We started this Grocery Row Garden back at the beginning of 2021. Now it's an amazing jungle of food, filled with roots, greens, fruits, medicinal plants and wildlife habitat. Let's do a summer garden tour and see what's happening. Get GROCERY ROW GARDENING for just $9.99 and learn to plant your own: amzn.to/3QGIoHO Check out Daisy's Good Gardens store for seeds and live plants: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens Check out Derek Clawson's plant nursery: www.etsy.com/shop/SixFlowersCrafts Check out Josh Jamison's nursery Cody Cove Farm: codycovefarm.com/ Subscribe to the newsletter: thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: www.thesurvivalgardener.com Thanks for watching!
What an incredible transformation in such a short period of time! Congratulations, DtG! I can hardly wait to see your plans & successes with your new place!
"That's what you want to look for first in your plants, is it dead? No. Good." David the Good 2022 My galangal bloomed this year! It smells so good but unusual.
Dave you definitely have me completely hooked on the grocery grow gardening. Let's hope we can get more people in this world to grow like this. Imagine if Residential Gardens were grown this way there would be so much quality food for families. I look forward to seeing what you have for us in 2024
I'm about to establish a grocery row garden in my yard in Raleigh, NC! I'm really excited about it! I'm trying out 5 ft rows with 5 ft paths giving the middle foot to the perennials and letting the annuals take the two feet on either side and plenty of room in the paths for grazing chickens and sprawling vines. I'm excited to see how it goes!
I do so hope that you will be able to continue following this garden, and collecting information and plant starts from it -- that the next tenants won't clear it all out!
My Grocery Row (G ROW) - Hey! I just made that up! Unless you already noticed it, that it spells “grow”! - Anyway, mine has been a fun experiment, and so I thank you for the challenge. Everything is growing well (I did have some white moth eggs on the cabbage; I squished them.) But, alas, I fear my season will not be long enough, BUT, sometimes it is.
This Chanel is brilliant. True wisdom isn’t floating out of reach in it orbits of satellites 🛰 it’s down here in the soil under your thumb. Practical art is the most beautiful. Chow Bella!
Wow David and family! This is a great instructional video. I love all the "how to" videos, however, this one shows the real outcomes of your efforts. A month plus without maintaining these areas and you can clearly see the species and varieties that are thriving in your zone and sandy dirt (the same I have in south GA). Thanks for sharing! Keep experimenting at your new place and keep monitoring your old place as long as you can and share it with us!
I think it just makes the picture not as clear as it should be. Yes, it kinda hurts to watch. Makes me work harder to see the picture. The last video was the same way. Sorry David. But I really love this video.
Hi David, I wanted to let you know (not that you know me from Adam, lol) that I followed the advice from your vid, and your encouragement, about cutting back fruit trees and I chopped the heck out of mine. I'm 5'2" and I brought them all down to my height. That was at the end of June and now they are absolutely LUSH! The growth isn't going up, it's going out and it's bulking up the tree. I can't wait to see what happens next spring. I might actually be able to reach the fruit to harvest it! This winter, because of all of the new growth, I'll probably go through and thin the branches out to make the trees even MORE healthy. I've had such crappy luck with fruit trees in general, that I've been planting them in giant ceramic pots and cutting them back to make them dwarf or almost bonsai. I have no fear with them, lol. It's just the ones in the ground...
This year I expanded my sand for soil, tiny backyard garden to a square, 24 foot fenced space and then read your grocery row garden book. I didnt exactly put everything in rows but it has been growing extremely well and i believe it's due to the interaction of the plants. I then read your compost everything book and im composting in place and doing the chop and drop for the pathway weeds. I must say that the garden is beautiful and I've now got birds, grass snakes and frogs all in an essentially mesic forest. Thank you so much for your videos and books!
I started a kind of grocery row garden in my backyard this year. It's my favorite spot now (don't tell my main garden that!). I'm in Michigan growing corn, tomatoes, sunflowers, watermelon, beets, kale, basil, and lettuce all together in one row! It's all so happy! Thank you! I will plant this way forever!
This lens/filter takes away from the video. Been watching for 5 years now.. keep it simple brother, not trying to get nauseous watching a garden video. Love and respect from Pascagoula
Film is beautiful. No issues with lens for me. Amazing how much growth in one year with crappy soil. Remarkable. Tithonia rotundifolia/Mex sunflower is a common annual grown up here in New England zone 5. I’ve grown in from starts and it gets huge and flowers til frost. Monarch butterflies loooooove it.
Thanks for your knowledge. I did 6 "melon pits" in the side yard and planted a butternut that is from saved seed of a neighbor. This seed produces a neck that is about 12 in long and around 4 in thick. Producing a lot of flesh that is easy to peel and chop. I saved one from last year, and it lasted in dark storage for 11 months, still edible, but had a spot on it. It's a jungle out there, but man is is producing calorie long term storage food and seed. Thanks again.
Love the content! But started developing eyestrain and headache early on...... the distorted background is difficult to deal with. You may want to double check that. Thank you for all the great things you and your family share with us!
You might try Caucasian Spinach in some of the shady areas. It would grow well alongside the other edible vine. I grew a productive patch of Taro this year and I'm in Anchorage. Its been super wet and cold and it still grew. Not comparable to Hawaii but I will still have a harvest of some sort.
I just came across this type of spinach. I hadn't heard of it before so I passed. Now I may try it out. I'm in a hot climate but I could get away with it in the shade if it would work in David's zone too.
Holy Bokeh Batman! I for one appreciate the vintage lens and did not get nausea, maybe because I focused on what was in focus, so if you're getting dizzy maybe try that. Anyway looking forward to the re-creation of this awesome system at your new place!
Nice I don’t live to far from you and have been doing this for a bit. Love to see the same climate as mine and the plants that do well in our area. Great video!!
Simply amazing! All that diversity. so much variety. And using watermelon and sweet potatoes as mulch, I love it. geez, i wish my jerusalem artichoke and plum trees grew so well. cassava is definitely on my todo list. i just need to find a good source to buy one from.
My goodness me! What amazing growth! We live in a low-rainfall area...if l left my garden even for a week, in summer, it would be Dead. It's so interesting to see how effective your soil-improvement has been...very inspiring! Also what you say about " full sun", and how it can be just Too Much, in summer... the same in our area, so all of our potted veg is in afternoon shade, from our windbreak trees. That works really well. You have encouraged me to keep mulching! Thankyou, David, for sharing...love and prayers for you and your family, from Australia.🦘 😊🪴🌱🌱🌱
49 miles inland from the gulf coast here in Mississippi. I as you may remember have the yams going like gang busters here and you may be able to get yacon growing as well. Mine survived several years until it was a bit too shaded by a Japanese magnolia. Caught it too late. Howe do citrus trees do there? I have one that's a must have for us now. Kaffir lime. Wow! And then you got to the part where you have yacon. Should have known.
The D. pentaphylla usually produces lots of bulbils for me here in the panhandle. Definitely not the most vigorous grower though. Hopefully my japonica and dodecaneura varieties will make bulbils this year.
Your method is sort of similar to Mark Shepard, except zero large livestock. Congrats on owning the property. It is a nice bit of land with that beautiful black soil.
Could you do a video on what you think didn't work in the grocery row garden. Im planning on ordering trees for next spring soon and would like to do something similar.
@@strong_voice_of_truth Yes. It was a constant drain of energy and so much hard work to just get this small amount of productivity.The soil in that area is all acid and sand. We live in mobile county and its a constant uphill battle to grow anything.
@@gaylehudson7267 I've been watching his channel for a short time, and I stopped using my clay soil as an excuse when I saw what he is able to do with what appears to be construction sand as soil. I can't believe anyone can grow in that!
I keep checking back daily to see what’s going on in your new homestead but you are not showing much. I know there’s a lot to do but we want to see all the new setup. Do you still have the goat, also want ro see more on the chickens and their new home. Also the cows. Looking forward to new vids. Thanks for all you do. 🙏
My land race melons didn't make it squirrels, heat, watering, bug issues :( but I still had my pumpkin land race I went out and looked under the leaves and thousands of bugs and eggs everywhere. I like to be organic when I can. but I couldn't afford another land race destroyed so I had to break the in case of emergency 7 dust.
Update pumkins are doing great 👍 I'd also like to say thank you for all the advise you give and the way you teach that there isn't just one way or best way to do something. You show tips and tricks that work for different situations offering tools for the toolbox. And it's ok to be bad at something before you're good. I've learned alot in the last few years and every year has been better than the last. And I wish you luck and joy on the next homestead and in life.
yah, new content I have been e wandering when i will see you again. i have a white mulberry come up into one of my pots. hope to keep it healthy to be able to plant in the ground. looking to see what you will do on this new property. have fun
Those peppers look like Tepin pepper. I had a co-worker give me some 12 yr ago. I take them in every fall here in Michigan. For 12 years they give me a small batch to challenge people at work. yeS THEY ARE wicked hot 🥵
DtG I have exciting news! The husband has agreed to allow me to take over the South side yard and plant 80 feet of whatever I want! The plan right now is to espalier citrus and other fruit trees on the South-facing brick of the house and build a trellis over a narrow bed all along the opposite North-facing neighbor's fence. The entire space is only six feet wide at most, but that just means the space hogs will have to be grown in the backyard. Before it's all over, I intend to press the front yard into food production, too. DH pretends to protest, but then gives himself away when he asks what it would look like if he let me go ahead and sheet mulch it. You've been the single biggest influence in my plans for both spaces and I'll be watching with great interest, and reading your book, as you build your new gardens. It's gong to be glorious. ~ Lisa
It looks like our garden in Indonesia :D It's in Florida right Tropical and Sub-Tropic Areas have great access to sun and Rain. So they grow really fast, but yes only certain plants will be able to. I hope I can start permaculture and gardening next year as a full time Life :D. I'm preparing now. . Thanks for the content. Love it because the way you do it by showing things as it is, proving it.
I bought 6.5 acres of wooded land in Northeast Arkansas (zone 7b-ish) and would love to do this, whenver I can actually get consistent work done there, (as soon as I started making progress, had to move in with my parents to care for them)
We had a miracle happed over here in Central Texas today!!! I just thought I would let y'all know since I was cryin about it yesterday to ya... Water actually fell from the sky! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? I'm thinking it's the rain dance I've been doing every night... Don'tcha think? It was like pennies from heaven! We only got ½ an inch, but who's counting! The temperature dropped from the mid nineties to 78°F !! Woot! WOOT!!! That alone is a miracle this year!! And I heard the glorious thunder that comes with it too!! Such a GREAT day!!! Oh, and your video was good too.
It has been a dry one almost everywhere in the US. I'm in NE Ohio and it is so dry that the ground has been cracking open. This in a place where you can normally pull a fence post and find water.
@@strong_voice_of_truth I wouldn't even know how to act if the ground was as saturated as you describe! Here in Texas we're used to droughts, that's old hat. Cracked ground is almost normal in Summer even during non-drought years since we normally get our rain in the Winter months. But this past Winter, we got next to nothin. It's just that this year nature added a new twist, she turned the oven dial up! And so - continuous temps of 112°F really changes the thirsty game! So when it rained today, even just a tiny bit, it really did feel like a miracle. (I'm probably just a tad delirious from heat stroke, don't mind me overreacting) However, it would take a month of raining all day long to get our lakes filled back up. So - here's hoping 🤞🤞🤞 As for the rest of the country, yes, I watch the weather reports, and I keep seeing widespread drought, and then flooding in the other areas. It's bezerk!! I'm truly sad to hear your area is suffering too. It's rough. Hopefully y'all will get back to being able to finding water under the fence posts very soon! I bet y'all have gobs of topsoil too, huh... That sounds nice...
@@gardengatesopen well, we have soil, but it's a lot of clay. It took a while, but I figured out how to grow in it. You're right... not like that sandy stuff you have down south. Biggest thing is that it is compacted and doesn't drain. This area is normally known to be swampy, so this dry is really unusual. Keep safe in that heat. I don't know how you can do anything in that without heat stroke
@@strong_voice_of_truth Watermelon is how we get it done over here! It's naturally a super food for heat stroke. And I wouldn't ever want to spend a hot Summer without it! It really does the trick! As for the soil down here, we're in clay too. At least here in Central Tx, and Northward. Around Houston it is quite sandy. Anyway, we don't really have much topsoil to speak of. About a half inch over here at my house. And it's not very rich soil either, it's just enough clay to help all the rock stick together. I watch other garden channels and see how their shovel just slices thru soft, rockless soil and I instantly have soil envy!! The only way to garden here is to bring in soil. But because of having so much limestone, I don't have to pay for raised beds walls, we can just build the walls with the stones & boulders that are hanging around. So that part is nice!
This video is fimed like its a flashback to an older time. Not sure if that's what you were going for but it's pretty funny considering most people want the cleanest visuals possible.
This video has to be very encouraging compared to a couple previous disappointing videos showing some failures and struggles. Congrats 👏 Kinda feel like you need a wide angle lens so we could take in all the abundance.
I had some longevity spinach make it through the Winter here in Zone 7B last year. I didn't even try to save it... it may have gotten some mulch thrown over it by accident though . I was thrilled because the cuttings that I took didn't make it through the Winter In our frog terrarium.
Very knowledgeable. I'd love to come learn from you. 😁 Amazing video. Kept me on my toes for what was to come next. Not one boring moment. Thanks for sharing. 💯👍are you looking for people to experiment only in the US?
So how can I avoid accidentally planting invasive yams? Where are places I should avoid going so I never accidentally find and plant those invasive yams in my yard? Any specific places you'd recommend avoiding at all costs? Wouldn't want to accidentally plant them and have a ton of calories in the ground with little effort, that would be just awful.
Is that fountain part of your mosquito control or does it have other purposes? Do you have fish in the pond? Loooove your garden. You forgot to say how they taste. Do you or your wife ever do cooking stuff on another channel? The galangal is really pretty. I will grow it as a houseplant. Rodents attacked my yamberry plants.
Thanks David for suggesting Cody Cove Farm! I’m always looking for good places to buy plants for S FLorida. My garden was sadly neglected all year, and because of having Chaya, yams, lemongrass going crazy, and passionflowers among other plants I collected here and there, the soil quality only got better. I have lots of things for chop and drop, and can’t wait to add new things to the system. Do you think 14 month yuca is still edible or should I start again from the cuttings? (I’m afraid to look 😅)
Hi. I remember how my parent grew casava back in my country when I was a kid. I think they mount the soil around the base for bigger and longer roots. I am not quite sure because I didn't really know much around other then watching them sometimes. Maybe you can try that. Where do you get casava cultivar? I would like to try to grow here in East Texas zone 8b -I'm just 40 minutes west of Shreveport. Maybe we have similar weather.
I love it. However you should never use that lens for a video again . All the plants are out of focus. Only you look good David... The Good. Going to get some canna roots from your daughter. My grocery row garden is coming along nice. Adding more soon.
I am curious about the galangal you showed. What is the Latin name, I have found several different plants with the common name galangal and I really desire the fragrant one in your garden? Thanks, David!
I'm attempting your grocery row gardening method here in Citrus County, Florida. I'm so excited about it. Turks Cap Hibiscus, Pomegranate, Mulberries ( I need a Rachael Mulberry still) Moringa, Banana, Barbados Cherry, Watermelon, Okra, Soursop, Papaya, Long beans, Strawberry, Blueberry, Red Grapefruits from seed, Plum, Peach, Loquats, Nectarine, herbs, corn, etc. Thanks so much for your teachings and God bless your beautiful family.
We started this Grocery Row Garden back at the beginning of 2021. Now it's an amazing jungle of food, filled with roots, greens, fruits, medicinal plants and wildlife habitat. Let's do a summer garden tour and see what's happening.
Get GROCERY ROW GARDENING for just $9.99 and learn to plant your own: amzn.to/3QGIoHO
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How much land did you use to plant all of that?
What an incredible transformation in such a short period of time! Congratulations, DtG! I can hardly wait to see your plans & successes with your new place!
This video lens is fuzzy lol. Bring the modern one back?
@@eastcoastlife2417 It's about 1/10 acre.
@@NoNORADon911 No - this is better. It looks like it's filmed through jello. I love jello.
"That's what you want to look for first in your plants, is it dead? No. Good." David the Good 2022
My galangal bloomed this year! It smells so good but unusual.
Hello charity
Well he’s not wrong
Dave you definitely have me completely hooked on the grocery grow gardening. Let's hope we can get more people in this world to grow like this. Imagine if Residential Gardens were grown this way there would be so much quality food for families. I look forward to seeing what you have for us in 2024
I'm about to establish a grocery row garden in my yard in Raleigh, NC! I'm really excited about it! I'm trying out 5 ft rows with 5 ft paths giving the middle foot to the perennials and letting the annuals take the two feet on either side and plenty of room in the paths for grazing chickens and sprawling vines. I'm excited to see how it goes!
The grocery row garden concept is brilliant. Transitioning our 3 newer fruit guilds to a food forest strip aka narrower version of a GRG. Yay God!
You obviously have a great relationship with your old landlord.
Thank you for being you David vs. Goliath
I do so hope that you will be able to continue following this garden, and collecting information and plant starts from it -- that the next tenants won't clear it all out!
My Grocery Row (G ROW) - Hey! I just made that up! Unless you already noticed it, that it spells “grow”! - Anyway, mine has been a fun experiment, and so I thank you for the challenge. Everything is growing well (I did have some white moth eggs on the cabbage; I squished them.) But, alas, I fear my season will not be long enough, BUT, sometimes it is.
David,
Watching from Australia and just want to say I love what you do, love your content, love how you share your knowledge....thank you.
Aussie here, too! Love it, even though we're arid, not tropical! 😊👍🪴🪴🪴
This Chanel is brilliant. True wisdom isn’t floating out of reach in it orbits of satellites 🛰 it’s down here in the soil under your thumb. Practical art is the most beautiful. Chow Bella!
Thank you
David The Good, your videos make me happy!
I like how there's heaps of chop and drop material to build the soil. Whoever lives there next I hope they realise how lucky they are.
Your show improves the quality of my life
Wow David and family! This is a great instructional video. I love all the "how to" videos, however, this one shows the real outcomes of your efforts. A month plus without maintaining these areas and you can clearly see the species and varieties that are thriving in your zone and sandy dirt (the same I have in south GA). Thanks for sharing! Keep experimenting at your new place and keep monitoring your old place as long as you can and share it with us!
You built a superb eco system in a really short time!
I usually love your videos, but this filter or lens or whatever it is is giving me a headache 😩
Me too.
I think it's a rain drop on the lense.
I think it just makes the picture not as clear as it should be. Yes, it kinda hurts to watch. Makes me work harder to see the picture. The last video was the same way. Sorry David. But I really love this video.
Don't watch, but listen. 🥰😇
I think it is too dark for the lens to focus correctly.
Hi David, I wanted to let you know (not that you know me from Adam, lol) that I followed the advice from your vid, and your encouragement, about cutting back fruit trees and I chopped the heck out of mine. I'm 5'2" and I brought them all down to my height. That was at the end of June and now they are absolutely LUSH! The growth isn't going up, it's going out and it's bulking up the tree. I can't wait to see what happens next spring. I might actually be able to reach the fruit to harvest it!
This winter, because of all of the new growth, I'll probably go through and thin the branches out to make the trees even MORE healthy. I've had such crappy luck with fruit trees in general, that I've been planting them in giant ceramic pots and cutting them back to make them dwarf or almost bonsai. I have no fear with them, lol. It's just the ones in the ground...
Bought the book, gonna try the system in zone 4 NE South Dakota next year.
This year I expanded my sand for soil, tiny backyard garden to a square, 24 foot fenced space and then read your grocery row garden book. I didnt exactly put everything in rows but it has been growing extremely well and i believe it's due to the interaction of the plants. I then read your compost everything book and im composting in place and doing the chop and drop for the pathway weeds. I must say that the garden is beautiful and I've now got birds, grass snakes and frogs all in an essentially mesic forest. Thank you so much for your videos and books!
I started a kind of grocery row garden in my backyard this year. It's my favorite spot now (don't tell my main garden that!). I'm in Michigan growing corn, tomatoes, sunflowers, watermelon, beets, kale, basil, and lettuce all together in one row! It's all so happy! Thank you! I will plant this way forever!
I love that your little girls let thier hair grown so long and natural. Beautiful! Love your videos.
This lens/filter takes away from the video. Been watching for 5 years now.. keep it simple brother, not trying to get nauseous watching a garden video. Love and respect from Pascagoula
It's my favorite lens.
yay! a recipe finally!
So enjoy your vibe. Keep it up! Just ordered 3x of your books. Spreading the word for the holiday season. Thanks for all you do.
Film is beautiful. No issues with lens for me. Amazing how much growth in one year with crappy soil. Remarkable. Tithonia rotundifolia/Mex sunflower is a common annual grown up here in New England zone 5. I’ve grown in from starts and it gets huge and flowers til frost. Monarch butterflies loooooove it.
Hello ogla
I now have 6 OF YOUR BOOKS AND THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!
I love seeing how everything did neglected, but the lens man.
'Hopefully it happens off camera' 🤣🍄
This is what I'd like to see my parents do in their backyard. I hope they are able to do this next year.
I really like gardening
Thanks for your knowledge. I did 6 "melon pits" in the side yard and planted a butternut that is from saved seed of a neighbor. This seed produces a neck that is about 12 in long and around 4 in thick. Producing a lot of flesh that is easy to peel and chop. I saved one from last year, and it lasted in dark storage for 11 months, still edible, but had a spot on it. It's a jungle out there, but man is is producing calorie long term storage food and seed. Thanks again.
Wow.. I'm jealous. I think I'm going to live there... I love the moringa
Thanks!
Thank you!
wow.......just wow
Such a cool dude. Wish i had friends like him
sweet!! I definitely want to buy the canna from your daughters store!!! I bought a canna and it's apparently a dwarf, only getting knee high
Love the content! But started developing eyestrain and headache early on...... the distorted background is difficult to deal with. You may want to double check that.
Thank you for all the great things you and your family share with us!
Same, I thought people were being a little harsh but quickly started getting a headache too.
You might try Caucasian Spinach in some of the shady areas. It would grow well alongside the other edible vine. I grew a productive patch of Taro this year and I'm in Anchorage. Its been super wet and cold and it still grew. Not comparable to Hawaii but I will still have a harvest of some sort.
Interesting!
Why you gotta be racist with the spinach?
I just came across this type of spinach. I hadn't heard of it before so I passed. Now I may try it out. I'm in a hot climate but I could get away with it in the shade if it would work in David's zone too.
You can also add moringa leaves and the green pods to coconut milk curries. Delicious! Look up Filipino coconut shrimp with moringa/malungay leaves.
Can't wait to see the Grocery row gardening 2.0
your yam is looking so good
Thought the focus looked OK, but I have cataracts. Welcome to my world, people. 😊
Holy Bokeh Batman! I for one appreciate the vintage lens and did not get nausea, maybe because I focused on what was in focus, so if you're getting dizzy maybe try that. Anyway looking forward to the re-creation of this awesome system at your new place!
great vid. and am now following josh. so helpful. gonna make some trellis!
Nice I don’t live to far from you and have been doing this for a bit. Love to see the same climate as mine and the plants that do well in our area. Great video!!
Simply amazing! All that diversity. so much variety. And using watermelon and sweet potatoes as mulch, I love it. geez, i wish my jerusalem artichoke and plum trees grew so well. cassava is definitely on my todo list. i just need to find a good source to buy one from.
Awesome, your climate sounds very similar to mine here in QLD Australia.
My goodness me! What amazing growth! We live in a low-rainfall area...if l left my garden even for a week, in summer, it would be Dead. It's so interesting to see how effective your soil-improvement has been...very inspiring! Also what you say about " full sun", and how it can be just Too Much, in summer... the same in our area, so all of our potted veg is in afternoon shade, from our windbreak trees. That works really well. You have encouraged me to keep mulching! Thankyou, David, for sharing...love and prayers for you and your family, from Australia.🦘 😊🪴🌱🌱🌱
49 miles inland from the gulf coast here in Mississippi. I as you may remember have the yams going like gang busters here and you may be able to get yacon growing as well. Mine survived several years until it was a bit too shaded by a Japanese magnolia. Caught it too late. Howe do citrus trees do there? I have one that's a must have for us now. Kaffir lime. Wow! And then you got to the part where you have yacon. Should have known.
beard looks good. man, your channel has come a long way. i love the fountain
I love all your great information ❤
Great gardens! Try pickling green everglades tomato. It's super good to top salads, quinoa salads, etc. Almost gets a bacon like flavor.
The D. pentaphylla usually produces lots of bulbils for me here in the panhandle. Definitely not the most vigorous grower though. Hopefully my japonica and dodecaneura varieties will make bulbils this year.
Oh and whenever you're ready hit me up for some stuff. Hopefully I'll have some stuff you don't have yet.
How do you pickle the green tomatoes? I'd love to know!
David's growing that vining pot again.
Your method is sort of similar to Mark Shepard, except zero large livestock.
Congrats on owning the property. It is a nice bit of land with that beautiful black soil.
Could you do a video on what you think didn't work in the grocery row garden. Im planning on ordering trees for next spring soon and would like to do something similar.
Wow. The owner or next tenant is so fortunate.
No doubt! They probably won't appreciate it or understand what it is, unfortunately.
It will probably get bushhogged.
@@davidthegood NOOOOOO!!!!
@@strong_voice_of_truth Yes. It was a constant drain of energy and so much hard work to just get this small amount of productivity.The soil in that area is all acid and sand. We live in mobile county and its a constant uphill battle to grow anything.
@@gaylehudson7267 I've been watching his channel for a short time, and I stopped using my clay soil as an excuse when I saw what he is able to do with what appears to be construction sand as soil. I can't believe anyone can grow in that!
Darn I already missed the cannas!
More coming.
Thanks. I bought the book and plan to try it out in south Gippsland Victoria Australia
Cassava leaf is sooo good
I keep checking back daily to see what’s going on in your new homestead but you are not showing much. I know there’s a lot to do but we want to see all the new setup. Do you still have the goat, also want ro see more on the chickens and their new home. Also the cows. Looking forward to new vids. Thanks for all you do. 🙏
There is simply no time to get everything done and film too. Thanks, though. Soon.
My land race melons didn't make it squirrels, heat, watering, bug issues :( but I still had my pumpkin land race I went out and looked under the leaves and thousands of bugs and eggs everywhere. I like to be organic when I can. but I couldn't afford another land race destroyed so I had to break the in case of emergency 7 dust.
Update pumkins are doing great 👍 I'd also like to say thank you for all the advise you give and the way you teach that there isn't just one way or best way to do something. You show tips and tricks that work for different situations offering tools for the toolbox. And it's ok to be bad at something before you're good. I've learned alot in the last few years and every year has been better than the last. And I wish you luck and joy on the next homestead and in life.
Good information and muisc ^^
yah, new content I have been e wandering when i will see you again. i have a white mulberry come up into one of my pots. hope to keep it healthy to be able to plant in the ground. looking to see what you will do on this new property. have fun
love the channel
Those peppers look like Tepin pepper. I had a co-worker give me some 12 yr ago. I take them in every fall here in Michigan. For 12 years they give me a small batch to challenge people at work. yeS THEY ARE wicked hot 🥵
DtG I have exciting news! The husband has agreed to allow me to take over the South side yard and plant 80 feet of whatever I want! The plan right now is to espalier citrus and other fruit trees on the South-facing brick of the house and build a trellis over a narrow bed all along the opposite North-facing neighbor's fence. The entire space is only six feet wide at most, but that just means the space hogs will have to be grown in the backyard. Before it's all over, I intend to press the front yard into food production, too. DH pretends to protest, but then gives himself away when he asks what it would look like if he let me go ahead and sheet mulch it.
You've been the single biggest influence in my plans for both spaces and I'll be watching with great interest, and reading your book, as you build your new gardens. It's gong to be glorious. ~ Lisa
That is awesome.
I got a headache trying to watch this. Too bad because I was really looking forward to an update on the grocery row gardens.
Sad.
I want them yams! All I got is deascorea a and Chinese yams. I want all of them. I love them. They can grow on my huge trees that blot out the sun.
It looks like our garden in Indonesia :D
It's in Florida right
Tropical and Sub-Tropic Areas have great access to sun and Rain. So they grow really fast, but yes only certain plants will be able to.
I hope I can start permaculture and gardening next year as a full time Life :D. I'm preparing now.
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Thanks for the content. Love it because the way you do it by showing things as it is, proving it.
This is a great video with so much information. Extremely informative. Thank you.
I bought 6.5 acres of wooded land in Northeast Arkansas (zone 7b-ish) and would love to do this, whenver I can actually get consistent work done there, (as soon as I started making progress, had to move in with my parents to care for them)
Parched and burned. That's our california zone 9b now.🥵 Very sad. Nice to see your success there tho. Happy for your new property DTG.
We had a miracle happed over here in Central Texas today!!!
I just thought I would let y'all know since I was cryin about it yesterday to ya...
Water actually fell from the sky!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???
I'm thinking it's the rain dance I've been doing every night...
Don'tcha think?
It was like pennies from heaven!
We only got ½ an inch,
but who's counting!
The temperature dropped from the mid nineties to 78°F !!
Woot! WOOT!!!
That alone is a miracle this year!!
And I heard the glorious thunder that comes with it too!!
Such a GREAT day!!!
Oh, and your video was good too.
It has been a dry one almost everywhere in the US. I'm in NE Ohio and it is so dry that the ground has been cracking open. This in a place where you can normally pull a fence post and find water.
Congratulations on the rain! I grew up in Kansas so I know what you mean.
@@strong_voice_of_truth I wouldn't even know how to act if the ground was as saturated as you describe!
Here in Texas we're used to droughts, that's old hat.
Cracked ground is almost normal in Summer even during non-drought years since we normally get our rain in the Winter months.
But this past Winter, we got next to nothin.
It's just that this year nature added a new twist, she turned the oven dial up!
And so - continuous temps of 112°F really changes the thirsty game!
So when it rained today, even just a tiny bit, it really did feel like a miracle.
(I'm probably just a tad delirious from heat stroke, don't mind me overreacting)
However, it would take a month of raining all day long to get our lakes filled back up.
So - here's hoping 🤞🤞🤞
As for the rest of the country, yes, I watch the weather reports, and I keep seeing widespread drought, and then flooding in the other areas.
It's bezerk!!
I'm truly sad to hear your area is suffering too.
It's rough.
Hopefully y'all will get back to being able to finding water under the fence posts very soon!
I bet y'all have gobs of topsoil too, huh...
That sounds nice...
@@gardengatesopen well, we have soil, but it's a lot of clay. It took a while, but I figured out how to grow in it. You're right... not like that sandy stuff you have down south. Biggest thing is that it is compacted and doesn't drain.
This area is normally known to be swampy, so this dry is really unusual.
Keep safe in that heat. I don't know how you can do anything in that without heat stroke
@@strong_voice_of_truth Watermelon is how we get it done over here!
It's naturally a super food for heat stroke. And I wouldn't ever want to spend a hot Summer without it!
It really does the trick!
As for the soil down here, we're in clay too. At least here in Central Tx, and Northward.
Around Houston it is quite sandy.
Anyway, we don't really have much topsoil to speak of. About a half inch over here at my house. And it's not very rich soil either, it's just enough clay to help all the rock stick together. I watch other garden channels and see how their shovel just slices thru soft, rockless soil and I instantly have soil envy!!
The only way to garden here is to bring in soil. But because of having so much limestone, I don't have to pay for raised beds walls, we can just build the walls with the stones & boulders that are hanging around. So that part is nice!
Im currently reading your book, Grow or… LOVE IT! It’s very entertaining and educational! Thanks so much!
Thank you very much.
"look at all that crazy greenery"
*Squints*
This video is fimed like its a flashback to an older time. Not sure if that's what you were going for but it's pretty funny considering most people want the cleanest visuals possible.
1969 lens!
This video has to be very encouraging compared to a couple previous disappointing videos showing some failures and struggles. Congrats 👏 Kinda feel like you need a wide angle lens so we could take in all the abundance.
I was wondering how large can, one man maintains a grocery garden. For his own needs and maybe some to giveaway?
I think that yellow meat melon may have been in my shipment because I do remember telling myself to buy yellow meateds.
I had some longevity spinach make it through the Winter here in Zone 7B last year. I didn't even try to save it... it may have gotten some mulch thrown over it by accident though . I was thrilled because the cuttings that I took didn't make it through the Winter In our frog terrarium.
I had seeds pop up all over. wow 7B, that's cold. Mine died at 34° in Florida.
Very knowledgeable. I'd love to come learn from you. 😁 Amazing video. Kept me on my toes for what was to come next. Not one boring moment. Thanks for sharing. 💯👍are you looking for people to experiment only in the US?
Soo beautiful!
Love the bokeh focus technic.... spicy apricot jelly?
Are you going to move any of your fruit trees this fall?
So how can I avoid accidentally planting invasive yams? Where are places I should avoid going so I never accidentally find and plant those invasive yams in my yard? Any specific places you'd recommend avoiding at all costs? Wouldn't want to accidentally plant them and have a ton of calories in the ground with little effort, that would be just awful.
You want some zucchini bread?😂😁
Aren't those yam berry vines also called cinnamon vine? If it is, when they bloom, they really do smell like cinnamon.
Yes!
I hate zucchini, too. Zucchini is definitely a result of the Fall.
Amazing how quickly you created the food forest..
Hopefully your putting in rainwater harvesting earthworks or are planning on it for future fire protection, etc.
Is that fountain part of your mosquito control or does it have other purposes? Do you have fish in the pond?
Loooove your garden. You forgot to say how they taste. Do you or your wife ever do cooking stuff on another channel?
The galangal is really pretty. I will grow it as a houseplant.
Rodents attacked my yamberry plants.
this plantation is amazing. would love to know how many years it took to aquire all these different edibles. so cool dude
Less than two years. Thank you.
Thanks David for suggesting Cody Cove Farm! I’m always looking for good places to buy plants for S FLorida. My garden was sadly neglected all year, and because of having Chaya, yams, lemongrass going crazy, and passionflowers among other plants I collected here and there, the soil quality only got better. I have lots of things for chop and drop, and can’t wait to add new things to the system.
Do you think 14 month yuca is still edible or should I start again from the cuttings? (I’m afraid to look 😅)
14 month is fine!
Hi. I remember how my parent grew casava back in my country when I was a kid. I think they mount the soil around the base for bigger and longer roots. I am not quite sure because I didn't really know much around other then watching them sometimes. Maybe you can try that. Where do you get casava cultivar? I would like to try to grow here in East Texas zone 8b -I'm just 40 minutes west of Shreveport. Maybe we have similar weather.
I love it. However you should never use that lens for a video again . All the plants are out of focus. Only you look good David... The Good. Going to get some canna roots from your daughter. My grocery row garden is coming along nice. Adding more soon.
This is my favorite lens.
I picked black persimmon fruits today in my "food forest". It's about the only wild fruit here in central Texas...well Argarita but they are so small.
Oh, Dave, Zucchini is delicious. 😃
I really love how great this garden is doing. I was taking a nap and hate that I missed this live.
Couldn’t really watch it bc the lense. Made me feel cross eyed. 😂
I am curious about the galangal you showed. What is the Latin name, I have found several different plants with the common name galangal and I really desire the fragrant one in your garden? Thanks, David!
I'm attempting your grocery row gardening method here in Citrus County, Florida. I'm so excited about it.
Turks Cap Hibiscus, Pomegranate, Mulberries ( I need a Rachael Mulberry still) Moringa, Banana, Barbados Cherry, Watermelon, Okra, Soursop, Papaya, Long beans, Strawberry, Blueberry, Red Grapefruits from seed, Plum, Peach, Loquats, Nectarine, herbs, corn, etc. Thanks so much for your teachings and God bless your beautiful family.