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Are you struggling to grow vegetables? Would you like to start transplants in a whole new way, using plant genetics to plant a new garden that grows better year after year? Today you'll learn how to grow transplants landrace gardening style! COMPOST YOUR ENEMIES T-SHIRTS: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener FREE PLANTS FOR EVERYONE: https://amzn.to/3JDLnjz LANDRACE GARDENING by Joseph Lofthouse: https://amzn.to/40gwrhb Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com For the last couple of years we've been experimenting with breeding vegetable varieties and creating landrace vegetables. Finally, the rubber is really hitting the road as we mix together all our vegetable seeds by type. We're starting transplants from a wide range of plant genetics, with multiple varieties of corn, tomatoes, beans, cabbages, sunflowers and more. How can you find the best vegetables for the garden? Try planting a huge range of them, then start seed saving from the best of what you grow. Let nature cross for you, and may the best vegetables for the garden survive! We also cover soil blocks vs. trays. 00:00 Introduction 00:49 The Crazy Seed Collection 01:11 Landrace Gardening 01:49 Mixing Seeds Together 03:35 Starting seedlings 06:34 Tranplant Trays vs Soil Blocks 07:41 Starting a flat of Mixed up Sunflowers 10:47 Taking Care of Transplants, More Landrace Gardening, and Conclusion

You've heard of an herb garden? A kitchen garden? A medicinal garden? The lines blur between culinary and medicinal in our new kitchen garden plan. Learn how to be a better gardener in David's books: https://amzn.to/3kV2fId 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 Planting an herb garden doesn't have to be hard. You can grow herbs in just mounded beds. Forget raised beds! Grow right in the ground! It's so simple. Also, growing a medicinal garden doesn't have to be separate from where you grow food. Your kitchen garden can be a place to grow herbs for both culinary and medicinal purposes. The idea is to keep the plants you really need to tend and use regularly with in your Permaculture "zone 0," so you harvest herbs and veggies and actually use them! Growing medicinal herbs like ginger, wormwood, rosemary, moringa, rue, and others makes a lot of sense, and many of them cross the line into also being good herbs for the kitchen. A DIY herb garden can be as simple as tilling a space and making mounded beds. This herb garden/kitchen garden design covers six simple in-ground beds.

You can totally manage backyard worm composting. COMPOST EVERYTHING: https://amzn.to/3WCHT3F More Worm Composting Resources: Worms Eat My Garbage: https://amzn.to/3XS5M8e Geoff Lawton's Bathtub Worm Composting System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ozNM-Hb0w My original "how to build" video on the Bathtub Worm Bin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNKM_T7cPDc 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 Worm castings are one of the best garden amendments. However, worm castings are expensive! Today I share how to start worm composting on the cheap. There are lots of articles on buying worm bins, but you can make a worm bin with any number of things, one of the best being an old bath tub. Just by setting up a worm bin in the back yard, we can compost kitchen scraps, make our own worm compost, plus we get "worm tea" to feed our gardens. These little red wiggler worms work night and day turning waste into one of the richest garden amendments possible. Worm castings are great for starting transplants, inoculating the soil with fungi and bacteria, feeding plants, and keeping plant immune systems healthy. We borrowed this DIY worm bin idea from Geoff Lawton and absolutely love it. Vermicomposting redneck (I mean, permaculture) style!

Sometimes the simple ways are the best. Or at least, the cheapest. Push the zone! https://amzn.to/3IMZ5jm 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 Composting secrets that smell really bad.

12 years ago, my Dad and I started planting a food forest in a tiny South Florida backyard. Here's how it looks today. You can do this too! It's amazing to look back and see the transformation that happened here. This is South Florida Gardening the EASY way, by planting a Florida food forest, just as I share in my book Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: CREATE YOUR OWN FLORIDA FOOD FOREST: https://amzn.to/3GqGZB6 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 If you create your own Florida food forest in your backyard, you'll have an emergency food supply, a beautiful natural oasis, fresh organic produce, lots of fruit you can eat, share and sell, a beautiful place to relax and more! A food forest in your backyard - even a tiny one - can be accomplished! My Dad and I planted one, and you can too. South Florida gardening doesn't have to be difficult. Plant a food forest of fruit trees and start reaping the harvest!

Today we look at South Florida gardening on the easy setting, in The Great South Florida Food Forest Project. Learn how to turn sand into soil and grow lots of food in a small space, right in your South Florida backyard. Subscribe to ULTIMATE GARDENING and support my friend Emmanuel: https://www.youtube.com/@UltimateGardening Learn how to garden in South Florida - check out The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/3QrjbBA And the lovely new edition of CREATE YOUR OWN FLORIDA FOOD FOREST: https://amzn.to/3GTmiz8 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

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

Dioscorea alata growing in a pot. 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

If you want your plants to live through a frosty night in a Southern garden, here are some simply tried-and-true methods to PUSH THE ZONE! Check out my book Push the Zone here: https://amzn.to/3PPBdwY 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 Cold nights can kill your garden, especially when you're in a warm climate and there's a sudden freeze. Here's how we're protecting plants through cold snaps. #frostprotection #gardeninghacks We'll look at how we're protecting our vegetable garden from frost, plus how we are protecting citrus from freezing.

Harness annuals and fill the gaps for maximum food production! Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3W4cA29 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 Sometimes we have this idea that orchards are mostly for trees. In my Grocery Row Garden system, we planted an orchard and then are surrounding it with annuals as well, getting yields far beyond what you might expect. In fast, we can grow food in thirty days, instead of waiting for the trees to produce. @StefanSobkowiak knows what I'm talking about!

Let's take a quick look around the garden before Christmas! Start Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3hlAdnP 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 the South is up and down in the winter. Sometimes it's warm, sometimes it's freezing. Right now, the weather is calm, cool and wet, and we have plenty still growing. Come along and take a garden tour. We'll look at the Victory Garden, the yam beds, and the Grocery Row Gardens, all covered in pretty weeds.

Today Daisy and I share how to plant sugarcane cuttings and how to grow sugar cane in a row garden in zones 8, 9 and beyond. Get David's Books: https://amzn.to/3BwbvI7 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 How to Grow Sugarcane (Even Outside the Tropics) Sugarcane is easy to grow from zone 8 on through the tropics. Today, Daisy and I will demonstrate how we plant them in rows. Fall is the time to plant sugarcane in the Deep South. Till up an area in which to plant and rake out all the weeds and grass you can. Then, dig some trenches about 3-4' apart. We make our trenches about six inches deep. Once you have your trenches ready, it's time to plant your cane. But first you need some cane cuttings! Though some sugarcane varieties set seed, cuttings are the normal method for growing sugarcane. You can get canes from a farmer's market or ethnic market, or online, then chop them up so each cane has a few nodes. We throw away the top, immature part of the cane and use the rest for planting. How to Plant Sugarcane We lay out cane cuttings in our trenches, end to end, continuing until all the trenches are planted. Then we cover over the trenches with soil. In a climate with winter frosts, it may also be beneficial to mulch the ground to project the canes from freezing. We throw down whatever mulch we have, from old sugarcane leaves to tree leaves, to straw or wood chips. When Does Sugarcane Sprout? Now all you have to do is wait until spring. When the weather warms, your cane will start sprouting. It looks like little corn sprouts as it comes up, then rapidly thickens and grows as the weather gets hotter. At the end of the season, before the first hard frost, harvest your canes for sale for making juice, syrup, sugar or other exciting things. A patch of sugarcane can last for years and will regrow the next spring when the weather warms. Uses of Sugarcane Sugarcane can be used to make cane syrup, juice, sugar and rum. It's also a beautiful ornamental. Thanks for watching!

Cutting up sugarcane for planting. Next year - Lord willing - we will have piles more! 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 discovered a wild blueberry patch in the woods - let's maximize it for fruit AND firewood! Coppice Agroforestry by Mark Krawczyk: https://amzn.to/3OXgx5P David's books: https://amzn.to/3iviTwK 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're coppicing oaks and sweet gum trees, as well as doing some pollarding. If we coppice woods for firewood production around this rabbiteye blueberry patch, we should be able to produce lots of blueberries as well as an abundant supply of firewood for winter.

As the summer grasses die down, we need green grass, legumes and brassicas for our Dexter dairy cows to eat - so we've done an experiment. The results so far are very encouraging! Check out David's books: https://amzn.to/3Fm18sS 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'll take you through the pasture to share some experiments with growing winter grass. We planted ecotill radish, Austrian winter peas, winter rye, grain rye, oats and three types of clover, starting in one pasture. Then, when we started to see results there, we did the same in the larger pasture with some changes in the planting/dragging/mowing order. As a bonus, I take you on a tour through the crazy cow highway we cut through the woods to connect two pastures. You could plant a no-till cover crop in the garden this way, by oversowing right on top of your grass, just by hand-seeding. The results are intriguing. Also, we look at how we fed seeds to cows and let them do some sowing for us, as the seeds pass through into manure and are put right on the pasture where they're thriving. These ideas are inspired by Greg Judy, Gabe Brown and other pasture management experts. I've also learned from people planting deer plots, though that usually is done with discing. What if you couple plant a deer plot without even tilling the soil? As we learn to grow great pasture and take care of dairy cows, we'll take you along with us. Thanks for watching.

As I stand here awkwardly, starting out of the thumbnail, I invite you on a garden tour. Also, check out my books! https://amzn.to/3F97Oug 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 started building our gardens a scant three months ago, and it's finally coming together. In the annual gardens, lack of rain, freezes and animal damage took their toll, but I think we're gonna be fine in spring! And the new food forest is really going to come together. This time as I plant a food forest, I am actually staying on the same property.

Not a good #Florida #survival crop... 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

Our sugar cane syrup making quest continues as we join Ben White in Lower Alabama and see his cane press and incredible cane boiler setup while enjoying the beautiful fall weather. Ben's system features a brick site-built cane syrup cooking area, fired by wood, and a 60-gallon steel kettle. His mill is a Chattanooga Plow Company model, and today he is borrowing a second antique cane mill powered by a hydraulic motor driven by a log-splitter. 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 sugar cane is easy - here are a few tips I've learned over the years. Check out David's books: https://amzn.to/3VibSgN 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 If you'd like to know how to grow sugar cane, this is the video for you. It's really simple to grow cane on a backyard scale. Today we talk about planting sugar cane, feeding sugar cane, making sugar cane cuttings and the wagon wheel method of planting sugar cane as shared by Danny at@Deep South Homestead

You don't need to have a big boiler to make syrup! Today we make cane syrup on a backyard scale with Danny and Wanda @Deep South Homestead Check out Deep South Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/@DeepSouthHomestead 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 Making cane syrup doesn't have to be a huge production. You can boil syrup in a huge kettle, or you can use a small barrel stove like Danny and Wanda. In this video David The Good documents how Danny and Wanda at Deep South Homestead make cane syrup, from growing sugarcane to crushing it in a Golden's syrup mill, to boiling down the juice to just the right temperature to make a couple of delicious gallons of homemade syrup.

There, now THAT's a video title! Check out my books: https://amzn.to/3TIBGSh See Josh Sattin's trellis system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqRMKOxaW8 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 are harvesting yams and using the "trellis to make you jealous" system from Josh Sattin. This is how we dig true yams. Plus I share tips on growing yams, even in zone 8.

Last year we began an experiment in making terra preta. In today's video, we'll see what happened. David's Books: https://amzn.to/3hBY2Y2 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 dig into our terra preta test bed and see what we can see. For the first season, everything grew very well. But later this year, the good growth stopped. My theory is that the trees are sucking up the fertility, but it could also be that the area we charged is running out of fertility. In this bed we buried bones, charcoal, manure, biochar and pottery shards to make terra preta. But it doesn't look like it's as amazing as it should be. What do you think? Leave a comment below!

And that concludes the growing year for tropicals... #LowerAlabama #FloridaPanhandle #LA PUSH THE ZONE: https://amzn.to/3UYTERz David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com

Cassava is DANGEROUS, right? Well... let's take a deeper look at this staple crop. Learn more about survival gardening and feeding your family in my books, where I explain many staple crops and methods in depth: https://amzn.to/3fWmyTs 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 Inside the continental US, cassava is generally unknown to gardeners, other than immigrants from warmer climates who grow some on a backyard scale. It's high in starch and often grows to about 12’ tall. Its palmate leaves and graceful cane-like branches are attractive in the landscape or in the garden. Cassava’s pseudonyms include yuca (with one “c,” NOT two – “yucca” is a completely unrelated species), manioc, the tapioca plant, and manihot. In Latin, it’s Manihot escuelenta. Cassava is virtually pest-free, drought tolerant, loaded with calories, capable of good growth in poor soil – cassava is a must-have anyplace it can grow. Once it’s hit maturity, you can basically dig it at any point for a few years (though the roots may sometimes get too woody to eat). If temperatures drop to freezing, your cassava will freeze to the ground. This won’t usually kill the plant, but it does mean you need to plan your growing accordingly. In the tropics is capable of growing huge roots and living for years. If you live north of USDA Growing Zone 10, occasional frosts will knock it down. Growing it at any zone beyond 8 may be an exercise in futility. Cassava needs warm days and nights to make good roots. Sadly, the plant contains a certain amount of cyanide, from its lovely leaves to its tasty roots. Boiling or fermenting gets a good bit of it out, so fear not. Compared to many things we eat, cassava's pretty tame. That said, there are "sweet" varieties and "bitter" varieties of cassava. Sweet types are low in cyanide and are safe to eat after cooking to fork-tender, but bitter types are high in it and need additional processing. You're unlikely to find high-cyanide varieties in the US. I don't have any "bitter" types in my garden, and have not seen them. All we do to make our cassava safe to eat is to cook it until it's soft, but that's because it's a "sweet" type. The bitterness of a cassava root usually correlates to its cyanide toxicity, Low rainfall and tough growing conditions tend to make roots more toxic. The takeaway here is that if your cassava roots taste bitter, they're probably not good to eat. That said, over a half-billion people eat cassava on a regular basis and manage to live just fine through it, so don't get too hung up. Get sweet varieties and take care of them, and cook them well. You can also soak cassava roots for a few days before cooking to make them even safer, though we don't bother doing that with our roots. There are Cassava cane cuttings for sale on ebay and Etsy. Chop a sturdy stem into pieces about 1.5’ long and stick them in the ground on their sides about two inches down and cover them lightly with soil. Select cuttings that have gotten woody, with bark that is no longer young and green. You can also plant the canes vertically, about 2/3 in the the ground, or even diagonally. Cassava likes irrigation and good soil. It will survive drought and heat. 6-12 months later (depending on care, variety and rainfall), they’ll be ready to start harvesting. To harvest, machete down the entire plant a foot or so from the ground, throw the branches to the side and start digging. Be careful, though – the roots are easy to chop through. The roots you’re looking for grow down and away from the main stem and are generally located in the first 1-2’ of soil. They’re deep brown with flaky skin. Don’t dig them too long before you’re going to process them as cassava doesn’t store well at all. Once you harvest the roots, you’ll want to chop up the rest of the plant to make a new set of canes for planting out. I snap off all the leaves and compost them, then cut the bare canes into planting size. Remember: canes that are too green tend to rot rather than root, so throw them on the compost too. Sturdy, 1-2” diameter canes are perfect. Ensure they’re right side up by looking for the tiny little growth buds by the leaf bases. That little dot should be above the leaf’s base, not below. You can bury cut canes in a box beneath the ground for the winter, you can let your current plants freeze to the ground and just wait for spring to bring new growth back… you can put cuttings in pots and bring them inside on freezing nights, then plant out in spring… or you can get a greenhouse and always keep a few plants in there for propagative stock. The roots can be chopped and frozen raw as well – they keep quite well that way. Start learning how to grow this plant. It’s a lifesaving staple.

In the middle of acres of cotton, Marcus Stewart shares how he makes cane syrup with an antique Golden's Cane Crusher and a giant cast iron cauldron in his syruping station. We see how to make cane syrup from juicing sugarcane, to boiling it down and jarring it up. The events in this documentary took place from 9AM to 6PM on Friday, November 4th, 2022. David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies A documentary on old-fashioned sugarcane syrup making in the Florida Panhandle, with Marcus Stewart, Joshua Ussery and Elyan Blanton. The sugarcane press is a century-old Golden's Sugar Cane Mill, powered by a Sears lawn tractor.