Outdoor Garden

2018 Outdoor garden

How much produce can be grown in 64 square feet in a Chicago backyard? Follow along to find out.

Featured Blog Posts

Setting Up the Outdoor Garden

Apr 29, 2018

Setting Up the Outdoor Garden

Apr 29, 2018

Apr 29, 2018

Week 6 Update and 1st Salad Harvest!

Mar 26, 2018

Week 6 Update and 1st Salad Harvest!

Mar 26, 2018

Mar 26, 2018

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Produce Output (Servings)

Produce Eaten Over Time ($)

Vinestotines Instagram

You guys, we went out of town for 5 days. 5 days! And this isn’t even the beets, green onions, beans, etc. crazy. .
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First tomato is turning red!!

Look at these beautiful #beets! Outrageous!

Tonight’s salad harvest! #radishes #arugula #redlettuce #redromaine #romainelettuce

Exciting! We have our first two tomatoes already! Much faster than last year for some reason. Large red cherry tomato ftw!
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Radishes and chives for days!!

Our first real harvest of the season! After eating out the last few days, this was sorely needed. Dinner was absolutely littered with garden herbs!
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Ceremonial first radish of the season! .
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Finally got around to thinning my seedlings and now I have delicious microgreens!
#chicagogardening #vegetablegardening #urbangarden #urbangardening #vegetablegarden #microgreens #seedlings #radishes #peas #peashoots #lettuce

Another (and hopefully the last!) “after the snow storm” shot. They were looking a little droopy yesterday, but have bounced back! Looks like it’s time to thin them out soon...

After the snow storm, we grill!! #grilledveggies #veggies #christosanesti #grilling

Transplants are coming along well under the grow lights! Just a few more weeks indoors to go...

Looks like all the seeds I planted before the snow storm survived!! 💪💪 #earlyplanting #chicagogarden #urbanvegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegarden

#chives #unbreakable #chicago #spring

And now starts my months-long quest to #tamethechive
#chives #vegetablegardening #springvegetables #urbangardening #urbanvegetablegarden #chicagogardening

DRUMROLL PLEASE.... and the winner for first seedling of the 2019 grow season is.... SCARLET KALE!! Very impressive after only 4 days! Now time to get the grow lights set up... Follow along to see how much produce I can grow in a small backyard!

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