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
Funny story about anaerobic tea! When I was first becoming interested in organic gardening, I pulled weeds and tossed them into a tub. My health was extremely poor at the time and I had an "episode" that afternoon and the tub was left to sit as far as I had staggered with it, which was the graveled parking lot. For weeks that bin stood there, til I was able to get to it again. My husband said it had rained and it stank and could I move it. I googled it and saw that it would eat me alive piece by piece if I put it on the garden, so I dumped it right where it was and raked up the leftover bits. For several years, parking lot weeds rose up in that spot and would NOT be quelled! Even my desperate hubby spraying them with round up only wrinkled their leaves and turned the outer edges brown! And still they jammed! It took pulling and carefully cleaning the area to finally get them to stop! I've never been afraid of anaerobic tea since! Lol. And I'm healthier by far then I've ever been since childhood! So bring one the stinky tea!! Woo hoo
Because I am old and cant dig hard ground, I lay a thick layer of hay in Autumn. Then I add the amendments (blood and bone, etc) and then cover with the weed cloth. Over winter the hay breaks dow, the weeds die and I can then lay on my potatoes in spring and cover with six inches of loosened hay. When the potatoes shoot thru I add more hay. I might have to do that one more time to keep the potatoes mulched. Then after harvesting, add more hay and amendments, cover and repeat. Gives you broken in ground with a good top soil.
Learned a lot of things! In terms of the raised bed trend lately, I think it's because in urban areas often the soil is beyond awful. Like crushed gravel and sand fill with garbage mixed in if you dig down. I tried digging beds in my yard and there simply isn't soil, just garbage. The only way to grow was to build up with lots of layers of compost and good soil (that I did manage to get for free :) )
I agree wholeheartedly! I have lived (for 20 years) in the northeastern panhandle of WV. The so-called soil is clay with a extra large side of rocks! It doesn’t drain @ all! When it is wet it’s slime & when it dries it’s as hard as a rock! Some rocks are large but most areTherefore, my raised beds & containers are the only way that I can grow veggies! What else can I do? Every time that I dig a hole there are more & more rocks! I have decided to use the rocks to set containers on after watering to help them drain. You know, make lemonade with my lemons!🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@grammaellen4984 With rocks or stones and clay as cement you can make your raised beds. If the clay's not good enough a little cement will strengthen the clay. Compost and biochar will fix the worst soil, just persevere and don't give up!
@@grammaellen4984I’ve dealt with extremely rocky soil as well so I built a sift to remove them. I dug the bed out down to about 2ft and sifted through the entire thing. Pretty big job but now that bed has gone from hard rock that you can’t even stick a shovel into to the finest softest soil you’ll ever see
One of the best videos Ive ever seen on the internet. Your channel is awesome and Ive learned so much. Im in the process of using alot of your techniques to get a small garden/water collection going in an urban area. Thank alot and keep the wealth of information coming! People need this! PS Awesome editing, presentation and music haha
Greetings David I have found your channel some years ago and now some years later of course thankful I found bits of information I needed then I definitely need more now however how I've done in 3 years from hard-dry, though quality PH soil and Waters in northern Arizona Grand Canyon Country is amazing... as far as persistence experience and experiments and of course the good quote on quote infusion of information most people wouldn't and couldn't believe what's been done here and I even haul water yeah well there's hundreds of thousands of people here in northern Arizona from the reservation east to west of the state who haul water for our livelihood and Gardens and farms and even for corn crops which I did last year and will do again although I catch a ton of water we have no water utilities and the water table is naught... I've lived in many states and traveled the country and even the world how I ended up here on Mars is by personal spiritual and familiar reasons being an indigenous person always brought back home that's the way it goes but I want to say I honor you and your many children and family and I'm so impressed all the work I didn't know you had so many videos and books I look forward to acquiring one of your books especially the Garden or die be well my friend take care bless you and all yours
Thanks especially for the positive comments from you and your wife at the end. We just bought 10 acres in a remote area that we want to start to develop. Now that spring is here and it's time to start, I'm getting overload paralysis. So I'm glad I watched this while preparing my hoard of cardboard for sheet composting.
I'm trying to make it a goal right now to plant at least 2 things on each of my days off. Yesterday it was a thyrallis and a burning Heart. Today it was an elephant ear, and the day's not over, just too hot. But I think the next thing will be a pomegranate. It may not always be a food plant, but it may be a pollinator attractor, or like the Elephant ear, shade for something that can't take too much sun. I also scattered a bunch of wildflower seeds
Thank you so much for this David! If it weren’t for these videos and your wonderful books, I would have given up gardening in Florida a long time ago. Now I have a two acre food forest and more African yams than I can eat. (Thanks to your info on yam propagation.) - Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome video David! All your videos are awesome, but in this video you showed all your tools from your 'Grow or Die' book in action :) A great overall kickstarter! :)
a cool trick before making a bed you can just lay something down on the grass and leave it for a couple weeks or so and all of the stuff under will compost and attract worms which means castings too
Putting a wheel hoe and broad fork on my Wishlist! I can clear a lot of space fast with a fork and rake, turn again with the spade if I need deep loose soil . It may be more sweat, but I really can prepare beds faster by hand than using the tiller. Extra tools is a solid tip, not only for the neighbors, but also for when one breaks - one of my forks came off of the handle this year, and I bent the tines on another, but I've got 4 of 'em so it didn't slow me down!
Wow. I listened to you on the epic gardening podcast and I really loved everything you had to say. This video was truly inspirational. I love you brother.
I got your composting book, loved it so much that I bought 2 other books you've written. Grow or die and Push the Zone... Reading the survival one at the moment!! Rachel is so sweet and beautiful. She has a lovely voice too! Heyyyyyy, don't slam the shabby chic! Lol. I have one old rake holding my wine glasses and 3 in my garden! We can do both!😂 Oh, and, nice hat! 😄 Yeah, I've tilled grass too! Bad move, bad, BAD! 😁
I'm still having fun, figuring out what does well here, but i did plant 27 potatoes last month so I'm on my way to a survival garden i think. Only been growing for a year now so lots to learn still, thanks for this video. Very good information, i should have been foraging ages ago, i found a macadamia tree last week. I'm also lucky i can grow potatoes all year, oh and i have planted naked oats for grain as they are apparently easy to process
I love your channel, as an allotmenteer in the burbs of London the weather is certainly not as clement as the tropics but the principle remains the same wherever you are in the world, I hope you don't mind but i share your RUclips vids with my FB friends who rarely think along these lines. All the best to you and your family . . . more seaweed day outs please, that beach is so beautiful :)
This is a great, informative video, no mater the climate or zone that you live in. Next you should do a video on how I can quit my job and farm/garden full-time.
I have that broadfork! Meadow Creature. I've used it quite a bit and love it. It will last forever!I shake my head at the ads Facebook keeps showing me - wimpy tines and wood handles.
I just finished reading pushing the zone. I and next is compost everything. I'm going to have to read them again because I kept having questions but couldn't stop reading.
I totally need to focus more on calories. We did peanuts last year... too many pests got them. The ones who survived were delicious. What do we do about grubs?!!! The chickens devour them when they find them.
Some other cold climate roots are black salisfy, celeriac, Hamburg parsley, onions, carrots,maschua, and if you don't mind tasty but fiddly roots, you can grow pignuts, silver leaf , Chinese artichokes, yyacon and skirret. I think there's the air potato yam but you might have to bring that in over winter and I'm in zone 6. I found if you put jersulam artichoke I. Salt water to ferment, it takes away the stomach upset and also shallots a d all kinds of beets,
Definitely good advice. Start now. Don't start crazy big, done that. I crapped out today after 3 hours because of the heat but I got something done. Back at it tomorrow. :)
I know this is an old video but I just wanna make the comment .... Fred fried the electrical on my garden tractor while changing out the ignition switch, so while that sat on the too list we had to turn survival garden rows by hand. He'd bought me a broadfork from Amazon for Christmas. Money's been tight and it was so tempting. And it was a waste cause I manage to break a set of handles and start bending tines on the first bed. By the 5th bed they were too far gone to keep bending them back to keep going. We should have just got the meadow creature broadfork to begin with. I'd rather people learn from our mistake than learn it on their own. That's $100 that could have went towards the push plow. Lol 😆
Great video. Very helpful. I have to put in an acre of farm land with mulch. I too was completely overwhelmed but with the concept of just put in a 4×8 every day. Baby steps to the rescue.
Another great video. Best gardening program on You Tube. For those of you who don't have his books BUY THEM! Best value for the dollar anywhere. David, I bought one of your "Compost Your Enemies" t-shirts for my wife and she wore it to the Mother Earth News Fair in Topeka Kansas last year. People loved it. Had a lot stop and ask her where she got it. Hope it resulted in some sales for you.
Man I stumbled upon your channel the other day and have been binge watching your videos ever since. Love the common sense information you're putting out there. Your hip hop song in this video had me rolling!! Keep up the awesome work brother!
Very nice video. Miss the old cacau farm, would be nice to watch you some day return to a big farm like that and produce a ton of food in seven months.
Fodder system is a easy way to grow grains. High starches like pataoes in not a good food source for diabetics unless they are sweet potatoes. Enjoying the video.
This reminds me that I need to plant my parsley. Maybe the directors cut could include seed stockpiling to both eat, sprout, microgreen, and start plants. Did you do stockpiling in another video or am I remembering some other crazy smart person with tubs full of legumes and other longlife seeds?
I wonder ir you have ever tried African grains like Teff for instance? Heard it's very adaptable, that it's grown in hot and cold climates, dry and wet and low and high altitudes
Mr. DTG, is there info wild food foraging for us who live more North, personally I'm in NY, but now that you are in Alabama, at least what you know about in these high population areas? I have plants/some call weeds at least 8 including Dandelion & Plaintain & Lambsquarters, in my Brooklyn backyard, but I see others so I'm wondering if any are to be candidates for foraging. Then maybe someday I will be up in the Appalachian areas where there are many, many more to learn about. Hopefully you can help with these possibilities.
Im gardening right now also!!! But I'm in New Hampshire aaaannnd it's snowing... However, I do have some seeds germinating in the woodstove heated basement. Thanks for the video. Oh, and I too like the old steel tools so I will be antique shopping this weekend.
I found a beautiful long vine that had brown bumpy things and they hang from the vines, just a couple every now and then. I collected them and brought them home. Thinking this is air yams??? Love your channel.👍🏻
SCREAM. SCREAM. TEENAGE GIRL MEETING THE BEATLES SCREAM. I now have to wait until mu husband comes home to watch the whole thing. He would be mad if I watched without him. Better then Network T.V.
Protein is also important. Certain types of animals are easy to raise, even in small spaces, like rabbits & chickens. Their manure is also a fertilizer. They feed you & feed your garden at the same time. Pigs can also be easy to raise if you have a little larger space. They eat kitchen scraps & acorns & can forage for their own food. Goats & sheep are also good.
Hi David, came across you site recently and found it very good and encouraging. Regarding you compost tea, have you consider getting yourself a borage or comfery plant to make your own organic fertilizer it is fantastic but stink. i live in the UK and grows many of the plants you grow from seeds indoors but i put them outside when the weather permits. MJ
Plant good king henry. It is a perennial and will multiply. Asparagus and rhubarb are perrenials. I'm trying tree collards.to see how they do in my area. Perennial onions are good to have aka multiplier onions.
Down here we can't grow rhubarb and asparagus, but chaya, African yams and some other perennials do very well. Always a good idea to have some perennial crops on hand.
Hey David, I appreciate all the good videos & info you put out! Been following you for couple years now, Just took on my first 8 x 24 raised bed design-inspired by A video I watched of yours on building a lasagna garden! Thx bro man!! 👍😃 Anyway enough about me lol I want to make some of that compost tea that you put together I do some composting and Vermi composting, but I was wanting to put some of that other tea together and was wondering how long do you wait once you start the compost brew to ferment before you start to pull from it? Thank you, Chris Miller P.S. got a couple of your books there great!!
David The Good OK great thanks! Thank you for your time! Yeah the bed is huge I was blessed enough to have access to a lot of material free and huge horse manure mounds that have been breaking down for about three years now!😃👍 Blessings bro
I must be less fit than you. It would probably take me 2 hours to do that, maybe even 3. I have soil that's full of tiny stone pieces. I'm in the Gravel Belt and on top of that we have the weeds you have there. I have a potato fork that's good for breaking up the soil, but I don't have the bigger tools you have, nor your strength. I'm over 60 years old, but I'm not giving up.
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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
lots of calories walking around on 2 legs.
2022, this is exactly what's happening. Thanks David for this awsome "complete film".
Funny story about anaerobic tea! When I was first becoming interested in organic gardening, I pulled weeds and tossed them into a tub. My health was extremely poor at the time and I had an "episode" that afternoon and the tub was left to sit as far as I had staggered with it, which was the graveled parking lot. For weeks that bin stood there, til I was able to get to it again. My husband said it had rained and it stank and could I move it. I googled it and saw that it would eat me alive piece by piece if I put it on the garden, so I dumped it right where it was and raked up the leftover bits. For several years, parking lot weeds rose up in that spot and would NOT be quelled! Even my desperate hubby spraying them with round up only wrinkled their leaves and turned the outer edges brown! And still they jammed! It took pulling and carefully cleaning the area to finally get them to stop! I've never been afraid of anaerobic tea since! Lol. And I'm healthier by far then I've ever been since childhood! So bring one the stinky tea!! Woo hoo
They call that JADAM. It won’t hurt you or the plants, there’s a whole fertilizing system built around it
Because I am old and cant dig hard ground, I lay a thick layer of hay in Autumn. Then I add the amendments (blood and bone, etc) and then cover with the weed cloth. Over winter the hay breaks dow, the weeds die and I can then lay on my potatoes in spring and cover with six inches of loosened hay. When the potatoes shoot thru I add more hay. I might have to do that one more time to keep the potatoes mulched. Then after harvesting, add more hay and amendments, cover and repeat. Gives you broken in ground with a good top soil.
Learned a lot of things!
In terms of the raised bed trend lately, I think it's because in urban areas often the soil is beyond awful. Like crushed gravel and sand fill with garbage mixed in if you dig down. I tried digging beds in my yard and there simply isn't soil, just garbage. The only way to grow was to build up with lots of layers of compost and good soil (that I did manage to get for free :) )
I agree wholeheartedly! I have lived (for 20 years) in the northeastern panhandle of WV. The so-called soil is clay with a extra large side of rocks! It doesn’t drain @ all! When it is wet it’s slime & when it dries it’s as hard as a rock! Some rocks are large but most areTherefore, my raised beds & containers are the only way that I can grow veggies! What else can I do? Every time that I dig a hole there are more & more rocks! I have decided to use the rocks to set containers on after watering to help them drain. You know, make lemonade with my lemons!🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@grammaellen4984
With rocks or stones and clay as cement you can make your raised beds. If the clay's not good enough a little cement will strengthen the clay. Compost and biochar will fix the worst soil, just persevere and don't give up!
@@grammaellen4984I’ve dealt with extremely rocky soil as well so I built a sift to remove them. I dug the bed out down to about 2ft and sifted through the entire thing. Pretty big job but now that bed has gone from hard rock that you can’t even stick a shovel into to the finest softest soil you’ll ever see
One of the best videos Ive ever seen on the internet. Your channel is awesome and Ive learned so much. Im in the process of using alot of your techniques to get a small garden/water collection going in an urban area. Thank alot and keep the wealth of information coming! People need this! PS Awesome editing, presentation and music haha
Thank you very much.
Greetings David I have found your channel some years ago and now some years later of course thankful I found bits of information I needed then I definitely need more now however how I've done in 3 years from hard-dry, though quality PH soil and Waters in northern Arizona Grand Canyon Country is amazing... as far as persistence experience and experiments and of course the good quote on quote infusion of information most people wouldn't and couldn't believe what's been done here and I even haul water yeah well there's hundreds of thousands of people here in northern Arizona from the reservation east to west of the state who haul water for our livelihood and Gardens and farms and even for corn crops which I did last year and will do again although I catch a ton of water we have no water utilities and the water table is naught...
I've lived in many states and traveled the country and even the world how I ended up here on Mars is by personal spiritual and familiar reasons being an indigenous person always brought back home that's the way it goes but I want to say I honor you and your many children and family and I'm so impressed all the work I didn't know you had so many videos and books I look forward to acquiring one of your books especially the Garden or die be well my friend take care bless you and all yours
Thanks especially for the positive comments from you and your wife at the end. We just bought 10 acres in a remote area that we want to start to develop. Now that spring is here and it's time to start, I'm getting overload paralysis. So I'm glad I watched this while preparing my hoard of cardboard for sheet composting.
Thank you. One piece at a time! And congrats on the land.
I'm trying to make it a goal right now to plant at least 2 things on each of my days off. Yesterday it was a thyrallis and a burning Heart. Today it was an elephant ear, and the day's not over, just too hot. But I think the next thing will be a pomegranate. It may not always be a food plant, but it may be a pollinator attractor, or like the Elephant ear, shade for something that can't take too much sun. I also scattered a bunch of wildflower seeds
Thanks David those tips will surely help. I can't start now because it's late.tomorrow.😂.Namibia.
Thank you so much for this David!
If it weren’t for these videos and your wonderful books, I would have given up gardening in Florida a long time ago. Now I have a two acre food forest and more African yams than I can eat. (Thanks to your info on yam propagation.)
- Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome video David! All your videos are awesome, but in this video you showed all your tools from your 'Grow or Die' book in action :) A great overall kickstarter! :)
Thanks, Nadia.
a cool trick before making a bed you can just lay something down on the grass and leave it for a couple weeks or so and all of the stuff under will compost and attract worms which means castings too
Putting a wheel hoe and broad fork on my Wishlist! I can clear a lot of space fast with a fork and rake, turn again with the spade if I need deep loose soil . It may be more sweat, but I really can prepare beds faster by hand than using the tiller. Extra tools is a solid tip, not only for the neighbors, but also for when one breaks - one of my forks came off of the handle this year, and I bent the tines on another, but I've got 4 of 'em so it didn't slow me down!
38:20 best rap I've heard in a long time!
Wow. I listened to you on the epic gardening podcast and I really loved everything you had to say. This video was truly inspirational. I love you brother.
Giant Sunflowers,ton of seeds,high in omega3 and 6... Asparagus,perennial,comes back every year. I try and plant as many perennials as possible.
Sunflowers are a good option. I love perennials as well.
David, you have the best survival gardening videos on RUclips. Your experience and know how really shows through in these videos. Great job!
Thank you.
I got your composting book, loved it so much that I bought 2 other books you've written. Grow or die and Push the Zone... Reading the survival one at the moment!! Rachel is so sweet and beautiful. She has a lovely voice too! Heyyyyyy, don't slam the shabby chic! Lol. I have one old rake holding my wine glasses and 3 in my garden! We can do both!😂 Oh, and, nice hat! 😄 Yeah, I've tilled grass too! Bad move, bad, BAD! 😁
Thank you.
Great blast from the past, where were you and Rachel back then David.? Thanks again.
Grenada
Found a favorite channel today.
The bag as a lid for the swamp water barrel is so clever!
David, this is one of your best. A good start to finish how to. Thank you
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this video , what’s up David and family god bless 🙏
God bless.
I love potatoes, green beans, corn, squash, tomatoes, okra, peppers, onions.cukes, kale, cowpeas, cabbage.I always plant turnip greens in the fall.
The first fruit with the yellow fruit is also called sera si (phenetic pronounce). The red part is high in licopene to
boo yeah! I'm so damn excited for this, starting it now!
I love the in-depth videos thank you for the outstanding video quality and the wealth of knowledge I bet I have watched this 10 times
I love putting fresh parsley on my pork chops when I fry them in the pan. They turn out delicious and tender every time :-)
Love how creative you two are with sharing really great information. Thank you.
For survival gardening: Growing and saving seeds, propagating perennials.
You are one the professor's of all these RUclips channels.
I'm still having fun, figuring out what does well here, but i did plant 27 potatoes last month so I'm on my way to a survival garden i think. Only been growing for a year now so lots to learn still, thanks for this video. Very good information, i should have been foraging ages ago, i found a macadamia tree last week. I'm also lucky i can grow potatoes all year, oh and i have planted naked oats for grain as they are apparently easy to process
I love your channel, as an allotmenteer in the burbs of London the weather is certainly not as clement as the tropics but the principle remains the same wherever you are in the world, I hope you don't mind but i share your RUclips vids with my FB friends who rarely think along these lines. All the best to you and your family . . . more seaweed day outs please, that beach is so beautiful :)
This is a great, informative video, no mater the climate or zone that you live in.
Next you should do a video on how I can quit my job and farm/garden full-time.
It's possible. See my videos on building a plant nursery.
I have that broadfork! Meadow Creature. I've used it quite a bit and love it. It will last forever!I shake my head at the ads Facebook keeps showing me - wimpy tines and wood handles.
You are doing awesome stuff sharing what you learn. Thank you very much
Thanks.
I just finished reading pushing the zone. I and next is compost everything. I'm going to have to read them again because I kept having questions but couldn't stop reading.
Thank you - that's awesome.
Great video, David and Rachel! Thank you for sharing great info!
Thank you.
I totally need to focus more on calories. We did peanuts last year... too many pests got them. The ones who survived were delicious. What do we do about grubs?!!! The chickens devour them when they find them.
I went right out and planted more pumpkin pie pumpkins. YES!! We must look out for our neighbors!
Some other cold climate roots are black salisfy, celeriac, Hamburg parsley, onions, carrots,maschua, and if you don't mind tasty but fiddly roots, you can grow pignuts, silver leaf , Chinese artichokes, yyacon and skirret. I think there's the air potato yam but you might have to bring that in over winter and I'm in zone 6. I found if you put jersulam artichoke I. Salt water to ferment, it takes away the stomach upset and also shallots a d all kinds of beets,
And oca and parsnips, but I think they taste awefull and all kinds of peas and beans but they take more room than most root rops
And also winter squashes.
@0:40 did you see the lizard jump of the palm tree or coconut tree?
Definitely good advice. Start now. Don't start crazy big, done that. I crapped out today after 3 hours because of the heat but I got something done. Back at it tomorrow. :)
I know this is an old video but I just wanna make the comment .... Fred fried the electrical on my garden tractor while changing out the ignition switch, so while that sat on the too list we had to turn survival garden rows by hand. He'd bought me a broadfork from Amazon for Christmas. Money's been tight and it was so tempting. And it was a waste cause I manage to break a set of handles and start bending tines on the first bed. By the 5th bed they were too far gone to keep bending them back to keep going. We should have just got the meadow creature broadfork to begin with. I'd rather people learn from our mistake than learn it on their own. That's $100 that could have went towards the push plow. Lol 😆
What a great start to my day😂
If you're low on iron, parsley has more than an equal weight of beef does.
Yeah but good luck eating a half pound of parsley with dinner
You can make pesto. And chimichurri too, excellent for meats, especially in a BBQ!
I didn't know that, thx
Great video. Very helpful.
I have to put in an acre of farm land with mulch. I too was completely overwhelmed but with the concept of just put in a 4×8 every day. Baby steps to the rescue.
Another great video. Best gardening program on You Tube. For those of you who don't have his books BUY THEM! Best value for the dollar anywhere. David, I bought one of your "Compost Your Enemies" t-shirts for my wife and she wore it to the Mother Earth News Fair in Topeka Kansas last year. People loved it. Had a lot stop and ask her where she got it. Hope it resulted in some sales for you.
Man I stumbled upon your channel the other day and have been binge watching your videos ever since. Love the common sense information you're putting out there. Your hip hop song in this video had me rolling!! Keep up the awesome work brother!
P.s. I have a welder and some metal working tools and I'm going to try and make my own broad fork. I'll let you know how it turns out
P.s. I have a welder and some metal working tools and I'm going to try and make my own broad fork. I'll let you know how it turns out
Welcome. I would love to see what you make!
A perfectly delightful video!
My ex's brother overdosed on Parsley, too much micro nutrient, watch out for that! Excellent video! :D
Really? What did it do to him? How much did he have? Wow!! Janice
You guys are SO encouraging!
I do like using my rake for pulling out clover
Video moves along at much better pace x1.5 speed.
Excellent info though!
Another great video of great tips 👍 and Rachel's smile ❤
So grateful I've found you! Thank you!
You are welcome.
thank you - love the video
Very nice video. Miss the old cacau farm, would be nice to watch you some day return to a big farm like that and produce a ton of food in seven months.
You are a rockstar!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us!
You bet.
Lol lov your version of the song 🎵
Fodder system is a easy way to grow grains.
High starches like pataoes in not a good food source for diabetics unless they are sweet potatoes. Enjoying the video.
Thanks. Yes, you can set up a fodder system, though I still find grains a pain in the neck to process, with the notable exception of corn.
Great video! Now to order lots of Parsley seeds. Haha.
This is legendary.
David, have you ever shot a how to video on swales and finding contour? If so could you link to it? If not, make one!! Kthanks
No, not me. I'm back on flat ground again. If I end up buying sloped land at some point, I will.
Rusted Oak Homestead I second that. All the videos I've watched on finding contour don't really explain it well and I still don't get how it works.
David The Good Any slopes in Alabama?
Love that timelap tune! Had to rewind a few times... :)
This reminds me that I need to plant my parsley. Maybe the directors cut could include seed stockpiling to both eat, sprout, microgreen, and start plants. Did you do stockpiling in another video or am I remembering some other crazy smart person with tubs full of legumes and other longlife seeds?
Some other crazy person - I haven't been too serious about my seed-saving.
I really like 👍your channel. Thank 😄you for sharing this 🙏awesome garden tutorial 8
I wonder ir you have ever tried African grains like Teff for instance? Heard it's very adaptable, that it's grown in hot and cold climates, dry and wet and low and high altitudes
Mr. DTG, is there info wild food foraging for us who live more North, personally I'm in NY, but now that you are in Alabama, at least what you know about in these high population areas? I have plants/some call weeds at least 8 including Dandelion & Plaintain & Lambsquarters, in my Brooklyn backyard, but I see others so I'm wondering if any are to be candidates for foraging. Then maybe someday I will be up in the Appalachian areas where there are many, many more to learn about. Hopefully you can help with these possibilities.
Really like the video,
Thank you.
That nightshade is pea eggplant, the fruit is edible and the leaves can make tea. Go research it first but it is not poisonous.
This guy is amazing!
So where are you? We get very hot here, but also veery cold !
Im gardening right now also!!! But I'm in New Hampshire aaaannnd it's snowing... However, I do have some seeds germinating in the woodstove heated basement. Thanks for the video. Oh, and I too like the old steel tools so I will be antique shopping this weekend.
That's great.
Spring is a bitch here in the Northeast. Love every minute of it!
I found a beautiful long vine that had brown bumpy things and they hang from the vines, just a couple every now and then. I collected them and brought them home. Thinking this is air yams??? Love your channel.👍🏻
Probably Dioscorea alata!
Thank You🙏❤
SCREAM. SCREAM. TEENAGE GIRL MEETING THE BEATLES SCREAM. I now have to wait until mu husband comes home to watch the whole thing. He would be mad if I watched without him. Better then Network T.V.
thebovineavenger, I agree!
New Sub. Great information! Really enjoying the content. Where are you located?
Thanks for sharing ~Lisa
Central America.
David The Good Thank you for response. Again, really appreciate content.
I'm watching again 😅
Protein is also important. Certain types of animals are easy to raise, even in small spaces, like rabbits & chickens. Their manure is also a fertilizer. They feed you & feed your garden at the same time. Pigs can also be easy to raise if you have a little larger space. They eat kitchen scraps & acorns & can forage for their own food. Goats & sheep are also good.
I agree.
Great video David.
very cool channel
Hi David, came across you site recently and found it very good and encouraging. Regarding you compost tea, have you consider getting yourself a borage or comfery plant to make your own organic fertilizer it is fantastic but stink. i live in the UK and grows many of the plants you grow from seeds indoors but i put them outside when the weather permits. MJ
Yes, I have grown comfrey but it really didn't like the tropics. It's very good.
Started watching on unauthorized but came here for more lyrical fire...and I guess the plant stuff is kinda cool too
Plant good king henry. It is a perennial and will multiply. Asparagus and rhubarb are perrenials. I'm trying tree collards.to see how they do in my area. Perennial onions are good to have aka multiplier onions.
Down here we can't grow rhubarb and asparagus, but chaya, African yams and some other perennials do very well. Always a good idea to have some perennial crops on hand.
I grew up mushroom hunting ( morals & such) in Indiana, yum
Again, great video!
I bet using comfrey for that compost tea would give it a boost
Definitely. It won't grow here, but I use moringa which has a similar kick.
Thanks David! Another awesome video. I need to get a broadfork like that one...
I love mine.
Another great video thank you
Hey David,
I appreciate all the good videos & info you put out! Been following you for couple years now, Just took on my first 8 x 24 raised bed design-inspired by A video I watched of yours on building a lasagna garden! Thx bro man!! 👍😃 Anyway enough about me lol I want to make some of that compost tea that you put together I do some composting and Vermi composting, but I was wanting to put some of that other tea together and was wondering how long do you wait once you start the compost brew to ferment before you start to pull from it?
Thank you,
Chris Miller
P.S. got a couple of your books there great!!
Thank you, Chris. Good work on the garden bed - that's a huge one! I usually wait a couple of weeks on the fermented tea.
David The Good OK great thanks! Thank you for your time! Yeah the bed is huge I was blessed enough to have access to a lot of material free and huge horse manure mounds that have been breaking down for about three years now!😃👍 Blessings bro
Such practical information explained so well🌈😃🤙
Older tools rock !
Thank you. Very informative.
Thank you.
so I can use my own urine? You guys make AMAZING videos. Thank you for making learning fun!
Great video...
Are rocks a source of phosphorus? Does the bacteria use them?
Is your nursery open to the public and if so what's the address please sir? 🌻
I must be less fit than you. It would probably take me 2 hours to do that, maybe even 3. I have soil that's full of tiny stone pieces. I'm in the Gravel Belt and on top of that we have the weeds you have there. I have a potato fork that's good for breaking up the soil, but I don't have the bigger tools you have, nor your strength. I'm over 60 years old, but I'm not giving up.
Like you did last year.......andddddd this year.....
trying to plant parsley here in the Philippines.
Good luck.