Action4Canada - April 24, 2026


Cool Apartment Gardening Ideas


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2 minutes

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422

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23

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00:00:00.000 Well, look what you can do in a high rise. This is a fire escape. You can get some planter boxes.
00:00:05.600 It does not impede the fire escape. There on the left is a community garden.
00:00:09.900 You may have a vacant lot somewhere or some friends or maybe you belong to a church that has like a large lot and there's a lot of vacant space.
00:00:18.580 there's uh in the the gardening video i talk about a community uh outside or inside los angeles
00:00:26.860 actually where people actually turn their entire yard into gardens there's no grass to mow
00:00:33.820 and it's beautiful and it's edible and people can actually do that okay so be creative with
00:00:41.100 any space you may have i've actually seen people buy those bags of dirt and please don't buy the
00:00:47.240 one dollar once from dollar store that just says dirt because it's not worth the dirt you're buying
00:00:52.040 it's garbage but buy the ones that that may say like uh miracle grow or the ones that are like
00:00:57.220 better quality and they literally just cut with an exacto knife or a box cutter cut a slit in it 0.92
00:01:03.080 and take some little tomato plants and stick them in right there on your on your concrete or whatever
00:01:08.940 and just water them and you'll actually grow tomato plants in them stake them up that's all
00:01:13.780 you need. OK, so be creative. OK. So next slide. Where do you put all your stuff? Now, I talked a
00:01:25.160 little bit about gardening, but here's what my wife and I do. We get our flyers. We got our flyers
00:01:30.940 today. The sales start on Thursdays. We stock up. We get cans, goods, and we have one of our rooms
00:01:41.460 in the basement has become a stock room. We have invested in industrial shelving from Canadian
00:01:47.040 Tire when they've gone on sale. I think we have four, maybe five or six units, but we have that
00:01:53.740 space. Now, people need to get creative. They say, well, you know, I don't want my house to look like
00:01:59.440 hoarders or whatever. Look at the one on the far right. That is somebody's closet. Now, some people
00:02:05.040 say i have way too much clothes well get rid of it and stock up because if one day one monday you
00:02:12.640 go to the grocery store and they say it's too expensive for the trucks to come and we're not
00:02:17.840 getting any food anymore you'll be happy your closet looks like the one on the right