Hawaii Victory Garden 101 PT 1

Aloha Everyone!  It's nice to be back after my healing and bonding time with my newest little one, Eve. We are doing well and the whole family is excited to be on a new adventure with organic home victory gardening!  It was suggested to my husband and I that we film how we do what we do during this adventure so that others can learn that it is possible and hopefully start one of their own.  So off we go....WEEEEEEEE!

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Our goal is to make our victory garden in the most sustainable and economic way we can while staying as organic as possible.  And we will show you just what we did to do that.

Of course after we filmed this we realized we left some resource info out, so here is a complete list of resources that we have used or have been advised of.  Please feel free to include your input and feedback from your experiences in gardening in the comment section below!

Military Folks-  We got our wood from a Hickam scrap pile near the Mobile Diving Unit.  All we had to do was ask if we could have it and load it up ourselves, FREE.

Freecycle Honolulu We were very blessed to receive organic compost with worms in it for the extra yumminess of our soil.  It's also just a great resource in general for just about ANYTHING.  We've gotten food, clothes, beds, tvs, baby stuff galore...etc.  I am sure you could use this site for your gardening needs, just ask, post a "Wanted" and see what happens.  You'd be surprised what you can get on there!

Honolulu Zoo I was told that they do give away free organic compost but I never tried it nor do I have any contact info, so if anyone knows anything more about this, please post it in the comment section below.

Pearl City Home Depot- If you go to the back parking lot of home depot in Pearl City, you will find a garden section near it that gives away free mulch.  It's the Oahu Urban Garden Center, ran by the University of Hawaii. If you have more info on this site, let me know in the comment section below.

Re-Use Hawaii Is an AMAZING place!  I want to stay there for a whole weekend, like a hotel!  Seriously, it is like a Home Depot or Lowes and has just about everything you could possibly need to build or maintain your garden and even things for your home.  Cheap, cheap, cheap!  We got our nails and hanging fixtures there and will be going back for more wood lattices to help our plants grow upwards.

Menehune Magic Soil This soil is composed of...


Lawn & Garden Blend $37 per cubic yard
60% Menehune MAGIC Compost
40% Screened Soil
11-52-0 Fertilizer

They also have FREE MUCLCH at their Kapolei site and will grind your wood for free (so I hear). If you can find a cheaper resource with this kind of quality on the Island, let me know in the comment section below!

John from Growing Your Greens.com This guy is our inspiration!  Well one of them at least, he has a how-to video on just about everything you can imagine for home planter bed gardens and how to make the most of small spaces.  I highly recommend checking him out. 

Back to Eden Video- This was our founding inspiration for doing what we are doing.  I definitely recommend watching this amazing man and what he has accomplished with his home garden.  This is also a helpful video of how to grow your garden on your lawn (grass lawn), for those that aren't doing planter beds.  You can find a sample of the video here.