Your cabbages look great. Hope they make it. I have gotten ugly comforters at thrift stores and cover my citrus trees when a freeze is coming. That gives the ugly comforters a home and a purpose in life!
We had a bad freeze back in the early 80s it even snowed in Tampa. My dad and I got his old army blankets out an covered everything. He even saved his papaya tree. Got to love a good blanket. I hope all your garden makes it through the cold. 👍
So glad to have found your channel. I'm in zone 8b in Alabama. While I love the channels I follow of homesteaders and gardeners in the midwest and zones a little more north than me, I really appreciate those I find that are in the deep south.
Without your techniques I would never have seen my Soursop trees survive our winters and I would never have found out just how delicious their fruit is! I owe you one, DtG!
Good one. Thanks! Last week, I got frost (in Arcadia, FL). My sweet potatoes died down to the ground. My raised bed of russets didn't have any problem. Hope everything you have will be ok.
Is there any type of permaculture group in your area? I saw an ad that said last Sat was Arcadia Garden Club’s annual plant sale and it was focused on food and permaculture I think? Bummed that I missed it.
@@aurora571000 hi! It seems that the state of Florida Dept of agriculture should have some kind of records like that. Some crops must need to be planted after a certain number of degree days.
@@aurora571000 I've just settled here in the past year. Because of the madness I've not tried to go out to find new groups or people. Maybe now that it's starting to relax, we can find our way. There's a school with a program called, "Eco" down in Ft. Meyers that teaches FL. Permaculture. Also, Jim Kovaleski ( who comes to FL every winter, from Maine) has a great course for new FL gardeners. If I find something else, I'll try to keep you posted.🙏💞Sue
DTG, I read your book Florida Survival Gardening and really loved it! Your son did a great detailed job on the pictures and the whole book is packet with info. You also really hit the nail on the head with how you ended, too! Thanks for writing it 😉
Elizabeth says, I was expecting cold temperatures (what we consider 'cold', here in far north California, 32* and lower) so used my cloches, or what Herrick Kimball calls a solar pyramid. Well, he invented minibeds, 30" x 30", and so the pattern he gives in his book, The Planet Whizbang Idea Book for Gardeners, exactly fits a minibed. It worked so well for the far north California cold temperatures that I have left them in place. In our winter sunshine and temperatures (typically in the forties) the temperature in the solar pyramids is between eighty and ninety degrees, easily. So my winter crop of lettuce, spinach, carrots, broccoli, radish, cilantro, and cabbage are very happy. Thanks for this video which advice I will gladly use on crops that don't have a pyramid. I know it's worked on my flowers.
Missed the livestream Sir David The Good, but I'm here and lol....hope the mulch keeps everything frost free as well as the little fruit trees like that Peach! Such a shorty and already blooming 4? Or 3 flowers? Wishing ya a warmer climate, as we're only 54 days away from Spring equinox! :)
Interesting tip about baring the ground around trees. When we had our couple of freezes where I am this year, I threw mulch and weeds around the base of some of my trees to protect the roots, but I didn't know about it actually trapping heat beneath it.
@@davidthegood I'm still not 100% about this. Only clear away the mulch if you use a frost cover? I have a high mound around my hydrangeas and gardenia, with no cover (except snow). Is that EXTRA bad for it?
I think this is actually more effective than a cloth because more air pockets can be created especially if you mix the leaves with some straw and hay. I don't know if its simmilar where you live but in my area I always find dumping sites where people dump their tree waste and I found a place where my neighbour who has a wood saw throws away all his wood waste that he doesn't use. Stuff like this is surprisingly easy to find just because people don't want to deal with composting or don't know about it.
Burying our potatoes and cabbages also here in Mobile, wrapping the satsuma. Hoping the peas and carrots will make it on their own, very unusual to freeze this hard. Good luck to all your plants David
David, That was quite a revelation about baring the ground??! You mentioned our freezes here are usually light and short lived, which 99% of the time they are. How does ground baring work when you have an extended time (7-10 days) before our temps. once again climb above freezing? This 5-7 day stretch of cold weather isn’t a normal occurrence. I’m hoping last night’s 6.5” of snow here in Austin will act like a secondary layer of insulation.🤞 I’m not sure everything will survive, so, in addition to purchasing frost blankets, I bought additional onion sets and seed potatoes just in case. It’ll either be good money spent or money wasted..I’m hedging on good money spent !! Hope you stay warm and your power stays on.🤞. We’ve had rolling blackouts since 2:00 am. this morning!!
my lowest forecasts are for 36 and 39, Friday and Saturday nights...so, I think I am good! And, my Rachel mulberry has 3 of the sweetest baby leaves I have ever seen! Yeah! Thanks for the info, though, always good to learn, file away for future use.
Red Cross warning said it's suppose to be in single digits tonight in Scottsboro with a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain and stay cold thru Tuesday. I'm glad I only have starts in my place right now.
we are in the same zone now. in texas peach trees get confused due to "texas weather". they may not have many fruits some years, i hear. my baby Peach tree was like "lol where's the winter? why you shedding your leaves plum tree?" peach only recently shed its leaves, about a month ago I guess. today we broke the record low for this day. last winter was so mild. I grew brassicas all winter, the bees loved them. now the lone Brassica this winter has rip'erenoed. I'm interested to see if the wild onion greens and henbit deadnettle survive. for a few years I would grow Moringa trees. in a pot once it hits 40 degrees they die, if i recall correctly. it's amazing how fast moringa grow... and how strange a taste the seeds have. it's definitely a tree from India.
We are having a MAJOR cold snap...as in the entire winter is this week.(15° and LESS! Extremely rare here) Covered 4 small seed grown trees with cardboard boxed and stuffed with same stuff(pine).
@@reneebrown2968 It's 0 degrees right now. We are supposed to get snow tonight and wednesday. This is the longest that it has been below freezing since I moved up here 6 years ago. Pretty cold for North Texas. Al Gore can come and shovel my driveway.
@@ThunderStruck15 Nah, that's all nonsense. CO2 levels are at some of the lowest levels ever on a geological time scale. CO2 levels were higher durring ice ages in the past before people even existed. Besides, there is no evidence that the trace levels of CO2 in our atmosphere, about .041%
I have the book, I want to do the sunken High tunnel coconut trees. And I have the high tunnel; But how do I stop the sides from caving in and how do i drain it so it doesn't become a covered pond? In central FL 9ab
Weird weather down south today...pounding rain and thunderstorms arrived about 3 hours ahead of schedule with strong winds. Now it's calm and was almost sunny for a minute. I had to put a lightbulb in the greenhouse today. I guess I've finally run through all the incandescent I hoarded. What to use instead? I'm trying a halogen. Anyone know?
Saw a guy in Europe use a large jarred DIY candle in his greenhouse. Maybe park some on some bricks or in a cookie sheet in sand/something that can't be knocked over.
Oh, man I missed it :( I need to plant my potatoes too TY for the reminder. Meanwhile we here in SFL are warm with high pollen and my sinuses are bleeding so getting outside has been a challenge. Maybe that is what those mask things are for-now to keep Dr. Evil and Pseudo Dr. Billy away from our gardens. 🤔
Forecast says it won't get as cold 50-100 miles east of you where I am, so risking it as is. Plants survived colder by a couple degrees earlier this winter than it's supposed to get next two nights. I hope forecast is right. Downpour now, so not up to trying to cover stuff anyway. :p Harsh winter this year. Hopefully winter is going.
@@davidthegood So far so good. No ice out there. Think they missed forecast by about 8 degrees. Still showing low of 27 tonight though. Maybe the inch of rain a hard thunderstorm dumped kept things warmer. Lots of standing water in field still from earlier in the week. Hope your plants made it. Saw on Scott Head's channel his got brutalized.
Daylilies are tough. Mine have no covering and withstood freezing rain, 4 ft of snow, frost galore. Yours should be fine unless you bought southern prissy day lilies, lol. No such thing, your day lilies will be fine.
Great tip. 👍 Hey, David, are you familiar with LeadFarmer73? I feel like you guys would do an awesome collaboration. Your gardening styles have a similar flavor. Idk, just a thought.
@@aurora571000 He's in South Carolina, zone 8a. I don't think zone should rule anyone out, though. So much can be extrapolated. I've learned a ton from David, for example, while he was in the tropics, in Florida and now in Alabama, and where I live (Tulsa,6a/7b) is absolutely nothing like any of those places.
Found this research talked. At minute 11 They show a graph. It shows A 1% increase of carbon in the soil . By using green waste, biochar, and fertilizer. Over Green waste, and biochar alone. Which is no surprise. This is the title of the You Tube link. They want let me share the URL. What happens to carbon in the soil after biochar is applied?
I can't help it. When someone tells me OH THAT WON'T GROW HERE i take that as a direct dare. I can't help it. I've got to try it until i can get them to grow. Lol. I was told that celery will not grow in southern Alabama. Well i have 6 of 6 plants ive started and they are growing fine. They may not be able to grow stuff but i will die trying to get it to grow.
So long as it doesn't stick for a long time, you may get through. I start putting out barrels of water next to trees if it gets really cold, then covering the tree and the barrel together.
Good one. Thanks! Last week, I got frost (in Arcadia, FL). My sweet potatoes died down to the ground. My raised bed of russets didn't have any problem. Hope everything you have will be ok.
I'm really glad that I've been putting off planting potatoes.
Your cabbages look great. Hope they make it. I have gotten ugly comforters at thrift stores and cover my citrus trees when a freeze is coming. That gives the ugly comforters a home and a purpose in life!
We had a bad freeze back in the early 80s it even snowed in Tampa. My dad and I got his old army blankets out an covered everything. He even saved his papaya tree. Got to love a good blanket. I hope all your garden makes it through the cold. 👍
So glad to have found your channel. I'm in zone 8b in Alabama. While I love the channels I follow of homesteaders and gardeners in the midwest and zones a little more north than me, I really appreciate those I find that are in the deep south.
Mr. Good, you are indeed a survivor. Hope your hard work is saved and you and your family get through this crazy-a** weather okay.
Without your techniques I would never have seen my Soursop trees survive our winters and I would never have found out just how delicious their fruit is! I owe you one, DtG!
That is great news. They are wonderful trees, too.
What zone are you growing soursop?
@@homesoulgrownhandmaidenoft5276 10, on the water, and I cover, water bucket, and lamp them.
I use leaves as mulch as frost covering too. For things a bit taller, I fill a bucket with leaves and flip it over the plants.
Good one. Thanks! Last week, I got frost (in Arcadia, FL). My sweet potatoes died down to the ground. My raised bed of russets didn't have any problem. Hope everything you have will be ok.
Is there any type of permaculture group in your area? I saw an ad that said last Sat was Arcadia Garden Club’s annual plant sale and it was focused on food and permaculture I think? Bummed that I missed it.
Is there a way to look up past freezes in our area (DeSoto County)? Seems like we had quite a few and lower than normal..
@@aurora571000 hi! It seems that the state of Florida Dept of agriculture should have some kind of records like that. Some crops must need to be planted after a certain number of degree days.
@@aurora571000 I've just settled here in the past year. Because of the madness I've not tried to go out to find new groups or people. Maybe now that it's starting to relax, we can find our way. There's a school with a program called, "Eco" down in Ft. Meyers that teaches FL. Permaculture. Also, Jim Kovaleski ( who comes to FL every winter, from Maine) has a great course for new FL gardeners. If I find something else, I'll try to keep you posted.🙏💞Sue
DTG, I read your book Florida Survival Gardening and really loved it! Your son did a great detailed job on the pictures and the whole book is packet with info. You also really hit the nail on the head with how you ended, too! Thanks for writing it 😉
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your simple approach to things.
Thank you. I grew up in a missionary family. We did what we could on limited resources. Wonderful learning experience.
its always great to see you my friend!
May the warm temperatures be back with you
Elizabeth says, I was expecting cold temperatures (what we consider 'cold', here in far north California, 32* and lower) so used my cloches, or what Herrick Kimball calls a solar pyramid. Well, he invented minibeds, 30" x 30", and so the pattern he gives in his book, The Planet Whizbang Idea Book for Gardeners, exactly fits a minibed. It worked so well for the far north California cold temperatures that I have left them in place. In our winter sunshine and temperatures (typically in the forties) the temperature in the solar pyramids is between eighty and ninety degrees, easily. So my winter crop of lettuce, spinach, carrots, broccoli, radish, cilantro, and cabbage are very happy. Thanks for this video which advice I will gladly use on crops that don't have a pyramid. I know it's worked on my flowers.
Hope everything survived okay! Can't wait for warmer weather!
Thanks for the info David hope I can remember it if we ever ever get a freeze it rarely dips into the 30s
Didn't expect this to become an ASMR video. 4:01
I'm looking forward to the results! I predict it'll work out well.
The bachtrachian smell of the sheet almost stifled the uluulating screams of the trees.
A++
Missed the livestream Sir David The Good, but I'm here and lol....hope the mulch keeps everything frost free as well as the little fruit trees like that Peach! Such a shorty and already blooming 4? Or 3 flowers? Wishing ya a warmer climate, as we're only 54 days away from Spring equinox! :)
Thanks, Joe.
Interesting tip about baring the ground around trees. When we had our couple of freezes where I am this year, I threw mulch and weeds around the base of some of my trees to protect the roots, but I didn't know about it actually trapping heat beneath it.
It was a revelation to me as well when I first discovered it.
@@davidthegood I'm still not 100% about this. Only clear away the mulch if you use a frost cover? I have a high mound around my hydrangeas and gardenia, with no cover (except snow). Is that EXTRA bad for it?
I think this is actually more effective than a cloth because more air pockets can be created especially if you mix the leaves with some straw and hay. I don't know if its simmilar where you live but in my area I always find dumping sites where people dump their tree waste and I found a place where my neighbour who has a wood saw throws away all his wood waste that he doesn't use. Stuff like this is surprisingly easy to find just because people don't want to deal with composting or don't know about it.
Thank you for another book suggestion!
I'm hoping my hoophouse works still. It's been my winter garden bed.
I am buying all your books for the apocalypse 🤣 Also....your kiddos are super cool.
Burying our potatoes and cabbages also here in Mobile, wrapping the satsuma. Hoping the peas and carrots will make it on their own, very unusual to freeze this hard. Good luck to all your plants David
Good luck, neighbor.
David,
That was quite a revelation about baring the ground??!
You mentioned our freezes here are usually light and short lived, which 99% of the time they are. How does ground baring work when you have an extended time (7-10 days) before our temps. once again climb above freezing? This 5-7 day stretch of cold weather isn’t a normal occurrence. I’m hoping last night’s 6.5” of snow here in Austin will act like a secondary layer of insulation.🤞
I’m not sure everything will survive, so, in addition to purchasing frost blankets, I bought additional onion sets and seed potatoes just in case. It’ll either be good money spent or money wasted..I’m hedging on good money spent !!
Hope you stay warm and your power stays on.🤞. We’ve had rolling blackouts since 2:00 am. this morning!!
Most of my friends in ATX got 3-5 inches of snow. Of course the drifts get higher!
my lowest forecasts are for 36 and 39, Friday and Saturday nights...so, I think I am good! And, my Rachel mulberry has 3 of the sweetest baby leaves I have ever seen! Yeah! Thanks for the info, though, always good to learn, file away for future use.
Wonderful! They are a really pretty variety.
Great video david, it’s been awfully cold here lately 😭
Excellent info!!! TY DTG
does anyone have a link to the Fruit salad spoon song its always in my head?
Red Cross warning said it's suppose to be in single digits tonight in Scottsboro with a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain and stay cold thru Tuesday. I'm glad I only have starts in my place right now.
That is rough!
we are in the same zone now. in texas peach trees get confused due to "texas weather". they may not have many fruits some years, i hear. my baby Peach tree was like "lol where's the winter? why you shedding your leaves plum tree?" peach only recently shed its leaves, about a month ago I guess.
today we broke the record low for this day. last winter was so mild. I grew brassicas all winter, the bees loved them. now the lone Brassica this winter has rip'erenoed. I'm interested to see if the wild onion greens and henbit deadnettle survive.
for a few years I would grow Moringa trees. in a pot once it hits 40 degrees they die, if i recall correctly. it's amazing how fast moringa grow... and how strange a taste the seeds have. it's definitely a tree from India.
Fortunately they usually come back from the roots. I will try them here in spring.
Cabbages go burrrr in the winter. Money printer go brrrr for The Good family's stimulus check. Lol
I hope to get that check eventually.
I'm cheap too. Never throw out a bedsheet or blanket.
T shirts, old socks, Or bread bags 🤓I have a list of keeps just in case they come in handy around the farm
We are having a MAJOR cold snap...as in the entire winter is this week.(15° and LESS! Extremely rare here) Covered 4 small seed grown trees with cardboard boxed and stuffed with same stuff(pine).
Good luck. Sounds like a solid plan.
Awesome video! I’ve learned something new! New sub!
Welcome!
Lucky you. I awoke this morning to find my whole property covered with about 6 inches of global warming. Zone 8a?
We will be getting the same weather tonight and tomorrow. I'm in coastal Alabama zone 8b/9a.
@@reneebrown2968 It's 0 degrees right now. We are supposed to get snow tonight and wednesday. This is the longest that it has been below freezing since I moved up here 6 years ago. Pretty cold for North Texas. Al Gore can come and shovel my driveway.
@@ThunderStruck15 Nah, that's all nonsense. CO2 levels are at some of the lowest levels ever on a geological time scale. CO2 levels were higher durring ice ages in the past before people even existed. Besides, there is no evidence that the trace levels of CO2 in our atmosphere, about .041%
@@ThunderStruck15 Oh, and Al "polar bears can't swim" Gore comes from a wealthy oil family. Occidental Petroleum.
I have the book, I want to do the sunken High tunnel coconut trees. And I have the high tunnel; But how do I stop the sides from caving in and how do i drain it so it doesn't become a covered pond? In central FL 9ab
Dave, how died this work out? We had numerous days of freeze here in SE TX, so wondered how you fared there?
Weird weather down south today...pounding rain and thunderstorms arrived about 3 hours ahead of schedule with strong winds. Now it's calm and was almost sunny for a minute. I had to put a lightbulb in the greenhouse today. I guess I've finally run through all the incandescent I hoarded. What to use instead? I'm trying a halogen. Anyone know?
Got any old incandescent Christmas lights?
I use barrels of water.
Saw a guy in Europe use a large jarred DIY candle in his greenhouse. Maybe park some on some bricks or in a cookie sheet in sand/something that can't be knocked over.
After the freeze, do you just go around and carefully push the mulch off of the plants?
Yes. As one commenter said, I should use a leaf blower - but I don't have one.
In arizona we only getting to the low 40s st night
Oh, man I missed it :( I need to plant my potatoes too TY for the reminder. Meanwhile we here in SFL are warm with high pollen and my sinuses are bleeding so getting outside has been a challenge. Maybe that is what those mask things are for-now to keep Dr. Evil and Pseudo Dr. Billy away from our gardens. 🤔
Forecast says it won't get as cold 50-100 miles east of you where I am, so risking it as is. Plants survived colder by a couple degrees earlier this winter than it's supposed to get next two nights. I hope forecast is right. Downpour now, so not up to trying to cover stuff anyway. :p
Harsh winter this year. Hopefully winter is going.
Good luck, Dan.
@@davidthegood So far so good. No ice out there. Think they missed forecast by about 8 degrees. Still showing low of 27 tonight though.
Maybe the inch of rain a hard thunderstorm dumped kept things warmer. Lots of standing water in field still from earlier in the week.
Hope your plants made it. Saw on Scott Head's channel his got brutalized.
maybe if one had one, leaf blower the cabbages afterwards? or lay 'cheese cloth' etc over the heads before the leaf cover?
Nice👍
I like it
Daylilies are tough. Mine have no covering and withstood freezing rain, 4 ft of snow, frost galore. Yours should be fine unless you bought southern prissy day lilies, lol. No such thing, your day lilies will be fine.
Thank you. I never grew them before.
@@davidthegood so did you know that most of Day lilies are edible? Roots, new shoots in spring and flower buds, bon appetite!
Great tip. 👍
Hey, David, are you familiar with LeadFarmer73? I feel like you guys would do an awesome collaboration. Your gardening styles have a similar flavor. Idk, just a thought.
What Zone is he? I wish they would all their zones in their Title so we can figure out if they apply to us👍
@@aurora571000 He's in South Carolina, zone 8a. I don't think zone should rule anyone out, though. So much can be extrapolated. I've learned a ton from David, for example, while he was in the tropics, in Florida and now in Alabama, and where I live (Tulsa,6a/7b) is absolutely nothing like any of those places.
you're doing insulation o'natural, human intervention, but, not human made. best way in my pov. go dtg!!
Found this research talked. At minute 11 They show a graph. It shows A 1% increase of carbon in the soil . By using green waste, biochar, and fertilizer. Over Green waste, and biochar alone. Which is no surprise. This is the title of the You Tube link. They want let me share the URL. What happens to carbon in the soil after biochar is applied?
I can't help it. When someone tells me OH THAT WON'T GROW HERE i take that as a direct dare. I can't help it. I've got to try it until i can get them to grow. Lol. I was told that celery will not grow in southern Alabama. Well i have 6 of 6 plants ive started and they are growing fine. They may not be able to grow stuff but i will die trying to get it to grow.
That's what I do. Cover with leaves and pine straw...
Potatoes can take a frost or two
What about if you get single digits? I'm in 8A. 50 miles from the Texas border. Predicting 7 degrees to night.
So long as it doesn't stick for a long time, you may get through. I start putting out barrels of water next to trees if it gets really cold, then covering the tree and the barrel together.
@@davidthegood Is a solid week a long time? We're supposed to get back in the 50s next week in 7b
Bury it deeper and cover it with a foot of leaves or hay
Don't u just wish u were still in the tropics 😀
I'm HEARTBROKEN. My fig tree Froze
They usually come back from the roots, still sucks!
It will probably come back, but it does hurt.
@@davidthegood ok. Thank YOU for the support.
I couldn’t help but notice your pain. It runs deep, share it with me.
The cold is painful.
What’s the missing lyric? “Buried ____ beneath the cherry tree...”
"my rabbit"
@@davidthegood well, my wife was right. Thanks sir.
Good one. Thanks! Last week, I got frost (in Arcadia, FL). My sweet potatoes died down to the ground. My raised bed of russets didn't have any problem. Hope everything you have will be ok.