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Vegetable Garden TOUR! Our Backyard Container Garden In New York | Lucie Fink



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Over the past few months, I’ve been going back and forth between my parents’ home (my childhood house) and Michael’s parents’ home. Whenever I would come to my parents’ house, I found myself BEGGING my mom to start a garden. I was itching to grow my own food and take care of plants (I miss my NYC plants 😢 )! I am also the type of daughter who’s constantly trying to improve her parents’ health!

Well, THEY FINALLY DID IT! This is a tour of my mom’s New York backyard container garden. It’s our first time doing this, so we’re not sure if we’re doing everything correctly, but the plants seem to be thriving and we’ve been eating a lot of the food! With a little help from my friend Maria over at Bloom and Grow Radio, we feel like we’re on the right track.

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We didn’t have a good place to plant the garden in our backyard (the space was already taken up, and we didn’t want to have to build an enclosure to keep the animals out). Without a fenced in space in the yard, the food would have been eaten pretty quickly. So, instead of creating a gardening bed from scratch, we decided the best place to put the plants was on our back porch in POTS. If you remember from one of my recent videos, a stray cat has taken a liking to my parents. We named her Missy and she basically lives on my parents’ porch. They feed her and brush her and are basically her owners now.

Having Missy is a total game-changer because she protects our entire container garden. She spends most of her time on the porch and keeps other animals away, so thus far we haven’t had any animals eating the veggies!

In this video, I dive into our beautiful vegetable garden tour where you can see that we are growing vegetables like tomatoes, green beans, zucchini, celery, cucumber, romaine lettuce and squash, as well as all kinds of herbs like thyme, basil, parsley, cilantro and more. When our vegetables began to grow and we were able to harvest these fresh organic foods at our house, cooking became so much more fun! I now run out to the garden for some fresh veggies and herbs at lunch and dinnertime, instead of jumping into my car to head to the grocery store!

My brother has also started pickling our cucumbers, so we have homemade pickles now, too! The garden has grown so much since I shot this video, so be sure to follow my Instagram account for more updates as time goes on.

My mom and I love gardening together! It might seem intimidating at first to learn how to grow vegetables at home, especially in containers or pots on your back porch…but the work is so rewarding! And if we’ve realized anything, it’s that this is just a game of trial and error. If something doesn’t work, you can always do it differently next time.

It’s so crazy to see that these beautiful vegetables started out as little seeds that we got for free at Stop & Shop! All that we really needed to invest in to start this garden was some soil and organic compost…and now our garden is thriving and our little veggies are doing great!

Comment below with any gardening tips you have and let me know if you want more videos like this one! I am so grateful that, for my job, I can pick up new hobbies and share them with you.

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25 Comments

  1. Her DayTale

    This is my favourite vlog of yours. 😍 I love when someone shows their garden. I'm also a Vlogger & adore you a lot lucie ❤ You're the most genuine person ever. You deserve much more love. Sta happy always my fav ❤✨

  2. Mahima Bhardwaj

    I'm 22 and have a veeery happppyeeeee garden💪💪 since India is a tropical country. It's quite easy (comparatively) … ♥️♥️♥️
    But my friends call me a grand ma ☹️ but it's always been a way for my mum and I to bond since I was a kid 😋

  4. Kenzie Bailey

    My husband and I are moving out of our tiny town house into a house with a yard soon and I am SO excited to start gardening. Between you, LeighAnnSays, and a few others I follow, i'm going to have the best garden in the universe.

  5. walkingexercise5

    Great video! I am learning about gardening! Question: Do you have a day that you focus on gardening like Saturday or do you do some garden tasks throughout the week? Thanks!

  7. Monica Shukla

    Hi I am Raina and I am 11 and live in India, my mom and I absolutely love your channel so so much and this video really inspired us to work on our own garden a lot more! 🌿🤘F.Y.I- I am so excited to watch and learn from your new dance video which you talked about on Instagram,I have learned all of your dances so far and I loved them💃🏻.

  8. nonye04

    Love the idea of starting your own garden. Any tips on how to keep animals away from your garden for those of us w/o a kitty as neighbor watch,lol

  12. Martha Calvillo

    I loveed this video, I've tried in the past with vegetable gardens but haven't followed up, you encouraged me to start again. Thank you for showing this!

  13. Erin Kubik

    I commented this another time, but I would love to see Lucie do a book haul / book recommendations as she mentioned she has been trying to read more and book recommendations are really helpful for me and inspiration to try and read because I wanna read what Lucie reads lol!!

  14. Hannah Paterson

    Hey Lucie! I love all of your vlogs and you have been such a source of inspiration for me! You always do such an amazing job! Your garden is so adorable and yes it really can be like an experiment sometimes. Especially if you use compost. Lol my boyfriend and I have been gardening and composting together for a while. We actually have a random tomato plant that sprouted from a tomato we must have added to our compost pile. Something about eating food from your own garden makes it so much better tasting. It's that sweet hint of pride in every bite haha. Btw your cat Missy is adorable!! Black cats that come to your house on their own valision are sign of good luck and prosperity!! I found this out because I too have a black cat that came to our house and is now a part of our family.

  16. Every Day's a School-Day

    Where I live (on the Isle of Wight in south England) during lockdown we have created a community called Green Island Veg Economy (G.I.V.E). People leave their spare seedlings, plants and seeds outside their houses on little stations, they post to the Facebook Group when they are available, and folks come and collect them. It's entirely money free and for everyone. The Facebook page has also become a source of learning. The experienced gardeners give advice to the newbies. Literally hundreds of people where I live have transformed their gardens, which were mostly just grass, into amazing productive spaces. It has supported many folks through lockdown and boosted mental and physical health across the island!

  19. Alyssa Goodness

    I love my little garden too! I love the idea of connecting to the earth and fueling my body with all the fresh produce!

  20. Ivory Lynn

    This is amazing growth! Once I get a big deck space (moving soon) this is exactly what I envision!

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