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You can use sheet mulching to improve your food forest, one island of fertility at a time! Green Thumbs Tee: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1509045210/may-your-thumbs-always-be-green-tee CREATE YOUR OWN FLORIDA FOOD FOREST: https://amzn.to/3OfIaaw 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 we work on creating a food forest one piece at a time. We planted a food forest at the end of last year, and have continued to plant it through spring. However, now we're dealing with grass taking over around our trees and plants. To beat this, and to give our trees the very best start possible, we are now creating islands of fertility around our plant guilds so they can beat the grass, be fed better, have more water, and generally thrive and outcompete the grass and weeds. This is like lasagna gardening in the food forest! Just use sheet mulching to improve the soil and fix bad sand, then you get stronger trees and make fruit trees grow faster. Today we're improving a "food forest island" comprised of a pear tree, some cannas, turmeric, ginger, and a goumi berry. We are composting grass clippings, ragweed, pokeweed, mimosa branches and even chunks of oak limbs on top of a cardboard weed-block layer, underneath which we added a good layer of manure from the cow pasture. Once you water really well and deep mulch a piece of the food forest like this, the resultant life and growth is exceptional! Thank you for watching.

You don't need to do a lot of planning to start a food forest. Plant like nature does, and get growing today! Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: https://amzn.to/3OvbWcq 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 Starting a food forest can be complicated - or it can be simple. I recommend planting a food forest by starting a ton of plants from cuttings and seeds, and then planting all over, selecting out what works and chopping down what fails. By progressively thinning and creating islands of fertility (i.e. plant guilds), you can build a lot of biomass quickly and get your food forest growing fast.

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It's hot, so let's sit in the AC and drink iced tea and talk about what we should be doing in our gardens! Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/3OTzIN0 Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/3tdDXu7 The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/3EPL6oZ Florida Survival Gardening: https://amzn.to/2Xs9V6d Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: https://amzn.to/2VReBlH

This is just too much. PLANT SALE DETAILS: We’ll have a sale in the town of Atmore this Saturday. We’ve been looking for a place to sell in Brewton, but haven’t found a good outlet yet. ADDRESS: Atmore Flea Market – 1815 Highway 21, 36502, Atmore, AL TIME: Saturday, July 22nd from 8AM to 1PM We have a lot of new plants in stock, some of which include: African Blue Basil (awesome for both cooking and pollinators) Cassava Cranberry hibiscus (tasty leaves!) Wild blueberry Tithonia diversifolia Comfrey Mulberry Yaupon holly (for native caffeinated tea!) Cuban Oregano Longevity Spinach Shell Ginger Culinary Ginger Malanga Black Walnut Pineapple Guava Chaste Tree (great for butterflies!) Catawba Tree Bamboo (giant yellow timber type) “Robert Young” Bamboo (B. multiplex) – clumping, well-behaved type! Tropical milkweed Banana (Dwarf Cavendish and Musa Basjoo) Daisies Elderberries Mushroom herb Stevia Biomass cannas …and more rare tidbits Daisy will also have a collection of seeds for sale as well. 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 Gardening in summer is no fun. Florida gardening - and by extension, Deep South Gardening - has two main seasons. Spring, and Fall! At this time of year, the weather is just too intensely hot.

Turning bad produce into good bacon.

Naked soil? Poor fertility? Not enough compost? It's SUNN HEMP TIME! COMPOST EVERYTHING: https://amzn.to/3JZdvNb 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 Growing sunn hemp is easy and productive. You can borrow regenerative agriculture ideas and put them to work in your garden!

Don't let the pumpkins know what's happening!!! COMPOST EVERYTHING: https://amzn.to/3PGKh9D 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 The best growing pumpkins and winter squash are always the ones that we didn't plant. When pumpkins grow out of the compost pile, they grow like crazy. When we plant them on purpose, they're like, "meh, maybe we'll make a few pumpkins..." So today we try an experiment by growing pumpkins ON ACCIDENT in a compost pile.

The Grocery Row Garden is absolutely crazy now! Today we take a garden tour and see what we can see in the heat of July. GROCERY ROW GARDENING: https://amzn.to/44qa5vn 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 The watermelon landrace project is continuing nicely and the vines are completely eating the garden pathways. We also have lots of cucumbers going to seed and plenty of peppers that need to be harvested. The edible D. bulbifera is coming along beautifully and the cassava is getting tall. All in all, it's a lovely time to walk through the Grocery Row Garden!

Here's how you grow a little fruit tree in your backyard! Ann Ralph's GROW A LITTLE FRUIT TREE: https://amzn.to/3XlS0vs David The Good's GROCERY ROW GARDENING: https://amzn.to/43Logut How we built this amazing Grocery Row Garden: 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 Today we share how to festoon fruit trees and how to prune fruit trees to keep them small. Summer solstice pruning keeps fruit trees small. Winter pruning is good for shape, but gives the trees more vigor - summer pruning reduces vigor. If you prune fruit trees to keep them small, remember these tricks! It's all part of "backyard orchard culture," which makes Grocery Row Gardening possible.

This landrace cucumber project is really working out well. We're harvesting lots of cucumbers, plus we're saving seeds that will adapt to our own backyard and growing style. Instead of growing cucumbers on trellises, we grow cucumbers on the ground, as a sprawling ground cover. Today David The Good shares how to save cucumber seeds while breeding your own heirloom variety. Compost Your Enemies T-Shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener Grocery Row Gardening by David The Good: https://amzn.to/3JibOdq Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse: https://amzn.to/3Ndtqs1 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com To breed a landrace pickling cucumber variety, we mixed multiple types of cucumber together in our gardens and let them interbreed, and then we mixed in more varieties the next year. Then, we save from each plant that produces. Later, we'll select for flavor and other characteristics. These cucumbers are being grown on the ground as a ground cover in the Grocery Row Gardens. We picked over 163lbs of cucumbers so far, and now it's time to save seeds from cucumbers that have matured. If you let your cucumbers ripen on the vine to bright yellow and/or orange, then you can save cucumber seeds that are fully ripe. Picking cucumbers when they are green will not give you viable seeds - you have to wait until cukes are mature, then harvest the big, melon-like yellow cucumbers. Inside, you'll find hundreds of seeds which can then be washed, dried and saved. Saving cucumber seeds is really easy - and if this cucumber landrace works out well, they'll become easier to grow each year as they adapt to our gardens and style of gardening. Thanks for watching! Check out the work of Joseph Lofthouse, and particularly his book Landrace Gardening for more information on how saving seeds for a landrace can make your gardening easier and add fun and excitement to your harvests. You can also subscribe to Joseph Lofthouse's YouTube channel at @landracegardening5631

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Leo and Sherry wanted to grow an organic garden, so we jumped in and helped them plant a Grocery Row Garden. Today you'll learn how to start a Grocery Row Garden from scratch and turn a lawn into a garden step by step in this feature-length presentation. If you've wanted to start a food forest or make a vegetable garden or plant an orchard... why not combine all three in this exciting permaculture gardening method? Learn how to pick the right fruit tree, plant potatoes, grow herbs, mix perennials and annuals, companion plant the easy way, prune trees, create raised beds, and turn a lawn into a food production factory! If you're stuck in your gardening and need an easy gardening method that produces a backyard food supply for your family, this video is for you. Learn how to plant a Grocery Row Garden with David The Good and you'll always have an emergency food supply and a fantastic ongoing yield of organic produce, right in your own yard. Get rid of grass and start planting fruit trees and vegetables today! Get the GROCERY ROW GARDENING booklet: https://amzn.to/3J42nyb 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

Saving money is the LEAST of the reasons to save your own seeds! GROCERY ROW GARDENING by David The Good: https://amzn.to/3IWg95U LANDRACE GARDENING by Joseph Lofthouse: https://amzn.to/3WSfDf0 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 For the last few years, we have been saving seed from the garden and replanting it. Over time, these plants are adapting to our climate and our gardening methods. Today we'll take a look at our landrace daikon radishes, our landrace corn, and our landrace pumpkin varieties. It's truly amazing how the vigor of the plants increases. We're breeding vegetable varieties right in the backyard, and seeing what works with the climate. Saving seeds makes gardening easier!

Don't make it too complicated! Sure, you can make 30-day compost, like we're working on, or you can stretch it out longer... or make a Johnson-Su bioreactor... or you can just THROW THINGS ON THE GROUND Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/4377Wny 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 Simple composting requires almost no rules. In fact, "no rules compost" is what nature does. Something dies and it falls on the ground - and it rots down into the soil. It's that simple. You don't need a complicated compost bin, you don't need a perfect C/N ratio, you don't need to hot compost, or thirty-day compost, or Berkeley Method your pile, etc. All these can be good composting ideas, but they aren't necessary. You can start a compost pile today with no infrastructure. Get our there and compost everything!

Now you've grown your potatoes. What do you do next? Today we look at the potato harvest and how to keep potatoes long-term, as best as you can, even in the Deep South. GROW OR DIE: https://amzn.to/3qbAb5J 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 Harvesting potatoes is the first step. After that, it's time to cure potatoes and store potatoes for as long as possible. We store potatoes on our porch in boxes covered with sheets, after curing potatoes to ensure they aren't going to rot. Today we have Adirondack Blue, Red Pontiac and Yukon Gold potatoes curing on the porch, and it's a beautiful day to dig, dig, diggity dig potatoes.

What will grow in your garden? Here's how to find out. David The Good joins Jason Powell, owner of the AWESOME Petals from the Past Nursery, to talk about finding the plants that make gardening easy. Petals from the Past Nursery: https://petalsfromthepast.com/ GROW OR DIE: https://amzn.to/3MQNwJW 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 Whether you're planting a flower garden or planting a vegetable garden, having the right plants makes life easy. Jason Powell has been using his nursery as a testing ground for plant varieties that thrive in Alabama. This is another thing to remember: local nurseries usually have a much better idea of what will grow in your climate than the nurseries at Big Box stores. The plants there come from all over and may not be at all suitable - yet at a local nursery, they know the climate and what is growing for them. Petals from the Past is an excellent nursery on 40 acres in Central Alabama, and they test plant varieties, year after year. Jason shares great gardening advice in today's video.

hang 'em high GROW OR DIE: https://amzn.to/3MQNwJW 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 growing tobacco, drying tobacco, curing tobacco and more. Here's a quick look at today's task.

This was a worthwhile experiment! GROW OR DIE: https://amzn.to/3Ii3slH 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 planted potatoes and true yams in the same garden bed, doubling yields by growing one crop that gives us roots early, and another that gives us roots late. By planting yams last fall, which then slept through the winter and will not yield until this fall, and then putting in potatoes in February and late March of this year for a May/June yield, we effectively doubled our production in this part of the garden. Growing blue potatoes is easy and they were quite productive. The variety is called "Adirondack Blue," and our experiment to see how it did in the South was more than successful. As the potato vines die down it lets us know when to harvest potatoes. There are more potatoes that need to be pulled, but this is a great start. Later, we'll harvest yams from the same space. What fun!

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I can't take it! GROW OR DIE: https://amzn.to/40YJDGz Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Bamboo is one of the most useful permaculture plants. You can eat it, build with it, fuel fires with it, make biochar from it, weave with it, feed it to animals and more! Why aren't more people planting bamboo? It's amazing!