Better Gardening Through Experimentation (full movie by David The Good)
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- Want to learn how to garden - and learn from your mistakes? This presentation is for you.
Back in 2016 I cut through the tendons in my hand and got invited to participate in Marjory Wildcraft's Home Grown Food Summit. So, cast on hand, I went for it! Here's the film I produced for the event, free at last.
In this presentation you'll learn how gardening mistakes can lead to gardening success. And we cover easy composting, growing fruit trees from seed, more food for less work, testing new varieties and learning from every garden. It's gardening science meets fun - enjoy. Learn how to garden and learn how to succeed with gardening encouragement from David The Good in "Better Gardening through Experimentation." Also featuring a special appearance from the Meadow Creature Broadfork.
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I guess you learned that when TSHTF, community supersedes whatever garden situation you’ve got going on. That’s a major lesson.
How can anyone call bacteria bad, Scientists have only identified 3% of them, I don't think anything is that bad, everything has a purpose, everything breaks down, even us.
It isn't an experiment unless it is peer reviewed! How many times do we have to tell you, it HAS TO BE IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL!
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Literally have been following a guy from Australia and most of the advice has been good. Finding you has been even a better source of information.
Wow, I was throwing scraps in a kiddy pool and the chickens got in there a couple of times. I was supposed to go dump it but a nut squash was growing so nice. So I threw in a zuccini and a Seminole pumpkin. Cool.
I'm literary a sponge on all the good nuggets in these videos
THANK YOU
Thank you!
Thank you for your knowledge and humor, David.
The iconic Florida man! 😂❤️
Thank you for this message! This winter has been so depressing that it hasn't been until this week that I've been up to getting back out there. Gardening is an act of optimism every time. Here's to an educational growing season 😀
You too, Helen.
I love it when I heard you saying “ you love the grain corn instead of the sweet corn that gives a lot of sugary stuff’.
"Failing toward success"--awesome advice, this is the video that got me to subscribe--thanks for the encouragement!
Thank you. Welcome, Raven.
You’re amazing. I love that you’re not afraid to explore new things. :) I was getting disappointed every time something died but over time I was like, well... I’ll plant something else and in bigger quantities to see if they grow better or more survive 🤙🏽. Aloha.
It's great to revisit older videos.
Full movie is right 😂 I think I'll have to come back to finish it. Thanks for throwing the rules out of the window. Highlight of my day. I grew a morning glory in a 4 inch pot. That was an experiment. Growing corn in grain bags worked but not well. That was my other experiment. My favorite corn is silver queen. Its tiny tender white kernels are so good they don't need butter or salt. I made it through the whole video without having to come back. That says a lot about you David. I have zero attention span. Great info! I can't believe I hadn't seen this one. I'm glad yt brought it up into my feed.
You talked about the refuge pit. I found this out by accident when I was young (50years ago). We planted tomatoes on the Sunnyside of the house. We grew tremendous toms for three years, then the septic tank cave in. 😎☕
Got all my fingers and still own 5 five David the Good books and lots of food growing.
Regarding tomatoes and sea water -- I have heard stressing the plant lightly greatly improves the flavor of tomatoes (the stress induces different plant chemicals that improve flavor). Tomato peeps say mix an aspirin in a gal of water and give that to stress them a bit and the fruit tastes great which is the same principle.
In the PNW, deeply jealous of the jackfruit trees! Thanks for the lessons.
I just got my meta creature and I love it! I'm a 60 year old overweight woman but I can weild this thing pretty easily. Used it to dig up an spot for a elephant ear bulb. More to come!
If you have trouble growing sweet basil (im in fl so, possibly because it dries out a lot) , try growing it in the same pot or area as aloe vera, our tiny basil plant accidentally spread to our aloe vera pot and it went crazy and grew to 5 feet tall, we had enough dried basil to last for years
I like gardening ..but i'm lazy so i'm going to do it your way for a while. Great video. You and Rachel are awesome : )
Elotes (roasted corn with butter, chili, and lime) - yum.
This is fun. Thanks for sharing. Hugs.
Thanks cant explain how great your education and encouraging helps out is!!!
Thank you. Clear and concise, as usual, with jokes, of course, to lighten things up, as usual. Well, hurting you hand was not a joke...sorry that happened.. I am glad that our bodies heal!!!! I LOVE the way that you simplify techniques!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am DEEPLY comforted by your confession that you have killed plants, too, in your learning process. My first garden was quite small, and I studied all techniques and processes deeply all during the previous winter, and was living in the farmhouse that had been the home of one of the largest land owners growing wheat and calves in SE Washington, who had put manure in the garden spot for decades, and this was in 1969, before the worst of the chemical weed killers, etc. and the landowner tilled it for me. We had spring water so NO water bill (rent for the 8 room farmhouse was $50 a month !!! It was totally isolated at the end of the road) :) It required almost no work from me. And the garden was mind boggling. It was a revelation of the beneficent nature of reality which I sorely needed in that dark time of assassinations and war........ I was blown away. It was a fromative moment of regaining and deepening my faith in reality. So now we are establishing a 1/4 acre permaculture food forest on land that had been a suburban yard since 1980, and a worn out dairy farm before that. CLAY!!! soil, ROCKS! compaction !!!!, about 75 square yards of gravel and weed barrier cloth to remove....in Portland, Oregon, learning it all from the beginning stages on....so I am sure you can imagine that every plant I have tried has not thrived. We are getting somewhere and some things have blown me away with their vitality....Nettles LOVE the Pacific Northwest and we LOVE nettles....and some have failed. I feel VERY bad when I fail at anything...so I was getting too down on myself....so your honesty just saves my soul. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And thus very helpful. I will follow your lead and keep experimenting and not give up and plant a lot of different things :) .Blessings Always :)
I’m having a hard hard time with maranga trees in Texas. So encouraging you are. Love this.
Thanks for the great video, always good content.
David the good the Bob Ross of gardening.
Got a tasty apple at the market called “opal” and stratifying the seeds, in the cores, all winter in a jar in the unheated mud room. Going to plant them this spring, when our other apple trees start budding. I think I’ll do some in pots, and others in the orchard itself. Was inspired by another of your videos to do it. So. Cool. Thanks, David.
Awesome!
Failing toward succes! Yes!
Thank you David, I needed to hear that. My garden made it through the hot summer and winter. ❤I have been covering and uncovering each night to avoid damage from 32-30 degree weather here in California. Late last night it was 47 so I let everything be... Yep Woke up to FIRST SNOW LAYER 😱 Feb 27.
Oh man. I'm sorry.
"For the next hour" you're going to watch a 38 minute video. Damn good one at that.
It's one of those new, smaller portion hours they're using thanks to inflation. Like the 12oz bag of corn chips replacing the 16oz.
Commercials removed for your viewing pleasure... You know, like the nutrients were from store-bought produce.
Also apparently 3 people don't want to have fun gardening....just follow directions....stay in the box. David is Good anyway.
I really liked the compost tea he made! Watched his videos until I almost fell asleep at the computer and had to stop and picked it up again tonight.
It was an hour in 2016 time. Turns out the Federal Reserve is printing time like crazy.....
Tons of good info. I love to experiment in the garden. Thank you
you: corn, dark history
me: OMG, he's a cereal killer!
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This is awesome it's like you're in a whole new playground I am excited for you guys
You are right about the garden beds
I had to replace them.
Saw this the first time during the summit. Watched the whole thing again b/c I forgot how much great info there was! Just FYI watching this video during the summit is what addicted me to your YT channel. Hope all is well at the new house! 👍
Thank you. All is well. Still waiting for land nearby to be cleared. I'm tempted to buy a chainsaw and do it myself.
I bought some Everglades Tomato seeds. Poor germination! I believe there were 20 seeds and my germination was 4 tomato plants and compared to the other tomato seeds (heirlooms) I planted at the same time, they looked puny and scraggly. But I managed to save them.
80 degree days have turned rather chilly, so I suppose I'll see how they like the night temps back down in the 40's.
(copyrighted)As for growing tomatoes in FL, I grew so many two years ago that we are still eating on them and I didn't plant anymore until this year. I canned spaghetti sauce, vegetable soup, stewed tomatoes, canned tomatoes, I got so sick of canning them.... But the tomatoes came up out of the chicken manure that I put in 4 tree pots (HUGE!!!). Those pots were beneath a pine tree. I put the manure in there to let it age for spring. Before the last frost on the 15th, I went out planning on preparing the beds for planting and low and behold! I had several hundred tomato plants that came up by themselves, survived a frost and were about a foot tall! It pays to feed your chickens the leftovers from canning!
I transplanted as many as I had space for and gave a ton of them away. Best tomato harvest I ever had down here in FL. I mulched them heavily and planted them so that they had afternoon shade. I added rabbit manure during the growing season. My shelves are 2' x 4' and I filled up at least 2 1/2 shelves with tomato products that I canned myself, besides eating a salad almost every day during the year and using them fresh in sauces..
You CAN grow good tomatoes in FL, but you have to really keep them out of the afternoon sun or they will cook on the vine (An old Florida Cracker taught me that!). During the hottest part of the summer, you have to water them every day and sometimes twice a day depending on the heat and the humidity. And of course, the more you water, the more you have to fertilize.
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I finally lost them when hurricane season hit full blast and my backyard flooded 6 inches deep. Does that almost every year.
I have the Back to Eden video to thank for that success! Mulching really saves my garden. I grow all the way up to hurricane season and that's when the water gets so deep I can't do anything back there.
i can't give this a bigger thumbs up!!
You have good natural personality. Your entertaining. 👍
Very inspiring! Thank you
Thanks! That's right because we have unique environment, soil and climate in different places! I usually do experimentation too, but in small quantity only. Happy Gardening to all!
Thank you
Thank you practically I am practican what you have Thought me,and it works, thank you mi amigo David.
yes, have fun!
Awesome 👌composting gardening tips 👌😀
Your a great couple that have enough interest in growing to make it work.
such a good doumentary movie you got skill DA GOOD
Great video!!
Great vid as ever
Good one! Glad I watched. Thanks David. Hope the tendons healed up nicely.
Yes. They aren't what they used to be and still hurt, but I'm glad they work.
Thank you
You brought the fun back to my gardening. So many failures when we moved from NY to Florida.
Thank you.
Yes... my compost pile has produced me many seedlings and I too compost in garden beds!
I am looking forward to you gardening in the new place. Definitely a challenge, but I am betting on you to make it work.
Thanks, Chris.
Love the shirt. You and me and the fashion police will have to rumble.
Came here because I just listened to your Compost Everything on Audible. First time composting. I am having fun trying out your techniques. Thank you for sharing what you do!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love Audible.
Compost in place !!!
Strange how people don't read the information below the video and ask about your hand. Have a great weekend. Best wishes Bob.
This is top level boss stuff...fantastic site!
Glad to see this video from you. My apricot seeds are stratified nicely with long roots in the fridge. I bought some open hybrid corn as well as squash from Bill Merrill and want to start it indoors here in Pittsburgh come March. I will then plant it on some compost in a sunny location in my back yard. I will let you know how it goes😃🤙
Good luck, Thomas.
good work!
I think U need to be the primary advisor for the world's agricultural society to feed the people & if there is no such thing U 2 should start one😉😊👍
Thank you. I'm just a backyard gardener.
I love your videos!👍🏻☺️
That what I do 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️!!!
Bless your heart,hope you get well soon. Like seeing your wife tips. Hope to see another You Tube soon.
I'm fine, thank you. This was recorded about a year and a half ago, back when I was recovering from a machete injury. All the best!
Aunt Bettys.... Very nice touch! And love the video.
Miss your videos so much and it's basically Spring in Ocala FL. Come back!
Thank you, Jennifer. Whoa - you know Aunt Bettys? You're the first one.
David The Good yes but I have to give my ex credit for that one, I didn't know any of their music before.
Awesome shirt
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! perfect anti-dote to my attachment to being a "good" gardener!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just what I needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought 10 strawberry crowns and planted them in 5 different locations so we'll see where they grow best. I even planted one straight in the red Georgia clay so we'll see what happens with that... :D Great vidya!
Great. Good luck.
"The ocean is very savory" - David the Good
Excellent video! I can tell you put a lot of effort into it. It shows! It is keeping up my excitement for springtime, I have been building up organic matter all winter and have an experimental deep hay bale garden that I started putting together last fall that I am sure will teach me a lot!
Good luck!
Great great video brother ❤️❤️❤️😊❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏!!!
I love to do experiments too. Years ago I peeled a 🍓 and I put it on top of the dirt and put on top more dirt but I didn't know that the lizards loves baby strawberries. I decide to do it around again and made a video and I shut the camera and I it fell down and they died. But I got happy to see a baby strawberrie.
Your awesome
I hereby bequeath the following acronym for this amazing wonder-juice used now the world over as DTGF (David The Good Fertilizer)! :D
I planted a bunch of different types of lemons, lime and strawberries from store baught fruit . The trees look good. it's a time investment, but great.
I like your style, it’s fun
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Thank you, Ella. Glad you are here.
Planting trees from seeds you leave out one very important thing a lot of varieties require a cross pollinator so don't expect to just get your fruit by planting a seed from one variety when you don't have the pollinator to go with it
yet another great video. Think I found a lunchbox pepper seedling in compost pile today. Maybe it's a little late to start one here and maybe it's not even a vegetable but I potted him up anyway as an experiment
Good work!
Oh I love the corn.. Aloha
I'm really a sucker for corn varieties. I've got a couple more I'm dying to try this year.
David the yakuza 😂✌🏻 Jamaica grows a ton of “herbs” inside of tires on soil Seems to work 🤔🙏🏻
David Don´t let anyone tell you that shirt is too bright. It has got to be to best pollinator attraction in the whole garden. Great throw back vid. I am looking forward to the new adventures of David and Rachel. I do hope you find a worthy plot of land to share with us.
Thank you.
You have been MIA for so long! I hope all is well with you and your family.
Yes, thank you.
I found your melon pits also work well with cabbage, however my escaping chickens from their pen ate the cabbage plants before the cabbage could go into anything remotely looking like a cabbage ball. Those jerks. I hope to try it again.
Chickens really are jerks.
I think the red corn is called strawberry. Baker Creek has that variety. Its supposed to be good for popcorn.
oh! grafting! yes, I have two junk Apple trees and one I want to clone!
Nice property
I always wanted to know more about corn.
Yeah... I keep trying with zucchini squash. They die from squash bugs every year, whereas my neighbors grow tons of them successfully.
Have you asked them what they're doing? I would start there. Might be a variety, might be the way they're growing them.
They have distraction plants such as marigolds? They may have had some other plants in their garden that distracted them and yours just looked like a feast with easy eating ?
Yolanda on Pinterest someone mentioned growing Icicle Radishes beside the Squash, and letting them flower to deter the borers.
Awesome vid we are the exact type of gardener which gives me hope cuz i know someday il be on a property lolike yours right wheb u said iv killed more plants then most people have grown i knew you know what ur talkin bout cuz ditto
They should have taken the whike hand for that shirt. Glad you've found manly pearl button shirts now.
My Lord you are full of fantastic gardening info! And your humor just kills me. Anyhew, what are the chances I can get some JAck fruit seeds? Willing to purchase. I live wayyy south Florida. I think it would grow here.
Do you do anything for the Bees? Hmmmm
How about growing some Morenga?
OK, off to urinate on my flower beds.
let me know about the Jack fruit. Thanks for everything.
O David i tryed many times to graft on my hand. Belive me in that you dont have to try any more ;) it isnt working xD the rest of the experiments keep going so i can learn from you :)
Thanks David. Amazing video... not so sure about that shirt though!
It's from a thrift store - and it was actually made in Hawaii. Vintage. That doesn't mean it's tasteful, of course. Just that it's #authentic.
Andrew Vidler oh, vote yes on awesome tropical shirt colors ..lol
You crack me up.
What country are you in? Your Channel is incredible.
Central America.
David The Good I used to have Property in Jaco Beach Costa Rica and in Punta Arenas. Also lived in Panama for a year in 87
Watermelon :. As my grandpa taught me, Make a hill , need 5' inside a circle, lots of sun,
Get a quart can about 1" from bottom four 16D nail holes into the four sides.
Fill 1/4 full of course sand
Fill 1/4 full of Older chicken poop.
Fill one inch on top of more sand.
On your hill bury the can one inch above the level of hill.
Plant watermelon seeds out about 1-2" from where the holes will drain from the can as you fill the can daily
Okay enjoy your watermelons (also canolope)
Great video brother what happened to your hand 🤚🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️!!!
NO RULES!!! GOD SAVE THE 🌽 GREAT JOB SIR 👏
Thanks.
What's that yummy song towards the end man?
fundening
No idea where the Missouri Pipe Corn seed went but its not listed anywhere for sale today?
Damn it David! LOL!
Hope your finger heals up quickly, bit rough to do much with one hand.
It's okay - old recording, old injury. I've long since healed.
Thank GOODNESS! I should have read the description.
Thanks for the laughs! I don't think I could have handled it as well as you did.