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- The potatoes failed. PIGEON PEAS TO THE RESCUE! This multi-function tropical nitrogen-fixing shrub is a Swiss Army knife species!
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Sometimes gardens do poorly. One of the best ways to fix them is to plant cover crops. Today we plant pigeon peas in our bad potato patch. Pigeon peas are one of my favorite multi-use plants from the tropics. Growing pigeon peas both adds nitrogen to the soil and suppresses weeds. It's also a good plant to feed goats.
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Sometimes gardens do poorly. One of the best ways to fix them is to plant cover crops. Today we plant pigeon peas in our bad potato patch!
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Pigeon peas are one of my favorite multi-use plants from the tropics. Growing pigeon peas both adds nitrogen to the soil and suppresses weeds. It's also a good plant to feed goats.
Thank you all for watching.
Thanks for the ideas. Can’t wait to see a follow up.
Like you I have been raiding the Spanish stores for years! Pigeon peas I learned from visiting a Cuban friend who had 2 trees in his yard. The one in the front his Spanish neighbors would raid and pick his peas before he could.
I did that all over my backyard. When I moved into this house in it Arizona it was nothing but dead dirt. I had to purchase lots of soil and plant tons of pigeon peas. They are quite tasty and they're doing quite a good job
How is the field doing? Has there been a follow up video?
The only gardening channel that is not DRY!!!! You are freakin hilarious 🤣 as well as extremely informative. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos!!!
Thank you.
I planted out a bag of red kidney beans that looked suspicious around my compost bin and got a great harvest of pods and dried beans.
@George Floyd Yes, thank you. I wanted the beans for better seed and they are growing beautifully this year.
I'll try growing those peas. I learned to make them with rice when I lived in the Bahamas. Trying my best to "make" soil and starting my food forest. At 66 with health problems it's tough. But no pain no gain. Food, food, food.
They are really good cooked in coconut milk - we used to have them regularly in the Caribbean.
Slowly but surely, friend :) no need to stress, it'll come along when it does.
I'm "only" 50 with an array of health issues and found the only distraction that works for me is gardening. Of course I try to do too much too quickly but I absolutely love it! Take it easy 🙂
That's my speed these days. But not sitting around waiting. My first garden is producing lots of peas, black beans, tomatoes, and okra. I'm dreaming of my fall garden. Luck and live to all.
Ditto, but in uk. Gradually getting my garden disabled-friendly and starting t grow food in raised beds. Expensive t set up but once it is I will be sorted!
DTG: I want these to sprout.
Pidgeon peas: You're chitting me!
🤣
Jess if roots and refuge had a first ever rant on how she has a poly tunnel full of contaminated soil..her plants are no good now..her rant inspired me that I need to go buy your books on composting and building soil.
I sent a few of your books to a prison in Central Florida. They’re really enjoying learning from you!
Fantastic - thank you. I hope they are blessed. That was kind of you.
I bought a $2.00 package of 15 bean soup at Wal Mart (Look above the dried pintos and black bean packages). I disposed of the packet of bacon flavoring included and planted my waffle garden fig patch with squares of the beans. They came up and are growing fantastic. It's been fun, cheap entertainment. I'm trying to build up the soil with legumes and a cover crop and might even get an assortment of beans to make bean soup this winter!
My favorite beans are gandules(pigeon pea)! A stable growing up was arroz con gandules at my house we ate them almost everyday day. My grandfather taught me to grow them growing up and he always told me to plant them next to your growing beds also that you should start them the weekend of mother's day but he lived in thw mountains of Puerto Rico all his life and lived to 103 eatting mostly what he grew
Cool! I just planted a bunch of cow peas, black eye peas..from the grocery store..directly planted in the bed..up in 2 days!
I planted some cow peas this Spring in Zone 9a and they are going gang busters! They don't mind the heat that much so long as they get some water now and then. The ants like to herd aphids or black midges on them when they are stressed, but the plant just keeps cranking out more peas. I planted several pigeon peas last winter, but transplanted before a surprise frost. I still have one growing though! I plan to establish them when I convert my front yard into a mini food forest to help break up the soil that is clay/sand. But I need a frost hardy something as a micro environment protector from frost to get established first.
@@visnuexe great! I'm going to give the pigeon peas a go myself 👍 happy gardening!
Cannot wait to see an update on this!!
LOL ! "...dumb and docile so they can be controlled." 🤣💊
I got Goya lentils from the grocery to start breaking up the clay soil I have here. I also got buckwheat from Johnnys, it grows fast and makes plenty biomass. Bonus the chickens like them.
I love your music 🎶. And the message at the end was a nice touch. Stay as you are…funny and interesting. You’re very talented. Rachel did good raising you👍🤣
Love these vids. Always informative and entertaining with some deep truths laced in to plant the seeds of truth to awaken the sheeple. Awesome 👍
You’re hilarious. The bit about not wanting your peas to get fluoride in their brains cracked me up 😂
Another good one! See yall in a few weeks oh and @2:16 was 🤣
David you are my hero. Thanks for making content and teaching people how to compost their enemies.
Hello David! It was so great to meet you at ECHO. I was the Trinidadian woman who had to leave the tour a little early to get back to Naples to pick my son up from VBS (he was torn between going to VBS that day vs doing another ECHO tour with me, just to meet you😄). I wish I had already bought a copy of your new book so I could have asked you to sign it while there. You are so right that shelling pigeon peas are a part of the culture in the Caribbean. It is also a rite of passage for children (I spent many a day sitting on the porch shelling peas and dared not complain). Anyway, I have lots of peas from the prolific plants we have and I am happy to send you some if you don’t have success with the store bought ones. Again, great to meet you in person! - Gabielle
It was wonderful meeting you - I hope to meet your son, too, next time! Great to have Trinidad representing. I love my Caribbean people - really miss the island sometimes.
Purple corn is great stuff. In Peru, they make a (non-alcoholic) drink with it, called Chicha Morado. I recommend saving seed from that. I don't think there are any hybrid versions of it.
Oh man, I planted pigeon peas not too long ago. They're shooting up right fine in the dense clay. Looking forward to them.
Where can I find the seeds? And what growing zone are you in?? Thx
@@laurieasmus9998 check online just looked them up and there available on Amazon or check your local Hispanic supermarket
Love you Dave please keep em coming. I'm having to reluctantly return to the UK for three months but upon my return to Thailand I look forward to seeing my garden thriving on neglect. Much respect hombre 🙏
Im in zone 9a growing pigeon peas for the first time. I'll probably have to cover them in January but its worth a try! Thanks for the info 😎🌱
Fl 9a here, lost mine in that last deep freeze this past winter. So bummed, they had loads of immature beans on them.
Glad to see you trying some of our Hispanic legumes. Pigeon Peas, I tried the ones grown in zone 9+ from the store. Im in 7a and they died twice without making pods because they take 14month or some craziness to fruit. I am trialling northern adapted Gandules/Pigeon Peas in Georgia USDA 7a.
I grew Purple Corn from Peru one year and it can grow to 10ft+ make sure you have an area shielded from strong winds or some t posts to avoid lodging. the plants will make roots up the stem a good 6inches above the ground line, so maybe plant in a trench and fill it in as those roots appear or be prepared to hill around the rows.
Yes! Every ethnic market visit by our family turns into a scavenger hunt for strange vegetable seeds.
Good timing. I just finished planting twelve pounds of black eye peas (a bean). The last six pounds this morning. Drank and sweated more than two liters of water in the process. I did not chit but i presoaked twelves hours before planting.
I'm Puerto Rican. Growing pigeon peas all over my property! Super easy to grow, they don't like over watering though. I wonder if anyone understood what fluoride does to your brain..the pineal gland.
It reduces your intelligence and rots your teeth.
Fluoride is poison. It wrecks your thyroid too. Take iodine to get rid of it.
It certainly is a process to get people to do their own research isn't it? These subtle "seeds" of info are important in this pricess.
@@stacylandis9806 thats all tinfoil crap xD very easy to debunk
@@simplex7096 you are easy to debunk.
I did my first cover crops the other day. I got some sorghum Susan grass and a bunch of different bags of beans from Walmart and scattered like you did in a previous video. I got some sprouting
I've got a nice stand of sudan grass growing and black-eyed peas for cover crop, thanks to you. NE Missouri zone 5b
Love love love that! We just got a big ol bag of cranberry beans from the Amish here in MO! Didn’t think to plant them. Now we will! Genius idea! I imagine they are native to MO. Haven’t looked them up yet. Thanks for the idea. We appreciate you Mr Good!
Great post! Thanks for the ideas, tips, and as always, the entertainment
Compost Everything and Market Row Gardening will be here tomorrow!!! Was able to order them the other day and cannot wait to get them. I live in Southeast Missouri in a very sandy area, and from what I've seen similar soil to where you are. Have been following you as close as I can since you were on Christian's channel. Thank you for all the info you put out there.
You'll love them! I devoured them in one sitting.
You're so weird David! But in a good way lol 😆 You're absolutely right though about ethnic markets ... you can find all sorts of little gems there! I had recently been craving a jackfruit and I went to one of our local Asian markets and 1 slice of it was $20 & some change....ummmm, NO!!! So I knew I was taking a trip about an hour away the following week and I just waited and bought an entire Jackfruit at the grocery store there, and it was 25 pounds, cost $25. Now I have all these seeds that I told my boyfriend I want to go all around with a spoon and plant these seeds at random places because we definitely live in an area that is insanely humid and also insanely hot (and 8 miles from the beach). I told him I was gonna go plant some behind the Asian market so they could have their own whole fruits instead of pieces 🤣
😊😊😊 my favorite gardener!
I took your advice from another video and planted a cover crop in parts of my garden where there was bare soil. Plan on doing the same in another section hopefully soon.
You won't get seed from the pigeon peas, but you can almost build a log cabin with the sticks.
I've been researching what would be good pasture/cover crops to plant behind my new chickens! I am putting them to work in a tractor, tilling the ground of our yard of terrible weeds and junk. Any time we prepped for a garden we just made it easier for the weeds! Doing it right this time, and right behind the chickens I'll plant some really great stuff for them to eat the next time I bring them around. Maybe next year I'll try to take part of it back over for a garden. :D Also using your garden lasagna compost idea to prep an area for some asparagus, so excited!
Pigeon peas are fantastic for bees…never saw so many different types, from huge bumble bees to little native ones, buzzing around the pigeon pea flowers like there was no tomorrow!
this is why i love this channel, i will try using seeds from the store too. And omg isnt that a cow killer??? 8:18 😲
Dang! I was wondering what that beast was.
Love the Castro look while you were "chitting" lol!!!!
I love my pigeon peas. Super easy and they survive the winter in central FL. Couldn't recommend them enough. There are also two different colors so keep an eye out for the black/brown color ones and the others are kinda more greenish.
Purple corn (maíz morado) from Perú. Heard that its sunlight requirements aren't met in the northern hemisphere, so it doesn't keep the purple color. It's traditional use is boiling with pineapple rinds, quince, cinnamon and clove to make a refreshing drink known as "chicha morada". Very rich in antocyanins as the color indicates. The grains can be ground into flour and used for bread, cookies, etcétera. Actually the cob gives off more color than the grains, so one can use the ground cobs to make the drink and the ground corn as flour
Great idea and I already have alot of dry beans stocked. Will try this in my high tunnel area (yeah, the high tunnel that's not finished yet, lol) just to see what happens.
Thanks David! 🌱🌱🌱
So funny about the purple corn and the fluoride.
I'm doing something similar. I planted beans (from the grocery store) around my yard whereever I'm not growing something for my regular garden or where I'm thinking about planting something later.
Just a side note on corn, I’ve given up on it entirely. The pest pressure in my part of Florida(Cape Coral) makes it far too much work for very little return without the use of pesticides, the corn patch is now a Seminole pumpkin patch!
North MS here and I have corn tasseling without cobs....Think is the extreme heat we are having here....and lack of rain
@@lynnjasmine3216 the heat down here is equally oppressive! And mine never get a chance to tassel cuz the bug’s obliterate them when they’re less than knee high.
I have too many raccoons . They love that corn
@Dani O LOL, That's so exotic to us 'mericans! It was a delight to imagine, tho I'm sure not for you. 🦘🦘🦘
Nice. I gotta couple PP's growing up here in Illinois. Been hitting the Dollar store for Beans! And all my seeds, 4/$1!
It was great seeing you again!
Thanks - you too.
I got pigeon peas to grow last year. I didn't realize I could use it for rabbits, that's good to know. thank you
Hello Jennifer how are you doing
I didn’t know you can find pigeon peas at Latin stores, I’m a bad South Floridian! I found some pods that were generously donated by the Snyder Park food forest that I put in the ground.
I had a bag of lentils and dropped a few in a pot of soil. They are growing in my kitchen!!!
Hello Blissful how are you doing
@@davidospina5216 doing great my friend!
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 Okay good. Where are you from?
@@davidospina5216 We are in the Arizona Desert 40 minutes from Laughlin Nevada in Golden Valley.
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 Okay nice place I live in Oklahoma City but I’m currently working here in Syria.
Are you originally from there?
Did a 3.00 bag of 15 beans last month here in N.fla .I've got beans everywhere now😉👍
Funny. My potato patch in the Northeast is doing really well this year, so far. We have been getting an incredible amount of rain the last few years. It's ridiculous.
I had peas from mine last year. Only had one bush make it that far though. Just planted a half dozen and one of the storms took out all but one. I planted a bit earlier in the year though, I think it was early May. I'm in same zone as DtG, just east an hour or so driving.
2:23-2:28 the humor is not wasted, brother. Too funny.
That flouride comment really got me 🤣 yessss
I've grown them and am growing them in South Carolina. They did great last year. Unfortunately they are only annuals here as the frost kills them. I start the seedlings weeks before the first frost so they will have a better chance of producing. Wired thing this year is that they're flowering at about 2-3 feet. I think they're bolting because it's been so hot.
When I was in college, we grew pigeon peas at the Coastal Plains Experiment Station in Tifton, GA. The were successful at producing. Sadly, I don't know if those strains survived after Dr. Phatak retired.
Awesome video David, was about to ask about inoculation but you answered it at the end. Not sure about in the states and I do need to look it up, but here in Australia you can buy a couple strains of bacteria from the better organic suppliers for a couple bucks
You can get it in the Spring when the displays are up for the big seed companies, or you can mail order it. A small packet ran me about $4, not including discounts or taxes back in March. No telling what it'd be now.
I really love this idea!! I live in Eastern Tennessee, which is sort of tropical in the summer. Would this work well here too? How much of that would survive winter?
And another idea - for further improvement, maybe let pigs and/or chickens go in next spring to clean up that area, providing further fertilizer and digging action?
Thank you will give it a try...stay blessed
I wish I had a David the good for the north
Edible acres
There is no lack of gardening info for usda zones 4 to 7: that's where most Americans live, is similar to Western Europe in many ways so European info is also useful, and where most stuff is published. Admittedly, sifting wisdom from the effluvium of nonsense and irrelevance (e.g. a focus on lawn care) can be a problem. I know "Parkrose Permaculture" focuses on the maritime NW (warm wet winters, cool dryish summers), Huw Richards gardens in the U.K. (similar but wet year round), Ross Raddi is in NJ but focuses mainly on southern crops like figs, migardener does Michigan (mainly vegetables, probably Continental Zone 5, but possibly z6 if just east of Lake Michigan).
If the question is where can you buy cheap, unfortunately uninnoculated cover crop seeds in the North, peas (Pisum sativum) are available everywhere. Faba beans (which aren't vines) are often available, but can be found in Mediterranean or Middle Eastern markets if not in a regular grocery store, and I have found bulk, raw buckwheat (biomass and supposedly weed control, not N) at Whole Paycheck. Sunflowers are supposedly allelopathic against some trees and legumes, but will add plenty of biomass.
Goya! My type of cover crops! I love being half Puerto Rican! 👍🏻🙌🏻😅🌻Viva Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
How are your pumpkins doing? Great video thanks for the update
They are struggling. Terrible weather this year.
Once again, sympatico, I'm planting pigeon peas, blackeyes, a couple clovers, some native local amaranth "weeds" and I might add in some sorghum sudangrass & daikons if I feel like buying some...cover cropping ftw.
The leaves of the pigeon pea are a great toilet paper substitute!
I have failure to thrive soil in my dang yard can’t wait to see what you have to offer !
Thank you for the heads up.
My potatoes came out kinda small because they got shaded by the trees , hey goya is my favorite “seed company” ive been using them since the beginning of my gardening journey , cheap and lots of seeds , i also use sadaf “seed company” 😉
Hemp is also great for soil
My potatoes here in north Fl failed too. May and June were hotter than Central Calif in my opinion. At least it was dry there.
Hello Kaybonette how are you doing
Tried pigeon pea here in the panhandle a few times. Definitely flower too late to get harvests. Sucks I really loved growing them in South Florida.
Do they transplant at all? Could I/you start them early inside and move them out when things warm up, or is that a Bad Idea?
Direct seeding beans of any type to increase soil fertility would work for me, but I would want something to plant for next year - permanent beans would be cool.
Check the comments section here. I read there are pigeon peas adapted for as far north as New York. Don't need those myself, so I didn't pay enough attention to give you the info myself. Also, it's my understanding that after the first two years production declines so you want to re-plant anyway. Seed sellers like to fill our heads with all Kinds of fantasies. Sure, they're perenial, but they won't be productive as far as food goes.
@@effieinglish Like all things, I figure it'll be up to the grower. They're a legume, so they'lll be producing nitrogen for as long as they're planted. Whether that particular bush produces a high rate of peas past the second year , it will be part of the landscape and can either be replaced by another shrub or left in place as an edible and soil beneficial.
I keep my chickens for longer than 2 years because they lay fewer, but larger, eggs and still produce a lot of poop. Weird.
The conspiracy jokes gave me a good laugh haha, you got a new subscriber :p
Welcome
Jokes?
Sorry, puns
@@joshsimms5697 I understood you the first time.
Jim Kovaleski uses black eyed peas before he hightails it off to Maine along with the sweet potatoes. This will make great fodder for your animals and they will love you for it!
Will look for pigeon peas at the international market there in Marietta GA. My malanga is coming up as of yesterday...yay!
Hello David and family,
thank you for all your work and time. I planted my potatoes at the same time, I haven't harvested them yet.
pull up one, they were still too small.
is there a cure time before you eat them. haven't seen any info on it. God bless you family & land!
As I understand it, you don't have to cure them to eat them right away, but curing for a few days in a covered area is great if you want to store them.
My great-grandfather used to pull up a plant for dinner and would cut up one of the smaller potatoes to replant that area. That way he kept potatoes of all sizes growing until frost.
wishing you pigeon pea fixing blessings my friend!
Lots of fun!
My father taught me this trick. And I use it to this day.
@ 1:44 Thanks for making me lol. Had spinal injections today but it’s my neck that’s killing me. So thanks again, kind sir.
May you heal well!
Thank you
Hello Gina how are you doing
Thanks for shareing
Good meeting you .growing pigeon peas now.
Thank you, Roger!
Bought some 15 bean soup at Walmart to help fix my soil.
This is the video I am adding to the interesting by others playlist! Really would like to see a split screen comparison of what this costs in 2024!
I hit the international mart. they have it all. every ethnicity you can imagine. with all their beans and grains and FRUITS!! They even have a display of asian vegetable seeds. i can not read any of the packs and do not recognize the plants. awesome...chasing twilight with 2 high beams...nice line..great song actually. how can i add it to my playlist? ;)
Hey David, do you know of anyone trying your grocery row garden in Wisconsin? We’re moving to the Milwaukee area from Ohio next month and would love to connect with people there to see what grows well.
Keep going my dear friend ❤️❤️❤️
Great upload my friend 😉👍
I planted a few pigeon peas last year. Two survived our horrible heat and light freeze we got in winter ( Corpus Christi Texas). My issue is that the plants are beautiful and healthy but they never flowered. I'm planning on planting a few more this year. Could it be that they are all male plants??? By the way, you should try arroz con gandules (great pigeon peas) it's a Puerto Rican dish. We also cook them like a stew. Make annatto oil, fry in a little bit of the oil some diced ham, softito (pepper, onion, garlic, cilantro, culantro if you can find it I usually leave that out because it's not easily available here), about a tbl of tomato paste (or 1/2 cup of tomato sauce), and the pigeon peas with enough water to cover for about two inches and salt to taste. Let that simmer until the peas are soft like beans. Serve over white rice or by themselves in a little cup. You can also cook an asopao with them using the same ingredients plus browned ground beef, white rice, green olives, capers, pimientos Morrones (red bell pepper), and bolitas de plátano o guineo Verde (green banana or green plantain balls). That's the best comfort food that you can eat in a cool night in Puerto Rican mountains.
They usually flower according to the cycle of the sun - later in the year.
@@davidthegood hope they do. I'm planting more this week to see if they get jealous and start to flower🤣
Ah this sounds so fun!
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Heard you mention being in Alabama. I’m in Baldwin county and gardening here is 10% skill and 90% fighting weeds.
That's about right! With another 100% tacked on for bugs and the tough weather.
Can I recommend the partridge pea? It is native to US so I feel like it would benefit our soil in a greater way. Extra Bonus: your kids will get a kick out of it because the leaves collapse when touched. Also known as sensitive plant.
I got my seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery.
Good idea.
@@davidthegood Is it really a good idea or just a more expensive alternative and a reply to keep me engaged with ur channel? Lol I really am curious of your opinion.
@@shannonz9211 I'm sure he has plenty of time to respond (all day) to everyone's snide personal requests.
My rabbits won't touch pigeon pea greens, but that's okay -- they make awesome compost.
I need to send you an earthway seeder... I was gifted/bought one last year and it's fantastic
Sometimes beans and peas are sprayed with roundup at harvest to dry out the plant and make harvesting easier, so i was wondering if that would "kill" the seed and prevent it from sprouting?
Only one way to find out! ;) many are actually irradiated to kill lingering bacteria and toxins common in beans. It usually renders them unsproutable. I expected this to be the case with beans from Walmart but I couldn't find anything stating they had been irradiated, and most sprouted just fine!
DTG I planted those Skittles just like you said. I soaked them over night and then planted them six inches apart and watered them every day. It's been 3 weeks and I *still* don't see anything. I ate the other half of the bag and they were all fresh. What do you think happened?
being unable to grow potatoes is actually pretty impressive, since even I was able to do it on the first try - total newbie didnt stop me ;)
Climate and soil vary a lot - we couldn't grow them AT ALL in the tropics!
they grow great in Tampa
My chickens love the leaves.
Came here from Roots and Refuge Farm. That was a excellent rant video.
Welcome.