Survival Gardening Secrets (That Even Work in Lousy Dirt) - Complete Presentation
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- Originally aired at the Black Sheep Summit in mid-August, this presentation focuses on survival food gardening and working with terrible soil. If you want to learn survival gardening and how to grow your own food for a family food supply, this presentation is a good start. Thank you for watching!
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Originally aired at the Black Sheep Summit in mid-August, this presentation focuses on survival food gardening and working with terrible soil. If you want to learn survival gardening and how to grow your own food for a family food supply, this presentation should be a good start. Thank you for watching!
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Great content, David! I would pay for detailed information how to convert your native soil/sand into a vegetable worthy medium. Details such as appropriate cover crops for different regions, when to do so, how often, and time for conversion. I think your comment about not having access to the ingredients in Steve Solomon's mix is dead on and something survival gardeners need to keep in mind. I'm living here with that sand you were talking about, but mainly working out of raised beds. Didn't know there was a way to convert local ground without tons of compost. Excited about learning more. Thank you again!
Awesome presentation!!!
It'll help me explain what I'm doing in the front yard! Lol
Thank you!
David, how's your snake population down there. We have snakes. Like 4 foot moccasins and copperheads. ( Not 4 foot, thankfully)
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Could have fried or boiled the squirrels.
"When the apocalypse comes, you gotta have salsa" - David The Good T-shirt worthy, Sir.
LOL Fact!
Ahhahaha! My husband would agree!
I’d Def buy that shirt!
Make it and ill buy it for my husband 🤣
I would buy that too
Loved the lead deficiency comment. I had the same problem with my avocado trees. Rectified the lead deficiency and the squirrels are gone!!
They are like sharks teeth where I live, meaning if one ''goes away'' another one replaces it, within a day or two. It seems endless. Neighbors free peanuts are not helping, I asked them to stop with a note, don't know if they did.
My other neighbor wants to eat them> Nom nom nom 🐿️🐿️🐿️
I guess the flip side is food if needed.
@@NoNORADon911 Oh man you are the whole thing; goverment paedos, the moon landings didnt happen, israel controls the usa, new world order, fluoride water poisoning. hilarious mate.
Big chuckle!
I use non-lead projectiles (brass, zinc, tin...), not to miss the joke but it's a bad idea to spread lead around, it'll be in the soil for thousands of yrs slowly leaching into surroundings. One way or another ppl will ingest it and it's not good.
I've never heard of this before. I... Thought we were to avoid lead totally
Hey David, I live in zone 9b where the “soil” here is almost pure sand and for years I amended this stuff and the rain kept washing it away. Then I stumbled across something called lasagna gardening and then raised bed gardening. I started hauling in compost by the truckload, built raised beds and filled them up. Now my soil stays put even when we get tons of rain such as this past two weeks, I really enjoy the knowledge you share and the fact that you’re generally in our geographical area. This area seems to have unusual gardening challenges different from most parts of the country. Thanks so much for the video, I’ve really enjoyed it. God bless y’all!
I am in zone 9A in the sonoran desert of Arizona and live 100% off-grid. 12 inches of rain a year...When I see as much green as in this video and hear about the challenges, I have to scoff a bit. Soil can be built, but if you have no water or it comes in 3 months of the year, planning is quite a bit different. The only tree that grows 50 feet tall near me is the Saguaro cactus.
@@McRod-1 Im in Az. Near Pinetop, but in the pinon pine country. Not only is it desert there's frost (or worse) 8 months a year. These videos just make me laugh about gardening. Everything I grow is in shelter, mostly containers.
Deborah, ditto! Seems the only way to garden down here for sure!
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I'm renting a house in 9b. It's been really difficult to build soil, partly because sometimes there's nothing much to use for mulch or compost for a long time, and I can't afford to buy any
This is all such great advice. I’m sick of all the gardening “cultists” you speak of, requiring more cash than shopping every day at Whole Foods.
Thank you
Yes!! This man is a godsend! Ive learned so so much from this man. I live in the city in washington and the dirt in my yard is crap! And i do not have the cash flow to keep buying dirt and compost every single year. 😒 plus my car was stolen 4th of july weekend. So now i have to work w what i got. This guy has shown me the ways!! Now in my back yard in the city i have a huge co.post pile i made from yard scraps, grass, and cardboard. Then i found myself a huge bin to make compost water to use. And then i scrounged some wood chips from my neighbor and grass clippings and dude i have a real freaking garden in my townhouse tiny a** garden! I simply love the advice this guy has. I just may have some good yeilds this year too make enough for the whole winter w some things
@@Warfarenuggetz That’s great to hear. I’m finally getting some good results turning Florida sand into something I can grow veggies in. Composting everything, lasagna layering, and making a stinky compost water have helped a ton.
@@Realmtrotter yes!! Oh that stinky water tho! Whew its baaad! Lol 😆
Look at you. Sitting on your porch talking about your awesome, productive garden. What a difference one tiny year makes. I'm so proud of y'all. Well done.
You were spraying squirrels with a naturally occurring element. Sounds organic to me 😊
Love the lead approach, works like a charm against wild pigs too. Only pesticide that fills your freezer with food.
Love your videos. I'm in Pensacola with horrible soil and trying to learn. I'm gathering yard waste and adding fish, food scraps, etc etc. My yard is prone to flooding, up to my thighs a few times the last two years. I drug out an old boat and am using that as a raised bed. Filled it with decomposing logs limbs etc and adding any nutrients I can get my hands on. I'm so behind but determined
That's awesome. When you get floods, why not grow in a boat? I love it.
Look into Back to EDEN gardening with Paul Gautschi. No soil too problem too tough
I like your ability to find humor with your reused raised bed material!
Watching this video makes me realize what I have done wrong for my whole 6 years. Since the beginning of this year I got a job offer for 6 month- project. I am going to keep watching your videos as many as I can. After I finish this project, I will go back to my LMK Tiny Forest and start to implement what I have learned from your videos. Your kindness of sharing your experience and knowledge is highly appreciated. Big heart from Thailand.
WOW, thanks for all the great tips and inspiration! I just moved on to a (1/2 wooded) 2 1/2 acre property with no lawn and lots of natives. This info was exactly what I needed to hear to take away the fear of (wasting) seed, compost, mulch or effort and just dive in and cover the ground to the best of my ability. Watching you “chop and drop” or recycle weeds into tea gives me much needed courage that I CAN succeed and not be overwhelmed by the abundance. Love that “messy” design. LOL
Rock on, Cindy!
Heck yeah, you go girl! 👩🌾
I'm glad you mentioned stocking up micronutrients, that's something I did. Probably will be one of the first things you won't be able to find if things get bad. And it has an infinite shelf life while always getting more and more expensive, no reason not to spend a couple hundred bucks and get a bunch.
I'm in zone 8b, and in recent years my go to winter cover crop has been fava beans. I plant them in the fall before it gets too cool and let them grow through the winter until I want to plant something there. From my experience, you can cut them before flowering to plant a longer season crop, let them put on pods and harvest them green before succession planting a short season crop, or let them go mature and dry out to regenerate your seed crop. I like using Broad Windsors, and they're kind of expensive for the number of seeds you get, so for cover cropping it's good to grow your own seed crop.
Since I've been following you I enjoy my garden again. I have a box of seeds I never would have considered before. Ask your wife if she would consider making a cookbook of recipes for the food you grow. Seriously, I need help in that department. 🤦♀️🤣🤷♀️
Agreed! :) The Good Guide to Cooking Unusual Foods by Rachel the Good!
@@karen-hillshomestead awsome idea!
This is Proof that Plants Don't compete for Water. Each plant takes what it needs and Helps when it can. Thank you for reminding me what My Grandfather said. We are Born to take care of the land. Never Doubt that the Rain Will Come to nurish the land and Quench it's Thirst. I cry when I hear Rain now. Thank you Grandpa & Grandma I Miss You. Thank you Uncle Good : ) your knowledge is Needed Now .
We are in a similar climate and soil condition to yourself. We are doing some experiments ourselves. The one thing that looks like a great success is pigeon peas. They last for a few years. They fix nitrogen, they grow anywhere, they provide masses of mulch, but best of all for us is they grow 15ft and they achieve that in a year. So the shade they give is so important to us in these temperatures.
David I have been watching you for a few years. I live in NE Oklahoma and I practice many of the ways you talk about to grow food. I had to adjust a few years ago due to the fact that I have a terrible back but I still grow lots of food which I store over winter and share with family and friends. God provides for us if we only seek. Thank you
For every person that watches this and says they cannot do it just try. I am old and disabled, but if I can spend 40 min 2 or 3 times a week in the garden you can too. Plant things that will come back the next year and then just add 2or 3 new things each year.
You have inspired me to make cornbread in a sun oven tomorrow. (I haven’t actually made the oven yet. But I have a quick plan for a small trash picked cooler that is all black with a glass door) Sounds silly, but I have a small garden in the small area around my apartment. Everyone who sees the tomatoes knows what they are. But I’ve had several people ask about what I’m doing because there are lots of other things in there. (Okra and luffa annoyed management last summer. Lol) you have to try things to learn. Having some info from a book to get you started is awesome!
Roots: the single tastiest food I got out of my garden this year was golden beets. I don't care for the regular beets, but the golden beets, roasted: weep for joy tasty.
Or maybe the weeping was because I grew so few. Next year, more!
Zone 6
I fully agree. Well, except I do like red and white beets, but the golden varieties are definitely the best! Good luck next season; I hope you get a bumper crop and a half.
@@lisakukla459 thank you! Happy gardening to you!
Totally agreed with most of your tips, suggestions & advice, David, and I love your “wild” garden- I’ve always gardened that way! I am still spending vast amounts of time learning to garden in the piney woods of East Texas, after moving here from (an organic farm in) Southern Arizona one year ago this month!
As far as staying away from raised beds - people with injured backs and those who are elderly but still want/need to grow their own food will be much more successful for longer if they do not have to (try to) bend all the way to the ground when weeding or harvesting!! Just like the importance of putting in the time and effort to nourish your soil, the same advice can be applied to setting up your garden beds so that all future time spent gardening will be easier on your body.
How is it going for you in east Texas with all the heat and drought this year?
We lost most of the crops in the ground by August 1st, even with watering every other day... plantings in the planters and pots, are hanging on - but of course not producing. The crops planted in ground actually burnt to a crisp! Our sunflower field looks like a fire razed through it - Crazy! We did plant later than usual, due to one event/circumstance after another, so we probably would have gotten a lot better production before everything succumbed to the extreme heat. Every plant in the greenhouse is alive - wilting slightly between waterings, and nothing is even producing flowers at this time, but we are hoping that as soon as this heat dome breaks, everything in there will jump into action!!! Our fruit trees are just surviving - the blossoms got blown away in extreme weather events way back in May and June, so we were not expecting much fruit anyway this year... but with this hellish weather, now we will get nothing. (Not even wild blackberries or muscadines.) It sure would suck if this scenario repeats next year, as I have heard some farmers suggesting! :( @@Snappypantsdance
I have learned alot from your videos, my gardening has taken off after years of failed gardens. Thank you.
Too many squirrels in the garden is a lead deficiency! Love it!!🤣👍
You are a good man. I feel comforted and hopeful each time I watch your videos. I'm a widow on my own. I'm going to homestead somehow some way :) I do it in my little concrete box called home. So if you ever need a hard working granny type of nanny look me up. May God bless you and yours.
I too have been known to spray lead all over my garden. Grrr! Rotten little chupacabras chewin' up all my prickly pears!
You my friend are a Godsend!! I live in the city and i have the crappiest dirt. And i have no money to get compost or good soil. Plus my car was stolen recently. So no ride to carry it all. U gave me hope that i can still grow my foods. I am not a generational farmer and my parents were shit parents and taught me nothing. I have litterally taught myself everything i know about gardening.... but then i just started to fail so much i got discouraged. I decided im not giving up...especially this day in age....w crazy biden and all the jacked up prices. U sir have given me all the knowledge i need to get this going. I doesn't the last two days getting a good cost free compost pile and water bin w compost in it and i planted 10 more plants and a few flowers. Then tmrw im getting my 7 yr old to plant 5 more. Im filling this yard uuuuup! Tysm for the poormans way cuz this girl is one happy mama. 😊
I love all of your advice. Unfortunately, I need to switch to 17” raised beds due to injuries. However, I am trying to make up for the $$$ spent on soil by up 12:45 upcycling things rather than sending them to the landfill. My granddaughter has outgrown her fort/swing set. So, I’m planting vining and climbing things all around and on it. The rope that held the swings will have tomatoes and cucumbers. The monkey bars will have slings where needed to hold things like Seminole Pumpkins, squash, Sweet Baby watermelon, etc. I want to eventually experiment with cantaloupe and pie pumpkins. They say you can’t grow them here in Florida zone 9b. But, my Ozarks hillbilly dad found a way to grow anything he wanted and everything they said couldn’t be grown and his fruits and vegetables were superior in taste and size. My husband used to tease him that he got his seeds from Three Mile Island because they were so unbelievable. I should have learned as much as I could to garden from him. Lol. The A frame is perfect for climbers, too. I just don’t know if the wood is pressure treated or not. Oh! And I had to replace my old Closetmaid shelves because they fell and twisted. So, they are also being used as trellises. I think Fred Sanford would be impressed. Thank you so much for your videos!!! They are a Godsend! God bless you!
Thank you, Linda.
Lol .. every once in a while, my yard disappears under 1-2 ft of water that's on the move. I think the soil is probably quite good, but it could all be washed away. So, I've started with raised garden beds that are fabric. They're okay, but the yard isn't as level as needed. I want to make a raised bed with borders that sits on the ground. Maybe then I can benefit from the soil and protect the goods from being washed away.
What else?...
I want your grocery row and composting books. Not supposed to buy more books, but then you happened. I appreciate all you've put online for free. Thank you 😌
Sugar Pie is still in my head from the last video. Not sure if it's a reference to your wife or pumpkins (?), but I love it. 😂
What you could do is dig some swales to hold some of the water and direct it away from your beds. You could even plant some things in the swales that like a lot of water.
The wheel hole is fantastic and it made me laugh that you lost it! Anytime I do a job I leave the tools right there where I was working and then the weeds grow over it and I can't find it. I had an extension cord out in a month later had the neighborhood mow the grass and mowed right over my extension cord I just meant it with a couple of wire nuts
I love this video so much. It's getting my head back in the game. Kept getting knocked down over and over this year, and I just got overwhelmed and burned out. I lost all interest in all things plant related the last couple months, for the first time ever since I started, but rewatching this one started to wake it back up again. Felt like a coach giving me the game plan, and now I'm ready to win win win! Let's go!
Hi Lisa, I can sympathize with your situation about getting burned out. We had a couple of people in our family pass away last year and then our beloved shitzu passed away in September, so I didn't do anything in the way of gardening last year. Now after I have been watching David the good and Robbie and Gary gardening on TH-cam Iam ready to get in the game. I also live in zone 8b in south Alabama and there are some heat/humidity conditions to deal with that can make gardening frustrating but I'm experimenting and trying again. Good luck with your gardening and don't forget flowers for the pollination of your veggies. 💕🥰🐸
The suburban house I just bought came with a 1/3 of an acre deep back lot that looks like a jungle. The previous owner didn’t touch it for 30+ years. The soil is awful but the overgrowth of trees and vines is impressive. I’m clearing it by hand and wish your brother’s chipper business was in Texas! I’m going to try your biochar method and add black eyed peas as soon as I get enough cleared for the sun to shine in. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in so many formats! You are David the goodest!!
Yeah, might as well use all that overgrowth to feed your gardens.
If the soil is bad, maybe try making a hugelkultur bed or two with whole branches and tree trimmings? I haven't tried it, but it looks like a relatively simply way to deal with wood you can't burn or shred.
@@FrikInCasualMode Thank you for the great idea!! I think I will do that!
@@LeaC816 I too have trees that could use good trimming, and relatively little space to make beds. I'm thinking about buying some plastic containers and making mini-hugel-beds, where i could grow some veggies and herbs. Maybe even strawberries? Such containers would be easier to move from place to place, and when wood will rot away, i could throw the remains on compost pile and start anew.
@@FrikInCasualMode I used plastic storage tubs that I drilled holes in as mini beds so I could have something growing soon after I moved. They worked great, but the plastic has already gotten brittle and they are cracking when I try to move them after just one season. I am in a very hot climate which might have played a part in that. I am all for using what you have though! Best of luck with your beds! We can keep watching DTG and learning so our thumbs can always be green! 😁
David you have such a balanced intelligent way of looking at things Love you buddy
Probably the absolute BEST you tube presentation I have ever seen. The fact that it rained and (you cracked me up when you said "I am sitting on the porch with a sensible cup of tea") you couldn't finish the stroll that would have taken us to the nice row planted part of the garden, you kept going to make it a complete presentation with the most useful and viable means for gardening in a survival situation. I want to know these easy ways because I have gardened only once. It was not a complete failure, but I spent more money than got produce from the garden. I was in Destin, Florida near the beach and dealing with a lot of elements. I was left with not knowing exactly what I had done wrong and thinking that I would have done better if I had gone to the store and bought the vegetables. Now I am in an apartment in Valdosta, Georgia. I am scared to death of gardening. It can be labor intensive and expensive. If I try anything, I guess it will be in containers. I have 5 big plastic containers and not sure how I should use them (potatoes, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and bell peppers.....) I am
also thinking I might try growing some herbs in other containers.
You can grow those plants in 5-gallon buckets.
Great point about not needing complicated systems! Too many people push “show” gardens. I get that if you have an apartment with a small deck or live somewhere with HOAs (Horrendous Overbearing A-holes), you may need to make things look neat and tidy. The rest of us can do practical gardening to grow food and medicinal herbs in the most efficient manner we can. 😊
I watch David the Good videos all day long !!!!
For most of my soil nutrition, I love making compost out of free resources: woodchips, coffee grounds from coffee shops (I can get ALOT from same starbucks everyday if I want), fall leaves from local houses that put theirs out for pick-up, vegetable scraps, and garden debris (unless I'm chop n' dropping that plant).
Meanwhile, my neighbours go and buy bags and bags of soil, manure, compost, etc.
This year I'm trying a cover crop mix, too.
When you mentioned thunder in the background, a thunder clap came out of nowhere at my house! I'm in central west coast Florida😲 Thank you for your wisdom David. Take care, see ya next time.
Boom! Thank you, Pam.
I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off i sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
Hello David. Today's show makes a lot of sense that's exactly what I'm doing in my yard. Pretty much on the compost King in my neighborhood. I love all the advice that you give keep it coming keep it coming keep it coming
This video continues to be a classic! I think I view it at least twice each season, and I learn (or remember) more each time! Amazingly valuable information. Thanks David!
I live in 4b and where my garden is, it used to be a house there that got torn down after it burnt, then was backfilled with garbage dirt which includes massive cement hunks, asphault, bolders, big rocksw, and then finally gravel on top a couple feet deep. It was used as a parking lot for many years. So yeah... not even enough sand in it to begin making soil. I have made a bunch of raised beds from upcycled wood and all around these, I spread wood chips. I will keep adding to this chip layer every year. Finally when I figure it is deep enough, the wood beds will have rotted away and I'll finally have a nice garden soil. I hope I am not too old to work it by then LOL.
Just ordered your book ... Can't wait to read it ... I love this video ... I am a second year gardener and i was gonna give up next year ... I worked countless hrs in my garden this yr and my yield was disheartening ... U gave me hope I'm going to try again next yr
Thank you so much
Hats off to you, great tips and you have done an amazing job getting great yields out of what appears to be Martian regolith!
Thank you.
I am preparing new garden area by removing and burying a tree. I know. I love digging in the early morning. My plan; peas, tomato, beans, cucumber and medicinal. Stay good David. Steve is legend.
10 Children! You're truly blessed!
The greatest gift you can give them to prepare them is God. 👑
So glad I found you! It's so refreshing to see the real deal. I'm in North Alabama and have bad, rocky soil as well. I've experimented growing around the edges of the woods. Fortunately, chickens and goats have been a huge help. In season #3 on this property and it seems to be getting better. Keep on keeping on! Thanks for the black bean info too.
I love it that your message is to just do what it takes to grow food, however that looks. In ground, raised beds, till vs. no till, whatever says success to you is the right thing.
Thank you for your very wise input.
Thank you. It helps to keep your focus.
Haha my teenage daughter bought & planted watermelon seeds last spring. I told her the ground wasn’t ready for vegetables. She took care of those plants like they were her children. She was out there every day before & after school. The vines grew & some flowered. She was so excited. In the end she grew a single watermelon that was the size of an avocado when ripe. It was lovely & sweet tasting. We all had a good laugh. We took pictures & she gave us all a sample sized piece. It did taste really good. She was still proud of it. 😂
Good for her!
I love that you shared your challenges working with your soil, the vagaries of your climate or growing season, and how you resolved them by thinking out of the box. Adapting to climate change is going to require this resiliency. There was a lot of good info in this tour of your garden! Thank you!
Thank you.
Oh! Oh! Yard Long beans! My family has grown them for FIVE generations! I love how they produce when it's too hot for most things to set fruit. If you ever think they should be fruiting by now... It's not the hot temperatures BUT they may need a good deep soaking every few days.
Thank you so much! I grew a couple seeds this year from a gift sent! Growing many more next year!!!💜💜💜
While listening to you today I was cutting up and seeding Corno del Toro peppers to freeze. They do well at my place in SC along with Aji Dulce. Thanks for all you do. Just read your latest book and now I need to find someone with a tractor and disc to tear up some ground.
New to your channel. Boy, do I have a lot to learn! Have a 60x40 garden of the basics-potatoes, tomatoes, beets, squash, sunflowers, and onions in zone 6. Thx and looking forward to your other vids!
Here in Maryland, the weeds I get growing in my beds are mostly wood sorrel. I eat some and give some to my chickens. Not sure if wood sorrel is a nitrogen fixer, but i let these weeds act as my cover crops during and after crops. In fall, i use shredded leaves and pine needles as my winter cover crops. Black gold in the spring.
It's fantastic how you turned around that grit.
They aren't a nitrogen fixer, but they do taste nice.
I use them on my pots as a green mulch. They do taste great. Snack on them as a lemony candy while gardening.
Thank you so much for this video. As I prepare my Florida Winter garden in sandy soil, I need encouragement.
This was so helpful. Love your sense of humor (lead deficiency took me a minute!😂)
I've been getting to keep the tomato plants as long as possible. The last 2 days I've found horned worms and a brown worm on them, grrr. Chickens love them. Wish I could afford the Steve's mix.
I’ve always lived in Mobile county and have had good luck with Blue Lake bush beans.
Nice to see your garden proliferating. Ours is petering out.
We had way more food in spring! It's at an ebb now, though we still have some.
This has been the single best gardening show of my whole life! Thank you.😅😊
Talking about ".....going shopping in your garden.....", that's exactly what I'm doing.
I live in small town, north Michigan, in an apartment. I can't have a regular garden here, so I have a bucket garden, that spills over into as much yard as I think I get away with taking up space with buckets. I don't grow a bunch of any one thing, but I get a bunch of a variety of stuff. I start seeds early in the house, as it starts to get warm, I put the plants out in the day and bring them in on cold nights. I grow, tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, bell peppers, carrots, cantaloupe, watermelon, lettuce, etc .Potatoes and strawberries are in tote boxes. I got two harvests of potatoes last year, and I'm planting some seed potatoes, but also store bought potatoes that start growing before I can eat them.
All summer long, I pick fresh veggies, " going shopping on the patio". Because I'm mostly eating from the garden all summer, that gives me money to stock up on other stuff I might need. Last summer I was able to fill the freezer with meat with the savings I got from the garden.
So, being on a tight budget, I'm on disability, and having a small space, like my patio, a person can grow enough food to make a difference in the budget, a big difference. .
You are a fountain of knowledge. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and your experience, but mostly for your encouragement. You make me believe I can grow anything. ~ Lisa
All the power to you DAVID THE GOOD. Your UNFAIR ADVANTAGE is your personable style. Keep creating, stay healthy.
Another great video amigo!!
Agree with so much of your ideas on necessity VS trendiness
I never get bored from watching your videos! Thankyou.cheers from Australia..🙂I finally got yams here..all planted.maybe1more month before harvest.Sooo excited!
Good work!
Very much enjoyed your ideas on this video. I recently threw a bunch of different kinds of dried beans on my beds for green mulch. Interested in looking into that Mexican Tree Spinach! Thanks for all the "Good" advice as always!
Love your videos…the philosophy in this one especially makes so sense…thanks for posting and all the work you and your good wife put into it…blessings from Queensland, Australia :)
Excellent presentation with many wonderful realistic ideas...thanking you for sharing...stay blessed!it’s a continual effort and learning experience...
Thanks David. As always a very informative video. Just love listening to you.
Fabulous presentation David!
Hi David, haven't watched you in a few years but enjoyed this video. Old Alabama Gardener, who has passed, was in Alabama also and had soil like yours. He had a beautiful garden too,
Rewatching a year later. Love all of your videos and teaching. Thank you.
David .... you are good!
I really appreciate your videos, not only for the great information that you share, but your positive take on life and sense of humor.
Carry on brother, please!
Thank you for sharing all of your wisdom and mistakes with us. It's helping all of us learn.
i love all the perennials you mentioned. Geez, how could i not know about Chaya!? this reminds me i need to grow more sunchokes. i love the simple chop and drop technique you mentioned. Simple is the way to go! Variety!
I really love these long form presentations.
Great information first year i made biochar was this year with some help from David. The plants that had biochar did amazing and also seemed to yeild the best. Im sold on biochar. I use sea weed from the beach free for micro nutrients. I compost and add many dynamic accumulators like, yarrow, dandelion, fireweed, clover, comfry all full of NPK and minerals. If things get bad i can still grow i have good soil free local resources and weapons and and kick ass if needed for the predators. You can have all the food in the world but if you cant protect it and your family someone else will take it from you for there family. Only the strong will survive. I in courage you all the bear arms if allowed and learn how to protect your selfs so you can continue to grow food and feed your family. This may not happen in your life time but it is possible it will so be ready for whatever.
Amen to this! Got to have a stock of ammo and at least 2 or 3 good guns. 😁
This is hands down one of the best gardening videos I have watched and I watched a LOT in the last few months. Our family recently changed states and zones. We have been putting in permaculture and garden beds since January. The last two weeks everything seems to be going downhill. I was feeling completely demoralized until watching this video. I have pest and soil issues-and even though I knew there would be a learning curve with our new environment, I was not expecting so many struggles. I feel re-inspired to go out there tomorrow morning and not only continue to notice what is working and what is not, but also to re-think how we typically plant. I want to mix things up more. I am ordering both yours and Steve Solomon’s books. Thank you!!
Thank you, Laura - that is very encouraging. May God bless your efforts.
Purchased your compost everything a few months ago. Two thumbs up.
A fairly new gardener from east Texas here and you have inspired me to do another, larger, simpler, ground level bed loaded with variety. All the fancy raised beds that I have and the pests and problems that come with it are too much work and I, intuitively, felt there was a better way. I love your analogy that the pests get confused when there is such a variety of plants that they "bug" out....lol. Anyway, glad I found your channel and I enjoy your humor!
Thank you. Rock on.
I'm in Gulf shores, AL. It's all sand here. I've had to amend everything. Raised beds, fruit trees, berries, a little bit every year. We've been here about 2 years. Work every day to make it work.
We also discovered that our squirrel problem was due to a "lack of lead." So we added lead and it worked great. Thanks for the laugh.
Hello David I enjoyed watching the garden secret especially the cantaloupe story Very nice.
Hi David. My family just moved to southern Oregon from Washington State. It's so much hotter here. And the ground is made of volcanic rocks. Gonna be a fun spring.
Just discovered your Channel. Love your style of explaining
This is great stuff ! Thanks for all the videos
Fascinating and refreshing ideas! Watched all the way to the end!
Seriously appreciate your wisdom... glad I found your channel...keep it going!
Thank you, Jake.
Inspired by you, I've started carrying my brush hook (not quite a machete, but close) whenever I go out in the yard. I can whack a few weeds as I go, and if the buck goat gets pushy, the flat side works to slap him with and make him keep his distance.
Awesome video Dave. Thank you. When we connect with the earth and all the life forms it truly changes us...for the better.
You are a gem I live in Florida getting started. God bless thank you.
We eat fresh black eye peas!! Then turn plants back into soil!! My family has done this in dry west Texas for generations!!
I’m really enjoying your channel. Just discovered it a few days ago. I am no survivalist or homesteader, but I’m learning a lot even though I will probably never be able to put this to practice.
Welcome. You never know when gardening may become useful.
i think your video is the most practical way of growing food....
thank you SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WAY OF GARDENING.....
i sure will share this video...
thabk you again...
Great like always! Stay safe and happy my friend!
Awesome stuff David thanks for the info!
Thanks, Joshua.
Great gardening tips
David, you could do a fantastic Jimmy Stewart impression 😂
The planting out different varieties very good idea. One thing that is great advice and I need to follow it too is.. Keep a journal of what you planted and when and where and weather conditions and what prospered and what failed etc...build up your own personal gardening book specific to your area and garden!!
I have your composting book So fun! Thanks for this We just built our 9th garden bed. Whooooop!!
Thank you, Carla. Great work!
What an amazing video, thank you for all the invaluable insight... I'm so hooked on your channel! Much love from Germany :)
I've learned a ton from you. Thank you.