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WHAT? YOU HAVE A CONCRETE SLAB BENEATH YOUR COMPOST? Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/3uyxnlm David The Good Gardening Tee-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener We've had quite a few questions about our concrete block three-bin compost pile system, and today we'll put the biggest one to rest. Composting on a slab is quite possible. You don't need to compost on the ground to make compost! Yes, you may get more worms in the pile if you're right on the ground; however, you will also get tree roots, especially if you're composting over a longer period of time. After a few months, roots get into compost and can really eat up your hard work! We have practiced composting in bins, composting on the ground, composting on slabs, composting in trenches, composting in barrels, composting in worm bins... you name it, we've either tried it or have studied it. This large compost bin system is made for producing lots of compost for our plant nursery and gardens, so we need to make sure it's easy to use, easy to keep safe from animals, and can be turned with a tractor and loaded and unloaded with ease. I've shared lots of compost ideas over the years, and this is just another one you can take or leave if you like. Composting on a slab works just fine, and the worms and fungi and bacteria will happily show up on their own. Thank you for watching!

Today I present the final verdict on our test of mimosa leaves as a fertilizer. David's Books: https://amzn.to/3SO7AQi A couple months ago we set up a test where we added mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) leaves to one bed, with a control bed next to it. Then we planted a variety of brassicas, including mustard, pak choi and cauliflower. Interestingly, the bed with the mimosa leaves has done worse than the one without. My guess is that mimosa is allelopathic to some degree and suppressed the growth. We got the original idea for using mimosa leaves as fertilizer from a book titled Restoring the Soil by author Roland Bunch. In that book, Bunch describes using fresh Gliricidia sepium leaves as a fertilizer by burying them next to growing crops. We decided to do the same thing with mimosa.

In the early spring @FlomatonFamous visited and we grafted fruiting pear varieties onto an unproductive, weedy, worthless Bradford pear tree. Despite a bad frost afterwards, as well as cattle damage, we are still having great success with some of the grafts. Check it out! GET GRAFTING - Free Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYOnVSO25U FREE PLANTS FOR EVERYONE: Learn how to grow almost every plant from grafts, seeds, cuttings and more: https://amzn.to/46KFz0j

Foraging for pindo palm, a plentiful edible fruit.

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Giant white sweet potatoes in the Grocery Row Garden!

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Two years ago we began a quest to recreate terra preta, the famed "dark earth" of the Amazon. Now we are continuing the experiment on a new property, with new resources available to us. Will it work? The Terra Preta Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc-iSYQchLQ_cwU644H3sq84GoZaf0a0Q COMPOST EVERYTHING: https://amzn.to/3PI4muv Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Terra preta, the "dark earth" of the Amazon, is a rich soil, almost certainly anthropogenic in nature, which keeps its fertility for centuries. Creating terra preta is one of the goals of our homestead, and we may be getting closer. Stay tuned as we try to make terra preta for our gardens here in Lower Alabama. We are making biochar, making bone ash, making bone char, adding meat, adding manure, adding clay, adding pottery shards and more. We must continue this quest!

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In a #foodforest or Grocery Row Garden, you've got long-term trees that will produce for decades... yet if you plan things correctly, you can start reaping lots of food almost right away. Here's what we're harvesting right now! Join us at SCRUBFEST II: https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/ The little Grocery Row Gardening book: https://amzn.to/46jZpPc The free Grocery Row Gardening from Scratch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5PgbcTqmM4 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com We're harvesting sweet potatoes in the Grocery Row Garden and had to take you along. The fast yields we get from short crops have been great - and the tree crops haven't even started producing yet. There is a marvelous balance that you can strike between perennial and annual crops which will get you increasing yields over the years. We feed sweet potato vines to the pigs, too, which gives us one more yield from this crop!

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Are you fighting bugs in your garden? Is getting rid of caterpillars your new obsession? Do you want to eliminate most disease and pest problems in your garden? These 5 tried-and-true methods get rid of most pest issues without spraying poison! Come to SCRUBFEST II: https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/ Get Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3RoCj5U David's Other Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/3PKLZGC Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Natural pest control can often be achieved simply through a good garden design. From creating habitat to companion planting, from being less tidy to interplanting perennials and annuals - in today's video we cover organic pest control, with no spraying required!

In this video real YouTube influencer David the Good abuses his relationship with a local family-owned screenprinting company in order to make content. Get the t-shirt and fund our greenhouse project: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155754353162 Check our all the cool Survival Gardener shirts from Aardvark Screenprinting: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener Today we visit Aardvark Screenprinting and make a tee shirt!

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This is just ridiculous. Get COMPOST EVERYTHING: https://amzn.to/3EgBrIG Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Did you want to know how to grow pumpkins? Well, let me tell you. Just make a compost pile in the fall and throw pumpkins in it. Then you'll get way more pumpkins than you ever wanted. Obviously, it's not about making a nice garden or hills or any of that sort of thing. Oh no. It's about throwing pumpkins out to rot and letting them plant their own selves. Sheesh.

Despite the heat and lack of rain, the Grocery Row Garden is a jungle of food! Come meet us at SCRUBFEST II and learn how to start Grocery Row Gardening - and more! See details here: https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/ Get the little Grocery Row Gardening book: https://amzn.to/3OMQuic Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com It's time to take a grocery row garden tour. Growing cassava, yams, mulberries, and lots and lots of other plants in a wonderful food forest orchard style.

Look at the difference some mulch can make! Instead of baking heat, we have some cool-looking plants in the #foodforest Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: https://amzn.to/3OS5jQx David's Other Books: https://amzn.to/3OJ6rFW David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com If it's too hot to garden, don't worry. The benefits of mulch are numerous, but one overlooked benefit is how mulch keeps roots cool along with moderating moisture, so your trees can sail through a hot month.

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We had the blessing of visiting @OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY and getting to tour the garden. Today we share that with you. Look at the abundance of species, and the wonderful production - despite drought! Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Doug and Stacy invited us for a homestead tour, and, of course, we spent almost al our time in the garden. This kitchen garden is filled with food growing in polyculture raised beds.

Today we hunt for pawpaws by the Mississippi river in the beautiful state of Missouri. How to germinate pawpaw seeds: https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/how-to-grow-pawpaws-from-seed/ Michael Judd's FOR THE LOVE OF PAWPAWS: https://amzn.to/3YyVE5P David The Good's books: https://amzn.to/3s8hkcZ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com We're hunting for wild pawpaws in the woods, and hoping that the fruits will ripen enough for us to grow the seeds! Pawpaw trees, AKA Asimina triloba, are a native North American tree species which is one of the few fruit trees to flower and fruit in the shade, making it a very good food forest species.

Can we find meaning in grass? A classic Russian film by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Turn your grass into FOOD! Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/3DH1Z5M Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Today I share three ways to use your lawn to feed your garden. You can use grass clippings as mulch, compost grass clippings, and make compost tea from grass clippings. All methods are easy ways to compost! This video was filmed on a vintage Russian Helios 44-2 lens, adapted to the Canon R6. Canon R6: https://amzn.to/3Or7BpM Helios 44-2 lens: https://amzn.to/43N7vOR