Gardening in a Crisis: Survival Gardening 101 and What I am Planting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2020
- It's time to get serious about survival gardening. Here is a quick crash course and a look at what I am doing to prepare.
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In retrospect, I would have planted more toilet paper.
@@gangofgreenhorns2672 HAHA, but you can!!!
Mullein leaf! Grows in the worst dirt, just as solf when it's overly dry as it is on the plant! Crazy COOL cool ;) and it's a sooo much More!
Blessings
and NOW...? good thing YOUR prepared.
I think you got this! 😎
I just hope everyone else is READY. THAT time, I here... right around the corner.
be ready to ALSO, defend what you have. Many others that are not prepared, will come for what "we" have.
Im ready for that issue too.
Wait and see.
@@MsCherokee70 I was about to say if I hadn't ever gardened in my life and wasnt at all prepared I'd join a gang and go take what is ours
How do I get my free member copy of Grow or Die? I can’t find it.
Chances are really good you will never see this comment. But if you ever happen to come across this I want you to know that I have been following your channel for a while. I don't often comment, but I wanted to say something. I have always enjoyed your content and obviously you know a lot about gardening and growing food. But over the last couple of weeks, after watching some of your videos I hadn't seen before I am even more impressed with you as a person. Your compassion for people and your life as a Christian has given me more respect for you. I am thankful for people like you on here. I have started my own gardening channel on here and hope some day it will come to something. I will bide my time, put in the work, and keep watching you and Scott Head along with my other favorites. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for all you do for others.
Thank you - that is very kind of you. If you make a video you are proud of and want me to mention it, let me know. Happy to help.
@@davidthegood Thank you. I will. Keep up the great work.
@@Beltloop29 David the Good is Good People 😂❤😊
Radishes 21 days to harvest, spinach 40-45 days to harvest, lettuce 45 days to harvest, cerrry tomatoes 60 dth, beets 65 dth, most squashes 50 dth, kohlrabi 50 dht. There are lots of fast growing crops that do not take long to grow. Love the video. Lots of useful information.
Also good to pay attention to varieties. Corn, for instance, depending upon variety is 55-90 days to harvest.
I found a tomato variety breed for Canada/Alaska that supposedly only takes about 45-50 days to harvest. Have not tried it yet
Even 21 days is a very long time if you have no food on the shelf or store to go to. No one would make it with so few calories in a collapse situation. This had to be done years back in order to have any type of food security. Many will learn the hard way.
@@JamieSantos yet if they started when you wrote your comment, they’d be harvesting right now😄
@@JamieSantos , keeping a few months to years extra food in your house will give you time to grow things.
Thank you David the GOOD!!
Four years into converting my ornamental space into a sustaining and beautiful space full of bees, butterflies and other wildlife. This morning I harvested pigeon peas, cavendish bananas, mullberries, june plum, papaya and malanga.. so nice to have fresh food without having to go to market. Thank you for your leadership and staying the course. Your planting stamina keeps me inspired.
All the best.
Thank you Lina - you are the best.
I planted Bok Choi. It sprouted in 3 days and 6 days from planting it's over an inch tall. A HUGE morale booster!!!! THANK YOU!!!
There is *NOTHING* that beats the feeling of growing your own Food!
Lucky you. I can't plant anything in my ground. I can't even dig a hole without it taking a full day of banging with the pick axe (if I can last that long and of course I can't ) or several days to complete a hole. Then I have to buy soil to put back in the hole. I have tried several things to help my ground and so far nothing helps
@@carolgreenhill5684 Try growing in totes or boxes. Watch "Robbie and Gary" for more information on growing in totes, boxes, and buckets. They grow tons of food, and make their own soil.
Great Vid. Funny part for me was the his riff on "now's not the time for ideological purity" organic thinking. I have a maintained a medium sized garden for several years strictly low input and all organic. But the other day while at Home Depot I found myself (without planning to) buying backup chemical fertilizer and evil pesticides.. just in case. I'd rather my family have full bellies, then starving to prove I'm more organic then somebody else.
I agree with you. It's in Gods hands and I'm not gonna worry. I'm just gonna grow stuff. 😎🙏🌱
Love your content. We raised our 8 ( plus a nephew and 2 grandkids on lots of garden produce and have been busting it at the age of 60 to try to be prepared to feed our kids and 18 beautiful grandchildren. I hope and pray your children stay closer to their roots than ours have! God bless you and yours!
I really envy you living in a place were growing food is so easy, I live in Norway. This weekend I am going into the woods to my bug-out camp to prepare some mulch beds for potatoes and other crops. The only wild food here is berries, mushrooms, fish and game.
I live in MN. (More similar to where you are) and you just have to store things from summer and fall. Canning, dehydrating etc are your friend.
When you are out in the woods start learning about wild harvest. Eat the weeds!
Can you not make a poly tunnel so you can grow all year long & heat with a small wood stove at night? We are in the mountains in Australia its not cold like
Canada where we are from but it can go down to -10 at night some years & you can grow inside a poly tunnel all winter long. Good luck & God Speed.
@@newsviewstoday5689 Propane or kerosene heaters are used and have been used to heat greenhouses and such.
I am still growing outdoors trying to learn from experience. Potatoes are fairly easy, so this year I'm doing kale, beans, peas, Brussel sprouts and herbs.
I think this pandemic is the universe's way of delivering a hard right hook to the jaw of Modern Man, redirecting the average person towards what everyone should be doing & what we should have never stopped doing. Growing. Food Forests for the win!
*Beansie*
There's no pandemic.
@@Packgammon thank you!
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Usury destroys again the world economy. They have supercomputers to predict that we're very close to the implosion. To avoid the wrath of the many people who will lose about everything they portray a normal flu to be a killer virus - the scapegoat.
Until our sun explodes and all we did is farm
@Backgammon Player
My brother-in-law in law died from COVID-19...... I have friends that are nurses. They tell me everything. This is is NOT the freaking Flu.
You, however could be right about the world economy
A year on, this video is still such an excellent watch.
Even after 2 years
Love to see someone making good decisions when faced with pressure and uncertainty. In fact, it's weird seeing anyone create value instead of scheming and hustling.
Thank you, Jimbo.
All of a sudden my neighbors want to put in a garden. Now that mine is up and a couple weeks from production they are finally getting around to thinking about planting
Gold star for you 💫
The organic purity speech got my sub. Right on.
God bless you David. I've been a fan of yours since early high school. Currently in my second year of university. What a strange time on planet earth.
It will only make us stronger.
Sir, I have four of your books and have generously loaned them. Thank you, and my friends thank you from West-Central Alabama.
Great video! I truly enjoy your sense of humor, the funny background music 🎵, your experimenting figure it hands on approach, without using or suggesting the tens of thousands of dollars in equipment and materials like money is no object like sooo many others do! Thank you
You knocked it out of the park with this one! Thanks! Land and garden look awesome. (I’m in grow or die mode too.)
Hey from N Florida.
We built a greenhouse before all this began.
SunnyDaysSandyToes we live by Destin and we have about to built a greenhouse too. Happy planting
I’m in west central Florida, bought a greenhouse but now that I have it, I think it might be too hot for one here ..??
What do you plan on growing in yours?
@@TamraDL if it's a green house green house you won't really be using it here in Florida. I'm in zone 9B West of ocala florida my greenhouse is on the east side of my house get all morning sun. It was in the 110 yesterday 3-28-21. I actually have tomatoes I grew over the winter in there just got the first fruit of it. Also for starting seeds a few weeks early.
Thank you for the book. We live in South Africa and are going into autumn, which is not so great for gardening. Our harvest this year was small because we did not work our garden as we should have -- 20/20 and all that. However, we have seeds for sprouting and have fair stocks of groceries because we tend to shop infrequently and in bulk. (Thank you, God, for making this our routine!) South Africa goes into a three week lockdown at midnight on Thursday 26 March.
We have been gardening and storing what we eat and eating what we store since we married 49 years ago. It is the way to live without stress and be happy.
Thank you for sharing.
Teaching your kids gardening is a gift, a great education. My parents were elderly, knew how to garden, but did not teach me. So in my 70s, I’ve just moved to Florida and have to learn all over how to garden here. In Minnesota you basically have End of May till Sept to grow. If you’re lucky.
This is so cool! I love when you started holding Corona lolol
As usual this is a great video.
We are all on the same page.
Garden and help other people is the meaning of life. A much greater life than just watching the collapse and doing nothing.
Thank you for sharing.
Just stumbled on this channel through this video in my recommended. Absolutely love it already, funny and to the point
zzzxxc1 If you like smart, punny, goofy but extremely helpful gardeners you found one! He is also an author and his books are on Amazon.
Ohhh...you're in for a treat!
Welcome to the Good club!
David is a super mega ultra gardener supreme, you’ll learn how to compost everything from him
Thank you for your encouraging words and sharing your gift of gardening David. God Bless you and your family always🙏🙏
I just got to watch this. May 31, 2023. I can feel the urgency in your voice and now looking at this video I remember the feeling.
Thanks for your work. Keep it up, actually I need to find a more recent video. I’m sure you have continued the good work.
You are so tight IT IS NOT IN YOUR HANDS! Thank you for this refreshing reality so new to many but thank you sooooo much blessings wished for each and everyone of you!
I dont know if you have time to read all comments but I sooo enjoy the education and open forthright inspiring education that you give!!! Keep it up it works great please thanks david
Thank you
I'm loving the snide Corona comments...I was mandated and gardened my heart out ...thanks David
Been following you for a while, great information and you got me back into gardening last year. I just plant and plant and get surprised at how nature keeps giving back! Thanks
And the sense of self reliance, inspiration and optimism that comes from growing your own food can be life changing
I have been watching your videos lately, I have watched many garden channels and I’m surprised I’ve actually never seen your content! I love it, it’s so empowering! I bought some organic garlic and organic potatoes to get me ready for this coming fall. I do love browsing seed catalogs every year (my family is surprised I have kept every single one since I started my garden) there is something to appreciate about using resources wisely and economically. Thanks for all your content!
Yep, I’m planting up too. Lots of potato, beetroots and carrots, we are heading for winter here, in Australia.
Legend mate, have all your books and branching out into humanure. Family's not on board yet but early days. Compst all our greens and browns, the rubbish bins are in the house but slowly convincing the family that a lot of the rubbish is not. Cardboard is the big one, you need twice as much browns as greens, so don't throw paper products out. Great job with the vids.
Craig Burton We just use an old plastic coffee container on the kitchen counter to collect kitchen veg scraps and then put in a tumbling composter every day. Works beautifully.
@@greenknight4 What kind of tumbling composter do you have? Would you recommend it?
Mariel Grevengoed I have the FCMP Outdoor Tumbling Composter with Two Chambers for Efficient Batch Composting. Got it on clearance from Home Depot
I have to say, we bought a manual, rotary type push mower! I had it on my amazon wish list for a year, and when this FIRST started, I took the plunge and ordered the thing. I am so glad I listened to that small still voice. I have already used it between the rows of my raised bed. It's a bit of a tight fit but it passes through the entire garden.
How hard is it to keep sharp?
Oh man, we want rain! The garden is really coming along. We can’t wait to see how things are coming along month by month.
Our Florida Garden I was just saying the same to my hubby, we need rain down in South Florida too!
Oh yea you guys, Im rain dancing everyday! Were here in south florida. I have so much in the ground but I need RAIN! lol
My water bill is going through the roof! It doesn’t look like we are getting any rain for at least another week or so.
Set up a rain catchment system simple as a tarp, some posts, and a few 5 Gallon Buckets.
David, you are such a blessing. Thanks for all the wisdom and help!
Thanks for the advice, the encouragement and the humor!! Love it... prayers for you and your family too!!
Thank-you for all your incredibly educational videos, they are so down to earth... no pun intended.
I love the content, your sense of humour, the music and lyrics, it all puts a big smile on my face and a feeling of 'I can do this'.
Very much appreciated ❤
We refer to peeing as "making miracle grow" at our house now. Lol
Joy Alba ..lol I like that, miracle grow. 👍😜
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ROTFL!!! 🤣 Love it!!! 😄
Yeah have a banana stand on the side yard that "gets its daily bread"
Grow radishes if you have no food too! You don’t starve to death for about a month and the radishes can be eaten at 10 days if need be! It’s foolproof
David the good you sir are awesome, inspiring, thank you for your generous existence and practice of moral integrity during these trying times. ;)
That’s exactly what Kevin just did! He built a sandpoint shallow well! It is awesome! 😀wild coffee homestead
David the Good, I think you are amazing !!! A big hugh from the Netherlands - Europe. It's a shame but I can't by your books from where I am and without specific money-cards. But all together it doesn't really matter because I have only a very small amount of earth in my backyard to grow something, while I get what I can from the 'wild' herbs God have give to us. ;-) So I will hang on and see you on your stream on yt because it's so much fun and educational. Much love bro and God's blessings to ur family.
Thank you for any help. My moringa made it through its first winter here.
God bless you and your family. From Kurt and I. So glad we have all your books ,a plethora of knowledge! And wear compost your enemies t-shirt every weekend!!! 🙃
Love you, Holly. Thank you.
I finally have a chance to catch up on your older videos. I am starting a food forest after watching your current videos and have planted the black zucchini, Ezekiel watermelon and cosmos I got from your Etsy shop last year in my raised beds. I also what to say what I feel is the most important, thank you for your faith in God and reminding us that He is who controls everything. God bless you and your family.
Thank you. May your gardens prosper!
Hey David, good job brother. Thanks for everything. Keep it up!
Already bought the book! But awesome that you gave it away! Saving lives and feeding people!
Thank God for a voice of reason. I've been thinking this for years and...I like how you said this is an exciting time.
Just found your channel. I have a 24ft by 6ft garden bed from last year, but I am now going to turn my entire backyard into a garden. We live in suburbia, but HOA can't see my backyard so I don't care. Planted okra in the front flower beds last year and they never noticed. We live in southeast Texas. God Bless you and your wonderful family.
HOA'S are Evil encarnate! Glad they can't see your back yard it also keeps the Zombies ( night raiding neighbors) out of the garden.
Some garden plants are beautiful, and can be worked in to ornamental beds. Peas climb and have beautiful flowers. Think about letting a couple of plants going to seed, so that you can collect seeds, in case seeds become scarce.
Thank you for the book David.
I’m so proud of you! My first time your faith is well founded teach your self to speak in faith .Your children need need to hear life come out of your mouth! I’m praying for or you and your family .GODBLESS you and your family
God bless you and your whole family DTG! THANK YOU for the encouragement and good advice!
Happy Mother's Day to Mrs David The Good
We are entering the tribulation, family. Do not fear. Love like it's all you can do.
Your so right !! I wish we could all live in one area together like a village for Christians lol
"When Ye Are Prepared, Ye Shall Not Fear"
Thanks for the reminder! I needed that.
Jehovah Jirah 👏🏻🙏
Thank you for sharing who is really in charge and God bless you and yours and we will keep on gardening just got chickens for the first time ever
Thank you David! We miss ya here in Florida. Be well and all the best to your family:)
Dave, you're a true hands-on stoic! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
Marcus Aurelius is my homeboy.
Love that you are getting your plans done. I'm trying to get my husband to help me with a rainwater system. Thank you for the free book, I have a couple of the others as well.
Thank you, sir! Fellow Floridian here on a barrier island in Satellite Beach. Bought a couple of books, and thank you so much for the kindle. This is an exciting and time for cleansing.
I look forward to gleaning as much wisdom from your channel as I possibly can.
Hey David, just to thank you for your vids and your book!
God bless you and your family, man!
Greetings from Mexico
What a good guy! In hindsidebI really love your healthy perspective on the situation back then. The world needs more down to earth guys like you. Cheers
Thanks
The kids are in the best school they could have, their home and their garden!
I poured ordinary vinegar down an ant hole. I also put an ant bait nearby to kill any remaining ants that were running around. After a couple of days, no more ants!
Thank you for the information and the encouraging words. Both are appreciated.
Thank you.
He’s so funny, but also very informative.
I love your channel! Picked up some good tips for FL gardening too! Yesterday, I did burn pits for seminole pumpkins! Such a great idea! Am sure they will do great w/that method! Can’t wait . Plus you are so funny! LOVED the native you did at beginning of vid. So glad you came up in the feed! 👍
Thank you for the free e-book.
Thanks for the knowledge I've been learning vegetables in my back yard for two half years now.
Loved the video, but the baby was so precious, checking out those leaves. Little angel.
Thank for being real.
You are great! Thank you so much. I know this is years ago, but look at what you foresaw. I bought your gardening book. I will get it when we visit family in the US. Good luck to you and your family. You seem like a good, fun person.
Good ideas from you, I’ll take note!
I was Diagnosed with breast cancer had surgery on my right breast now in April of this year they saw two spots on my right long and I am trusting God for my healing and taking care of my family I live in North Carolina and God bless you David good
May God bless you, keep you and heal you in Jesus' name.
Thank you for this!! I agree 1000% with everything you are saying! We started our garden and are picking up our baby chicks tomorrow! I will be using their poo for fertilizer, great advice. Your humor is much needed right now! I bought some neem oil the other day, do you recommend that? Much love, I’m praying for y’all, actually I’m praying for all of humanity...
I have cornish hens they are so nice!
It's such a blessing to have alot of children.
I just recently ran across your channel and have found it so encouraging. We moved out of a big city and onto 3 rural acres just weeks before the world shut down. So similarly to you, started doing what we could to source things locally and get a garden and animals going here, though it looked different in zone 5b. Over 2 years later, we're expecting baby #7 next month, have planted perennials every year, have a potato patch that is perrenializing now, have hatched and butchered hundreds of chickens, and water glassed more than enough eggs to get through this past winter. The kids have learned SO much, and homeschooling has become much more hands on much faster than planned, but it's been good. God has guided us well, and it's really beautiful to see where he brought us. Enjoying seeing the parallel between our family and yours and the impact of shutdowns and whatnot on both of our large families. We've met a lot of neighbors through this ordeal too. Hope you guys have as well! Keep trusting The Lord!
That is amazing, Rosalie. Baby #7 - what a blessing! Love to you and your family.
Just bought the Audiobook Grow or Die and found the channel. I also ordered the paperback of that and two others. I like having paper references. New to gardening. Just moved into a new place in November. I now have some space to do it. (6 acres, 3 wooded) so I have been planning to do this for a while. Got a bunch of stuff started. Since I'm in Ohio I am hoping to get stuff in the ground in a couple weeks. Good stuff. Thanks for the info.
The good news it that people like you will survive the toughest of times!
I am on an adventure just letting auto-play lead me to whatever David the Good video they think I need next.. It is glorious!
I got the book. I have several others and love them. Thank you!
Jan Beck which other books do you have?
You are so funny! Loved the tour of your garden, it's beautiful. I ordered your Grow or Die book, thank for the generous gift. I went to Audible and purchased the audio book, also, for ... "A laborer is worthy of his hire". Very inspiring video, worth sharing and viewing more than once.
I have watched a lot of gardening videos I am new at it all..and yours is so far the very best one you're completely on my level of thinking when it comes to gardening making it simple and about your beliefs you will be the one that I watch the most I hope you keep making videos
Thank you, Jade. I will.
oh my 2 years old. I just bought 2 of your books. much love to you and yours.
Thank you - I appreciate it.
Thanks for posting this
More than anything I appreciate your encouragement to trust in the Lord with all our hearts!!! thank you brother!!!
Ugh the tomatoes. I only have 3 this year. Planted potatoes in buckets, pots and tubs. Yellow squash, spinach, peppers. beans, sunflowers. Listening to you now I need more potatoes, corn and idk..lol
SunnyDaysSandyToes Everglades tomatoes are what he recommends for Florida
David the Good ROCKS!!
Thanks for the book! I've already potted up pigeon peas and moringa - will be trying them as annuals in my zone 4/5 region. Wasn't planning on many potatoes, but am rethinking that. I also bought Seminole pumpkin seeds, so I hope they arrive soon. I do microgreens indoors too, but want to put up a greenhouse this fall. God bless you!
We appreciate y'all
Loving the song
Good word brother for everyone.
You are on the right track. I will be following you in the days ahead. Be strong and courageous.
Thank you.
Hola! Great to see everyone!
Wow. 😁❤ Thanks for all you do.
Two green thumbs up. Great video, great attitude, great ranting.
Thanks for the inspiration. God bless
Self reliance take care David
You have a beautiful garden / farm. Thank you so much for sharing this 🙏 wonderful video. 🙏 thanks for the encouragement 🙏
And #Thankyou for sharing the epub to your book.
I really like this channel and while I am soaking up all the knowledge you have to offer, I was totally distracted by the adorable toddler at the end.