From Grass Lawn to BACKYARD EDEN in JUST 9 Months!
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- Take a tour of David The Good's new Grocery Row Garden system!
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Today we tour the Grocery Row Gardens created by David The Good, in his Lower Alabama backyard.
In this permaculture garden, trees and shrubs and herbs, flowers and vegetables and vines, all grow together in an organized system.
This is a Zone 8b garden, with many perennial crops, including mulberry, chestnut, elderberry, taro, cassava, Dioscorea yams, apple, pear, peach, Goumi berry, Jerusalem artichoke, yacon, green onions and more.
A Grocery Row Garden system is a food forest that is kept in a row system, allowing greater edges and more control. We use the "Grow a Little Fruit Tree" method of pruning fruit trees small to keep them growing in the rows, then build vegetable gardens around our backyard orchard, all in long, no-till garden beds.
Today we see what a Grocery Row Garden looks like only about eight months after planting in the fall. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
We are really blessed to have land of our own again. Today we look through the gardens, and see what a little hard work can do in less than a year!
You can get the little Grocery Row Gardening book here: amzn.to/43ptBHi
Thank you for watching.
everglades doing well here, let Ms Good gardens I thank her!
Couldn't be prouder you picked Bama, and, I hope you decide to stay a while!
We are also blessed by you having that land too! Grateful for you brother. Thanks for sharing knowledge & inspiration with us!
I've never been able to keep mint alive.
Last year, my tomatoes were plagued by aphids. Instead of spraying, I waited.
Within a week, I had more ladybugs than I've ever seen!
I'm an atheist myself, but you're my favorite type of Christians. Love your work. Love your family. Trying to follow and understand.
Thank you, Solenya. I will pray you meet our maker on great terms. Love to you and your family.
You are fortunate to have all those plants and seeds from friends, not only because it jump-starts your garden, but also to remind you of friendship.
a couple years ago, I prayed for you after seeing all the hard work you put into other people's land and I said " Lord, please make a way for them to have their own land". As you said, " God is Good".
Thank you so very much.
David the good is a high energy Chad
Who's Chad?
@@melanielinkous8746Who isn’t Chad?! Let’s get it!! 🤘🏻
@@melanielinkous8746 look up the Chad meme. A “Chad” can be seen as the alpha male who is following the correct path.
Not even close to a Chad. Do u see preppy frat boys gardening? No dummy
@Samuel Korger correct for who tho?😅😅
So excellent. We transformed our barren wasteland of a back yard in 1 year! Thank you for all y'alls wisdom and easy guidance to accomplish it! Blessings from East Texas🌻
Rock on! I would love to see pictures.
I am dying! I can watch you walk in the grocery row every day! It's the coolest system ever! Thank you David!
DTG? Sentimental? Say it isn't so! Says the man who cuts flowers for his wife after however many years and 11? children? You certainly know how to do it right. May you always have plenty to feed your body and soul. Thanks for a beautiful tour.
This is such an inspiration! My garden rows are quite the experimental MESS but I love it. I planted some scattered zinnias so that I could see some beauty in the chaos and keep going-especially since it’s so hot, dry and full of mosquitoes in South Texas right now.
Florida too.
Yes, wasps are super helpful in the garden. They're like ninjas with wings.
You can select for non-people-aggressive wasps, just spray any wasp nest that has wasps that swoop or chase people and ignore the wasps that ignore you! 🐝 I have a garden full of wasps and havent ever been stung- even when I've accidentally hacked into a nest (i did sprint away after that mistake lol- but made it with no injuries!) The wasps are happy to coexist, but they do scare away the door to door salesmen and anyone who is afraid of bugs!
That's interesting. But I thought I read somewhere that their aggressiveness is partly due to time of year? Something about when there are plenty of flowers they leave you alone, but as the flowers die down they start looking for alternatives, which might be at your backyard BBQ?
I never spray insects. Too many unknowns about their behavior. One wasp kind lays eggs on hornworms that kill the hornworm.
As a former Letter Carrier I was amused by your use of mailboxes in your garden. I remember opening the many mailboxes and seeing peering wasp eyes staring back. Of course I slammed those boxes shut and took off! Lol
It was our mailman that gave me the idea! He kept having to spray mailboxes, so I thought... hey now... if that's where they like to build...
@@davidthegood yes that’s EXACTLY their dream home!
I love what you said about food for the soul. So awesome. Many blessings your way! Beautiful garden.
"The only thing more aggressive than mint" haha...my chickens made the 3 yr old section of mint disappear! 😢
would love for you to talk more in depth about your medicinal plants and the way your family uses them. 1 plant per episode.
Be Your Own Doctor is a good book for that and I think David has even read it.
Seeing your kids working in the garden is so wonderful to see! Its to bad that most children will never have that opportunity.. The world would be a better place if they did!
Thank You David for sharing your gift of growing with us! I am so thankful to our Heavenly Father for bringing you into our lives! Living in central Florida made me feel like a gardening failure, until the Lord brought your TH-cam channel to my attention!
As they say 'there is a method to your madness'. I love it so much that I just bought a couple of your books.
Thank you, Dianne.
Fun fact, wasps are extremely intelligent. They respond like a cat. If you don't attack them they usually don't mess with you. Also, don't get afraid. They sense it. They are like tiny animals as oppose to bugs.
They do seem to take extreme exception to being picked out of hair though. 😆 (I didn't know what it was.) Fortunately I was able to run some cold water over the sting, and then put on a spritz of Benadryl spray, so it wasn't a problem.
My family wants to eradicate every wasp, and I was of that mindset too, after one stung me on the eyebrow and my whole face swole up. But I noticed something wonderful this year... Almost no tomato hornworms, and very few other garden pests. And when I'm out there morning and evening (it's far too hot midday), I can see wasps hovering and hunting like little evil helicopter drones among the garden plants. When I'm in the garden, they don't bother me at all. We pass each other in the rows and say howdy to each other. It's only when they're trying to make a nest in my porch ceiling and I'm trying to sit on the porch that they attack me. And I'm not even scared, so they're not attacking me for that reason. So, maybe I'll put mailboxes around the garden like David did. It may even be worth getting stung to have such excellent garden predators!
@@oneperson5760 They really are amazing. I just feel for anyone who is allergic.
Hey sweetie, please show us how you do your pickling cucumbers. Would love to see a video. Glad to see you guys are doing so well. God bless y’all.
Second that I would love to try a way without the vinegar like he mentioned.
th-cam.com/video/QIeY1GG31Cs/w-d-xo.html
Your garden is beautiful...feeding the body and the soul...both equally important. So happy you have your own land now. 🥰😍😎 How lovely it must be to have 'soil' 😊
Beautiful 🙏25:39...the Lord made these things for us to make us happy because He loves His people! Thank you.
It's astounding what you've accomplished there! It was so fun seeing it all. 😊
Garden is looking amazing. LOVE your Pot......plants.
I have so enjoyed watching you develop your grocery row system over the past few years. I have developed my own northern version of mixed bed grocery row garden. All no till because I'm lazy . All mixed beds because it's pretty and I never have time to plant everything at once. My orchard trees have never had a worm in the fruit. I also add lots of flowers cuz they are pretty. I often let things go to seed for the pollinators and seed saving. You have made me a braver gardener.😊
I really enjoyed this tour. I agree with your idea of bringing beauty into the garden to feed the soul. God is good and he gives good gifts to us.
Thanks for the info about the wasps. I had no idea. wasps flying around in my backyard. I’ve left them alone, but I’m glad that they are useful for eating the caterpillars. That’s really good to know.
I'm doing more than reading Grocery Row gardening. I'm doing it.
Wasps are god sent protectors of the garden!
I had few pollinators . I planted an entire cutting flower garden. The pollinators came last year I’m excited to see who arrives this year! I got the groceryrow book. I want to end up ingrocery rows
There are times when my fruit trees are in full bloom and I see no pollinators. All I have to do is go stand under my cherry trees and all the pollinators I can't see I can hear. Sounds like a whole hive is in there pollinating
@@maryjane-vx4dd ….. I was just standing by my raspberry patch and the noise in there is amazing!♥️
I never realized wasps can be beneficial to my garden. Thanks for the info!
Rabbits lay in my catnip as well lol
I am considered pretty knowledgeable about plants amongst my friends and family but I ALWAYS learn something in every video you make. 🤯🤯
he is the best. has completely changed my approach to gardening
That is really kind of both of you.
Had a slow apple awaking here in central Texas too and so far no showing of fruit growth. But hey it’s still a tree that’ll work one year or another! Also our first year growing elderberry….by accident… planted a blueberry. It died. Then an elderberry decided to just show up! Not mad
Thanks for showing us around
This has been a wonderful metamorphosis, DTG ! So excited for you in your own piece of heaven... So glad you have mullein. I have tried to grow it in Central FL and can't. Thanks for the tour ~ looking forward to the ongoing journey💚💚
Amazing progress in 9 months!! Your thumb is always green 😊
Learn so much from you. Thanks!
Thank you, Bonnie.
Wow, David! It's amazing what you have grown in 9 months. I hope we will be able to do 25% of what you have done when we move to our property.
You can do it.
Pow pow pow! Super high energy comment! Yeeah buddy! Woo! 😃🌱🐢
25:30ish Beauty and feeding the soul and body...I needed to hear this. Thank you DTG.
David, you need to make a "N.O.G.R.A.S.S." T-shirt. "Based on a bunch of scientific principles." The Canna Musaefolias I bought from your etsy store are about 5 feet tall right now and flowering. Very beautiful. Thanks for all you do.
Wow! What an impressive garden!
I had a wasp land on my water sprayer today. It leaks, so I hung it up and did something else. It was just flying off when I came back. I’ve been seeing way more pollinators this year with all the flowers I have going. Thanks for the tour!
In Hawaii we wrap pork butt chunks soaked in water/liquid smoke, taro root & yams with the liquid smoke water in the Taro leave. Then wrap that in a Banana leave. Cover in foil and roast in the oven. You can add sliced Collard leaves as well to add more flavor and veg. Eat it with steamed white rice. In Hawaii we say ONO!!!! Discard the Banana leave.
A thing to remember about Lantana they are beautiful and they do attract butterflies but they also will poison cows so be careful not to let them in your cow pasture when they spread. I sure you know this but some people don't.
Great garden and awesome tour. I love watching your videos. I have learned so much, thanks David!
Thank you.
David, ypu still crack me up! Your mind wanders like mine. Hahaha😂. Do you ever grow borage? So easy , pretty, edible, and prevents some pests. My garden is starting to look like yours!
I just got a borage plant, so I will be. Thank you.
I knew wasps were good, but never knew they were this awesome. Every since I put in a butterfly garden, my wasp game is pretty strong. Now it makes sense why I dont have some of the bug pressure others have.
You sold me the book I have learned a lot from you over the years - keep em comin
Thank you, Lane.
I absolutely love sweet potato greens. Oh my gosh. So good. This yr I planted alot of em specifically for the leaves. I'm so looking forward to eating them.
Your gardens are just beautiful. Love your humor
I just learned that I have guava strawberries! Beautiful, beautiful and tasty. It's producing billions of fruit. I've had on property for years, never really investigated it. Now I am ecstatic
Wow, Palestrina! Music history revisited.🌺🇨🇦
I can't believe you did all that in 9 months. Awesome
Thank you. We pushed hard after our move.
Even though I am zone 6 and I've only been a viewer/reader for a couple of years, as I was reading the tobacco booklet and subsequently ordering seeds from Victory I realized that DTG has way too much influence on my gardening activities 🤣 however I'll likely be very pleased with my own landrace seeds and fruits that my trees will produce. The anarchy gardening approach is perfect for me despite all my well made "plans" and drawings I produce in the winter I end up putting seeds everywhere (including starts in the compost) having the attitude of if it can make it it's worth growing again.
Thank you David for your catalog of material from blogs and books to the videos and music.
PS I am growing eggplant this year even though I don't think I like it (I'm gonna try it again) because if nothing else it's a beautiful plant that adds beautiful color to the garden.
Thank you. I love eggplant, even though I am slightly allergic to it.
@@davidthegood Hey David, I was browsing y'alls Merch selection (and grabbed a few items) last night and would like to make a request. V-neck ladies T-shirts... I don't mean like a deep plunge, cleavage revealing V-neck it only needs to be a bit of neck flare to break up the uniboob for the larger chested ladies, Thanks for the consideration 👍
I’m so happy you’ve posted a new grocery row garden tour! Everything is looking great. I’m in the process of converting my garden to grocery row gardens. I still have a couple of raised beds with stuff growing in them that still need to come out and go into the rows. Hopefully by the fall it will be completed 💜.
I wish my dad was like David the Good were he encouraged me to grow food and teach me how to grow like a professional gardeners.
Get that mint into a pot then sink it because it will take over! Love what you’ve done!
Veg and flowers can't be beat👍
Thanks again for sharing your 9 months update! I got Ezekiel's seed a few weeks back and there are some that are doing exteemely great, others just didn't. And that's OK. Ezekiel did a great job to headstart my own landrace melons in west-central Georgia!
I would love to see what comes out. I know he added about 10 more seed lines to this mix.
I will keep you posted!
You sound so mature and full of gratitude. I love it! God bless and congrats on your new property.
Thank you. God is good.
Your garden looks very good for 9 months of progress. I like your gardening style. You're exactly right about the infrequent rains causing your tomatos to split. The only way to counter that is to water regularly to maintain a consistent turgidity in the plant. It's more work, but it would give you much better harvests of the larger tomatos, which are more prone to splitting.
beauty and whimsy feed the soul
Think of it as feeding your very own soul soil
feed you soil soul
I love your weed-free grass clipping mulch. So much so, that I want to do that and then sleep in the garden at night on the cushy mulch, under the stars and among the plants. Maybe I'd see a hummingbird moth and lightning bugs. (more likely, mosquitoes would come and carry me away)
I need to tell my son to let a section of the pasture grow tall, so I can get some hay for garden mulch.
I really enjoyed the walk-through! Thanks for sharing this with us. I especially enjoyed your kids doing stuff in the background, and the happy cow walking along. My kids will work in the garden, especially if its a plant they like to eat, but I usually have to ask/tell them to do so.
I love zinnias too! Especially because they bring butterflies.
Leave shallow saucers of water out, so it dries out every so often/skeeter death, and you'll get all sorts of great buggies 😊
Newly moved to Port Charlotte from Colorado and after 1.5 years I finally gave up on heirloom variety tomatoes, peppers and cukes and instead planted disease resistant varieties. Now I actually have a wonderful cucumber crop instead of the plants dying from various diseases.
Palastrina is beautiful, like your garden! Used to sing in the church choir and sang Palastrina ❤
I have to say I grinned when David got to his Grocery Row Garden and he lit up so much -- I think he started strutting. . .
Boy the years of fenced in dog grazing and composted alpo manure really did wonders for that soil 😂. Jokes aside things have really come together! Excited for the future content and to see it's evolution!
Love and support this anarchistic style and random flowers ❤
Very fun walk through. Love those tobacco plants.
I don't have Bermuda grass in my yard, thankfully, but my aggravating grass is nutsedge. The rhizomes are crazy strong and hard to pull out.
You should try planting potato bean (apios americana) edible tubers that grow “on a string”
You can also eat the beans and flowers. I’ve been trying to find plants that native Americans survived on. I figured they knew what was up. It’s perennial and will come back after a long cold winter as long as you don’t eat the tubers.
Ah yes, I used to have one of those. I don't anymore - it would be fun to try again.
My brother has a wasp box. At first they would look at him angry and buzz menacingly when he opened the box. He started tapping a rhythm on the box like a knock at the door to let them know he was checking up on them. After a while they would look at him for a few seconds before tending to their nests. After the first generation of wasps morphed into adults, they pay him no mind, but only as long as he taps the rhythm. If he doesn’t, they get startled and stare/buzz before realizing it’s just him. It’s like they learned in their larval form that the taps followed by the box opening was ok and safe. Insects are smarter than we give them credit for. (Also, if wasps aren’t your thing, consider getting a native bee box/hanger. After a year or two you will have native bees EVERYWHERE. Takes a while because they prefer that the box is weathered.)
That is really cool.
I planted some carrots and turnips that had started sprouting from the store. Letting them go to seed maybe cross.
We live in FL and we get beautiful tomatoes! Not all of them are perfect but we get some beauties.
Feed the body and the soul ❤❤
Zinnias! One of the best pollinator flowers!
I love this system!!. It's what I have been looking for!! You are my guru gardener! I also I love the diversity, simplicity, and garden that feeds the soul. Works for me. Oh, and I do spend money wisely, which is why I buy your books. ❤
Thank you
"Wasps are not just of the devil" 😂😂
Wow at all that has happened on 9 months! Always inspiring content. Thank you!
Just grow okra!!! It's both food AND ornamental! Seriously, it makes vanilla hibiscus flowers AND delicious pods!!!!
Really enjoy your content and that it's just "you and your garden". I really dislike channels where one spouse is in front of the camera talking and the other is behind the camera filming and constantly talking and interrupting.
I am blessed with a good camera woman.
in Alabama, and this year I am growing tomatoes in straw bales and it's the best year ever!! I have had none of the pest or stress issues that I've had in the past. Also easier to control moisture. Try it!!
Always enjoy and learn something.
Here in the Aussie subtropics, we grow cherry tomatoes most of the year as nothing seems to bother them, but the big varities are a cold weather crop due to the myriad of diseases.
Great job!
Awesome David. Love those flowers
looking really good!
Thanks, David.
I love the garden tours.
I enjoy your humor!
Thank you
Love your inspiration
You’re my hero!
Everything looks great, David.
You're amusing. I appreciate the unexpected humor thrown in. Congrats on your new home and wide variety of a food garden.
Thank you
lovely tour - so much accomplished in nine months
I feel you about the tomatoes, been trying to grow them 5-6 years now and never get anything, they are nice green and then get savaged by stinkbugs, which are a massive problem now in the warmer parts of Europe. The very high temperatures don't help either. The markets are full of tomatoes - their secret? Spray with poison. Oh well, no tomatoes then...
Such an amazing set up and selection of what you are growing.
Very cool. Thx for sharing y'all. Blessings, julie
Love your garden tours and advice. You all are doing a great job making the new place your own. God bless!
Fantastic
Yeah thats whats up, love ya work 💚
I learn a lot from you David. Thanks for the real garden lessons...