your garden, I'm getting ready to start mine back up now that spring is near. Here's a little tip from Club Tampa Bay, well water and rainwater work the best. So if things start looking droopy check your water. Your post was featured this week in Club Tampa Bay!
Your off to a good start!
I really recommend you get into sprouting broccoli sprouts.
They are 100 times healthier than broccoli and 2x more healthy when frozen. You can sprinkle them on a salad or put them in shakes...you can sprout a lot in just a few days and would be a great addition to your healthy garden.
I got all this info from Dr Rhonda Patrick seen here with the broccoli sprouts (looks like something else lol)
I love broccoli.
Need to check if and why the sprouts are healthier, and how to grow them.
The problem is, for most people the space needed to grow stuff is more expensive than buying them.
this video is where I got my info from and answers all your questions
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Truce: Now you already know what im about to say
Duce: DONT
Duce: i mean DON'T*
Truce: what?? they look like bags of cole slaw :)
I think this is a good suggestion. Some thing that takes just few days to grow is a good thing. Usually it would take months to grow broccoli. At small scale won't be sufficient for whole family.
This is awesome @ssjsasha. I thought you were holding weed at 1st. I almost fell in love for a second there. I appreciate this, because last year my folks were growing brocs and they were so fresh..
@ssjsasha thank you I will learn more about broccoli sprouts and Dr Rhonda Patrick!
This is the actual video where I got all my facts, to save time I listen/watch videos at 1.25, 1.5 or 2x the speed...but rhonda patrick talks fast and just keeps spitting out knowledge like you wouldnt believe
Nice. Looks like a lot of work. Hopefully you get a fruitful crop.
It just goes to show how much work and energy goes into growing the food we all take for granted at the supermarket. Especially so if people are consuming animal products. They are VASTLY less efficient when it comes to calories produced per kwh/or litre of fuel used. Crazy stuff.
Nick
Exactly Nick! Thank you for reminding me that I forgot to mention how much growing my own food helps me appreciate how much others do in growing most of what I eat for me!
We used to have a garden in our backyard and it was so refreshing to see. I really want to have it again
hey I just noticed that you mentioned me here, and i'm quite happy for that.
I just hope that your system is working well and that you took in to consideration aquaponics controlled by RaseberyPi or other small computers
Is it just me @jerrybanfield or does it look like the Dogs could just Jump over the Fence ???
They did dig through it once already which I will mention in the week 3 update!
Wow, you must be some where really warm. Im currently in Florida and I don't even think it would be warm enough to plant something here right now.
I am in Saint Petersburg Florida where it is pretty warm here!
Oh cool. Im currently in Jacksonville, not as nice as St. Pete!
amazing
I am myself planing to do a little gardening (but no way near your scale)
I hope I get success because I really find gardening kinda interesting now adays
wish me luck! :)
Looks great @jerrybanfield!
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Gardening, a thing that is done since the dawn of time. Part of my family in the countryside grow all the vegetables specific to our regiin and sells them to markets and hipermarkets. It is much better to know that you grow them under the sun with no chemicals to help them grow.
One piece of advice, if to be considered: most of the seeds we buy to grow are not the natural ones, they are produced in labs and when they grow the lack the taste.
But this something else :)
Happy gardening and healthy food for life!
Congratulations @jerrybanfield, it's looking great! I'm trying to make the move to much healthier foods, and seeing you with projects like this has inspired me even more!
This is unrelated, but I would really like to talk to you about some marketing campaigns, incubators and more that I have been looking to implement on Steemit. You already run a hugely succesful campaign fundraising page @budgets, and I do not want to go in competition with that as I feel combining efforts is what is most important on Steemit. I have a lot of experience in marketing and feel that the program I am putting together could really help Steemit grow a lot. Is there any way that I can contact you to talk more about this? Again sorry for the unrelated paragraph, but I searched your website and couldn't find an email address!
Thats awosm @jerrybanfield
"Grow organic,Eat organic, Think organic"
A beautiful garden keeps our invironment beautiful.
I'm so excited to see your garden.
I have a smakl garden and then plant the vagetables and flowers @jerrybanfield
awesome you must be somewhere really warm
Looks great... good luck
I love flowers And you are doing good for carring then, Carry on your activity and your creativity I appereciate your work and wish you all the best
Thank you Cristi!
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Best of luck😊😊.You can make more better fence for your garden.Take care your planet everyday.Hope it will be most beautiful garden if you always take care of them.😊
Keep teaching us and we are learning it. Thanks.
Nice. Looks like a lot of work. Hopefully you get a fruitful crop.
You've been very successful Jerry, congrats...building a fence also seems like a lot of hard work....but there's nothing u can't handle, right Jerry?..lol...jk...I'm happy to u doing well ...god bless
This is very useful post for all & thanks again to share this garden photo content with us.
ha ha ha thats great .... thanks for sharing man
good step by@jerrybanfield. In these days, for better environment need to plant. Your garden is looking to good. Plants are help us in many ways without taking anything from us. Very good Step. I appreciate your hard work for making the green earth. Thanks
This is really a nice job. You deserve a great deal of effort, but I have the confidence that you have a wonderful garden in the future
Your goal is beautiful. Your information about breast feeding has benefited me in the future
Thank you for everything my dear brother @jerrybanfield does
excellent worj at gardening @jerrybanfield
I thanks to @jerrybanfield for such wonderful and informative videos about about different topics these are helpful for community.
I want to know how I can earn more values and rewards on steemit as I can spend time for hours.
Very good @jerrybanfield
The best way to get organic food at home...👍resteemed the post...👌
What a nice post.....thanks for share @jerrybanfield (73)
I love plant the vegetables,too.I often plant by seeding and small trees from the tre market.
Here is my garden. We could share the tips about it as well.
https://steemit.com/blog/@lenancie/blog-4-we-eat-what-we-grew-healthy-living
Gardening is also my hobby.The follower is the beauty of nature..So, we all should grown-up garden each & every person.Carry on your creativity & activity.I expect your plan must be succeed.
Thanks.
@Resteem & follow has been done.
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Good job
I like the containers!! I need to start my garden soon!
Hi Jerry! The garden looks amazing!
I also love to go to the gardens, grow vegetables in my yard, even I often plant in pots, get nourishing and natural vegetables
excellent idea@jerrybanfield
Good luck.... sir...
it is always good to have a small garden with fresh vegetables and fruits. When we eat fresh from our garden it feel happy and gardening will help to reduce the stress too. Involving kids will make sure that they will get a knowledge as well as the interest to grow in future.
great work and i would like to see your grown veggies in future.
Cheers!
Truce: oohh oohh i wanna grow some plants too mmm im hungry!
Duce: No Truce sit down, besides, do you see all that dirt in his blog, like who is going to carry all that?? You?
Truce: ehh we can fig it out once we get there, yo get the car keys.
Duce: Last time you saw a post on steem and got a idea, we ended up on a road trip to canada and only made it to Ohio.
Truce: ahh yeah um about that but look about these plants though...
Duce: No not having it. log off this Steem site and do something constructive. .. and i don't wanna hear you say you are not a construction worker like you always do.
Truce: ..... but im not destructive.
Duce: CONSTRUCTIVE (face palm)
Truce: oh look plants!!!!! lets upvote him a 100%!!!
Duce: But its so early.
Truce: DO IT!
Duce: fine whatever (click)
Truce: YAY
yes of course I myself also like gardening, I think gardening is a very interesting thing because we can plant itself and take the results for himself can even be sold. and of course the garden is very beautiful because it is full of plants, let alone gardening in the cool mountains is very remarkable
post is good, what is consumed means it is processed, if the raw material is good means will produce a good, thank you @jerrybanfield
I love gardening, but dont know how to go about it, see how far you have gone, starting as a beginner and now a master😁.
This is great, and meanwhile, that kid standing on there looks just like you and is cute💝
Nice work Jerry!!!
Good to see so many people on here giving growing their own food :-)
Just remember "organic" additions to your soil/media require soil life to take the "organic material" and turn them into plant available nutrients :-)
HAPPY GARDENING!!!!!
yeah! i will grown plants on my gardein
What a magnificent post sir :):) Thanks for sharing us
@upvoted
i know jerry you are not sure what you learned,but truly i learned that we can learn too many things from our ancestors........
Awesome post, since I turned to a primarily vegetarian diet... I still have cheat days, im getting there, this is what my back yard looks like. Since I live out in the mid west, im somewhat limited what I can actually get growing before the cold weather comes around. I think a green house is in store for this year.