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In lieu of a sharp machete, like you have, what can I use to easily and quickly chop like that? The machete makes it look so easy but I'm not as strong as I used to be (I'm a 60 y/o woman) and I have arthritis in my thumb. Loppers are way to cumbersome. What are your thoughts? If there are no other options similar, where would I get one of those machetes? It's not like you can run down to your local store and pick one out.
@@Mrs.T.Rusch25 I bought 2 machetes at Harbor Freight about 6 years ago. They may still have them. If not, I’m sure you can get them from Amazon or eBay.
@@jofipps376 Thanks. I found some on Amazon but they don't have the forked, digging end that his has. I watch him use his and that little fork part is very useful. It enables him to use one tool for multiple purposes. I'll keep looking.
The great thing about The Goods' videos: they are essentially democratizing gardening for all. They cut through the steer manure of the Ivory Tower method of gardening so anyone can access real food growing. Two thumbs way up!
My mother was born in 1925 on the highest elevation farm in PA. The top of Mt Davis. And yes, it was very thin soil. They were quite poor. Moreover, they were very old-fashioned Mennonite. So their lifestyle reflected the 1800's quite a bit. Mama passed on last year, but she was a marvelous storyteller. She told me how they had an outhouse, of course. But at night, they used the closet at the bottom of the stairs, at the end of the hall. There was a white enamel covered bucket, in that closet. By morning, there was a collection of human waste, which had to be emptied daily. Grandpa always had a deep row plowed open in the garden, from one end to the other. And into this row, that bucket was dumped, and a shovelful or two of soil thrown atop it. Kitchen waste not edible by chickens were also thrown in that trench. That row was allowed to mellow for a year before being used, while the row next to it was being filled. And they never got sick from it. Of course, they knew there were no serious diseases in their waste. It's not like public human waste collection. Humans have fertilized their gardens for thousands of years with their own waste. In fact, China's city "night soil" waste was highly prized by local farmers, who paid for it. If you're leery of the concept, remember that urine is sterile... and high-temperature composting kills just about every pathogen. We're scared of our own shadows these days.
Good story but why would anyone do that these days? I could understand if you was growing food in a wasteland & your life depended on it or maybe your in a situation where you have to find something to do with all that poo but in many cases there are loads of other nutrients around that don't involve human waste.
@@topsecretbear9918 Why? To avoid using precious drinkable water for flushing away human waste. And to fit into the natural cycle of topsoil creation. Besides, some of us just relish walking contrary to current "wisdom". Often, topsoil is not nearly as fertile as it needs to be. Our future depends on our topsoil. The US has been applying chemicals for decades, and the topsoil has been eroding without replenishment. We need to step up and start replenishing the topsoil of our environment. Human waste can be recycled effectively. Polluting good water with it is just stupid.
I used to work at an indoor/outdoor garden supply store for many years... David just spilled the beans on a ton of things the industry doesn't want you to know!!! This greatly pleases me!! All this demystification and realization of abundance all around us; free food for plants, in return producing free food for humans, is one of the best kept secrets hidden in plain sight, for many people in many parts of the world... thank you for bringing attention to this, thank you to anyone who shares this information. You can find those food-grade plastic 5-gallon buckets at many restaurants in excess, for example Pizzerias. I'm currently building a wooden worm bin to begin vermicomposting with used coffee grounds from local shops, and spent grains from breweries, whatever rocks dusts I can find, along with all my fruit and veggie scraps, with the right ratio of browns I will mostly get from fallen tree leaves (oak and mulberry). Potential compost IS everywhere :)
I have my little helpers living in a tower in my kitchen, as I'm in a apt. I'm able to plant in containers and they are great for rejuvenating that soil in the winter. I make a compost mound right outside my back door next to my patio. I'll start in fall cleanup to build up the pile adding a tray of worms. They do fine even in freezing weather tucked inside the pile and covered with leaves
After watching your videos, I started doing my own compost. I have lots of spear mints growing which I kept pulling n dumped in the yard waste, now I just add them to my compost to help control the bad odor. Will see how it turns out next year! Thank you!
Hmmmm. My compost has never had a bad Oder. We do have lots of browns every year from leaves in the fall. And we just layer the kitchen scrap and greens. I hope it gets better for you.
I listened to the survival story of a gentleman who was in one of the concentration camps in the 2nd wold war. Upset tummy due to the bad food they ate was one of the main causes of death. This man remembered that his mother once told them that charcoal neutralizes poison in the body. He used this advice in camp with great success and also sold it to the other inmates for parts of their food rations.
I'm glad to hear someone say that it's ok to put meat in a compost pile. My neighbor told me that when he has a calf that has died, he takes it back to his woods, covers it with leaves and it disappears in no time. Mother nature has been doing that for many years.
Hey! I have an idea for your compost tea buckets! Get another bucket that can slide inside he bucket that holds the tea and drill holes all over it. When you are ready to take some tea, slide the "good, holy bucket" into the tea to push all the solid matter to the bottom like a strainer, so you can easily remove the liquid! 👍
Made a tea bucket like this. A 5 gal bucket inside another bucket. Drilled 1/8in holes in the strainer inside bucket. It's a good way to get the liquid only so that you can make a spray-able foliar feed. Great idea!
I love you guys. I'm currently doing a horticulture course, knowing nothing about plants, after spending 30 plus years in Human Services. After my teacher and associated resources, YOU are my "go to guy".
I accidently did this before my herbs took off. I used egg shells,banana peels, coco coir, bunny poo. Put it all in a plastic bin and put the drippy hose in it. It smelled a bit, but I hate wasting so I used it to water my little above garden. Worked amazing❤️
True comment about the composting...once you start it and understand what can go into it, you pretty much see compost materials everywhere! My parents have done gardening all their lives. When I first started in on gardening, I read about some of the common stuff, and kept thinking how my parents were not doing things the right way. But as I began to get into more topics of gardening, I realized that the stuff they have been doing, were just the same things that other people are doing, but I just didn't know a name for that method or procedure yet. When you don't want to go buy all the fertilizers and chemicals to add to your garden, you do a lot of the things that my parents do, and many of them are mentioned here in this video.
I’ve tried to “like” this video four separate times. Each time I scroll to the top and see that I already did😂 You guys are awesome. Super inspiring for me.
I have a small, shallow duck pond, and a dog who loves water. Once the ducks have called it a day, I have the dog fetch his toys from the pond, churning up the water in the process. Once the pup is tired out I fill the pails and water the garden. Definitely no pain here! Excellent video and great info to improve my garden. Thanks.
After watching your videos for several days, I now have the song stuck in my head, "I got seven ways to make weeds into fertilizer baybuh, bayaaaeeebuh" 😅 YES, price, freshness, outdoor therapy & most especially hopefully growing food that does not have weird toxic crap in it from people who don't care what goes in my (very sensitive) physical system as much as I do - these are my reasons for gardening. I'm picky about what goes in my compost because I don't want my food up taking it cuz stuff can send me to the hospital. I don't take leaves and grass clippings from other people's yards cuz they could have Roundup, and who-knows-what. But your thoughts create for anyone a situation where each of us can tailor what we do with a sense of experimentation, bold willingness, and realism! I love it! Though I love tea ans technology, detail and science, gardening is not a Japanese tea ceremony or rocket science, praise God! My FSW learning curve is going well. Headed toward soon making basic JADAM too. Am sharing your wisdom with others, and we all exchange foods we grow. They're loving the wisdom too. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
For all those people who think you need alot of space and materials to compost I lived in 24m2 studio appartment and had a worm bin I threw my kitchen scraps in there along with newspapers and cardboard. Worked like a dream!
Isn't that curious how we feel we need to retire from our jobs just to grow our own food responsibly, just to take back that power. Growing food absolutely is a full time respectable job, but for some reason we've been told it's a hobby, it's not serious, it's something you do in your spare time. Like, why? Why do I need to work for someone else to get money to buy food grown by Bill gates (whom I don't even trust) when I could skip the money step and just grow my own food that I can trust? Why are they keeping us so busy we think this isn't a thing? It's so empowering to cut out the middle man and know we're making responsible choices.
YAY!! So you are also doing that? Michael... every time I add something to the compost pile ... I say to myself that "I am helping God make soil!" We all do our part, however that looks or may be !!
I have learned so much watching your channel David , I wish I had this knowledge few months back after spending fortune to improve soil for my garden.but it’s never too late Thanks so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This one video has helped me more than the many months of googling I've done. It seems that almost everywhere I turn, I'm being told of some complicated process and store-bought products --all to achieve what mother nature does un-aided. 🖤
Always so excited to see you. My indoor plant tanks are doing so much better since I dumped them out. Layered them IN NASTY layers put a LITTLE TINY bit of soil on top and put my plants back in. Thanks David for showing us. That smell, is your friend.
that was a darn great video! I just moved to the beach and picked up my first seaweed yesterday. I wasn't sure how to best use it. loved your ideas. thank you! :)
David the Good you give me hope. I laughed so hard and needed it. A life long dream is to pull up stakes and find a bit of land for myself. Just to pee outside again like a kid 😅 May God bless you.
"My beautiful wife and me" is actually what you were looking for... Everything else you said is probably correct. You are, after all, a trusted expert on the internet. Love your videos. You and your beautiful wife are doing a great job!
@@sunlight8299 I think, for the sentence he was using, he was correct in saying the video "has my beautiful wife and me on it". If he was just talking about himself, he'd naturally say "the video has me on it".
That was truly awesome! I compost in many odd ways for years. When my boys were young, I had them go pee on the compost pile. Yes, they had a blast. Just moved into new house that's not garden ready. I'm not a young chicken anymore so I ain't digging. Put down newspapers with shredded paper, tree limbs, leaves, Guinea pig poo and kitchen leftovers. Got some cheap garden soil the other day to finally cover it. I'm sure the plants will thrive. Nice to see this video because over the years I forgot about urine. You & your wife rock!
@@davidthegood thank you and not new to this. Started in 1988. Will be sharing this video on my organic Texas Facebook group. I just love your creativity. It all breaks down. Wondrous. Boss man.
Great video. Also thanks for mentioning the pesticides and herbicides in manure. That never occurred to me they would be eating things sprayed so heavily and since cows do not digest very efficiently the manure still has a lot of chemicals left over. That makes me really think about what happens when we eat that meat.
2 thumbs up..i am very much a beginner but I come from a long long line of Irish farmers my dad could grow anything in unbelievable amounts in a very small space we lived in the country till I was 10 then we moved in town our old wood garage burned down he surrounded that concrete pad with blocks and he started with ashes and hauled in who knows what to fill in the space lots of what you do I've seen him do I was completely uninterested at the time but it's amazing what you retain without trying but he grew the most amazing garden on that spot ..tomatoes the size of soft balls your videos are very helpful some great ideas I don't have access to a lot of what you've used but I'm still learning a lot ..Thanks for the videos..your funny too
The only manure I have used that did work well was elephant manure. My favorites are goat, horse and rabbit manure. I have also used chicken manure with some success but it not my favorite. I have a compost pile but after watching this I want to get a barrel and start making weed tea. Thanks for all the great information.
I saw something called "Bioponics" a while ago where weeds are soaked in an aerobic hydroponic system feed to plants that way. Good to know it also works anaerobically!!
If I had more than two thumbs, i'd put them up as well! Your videos are answering all the questions I have had on my mind, and yet other people never seem to demonstrate in a practical manner. I'm reading Grow or die now, and I look forward to reading your other material. Cheers David!
Thanks for another great video. At one point, you mentioned swamp water. That is one thing I have a lot of, since I have a fairly large swampy area on my property. Should I just walk out into the swamp and scoop up a bucket of water for my plants? Also, what about the idea of throwing yard and garden waste into the swamp, as a lazy way to make compost tea?
In the book "Farmers of 40 Centuries," the author shares that as a method of Asian composting. They'd throw materials in the canals, then dredge it up later and spread it. It would work.
My compost pile is also my burn pile and outdoor urinal. I burn cardboard boxes on it. Activated biochar and composting in one step. I have one of those hose end fertilizer sprayers with the tank bottle. I put pee in there and crank the dial to 11. Works awesome.
This is the second full length film I have watched this morning and it is a breath of fresh air. So glad to see someone else who belives that gardening, composting and fertilizing doesn't have to be hard work. I love your casual attitude that doesn't leave the viewer feeling like a nitwit. And sometimes it's just good to slow down. Not stopping here tho. Got heaps more to watch in the coming hours or days. My soil is pure crap, much like or possibly worse than that in your Alabama garden. Just completely devoid of any nutrition. And compost just disappears from it within weeks. I have tried many methods but in the end the best one was to make little pockets and put a plant in each. I did my permi cert waaaay back in the beginning days around 40yrs ago. Still holds me in good stead. Even with such crap dirt which can't be called soil in any shape or form. PS I'm in Australia which, for the most part, has lovely soil. I just have a knack for picking crap bits instead of good stuff!🤷♀
This is the first time I see your channel. I’ve learned a lot wow your so funny also. Thanks I’m going to do the composting for the weeds I use to throw it away.
Your advise and knowledge is more pertinent than ever!!! Even balcony gardeners can heed this advise 👍🙏 between you and Marjory my balcony farm is thriving on P and seaweed!! Thankyou good people for the advise blessings on YOU!!
I am so very new to gardening and all the differing opinions of everyone was getting and expensive. Buy this and that, and set up this and that system. Was germinating seeds like crazy under lights and under heat mats and i had NO room on my couch to sit! We'll I was getting overwhelmed and lazy from turning my compost piles so, for momentary convenience I began throwing my kitchen scraps into small buckets that started filling up with rain water. I'd add brown leaves and bits of cardboard. Finally I thought "why can't this be used as compost tea, adding water to it to dilute the strength?" Good to know I was on to something, thanks to David and his lovely wife! And now I know the water to compost tea ratio. TY so much! 💓 And damn - I love their humor and humorous videos! 🤣
Lovely vid. Thank you. I’m trying to build up my soil and not use chemical fertilisers. The earth works in cycles so I’m trying to go with it not against it
Thank you for teaching to compost from everyday life. I think like you do..use whatcha got. I'm gardening to save money. Not To Spend More. You have been a joy to learn from. Thanks for making it SIMPLE!!!
Hey Dave. I keep a bowl in my kitchen with a small mesh tent over it. When it fills up, I just walk out to the garden and pull back the mulch. I toss it in and kick my mulch over it. My mulch is about 8 inches deep, so it covers well. Been doing that about a year now, and no rats . I think i get it now. Go to the beach, get loaded, chop down a tree, burn it, then put it out with you urine. On the way home, pick up all the cow manure you see, and toss it into your wheelbarrow of recycled beer tainted biochar. Place this in your neighbor's garden so that when they smell it, you can offer to remove it for them and they won't mind it being in yours because you saved hem from the vandal that tossed it into their yard,lol.
“Rat-fed pumpkins.” Reminds me of my cat. She’s the farm mouser. Evidently, one day she caught too many one day, so she left me the back half of one as a gift. (Sweet girl that she is.) I gathered it up, put it in a hole I planted a tomato in. Biggest tomato plant ever. So many gorgeous tomatoes. We need more mouse corpses for this next season.
when I find dead animals, haha even been known to use road kill, I compost them in the bottom of a bucket and put wood chips and scrapes dead leaves from my garden plants over the top. have you seen the channel Robbie and Gary yet? check her out
This is not a safe thing to do! If a rat touches anything it is not safe to eat. We have rats in our area, so I called the Michigan State University garden hotline and asked if it was safe to eat veggies that a rat touched, I was transferred to their Food Safety Dept and was told "NO". I then explained that I wasn't talking about a rat biting the produce, just touching it, and again I was told "NO, it is not safe." I then said, but there is no way to tell if a rat simply touched it, so are you telling me I need to turn over my garden? I was told, "Unfortunately, yes." I cried as I turned over my garden and have not planted edible produce since, just flowers. I do so miss the fresh veggies, but am not willing to harm my family or anyone else.
@@megrandmomjean5019 I think you were given some poor advise. Rats, although people tend to cringe at the idea of them , live everywhere people live. If we turned over every farm where rats live side by side with people we wouldn't have any edible produce anywhere, ever. Just consider rats as any other part of nature, get rid of them when and where you can, but don't throw away an entire garden over a rat or two. Get a cat to watch the garden. As always, wash all produce coming from the garden, if it has been partially chewed or eaten, throw it away, into a compost heap, of course, and eat or can the rest.
I have been using three of these methods for years with great success. Composting, anaerobic tea, I use comfrey leaves and weeds and leaves under my trees. I'm going to add urine too. Great video.
If you put a board/shelf waist high under the chicken roosts 90% of all the poop in the henhouse ends up on the shelf, then just dump it in a bucket. You end up with 5 gal buckets of pure chicken poop in no time (every 2-3 weeks or so for a dozen birds). Bonus is you hardly ever have to change the bedding in the hen house.
Lol, you keep saying "udderly" while talking about cow sh*t! I'm dying here!🤣 Yours are the most helpful videos I have watched. Thanks for keeping it simple.
Hi David, i just watched this video again and on minute 13 or so you showed a colonized fungae on your coffee compost tea. few weeks ago i put a comment/question about Jakaba, and that colonized fungae was it. An Indonesia tobacco farmer in East Java found it in 2016, while making aerobic liquid fertilizer. Not sure if it's been officially tested, but it was said to have extremely high level of nitrogen and phosporus but moderate in potasium. Just an fyi 😊 🙏🏼
What a pissa! You two are a blast. Thanks for all those great ideas. I love how you find simplicity. I use toilet rolls as seedling pots and plant them right into the ground when the seedling is big enough - no transplant shock. I use everything I possible can, never pay money if there is another way - why continue the criminal syndicate hey? And that brings me to ask you - don't you ever wonder why we don't know these simple things? And doesn't that piss you off? It would be nice if you guys led some sort of awareness campaign and got your listeners to ask these questions. What about your department of agriculture - why isn't it giving this advice? I always wonder why in towns, orientation of houses is never one of the first things to advise homeowners on. Really folks - do we want to be treated like mushrooms forever and be kept in the dark like this? Please, say something about it - you can be influencing many. And let's wean off this vile system that hides information like this and all the other things it does. Happy gardening! I love your videos! Keep them coming and thank you for your work!
I get your point, but would ask this: Consider the impact factor and liability factor of speaking out about such things. What benefit would come from addressing such topics vs the harm that could come from it. Unfortunately we live in a world where deplatforming is real. And to reach the masses one must adhere to (albeit a fucked up) sticking to certain narratives that make one more palatable for the masses. He is reaching those smart enough to seek his knowledge. And thank god there are as many seeking it as there are.
@@FedUpSouthernGirl So you think we should just go along and not consider any other strategies? Just like that? No talk about it, no brainstorming? Just acceptance? Here's what we need to do - get off these platforms, stop giving our content to them, they are censors and all censors are douches. We still use them but to catapult onto other platforms. People need to start talking about how we are going to do things differently, not just stay the same. Also there is cryptic talk, which circumvents the algorithms. We can do this so simply by perhaps putting up a note rather than say the word(s). There are so many creative ways we can circumvent the system. Just laying down while they run over us is more dangerous than not speaking out, more dangerous by joining in with the hallucination that makes people believe everything is just dandy.
I agree with you both. David has to stay within certain lines and those looking for information can hopefully find him. I have heard of him on other channels. But, why can't we start asking questions and increase awareness in out own space/communities? I guess it's up to us all😊
@@diannamc367 Actually you know that's all we need to do, talk about it. That is what the usurpers do not want, oh no. This is a simple solution and we can have fun with it. We're here to express our unique selves and help each other evolve.
I'm a 3rd year beginner. So far, everything I've planted is now sprouting!! 2 years ago I dug a huge hole in the back yard and was going to line it and make a swimming hole for my grandaughter. Come to find out there's a bee hive close by and a huge ant hill so I have been filling it up with leaves, yard weeds etc. I never even thought of it as a compost hole...until today when I saw your videos. I went right outside and watered it. Thanks for the info. I'll be watching.
Glad to hear it... if you learn how to save seeds not only will it be cheaper than buying starts as mentioned in the video but the seeds themselves will be more adapted to your specific soil and enviroment
46 minutes long!!! And, I'm watching it again. My 4 month old is watching, too. Thank you for the info and the laughs. The wife part ... lol 😂💚🌎 I just noticed I commented a year ago. I probably watched it twice back then, too. No wonder my compost is looking dope.
This is a great vid. Hope you will continue to develop it. I am curious about the herbicide in cow manure concept and think it could use some substantiation. Bravo.
@@davidthegood Right you are. content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover is a pretty good one. I've been closed loop for a while now. Even just the new weeds that come from outside are disturbing. Importing herbicides into soil... nasty business. Thank you David The Good. I'll try to propagate this info.
Great video. My dad would grow those monster pumpkins (200 lbs +) Using lake vegatatian that was clogging up the lake for boats and beaches. Maybe one complaint. All my compost bins had open bottoms. Calling out to all worms in the area. Thanks for addressing PH
AWESOME video! Thanks for sharing. I’m just now starting a compost bin, and this information was extremely eye opening. I didn’t know all of these methods.☺️
@@wmluna381 I have a large backyard. Unfortunately I lost almost all my fruit trees & all the papaya trees in the 2020 Freeze.. All the Cano's are all related. I like to do geanology, and found they came from Spain and traveled to Columbia, then North into Mexico. I'm a 5th generation Texan on my Mother's side ,but my Father came from Mexico and he became a US citizen in the '60's. There's a place in Columbia call Cano Canyon. Cano is pronounced "Ca knee o".
@@meldacano1525 Yes, that freeze really did a number out there! Fruit trees are the best, sorry you lost them all. 😟 Seems like papayas grow pretty fast at least. I have 6 little lemon trees in my house in grow bags right now (Michigan). Very excited about them. It's a 1st for me. It's kind of funny that you mention genealogy because I very recently looked up one of the US Census records and my grandmother's grandparents were listed as being legit from Spain on there. That was cool to see. That arm of the Canos made their way into Puerto Rico & it's not a super common last name there. I noticed the same deal with Lunas from my dad's side as far as commonality. Still working on his family origins. It sounds like Cano should have one of those enye squiggly thingies over the N then. Or once did. Was not aware of the canyon thing either. Interesting, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching. Composting doesn't have to be a pain!
Learn how to compost the easy way in my book Compost Everything: amzn.to/3zy4rYB
Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
"Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
First you say manure is bad for your garden, then 10 min later your spreading it in a fresh bed saying how good it is?? How confusing. 🤪🥴
In lieu of a sharp machete, like you have, what can I use to easily and quickly chop like that? The machete makes it look so easy but I'm not as strong as I used to be (I'm a 60 y/o woman) and I have arthritis in my thumb. Loppers are way to cumbersome. What are your thoughts? If there are no other options similar, where would I get one of those machetes? It's not like you can run down to your local store and pick one out.
@@Mrs.T.Rusch25
I bought 2 machetes at Harbor Freight about 6 years ago. They may still have them. If not, I’m sure you can get them from Amazon or eBay.
@@jofipps376 Thanks. I found some on Amazon but they don't have the forked, digging end that his has. I watch him use his and that little fork part is very useful. It enables him to use one tool for multiple purposes. I'll keep looking.
@@Mrs.T.Rusch25
The ones I bought at Harbor Freight have a forked tongue!😂🤣
The great thing about The Goods' videos: they are essentially democratizing gardening for all. They cut through the steer manure of the Ivory Tower method of gardening so anyone can access real food growing. Two thumbs way up!
"Utterly amazing" cow inners.......haha. I see what you did there. 😂
I prefer a constitutional republic as stated in the pledge of alligence
Could state that better. Whenever I feel like a humble dose of real stuff, DTG does it for me
Me thinketh sounds like something the elites., geeks will son want to.......shut down!@!?😝🤪😜😉
Totally agree!
My mother was born in 1925 on the highest elevation farm in PA. The top of Mt Davis. And yes, it was very thin soil. They were quite poor.
Moreover, they were very old-fashioned Mennonite. So their lifestyle reflected the 1800's quite a bit.
Mama passed on last year, but she was a marvelous storyteller.
She told me how they had an outhouse, of course. But at night, they used the closet at the bottom of the stairs, at the end of the hall.
There was a white enamel covered bucket, in that closet. By morning, there was a collection of human waste, which had to be emptied daily.
Grandpa always had a deep row plowed open in the garden, from one end to the other. And into this row, that bucket was dumped, and a shovelful or two of soil thrown atop it. Kitchen waste not edible by chickens were also thrown in that trench.
That row was allowed to mellow for a year before being used, while the row next to it was being filled.
And they never got sick from it.
Of course, they knew there were no serious diseases in their waste. It's not like public human waste collection.
Humans have fertilized their gardens for thousands of years with their own waste.
In fact, China's city "night soil" waste was highly prized by local farmers, who paid for it.
If you're leery of the concept, remember that urine is sterile... and high-temperature composting kills just about every pathogen.
We're scared of our own shadows these days.
Great story. I'm going to re-post it on my site.
Thank you for sharing your story with us!
Good story but why would anyone do that these days? I could understand if you was growing food in a wasteland & your life depended on it or maybe your in a situation where you have to find something to do with all that poo but in many cases there are loads of other nutrients around that don't involve human waste.
@@topsecretbear9918 Why? To avoid using precious drinkable water for flushing away human waste. And to fit into the natural cycle of topsoil creation. Besides, some of us just relish walking contrary to current "wisdom".
Often, topsoil is not nearly as fertile as it needs to be. Our future depends on our topsoil. The US has been applying chemicals for decades, and the topsoil has been eroding without replenishment. We need to step up and start replenishing the topsoil of our environment.
Human waste can be recycled effectively. Polluting good water with it is just stupid.
@@pollyjetix2027 The Big Pharm has us all scared. that is the point. here is a drug for you... feel better now
I used to work at an indoor/outdoor garden supply store for many years... David just spilled the beans on a ton of things the industry doesn't want you to know!!! This greatly pleases me!! All this demystification and realization of abundance all around us; free food for plants, in return producing free food for humans, is one of the best kept secrets hidden in plain sight, for many people in many parts of the world... thank you for bringing attention to this, thank you to anyone who shares this information.
You can find those food-grade plastic 5-gallon buckets at many restaurants in excess, for example Pizzerias. I'm currently building a wooden worm bin to begin vermicomposting with used coffee grounds from local shops, and spent grains from breweries, whatever rocks dusts I can find, along with all my fruit and veggie scraps, with the right ratio of browns I will mostly get from fallen tree leaves (oak and mulberry). Potential compost IS everywhere :)
Compost is everywhere, but I'd be careful with corporate coffee grounds. Coffee gets a lot of pesticides, etc... Is there any way to get organic only?
I have my little helpers living in a tower in my kitchen, as I'm in a apt. I'm able to plant in containers and they are great for rejuvenating that soil in the winter. I make a compost mound right outside my back door next to my patio. I'll start in fall cleanup to build up the pile adding a tray of worms. They do fine even in freezing weather tucked inside the pile and covered with leaves
After watching your videos, I started doing my own compost. I have lots of spear mints growing which I kept pulling n dumped in the yard waste, now I just add them to my compost to help control the bad odor. Will see how it turns out next year! Thank you!
What's the update
Hmmmm. My compost has never had a bad Oder. We do have lots of browns every year from leaves in the fall. And we just layer the kitchen scrap and greens. I hope it gets better for you.
Te recomiendo sembrar plantas para compostar o para chop and drop, como Comfrey, Alfalfa, Yarrow, Chamomille... Depende del clima cuáles puedas tener.
My dear lady, mint is a bugger. W at h out for it showing up in your compost.
Pam
what is speàr-mint , is it mint leave
I listened to the survival story of a gentleman who was in one of the concentration camps in the 2nd wold war. Upset tummy due to the bad food they ate was one of the main causes of death. This man remembered that his mother once told them that charcoal neutralizes poison in the body. He used this advice in camp with great success and also sold it to the other inmates for parts of their food rations.
I'm glad to hear someone say that it's ok to put meat in a compost pile. My neighbor told me that when he has a calf that has died, he takes it back to his woods, covers it with leaves and it disappears in no time. Mother nature has been doing that for many years.
Cardboard is also a great addition to a compost bin...and it makes great ground cover/sheet mulch. Just cover it with wood chips or leaves.
Newspapers too. Any paper that doesn't have glossy colored printing on it. Some printing inks still use some nefarious contaminants.
Can’t believe this is four years old. Wish I would have seen it then. Great advice. Awesome humor.
Hey! I have an idea for your compost tea buckets! Get another bucket that can slide inside he bucket that holds the tea and drill holes all over it. When you are ready to take some tea, slide the "good, holy bucket" into the tea to push all the solid matter to the bottom like a strainer, so you can easily remove the liquid! 👍
Good idea, like dividing curds from whey.
My NY
Made a tea bucket like this. A 5 gal bucket inside another bucket. Drilled 1/8in holes in the strainer inside bucket. It's a good way to get the liquid only so that you can make a spray-able foliar feed. Great idea!
Great idea! I may have to try that.
Nice thinking there Jantje .
I love you guys. I'm currently doing a horticulture course, knowing nothing about plants, after spending 30 plus years in Human Services. After my teacher and associated resources, YOU are my "go to guy".
Omg, this is one of the best gardening videos I’ve ever seen. ( and I see many) hilarious too!! Such great tips!! Thank you
I accidently did this before my herbs took off. I used egg shells,banana peels, coco coir, bunny poo. Put it all in a plastic bin and put the drippy hose in it. It smelled a bit, but I hate wasting so I used it to water my little above garden. Worked amazing❤️
I enjoyed learning about gardening using compost, cow manure, and biochar. Keep up the good work.
True comment about the composting...once you start it and understand what can go into it, you pretty much see compost materials everywhere!
My parents have done gardening all their lives. When I first started in on gardening, I read about some of the common stuff, and kept thinking how my parents were not doing things the right way. But as I began to get into more topics of gardening, I realized that the stuff they have been doing, were just the same things that other people are doing, but I just didn't know a name for that method or procedure yet. When you don't want to go buy all the fertilizers and chemicals to add to your garden, you do a lot of the things that my parents do, and many of them are mentioned here in this video.
I’ve tried to “like” this video four separate times. Each time I scroll to the top and see that I already did😂 You guys are awesome. Super inspiring for me.
This is my third time here and I got the book in case the shtf.
I have a small, shallow duck pond, and a dog who loves water. Once the ducks have called it a day, I have the dog fetch his toys from the pond, churning up the water in the process. Once the pup is tired out I fill the pails and water the garden. Definitely no pain here! Excellent video and great info to improve my garden. Thanks.
After watching your videos for several days, I now have the song stuck in my head, "I got seven ways to make weeds into fertilizer baybuh, bayaaaeeebuh" 😅
YES, price, freshness, outdoor therapy & most especially hopefully growing food that does not have weird toxic crap in it from people who don't care what goes in my (very sensitive) physical system as much as I do - these are my reasons for gardening. I'm picky about what goes in my compost because I don't want my food up taking it cuz stuff can send me to the hospital. I don't take leaves and grass clippings from other people's yards cuz they could have Roundup, and who-knows-what.
But your thoughts create for anyone a situation where each of us can tailor what we do with a sense of experimentation, bold willingness, and realism! I love it!
Though I love tea ans technology, detail and science, gardening is not a Japanese tea ceremony or rocket science, praise God!
My FSW learning curve is going well. Headed toward soon making basic JADAM too. Am sharing your wisdom with others, and we all exchange foods we grow. They're loving the wisdom too.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
So interesting, love the way you make it less intimidating. I love to garden but really to make it as easy as I can. I am 72 and have a huge garden
For all those people who think you need alot of space and materials to compost I lived in 24m2 studio appartment and had a worm bin I threw my kitchen scraps in there along with newspapers and cardboard. Worked like a dream!
You both have inspired me to retire from my job, and just be a soil farmer.😉 making compost for the world.
Isn't that curious how we feel we need to retire from our jobs just to grow our own food responsibly, just to take back that power. Growing food absolutely is a full time respectable job, but for some reason we've been told it's a hobby, it's not serious, it's something you do in your spare time. Like, why? Why do I need to work for someone else to get money to buy food grown by Bill gates (whom I don't even trust) when I could skip the money step and just grow my own food that I can trust? Why are they keeping us so busy we think this isn't a thing? It's so empowering to cut out the middle man and know we're making responsible choices.
Good stuff! Do you have a website of your project or social media link? Thinking about the same in Africa
YAY!! So you are also doing that? Michael... every time I add something to the compost pile ... I say to myself that "I am helping God make soil!" We all do our part, however that looks or may be !!
I have learned so much watching your channel David , I wish I had this knowledge few months back after spending fortune to improve soil for my garden.but it’s never too late Thanks so much.
Thank you very much. We all learn as we go.
You and your wife are a hoot!
And I learned a lot! Thanks for sharing in such a fun way!👍❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This one video has helped me more than the many months of googling I've done. It seems that almost everywhere I turn, I'm being told of some complicated process and store-bought products --all to achieve what mother nature does un-aided. 🖤
Always so excited to see you. My indoor plant tanks are doing so much better since I dumped them out. Layered them IN NASTY layers put a LITTLE TINY bit of soil on top and put my plants back in. Thanks David for showing us. That smell, is your friend.
Thank you.
Thanks David, for ;opening my mind. I've been gardening off and on since I was a young boy. I've learned so much from you.
that was a darn great video! I just moved to the beach and picked up my first seaweed yesterday. I wasn't sure how to best use it. loved your ideas. thank you! :)
Excellent. Good work.
David the Good you give me hope. I laughed so hard and needed it. A life long dream is to pull up stakes and find a bit of land for myself. Just to pee outside again like a kid 😅
May God bless you.
You are my kinda Nut!!😂🤩🤩 love it! I learned a lot!! I almost want to go out in 90-100 degree weather to garden!!
Seaweed wow!! Not only can I bring home sea shells from the beach but also nutrients for the garden. Great idea! Thanks
"My beautiful wife and me" is actually what you were looking for... Everything else you said is probably correct. You are, after all, a trusted expert on the internet.
Love your videos. You and your beautiful wife are doing a great job!
My beautiful wife and I* but these days the English language is changing
@@sunlight8299 I think, for the sentence he was using, he was correct in saying the video "has my beautiful wife and me on it". If he was just talking about himself, he'd naturally say "the video has me on it".
I was so pleased to finally sit through a whole segment. Thank you for such "good" entertainment!
That was truly awesome! I compost in many odd ways for years. When my boys were young, I had them go pee on the compost pile. Yes, they had a blast. Just moved into new house that's not garden ready. I'm not a young chicken anymore so I ain't digging. Put down newspapers with shredded paper, tree limbs, leaves, Guinea pig poo and kitchen
leftovers. Got some cheap garden soil the other day to finally cover it. I'm sure the plants will thrive. Nice to see this video because over the years I forgot about urine. You & your wife rock!
Sounds like you got a great start, Rhonda. Thank you for your kind words, and welcome!
@@davidthegood thank you and not new to this. Started in 1988. Will be sharing this video on my organic Texas Facebook group. I just love your creativity. It all breaks down. Wondrous. Boss man.
Great video. Also thanks for mentioning the pesticides and herbicides in manure. That never occurred to me they would be eating things sprayed so heavily and since cows do not digest very efficiently the manure still has a lot of chemicals left over. That makes me really think about what happens when we eat that meat.
2 thumbs up..i am very much a beginner but I come from a long long line of Irish farmers my dad could grow anything in unbelievable amounts in a very small space we lived in the country till I was 10 then we moved in town our old wood garage burned down he surrounded that concrete pad with blocks and he started with ashes and hauled in who knows what to fill in the space lots of what you do I've seen him do I was completely uninterested at the time but it's amazing what you retain without trying but he grew the most amazing garden on that spot ..tomatoes the size of soft balls your videos are very helpful some great ideas I don't have access to a lot of what you've used but I'm still learning a lot ..Thanks for the videos..your funny too
That’s quite a name to live up to! I love your ideas and simplicity. Thank You!
Thank you, Debra.
I’m listening to your compost book in audible. Love that it’s you reading it!
The only manure I have used that did work well was elephant manure. My favorites are goat, horse and rabbit manure. I have also used chicken manure with some success but it not my favorite. I have a compost pile but after watching this I want to get a barrel and start making weed tea. Thanks for all the great information.
Sure miss this good man, thanks to whoever is continuing his channel,
Thoroughly enjoyed this practical, easy and fun to watch video💚
Awesome video David! Very entertaining. It always makes me feel better to see composters like you who are as sick as I am. ;)
Thanks, man.
Lol
Great video! Always felt intimidated but I think we've over complicated some things. Thanks for bring it back to the basics!
You are welcome. I agree - it doesn't need to be so hard.
What about the maggots that seem to always hang out in the kitchen compost bin? Good for the compost in the yard?
Your videos just started show up in my feed ... THANK GOD ... I bought your book ... Your videos are absolutely informative
Thank you, Nikki!
Love it Dr. Pinkerton 👌 absolute genius in amongst all that good knowledge and insight! You are appreciated 💯✌️💚
I love this form of compost tea I use it all the time! Thanks for the idea!
I saw something called "Bioponics" a while ago where weeds are soaked in an aerobic hydroponic system feed to plants that way. Good to know it also works anaerobically!!
If I had more than two thumbs, i'd put them up as well! Your videos are answering all the questions I have had on my mind, and yet other people never seem to demonstrate in a practical manner. I'm reading Grow or die now, and I look forward to reading your other material. Cheers David!
Thank you, Damian - much appreciated.
Great Job guys........your demonstrations on everything are fantastic........
Proud of you Bro. Love to your family. You made me laugh and reminded me of old basics. TY
Thank you, Richard.
I always enjoy your videos. I learn so much! Your vids Also have a great flow, they’re interesting and entertaining.
Thank you.
Have read your books and I love ya. You have taught me sooooo much! Thank you 🙏❤️🍅🍇
Thank you so much, Denise.
Thanks for another great video. At one point, you mentioned swamp water. That is one thing I have a lot of, since I have a fairly large swampy area on my property. Should I just walk out into the swamp and scoop up a bucket of water for my plants? Also, what about the idea of throwing yard and garden waste into the swamp, as a lazy way to make compost tea?
In the book "Farmers of 40 Centuries," the author shares that as a method of Asian composting. They'd throw materials in the canals, then dredge it up later and spread it. It would work.
Love your work David, keep the great info coming.
All the best.🌳🌴🌹🌻🌺🌾🌷🍄
Thanks!
I loved what Mrs The Good had to say about the anaerobic tea! yeaa lol not picky plants.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and practices. I got excited to see a pomegranate tree there!
They make ugly-looking pomegranates thanks to the humidity, but the fruit taste good.
My compost pile is also my burn pile and outdoor urinal. I burn cardboard boxes on it. Activated biochar and composting in one step.
I have one of those hose end fertilizer sprayers with the tank bottle. I put pee in there and crank the dial to 11. Works awesome.
This is the second full length film I have watched this morning and it is a breath of fresh air.
So glad to see someone else who belives that gardening, composting and fertilizing doesn't have to be hard work.
I love your casual attitude that doesn't leave the viewer feeling like a nitwit. And sometimes it's just good to slow down.
Not stopping here tho. Got heaps more to watch in the coming hours or days.
My soil is pure crap, much like or possibly worse than that in your Alabama garden. Just completely devoid of any nutrition.
And compost just disappears from it within weeks.
I have tried many methods but in the end the best one was to make little pockets and put a plant in each.
I did my permi cert waaaay back in the beginning days around 40yrs ago. Still holds me in good stead.
Even with such crap dirt which can't be called soil in any shape or form.
PS I'm in Australia which, for the most part, has lovely soil. I just have a knack for picking crap bits instead of good stuff!🤷♀
Thank you very much. You are old school permaculture! My hat is off.
This is the first time I see your channel. I’ve learned a lot wow your so funny also. Thanks I’m going to do the composting for the weeds I use to throw it away.
Your advise and knowledge is more pertinent than ever!!! Even balcony gardeners can heed this advise 👍🙏 between you and Marjory my balcony farm is thriving on P and seaweed!! Thankyou good people for the advise blessings on YOU!!
Another surprisingly captivating long video! Nicely done and great info!
I am so very new to gardening and all the differing opinions of everyone was getting and expensive. Buy this and that, and set up this and that system. Was germinating seeds like crazy under lights and under heat mats and i had NO room on my couch to sit! We'll I was getting overwhelmed and lazy from turning my compost piles so, for momentary convenience I began throwing my kitchen scraps into small buckets that started filling up with rain water. I'd add brown leaves and bits of cardboard. Finally I thought "why can't this be used as compost tea, adding water to it to dilute the strength?" Good to know I was on to something, thanks to David and his lovely wife! And now I know the water to compost tea ratio. TY so much! 💓 And damn - I love their humor and humorous videos! 🤣
Lovely vid. Thank you. I’m trying to build up my soil and not use chemical fertilisers. The earth works in cycles so I’m trying to go with it not against it
I like he way you think. Makes a lot of sense! Good ideas. Thanks for sharing and nice to meet your wife too!
I so enjoyed you and your wife's team work for us. Y'all are too cute💚🌱🌈
Thank you for teaching to compost from everyday life. I think like you do..use whatcha got. I'm gardening to save money. Not To Spend More. You have been a joy to learn from. Thanks for making it SIMPLE!!!
Thank you
Your videos are so informative and easy to understand. Thank you
I know you hear this lots, but I love your videos and your humor. I've learned a lot and it was fun!!
Thank you
Hey Dave. I keep a bowl in my kitchen with a small mesh tent over it. When it fills up, I just walk out to the garden and pull back the mulch. I toss it in and kick my mulch over it. My mulch is about 8 inches deep, so it covers well. Been doing that about a year now, and no rats . I think i get it now. Go to the beach, get loaded, chop down a tree, burn it, then put it out with you urine. On the way home, pick up all the cow manure you see, and toss it into your wheelbarrow of recycled beer tainted biochar. Place this in your neighbor's garden so that when they smell it, you can offer to remove it for them and they won't mind it being in yours because you saved hem from the vandal that tossed it into their yard,lol.
Wonderful video and very unique-great ideas I’m eager to try. Thanks!
Wow, just found your channel. Great teacher, simple and effective methods.
Thank you very much.
Big thank you 🙏🏽 am really enjoying your gift of sharing your love 🌻🪱
“Rat-fed pumpkins.” Reminds me of my cat. She’s the farm mouser. Evidently, one day she caught too many one day, so she left me the back half of one as a gift. (Sweet girl that she is.) I gathered it up, put it in a hole I planted a tomato in. Biggest tomato plant ever. So many gorgeous tomatoes. We need more mouse corpses for this next season.
Perfect. I agree - works amazingly.
when I find dead animals, haha even been known to use road kill, I compost them in the bottom of a bucket and put wood chips and scrapes dead leaves from my garden plants over the top. have you seen the channel Robbie and Gary yet? check her out
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This is not a safe thing to do! If a rat touches anything it is not safe to eat. We have rats in our area, so I called the Michigan State University garden hotline and asked if it was safe to eat veggies that a rat touched, I was transferred to their Food Safety Dept and was told "NO". I then explained that I wasn't talking about a rat biting the produce, just touching it, and again I was told "NO, it is not safe." I then said, but there is no way to tell if a rat simply touched it, so are you telling me I need to turn over my garden? I was told, "Unfortunately, yes." I cried as I turned over my garden and have not planted edible produce since, just flowers. I do so miss the fresh veggies, but am not willing to harm my family or anyone else.
@@megrandmomjean5019 I think you were given some poor advise. Rats, although people tend to cringe at the idea of them , live everywhere people live. If we turned over every farm where rats live side by side with people we wouldn't have any edible produce anywhere, ever. Just consider rats as any other part of nature, get rid of them when and where you can, but don't throw away an entire garden over a rat or two. Get a cat to watch the garden. As always, wash all produce coming from the garden, if it has been partially chewed or eaten, throw it away, into a compost heap, of course, and eat or can the rest.
The common sense is so very refreshing!! and... just enough cheek to add some humour. So glad that I found your channel.
Thank you very much - that is kind of you.
Always eager to dive down the rabbit hole with y’all
Thank you.
Now That's original "Rabbit Hole" David Does do everything a little bit different but he seems to lead a Good Life with his wife, I like that!!!
Do you have like-minded expats living near your family (or have you considered having such for neighbors, whether fulltime or seasonal)?
I have been using three of these methods for years with great success. Composting, anaerobic tea, I use comfrey leaves and weeds and leaves under my trees. I'm going to add urine too. Great video.
That was awesome and the part where you crushed up the biochar was very relaxing : )
Thank you. I love making biochar.
Oh that was good man. I don't think I have ever sat to watch a 45 min video for gardening. Thanks very informative. I subed.
Thank you very much.
If you put a board/shelf waist high under the chicken roosts 90% of all the poop in the henhouse ends up on the shelf, then just dump it in a bucket. You end up with 5 gal buckets of pure chicken poop in no time (every 2-3 weeks or so for a dozen birds). Bonus is you hardly ever have to change the bedding in the hen house.
Anon Z Yes! After 10 years of keeping hens, I only learned of this trick this year. And what a difference it makes in the dreaded coop cleaning!
How long should you let chicken 💩 compost before used in garden?
@@CG-mj8tk A few weeks works for me, i know its very rich and burny in the first few weeks.
Such a common sense approach. It all adds up. Thanks
Thank you for giving us your time
You bet. I'm getting ready to put in spring gardens once I get some land cleared.
David The Good
Red.seh82@gmail.com
absolutely one of the best gardening videos i have watched. Thank you so much. A+++++
Lol, you keep saying "udderly" while talking about cow sh*t! I'm dying here!🤣 Yours are the most helpful videos I have watched. Thanks for keeping it simple.
This is a great movie! Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Good.
Great video, very informative as well as entertaining. Hoping you and your family are having a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2018!
Thank you - great thus far!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and learned a lot from it!
Hi David, i just watched this video again and on minute 13 or so you showed a colonized fungae on your coffee compost tea. few weeks ago i put a comment/question about Jakaba, and that colonized fungae was it. An Indonesia tobacco farmer in East Java found it in 2016, while making aerobic liquid fertilizer. Not sure if it's been officially tested, but it was said to have extremely high level of nitrogen and phosporus but moderate in potasium. Just an fyi 😊 🙏🏼
Always a joy to watch your videos 😊
Ms Pat from southern Indiana 🌹
Thanks, Ms Pat
What a pissa! You two are a blast. Thanks for all those great ideas. I love how you find simplicity. I use toilet rolls as seedling pots and plant them right into the ground when the seedling is big enough - no transplant shock. I use everything I possible can, never pay money if there is another way - why continue the criminal syndicate hey? And that brings me to ask you - don't you ever wonder why we don't know these simple things? And doesn't that piss you off? It would be nice if you guys led some sort of awareness campaign and got your listeners to ask these questions. What about your department of agriculture - why isn't it giving this advice? I always wonder why in towns, orientation of houses is never one of the first things to advise homeowners on. Really folks - do we want to be treated like mushrooms forever and be kept in the dark like this? Please, say something about it - you can be influencing many. And let's wean off this vile system that hides information like this and all the other things it does. Happy gardening! I love your videos! Keep them coming and thank you for your work!
I get your point, but would ask this: Consider the impact factor and liability factor of speaking out about such things. What benefit would come from addressing such topics vs the harm that could come from it.
Unfortunately we live in a world where deplatforming is real. And to reach the masses one must adhere to (albeit a fucked up) sticking to certain narratives that make one more palatable for the masses.
He is reaching those smart enough to seek his knowledge. And thank god there are as many seeking it as there are.
@@FedUpSouthernGirl So you think we should just go along and not consider any other strategies? Just like that? No talk about it, no brainstorming? Just acceptance? Here's what we need to do - get off these platforms, stop giving our content to them, they are censors and all censors are douches. We still use them but to catapult onto other platforms. People need to start talking about how we are going to do things differently, not just stay the same. Also there is cryptic talk, which circumvents the algorithms. We can do this so simply by perhaps putting up a note rather than say the word(s). There are so many creative ways we can circumvent the system. Just laying down while they run over us is more dangerous than not speaking out, more dangerous by joining in with the hallucination that makes people believe everything is just dandy.
I agree with you both.
David has to stay within certain lines and those looking for information can hopefully find him. I have heard of him on other channels.
But, why can't we start asking questions and increase awareness in out own space/communities?
I guess it's up to us all😊
@@diannamc367 Actually you know that's all we need to do, talk about it. That is what the usurpers do not want, oh no. This is a simple solution and we can have fun with it. We're here to express our unique selves and help each other evolve.
@@deniseward002 yes!
I tell as many people as will listen.
I'm a 3rd year beginner. So far, everything I've planted is now sprouting!! 2 years ago I dug a huge hole in the back yard and was going to line it and make a swimming hole for my grandaughter. Come to find out there's a bee hive close by and a huge ant hill so I have been filling it up with leaves, yard weeds etc. I never even thought of it as a compost hole...until today when I saw your videos. I went right outside and watered it. Thanks for the info.
I'll be watching.
Congrats, Suzanne. Thanks for watching.
Glad to hear it... if you learn how to save seeds not only will it be cheaper than buying starts as mentioned in the video but the seeds themselves will be more adapted to your specific soil and enviroment
I just the entire video and this was really great!
Awesome video with brilliant ideas and great commentary
Thank you.
all great ideas! Lovevyour frame of mind! Thanks for this video!
46 minutes long!!! And, I'm watching it again. My 4 month old is watching, too. Thank you for the info and the laughs. The wife part ... lol 😂💚🌎
I just noticed I commented a year ago. I probably watched it twice back then, too. No wonder my compost is looking dope.
Thank you.
Wonderful tips thank you so much for sharing. You and your wife are awesome.
This is a great vid. Hope you will continue to develop it. I am curious about the herbicide in cow manure concept and think it could use some substantiation. Bravo.
There is a ton of info on it - look up "aminopyralid" and "herbicide damage," "manure," or gardening. The data is already in - it's terrible!
@@davidthegood Right you are. content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover is a pretty good one. I've been closed loop for a while now. Even just the new weeds that come from outside are disturbing. Importing herbicides into soil... nasty business. Thank you David The Good. I'll try to propagate this info.
Glad that your site was a link for MIGardener!
Great video. My dad would grow those monster pumpkins (200 lbs +)
Using lake vegatatian that was clogging up the lake for boats and beaches.
Maybe one complaint. All my compost bins had open bottoms. Calling out to all worms in the area.
Thanks for addressing PH
Smart man.
Your videos always makes me want to get back out to the compost piles I have going.
Watching composting videos does that to me too. I love digging in and seeing what's happened. Compost pile archaeology!
AWESOME video! Thanks for sharing. I’m just now starting a compost bin, and this information was extremely eye opening. I didn’t know all of these methods.☺️
You are very welcome.
I'm a city homesteaders. I enjoyed watching your video. I compost, but I learned a lot of new tips today. I'm a new subscriber. Thank you for sharing!
Welcome!
My grandma was a Cano. ☺️ Are you growing in a yard, patio, or on a roof in your city?
@@wmluna381 I have a large backyard. Unfortunately I lost almost all my fruit trees & all the papaya trees in the 2020 Freeze.. All the Cano's are all related. I like to do geanology, and found they came from Spain and traveled to Columbia, then North into Mexico. I'm a 5th generation Texan on my Mother's side ,but my Father came from Mexico and he became a US citizen in the '60's. There's a place in Columbia call Cano Canyon. Cano is pronounced "Ca knee o".
@@meldacano1525 Yes, that freeze really did a number out there! Fruit trees are the best, sorry you lost them all. 😟 Seems like papayas grow pretty fast at least. I have 6 little lemon trees in my house in grow bags right now (Michigan). Very excited about them. It's a 1st for me.
It's kind of funny that you mention genealogy because I very recently looked up one of the US Census records and my grandmother's grandparents were listed as being legit from Spain on there. That was cool to see.
That arm of the Canos made their way into Puerto Rico & it's not a super common last name there. I noticed the same deal with Lunas from my dad's side as far as commonality. Still working on his family origins.
It sounds like Cano should have one of those enye squiggly thingies over the N then. Or once did. Was not aware of the canyon thing either. Interesting, thanks for sharing!