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@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 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.
@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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! 👍
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.
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.
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.
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!!! 🙃
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.
DeWitt weed barrier has a value to a survival gardener. It is a super dupper accumulator of earth worm castings. Every few years I scrape up all the accumulated worm castings too use as potting soil. In an area, I don't mulch I have scraped up 4 wheel barrow loads so far, in the past few days. The fastest way to get great potting soil, is to put 2 inches of more of wood chips on top of weed barrier and let it decompose, night crawler heaven. I have over half an acre of weed barrier down. Some areas on the property I haven't scraped I have 6 inches of black gold.
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!
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 ❤
I have just found your channel on RUclips and I’m subscribed now! I put you up with Charles Dowding, The food forest in Jersey, with some of the best ideas I’ve seen online! Thank you for all you do!
When it comes to onions and garlic, it is worth it to try. No matter how hard I try, I can't get them to bulb it my yard, but that's okay. They produce plenty of greens that I cook with.
@jj m I've tried many different ways. My yard has multiple micro climates too. Tried in them all. They just don't want to bulb. As I said... I'm okay with that. They produce a lot of greens.
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
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
Hi David love ur videos I'm fom great Britain England I've growing 4 years got a allotment now it's so important I've a deplorable in horticultural all tips are so helpful ty
I wouldn't recommend planting any non-native Dioscorea in Florida as there are multiple invasive species in the genus. I would, however, recommend foraging for some in the woods. That way you're getting food and helping the environment.
I bought ñame at a local latin grocery store.. cut it in 3-4 inch pieces ensuring you have an eye in the piece, dunk the cut pieces in cinnamon to prevent fungus, let it dry for a day or so and plant. Alternatively buy David’s books or visit his website.
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 love that cabin! I see that there are vines already headed up to the roof. Could you encourage vines up there to keep the sun from hitting the tin? Your family is doing a great job!
I bought from your daughters seed store online ...what a delightful package and envelope...these seeds are blessed with her wonderful energy ..trying to find that link again...
No dig gardening for me, put the seeds then mulch after they come up , saves on digging and weeding , just my thoughts on it. I would love to see a video on what to grow in what seasons and how to get double crops from some things when planted at the right time. Longevity in food supply being crop smart so we have food year round. 👍
I've been blessed with the perfect spot for a cistern just like you have. Just need to buy it and hook it up. I'm already harvesting 5 gallon buckets just putting them under the corner of the porch where the rain really comes down. Fills them up in a couple of minutes!
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.
I live in the North of England. These crops are extremely easy and successful... Potatoes, onions, beetroot, radish, peas, climbing beans, lettuce, kale, sprouts, courgettes, pumpkins, squash, tobacco, sweetcorn, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, apples. In a shaded corner where nothing else grows transplant some wild garlic mustard and it will thrive there, and allow any useful weeds to grow in unused spaces or else transplant them to an appropriate place.
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!
Wow wow wow! There is so much to talk about in this video! The mounds for the yams! Love that idea! We have a TON of decaying trees in our forest, we will put them in the base of the mounds. We are also collecting our humaneur, but need to check out more of your stuff on it. We are in Southern MO so it will likely take longer to heat up. We have it in a mound right now, with a makeshift fence around it built with stacked semi decaying logs. Not sure how that thing will survive in the warmer weather/smell. We know you have a lot of info on this, so we don't expect answers here. Just wanted to share. This was an excellent video! We really love & respect what you are doing here, and your stance on ALL of this! We stand with you, and know that we just need to get seeds going! Really enjoyed your interview with @IceAgeFarmer. We gotta toss aside perfection, our current situation is indeed going full tilt, and being food sovereign is up to each of us. Big love to you & your family! - Erin + Brian
Ok reuse soil with fresh red oak hood chips, liquid organic plant grow, liquid fish fertilizer and water down pee mid growth. with some slow time release organic fertilizer and bone mill for mid to late growth. This is my simple organic soil recipe. Along with sweeteners like honey and mollases. I like my veggies to have a safe organic sweetness to them.
So good to know you have given up eating bats. You are so funny! Great video, just watched it on Aug. 2021. Preordered your new book. God continue to bless you, your family and your work.
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
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
I am so glad to know that you can grow ñames where you live, I know ñames since forever I grew up eating them and it is a delicious. , easy to make food! I cook them after of course I take the peel off in boiling water with a little sea salt, then after they are soft enough “which cook really fast” I eat them with olive oil yum 😋 and sometimes I add some some albacore tuna cooked like stew with onion , peppers, garlic , cilantro and al title but olive oil and after is done I eat with the ñames 😋, also fried fish, pork or even chicken are a good side dish as well
New to your channel, and I havent been able to watch too many videos (I have my own homestead and children to care for, not much time haha) but, what animals are you raising and why? Also where exactly do you live? I have a 1 and a 1/4 acre homestead in North Central Florida, have 14 chickens, 3 ducks, and will be getting a breeding pair of kunekune, 4 nigerian dwarf goats (chose them due to fat content in milk) Also im about to add a very small amount of fish to my land
I've got a big ibc tote acting as a turtle/fish pond and carnivorous plant garden that I've just connected upto the guttering on the roof, Good thing I got lifestraws to make it drinkable if worst comes to worst
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What if everything collapsed tomorrow? What if the shelves on the supermarket were empty? What if you've never even planted a garden in your life... and your life depended on growing your own food? Don't panic! Check out my book Grow or Die and learn what you need to survive a crash: amzn.to/3jwPvUP
Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
"Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
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.
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.
@@explorerofmind Did you read my comment?
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.
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!
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385
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
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.
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 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 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.
A year on, this video is still such an excellent watch.
Even after 2 years
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.
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.
I'm loving the snide Corona comments...I was mandated and gardened my heart out ...thanks David
I agree with you. It's in Gods hands and I'm not gonna worry. I'm just gonna grow stuff. 😎🙏🌱
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.
Sir, I have four of your books and have generously loaned them. Thank you, and my friends thank you from West-Central Alabama.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
You knocked it out of the park with this one! Thanks! Land and garden look awesome. (I’m in grow or die mode too.)
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!
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.
Thank you for your encouraging words and sharing your gift of gardening David. God Bless you and your family always🙏🙏
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.
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
This is so cool! I love when you started holding Corona lolol
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
Thank you for any help. My moringa made it through its first winter here.
Yep, I’m planting up too. Lots of potato, beetroots and carrots, we are heading for winter here, in Australia.
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
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?
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!
Thanks for the advice, the encouragement and the humor!! Love it... prayers for you and your family too!!
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.
David, you are such a blessing. Thanks for all the wisdom and help!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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! 👍
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 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
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.
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.
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!
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!
Thank you David! We miss ya here in Florida. Be well and all the best to your family:)
DeWitt weed barrier has a value to a survival gardener. It is a super dupper accumulator of earth worm castings. Every few years I scrape up all the accumulated worm castings too use as potting soil. In an area, I don't mulch I have scraped up 4 wheel barrow loads so far, in the past few days. The fastest way to get great potting soil, is to put 2 inches of more of wood chips on top of weed barrier and let it decompose, night crawler heaven. I have over half an acre of weed barrier down. Some areas on the property I haven't scraped I have 6 inches of black gold.
Already bought the book! But awesome that you gave it away! Saving lives and feeding people!
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!
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 ❤
Great video. I just found your channel, which I'm binge watching.... when I'm not gardening!
I have just found your channel on RUclips and I’m subscribed now! I put you up with Charles Dowding, The food forest in Jersey, with some of the best ideas I’ve seen online! Thank you for all you do!
When it comes to onions and garlic, it is worth it to try. No matter how hard I try, I can't get them to bulb it my yard, but that's okay. They produce plenty of greens that I cook with.
@jj m I've tried many different ways. My yard has multiple micro climates too. Tried in them all. They just don't want to bulb. As I said... I'm okay with that. They produce a lot of greens.
@jj m technically 8a, but if you look at a zone map, I'm on the border of zones 8a and 7b.
God bless you and your whole family DTG! THANK YOU for the encouragement and good advice!
David the good you sir are awesome, inspiring, thank you for your generous existence and practice of moral integrity during these trying times. ;)
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
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.
That’s exactly what Kevin just did! He built a sandpoint shallow well! It is awesome! 😀wild coffee homestead
Thanks for the knowledge I've been learning vegetables in my back yard for two half years now.
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
Hi David love ur videos I'm fom great Britain England I've growing 4 years got a allotment now it's so important I've a deplorable in horticultural all tips are so helpful ty
Thank you very much, Karen.
Hey David, good job brother. Thanks for everything. Keep it up!
I live in Fort Lauderdale, the problem is where do I find yams? I have 1/2 acre that I would love to plant out. Hard to do at 74!
I think I purchased mine from Strictly Medical seeds.
find them at publix under the name "Name"
Try the Latin supermarkets. They call them "ñame" in Spanish, I think.
I wouldn't recommend planting any non-native Dioscorea in Florida as there are multiple invasive species in the genus. I would, however, recommend foraging for some in the woods. That way you're getting food and helping the environment.
I bought ñame at a local latin grocery store.. cut it in 3-4 inch pieces ensuring you have an eye in the piece, dunk the cut pieces in cinnamon to prevent fungus, let it dry for a day or so and plant.
Alternatively buy David’s books or visit his website.
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 love that cabin! I see that there are vines already headed up to the roof. Could you encourage vines up there to keep the sun from hitting the tin? Your family is doing a great job!
Dave, you're a true hands-on stoic! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
Marcus Aurelius is my homeboy.
I bought from your daughters seed store online ...what a delightful package and envelope...these seeds are blessed with her wonderful energy ..trying to find that link again...
She is here: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
No dig gardening for me, put the seeds then mulch after they come up , saves on digging and weeding , just my thoughts on it. I would love to see a video on what to grow in what seasons and how to get double crops from some things when planted at the right time. Longevity in food supply being crop smart so we have food year round. 👍
Grow sorghum, kale, and grey Hopi squash. Easy, great yields, and many uses. And don’t forget the chocolate!
oh my 2 years old. I just bought 2 of your books. much love to you and yours.
Thank you - I appreciate it.
Just stumbled on this channel and I'm really digging it.....you spoke the truth in this video even if its 2 years old!👍👌👊
You are on the right track. I will be following you in the days ahead. Be strong and courageous.
Thank you.
Damn. You gotta teach us how to make that awesome spear. It looks great for fighting zombies
I've been blessed with the perfect spot for a cistern just like you have. Just need to buy it and hook it up. I'm already harvesting 5 gallon buckets just putting them under the corner of the porch where the rain really comes down. Fills them up in a couple of minutes!
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.
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.
I live in the North of England. These crops are extremely easy and successful... Potatoes, onions, beetroot, radish, peas, climbing beans, lettuce, kale, sprouts, courgettes, pumpkins, squash, tobacco, sweetcorn, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, apples. In a shaded corner where nothing else grows transplant some wild garlic mustard and it will thrive there, and allow any useful weeds to grow in unused spaces or else transplant them to an appropriate place.
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!
Wow wow wow! There is so much to talk about in this video! The mounds for the yams! Love that idea! We have a TON of decaying trees in our forest, we will put them in the base of the mounds. We are also collecting our humaneur, but need to check out more of your stuff on it. We are in Southern MO so it will likely take longer to heat up. We have it in a mound right now, with a makeshift fence around it built with stacked semi decaying logs. Not sure how that thing will survive in the warmer weather/smell. We know you have a lot of info on this, so we don't expect answers here. Just wanted to share.
This was an excellent video! We really love & respect what you are doing here, and your stance on ALL of this! We stand with you, and know that we just need to get seeds going! Really enjoyed your interview with @IceAgeFarmer. We gotta toss aside perfection, our current situation is indeed going full tilt, and being food sovereign is up to each of us.
Big love to you & your family! - Erin + Brian
Ok reuse soil with fresh red oak hood chips, liquid organic plant grow, liquid fish fertilizer and water down pee mid growth. with some slow time release organic fertilizer and bone mill for mid to late growth. This is my simple organic soil recipe. Along with sweeteners like honey and mollases. I like my veggies to have a safe organic sweetness to them.
So good to know you have given up eating bats. You are so funny! Great video, just watched it on Aug. 2021. Preordered your new book. God continue to bless you, your family and your work.
Thank you very much.
You can use a coffee grinder to make corn grits, they don’t sell grits here, so I’m doing it 🤩🎉😋
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.
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.
Thank you for the book David.
Finally managed to get a carona mill here in Australia, and grew enough red aztec corn to make masa
I am so glad to know that you can grow ñames where you live, I know ñames since forever I grew up eating them and it is a delicious. , easy to make food! I cook them after of course I take the peel off in boiling water with a little sea salt, then after they are soft enough “which cook really fast” I eat them with olive oil yum 😋 and sometimes I add some some albacore tuna cooked like stew with onion , peppers, garlic , cilantro and al title but olive oil and after is done I eat with the ñames 😋, also fried fish, pork or even chicken are a good side dish as well
New to your channel, and I havent been able to watch too many videos (I have my own homestead and children to care for, not much time haha) but, what animals are you raising and why? Also where exactly do you live? I have a 1 and a 1/4 acre homestead in North Central Florida, have 14 chickens, 3 ducks, and will be getting a breeding pair of kunekune, 4 nigerian dwarf goats (chose them due to fat content in milk) Also im about to add a very small amount of fish to my land
I've got a big ibc tote acting as a turtle/fish pond and carnivorous plant garden that I've just connected upto the guttering on the roof, Good thing I got lifestraws to make it drinkable if worst comes to worst
Loved the video, but the baby was so precious, checking out those leaves. Little angel.
amaranth a great nutrition crop. leaves supposed to be more nutritious than kale...plus those seeds!
Thank you for all your kindness, hope and pray that God Almighty continue blessings and talking care of you and your family
He’s so funny, but also very informative.