How We Get Fast Yields in Our Grocery Row Garden
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- In a #foodforest or Grocery Row Garden, you've got long-term trees that will produce for decades... yet if you plan things correctly, you can start reaping lots of food almost right away. Here's what we're harvesting right now!
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We're harvesting sweet potatoes in the Grocery Row Garden and had to take you along. The fast yields we get from short crops have been great - and the tree crops haven't even started producing yet. There is a marvelous balance that you can strike between perennial and annual crops which will get you increasing yields over the years. We feed sweet potato vines to the pigs, too, which gives us one more yield from this crop!
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We're harvesting sweet potatoes in the Grocery Row Garden and had to take you along. The fast yields we get from short crops have been great - and the tree crops haven't even started producing yet. There is a marvelous balance that you can strike between perennial and annual crops which will get you increasing yields over the years. We feed sweet potato vines to the pigs, too, which gives us one more yield from this crop!
"sorry you're running into the rosa rugossa." I don't think that sentence has ever been uttered before in all of history. Well done Sir!!
I don’t have to make sweet potato slips anymore here in central Texas zone 8a.
Enough little pieces of “root” get left underground by accident to grow the next year’s patch.
Wow those pigs have come a long way from their first appearance as cute lil piglets!
Florida 9B. Sweet potatoes are my go-to for ground cover, digging and eating them whenever I want is priceless. The size you are getting is crazy! Which variety is that?
I kind of do that grocery row stuff. I have a plot where I grow a lot of my annual veggies but I have gobs of young fruit and nut trees/bushes everywhere. Anywhere I have a tree or bush I plant perennial plants, herbs and even poke in some veggies.
I just got your book and already realize I need to redo my garden area. Good timing as its fall, the weather is now cooler making it easier to work longer each day to accomplish the task.
It's like getting a new lease on life to have the cool weather! Thank you.
Your intro reminded me of the guy that was going to start gardening to supplement his food, but he couldn’t find any bacon seeds!!
Awwww I am sorry you lost one of your family pets. 😢💔🙏
Keep up the work David been here since you started basically sorry I haven’t commented lately but life’s been busy. Hope your doing well and keep up the content I love learning and incorporating your methods into my own gardening not to mention the videos are peaceful to watch.
Thank you
So inspiring.And it's so funny how garden time frames are so relative. Sweet potato harvest seems long in context of radishes but compared to a fruit tree it's a blink.
That was great,I think I'll bing the rest of your vids ❤
Homemade french bread pizza and a DTG video, its a good Monday!
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Thank you
That is one ginormous sweet potato! Nice harvest! Yes, I've gotten a higher yield by growing the grocery row method. Bless you and yours for sharing your knowledge!
That’s so amazing,David!
Good morning guys, hope all is well. Our chickens love sweet tater greens.
You are damn good at growing food man
Working on our first syntropic attempt in Kenya, I think I packed all the books I bought from you in one of our suitcases and not in a crate before moving so I look forward to reading this book
Thank you.
Im starting my Grocery Row garden as we speak. Im in WA state. I have a 90 ft in length area to work with. I figure 5 fruit trees with some things like Huckleberry, blueberry, grapes and rhubarb maybe even some kiwi berries in between for the main part of it. Then start throwing random annuals in the spring around it all. I bought the first apple tree the other day. I already have 3 other Apple trees close by. The Fuji I bought will help cross polinate my Cosmic Crisp I got last year. When i get it installed i will take some pics for you. Later when everything is growing good, I will update. GRG NW style.
My wife and I have been trying to find ways to change what we eat so we can save on grocery money. We rent an apartment with no yard, so fruit trees aren't an option for us anyways. We have a small garden at a friend's house which is nice, but going into winter will be hard here since we're almost done with the season already.
It can be hard. Growing storable roots helps, and some winter roots.
If I cross a fairytale pumpkin and a porcelain doll pumpkin it will be my own variety called sweet khavana pumpkin
Super
I really appreciate all your videos and helpful information, David, even though i don't live in as nice a plant-hardy zone as you do. Your videos lift my spirits and give me ideas. We all need to get back to Eden. Thank you!❤
Excelente video 👍 👏
Buena
Where is that song!?! I totally want that song! I can't find it! You wrote it?? Sounds like you😆
Aaaaaaahhhh!!!! No don’t give all those fabulous sweet potato leaves to the piiigggsss! Those are free “spinach” for you with a ton less oxalic acid!!! 😅
AGREED. Freeze them and make smoothies! Make a salad!
When you have thousands and thousands of leaves still in the garden, it's hard to worry about sharing with the piggies. The sweet potato leaves are way better than spinach, for sure.
My pet wild free range scrubland rabbit ate my sweet potato leaves, and my peanut leaves and the ground level passion fruit leaves.
Tried sweet potato greens from last year’s crop. Not a fan. Spinach is far better tasting.
Well I just learned something!
Great job 😊
Hi David! Will you be attending/presenting at the Homesteading Meet up in Milton thecend of October? Btw, the blueberry bushes ginger,, basil & Oregano we bought from you last month are all thriving & doing very well! Seed saving the basil as our bees really liked those blooms! Blessings from Molino, NW Florida!
I didn't know about that one - did not receive an invitation.
Dang man I want that variety! I'll trade you a bunch of garnet, Beauregard, and purple molokia cuttings for a few cuttings of those. Or anything else I have. Glycomis pentaphylla seeds, Texas persimmon seeds, leucenia seeds, etc. Let me know.
If you are nearby any time, I will give you some.
@@davidthegood I have to go to Milton, FL on the 2nd. Think it's a Monday. My buddy Pastor Lee is doing a Feast of Tabernacles celebration all week that week. I have to do an edibles plant walk for his congregation. Not sure if I'd be there all day or not but maybe that's the closest I'll be to you for some time without a special trip.
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That was a really nice sweet potato
That’s a sweet harvest. I love sweet potatoes, as a Canadian I grew my first crop last year, and they did well. I think I still have one sprouting above my cupboards almost a year later, they store well too. For a while now I’ve been team annual, people grow them for a reason, perennials are $h-t, hehe.
There are things I like about perennials. Like the many fruits and nuts available. But annual productivity is insane!
@@davidthegood agreed, I was more being facetious, perennials are ok too.😃 Berries are perennial too. I guess a good mix of both. In colder climates annuals are better for survival, I guess in Tropical climates all those fruit trees are fantastic.
You could live just on coconuts in the tropics. And then you also get breadfruit, mangoes, passionfruit...
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Nice taters. And the vines do taste much better as bacon!
Thank you.
Buena Crianza de Animales.....
TFS
Sweet potatoes or great fried in butter and a little salt/pepper.
Yes, for sure. We also fry them in lard.
@@davidthegood l like beef tallow 👍
Me too.
I'm trying, I'm trying 😩 😫 😪 not lucky like you. Florida. 😢😢😢
What do you feed your sweet potato with.
We put some cow manure in the garden last fall, then mulched. That was all we added. They don't seem to need much.
David the Good it's September,27 and I wanted to know of I should just pull my semolina pumpkin out the ground? It has only been making male flowers and I live in a 8b 8a or 9a or ,9b
I would just wait until the frost kills it. They often make a round of pumpkins as the weather cools.
Dave, do you know if mesquite will grow in Alabama? I can't find any information about people growing it outside of the Southwest, besides it surviving up to zone 7. I'm in NW Alabama zone 7b. Looking for nitrogen fixers that also have something appetizingly edible.
I had some seedlings in Florida. It is possible.
Beautiful Garden!!! I would love to put in a Grocery Row Garden on our 2&1/2 acre property in SouthEast Texas in the Big Thicket area. Do you have snakes there on Alabama? If so, how do you keep them off your property specifically your Gardens... My
husband is concerned about there being too many places for snakes to inhabit as well. We have Copperheads, Water Moccasins, Timber Rattlesnakes & Coral snakes in Texas and that's just the poisonous ones....
Yes, but they haven't been in the garden yet.
I just take a hoe with me to the garden every time. Nothing got me yet. I've got a few though
If they show up and try to get you to eat a particular fruit so you can "be like God," hit 'em with that hoe. @@jennbama
@jennbama do you compost the snakes?
I have the exact same problem. It scares the crap out of me. I've had too many close calls and it's no joke. Right now I am seeing a lot of little baby snakes.
Kale sautéed in bacon grease is out of this world! 🥲😋
You should do that with tree collards.
@@Coldtropics I will when I get my hands on a cutting !
@@jettyeddie_m9130 Etsy
Greens and bacon grease.. my favorite meal
That is the biggest sweet potato I have ever seen! Is that typical for the white variety? I've never tried the white. How does it compare in taste?
They are huge. They are nutty and drier than the orange ones.
Do you need to be careful about planting root crops beneath the fruit trees so you aren’t disturbing the roots?
I didn’t get a sweet potato this year all I got was all runners that was so bad for me looking for something from the garden after taking care of it and nothing, what did I do wrong?
Can you feed the wild yam vines to the pigs, too?
I don't know. The goats and cows love them, though.
I'm in my first year of a foodforst in my very small front yard and we already have so much food, I need to know how to deal with the surplus! I do canning of what I can. But there is just too much! Help! Suggestions?
Bring it to church on Sunday and give it away! Another options is to get some pigs and/or chickens you can feed it to and convert the extra into meat.
Are sweet potatoes that big any good? I’ve had too large yellow squash that taste 👎🏼
They are the first year. If we let them stay in the ground over winter, no, they get woody.
I never heard or seen white sweet potatoes
I think we found this type in a grocery store
Well darn, I was hoping you would cut that big sweet potato open so we could see.
You need to wait a couple of weeks after harvest for the flavor to sweeten. I will try to remember to film then.
What zone are you in? We are considering moving from sw fl to Montgomery al . Do you know if growing in that area much different then we’re you are at?
It's a little colder but the soil is much better. You'll find it easier than where we are. However, I much prefer the wide range of tropicals you can grow in SW Florida to the limited variety of plants you can grow in a temperate climate.
@@davidthegood good to know. I’m just learning gardening down here. And if we move there will be adjustments in timing and such I believe Montgomery area is in zone 8 a and in sw fl I am in 10a . I am in north ft.
myers about 5 miles from echo
There is a cold hardy Perenial sweet potato called Ipomoea pandurata it is suppose to be hardy to zone 7/6 and is native would he cool to cross breed with normal sweet potatoes to make big edible tubers.
I would love to get that one. We haven't had the regular sweet potatoes produce seed, but a hybrid would be fascinating.
Cerditos
No way! That sweet potato is the size of your head!
I turn my vines and leaves into hasenpfeffer...🤣🙃
mmmmm, bacon
what specie of sweet potato is that David? please?
It's the same species as the orange ones. However, I do not know the name of the cultivar. I think we got a root from a produce market.
SHOOT!
@@davidthegood
@@mindalick8867there is another species of sweet potato that is more cold hardy called Ipomoea pandurata I think you should grow.
I am tired. Seems like all I do anymore is harvest food. I can't stop planting and fertilizing with grass and weed clippings and horse manure and compost. I am always making compost with food scraps and the composting toilet. I never turn the compost piles I just start another one every year and use the third year pile for the garden. I have large mounds of animal manure, wood chips and chopped leaves. Of course I gather all of this with power equipment. I feel rich every time I look at these piles. I like your way of gardening David. I think my garden may be even more wild and unorganized than yours.
I would love to see it!
Aren’t we having a baby soon?
Early December