This way puts the fun back into gardening. It makes me think about how the Bible talks about learning many valuable things about life from His creation. I don't know why but this video was so touching to me. Beautiful. :)
I love this idea of HAVING FUN with gardening. Well done, DTG. I've got a gazillion little Morninga trees growing in my beds & I laugh at myself on how carefully I soaked my Moringa seeds for 72 hours, then carefully planted each one in a little pot & watered & nurtured it & up came a little tree (now 4 big trees...). Then God "said", "Uh, Mike, let Me show you something...". Lol.
These videos get me through the winter every year..GOD BLESS YOU (NOT YELLING LOL) the close ups of those plants like heaven and I'm craving the smell of the garden and peas and fresh salad so bad.. great commentary and art and creativity .. groaning for spring
One of your best videos ever!! So beautiful and true. And, there is something so heart warming seeing a child in the garden. Thank you again, Mr. Good.
I did this last summer and included a one pound bag of Dollar General pinto beans with everything else. I ended up getting almost five pounds of beans. Now I'm trying to develop a locally adapted pinto bean. 🤓
Boy, this video truely removes all the pressure we sometimes feel when planning/planting a garden. I've taken to your food forest idea and have begun planting my own. I like your relaxed approach to everything as I believe you transfer that to me and your subscribers. Thank you.
Hello David. I've been following you for 3 years, and I think this is the most inspirational video you've done yet. When you really don't have a lawn and it's really not a garden, what do you do ? Buy some seeds, rake them in, stop worrying, and hope for the best. Makes sense to me. Looking forward to your new food forest book. a lot
I was so anxious to see what happened after throwing all those mixed seeds in the soil, and now I know. So happy to see the GREEN! I’m inspired! Thanks!
Yes! Bare soil is where all the bad weeds grow...if there is such a thing as a bad weed. Soil is kept alive when it is covered by growing things. Thank you for the lovely videos!
AMEN! Your book “Compost Everything” did exactly what you described......released me from gripping fear and gave me permission to enjoy the fabulous compost I made by making a huge pile of stuff and letting it do its thing. Thanks!!!! Love your channel, your books, AND your music!,,,
I don't know what it is David but I've been putting off my garden all afternoon and as soon as you come on, I'm out and looking for stuff to do. Thank you. And the kid too, I guess.
This is one your best videos yet. Simple visuals, layman terms and teaching gardening with your kids a bonus. We all should share the good news, no matter who they are and what their age is. The three words that describe this video, perfect, happy and peaceful. I like turtles. 😁🌱🐢
I hope you make this a season feature... would be fun to see what you actually harvest from it, and especially how much work it takes to manage. Wonder if the pest levels will be down in a bed like this. Good luck, David.
I planted a MILPA garden mix (40+ different type of seed) from Green Cover Seed last year, that was a fun garden. The kids, the bees and most importantly, the wife really liked it. I am actually incorporating the mix into my version of a grocery row garden
I made a permanent bed in a similar fashion in a trench basin along a border wall last year (with slightly amended and inoculated soil and a "mulch lattice" (a bunch of dead moss with 5 or 6 other mulches suspended in it)). It's primarily my legume, wildflower, and sunflower garden, and composed mostly of perennials and pseudoperennials. I mainly harvest it for the biomass for the compost, but it brings in tons of pollinators, and helps begin the process of waking up the soil on that far side of the yard. I think of it like a forest with different biomes at different layers of canopy, which is kinda what you can get when you mix a bunch of different random seeds and scatter them roughshod. It also fosters a selection process where you can see what thrives best. It's extremely densely planted but the soil is super alive and the plants seem to be working in concert rather than competing.
Today I chopped my elderberry back. I've never trimmed them but.....we shall see. Maybe I'll get a better crop! I also took a handful of amaranth and cast it in the chicken yard. Hopefully by the time we get the fencing fixed it will have time to grow otherwise it's chicken food. Spring has finally arrived in 8b East Texas. Thanks for all you share with us. Going ahead and buying those books from A--zon. 🥴
This is a great experiment. I'm currently doing something similar with perennial red clover, perennial alfalfa, perennial sorrel and perennial chicory in my grocery row garden between the fruit trees. I came up with the idea two years ago because (at the time) I knew I wouldn't have enough time to plant and maintain annual vegetables while we had too much other stuff going on in life for a while. Two years later, there are still abundant greens although almost all of it is now chicory and sorrel. During that time, I've been blessed with an endless supply of perennial cooking greens and greens for the rabbits and my daughter's pet guinea pigs. During this time of little activity in the garden, these roots have been putting their humic acids in the soil and tilling the ground helping build the structure of the earth. Because these are mostly hardy perennials-, I hardly had to give them any supplemental water the second year, even with the hellish summers we have here in San Antonio, TX. I'd say the experiment was a success. Hope to retire next year and have more time in the garden and more time to work on my perennial plant breeding projects.
My daughter is there, (military nurse) and I've visited several times. Summer is definitely sweltering. I want to move there but gosh, that heat! I'm not a stay inside in the ac gal, so its tripping me up. How many months is the humidity so high? I think the heat I could eventually get used to again. Thanks!
@@heatherk8931 Hi Heather, so we have 4 seasons here in San Antonio - Early Summer, Summer, Late Summer and two weeks of winter - which is just enough to kill all my Avocado Trees and other subtropical plants. If you Google “humidity in San Antonio by month” the first link will show you the average humidity is always higher than about 62%, regardless of what month you’re in. Let’s just say it’s not fun running a marathon here. Hope this message finds you well.
@@mjk9388 thank you, I had to laugh with the 4 seasons, truly! I've been there for Christmas 85°, summer when the rain dries before it get to the ground, and the summer of Harvey in Houston. I just keep thinking OH! Gardens all year long❣ so sorry about your avocados, that is a tragedy, I love them. Were they able to snap back?
@@heatherk8931 It was the “snowmegeddon” that killed the cold-tolerant Joey Avocados last year, even though they all had covers on them. The wood itself was dead so I trimmed them to the ground past the graft. They were on Lulu rootstocks which is another cold tolerant variety so I just let them grow again. This winter it wasn’t nearly as bad but I see that a few of them have nothing but dead leaves again underneath the frost covers. I may just have to give up or go to the expense of building a temporary greenhouse over a 70 foot row of avocado trees and longevity spinach. Not sure if it’s worth the cost though. My idea (to save on wood) is just to stretch a series of rope from one end of the fence to the other end of the fence and drape two layers of plastic over them and create a temporary double walled greenhouse with a 6 inch air gap between each plastic layer, but just the cost of the plastic alone is enough to make me wonder if I should just try different plants and leave the subtropicals to maybe the south facing wall of the house in more of a espalier prune against the wall of the house.
Last spring I was very pregnant and extremely tired (and busy with 2 other kids), and I just didn't have the strength to bend over repeatedly and plant seeds and do all this work to prep beds. I kept waiting till a day when I'd have the energy and it kept not happening. Finally as the end of planting season approached I almost gave up hope of being able to start a garden at all that year. But I was watching your channel a lot and it inspired me to think outside the box and find a way to plant something, even if I had very few resources available. So I went into my seed box and found the seeds that were more than a few years old, and the seeds that I had 10 identical bags of, and all the seeds of vegetables I'm not crazy about. In other words, all the least valuable seeds I had. I went out in the garden and scattered the contents all over the ground. Then I dumped some chicken manure and woodchips on top, raked the whole thing so that it was more or less evenly distributed, and set up the sprinkler to water it all in. My yields were paltry compared to my epic pandemic garden the year before. But I still got lots of tomatoes and squashes and turnips and carrots, and a few other odds and ends as well. Not bad for just an hour or so of light work. And certainly better than not planting at all!
Thanks for the update. I did the same thing with a smaller area but included some black oats and those things really created some biomass. Now I'm hacking some down and planting my 3 sisters into it. I'm just hoping the oats didn't take too much nitrogen up.
Inspired and inspirational! I'm totally going to do this in a patch of my forest and see what outgrows what. Absolutely love it! Right now I'm building out my first "Grocery Row" planting area following your book. Doing it in four rows (4ft and 3ft like you suggest) but terracing them into a sloped area behind my hoop house. I'll @ you when I post the making of video. Thanks for being a constant inspiration!
This video is very soothing and calming. Your grocery garden book was great, and I got the water wise gardening book. It’s quite amazing. Had no idea the roots would even get that big on beets.
My seven siblings are all amazing gardeners. As the youngest I blamed my dear mother for having run out of the gardening gene by the time I came along. BUT I've just found your channel and realise that there are others like me that don't define gardening by straight weedfree rows, and things naturally grow just fine!
I love this idea. I realized that after all the things I've allowed to go to seed and drop in the garden beds, I could grow tons of food without sowing anything new this year. I would get mustards, turnips, carrots, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, purslane, dandelion, marigolds, and who knows what? Some of it would be a bit Frankenstein but it would all be edible. It feels a bit like food security 🤷 Also that moving shot from 07:30 to 07:50 is so very beautiful 😍
Thank you David. I am so high-strung, a perfectionist & obsessive-compsulsive. To top that off, I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & I suffer from growing up in our hurry up lifestyle that requirese fast & consistently perfect everything. We toss more than we keep. I closely follow current events, the only one in my entire family and they think I am a conspiracy freak for doing it. So, being the conspiracy freak who has been warning for years about everything, including not trusting our food sources, not even "organic," compounded by the upcoming food shortages, my illness & mental tendencies & need for immediate gratification, I have put off starting food crops out of fear of failing & therefore ruining our future food that I claim we MUST HAVE! Sigh. No pressure! It is so refreshing to be reminded that food has grown without me, in a lot worse conditions than I hope to provide. Why do we complicate things so much and ruin all the pleasure we once had in things? Thanks again, David, for this timely life-lesson. Take care & God bless David the Good & family.
In your last stream about book ideas, I wanted to say I would LOVE to read a book on all different types of old-school gardening methods and garden prep, like when you did the terra cotta video and how you showed how to set up grocery rows but I love to find ways how did pioneers do it, how did people do it before tools, before they used animals, people in different countries, etc. I Cant seem to find this stuff online but I would love a book on it all put together, the good old tried and true original ancient gardening methods lol i hope that makes sense to you
I really enjoyed the video ! I tried something like this a few years back and the farmer sprayed i'm guessing Dicamba and the drift burnt it down in a couple of days . We finished making our David The Good compost , biochar raised beds today . I made a video of them if you want to check it out . I''m looking forward seeing how they do . I hope you guys have a blessed evening !
I have a jam jar of seeds, including all sorts - carrots, onions, radish, fenugreek, loads of brassicas, parsley, lettuce, beetroot, chard, mustard - anything really that I'm not seed saving from, and I regularly sow them on new beds as they grow when they are ready and if I need the space, I've still got food from them and I plant the new stuff inbetween. It also helps you to cook what comes when it comes.
I love that idea. Because I realize a rogue tomato plant popped up and it came up when it was ready. Not the same timing we planted. And, I love grazing🥰
Great vid, thanks, but I got the notice 20 minutes after you were done!!! lol...so much for yt...how pretty that garden area grew, and then, to also get food, then fodder, too amazing, God is good... I want to vote for the Rachel compost commercial a few more times : ) pray all is well, and collecting the 3 b's...
David, this was a visually beautiful video with a great message! What time of the day did you film it? Please could you do an update on this area later?
Having some roots in the ground, as opposed to bare like it is to the right in the video, will get you more benefits from compost tea and amendments too, something for it to grab ahold of
This is what half my yard looks like. I tractor my chickens around the yard and their spilled feed sprouts up. Then I cut it down and feed it back to them or the rabbits. It's awesome.
I did something similar years ago. No luck with lettuce and green beans. Rabbits ate them all as soon as they sprouted. Big tomatoes require cages otherwise they mostly rot on the ground but cherry tomatoes are easy and prolific. Acorn squash did very well and probably provided the best caloric output. Had some luck with corn. Even had some smut, but didn't know it was a delicacy at the time. Broccoli came up kind of spindly but it was perfectly edible. Not much luck with cabbages, peppers, cauliflower, carrots, melons, and onions. Mixed luck with cukes, butternut,. I learned to avoid pumpkins and zucchini. They'll take over the whole garden Giant sunflowers are always fun, but plant them along the northern side of the garden else they'll block the sun. I mixed in some flower and wild flower seeds in also. That was probably a mistake. The garden was in sandy soil, zone 5, with a ton of fall leaves tilled in each year. I didn't mix all the seeds in a bowl but just tossed different seeds in roughly different free form, overlapping areas. The first year it came up kind of like a painting of what I seeded. In subsequent years, the volunteers and weeds competed with the new seeds placed that spring. When I got ready to sell that place, I seeded lawn in that area and rolled it. (It was in the front yard of an acre lot with mostly woods in back.) After years of leaves being tilled in, the lawn in that area was significantly more lush than surrounding areas.
I watched a video where the guy (cannot think of his name) says he never turns the earth or waters, just mulches really deep and plants further apart like you mentioned. And no weeds, appealing.
Love it! Thank you for showing how it came out. You inspired me to convert the north boundary of my suburban yard to a grocery store garden. (I think Brie Arthur in north Carolina does something similar called “Foodscaping”). I expanded the boundary from 5 ft. to 8 ft., planted a service berry tree, 2 crabapples, blueberries, blackberries, and Nanking cherries, spaced 10 feet apart. They’ll be kept to about 7 feet tall and I’m filling in the spaces with flowers and vegetables. Question….Have you ever grown Sesame and what was your experience with it?
Next fall I want to add red clover to my wheat rye and oat mix on my pasture to improve my soil...Anywhere you see cactus and sage grass is a indication of crapy soil...
The free your mind zone, a compliment to biointensive methods for when you need a timeout :) You said this is good for salad greens? I was surprised by that, could you explain?
You're the best. I'm working on a Three Sisters Garden now and I was wondering at what height for my corn do I plant the pumpkins and green beans in Central Florida
I would say you want your beans to be Able to actually climb something, so about 4-5 feet high or so. Like he said, don't be afraid to just try it and you'll learn! The pumpkin on the other hand I'm not so sure, I grew squash next to my corn last year and it produced so much fricken squash. I would be careful of the heavy vines going up any of your corn, it's not that strong.
Yes - and it will depend on the variety of corn, too. My tall Hickory King corn can support a lot of bean vine, but sweet corn cannot. I have only played around with the 3 Sisters method, though, so I'm not an expert.
@@davidthegood I'll have to let you know if that variety will do any good up here in Michigan. Last year my sweet corn got almost 8 ft tall, I was so impressed ❤️
You could do this in rows with proper spacing for those who need to follow the rules as long as they contact the right organizer and town officials first
QUESTION ❓. Can I plant a carrot, onion or beet etc in order to let it go to seed, or must I grow the vegetable the first year and just leave in the ground to go to seed the second year? I'm thinking a seed garden might prove to be a valuable investment.
Carrots will send up a long stem with flowers on top the second year, depending on the variety you have. It depends on what varieties you have, if they are hybrid or not, more often than not you will get a variety crossed with another wild one, to do this keep them in pots and then just put them outside & wait for bees to do their thing. You could just "have a bed" of carrots like so but carrots have been modified for a long time to be sweeter, less bitter than your wild white carrot or whatever else. Onions are similar and wild cross pollinate with other onions so keep them seperate or in pots & hand polinate like carrots. Or keep your onions a ways away from eachother. Beets, if given their own room and only grown in one variety they will also seed the second year. They all are biotically pollinated so in theory they all could be left alone in a designated bed, one variety or two if you want to cross breed.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 KJV But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6 KJV Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 2 Corinthians 9:10 KJV
No rows, no spacing, complete chaos!!! This sir is genius. RE-subscribe!!
This way puts the fun back into gardening. It makes me think about how the Bible talks about learning many valuable things about life from His creation. I don't know why but this video was so touching to me. Beautiful. :)
I love this idea of HAVING FUN with gardening. Well done, DTG.
I've got a gazillion little Morninga trees growing in my beds & I laugh at myself on how carefully I soaked my Moringa seeds for 72 hours, then carefully planted each one in a little pot & watered & nurtured it & up came a little tree (now 4 big trees...). Then God "said", "Uh, Mike, let Me show you something...". Lol.
David, your little helper is adorable . Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
These videos get me through the winter every year..GOD BLESS YOU (NOT YELLING LOL) the close ups of those plants like heaven and I'm craving the smell of the garden and peas and fresh salad so bad.. great commentary and art and creativity .. groaning for spring
Thanks for sharing yet another way to grow our own food. 🌱
Love it! Since I have had chickens on my mind lately, I saw a chicken feed plot! God bless and keep growing.
One of your best videos ever!! So beautiful and true. And, there is something so heart warming seeing a child in the garden. Thank you again, Mr. Good.
I did this last summer and included a one pound bag of Dollar General pinto beans with everything else. I ended up getting almost five pounds of beans. Now I'm trying to develop a locally adapted pinto bean. 🤓
Boy, this video truely removes all the pressure we sometimes feel when planning/planting a garden. I've taken to your food forest idea and have begun planting my own. I like your relaxed approach to everything as I believe you transfer that to me and your subscribers. Thank you.
I really enjoy being in nature and playing. There is joy in seeing what happens.
Hello David. I've been following you for 3 years, and I think this is the most inspirational video you've done yet. When you really don't have a lawn and it's really not a garden, what do you do ? Buy some seeds, rake them in, stop worrying, and hope for the best. Makes sense to me. Looking forward to your new food forest book. a lot
Thank you very much, Kevin.
Absolutely Kevin, that's what I do, just always cover cropping. In Texas I get fava leaves and beans really easy I found from that
I was so anxious to see what happened after throwing all those mixed seeds in the soil, and now I know. So happy to see the GREEN! I’m inspired! Thanks!
Yes! Bare soil is where all the bad weeds grow...if there is such a thing as a bad weed. Soil is kept alive when it is covered by growing things. Thank you for the lovely videos!
How fun! Dollar tree has seed packs 4/$1, this would be fun to try with those seeds and see how they do.
I’ve had great success with dollar tree seeds! ☺️
@@AP-gz6nq I bought some this year. Going to give them a try!
Good luck!! I bought some gladiolus corms too so I’ll cross my fingers for both of us!
Me too 4/100
AMEN! Your book “Compost Everything” did exactly what you described......released me from gripping fear and gave me permission to enjoy the fabulous compost I made by making a huge pile of stuff and letting it do its thing. Thanks!!!! Love your channel, your books, AND your music!,,,
I don't know what it is David but I've been putting off my garden all afternoon and as soon as you come on, I'm out and looking for stuff to do. Thank you. And the kid too, I guess.
This is one your best videos yet. Simple visuals, layman terms and teaching gardening with your kids a bonus. We all should share the good news, no matter who they are and what their age is. The three words that describe this video, perfect, happy and peaceful.
I like turtles. 😁🌱🐢
I hope you make this a season feature... would be fun to see what you actually harvest from it, and especially how much work it takes to manage. Wonder if the pest levels will be down in a bed like this. Good luck, David.
Fantastic video! Thanks :-)
I planted a MILPA garden mix (40+ different type of seed) from Green Cover Seed last year, that was a fun garden. The kids, the bees and most importantly, the wife really liked it. I am actually incorporating the mix into my version of a grocery row garden
Awesome!
I made a permanent bed in a similar fashion in a trench basin along a border wall last year (with slightly amended and inoculated soil and a "mulch lattice" (a bunch of dead moss with 5 or 6 other mulches suspended in it)). It's primarily my legume, wildflower, and sunflower garden, and composed mostly of perennials and pseudoperennials. I mainly harvest it for the biomass for the compost, but it brings in tons of pollinators, and helps begin the process of waking up the soil on that far side of the yard. I think of it like a forest with different biomes at different layers of canopy, which is kinda what you can get when you mix a bunch of different random seeds and scatter them roughshod. It also fosters a selection process where you can see what thrives best. It's extremely densely planted but the soil is super alive and the plants seem to be working in concert rather than competing.
Absolutely!
This was so perfectly said! I did this with old seeds once. I figured every seed that succeeded was a success!
Good perspective.
Today I chopped my elderberry back. I've never trimmed them but.....we shall see. Maybe I'll get a better crop! I also took a handful of amaranth and cast it in the chicken yard. Hopefully by the time we get the fencing fixed it will have time to grow otherwise it's chicken food. Spring has finally arrived in 8b East Texas. Thanks for all you share with us. Going ahead and buying those books from A--zon. 🥴
Hey I'm in 8B in Cypress TX!
This is a great experiment. I'm currently doing something similar with perennial red clover, perennial alfalfa, perennial sorrel and perennial chicory in my grocery row garden between the fruit trees. I came up with the idea two years ago because (at the time) I knew I wouldn't have enough time to plant and maintain annual vegetables while we had too much other stuff going on in life for a while. Two years later, there are still abundant greens although almost all of it is now chicory and sorrel. During that time, I've been blessed with an endless supply of perennial cooking greens and greens for the rabbits and my daughter's pet guinea pigs. During this time of little activity in the garden, these roots have been putting their humic acids in the soil and tilling the ground helping build the structure of the earth. Because these are mostly hardy perennials-, I hardly had to give them any supplemental water the second year, even with the hellish summers we have here in San Antonio, TX. I'd say the experiment was a success. Hope to retire next year and have more time in the garden and more time to work on my perennial plant breeding projects.
That is awesome.
My daughter is there, (military nurse) and I've visited several times. Summer is definitely sweltering. I want to move there but gosh, that heat! I'm not a stay inside in the ac gal, so its tripping me up.
How many months is the humidity so high? I think the heat I could eventually get used to again.
Thanks!
@@heatherk8931 Hi Heather, so we have 4 seasons here in San Antonio - Early Summer, Summer, Late Summer and two weeks of winter - which is just enough to kill all my Avocado Trees and other subtropical plants. If you Google “humidity in San Antonio by month” the first link will show you the average humidity is always higher than about 62%, regardless of what month you’re in. Let’s just say it’s not fun running a marathon here. Hope this message finds you well.
@@mjk9388 thank you, I had to laugh with the 4 seasons, truly! I've been there for Christmas 85°, summer when the rain dries before it get to the ground, and the summer of Harvey in Houston. I just keep thinking OH! Gardens all year long❣ so sorry about your avocados, that is a tragedy, I love them. Were they able to snap back?
@@heatherk8931 It was the “snowmegeddon” that killed the cold-tolerant Joey Avocados last year, even though they all had covers on them. The wood itself was dead so I trimmed them to the ground past the graft. They were on Lulu rootstocks which is another cold tolerant variety so I just let them grow again. This winter it wasn’t nearly as bad but I see that a few of them have nothing but dead leaves again underneath the frost covers. I may just have to give up or go to the expense of building a temporary greenhouse over a 70 foot row of avocado trees and longevity spinach. Not sure if it’s worth the cost though. My idea (to save on wood) is just to stretch a series of rope from one end of the fence to the other end of the fence and drape two layers of plastic over them and create a temporary double walled greenhouse with a 6 inch air gap between each plastic layer, but just the cost of the plastic alone is enough to make me wonder if I should just try different plants and leave the subtropicals to maybe the south facing wall of the house in more of a espalier prune against the wall of the house.
Last spring I was very pregnant and extremely tired (and busy with 2 other kids), and I just didn't have the strength to bend over repeatedly and plant seeds and do all this work to prep beds. I kept waiting till a day when I'd have the energy and it kept not happening. Finally as the end of planting season approached I almost gave up hope of being able to start a garden at all that year.
But I was watching your channel a lot and it inspired me to think outside the box and find a way to plant something, even if I had very few resources available. So I went into my seed box and found the seeds that were more than a few years old, and the seeds that I had 10 identical bags of, and all the seeds of vegetables I'm not crazy about. In other words, all the least valuable seeds I had. I went out in the garden and scattered the contents all over the ground. Then I dumped some chicken manure and woodchips on top, raked the whole thing so that it was more or less evenly distributed, and set up the sprinkler to water it all in.
My yields were paltry compared to my epic pandemic garden the year before. But I still got lots of tomatoes and squashes and turnips and carrots, and a few other odds and ends as well. Not bad for just an hour or so of light work. And certainly better than not planting at all!
I absolutely LOVE your videos. I love that you think outside the box. This is such a fun concept.
Thanks for the update. I did the same thing with a smaller area but included some black oats and those things really created some biomass. Now I'm hacking some down and planting my 3 sisters into it. I'm just hoping the oats didn't take too much nitrogen up.
Inspired and inspirational! I'm totally going to do this in a patch of my forest and see what outgrows what. Absolutely love it! Right now I'm building out my first "Grocery Row" planting area following your book. Doing it in four rows (4ft and 3ft like you suggest) but terracing them into a sloped area behind my hoop house. I'll @ you when I post the making of video. Thanks for being a constant inspiration!
This video is very soothing and calming.
Your grocery garden book was great, and I got the water wise gardening book.
It’s quite amazing. Had no idea the roots would even get that big on beets.
My seven siblings are all amazing gardeners. As the youngest I blamed my dear mother for having run out of the gardening gene by the time I came along. BUT I've just found your channel and realise that there are others like me that don't define gardening by straight weedfree rows, and things naturally grow just fine!
I love this idea. I realized that after all the things I've allowed to go to seed and drop in the garden beds, I could grow tons of food without sowing anything new this year. I would get mustards, turnips, carrots, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, purslane, dandelion, marigolds, and who knows what? Some of it would be a bit Frankenstein but it would all be edible. It feels a bit like food security 🤷
Also that moving shot from 07:30 to 07:50 is so very beautiful 😍
Thanks for the update, keep them comming.
Thank you David.
I am so high-strung, a perfectionist & obsessive-compsulsive. To top that off, I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & I suffer from growing up in our hurry up lifestyle that requirese fast & consistently perfect everything. We toss more than we keep.
I closely follow current events, the only one in my entire family and they think I am a conspiracy freak for doing it. So, being the conspiracy freak who has been warning for years about everything, including not trusting our food sources, not even "organic," compounded by the upcoming food shortages, my illness & mental tendencies & need for immediate gratification, I have put off starting food crops out of fear of failing & therefore ruining our future food that I claim we MUST HAVE! Sigh. No pressure!
It is so refreshing to be reminded that food has grown without me, in a lot worse conditions than I hope to provide. Why do we complicate things so much and ruin all the pleasure we once had in things?
Thanks again, David, for this timely life-lesson. Take care & God bless David the Good & family.
In your last stream about book ideas, I wanted to say I would LOVE to read a book on all different types of old-school gardening methods and garden prep, like when you did the terra cotta video and how you showed how to set up grocery rows but I love to find ways how did pioneers do it, how did people do it before tools, before they used animals, people in different countries, etc. I Cant seem to find this stuff online but I would love a book on it all put together, the good old tried and true original ancient gardening methods lol i hope that makes sense to you
I believe you were referring to "Terra preta", terracotta is a building material 😁
@@tesha199 lol whoops😅
I love the camera effects.
I took our compost barrel and just dumped it. Wow!!!, I did thin it out some. I have mostly pumpkins I think.
Wow, I love playing with seeds. My suggestion : next time add bushes and trees, some adapted to your zone, some crazy stuff, and see what happens 😉
I did that in a former food forest project - it was a lot of fun. These are my annual beds, though, so I keep them clear.
Bless your pea pickin' little heart DTG.
I really enjoyed the video ! I tried something like this a few years back and the farmer sprayed i'm guessing Dicamba and the drift burnt it down in a couple of days . We finished making our David The Good compost , biochar raised beds today . I made a video of them if you want to check it out . I''m looking forward seeing how they do . I hope you guys have a blessed evening !
Can you sue for something like that?
@@nancyfahey7518 I'm sure you could but I wouldn't dare do something like that .
I have a jam jar of seeds, including all sorts - carrots, onions, radish, fenugreek, loads of brassicas, parsley, lettuce, beetroot, chard, mustard - anything really that I'm not seed saving from, and I regularly sow them on new beds as they grow when they are ready and if I need the space, I've still got food from them and I plant the new stuff inbetween. It also helps you to cook what comes when it comes.
I love that idea. Because I realize a rogue tomato plant popped up and it came up when it was ready. Not the same timing we planted. And, I love grazing🥰
@@heatherk8931 it is brilliant. I've done it for years.
Thank you David!!
Great vid, thanks, but I got the notice 20 minutes after you were done!!! lol...so much for yt...how pretty that garden area grew, and then, to also get food, then fodder, too amazing, God is good...
I want to vote for the Rachel compost commercial a few more times : ) pray all is well, and collecting the 3 b's...
Oh wow!!! This is amazing♥️♥️♥️♥️
David, this was a visually beautiful video with a great message! What time of the day did you film it? Please could you do an update on this area later?
Late afternoon, as the sun was setting.
Your awesome. I love your perspective.
Having some roots in the ground, as opposed to bare like it is to the right in the video, will get you more benefits from compost tea and amendments too, something for it to grab ahold of
This is what half my yard looks like. I tractor my chickens around the yard and their spilled feed sprouts up. Then I cut it down and feed it back to them or the rabbits. It's awesome.
I really like this idea. TY!
I did something similar years ago. No luck with lettuce and green beans. Rabbits ate them all as soon as they sprouted. Big tomatoes require cages otherwise they mostly rot on the ground but cherry tomatoes are easy and prolific. Acorn squash did very well and probably provided the best caloric output. Had some luck with corn. Even had some smut, but didn't know it was a delicacy at the time. Broccoli came up kind of spindly but it was perfectly edible. Not much luck with cabbages, peppers, cauliflower, carrots, melons, and onions. Mixed luck with cukes, butternut,. I learned to avoid pumpkins and zucchini. They'll take over the whole garden Giant sunflowers are always fun, but plant them along the northern side of the garden else they'll block the sun. I mixed in some flower and wild flower seeds in also. That was probably a mistake. The garden was in sandy soil, zone 5, with a ton of fall leaves tilled in each year. I didn't mix all the seeds in a bowl but just tossed different seeds in roughly different free form, overlapping areas. The first year it came up kind of like a painting of what I seeded. In subsequent years, the volunteers and weeds competed with the new seeds placed that spring. When I got ready to sell that place, I seeded lawn in that area and rolled it. (It was in the front yard of an acre lot with mostly woods in back.) After years of leaves being tilled in, the lawn in that area was significantly more lush than surrounding areas.
That's the best way to build a fence. "a new post every weekday"
I watched a video where the guy (cannot think of his name) says he never turns the earth or waters, just mulches really deep and plants further apart like you mentioned. And no weeds, appealing.
Love it! Thank you for showing how it came out. You inspired me to convert the north boundary of my suburban yard to a grocery store garden. (I think Brie Arthur in north Carolina does something similar called “Foodscaping”). I expanded the boundary from 5 ft. to 8 ft., planted a service berry tree, 2 crabapples, blueberries, blackberries, and Nanking cherries, spaced 10 feet apart. They’ll be kept to about 7 feet tall and I’m filling in the spaces with flowers and vegetables. Question….Have you ever grown Sesame and what was your experience with it?
I have not grown sesame but keep meaning to try. See how it goes!
God bless sir.
Great video as usual.
As always, Good!👍
a true that, A Coltrane planting .. "dam the rules its the feeling that counts " goodvibes ..🙏 seedplay ooonnn!
I never saw a lentil grow can you give me a update please
I love this so much
Great stuff man keep it up
Love it!!
That's how I did my turnips and mustard. It makes a pretty ground cover.
That's how I sow my lettuce bed. Half a dozen various seed packets all mixed together and scattered all over. Every salad is different!
Next fall I want to add red clover to my wheat rye and oat mix on my pasture to improve my soil...Anywhere you see cactus and sage grass is a indication of crapy soil...
The weeds that grow easiest are already diagnostic tool, as well as noticing which seeds/plants flourished...
Yes, for sure
It looks a lot better than it did a month ago
Adding a minimal bit of water during the extra dry times might allow this plot to produce a good deal with only a little work.
I agree.
The free your mind zone, a compliment to biointensive methods for when you need a timeout :) You said this is good for salad greens? I was surprised by that, could you explain?
I take a mix of lettuce, spinach, etc., then throw them over a fertile area and rake them in. We eat the thinnings so the remaining greens get bigger.
@@davidthegood Cool, I'm surprised that works! I'll have to try that with salad greens... eat the baby greens as the other stuff matures
Fibinachi?
TFS
You're the best. I'm working on a Three Sisters Garden now and I was wondering at what height for my corn do I plant the pumpkins and green beans in Central Florida
I would say you want your beans to be Able to actually climb something, so about 4-5 feet high or so. Like he said, don't be afraid to just try it and you'll learn! The pumpkin on the other hand I'm not so sure, I grew squash next to my corn last year and it produced so much fricken squash. I would be careful of the heavy vines going up any of your corn, it's not that strong.
Yes - and it will depend on the variety of corn, too. My tall Hickory King corn can support a lot of bean vine, but sweet corn cannot. I have only played around with the 3 Sisters method, though, so I'm not an expert.
@@davidthegood thank you
@@davidthegood I didn't know that about sweet corn, I'm going to try hickory king corn!
@@davidthegood I'll have to let you know if that variety will do any good up here in Michigan. Last year my sweet corn got almost 8 ft tall, I was so impressed ❤️
You could do this in rows with proper spacing for those who need to follow the rules as long as they contact the right organizer and town officials first
Yeah, regular rows, just randomly placed seeds
QUESTION ❓. Can I plant a carrot, onion or beet etc in order to let it go to seed, or must I grow the vegetable the first year and just leave in the ground to go to seed the second year? I'm thinking a seed garden might prove to be a valuable investment.
Carrots will send up a long stem with flowers on top the second year, depending on the variety you have. It depends on what varieties you have, if they are hybrid or not, more often than not you will get a variety crossed with another wild one, to do this keep them in pots and then just put them outside & wait for bees to do their thing. You could just "have a bed" of carrots like so but carrots have been modified for a long time to be sweeter, less bitter than your wild white carrot or whatever else. Onions are similar and wild cross pollinate with other onions so keep them seperate or in pots & hand polinate like carrots. Or keep your onions a ways away from eachother.
Beets, if given their own room and only grown in one variety they will also seed the second year. They all are biotically pollinated so in theory they all could be left alone in a designated bed, one variety or two if you want to cross breed.
@@lukelints9776 so leave the carrot, beets whatever in ground for 2 years to produce seeds? Thanks
Pam says- can you eat pea plants their whole life or is there a point that they become in edible? I never get to peas, just plants.
I grow peas for shoots. The tops and side shoots, including the tendrils, are edible and quite tasty.
Can you identify everything when they are all mixed together
Yeah, eventually.
This is the gardening equivalent of Mark Bells, eff your elbow video. The only rival to either is rocky at the top of the steps.
Trust me! Shelley does not like getting dropped on her head.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 KJV
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:6 KJV
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
2 Corinthians 9:10 KJV
Seems like a waste of seed. Might as well just forage, but it is an interesting experiment. Why till in vs chop and drop?
The top of the sand here dries out very fast. I usually use old/inexpensive/extra seed.
Every single view should = a like 👍
What ever happened with those giant bean seeds you planted? I guess if something exciting happened, we would have heard?
Hi
They say roots in the ground is the best thing you can do for your soil. I guess this is one method.
The golden proportion….
This is exactly what MILPA is right?
Broadcast multi landrace free for all anyone?
That's how I sow radish. I just dump packets in my hand and toss them in the bed...
The deer around my house would have mowed that to the ground...
Throw them out and seed what happens
Your little goats would love to eat those peas