Here's how to re-align your gardening to grow lots of food in your own backyard. Get GROW OR DIE: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening here: amzn.to/3BVtW9z Subscribe to the newsletter: thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies and other t-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener David's gardening blog: www.thesurvivalgardener.com Today we look at the easy way to garden by adjusting your plants to your climate rather than trying to force things to grow that are unsuited to your environment. As we look through my Grocery Row Gardens, we look at easy to grow food crops for the Deep South, plus many other ideas for your own survival garden, wherever you may live. Thanks for watching.
Question: with your Illinois Everbearing Mulberry, did you hard prune it back the first year to something like 4-5 feet at all in late winter? Mine was something around a 3-4ft barefoot twig in March this year and is now something closer to 9ft tall as of September.
They say this past summer was the worse drought since some year in the 1800s, worse than 2012 was. Chris's Lazy Peach that grew all on it's own with absolutely no care out of a pile of kitchen waste he threw in a corner of the yard instead of the compost pile and survived Snowmageddon with no help at all has survived this Summer with NO WATERING and MADE PEACHES!!!! This year!!! During the drought!!! We're gonna try air layer and root cuttings and the whole 9 yards. EVERYONE here lost fruit trees this year, and this tree thrived!!! O.O *blows my mind*
Love your vids brother. Just a simple walk n talk through the garden is all it takes. Thanks for all your wisdom and may the good Lord heal your brother 100%!
Regarding tomatoes in Florida, I can only speak for S. Florida 10a, but I plant out tomatoes in October and harvest from January- late April or May. Beefsteak, Romas, other indeterminate open pollinated varieties. Brandywines don't do well for me. I do have to use frost protection occasionally in late January - early February 😃 🍅 🍅 🍅
I grow 8 varieties of Sweet Potatoes .. a good variety of winter squash to grow is called "Sucrin Du Berry" .. a butternut variety from France .. heirloom .. with large fruits. Last year I grew almost 500 lbs .. from 8 plants. They have a more woody stem so they resist the vine borer beetle. Great shelf life too!
The french have great veggies. Poitou leeks, daubenton kale, garriguette strawberry, all the things. That’s one of the few good things about a global market. Heirloom exchanges
Validation! It's always nice when an "expert" gives people tips that are fairly close to what I've been doing. If it grows wild in my area, it should grow on my place. Good day sir. 😎
Your videos, especially this one are priceless advice. Everyone in the world should be practicing this now as we watch society be demolished by the ruling class. Thank you for being a shining light of freedom, David. You are a food growing legend.
Elderberries meet your criteria for planting sustainable nutritious plants….not so much for calories, but for health. They grow along fence rows and along ditches here in zone 8b. I hear but don’t really know that the seeds of European elderberries contain cyanide but not so much in the American variety. Think I’ll be sure and cook it for 15 min and removing the seeds regardless!
There is a nursery in Ontario that has done this, keep trying varieties until something sticks to the cold climate. They have developed pawpaws and mulberries that can survive into zone 3 even. Anything is worth trying...
I get so much from your videos. (Your books too!) All of this is so helpful and makes me feel like I’m on the right track. Thanks also for sharing the landrace guy. This way of thinking makes so much sense to me.
Eloquently covered, and my sentiments exactly. I love reading about the origin of produce and heirloom varieties all for the reasons you mention. My eventual place of settle will be based largely on climate suitability for my favorite produce. Garden smarter, not harder!
Thank you for all that you do, David. You & your family are amazing reflection of Father Yah & King Yeshua. Well rounded. NOT religious. You guys are a real representation of what it means to have a relationship with our King. HalleluYah!
I figured I could learn to grow at least some beefsteak tomatoes, in the fall and spring, and maybe through the winter, with a hoop house, and Christmas lights for cold nights. Otherwise, Everglades tomatoes and other cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, etc.
I'm in zone 8b Georgia, the biggest help I've found is bt spray only when you notice hornworms you can break the cycle then they stop and panty hose over the tomatoes I don't wanna loose to birds or stink bugs
I think it’s fun to go in both the pushing it category and the tried and true plants. Mulberries are ridiculously fast growing, almost criminally easy. I’m throwing a smorgasbord of 7A-8A boundary plants for East TN hill country harvests, olives, cold hardy citrus rated for 8A, etc Also looking to try Nikita’s Gift Persimmon, a lot of people like the American-Japanese cross. Have two astrigents, Prok and Hachiya.
@@davidthegood Year one is always the funnest. Moved from 4B-5A. I suspect moving from Grenada to (Alabama?) gave a bit of return “nice, I finally have chill hours!” fun. How far north would that air-potato yam of yours grow and where could I find it for trialing?
Vine borers take out every thing that even resembles a squash in my garden! Watermelon and pumpkin are both grown commercially ALL around me and yet last year I had borers take out my watermelons and every single other squash I had planted. This year after losing my first plantings to borers (despite my best efforts and emergency surgery) I broke down and ordered some BT. Thankfully I've been able to have a small second planting that has survived the borers (so far) but are battling Powdery Mildew. I imagine the fields of Watermelon and pumpkin all around us are drenched in Pesticides which makes my garden a prime target
My mom had a crop of container grown sweet potatoes that she said grew just like that! They grew into one large clump instead of separating 😂 We thought the container was the problem now I'm thinking maybe not 🤔
I’ve been going on Zillow and looking at the different trees and varieties that are growing in the area. Just pick a popular (to your area) fruit tree to enter into the keywords, and the listing will almost always have a much longer list of what’s growing at that property. it doesn’t take long to start seeing the patterns.
We heard that, if you spit on your seeds before you plant them, they will adapt too your DNA. We tried it with this year's cherry tomatoes. They are the best tasting tomatoes we have ever tasted!
Sweet potatoes and sunchokes did really well for me in zone 6B southern Missouri with basically no effort. Regular potatoes got hammered by blister beetles! My sunchokes are pushing 16' tall!
I've found that large tomatoes just don't grow well in my area. I live in coastal Alabama zone 8b/9a. But. We can grow the heck out of sauce tomatoes and smaller cherry tomatoes.
My method is to pull out the things that don't taste good and let the rest grow until I eat them or they go to seed. eventually there are no weeds just more than you can eat.
I tend to do that by accident. I get tired with work and neglect the garden (with tons of variety because I was overzealous at the beginning of the season). Whatever survives in spite of my neglect I save seeds from.
This is amusing: after watching this video, I do a search for "traditional crops grown in Indiana." One of the results was your article from 2017, "7 Staple Survival Crops for Northern Gardens." I kid you not.
when did humans become so boring with growing standard fruit. like only seeing orange carrots in shops. instead of purple and white. we are made to believe orange carrots are normal.
It’s interesting that you mentioned the Chicago mulberry. I live in upstate Ny zone 5b . I have planted a Chicago mulberry and it dies back to the ground every winter . I have a couple other mulberries I bought on EBay from Louisiana that survived the winter. I found a news paper clippings from 1912 talking about going to the mulberry festival in Binghamton Ny . I live near Binghamton and have never eaten or seen a Mulberry in person. Hopefully the trees I planted in the fall of 2021 will produce next season they grew like weeds this summer.
Are you familiar with the old Binghamton NY high school? My brother Mike owned it. He called it the NY-PENN building. Did you know him? He died some months ago.
@Stuck in the mud garden, if there used to be a mulberry festival where you live, perhaps visiting the library or asking some of the older people about mulberries will turn up a tree to two. Someone will know something that will help with your quest. Good luck.
Another great video David, always enjoy watching and learning as much as I can, I am in Pasco County Fl, I have had success growing bigger tomatoes like Black Krim tomato and Rutgers but you have to start them in the winter and plant them out by March so they have time to grow before the high temps set in, my go to tomato is Everglades by far the best for Florida, I also planted out a bunch of overbearing mulberry plants all around my property, hoping for a nice crop next year and can't wait to eat some of my loquats soon, they are filled with flowers, have a great day🌱🌱🍅🍅
You can sundry your hot peppers, turn them to flakes or powder, and save them for long term food storage. Barter item… you know some folks can’t be without their heat 😂😂😂
Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. I just happened upon your channel a month or so ago and I’m learning so much about gardening from you. We have Red clay soil and the only time I can ever get a broad fork in it is after it rains. I noticed the large cucumbers you have. My aunt always made spiced apples with the large cucumbers. The recipe calls for the red hot candies.
Take those red peppers put them in a jar with a lid or quark. A wine bottle works well, and add vinegar. this homemade pepper sauce is eaten on those collards, and I have never seen anyone refuse a bottle of the stuff as a gift. For more spice crush a few up.
I TRIED to raise yellow crookneck squash, zucchini and butternut squashes....all season long. I did everything that I could read to foil the squash vine borer. Planting seeds all through the season, Fine gauge netting, mounding soil at the base, BHT injections. The vine borers won. I think they OWN Texas.
I grew Buchwheat as a test, planted it first of August (arkansas) and harvested it today, from a whooping 28 grams of seeds, I collected about five pounds, so that will be my seed in the spring. I tried some late sweet corn planted at the same time, it wasn't happy with me, stunted, only about 18" tall and deer didn't help it.. You're an inspration to try diferent things..
Yummy black eyed peas! A staple here in Louisiana cooked with some bacon and eaten with cornbread. Collards are delicious cooked with some smoked ham or chopped raw bacon. I love pan browned large sections of okra in some real butter. Brown slowly turning often, then at the end raise the heat a bit, spinkle with Cajun seasoning, onion and garlic powder, cover and turn off heat and toss around in pan to coat with flavor and let sit for a couple of minutes. Great for breakfast or a snack. If you want okra, pole beans, or cucumbers without tilling just dig a series of holes with a spade shovel or post hole diggers, mix removed dirt with some rich soil, black kow or compost, and for the climbing plants put poles in end holes, one in the middle, and stretch some twine between them. Angle end poles away from center if using saplings and stretch twine tight between them. Weave in more twine as needed for a nice trellis. You can have these planted with a trellis in under an hour. Easy! When removed nobody can tell a garden grew there.
Have you found a apple that does well in our southern climate aka lower Alabama? I have a Anna, a Golden Dorset and a granny Smith. The Dorset pollinates the Anna but it's much to young yet. I'm going to try and graft the Dorset to the older Anna and see how that goes.
You look like you are in a fairly wooded area, how do you keep the deer away from your yams and sweet potatoes? They murder mine as soon as a sprout pops up. I am in east Orange county which is technically 9b but acts more like a cold 9a. I am a huge fan of labor free produce. Elephant garlic, strawberries, litchi tomatoes, tumeric, and sweet potatoes all grow great here with no work. I grow mine in a garden but I kind of just let it go wild. Working on a 150'x105' food forest in another part of the yard.
One side of my house is overtaken by sunchokes. If it ever came to it, I probably have a 2-month supply of food in the winter. I will thin them out soon.. maybe make some alcohol..
I've been doing my own experiment with cassava in Florida zone 8b for a few years now. I think I finally found what will work and over winter in the ground. Next year will be the results.
Mushrooms love my yard, I want to throw them into my swamp water but not sure if it will make the soil susceptible to fugus growth. I am in central Florida. 9b
@David the Good Dude! I listened to this as I was heading to buy some starts. $5 to $10 PER plant!!! 😭 Absolutely crazy! I like your idea for a seed starting bed. I'll try it on a small scale. Cheers and be safe... Looks like a storm is a brewin'
have a question. Why did my sweet potatoes have black spots? They're the size of silver dollars. It also looks like wow worm or something got to them. I'm super disappointed since they took up so much garden room to grow them.
Wish I could grow some in Utah. We have 'em in Japan and they just grow like weeds all over. I think there's a more cold tolerant Chinese variety but I have no idea how to get ahold of it. The little bulbils are great over steamed rice. It's called mukagohan and its one of my favorites.
Do you have have problems with bugs in the yard that bite and you can't see it? I live in Georgia and it has been very similar to Flordia. Rain, hot and humid.
Fermented hot sauce. We just started doing that this year after I already grew a couple years worth of pepper flakes, powder, and Chinese dipping peppers. We'll never buy hot sauce again, it's so delicious. You can roast them before fermenting, ferment raw. You can strain them after pureeing or leave the good fiber in. We've done 3 batches so far, one fermented and pureed, one a step further adding vinegar and sugar, and another a step further adding liquid smoke. Got a green batch fermenting now, and letting a red batch go for a few months instead of a few weeks to see if there's much difference. Great way to use up hot peppers, the fermenting mellows them out, the probiotics are good for the gut. Use as is, part of a marinade, baste, kick up done guacamole or salsa, on popcorn or chips, or even add kick to a mixed drink.
@@Katydidit I just read up on fermenting, but the basic method so far is that I've been destemming my peppers, chopping them up, and then submerging them under a weight in a 3% brine. I use mason jars and just make the lid finger tight (lightly closed, no pressure) so it can release CO2. If you live in a humid climate you probably want to get a proper fermenting lid. Then I just rotate the jar every day to release gas, and so far I've let them go till they stop bubbling. One they're done, strain the liquid on the side, pour into a blender, add just enough brine back to get it to blend. From here it's a matter of taste. You can strain it or not. Add salt, vinegar of your choice, sweetener of your choice. Add more brine (suggestion, I tend to use leftover brine to pickle chicken overnight, so good - also pickle juice will give you deli chicken flavor without the nitrites and nitrates). Any type of pepper or combination of peppers work. I've been doing cayenne, but my last batch was a medley of cayenne, jalapeño and some shishitos and banana peppers that got too ripe. I like to add a few cloves of garlic as well, and a few layers of half onion is a great way to push the peppers down, just poke some holes so the gas can escape. Happy fermenting!
David, there was a video last night on the "MrMBB333" yt channel (he shows earthquake activity across the globe, weather phenomenon, and great photos from viewers of storms, skies, and even garden/plant observations occasionally. In yesterday's video, a viewer sent in a photo of a weird sweet potato vine growing in his garden. I think the guy was from Ohio. All of his sweet potato vines are pretty much normal looking, except this one he discovered, that is so bizarre, it's a 4 inch wide flat, almost fused together looking long piece of sweet potato vine growing, with the leaves coming out along the flat wide section of vine. This flat section of the vine looks like several vines fused together. You have to see it to understand. I thought I bet "David the Good" might know what this is, or what caused this weird growth. Check it out for yourself if you can. 👍🙂
try cooking Jerusalem artichokes , the same way that camassia bulbs / camas were traditionally cooked, in a pit in ground , heated with hot rocks and buried for 2 , 3 days . camassia also contains inulin, but the slow cooking process apparently breaks inulin down into simpler sugars
@@b_uppy lots of people have major problems digesting inulin , to the point of gas so bad it physically hurts , and breaking down the inulin would give you more available calories from the crop ( inulin is good if you want to reduce sugar intake , as as with obesity or diabetes, as it tastes sweet , but the human digestive track is not designed for food fermentation , so struggles with large amounts of inulin )
I've had 1-2 feet of water covering my gardens since Wednesday night. Going down slowly. Any suggestions as to do now? I have a very young 12" tall fig, raspberry, mulberry, blackberry, Florida cranberry, bananas, moringa, pigeon peas, and assorted veggies. Will any survive? I currently have moccasins and gators all over the place so will be another couple days before I can get in. And I'll have guns blazing when I do. LOL. Just praying I don't have to completely start over. Good thing is it's flooded with cow pasture and creek water.
Let’s be honest, David The good. We all know you grow children best. I spot your large, white 12 (15?) passenger van in the background. As a fellow owner, it’s hard to miss one. In all seriousness, this is good, practical info. I grow green beans and white potatoes very easily in my soil. Barely have to think about it. So I do lots! They are my stable crops.
I hate to beg but can anyone on here please contact me about which is the best Kindle to order David’s books on. I don’t own one but want to get one so that I can get all of his books. I hope he still gets money from it if you buy it through Kindle
Silly sensitive phone, bumpy road bumped thumbs down, just realised and corrected to THUMBS UP!!!! Of course 👍😁👍🙏 That's what happens sometimes when sensitive phones that are just about kaput and sat on the seat to listen to while driving and you live on dirt roads and travel an hour to town.... David, we love the channel. You and your family are lovely and we really enjoy and appreciate all of your efforts for making these vids, al the (not-so common) common sense, not to mention the fabulous efforts in the gardens 👍😁 I corrected it as soon as I saw. It is thumbs up, shared and downloaded too 👍😁🥬🌻🙏 I love making experimental plots all over the place too, been doing it for years, next gen or second gen grown from that property is always better, stronger, more productive. God bless you all and watch over you (and Brian too), happy gardening in both places.
My upstate NY landrace garden... Potatoes(red and Kennebec), Butternut squash, Kale, Great northern beans, Green shell peas, herbs(coriander, ect) all grown from seeds off the previous year. Saving seeds is the ultimate survival skill.
Wooo! I love the concept to plug in for my own climate. I'm south Florida so I don't have to do much thinking, but I understand the concept. So I should go someplace extreme and test my knowledge?! Jk! Thanks!
I got the book. I also got 2 ruined knees that need replacing - working on that but of course there’s delays.. I’m thrilled to see you pull foodstuffs off plants in understory and shade, no furrows. No obvious drip irrigation. I’m a messy person and (God willing!) I WILL have a garden! And I seriously doubt that it will be “beautiful.” I’m hoping for bountiful. Thanks for the wise words and attitude. 😊
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Today we look at the easy way to garden by adjusting your plants to your climate rather than trying to force things to grow that are unsuited to your environment. As we look through my Grocery Row Gardens, we look at easy to grow food crops for the Deep South, plus many other ideas for your own survival garden, wherever you may live.
Thanks for watching.
Question: with your Illinois Everbearing Mulberry, did you hard prune it back the first year to something like 4-5 feet at all in late winter? Mine was something around a 3-4ft barefoot twig in March this year and is now something closer to 9ft tall as of September.
I've avoided yoyr videos for a long time because you call yourself "the good". It bothers me because of Jesus' said no man is good, but God alone. ??
Bama looks Good on you, brother. 😊
They say this past summer was the worse drought since some year in the 1800s, worse than 2012 was. Chris's Lazy Peach that grew all on it's own with absolutely no care out of a pile of kitchen waste he threw in a corner of the yard instead of the compost pile and survived Snowmageddon with no help at all has survived this Summer with NO WATERING and MADE PEACHES!!!! This year!!! During the drought!!! We're gonna try air layer and root cuttings and the whole 9 yards. EVERYONE here lost fruit trees this year, and this tree thrived!!! O.O *blows my mind*
Genetics are great!
Yesssss
Congratulations on the gift of survival peach tree!
What is a lazy peach tree?
Love your vids brother. Just a simple walk n talk through the garden is all it takes. Thanks for all your wisdom and may the good Lord heal your brother 100%!
Amen to healing, may the Flannel brother continue to grow and prosper.... AMEN... SO BE IT!!
Sweet potato Leaves are VERY nutritious
Steamed crazy tasty!
I also eat our pumpkin Leaves boil couple minutes .very nutritious also way to go!
This.
interesting....
Yep. It was through pure experimentation that I found out sweet potatoes did well in my area. I was just trying to grow plants from kitchen scraps :)
Regarding tomatoes in Florida, I can only speak for S. Florida 10a, but I plant out tomatoes in October and harvest from January- late April or May. Beefsteak, Romas, other indeterminate open pollinated varieties. Brandywines don't do well for me. I do have to use frost protection occasionally in late January - early February 😃 🍅 🍅 🍅
That's perfect timing down there.
Good idea! Plus the selling price of fresh tomatoes for New Year’s Day could be very nice!
I grow 8 varieties of Sweet Potatoes .. a good variety of winter squash to grow is called "Sucrin Du Berry" .. a butternut variety from France .. heirloom .. with large fruits. Last year I grew almost 500 lbs .. from 8 plants. They have a more woody stem so they resist the vine borer beetle. Great shelf life too!
Where do you get the seeds, please.
@@mousiebrown1747 .. Baker's Creek heirloom seeds sells them.
The french have great veggies. Poitou leeks, daubenton kale, garriguette strawberry, all the things. That’s one of the few good things about a global market. Heirloom exchanges
@@TheEmbrio Sure is!!
Validation! It's always nice when an "expert" gives people tips that are fairly close to what I've been doing. If it grows wild in my area, it should grow on my place. Good day sir. 😎
Your videos, especially this one are priceless advice. Everyone in the world should be practicing this now as we watch society be demolished by the ruling class. Thank you for being a shining light of freedom, David. You are a food growing legend.
Ditto
Thank you.
Agreed
@@FreeAmerican-mm2my I live in karachi Pakistan I like your comment
Elderberries meet your criteria for planting sustainable nutritious plants….not so much for calories, but for health. They grow along fence rows and along ditches here in zone 8b. I hear but don’t really know that the seeds of European elderberries contain cyanide but not so much in the American variety. Think I’ll be sure and cook it for 15 min and removing the seeds regardless!
There is a nursery in Ontario that has done this, keep trying varieties until something sticks to the cold climate.
They have developed pawpaws and mulberries that can survive into zone 3 even.
Anything is worth trying...
Yes!!!
@@davidthegood I'm hoping, fingers crossed both hands, to get some going in Saskatchewan next year.
I get so much from your videos. (Your books too!) All of this is so helpful and makes me feel like I’m on the right track. Thanks also for sharing the landrace guy. This way of thinking makes so much sense to me.
If I could only subscribe to 1 channel on RUclips this would be the one. I’ve bought all Davids books over the years and they are great
That is very kind of you - thank you very much.
Eloquently covered, and my sentiments exactly.
I love reading about the origin of produce and heirloom varieties all for the reasons you mention.
My eventual place of settle will be based largely on climate suitability for my favorite produce.
Garden smarter, not harder!
Thank you for all that you do, David. You & your family are amazing reflection of Father Yah & King Yeshua. Well rounded. NOT religious. You guys are a real representation of what it means to have a relationship with our King. HalleluYah!
That is very kind of you.
Hope your brother is ok 🙏
He is out of surgery. Thank you.
I figured I could learn to grow at least some beefsteak tomatoes, in the fall and spring, and maybe through the winter, with a hoop house, and Christmas lights for cold nights. Otherwise, Everglades tomatoes and other cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, etc.
You can make it happen - it's just a lot of work.
I'm in zone 8b Georgia, the biggest help I've found is bt spray only when you notice hornworms you can break the cycle then they stop and panty hose over the tomatoes I don't wanna loose to birds or stink bugs
I think it’s fun to go in both the pushing it category and the tried and true plants. Mulberries are ridiculously fast growing, almost criminally easy. I’m throwing a smorgasbord of 7A-8A boundary plants for East TN hill country harvests, olives, cold hardy citrus rated for 8A, etc
Also looking to try Nikita’s Gift Persimmon, a lot of people like the American-Japanese cross. Have two astrigents, Prok and Hachiya.
That is really fun. I'm with you, Todd.
@@davidthegood Year one is always the funnest. Moved from 4B-5A. I suspect moving from Grenada to (Alabama?) gave a bit of return “nice, I finally have chill hours!” fun. How far north would that air-potato yam of yours grow and where could I find it for trialing?
Vine borers take out every thing that even resembles a squash in my garden! Watermelon and pumpkin are both grown commercially ALL around me and yet last year I had borers take out my watermelons and every single other squash I had planted. This year after losing my first plantings to borers (despite my best efforts and emergency surgery) I broke down and ordered some BT. Thankfully I've been able to have a small second planting that has survived the borers (so far) but are battling Powdery Mildew. I imagine the fields of Watermelon and pumpkin all around us are drenched in Pesticides which makes my garden a prime target
My mom had a crop of container grown sweet potatoes that she said grew just like that! They grew into one large clump instead of separating 😂 We thought the container was the problem now I'm thinking maybe not 🤔
I’ve been going on Zillow and looking at the different trees and varieties that are growing in the area. Just pick a popular (to your area) fruit tree to enter into the keywords, and the listing will almost always have a much longer list of what’s growing at that property. it doesn’t take long to start seeing the patterns.
And don’t forget to check the sold listings too. Many more show up.
We heard that, if you spit on your seeds before you plant them, they will adapt too your DNA. We tried it with this year's cherry tomatoes. They are the best tasting tomatoes we have ever tasted!
This is where I come for garden inspiration. When I hit a brick wall, I always look here first. Thanks, David the Good!
Thank you
Sweet potatoes and sunchokes did really well for me in zone 6B southern Missouri with basically no effort. Regular potatoes got hammered by blister beetles! My sunchokes are pushing 16' tall!
I've found that large tomatoes just don't grow well in my area. I live in coastal Alabama zone 8b/9a. But. We can grow the heck out of sauce tomatoes and smaller cherry tomatoes.
I'm in central SC and have had great luck with Aji Dulce peppers and Corno del Toro sweet peppers. Picking like mad right now.
My method is to pull out the things that don't taste good and let the rest grow until I eat them or they go to seed. eventually there are no weeds just more than you can eat.
I tend to do that by accident. I get tired with work and neglect the garden (with tons of variety because I was overzealous at the beginning of the season). Whatever survives in spite of my neglect I save seeds from.
This is amusing: after watching this video, I do a search for "traditional crops grown in Indiana."
One of the results was your article from 2017, "7 Staple Survival Crops for Northern Gardens."
I kid you not.
Hey, DtG, you have an imposter on this thread.
What is purpose of the Canna’s, eatable?
Edible root bulb however lots of fibres. If your hungry enough. Great chop in drop though.
We mostly use them for mulch.
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when did humans become so boring with growing standard fruit. like only seeing orange carrots in shops. instead of purple and white. we are made to believe orange carrots are normal.
Yeah, you have a lot more fun if you mix up the varieties.
It’s interesting that you mentioned the Chicago mulberry. I live in upstate Ny zone 5b . I have planted a Chicago mulberry and it dies back to the ground every winter . I have a couple other mulberries I bought on EBay from Louisiana that survived the winter.
I found a news paper clippings from 1912 talking about going to the mulberry festival in Binghamton Ny . I live near Binghamton and have never eaten or seen a Mulberry in person. Hopefully the trees I planted in the fall of 2021 will produce next season they grew like weeds this summer.
Are you familiar with the old Binghamton NY high school? My brother Mike owned it. He called it the NY-PENN building. Did you know him? He died some months ago.
@Stuck in the mud garden, if there used to be a mulberry festival where you live, perhaps visiting the library or asking some of the older people about mulberries will turn up a tree to two. Someone will know something that will help with your quest. Good luck.
In NY state check out Edible Acres nursery. They have resilient trees and perrenials
@@TheEmbrio I have watched every video edible acres put out . They are about 45 miles from me
@@kaybonette no I didn’t know him
Another great video David, always enjoy watching and learning as much as I can, I am in Pasco County Fl, I have had success growing bigger tomatoes like Black Krim tomato and Rutgers but you have to start them in the winter and plant them out by March so they have time to grow before the high temps set in, my go to tomato is Everglades by far the best for Florida, I also planted out a bunch of overbearing mulberry plants all around my property, hoping for a nice crop next year and can't wait to eat some of my loquats soon, they are filled with flowers, have a great day🌱🌱🍅🍅
Good upload. I'm glad you and yours exist.
"find out what the settlers of the past grew". Genius!! I'm totally doing that. i love that idea. Thank you so much!
Its great to see you not hard at work; and it seems about time that we named this style,.. how about Resiliance Gardening/Farming ?
"Practiculture?"
If I prune my everbearing mulberry it puts out berries 99% of the time. It's crazy.
You can sundry your hot peppers, turn them to flakes or powder, and save them for long term food storage. Barter item… you know some folks can’t be without their heat 😂😂😂
Just found your channel. Great stuff. Got 2ac in West Michigan I am developing.
might be worth trying to grow the pointy sweet peppers such as tolli's pepper as they intermediate between bell peppers and hot peppers
I read your comment super fast and thought...'toilet paper pepper!' That would burn! Lol!
Never heard of that one... will look it up, do you sell/barter/share seeds?
Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. I just happened upon your channel a month or so ago and I’m learning so much about gardening from you. We have Red clay soil and the only time I can ever get a broad fork in it is after it rains. I noticed the large cucumbers you have. My aunt always made spiced apples with the large cucumbers. The recipe calls for the red hot candies.
Take those red peppers put them in a jar with a lid or quark. A wine bottle works well, and add vinegar. this homemade pepper sauce is eaten on those collards, and I have never seen anyone refuse a bottle of the stuff as a gift. For more spice crush a few up.
I TRIED to raise yellow crookneck squash, zucchini and butternut squashes....all season long. I did everything that I could read to foil the squash vine borer. Planting seeds all through the season, Fine gauge netting, mounding soil at the base, BHT injections. The vine borers won. I think they OWN Texas.
I grew Buchwheat as a test, planted it first of August (arkansas) and harvested it today, from a whooping 28 grams of seeds, I collected about five pounds, so that will be my seed in the spring.
I tried some late sweet corn planted at the same time, it wasn't happy with me, stunted, only about 18" tall and deer didn't help it..
You're an inspration to try diferent things..
Yummy black eyed peas! A staple here in Louisiana cooked with some bacon and eaten with cornbread. Collards are delicious cooked with some smoked ham or chopped raw bacon. I love pan browned large sections of okra in some real butter. Brown slowly turning often, then at the end raise the heat a bit, spinkle with Cajun seasoning, onion and garlic powder, cover and turn off heat and toss around in pan to coat with flavor and let sit for a couple of minutes. Great for breakfast or a snack. If you want okra, pole beans, or cucumbers without tilling just dig a series of holes with a spade shovel or post hole diggers, mix removed dirt with some rich soil, black kow or compost, and for the climbing plants put poles in end holes, one in the middle, and stretch some twine between them. Angle end poles away from center if using saplings and stretch twine tight between them. Weave in more twine as needed for a nice trellis. You can have these planted with a trellis in under an hour. Easy! When removed nobody can tell a garden grew there.
Thanks for putting my new favorite song at the end! 🎶We’re gonna make it, my fingers are crossed 🤞🏻
Have you found a apple that does well in our southern climate aka lower Alabama? I have a Anna, a Golden Dorset and a granny Smith. The Dorset pollinates the Anna but it's much to young yet. I'm going to try and graft the Dorset to the older Anna and see how that goes.
All three of those should do okay, but I'm going to try a bunch of the northern types too.
You look like you are in a fairly wooded area, how do you keep the deer away from your yams and sweet potatoes? They murder mine as soon as a sprout pops up. I am in east Orange county which is technically 9b but acts more like a cold 9a. I am a huge fan of labor free produce. Elephant garlic, strawberries, litchi tomatoes, tumeric, and sweet potatoes all grow great here with no work. I grow mine in a garden but I kind of just let it go wild. Working on a 150'x105' food forest in another part of the yard.
One side of my house is overtaken by sunchokes.
If it ever came to it, I probably have a 2-month supply of food in the winter.
I will thin them out soon.. maybe make some alcohol..
I was wondering what happened too you looks like somehow I got unsubscribed I resubscribed hopefully it will stay that way love the videos
I've been doing my own experiment with cassava in Florida zone 8b for a few years now. I think I finally found what will work and over winter in the ground. Next year will be the results.
Excellent!
I want to plant a mulberry tree or 2 this year. I’m In the same region as you right outside of Pensacola. Which variety would you recommend?
Mushrooms love my yard, I want to throw them into my swamp water but not sure if it will make the soil susceptible to fugus growth. I am in central Florida. 9b
Admirable and inspirational. Well done and best wishes from West Cork, Ireland.
@David the Good Dude! I listened to this as I was heading to buy some starts. $5 to $10 PER plant!!! 😭 Absolutely crazy! I like your idea for a seed starting bed. I'll try it on a small scale. Cheers and be safe... Looks like a storm is a brewin'
Wait...why not talk about the bulbifera?
have a question. Why did my sweet potatoes have black spots? They're the size of silver dollars. It also looks like wow worm or something got to them. I'm super disappointed since they took up so much garden room to grow them.
Wish I could grow some in Utah. We have 'em in Japan and they just grow like weeds all over. I think there's a more cold tolerant Chinese variety but I have no idea how to get ahold of it. The little bulbils are great over steamed rice. It's called mukagohan and its one of my favorites.
Do you have have problems with bugs in the yard that bite and you can't see it? I live in Georgia and it has been very similar to Flordia. Rain, hot and humid.
Okay I'll bite, what is bulifera and why won't you talk about it? 🧐🤔🤔🧐
Fermented hot sauce. We just started doing that this year after I already grew a couple years worth of pepper flakes, powder, and Chinese dipping peppers. We'll never buy hot sauce again, it's so delicious.
You can roast them before fermenting, ferment raw. You can strain them after pureeing or leave the good fiber in. We've done 3 batches so far, one fermented and pureed, one a step further adding vinegar and sugar, and another a step further adding liquid smoke. Got a green batch fermenting now, and letting a red batch go for a few months instead of a few weeks to see if there's much difference.
Great way to use up hot peppers, the fermenting mellows them out, the probiotics are good for the gut. Use as is, part of a marinade, baste, kick up done guacamole or salsa, on popcorn or chips, or even add kick to a mixed drink.
I made gallons of hot sauce last year! You're right. It's the best.
Maybe you can share some of your recipes/ ferment process... and seeds? Would love to grow more peppers... never seem to have as many as desired.
@@Katydidit I just read up on fermenting, but the basic method so far is that I've been destemming my peppers, chopping them up, and then submerging them under a weight in a 3% brine.
I use mason jars and just make the lid finger tight (lightly closed, no pressure) so it can release CO2. If you live in a humid climate you probably want to get a proper fermenting lid.
Then I just rotate the jar every day to release gas, and so far I've let them go till they stop bubbling.
One they're done, strain the liquid on the side, pour into a blender, add just enough brine back to get it to blend.
From here it's a matter of taste. You can strain it or not. Add salt, vinegar of your choice, sweetener of your choice. Add more brine (suggestion, I tend to use leftover brine to pickle chicken overnight, so good - also pickle juice will give you deli chicken flavor without the nitrites and nitrates).
Any type of pepper or combination of peppers work. I've been doing cayenne, but my last batch was a medley of cayenne, jalapeño and some shishitos and banana peppers that got too ripe.
I like to add a few cloves of garlic as well, and a few layers of half onion is a great way to push the peppers down, just poke some holes so the gas can escape.
Happy fermenting!
How do you make sure the cukes didnt cross pollinate with other cucurbitaceae like pumpkins?
Ooohhh.cucumbers as a ground cover...Great idea!!😁
Thanks David! Have you tried Is tromboncino squash? It grows great here.
Love your shirt helping that really awesome modern yoeman channel ,,
You are a really good guy 😂
David, there was a video last night on the "MrMBB333" yt channel (he shows earthquake activity across the globe, weather phenomenon, and great photos from viewers of storms, skies, and even garden/plant observations occasionally. In yesterday's video, a viewer sent in a photo of a weird sweet potato vine growing in his garden. I think the guy was from Ohio. All of his sweet potato vines are pretty much normal looking, except this one he discovered, that is so bizarre, it's a 4 inch wide flat, almost fused together looking long piece of sweet potato vine growing, with the leaves coming out along the flat wide section of vine. This flat section of the vine looks like several vines fused together. You have to see it to understand. I thought I bet "David the Good" might know what this is, or what caused this weird growth. Check it out for yourself if you can. 👍🙂
I had that happen once in a bed that had gotten some Grazon.
What is grazing?
Grazon
Any chance of selling that white potato replacement? I live in the south and it's very hot and humid
Has anyone found good resources for researching crops that have been grown historically in your area?
try cooking Jerusalem artichokes , the same way that camassia bulbs / camas were traditionally cooked, in a pit in ground , heated with hot rocks and buried for 2 , 3 days . camassia also contains inulin, but the slow cooking process apparently breaks inulin down into simpler sugars
Part of the point of both is to have the inulin.
@@b_uppy lots of people have major problems digesting inulin , to the point of gas so bad it physically hurts , and breaking down the inulin would give you more available calories from the crop ( inulin is good if you want to reduce sugar intake , as as with obesity or diabetes, as it tastes sweet , but the human digestive track is not designed for food fermentation , so struggles with large amounts of inulin )
@@pavlovssheep5548
It helps if you avoid overeating them in a setting...
@@b_uppy They completely mess me up - I don't use them as food anymore. I might try fermenting them, though.
@@davidthegood could you connect yourself to a bio-gas generator and power your home
Can i use galvanized cans as winter storage if i put them in the ground? Do you have an email address?
Wow I’ve got tons of these growing. I love the leaves, so tropical ❤️
David , the outro had me wondering , when are you dipping into chinampas ?
Mulberry and elderberry grow like weeds here in southern Alabama.
HELLO guys is everything okay? Are you there?
dont need religion forced upon me
Yes you do. REPENT
“Just like this baulbififara that I’m not going to talk about” 😂
"closest thing to a mango" paw-paw over in the corner having a good cry
FIGS! Most trouble free fruit in central GA
Who loves that fountain. I do. (and your books!)
Such strange soil to me haha so used to straight clay.
sort of dirty sand
I've had 1-2 feet of water covering my gardens since Wednesday night. Going down slowly. Any suggestions as to do now? I have a very young 12" tall fig, raspberry, mulberry, blackberry, Florida cranberry, bananas, moringa, pigeon peas, and assorted veggies. Will any survive? I currently have moccasins and gators all over the place so will be another couple days before I can get in. And I'll have guns blazing when I do. LOL. Just praying I don't have to completely start over. Good thing is it's flooded with cow pasture and creek water.
Good luck. I bet a lot of it lives.
Use those peppers to make pepper juice for home and personal safety
Let’s be honest, David The good. We all know you grow children best.
I spot your large, white 12 (15?) passenger van in the background. As a fellow owner, it’s hard to miss one.
In all seriousness, this is good, practical info. I grow green beans and white potatoes very easily in my soil. Barely have to think about it. So I do lots! They are my stable crops.
Thank you. I love my van.
This reminds me of Mark Shepherd's "Sheer total utter neglect" philosophy 👌
He is excellent.
Good morning. How is your brother doing?
Hope you and your family are staying safe.
All around Great video thank u for the info
stink bugs taking over in Florida
you mean gooder dirt, good dirt for growing more food
I am listening to your audible book grow or die. I’m really enjoying it. So glad I found you on RUclips as well
Thank you, Peggy.
I hate to beg but can anyone on here please contact me about which is the best
Kindle to order David’s books on. I don’t own one but want to get one so that I can get all of his books. I hope he still gets money from it if you buy it through Kindle
Paperback is the best option, but any Kindle will read my books.
Makes so much sense when you put it that way 👍
What is a good variety of Dioscorea to grow in 8B lower Alabama. Where do you find it here?
The Chinese yam and the D. alata are both doing well. The name makes roots, but they aren't as big.
think about you and your family
Silly sensitive phone, bumpy road bumped thumbs down, just realised and corrected to THUMBS UP!!!! Of course 👍😁👍🙏 That's what happens sometimes when sensitive phones that are just about kaput and sat on the seat to listen to while driving and you live on dirt roads and travel an hour to town.... David, we love the channel. You and your family are lovely and we really enjoy and appreciate all of your efforts for making these vids, al the (not-so common) common sense, not to mention the fabulous efforts in the gardens 👍😁 I corrected it as soon as I saw. It is thumbs up, shared and downloaded too 👍😁🥬🌻🙏
I love making experimental plots all over the place too, been doing it for years, next gen or second gen grown from that property is always better, stronger, more productive.
God bless you all and watch over you (and Brian too), happy gardening in both places.
1 Million dollar mulberry haha
My upstate NY landrace garden... Potatoes(red and Kennebec), Butternut squash, Kale, Great northern beans, Green shell peas, herbs(coriander, ect) all grown from seeds off the previous year. Saving seeds is the ultimate survival skill.
Wooo! I love the concept to plug in for my own climate. I'm south Florida so I don't have to do much thinking, but I understand the concept. So I should go someplace extreme and test my knowledge?! Jk! Thanks!
Hi, I'm a Nephilim that lives in Antarctica, can you tell me how to grow a beefsteak tomato here?
The sons of God looked upon the solanums of women...
I got the book. I also got 2 ruined knees that need replacing - working on that but of course there’s delays.. I’m thrilled to see you pull foodstuffs off plants in understory and shade, no furrows. No obvious drip irrigation. I’m a messy person and (God willing!) I WILL have a garden! And I seriously doubt that it will be “beautiful.” I’m hoping for bountiful. Thanks for the wise words and attitude. 😊