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Don't have enough compost? Me either! So we grew some! Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/3QFJCTq Compost Everything: (NON-AMAZON source): https://shop.aer.io/GoodBooks 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 Do you need to make compost? Do you need to know how to make LOTS of compost? Here's our method - we grow cover crops and turn them into compost! Some of the roots stay in the ground, making compost beneath the soil. The tops we can cut and mound into compost piles, building humus for the gardens. This cover crop includes mung beans, sorghum-sudan grass, black-eyed peas and sunn hemp. It fixes nitrogen and gives us lots of carbon. Cover cropping can fix bad soil, and can be grazed by animals to build topsoil fast - or you can till it under and garden the area. Making fast compost doesn't even need a pile. All you need is a handful of seeds to plant a cover crop!

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: https://amzn.to/3QGIoHO Check out Daisy's Good Gardens store for seeds and live plants: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens Check out Derek Clawson's plant nursery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SixFlowersCrafts Check out Josh Jamison's nursery Cody Cove Farm: https://codycovefarm.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 In less than two years, we transformed a patch of terrible sand into a lush jungle of food, recreating the tropical system we first developed in Grenada. Grocery Row Gardening borrows and builds on ideas from Stefan Sobkowiak, Andrew Millison, Geoff Lawton, Ernst Goetsch, Dave Wilson Nurseries, Ann Ralph, Steve Solomon, Bill Mollison and more. It's a food forest / forest garden system under control, in neat rows, alley cropping fruit trees and vegetables, short crops and long-term perennials together. Consider it an orchard with veggie beds beneath the tree rows - plus lots of other plants for the pollinators and for medicine. This is a good way to expand on backyard orchard culture and raised bed gardening - and it's full of life and new surprises every year! We do not spray any poisons in this system, instead relying on nature to be our natural garden pest control. The beds were fed with alfalfa pellets, chop and drop, Dave's Fetid Swamp Water, Steve Solomon's Complete Organic Fertilizer mix, biochar, lime, and chicken run compost - and they look great! Even with very little care (and complete neglect for almost two months), it's still thriving and growing. We have a survival food supply right here - storing food right in the ground! All these roots, including taro, yams, cassava, sweet potatoes and more - are a storable calorie source we can dig as we need.

We needed a place for Rachel to milk cows out of the rain, and we didn't want to spend money, as we were just borrowing the land. This little milking shed design was our solution and we built it in just a few hours! Good Books About Cows: Dairy Farming: The Beautiful Way by Adam J. Klaus: https://amzn.to/3SSkf2t Keeping a Family Cow by Joann S. Grohman: https://amzn.to/3wf7EMT David's books: https://amzn.to/3c3UHyG Good Books Direct (non-Amazon): https://shop.aer.io/GoodBooks 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 Keeping a family cow doesn't have to be expensive. This is a simple milking shed design with a headgate / stanchion and milking stool, made from local wood we cut ourselves, along with pallet wood. You could make a full pallet wood shed to milk your cows, but we had all these popcorn trees, so we used those. All you need to buy are some screws or nails!

These simple methods help you determine if you have a good spot to garden! Support this channel - get books by DAVID THE GOOD: https://amzn.to/3A3i1Ev 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 I recommend Logan Labs for soil testing: https://loganlabs.com/ If you want to know if your soil is good for gardening and are ready to start gardening in a new spot, the first thing you should do is look around! How does the grass look? What about the trees? Once you learn to "read" the land, you have a rough idea of where a good spot to garden might be. This is just the beginning, of course, as it's also useful to test the soil pH and mineral as well as organic matter content. However, it's gotten so I can usually tell right away if a garden will do well, just by looking at what is already growing. If azaleas are doing great, blueberries will as well. If you have lots of deciduous tree species, changes are you're in a good spot for planting an orchard. Wild grapes? Plant cultivated ones! It works well as a starting point. The more plant species and the denser and greener they are growing, the better your own gardening projects are likely to grow. Start a garden with these thoughts in mind.

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Don't miss this important first step! Get Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting - https://amzn.to/3OWDmF5 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com This easy composting method is easy to set up, whether you own or rent. You can make a DIY compost bin from pallets and zip ties in just a few minutes, especially if you have good help! Making compost is as easy as throwing stuff on the ground - but if you have a way to contain it, you can keep compost safe from roving animals. If the pallets have too many gaps in them and you have issues with rats, mice, possums or feral giraffes getting into the compost, just staple some hardware cloth to the sides of the bin and cover it with a fifth pallet. Make compost fast with a pallet compost bin, the super-easy way!

And yes indeed - we will be planting some Grocery Row Gardens! It's been a crazy journey, but we have found a homestead at long last. Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3PWMtH8 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Start composting today - get David's free booklet: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com

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Many plants died to bring you this information. 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 Today we'll talk about gardening in Florida and how my Florida gardening books came to be.

We pruned this fig tree WAY BACK at the beginning of fall last year. Here's how it looks now! Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3Ah48Vd Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph: https://amzn.to/3bw8vkL Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Other Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Thank you for watching! If you've wondered how to prune a fig tree, or if you're going to kill a fig tree by pruning it, today's video shows you the results of a SEVERE pruning! Cutting back a fig tree often makes it fruit again the next year, as fig tree fruits on the new growth. How wonderful!

Today we answer all your questions about using Dave's Fetid Swamp Water in the garden. Feed Your Garden Without Fertilizer - Get Compost Everything: https://amzn.to/3I1VYlo Dave's Fetid Swamp Water T-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener Alas, my previous video on our best homemade fertilizer raised a lot of questions. People have asked about how to dilute swamp water, if you can put poisonous plants in the compost, if it is dangerous, if swamp water breeds mosquitoes, and more. Today we answer your questions and share how we make and use this free fertilizer in our garden, stretching compost to insane levels! This method is also part of JADAM and Korean Natural Farming, though they do it a little differently than I. Also, Rachel the Good joins us to make this even more fun. Enjoy! Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8

Learn the trick to pruning fruit trees to keep them small. Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/39TBlvd Grow a Little Fruit Tree: https://amzn.to/3ynOeXw Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com I am often asked "when to prune fruit trees." The answer is "it depends!" In today's video, I share the proper timing for pruning fruit trees, both to shape them and to make fruit trees small enough to fit inside a small yard. We prune fruit trees twice a year to keep them small.

Let's talk about what works and what doesn't - and why it's okay! Get Free Plants for Everyone: https://amzn.to/3QEhDUG Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/3tdDXu7 Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3uIuhcf The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/3EPL6oZ (Goodstream #214) Florida Survival Gardening: https://amzn.to/2Xs9V6d Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: https://amzn.to/2VReBlH Today we'll talk about the fun of plant propagation and how to start your own backyard plant nursery.

What a year it's been so far! Too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry! All in one spring. Here's a garden tour showing what's doing great - and what isn't! Get Grocery Row Gardening and help me test this system! https://amzn.to/3ygA8Y2 The Good Gardens seed store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Start composting today - get David's free booklet: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Gardening isn't always easy, but it's sure full of surprises. Our 2022 garden has been tough, but we are pressing on.

Let's talk about plant propagation and how much fun it can be. Get Free Plants for Everyone: https://amzn.to/3QEhDUG Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/3tdDXu7 Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3uIuhcf The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/3EPL6oZ (Goodstream #214) Florida Survival Gardening: https://amzn.to/2Xs9V6d Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: https://amzn.to/2VReBlH Today we'll talk about the fun of plant propagation and how to start your own backyard plant nursery.

If you learn to propagate plants, people will finally like you. Also, this video is definitely not an ad for a book. Get Free Plants for Everyone: https://amzn.to/3zQEzdo Start Your Own Plant Nursery: https://amzn.to/3Nf2Qgj Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Plant propagation is easy and fun. When you learn to propagate plants, you'll save money and you might even make money. You can also make friends, save old plant varieties and even breed your own plant varieties! You can start plants from cuttings, from seeds, by grafting and more - the possibilities are endless. Start a plant nursery or use plants as bribes to make people like you! Win friends and influence people WITH PLANTS!

The potatoes failed. PIGEON PEAS TO THE RESCUE! This multi-function tropical nitrogen-fixing shrub is a Swiss Army knife species! Get Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting -https://amzn.to/3QzjVo8 Non-Amazon link to Compost Everything: https://shop.aer.io/GoodBooks/p/Compost_Everything_The_Good_Guide_to_Extreme_Compo/9781955289030-12447 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 gardens do poorly. One of the best ways to fix them is to plant cover crops. Today we plant pigeon peas in our bad potato patch. Pigeon peas are one of my favorite multi-use plants from the tropics. Growing pigeon peas both adds nitrogen to the soil and suppresses weeds. It's also a good plant to feed goats.

Wow - this wood is beautiful. What a nice uke! Makes me want to sawmill some mango into lumber. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Start composting today - get David's free booklet: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com #youtubeshorts

Roughly 12 years ago, I helped create this backyard Florida food forest. Though it is not actively managed for production, it is still a beautiful and productive system! Get the new edition of CREATE YOUR OWN FLORIDA FOOD FOREST - now extensively illustrated, with 330 pages of inspiration and more than 100 wonderful and edible plant species represented: https://amzn.to/3HAFbp6 Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com In this South Florida food forest, we are growing mangoes, starfruit, tropical greens, small fruits and nuts as well as medicinal plants. We're also building soil in what was terrible sand. You can grow food in Florida if you plant the right plants - and South Florida is particularly productive! Create your own Florida food forest today and turn grass into a garden of Eden! If we did it on a limited budget and are harvesting lots of food with very little work, you can do it too! Starting a food forest is easy, and you can read my books and watch my videos to learn how. This is Florida gardening on the easy setting!

This is the best way to transform a patch of bad soil without hauling in compost or spending $$$ on amendments. Get COMPOST EVERYTHING: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting here: https://amzn.to/3aSXObR Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Cover cropping adds life to the soil. Root exudates pump sugars into the ground, and increase good bacteria and fungi in your garden. If you want to add fungi to the garden as well as adding worms, bacteria and other good guys, plant a cover crop! This is a simple no-till method to build soil fast. You can plant Sudan-sorghum, rye grass, clover, millet, sunn hemp and other plants that will get to work adding sugar to the soil as they add organic matter! You don't need to make a compost pile to feed the garden - not when you can grow your own compost right in place! Any time you have bare soil, cover it with living plants and transform bad dirt like the regenerative farming people do! More about sunn hemp as a cover crop: https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/grow-crops/grow-grasses-forage/sunn-hemp-soil-building-superhero-forage-potential/

If you are in zones 8, 9, 10 and warmer, you need to try growing these amazing roots! Especially if the food supply lines crack. Get Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: https://amzn.to/3GSRbSM Check out Josh Sattin, inventor of the "trellis to make you jealous": https://www.youtube.com/c/JoshSattin Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com If you line in a warm climate, these three roots are a great way to add calories to the garden. We are concerned about fertilizer shortages and the food supply, so we plant a LOT of root crops. These survival food supply crops are in the ground year-round and we consider them our food storage pantry for emergencies. The three roots I cover today are true yams, dasheen/malanga and two tropical varieties of sweet potato. If you want to grow a survival garden, you should focus on calorie crops first and these three are great options especially for #floridagardening, gardening in the warmer half of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and California. And they're must-have crops in Hawaii! Today I share how to propagate yam, how to propagate sweet potato, and how to grow taro. Thanks for watching!

If you are worried about fertilizer shortages, this is one simple answer. A DIY bathtub worm bin is easy to build and makes homemade fertilizer 24/7. If I need more worm tea, I dump in a bucket of water and collect the worm leachate from the drain. I'm not worried about fertilizer shortages. The compost worms are working all the time. And it only took less than an hour to set up! Make your own fertilizer at home and feed plants without buying anything. Get COMPOST EVERYTHING: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting - https://amzn.to/3xaW2LN See the Worm Bin Build Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNKM_T7cPDc Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com

Today we'll talk about my brand-new book! Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/3tdDXu7 Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3uIuhcf The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/3EPL6oZ (Goodstream #213) Florida Survival Gardening: https://amzn.to/2Xs9V6d Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: https://amzn.to/2VReBlH

This Grocery Row Garden bed did horrible. Let's fix it. Start Grocery Row Gardening: https://amzn.to/3x3iNkR Compost Your Enemies T-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com Here are some tips and tricks for fixing a bad garden for the next season. When your garden does bad, make it good! Today we look at a poor potato yield in a grocery row garden and add some amendments to the bed. Today I share some tips and tricks for being new life to a bad garden bed. We use rabbit manure, lime, rotten potato plants and mulch to bring a bed back to life, then we plant sweet potatoes, okra and watermelon.

Why is he such a terrible person? Get Grocery Row Gardening - OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY!: https://amzn.to/3GiwgIn Water-Wise Gardening by Steve Solomon: https://amzn.to/3PHHnPy Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway: https://amzn.to/3a7WIbF Multiple people have asked me why I hate raise beds. In today's video, we talk about raised bed gardening and the best gardening method for YOU! Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8 Start composting today - get David's free booklet: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ David's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com