Don't get caught in complicated systems and don't overthink. You can grow a good garden and feed yourself. Here are the mistakes to avoid! Resources: Some of the best gardening tools: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/recommended-books-tools/best-gardening-tools/ Single Row Gardening: ua-cam.com/video/k-O5LfwNYx0/v-deo.html Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies "My Root Exudate Milkshake Brings All The Soil Life to the Yard" Tee: the-david-the-good-store.creator-spring.com/ Start composting today - get David's free booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening: amzn.to/3mLb7yt
I love potatoes too! And you can eat a nice sized 'baked' potato all by itself and be full (I also like them RAW, lol!). I agree with ensuring you grow what will fill you but don't forget those 'beans'! That's all the old Cowboys ate on the trail consistently and there was a reason for that. I very much get keeping your beds simple but the 'Old Ways' are best suited to the YOUNG. If your OLD or have disabilities; don't have enough land mass or have RESTRICTIONS in your situation there may be no getting around Raised Beds. Also, CLAY SOIL. It's hard to grow in or work with. You have to take the 'totality' of your situation into consideration when it comes to gardening. Now in a SHTF situation I would dig up the Native soil and put it POTS that I could reach and I believe in using RAIN to it's fullest extent but there's this thing called: DROUGHT that can put a 'wretch' in that scenario. *Bottom line: DO YOU!*
I wanted a garden but could not do all the physical labor to make, plant, and weed inground gardens. So I am a container gardening. I do this alone at 73 yrs and it does help with the groceries. I know it will never feed us completely, but do what I can. One kale plant can feed us all summer. 3 spinach plants I can put some in the freezer, etc.
So agree with you. I am in my 70s and have arthritis which I control with good food. I also grow everything in pots or raised beds made from old fence palings. It’s so much better for me as I can control what’s in the soil I also use composting in place in my pots and end up with beautiful soil for my plants.
@smart viewer 👋 #David does look lean and strong. And he’s right. Growing in the ground is wonderful, when you can bend over. Sadly and extremely Painfully I can’t. But I sure use to. Getting down close to your food is #Wonderful ✌️
@@hopeking3588 It’s very easy. I grow it in 15 or even 3 gl pots all the time. Dont worry too much, put in some sprouted store bought potatoes, you will get 5-10 times more
I hear ya! I am 71 and three quarters. I am old and creaky and grow in raised beds.But I find them limiting in size. I have a lot of them as well as loads of big big pots. I want to rip them all out and plant in the ground. I have two huge compost piles that I flip with a pitch fork. My shoulders ache but I am very fit. Lol my husband will be thrilled…not really! I want a broad fork correction I need a broad fork! Keys’s if I stop buying all the crap for raised beds I can afford all of David the Goods t-shirts and get the rest of his books. Win win!
It's impressive how much you've got out of that terrible looking soil. I guess that's the benefit of understanding fundamentals vs complicated systems.
My dad was a big ole corn fed North Texas farm boy. His family practiced dry land farming because irrigation wasn't possible for the average farmer back during the Great Depression. He said that the farming method they used was called the Three Ps... Plow, Plant, Pray... They used mules to pull the plow. They grew sugar cane and peanuts as cash crops. They grew potatoes and corn as calorie crops. They raised hogs for meat. The mom and sisters raised the kitchen garden. The dad and the boys raised the farm crops. A pretty fair division of family labor. The sugar cane was pressed by itenerant cane processers on the halves. The farmer raised and harvested the crop, the processers pressed the juice from the canes. The squeezed canes were then chopped up into sweet fodder for the livestock. They had a milk cow and chickens in addition to the hogs, mules and horses. Nothing went to waste. They weren't rich but they never had to line up at a soup kitchen like so many people had to do during the Great Depression.
All the compost "do's and don'ts" AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!! Literally I just throw everything in the same spot and let it do its thing. Meat scraps, food that's gone bad in the back of the fridge, moldy Halloween pumpkins, tea dregs, EVERYTHING!! I've had pumpkin vines and bell peppers and broccoli and avocados and tomatoes and squash and watermelon grow on their own in abundance right from the loose whatever-compost pile!! There are NO rules for compost! It's literally nature doing its thing how its supposed to do it. Just beautiful.
I homeschool and most of his schooling is learning about growing foods, learning what to forage, how to cook from scratch on a fire, herbal remedies, and animals 😊 for history were reading a wonderful book I paid like $2-3 for at thriftbooks called, Children of the West. Great video!!! Thanks to Daisy for the seeds ✅
I love you Sissy...I really, really love you Sissy.....sorry wrong movie...So you have managed to win me over with K.I.S.S gardening. I have 8 different sized beds. I use only rocks and tree limbs for the borders and I continue to stub my big a...feet on the 16" walkwats...walkways.... "NO MORE" beds!! my new area will be 3-4 rows(each mounded)with "WIDE" paths. I love reimaging my new garden....Thanks. You are REALLY GOOD....DAVID...
Amen amen amen. We totally agree. I’ve composted for 26 years. Always had to laugh at all those that make God’s process difficult. I’ve never worried about any hard/fast rules & formulas but always had great success. Thanks as always for a great video.
I resisted raised beds at first, but it's what I'm going with for now, for a few reasons: 1. My soil is incredibly thin and hard. It takes a heavy-duty tractor to do anything with it. 2. My garden space seems to attract children, dogs, meth heads, and heavy machinery, all of which want to trample my in-ground beds. Even a short six-inch barrier prevents that. 3. It seems to be the best use of my compost. I tried a tilled row garden my first year and dumped an entire bin of compost on it. You can't even tell I added anything and the soil is as hard as ever. 4. It's very hard keeping grass from taking over in-ground beds without a border. Having done back-breaking work to prepare lousy in-ground beds, the raised beds aren't really that bad of an investment. They do force me to plant intensively, but I have found that the right spacing helps shade the soil and locks in moisture. I also keep the beds mulched with nearby grass and leaves, which also helps a lot. Plus, the compost holds in moisture. I find that I don't have to water these beds very much. This isn't to say David is wrong! You have to experiment and figure out what works for you. I'm trying some Ruth Stout-style hay beds to see if I can build soil that doesn't require frames and outside inputs. I'm also trying some Fukuoka lazy beds where I just cut down the grass and toss seed over it. Our gardens should be laboratories.
I think his point is that materials for the sides of raised beds shouldn't be a barrier for entry. There are plenty of benefits to having raised beds, especially with soil like his. This is about survival gardening. Quick, dirty, easy and productive.
Excellent advice! I'm 69 years old and dreamed of gardening and raising my own food for way too many years before I was inspired (by you and a few others) to just get started and quit waiting until I could "afford it" or "know enough" to start! I sure wish I had learned how simple it could be years ago. No more excuses! This is my second year and I'm amazed at how much I've learned by doing!
"Apocalypse French Fries" sounds like a great song title. Incredible and informative video; thanks for putting this out. Super pumped about getting calories in the ground. We harvested darn near 100 pounds of sweet potatoes the other day and it was a large sight more satisfying than harvesting arugula.
@@NoNORADon911 why did freedom fries not take off so well? If you’re referring to French fried sweet taters, could be they were over done. If this is what you mean. Next time use a mixture of sweet salted “great” grass fed beef butter and EVOO. Being careful to not have the heat too hot. And just cook a small amount at a time. One of the best are the one that’s not murdered in the frying pan. Tip: Iron pan works best. 😋 My family lines up and says, me, me next please. Your eyes are the best gauge for doneness. But a sharp icepick will tell you when life is still in that piece of golden French Fried Sweet Tater is ready for, finger licking good nutritionally greatness. Everyone will be watching the calendar date for ready to eat, says the Grower. 🍠 Peace
@@marylouise890 Freedom fries was a term coined by U.S. Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) in response to France's refusal to join the carnage in the Iraq War that the US was busy launching in late 2002-early 2003. He sponsored a bill requiring the Capitol cafeterias to relabel "french fries" as "freedom fries", and some restaurants went with the name change until they realized people no longer supported the Iraq War and quietly reverted their menus.
Your wife is right about the compost. Struggled for years, got your book, said p"SS on it and worked like a charm. Enjoying great compost for my little gardens this year. Thank You 🙏 and HMD over and over and over and over.........
Thirty years ago, I purchased two standard Jonathan apple saplings from a catalog. When an early frost doesn't get the blossoms, I get a nice crop of apples from those two trees. For many years, I've grown tomatoes, not for a huge supply, canned in jars. I grow them simply because they taste better on a B.L.T. sandwich than any tomato from the grocery store. Two years ago, I grew potatoes. I wanted to know how to grow them. I harvested ten pounds of potatoes that Fall. The growing season is short here in Northern Michigan.
We live in the foothills near Yosemite and the ground here is over run by gophers. If you plant anything right on the ground, you will not have a garden. It is a must to gather any scrap lumber even pine (not pressure treat) and dig down a bit, set the bottomless "box" and line it with wire, and only then can you have a garden.
From Australia Thank you David for your down to earth practical info .You guys are truly a gift to the world in these perilous times. It's like you were born for this! You and your gorgeous wife with your musical and comical talent entwined into potential life saving information Just brilliance Warm regards Judy
Amen! Thank you so much for making this video! That's all I'm saying why does it have to be more complicated than throwing your dirt pulling all the weeds and spacing your plants 🤷♀️
I'm home today been binge watching your videos all day. Love your new property, your family is blessed. I know the move was alit of work, hope yall are getting settled in. Endless opportunities there. Your cows look very happy too! Yall take care and enjoy your beautiful home.
Good advice. Sometimes there's necessity for complicated systems like earth sheltered greenhouses passive some active heating in places like Montana type climates (zone 5/ kinda worse dessert steppe gnarly)
You and Rachel have a great way of making videos informative and witty. I always learn a bunch of new things to try in my yarden. Watered down worm casting juice on the garden, brilliant! All of your books are excellent!
I wish we didn't need raised beds. We have rocks just inches below the dirt and we can't even break through them with a tiller. But, I am gonna try the lasagna garden without lumber borders. I hope it works. Also...that sheep or whatever in the back at 6:30...😂😂
I moved to the Skyline area of Alabama. It has some great history. When people built Hwy 79 most were poor and didn't have much food. They were given a sweet potato a day. There's allot to be said about those root crops!
Excellent advice! You have me using my machete all around the yard, chopping and dropping, clearing overgrown stuff, digging up big roots.... I love it! ✌🏻
2 years ago I planted chestnut trees as my calorie crop. I read in "Trees of Power" that they're quite reliable. While I'm waiting on those I plant potatoes and well.. maybe I'll keep planting potatoes after the chestnuts are cranking just because I also could eat french fries through the apocolypse haha.
I love a good back to basics video. One additional thing, is that back in the day, our grandparents didn't have as much trouble with pests, since they shot and ate every groundhog, deer, and rabbit that they could. But these days we're completely over run by hungry critters, so in my opinion, a new gardener's number one priority should be a fence.
Calories are such an underrated guideline here in urban New England. Food prices are crazy right now and my family is doing just fine with boatloads of native flint corn, beans, nuts, and roots. It's not steak but no one can afford steak right now.
I’m very confined for space and have to keep a certain level of acceptable appearance since my best sun is in front yard and I’m in a traditional suburban neighborhood. Thank God there’s no HOA though. So open ground growing in traditional sense is not possible but I grow “flower” beds with food plants tucked in along with several metal raised beds. Had a huge crop of potatoes this past spring.
I am SO enjoying your channel! I'm 66 yrs. old, grew up rural w/ depression era grandfather's garden which was rows. Lots of beans, root veg. , squash, potatoes, etc. My Mom and grandma canned and packed the root cellar for winter. We ate all year off that garden in zone 6. Gardening has become a hobby industry these days. I am so glad to see more people interested and gardening and putting food by again. Folks like you are teaching them what wasn't passed down to them.
Thank you,I have watched this 3 times. This time I really needed it. My raised beds wood has worn out. Husband wanted new trendy metal ones. I said No. When he was gone one day,I dug up a section in back yard. planted Okra and Corn. I was amazed it grew! so now getting rid of my 6 4x8 rotten wood beds and digging down to grow in ground. Enjoy your site with family.
I think you are missing one point, although your overall message is much more important (because your right). You finally have a lot of land at your disposal. Therefore wide rows make sense for you, to save water. However someone limited by space has a much different set of problems. My point is you must know your limiting factor first. Besides someone limited by space can plant super closely to save water. Relying on shade to conserve the water by having no open soil showing. More food in a smaller space. With everything shaded by the fruit trees.
I'm in Phoenix. Are annual rainfall is 8 inches...in a good year. Sometimes 5 inches. A year. My folks live in AL, they get 60 inches a year. I need close space and irrigation, because I feel like I'm terraforming a rock right now.
I think u both would love Indiana. Actually nah our winters are severe too. I get about 1.5 months more growing than ur Idaho climate. I'm using an insulated and heated room in my barn to keep peppers & tomatoes alive ( maybe) till next growing season. Most of my tomatoes died, but a few are hanging on. Experiments keep me busy when I can't get into the dirt.... bc the ground is frozen. These plants are all summer survivors dug out of the ground or accidental seeds that sprouted before our frost hit.
You bring me more and more to simplicity every time. I see that it works in my garden and it's appreciated. A thanks to one of my UA-cam Gardening professors, lol
Thanks for the heads up and kudos for managing to purchase some land for yourself and the family. I have a small paved area, where I cannot access the ground. I decided to use what I had, which was pretty limited. It doesn't matter because I turned a bunch of polystyrene brocoli box's into wicking containers supported by a potable tubed car shelter, without the cover, over the top. I now have a good selection of greens, herbs and vine veggies, which I grow vertically with the help of bailing twine. The 25 m square space has been utilised and supplied me with half our fresh veggie needs. It would be great to have my own place with a bit of ground and fortunately I have a plan in place to be able to this in a few years but until then I have used 2 or 3 moderately complicated growing systems which I have fashioned to work well for me. A bit of sweat and creative flair and the world is your oyster, I mean garden. Good luck
Good job working with what you have! I don't actually own the land we are on, but am grateful to God for allowing us to rent a place with some space. In the past, I gardened on a borrowed lot and on a balcony. It's not ideal, but if you're clever - like you! - you can grow food.
@@davidthegood absolutely, its a skill everyone should have, even just to supplement some produce, particularly herbs, they are packed with flavour and minerals. I hope you can get a space one day to call your own. It seems you care for and consider the value of the environment and nature very much. This is a great life long attitude that all of us care share with future generations.
I am a big fan of simplicity, and letting things happen as naturally as possible - less interference means less work. :) My soil is great and I get plenty of rain so I can just cram crops together and household and garden waste provides enough compost to feed it year after year. I do a three year rotation of roots/peas&beans/fruits&leaves and it always provides an abundance of food and seed for the next year.
Wow... I see your channel is approaching it's 15 year anniversary... and this is the first time I've watched one of your videos. My bad. Here in Maine the outdoor growing season is over, so time to catch up on learning from others, tool care and planning for the future. Thank you for taking time to teach.
Yup… after reading Solomon’s book about growing food in hard times really woke me about about spacing… I’m in a very arid climate of TX and haven’t watered my potatoes once since planting… trust me that’s a BIG DEAL after growing market style in the past. wide spacing + minimal inputs = historical resilient farming
Most definitely. As someone in Southern Ontario, Canada trying to develop landrace field corns, the comparison between the tightly-spaced beds and the widely-spaced ones was an absolute night and day difference. It seems that no matter where one is, wide spacing is clearly key for resilient food production!
YES! I fell for the raised beds, and then realized how much water I had to use. Removed them and very rarely water, and have fewer disease and insect issues. I think the plants are less stressed….no more wet, dry , wet and now consistent moisture.
This reminds me of the expensive "self watering" deck raised beds I found thrown out on trash day a few years back. Gleefully I brought them home. 3 years later I gave them to someone else as I had poor luck growing in them, they would either waterlog from rain, dry out too quick, and the slugs lived the moist hideaway compartment where they could hang out then come munch on plants upstairs. I've been getting more K.I.S.S lately
I grew blackeyes this summer and they were delicious!! Also still have eggplants growing from this summer. Fall planting is tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, carrots, radish, beets, and potatoes. I also have greens growing or trying to grow. Bell peppers and jalepenos still growing from the spring. Mine are raised beds and I will expand them next year! In ground- forget it- too many weeds take it over in Louisiana! I already have a full time job thank you very much. I also have a dwarf satsuma in a pot and a Celeste fig in a pot- which I’ll plant when I figure out where I want them. This spring will be getting blueberries, blackberries, and satsumas, and grapefruit. I need to plant the two raspberries I bought this summer. Then when I retire in 2023 I’ll get my layers!
A big mistake I made this year was planting too many subflowers, as my seed collection was humongous I just couldnt resist. Well it shrunk the rest of my crops, down to almost no yeilds, everything was sick. Just an awful drought in the midwest too. Next year im making changes, I keep a grow journal so hopefully next year turns around my bad experience.
I have to agree with you. There are alot of folks that think they need fancy stuff to grow food. U just need dirt, seed and water. If it grows it grows. If it doesn't you figure it out. I knew an old man that grew potatoes in his old tractor tires. 🤷♂️ it worked!
So right David, my grandmother couldn't run to the store for things,they were serious about growing food! Sometime they didn't have sugar, so she often sweetened things with fruit! Also, was wondering why you guys weren't try to raise more of your own meat.If you don't like the processing part,you can find someone to butcher and dress your meat on the halves! They get half and you get half! Good meat is expensive and who knows where it may have come from! Living traditions homestead just put out a video on fast growing meat,rabbits and quail! The rabbit fertilizer and rabbit urine are very useful,plus the children would love having little bunnies!Take care and God bless!
They would love the bunnies that just made fertilizer the ones for dinner well they need to know that up front so to not get as attached like they would to a pet.
@SouthFloridaSunshine my youngest sister, worked in a preschool where a 4 year old girl informed the class that meat taste better if it had a name before being put in the freezer
Lol the calories thing. “You are not a rabbit”. Yea…. I figured that out years ago thank god. Potatoes 🥔 and chickens, or any other animal you can raise.
Thanks David, I love your videos they're so stuffed with great, logical info...and I love the simplicity of everything you do!!! Thanks so much for sharing all your wisdom with us...it's greatly appreciated!! God bless you n your family brother!!😀😉
Love these thoughts, especially your promotion of in-ground gardening. I'm battling some bermuda grass this first season, but I've already started smothering it for expanding my beds in the spring. but if I waited for the cost of lumber to come down so I could afford to make the raised beds (and fill them), I would still be waiting.
I kill the Bermuda by laying down a silage tarp on the surface for atleast 3 months, then use woven landscape fabric as the border once you pull up the tarp… super simple… if it gets overtaken by Bermuda tarp it again. One tarp, two spots, sliding back and forth when needed
Me and my wife have been doing this within our own scope since we purchased our house. We live in a corner lot in town and our front yard is full sun. Little by little we have added veggies and flowers together and as we collected free materials and just built what we could with what we could get for cheap or free. We did do raised beds because it took us years to mend our soil where we are planting in the ground.
Again another great video. I also watched your double dig garden video that inspired me to not save money to build the raised garden bed but to use what I already have. I just finished one ground garden bed the other day. Man that was a lot of work but I found peace out there digging, weeding and planting. It looks fantastic and I'm actually waiting for dusk to see better and get out there again to start my 2nd one. I'm here in Northern FL and I am nearly done with with your book "Crazy Easy Florida Gardening" and then I will start your other book "Florida Survival Gardening." In your video here, you mention your other book "Grow or Die," is that material in the FL Survival Gardening? I wish I had all the money to buy all your books. Thank you for wonderful videos as well.
I do permaculture. I let weeds go and then chop and dro them. 1 row weeds 1 row food. Stinging nettle attracts aphids and ladybugs. Lady bug's feed on the aphids. Next year I will leave 1 of each crop to rot in the soil as an experiment. Everything is peranial until a human decided it wasn't. So my involment in the planting and prepping is unneeded. I only go and pick the food and purposely Leave some of it to rot in place for next year.
Great advice! Re. The turnips...my husband says the only thing they're good for is target practice. He doesn't like to eat them. I grated some and fried them til brown. He actually ate them and said it was good!
Thanks so much for these reminders. I'm one of those Floridians easily distracted in my garden trying all sorts of convoluted ideas. Your video reminded me my machete and hoe haven't left the shed all summer in favor of watching for the sales this week at Publix. Meanwhile the rabbits are feasting on my greens. Now that the summer heat has ended time for me to open that shed again and pound some dirt.
"I could eat french fries all through the apocalypse". LOL. I loved this video. I too have planted mostly peppers in my garden. I love that they flourish, but I don't have enough use for them. Moving towards root crops next year.
I started off doing all the difficult things.. now, watching you, I'm a lot more relaxed and experimental with my space. Also, the first compost pile I got up to °160F and it was a decent amount of work. I now do the lazy composting. Throw it back there, let it rot. Whats funny is when you think it won't be ready for a year... that time will goes by fast and in a blink its been a year and you have beautiful nutrition!!
Thank you for encouraging simplicity. I am learning to garden in MS, but it's new and foreign to me. Thank the Lord for your videos. I am ingesting all that I can.
I would love to have an in-ground garden but I have clay soil and would probably need a lot of expensive amendments for it to work. I'm on a limited budget. That's why I'm thinking of having raised gardens instead, with wood I already have and buying some bags of soil over time to mix with leaves I've been saving.
Great video. Yes I have raised beds and I love them but before that it was all row gardening. Worked great. I put my back into it but loved it. The raised beds didn't happen overnight. I will still plant certain things in my clay soil. Thank you I needed this video. The composting 👍🏼 love it.
My earlier gardening ventures were attempts to make gardening innovative with all sorts of tricks and gadgets. I eventually discovered a solar powered hydroponic system in an organic medium that exists everywhere. The power of the sun evaporates water that is cooled by the atmosphere and it drops water on my abundant growing medium (we call it earth soil) … yeah nature is the best complex doohickey gadget to grow food with.
Here in Massachusetts we have almost no dirt. We have rocks, rocks and larger rocks. Lasagna gardening is our friend and works amazingly, but it takes planning and time for everything to decompose.
I absolutely agree with the leafy foods. No they don't fill you up (unless you eat like 8 cups or have it LOADED), but many of them have great medicinal properties that could save your life after SHTF.
Don't get caught in complicated systems and don't overthink. You can grow a good garden and feed yourself. Here are the mistakes to avoid!
Resources:
Some of the best gardening tools: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/recommended-books-tools/best-gardening-tools/
Single Row Gardening: ua-cam.com/video/k-O5LfwNYx0/v-deo.html
Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies
"My Root Exudate Milkshake Brings All The Soil Life to the Yard" Tee: the-david-the-good-store.creator-spring.com/
Start composting today - get David's free booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening: amzn.to/3mLb7yt
When you can get turnip seed for $3.50 a pound it's kind of a no brainer.
@Milan Velky I have chickens. In other words I have my very own guano mine.
@Milan Velky Mine are nearly wild. The come in at night but are free all day long. Mine are very healthy.
Grow or Die- is that also a tee?
I love potatoes too! And you can eat a nice sized 'baked' potato all by itself and be full (I also like them RAW, lol!). I agree with ensuring you grow what will fill you but don't forget those 'beans'! That's all the old Cowboys ate on the trail consistently and there was a reason for that.
I very much get keeping your beds simple but the 'Old Ways' are best suited to the YOUNG. If your OLD or have disabilities; don't have enough land mass or have RESTRICTIONS in your situation there may be no getting around Raised Beds. Also, CLAY SOIL. It's hard to grow in or work with.
You have to take the 'totality' of your situation into consideration when it comes to gardening. Now in a SHTF situation I would dig up the Native soil and put it POTS that I could reach and I believe in using RAIN to it's fullest extent but there's this thing called: DROUGHT that can put a 'wretch' in that scenario. *Bottom line: DO YOU!*
I wanted a garden but could not do all the physical labor to make, plant, and weed inground gardens. So I am a container gardening. I do this alone at 73 yrs and it does help with the groceries. I know it will never feed us completely, but do what I can. One kale plant can feed us all summer. 3 spinach plants I can put some in the freezer, etc.
So agree with you. I am in my 70s and have arthritis which I control with good food. I also grow everything in pots or raised beds made from old fence palings. It’s so much better for me as I can control what’s in the soil I also use composting in place in my pots and end up with beautiful soil for my plants.
@smart viewer 👋
#David does look lean and strong. And he’s right. Growing in the ground is wonderful, when you can bend over. Sadly and extremely Painfully I can’t. But I sure use to.
Getting down close to your food is #Wonderful
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@@hopeking3588 It’s very easy. I grow it in 15 or even 3 gl pots all the time. Dont worry too much, put in some sprouted store bought potatoes, you will get 5-10 times more
True , I'm container gardening , I'm 80.
I hear ya! I am 71 and three quarters. I am old and creaky and grow in raised beds.But I find them limiting in size. I have a lot of them as well as loads of big big pots. I want to rip them all out and plant in the ground. I have two huge compost piles that I flip with a pitch fork. My shoulders ache but I am very fit. Lol my husband will be thrilled…not really! I want a broad fork correction I need a broad fork! Keys’s if I stop buying all the crap for raised beds I can afford all of David the Goods t-shirts and get the rest of his books. Win win!
Tremendous respect for anyone who admits salad greens do not make a person feel "full"....
It's impressive how much you've got out of that terrible looking soil. I guess that's the benefit of understanding fundamentals vs complicated systems.
My dad was a big ole corn fed North Texas farm boy. His family practiced dry land farming because irrigation wasn't possible for the average farmer back during the Great Depression. He said that the farming method they used was called the Three Ps... Plow, Plant, Pray... They used mules to pull the plow. They grew sugar cane and peanuts as cash crops. They grew potatoes and corn as calorie crops. They raised hogs for meat. The mom and sisters raised the kitchen garden. The dad and the boys raised the farm crops. A pretty fair division of family labor. The sugar cane was pressed by itenerant cane processers on the halves. The farmer raised and harvested the crop, the processers pressed the juice from the canes. The squeezed canes were then chopped up into sweet fodder for the livestock. They had a milk cow and chickens in addition to the hogs, mules and horses. Nothing went to waste. They weren't rich but they never had to line up at a soup kitchen like so many people had to do during the Great Depression.
All the compost "do's and don'ts" AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!! Literally I just throw everything in the same spot and let it do its thing. Meat scraps, food that's gone bad in the back of the fridge, moldy Halloween pumpkins, tea dregs, EVERYTHING!! I've had pumpkin vines and bell peppers and broccoli and avocados and tomatoes and squash and watermelon grow on their own in abundance right from the loose whatever-compost pile!! There are NO rules for compost! It's literally nature doing its thing how its supposed to do it. Just beautiful.
David the good 😂 you are the best! You win.
I homeschool and most of his schooling is learning about growing foods, learning what to forage, how to cook from scratch on a fire, herbal remedies, and animals 😊 for history were reading a wonderful book I paid like $2-3 for at thriftbooks called, Children of the West.
Great video!!! Thanks to Daisy for the seeds ✅
Thank you.
I love you Sissy...I really, really love you Sissy.....sorry wrong movie...So you have managed to win me over with K.I.S.S gardening. I have 8 different sized beds. I use only rocks and tree limbs for the borders and I continue to stub my big a...feet on the 16" walkwats...walkways.... "NO MORE" beds!! my new area will be
3-4 rows(each mounded)with "WIDE" paths. I love reimaging my new garden....Thanks. You are REALLY GOOD....DAVID...
Amen amen amen. We totally agree. I’ve composted for 26 years. Always had to laugh at all those that make God’s process difficult. I’ve never worried about any hard/fast rules & formulas but always had great success. Thanks as always for a great video.
I resisted raised beds at first, but it's what I'm going with for now, for a few reasons:
1. My soil is incredibly thin and hard. It takes a heavy-duty tractor to do anything with it.
2. My garden space seems to attract children, dogs, meth heads, and heavy machinery, all of which want to trample my in-ground beds. Even a short six-inch barrier prevents that.
3. It seems to be the best use of my compost. I tried a tilled row garden my first year and dumped an entire bin of compost on it. You can't even tell I added anything and the soil is as hard as ever.
4. It's very hard keeping grass from taking over in-ground beds without a border.
Having done back-breaking work to prepare lousy in-ground beds, the raised beds aren't really that bad of an investment. They do force me to plant intensively, but I have found that the right spacing helps shade the soil and locks in moisture. I also keep the beds mulched with nearby grass and leaves, which also helps a lot. Plus, the compost holds in moisture. I find that I don't have to water these beds very much.
This isn't to say David is wrong! You have to experiment and figure out what works for you. I'm trying some Ruth Stout-style hay beds to see if I can build soil that doesn't require frames and outside inputs. I'm also trying some Fukuoka lazy beds where I just cut down the grass and toss seed over it. Our gardens should be laboratories.
I like them too. He must not have back problems because those of us with health issues need the beds raised.
Just be careful that your hay isn't laced with a herbicide. It can kill your entire garden for a couple years if you're not be careful. Know your hay.
I think his point is that materials for the sides of raised beds shouldn't be a barrier for entry. There are plenty of benefits to having raised beds, especially with soil like his. This is about survival gardening. Quick, dirty, easy and productive.
@@vonries I cut it on my own land with a scythe.
Bad to the bone, Josh!
Excellent advice! I'm 69 years old and dreamed of gardening and raising my own food for way too many years before I was inspired (by you and a few others) to just get started and quit waiting until I could "afford it" or "know enough" to start! I sure wish I had learned how simple it could be years ago. No more excuses! This is my second year and I'm amazed at how much I've learned by doing!
Good work, Beth
@@davidthegood thank you! For everything!
"Apocalypse French Fries" sounds like a great song title. Incredible and informative video; thanks for putting this out. Super pumped about getting calories in the ground. We harvested darn near 100 pounds of sweet potatoes the other day and it was a large sight more satisfying than harvesting arugula.
Freedom Fries did not take off so well
@@NoNORADon911 why did freedom fries not take off so well?
If you’re referring to French fried sweet taters, could be they were over done. If this is what you mean.
Next time use a mixture of sweet salted “great” grass fed beef butter and EVOO. Being careful to not have the heat too hot. And just cook a small amount at a time.
One of the best are the one that’s not murdered in the frying pan.
Tip: Iron pan works best. 😋
My family lines up and says, me, me next please.
Your eyes are the best gauge for doneness. But a sharp icepick will tell you when life is still in that piece of golden French Fried Sweet Tater is ready for, finger licking good nutritionally greatness.
Everyone will be watching the calendar date for ready to eat, says the Grower.
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Peace
@@marylouise890 Freedom fries was a term coined by U.S. Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) in response to France's refusal to join the carnage in the Iraq War that the US was busy launching in late 2002-early 2003. He sponsored a bill requiring the Capitol cafeterias to relabel "french fries" as "freedom fries", and some restaurants went with the name change until they realized people no longer supported the Iraq War and quietly reverted their menus.
@@NoNORADon911 thank you.
Little different Fries…
@@marylouise890 Yes ha, your info is still appreciated. 😋
Thank you for this❤.. inspired me to go get my spade and just do it
Your wife is right about the compost. Struggled for years, got your book, said p"SS on it and worked like a charm. Enjoying great compost for my little gardens this year. Thank You 🙏 and HMD over and over and over and over.........
Thirty years ago, I purchased two standard Jonathan apple saplings from a catalog. When an early frost doesn't get the blossoms, I get a nice crop of apples from those two trees. For many years, I've grown tomatoes, not for a huge supply, canned in jars. I grow them simply because they taste better on a B.L.T. sandwich than any tomato from the grocery store. Two years ago, I grew potatoes. I wanted to know how to grow them. I harvested ten pounds of potatoes that Fall. The growing season is short here in Northern Michigan.
Wisest gardening (and everything else) advice I ever heard.
Loved it. One of my favorite sayings I've heard all my life, "keep it simple stupid"
This video is why this is my favorite gardening channel🌿🍄🍃🌾🌻🌹
We live in the foothills near Yosemite and the ground here is over run by gophers. If you plant anything right on the ground, you will not have a garden. It is a must to gather any scrap lumber even pine (not pressure treat) and dig down a bit, set the bottomless "box" and line it with wire, and only then can you have a garden.
In some cases, you may just have to grow in beds.
From Australia Thank you David for your down to earth practical info .You guys are truly a gift to the world in these perilous times. It's like you were born for this!
You and your gorgeous wife with your musical and comical talent entwined into potential life saving information
Just brilliance
Warm regards
Judy
Thanks David! Watch all your videos that I can! 💕❤️
Amen! Thank you so much for making this video! That's all I'm saying why does it have to be more complicated than throwing your dirt pulling all the weeds and spacing your plants 🤷♀️
I'm home today been binge watching your videos all day.
Love your new property, your family is blessed. I know the move was alit of work, hope yall are getting settled in. Endless opportunities there.
Your cows look very happy too!
Yall take care and enjoy your beautiful home.
Thank you
You should do a time lapse video of you making a whole bed
Good advice. Sometimes there's necessity for complicated systems like earth sheltered greenhouses passive some active heating in places like Montana type climates (zone 5/ kinda worse dessert steppe gnarly)
You and Rachel have a great way of making videos informative and witty. I always learn a bunch of new things to try in my yarden. Watered down worm casting juice on the garden, brilliant! All of your books are excellent!
I was so grateful once I tried this system. We have really big paths between the rows and really long rows. Still learning so much.
"Old fashioned" lasted so long (even now days with commercial gardening) because it was effective.
I wish we didn't need raised beds. We have rocks just inches below the dirt and we can't even break through them with a tiller. But, I am gonna try the lasagna garden without lumber borders. I hope it works. Also...that sheep or whatever in the back at 6:30...😂😂
I moved to the Skyline area of Alabama. It has some great history. When people built Hwy 79 most were poor and didn't have much food. They were given a sweet potato a day. There's allot to be said about those root crops!
Oh my gosh I nearly spit my drink out "Don't take my potatoes coppers!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a Japanese knife. It’s my basic go to garden tool. It’s amazing.
Excellent advice! You have me using my machete all around the yard, chopping and dropping, clearing overgrown stuff, digging up big roots.... I love it! ✌🏻
2 years ago I planted chestnut trees as my calorie crop. I read in "Trees of Power" that they're quite reliable. While I'm waiting on those I plant potatoes and well.. maybe I'll keep planting potatoes after the chestnuts are cranking just because I also could eat french fries through the apocolypse haha.
Good thinking. If you have lots of space, they are great. Yields aren't nearly as high as annual crops, but the ease of growth is excellent.
Watch out for those casing they are dang pokey
12 years after planting chestnuts finally getting a few pathetic nuts... Wont be planting them again. Hazelnuts instead.
Love it. I see people buying worms.
I dig a hole in the garden, chuck some scraps in and cover with some cardboard. The worms will rock up.
This was really good information. There's a faint smell of change in the air, and I think we need to pay attention to what you're saying.
I love a good back to basics video. One additional thing, is that back in the day, our grandparents didn't have as much trouble with pests, since they shot and ate every groundhog, deer, and rabbit that they could. But these days we're completely over run by hungry critters, so in my opinion, a new gardener's number one priority should be a fence.
Truth!
Calories are such an underrated guideline here in urban New England. Food prices are crazy right now and my family is doing just fine with boatloads of native flint corn, beans, nuts, and roots. It's not steak but no one can afford steak right now.
I’m very confined for space and have to keep a certain level of acceptable appearance since my best sun is in front yard and I’m in a traditional suburban neighborhood. Thank God there’s no HOA though. So open ground growing in traditional sense is not possible but I grow “flower” beds with food plants tucked in along with several metal raised beds. Had a huge crop of potatoes this past spring.
Great work. Grow what you can, when you can. It's way better than letting yourself be beaten.
I am SO enjoying your channel! I'm 66 yrs. old, grew up rural w/ depression era grandfather's garden which was rows. Lots of beans, root veg. , squash, potatoes, etc. My Mom and grandma canned and packed the root cellar for winter. We ate all year off that garden in zone 6. Gardening has become a hobby industry these days. I am so glad to see more people interested and gardening and putting food by again. Folks like you are teaching them what wasn't passed down to them.
Thank you,I have watched this 3 times. This time I really needed it. My raised beds wood has worn out. Husband wanted new trendy metal ones. I said No. When he was gone one day,I dug up a section in back yard. planted Okra and Corn. I was amazed it grew! so now getting rid of my 6 4x8 rotten wood beds and digging down to grow in ground. Enjoy your site with family.
I think you are missing one point, although your overall message is much more important (because your right). You finally have a lot of land at your disposal. Therefore wide rows make sense for you, to save water. However someone limited by space has a much different set of problems. My point is you must know your limiting factor first.
Besides someone limited by space can plant super closely to save water. Relying on shade to conserve the water by having no open soil showing. More food in a smaller space. With everything shaded by the fruit trees.
He said different things are better for others like wide space or close together.
@@ethanmcdonald5899 I sit corrected then.
I'm in Phoenix. Are annual rainfall is 8 inches...in a good year. Sometimes 5 inches. A year. My folks live in AL, they get 60 inches a year.
I need close space and irrigation, because I feel like I'm terraforming a rock right now.
Making a video response to this coming up in the morning. LOVED your advice....makes me want to move south.
Come on down, sis!
I think u both would love Indiana. Actually nah our winters are severe too. I get about 1.5 months more growing than ur Idaho climate. I'm using an insulated and heated room in my barn to keep peppers & tomatoes alive ( maybe) till next growing season. Most of my tomatoes died, but a few are hanging on. Experiments keep me busy when I can't get into the dirt.... bc the ground is frozen. These plants are all summer survivors dug out of the ground or accidental seeds that sprouted before our frost hit.
You bring me more and more to simplicity every time. I see that it works in my garden and it's appreciated. A thanks to one of my UA-cam Gardening professors, lol
Thank you very much.
It is true. Lets go back to what great great grandfathers practiced to grow food for their survival. Nice music.
Thanks for the heads up and kudos for managing to purchase some land for yourself and the family.
I have a small paved area, where I cannot access the ground. I decided to use what I had, which was pretty limited. It doesn't matter because I turned a bunch of polystyrene brocoli box's into wicking containers supported by a potable tubed car shelter, without the cover, over the top. I now have a good selection of greens, herbs and vine veggies, which I grow vertically with the help of bailing twine. The 25 m square space has been utilised and supplied me with half our fresh veggie needs. It would be great to have my own place with a bit of ground and fortunately I have a plan in place to be able to this in a few years but until then I have used 2 or 3 moderately complicated growing systems which I have fashioned to work well for me. A bit of sweat and creative flair and the world is your oyster, I mean garden. Good luck
Good job working with what you have! I don't actually own the land we are on, but am grateful to God for allowing us to rent a place with some space. In the past, I gardened on a borrowed lot and on a balcony. It's not ideal, but if you're clever - like you! - you can grow food.
@@davidthegood absolutely, its a skill everyone should have, even just to supplement some produce, particularly herbs, they are packed with flavour and minerals. I hope you can get a space one day to call your own. It seems you care for and consider the value of the environment and nature very much. This is a great life long attitude that all of us care share with future generations.
I am here from the future, and supposedly there is a sriracha shortage. Good call on the plentiful peppers.
I am a big fan of simplicity, and letting things happen as naturally as possible - less interference means less work. :) My soil is great and I get plenty of rain so I can just cram crops together and household and garden waste provides enough compost to feed it year after year. I do a three year rotation of roots/peas&beans/fruits&leaves and it always provides an abundance of food and seed for the next year.
Wow... I see your channel is approaching it's 15 year anniversary... and this is the first time I've watched one of your videos. My bad.
Here in Maine the outdoor growing season is over, so time to catch up on learning from others, tool care and planning for the future. Thank you for taking time to teach.
Yup… after reading Solomon’s book about growing food in hard times really woke me about about spacing…
I’m in a very arid climate of TX and haven’t watered my potatoes once since planting… trust me that’s a BIG DEAL after growing market style in the past.
wide spacing + minimal inputs = historical resilient farming
Most definitely. As someone in Southern Ontario, Canada trying to develop landrace field corns, the comparison between the tightly-spaced beds and the widely-spaced ones was an absolute night and day difference. It seems that no matter where one is, wide spacing is clearly key for resilient food production!
Thankyou for this and reminding me of growing more calories, I got tons of salads this year which was ok but I gotta step it up
I started with lots of salad and moved to lots of roots.
YES! I fell for the raised beds, and then realized how much water I had to use. Removed them and very rarely water, and have fewer disease and insect issues. I think the plants are less stressed….no more wet, dry , wet and now consistent moisture.
This reminds me of the expensive "self watering" deck raised beds I found thrown out on trash day a few years back.
Gleefully I brought them home.
3 years later I gave them to someone else as I had poor luck growing in them, they would either waterlog from rain, dry out too quick, and the slugs lived the moist hideaway compartment where they could hang out then come munch on plants upstairs.
I've been getting more K.I.S.S lately
Slugs bring beneficiary predators... just saying. I've got alot of raccoons/ opossums, so, no wild cats. Never know.
@@gibbontakeit9098
I live on a small lot by mainstreet, not looking to attract predators other than birds and wasps
I grew blackeyes this summer and they were delicious!! Also still have eggplants growing from this summer. Fall planting is tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, carrots, radish, beets, and potatoes. I also have greens growing or trying to grow. Bell peppers and jalepenos still growing from the spring. Mine are raised beds and I will expand them next year! In ground- forget it- too many weeds take it over in Louisiana! I already have a full time job thank you very much. I also have a dwarf satsuma in a pot and a Celeste fig in a pot- which I’ll plant when I figure out where I want them. This spring will be getting blueberries, blackberries, and satsumas, and grapefruit. I need to plant the two raspberries I bought this summer. Then when I retire in 2023 I’ll get my layers!
A big mistake I made this year was planting too many subflowers, as my seed collection was humongous I just couldnt resist. Well it shrunk the rest of my crops, down to almost no yeilds, everything was sick. Just an awful drought in the midwest too. Next year im making changes, I keep a grow journal so hopefully next year turns around my bad experience.
I have to agree with you. There are alot of folks that think they need fancy stuff to grow food. U just need dirt, seed and water. If it grows it grows. If it doesn't you figure it out.
I knew an old man that grew potatoes in his old tractor tires. 🤷♂️ it worked!
I’ve watched very many of your videos. This is among the best.
i love you man!
Thankyou for such good down-to-earth teaching. So sensible. Thankyou. Thankyou for caring. God bless you, and your family! 😊 Bev, in Australia.🦘
So right David, my grandmother couldn't run to the store for things,they were serious about growing food! Sometime they didn't have sugar, so she often sweetened things with fruit! Also, was wondering why you guys weren't try to raise more of your own meat.If you don't like the processing part,you can find someone to butcher and dress your meat on the halves! They get half and you get half! Good meat is expensive and who knows where it may have come from! Living traditions homestead just put out a video on fast growing meat,rabbits and quail! The rabbit fertilizer and rabbit urine are very useful,plus the children would love having little bunnies!Take care and God bless!
They would love the bunnies that just made fertilizer the ones for dinner well they need to know that up front so to not get as attached like they would to a pet.
@SouthFloridaSunshine my youngest sister, worked in a preschool where a 4 year old girl informed the class that meat taste better if it had a name before being put in the freezer
Lol the calories thing. “You are not a rabbit”. Yea…. I figured that out years ago thank god. Potatoes 🥔 and chickens, or any other animal you can raise.
Great encouragement! Just try. That’s the most rewarding thing. AND there is so much to learn because of it. Happy soiling 🤙🏼
San Diego growing zone 10b checking in... DIRT (soil) IS AWESOME!! 👩🌾 🌱👍 ❤ 🤗
Thank you ! Great gardening knowledge!
Have fallen in love with my first machete after learning what it's good at.
Great advice. Cant help but notice the "soil" again. It works it works!
Thanks David, I love your videos they're so stuffed with great, logical info...and I love the simplicity of everything you do!!! Thanks so much for sharing all your wisdom with us...it's greatly appreciated!! God bless you n your family brother!!😀😉
Love these thoughts, especially your promotion of in-ground gardening. I'm battling some bermuda grass this first season, but I've already started smothering it for expanding my beds in the spring. but if I waited for the cost of lumber to come down so I could afford to make the raised beds (and fill them), I would still be waiting.
I kill the Bermuda by laying down a silage tarp on the surface for atleast 3 months, then use woven landscape fabric as the border once you pull up the tarp… super simple… if it gets overtaken by Bermuda tarp it again. One tarp, two spots, sliding back and forth when needed
Me and my wife have been doing this within our own scope since we purchased our house. We live in a corner lot in town and our front yard is full sun. Little by little we have added veggies and flowers together and as we collected free materials and just built what we could with what we could get for cheap or free.
We did do raised beds because it took us years to mend our soil where we are planting in the ground.
Yes you're absolutely correct ,thank you❤️❤️❤️
Such an important message, sharing to my groups. 💚
Leadfarmer is great 😊
Again another great video. I also watched your double dig garden video that inspired me to not save money to build the raised garden bed but to use what I already have. I just finished one ground garden bed the other day. Man that was a lot of work but I found peace out there digging, weeding and planting. It looks fantastic and I'm actually waiting for dusk to see better and get out there again to start my 2nd one. I'm here in Northern FL and I am nearly done with with your book "Crazy Easy Florida Gardening" and then I will start your other book "Florida Survival Gardening." In your video here, you mention your other book "Grow or Die," is that material in the FL Survival Gardening? I wish I had all the money to buy all your books. Thank you for wonderful videos as well.
Grow or Die is a bit different - more for the entire country. If you have FSG and are in FL, you are good!
HAHA love thet shirt. Imma get one.
I do permaculture. I let weeds go and then chop and dro them. 1 row weeds 1 row food. Stinging nettle attracts aphids and ladybugs. Lady bug's feed on the aphids.
Next year I will leave 1 of each crop to rot in the soil as an experiment.
Everything is peranial until a human decided it wasn't. So my involment in the planting and prepping is unneeded. I only go and pick the food and purposely Leave some of it to rot in place for next year.
Great advice! Re. The turnips...my husband says the only thing they're good for is target practice. He doesn't like to eat them. I grated some and fried them til brown. He actually ate them and said it was good!
I love your humor, and thank you for teaching me. You are a blessing.
Thanks so much for these reminders. I'm one of those Floridians easily distracted in my garden trying all sorts of convoluted ideas. Your video reminded me my machete and hoe haven't left the shed all summer in favor of watching for the sales this week at Publix. Meanwhile the rabbits are feasting on my greens. Now that the summer heat has ended time for me to open that shed again and pound some dirt.
Thanks David. Some of the best gardening advice I've heard... and I've heard a lot of advice over the years.
Thank you very much, Terry.
I have no summer rain. But fall-spring I have rain and can grow an amazing winter garden without irrigation.
"I could eat french fries all through the apocalypse". LOL. I loved this video. I too have planted mostly peppers in my garden. I love that they flourish, but I don't have enough use for them. Moving towards root crops next year.
I started off doing all the difficult things.. now, watching you, I'm a lot more relaxed and experimental with my space. Also, the first compost pile I got up to °160F and it was a decent amount of work. I now do the lazy composting. Throw it back there, let it rot. Whats funny is when you think it won't be ready for a year... that time will goes by fast and in a blink its been a year and you have beautiful nutrition!!
I Can tell you have a giving and kind spirit. Yah have given alot of needed information to me and my dynasty. Truly grateful.
Thank you. That is kind of you too.
The compost X-prize: put a pile of previously living stuff in a heap on the ground and PREVENT it from becoming compost
Some spend so much materials and fertilizers that makes me to think: are they not spending more money than the harvest they can get?.
"How many parts can break on this" David
Me, flashes back to the chopped fingers incident reenactment by Rachel
Hahahaha thats great!
@@ethanmcdonald5899 context:
ua-cam.com/video/Es0LTT4fXD8/v-deo.html
All bets are off if you've got a loose nut behind the wheel.
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That reenactment was gold 🤣
100% love your keep-it-simple method. I have been caught up in all the methods other people are doing and have never pulled the trigger.
Best thing to do is... something! Try and see!
Thanks pal!
Keep doing what your doing and sharing!
Your so blessed cause we've had 3 hard frosts which have killed all plants but Brussel sprout,broccoli,cabbage and cauliflower.
That is rough.
Thank you for encouraging simplicity. I am learning to garden in MS, but it's new and foreign to me. Thank the Lord for your videos. I am ingesting all that I can.
I’ve been complaining that my husband wants to garden like his grandpa did. Lol!
Im in 3a northern Minnesota ..... squashes for the win last year. Allllll the winter squashes
I would love to have an in-ground garden but I have clay soil and would probably need a lot of expensive amendments for it to work. I'm on a limited budget. That's why I'm thinking of having raised gardens instead, with wood I already have and buying some bags of soil over time to mix with leaves I've been saving.
Really enjoy your positive approach.
Great video. Yes I have raised beds and I love them but before that it was all row gardening. Worked great. I put my back into it but loved it. The raised beds didn't happen overnight. I will still plant certain things in my clay soil. Thank you I needed this video. The composting 👍🏼 love it.
My earlier gardening ventures were attempts to make gardening innovative with all sorts of tricks and gadgets. I eventually discovered a solar powered hydroponic system in an organic medium that exists everywhere. The power of the sun evaporates water that is cooled by the atmosphere and it drops water on my abundant growing medium (we call it earth soil) … yeah nature is the best complex doohickey gadget to grow food with.
Here in Massachusetts we have almost no dirt. We have rocks, rocks and larger rocks. Lasagna gardening is our friend and works amazingly, but it takes planning and time for everything to decompose.
It is a good solution for thin soil.
Thank you I never thought about that way.
Learn to grow. Grow to learn.
I absolutely agree with the leafy foods. No they don't fill you up (unless you eat like 8 cups or have it LOADED), but many of them have great medicinal properties that could save your life after SHTF.
That's right.