Thanks for watching. Florida gardening does not have to be difficult. I spent years testing crops until we found out what would grow with almost no work. Learn how to succeed today with my book Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: amzn.to/3kGx9QD It will change your life! Also, if you're interested in digging deeper into Florida gardening and getting the calories to feed your family no matter what happens, then you should also grab my book Florida Survival Gardening: amzn.to/3tfMY4V Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ "Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
I know it's not what you had wanted but I'm very glad your back in the States! Not to mention AL because once again I can start using all your wonderful videos to get back on track making my food forest here in Pensacola! Thank you for all your hard work and sharing it with us.
David, whenever I feel a little funky you bring me out of the funk. It's not so much about your gardening. It's about the inspiration! Thanks! The gardening is natural for you , so good!
Me too. It’s been raining for weeks, now this tropical depression is making me depressed. Waterlogged soil is causing gardens to flood out, water oaks dropping limbs all over. Good video to bring some positivity to my day.
It is the same for me. And I live in western Washington. The funny thing is that I was speaking with my cousin's grandson, who is a practical nurse working at a trauma hospital while he continues his medical education. He and his young family live in a downtown Seattle apartment. They raise potatoes and veggies on their deck, and his favorite You-Tuber is David the Good!
You should come to New England we have a 15 minute growing season. You need really good soil but only for a very short time great for gardeners like me with ADD
I took your advise and bought a bag of ripe dry peas from my local grocer . They are amazing as pea shoots. What grew past shoot stage is starting to bloom white tasty flowers. I also got a bag of pigeon peas for the fun of it because up here in Canada they won't survive but will fix nitrogen in the soil. LOW COST GARDENING RULES.
I really appreciate your videos because they distract me from all the worries and frustration of the bad stuff in the world and refocus me on stuff I CAN do, instead of keep be grumpy about what I can't do. Thank you so much. God bless you and your wonderful family.
Another type of seeds to buy At the stupidmarket is a multi bean mix, for making bean salad or soups, like 6 bean mix. Since the seeds are all dwarf varieties they are worth growing on for a variety of beans as food.
I can't believe you know about Solomons Gold! They are just up the road from me in northern Tasmania... Steve is a legend. Every garden is blessed when using this magic. Thanks for sharing.
I only needed like 5 packets of sorghum/sudan grass for my first year garden, but for the same price at 7springs I got a lifetime supply :). Got to love that bulkseed pricing.
As you were premiering this video I was actually at the property planting my cover crop of black eyed peas and various beans that I bought at Wally World! LOL
I did notice that at the beginning of your video that soil already looked better than when you first set up those rows. Seeing you develop that land is so inspiring.
6 TOTALLY IRIE Steps to improve a garden bed, and if we don't have chickens or live near a forest, then we can rake a neighbor's fallen leaves, saving the sugarcane pulp from when we bought sugar cane, save peanut husks, there just isn't any excuse for us NOT to compost and improve our gardens! Thank you David for sharing a bit more of your knowledge and wit!
Tilling in alfalfa pellets, compost and straw or mushroom compost goes a long way. Bio char or compost tea. Cover an let cook in the heat for a couple weeks. Wahaha magic!
Nice video. It reinforces the saying- simplicity is best. I have found that keeping it simple is best all the way around. Also in the off season I put my chickens in different parts of the garden at diffrent times. I fence them with t post and 5 ft dog wire. With a moveable chicken house. They fertilize, till the surface, compost, eat bugs, work in cover crop or clear vegetation, and lay eggs all at the same time. Just move them every few weeks and your good to go. Here in central VA we have hard red clay. For years I have been working on improving it. It's good dirt so to speak but after 1 year of chickens in the garden I now have black soil that has worms and smells like rich soil. Best thing I ever did for the garden. I dont even bring in any more compost (which is expensive.)
The very concept of "watermelon flavor" becomes an oxymoron, at least the way they are grown commercially. We've made strawberry smoothies where the strawberry flavor was so amazingly intense that we could blend in an entire handful of mint leaves into a single glass and not taste any mint at all, that's how intense the strawberry taste was!
Because of your, um, *(actually Rachel's)* demonstration,several years ago, while you were living in Florida, I purchased a Meadow Creature . It is a Beast! I cringe when I see people using the ones with wooden handles. You did not have an affiliate link at the time, but I wrote in the order comment section that you referred me - hope you got compensated... thank you so much for your channel. So much entertainment, enlightenment, humor, insight and "oh my; well, gosh, golly, gee..." THANK YOU!!!
LOL you're always talking and breathing in all kinds of dust - the solomon's gold reminded me of that... I thought it was funny that you actually said something about it this time... funny edit of that .3 seconds of monster truck exposure like a nearly subliminal joke - good stuff :)
DTG remember that bucket of DFSW I made some years back when you first moved to the tropics.... I still haven’t opened it it’s literally been sealed full to the top for years , you think it’s still good I’m kinda scared some weird creature is gonna hop out when I open it !!
No offense, but I'm kinda glad that your soil was bad. I was a bit late to your channel, so I kept seeing references to how you had taken poor soil and developed it into awesomeness. I felt like I had missed out 🥺 I am really enjoying being able to see the entire process from the beginning. I've learned a TON already!!
Just want you to know David, I am coming in covered in peach tree wood dust and pausing to watch your video! I just psychopathically :-D trimmed about 8 -10 feet off of a peach tree back down to picking level. Satisfying to have a huge bulk of limbs to feed back to the soil. I was on a roll so I went mowing through the vytex too to clear out lower limbs and lift it more
@@davidthegood Yes! Except I just noticed that all the peaches I picked from higher branches have much less worm damage than the lower ones - perhaps a ladder or a picker pole would go a long way to get cleaner peaches and lift the canopy? Almost all the lower peaches of any size have a little white worm in them that every time I cut open a peach I have to cut around it and throw all it's mess away. It leaves a little brown spot and is always wiggling around in there. No just biting into it, but I've gotten used to eating them that way
This is getting close to the 5 cousins method, which has sorghum & a cheap nitrogen-fixer in it also, I'm really enjoying watching the David the Good method evolve...the biochar grinder that makes a spreadable slurry is a gamechanger, and I've added the Steve Solomon books next-in-line on Amazon because I obviously need to make my own Solomon's Gold for this sandy depleted Plant City soil I'm working with.
@@kaybell1501 this almost pure sand soil needs more than that, it burns through compost almost instantly...David has made note of this for sandy gulf soil in many videos.
Excellent. I have Steve's book and got the soil tests. I have a pretty big imbalance. I don't quite have the neural ability to figure out the worksheet just yet... going to have to read his book again.
For the chicken enrichment step you could also do the mobile chicken coop tractor thing, and fence them in the areas of garden your not using for a week or two. Then plant
This is a good video, thanks for putting it together. Everything you are doing here seems like a culmination of everything I have been studying to do. I'm really curious to see the results. The jury is still out on Solomon. I agree the soil needs to be re- mineralized, but I have listened to farmers like Gabe Brown talk about the long term benefits of no till and cover crops and how that has improved his soil and the microbiology and nutrient density of his crops. So I'm still not sure about that, at least not a 100% adoption of Solomons insights.
Another good one, David. Given our house sells (pray!) We’ll be turning our acre into the best kitchen garden and coop we can! So I'm studying fast. Great work.
hehehe Too funny - your monster truck rally patch. XD Yep, that's some shiny hair,(under the cap) I tells ya! Thanks a million for all the great info and ideas, and for making it fun. Blessings!
Arthritis limits the amount of physical work my old womans body can handle. Our place has a very thin layer of top soil with clay underneath so #1 drop the teeth on the tractors box blade & adjust it as far as it'll tilt to run thru the rows #2 add compost, leaves, wood chips, grass clippings #3 use the tiller as deep as it'll go 2 mix #4 watch my 40 yr old daughter do the bending to plant whatever she wants in "her" garden lol but definitely add bio char to the mix now. Have 4 of your books so far & love em. Thank you for all the advice & tips.
Get up. Go out and putter in the garden. Stick a bunch of seeds in the ground. Turn the hubby onto the cultivator wheelhoe. Go in and watch some David the Good with breakfast. Gonna be a great day. :)
I especially likes how you brought your prior videos together into one conclusion action to build your beds. And I learned how to make beer char soil amendment sort of.
Canolope is pick at it's peek ripeness is something hard to buy,Yes canolope might be a very big reason I garden. I'm 69 and made my broadfork because good ones do cost and I can weld ( well made tools are worth their cost but lots of junk tools with pretty price tags) I'm trying cover crops really soon planing a patch of canolope" Iroquois canolope" remaining our family favorite for 40 years. Sugar Babys our favorite watermelon and also need to vine ripen for flavor. As a kid Grandpa Jude taught fill a lard can 2" sand 4" chicken poop also as you from the chicken coop. I'm going after black eye peas and might have saurgum on hand. Very good timing for you to show me , I'm following you and next year my canolope should be improved. David this sounds good wish Grandpa Jude could see this.I can get pig poopy 💩 Thanks again
Just amazing! I admire your work ethic and your smarts! love that you don’t drive to store and get dyed mulch. Looking forward to seeing what grows! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Inspiring! I have compost, i made biochar yesterday, and in the spring I will invade my chicken run with a shovel and wheelbarrow :) I don't think sorghum will grow in my climate, but i have my eyes on a huge patch of annoying flowers that escaped from my neighbor's backyard - they will be mulched and used to cover the ground under my cucumbers and tomatoes.
Gabe brown suggests at least 7 different species for cover crops. I agree. To get the max sunlight in the soil, you need variable leaf and root habits. That means warm weather grass, cool weather grass, legumes, and broadleaves.
Really like the tool your using. Do you know where you can purchase it? Looks like good excercise lol. Can't wait to see things grow in the garden Bed. Thanks and great job David.
David I love your videos. I have the same passion and wonderment for permaculture. It so hard to tell people how amazing yet simple it is. They just nod in agreement but it's an addicting method. From microbiology to delicious food. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Tillers are surprisingly shallow diggers. You'd want to get a ripper which can go 2 or 3 feet deep, then till after you've ripped. Rippers kind of look like a heavy duty version of your broadfork which is dragged behind a tractor.
I get all my bean seed from the grocery store. You can even get organic beans and other legumes. Just have to keep an eye out for gmos, otherwise, it's awesome!
All my chickens wear sunglasses! Their future is so bright, they have wear shades....(cheesy 80's song). 10 points to anyone who can name that song. : )
What about fighting these terrible jumping worms were trying to hand pick them but they’re blowing through my leaf mulch and compost leaving grainy hard castings behind. I think I acquired them from either plants I got from a friend or plants I purchased from a permie grower. I’m super sad about these stupid worms.
Where do you source the ingredients for Solomon's Gold? And the sorghum? Thank you. Haven't seen a broadfork used quite like this, but it makes sense, then water nutrients down into the deep cracks. I've got a Meadow Creature as well....
So, when the cover crop of black eyed peas is fully grown, do you wait till next spring to till it under the ground? Or do you just chop it where it is, and it just lays on top to decompose? And when do you chop it, before or after winter? Thanks for sharing this info! I'm trying to learn as much as I can this year on all things to improve a garden and the soil in it. 🙂👍
Hello David, very interesting! I've already purchased your brilliant book on composting. Just a question: for how long do you soak the char in the water with kitchen scraps? I want to try! Hugs from Portugal!
Biochar question! First time user here, I put some banana peels and liquid plant food and stuff like that in it and it had like blue and pink mold on it, like you would see on bread...or bananas. I'm hesitant to do anything with it now. Did I really mess it up? Or did I knock it out of the park? 🤣
Would love to try SS's mix, but having trouble finding anywhere I can get good quantities of the ingredients. I can find seed meal, but shipping on a 50lb bag is pretty bad. Surprised Tractor Supply doesn't have it. Open on any suggestions on places to look.
Awww..... I'm disappointed to hear the Daikon didn't go down through the compacted strata. I've got similar ground conditions, here in the high desert of NM, and was just about to sow some Daikon. I wish I could afford to purchase a broadfork; being a Senior citizen, I don't have extra funds for such things, nor do I have the strength anymore, to dig holes into rock hard dirt, with a shovel. Having just moved here, I've got a long way to go before actually having a garden. So far, I've only gotten a few things in pots. The high altitude heat, is scorching everything. It was 102° yesterday, and no rain to speak of, whatsoever. It's a dilemma, but I guess I'll still sow the Daikon.
i live 5 miles from 7 spr9ings farm in check va was there 2 days ago i dug a hole made biochar threw in old veggies planted seminole plants and some critter dug it up LOL
I know this is an older video. But, I'm curious if you ever just dug a hole down into the dirt and looked to see what the problem is? How do you know there are rocks down there as compared to compaction or clay?
I'm in FL also. Our state uses to be much different when reading about it's history. Like everywhere else, much of our state was cut down and farmed. Between the rain compaction and plow pan and everyone wanting a 3" tall grass yard, our ground is hard. In my area, there is about 10-12 of gray sandy top soil. Then, a 4-6" layer of hard pan. 4-8 feet of white sand. Then into hardpan for a while. I've only seen 30ft down. Some areas have pockets of clay. Not on my hill though. My friend a few miles away has acres of clay and finds sharks teeth while digging or after a good rain. You better not leave his driveway if it's rained recently.
I’ve taken to giving my chickens all the garden weeds along with the kitchen scrap and recently I’ve been debating throwing our barn waste to them as well. We only have two small goats so it’s not that much manure. So far my compost pile has produced nice rich compost but it is FULL of weed seeds so I’m trying to remedy that. Thanks for all the tips!
Thanks for watching.
Florida gardening does not have to be difficult. I spent years testing crops until we found out what would grow with almost no work. Learn how to succeed today with my book Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: amzn.to/3kGx9QD It will change your life!
Also, if you're interested in digging deeper into Florida gardening and getting the calories to feed your family no matter what happens, then you should also grab my book Florida Survival Gardening: amzn.to/3tfMY4V
Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
"Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
I know it's not what you had wanted but I'm very glad your back in the States! Not to mention AL because once again I can start using all your wonderful videos to get back on track making my food forest here in Pensacola! Thank you for all your hard work and sharing it with us.
South Yorkshire Gardening... where some kid Nicks your tools
I feel like your Machete needs a song dedicated to it. It's almost a character of it's own in your videos. :P
Call it severed tendencies
🎶 What’s that thing in the palm of his hand? It’s a machete machete machete machete ma 🎵
David, whenever I feel a little funky you bring me out of the funk. It's not so much about your gardening. It's about the inspiration! Thanks! The gardening is natural for you , so good!
Thank you.
Me too. It’s been raining for weeks, now this tropical depression is making me depressed. Waterlogged soil is causing gardens to flood out, water oaks dropping limbs all over. Good video to bring some positivity to my day.
@@FreeFood2 He's like a good cup of coffee on a sunny morning!
It is the same for me. And I live in western Washington. The funny thing is that I was speaking with my cousin's grandson, who is a practical nurse working at a trauma hospital while he continues his medical education. He and his young family live in a downtown Seattle apartment. They raise potatoes and veggies on their deck, and his favorite You-Tuber is David the Good!
@Donna Martz howdy neighbor! I'm in the Parkland/Spanaway area of Tacoma! Love our DTG ❤️
Hi David and all!
Well hello!
Hey there!
Hi!
This video premiered 96 minutes ago : it there an update yet on the growth ? :)
Everything is over 6' now. I should have livestreamed it!
@@davidthegood the wonders of Alabama weather !
You should come to New England we have a 15 minute growing season. You need really good soil but only for a very short time great for gardeners like me with ADD
Sneaking in those monster truck edits is utterly righteous
A fishes and loaves channel sent me. Excited to watch your journey!!!
Welcome.
Welcome! You will love it here! :)
I took your advise and bought a bag of ripe dry peas from my local grocer . They are amazing as pea shoots. What grew past shoot stage is starting to bloom white tasty flowers. I also got a bag of pigeon peas for the fun of it because up here in Canada they won't survive but will fix nitrogen in the soil. LOW COST GARDENING RULES.
I really appreciate your videos because they distract me from all the worries and frustration of the bad stuff in the world and refocus me on stuff I CAN do, instead of keep be grumpy about what I can't do. Thank you so much. God bless you and your wonderful family.
"Thumbs up" doesn't near do this justice, David! Thank you for this awesome video, brother!
Another type of seeds to buy At the stupidmarket is a multi bean mix, for making bean salad or soups, like 6 bean mix.
Since the seeds are all dwarf varieties they are worth growing on for a variety of beans as food.
I can't believe you know about Solomons Gold! They are just up the road from me in northern Tasmania... Steve is a legend. Every garden is blessed when using this magic. Thanks for sharing.
I only needed like 5 packets of sorghum/sudan grass for my first year garden, but for the same price at 7springs I got a lifetime supply :). Got to love that bulkseed pricing.
7:40 I made Steve's mix after I watched your video early this year, I had the biggest & best tomatoes I ever had. no Joke.This stuff works
This bed is going to be so productive. And that last throw of seeds you really enjoy yourself 😅
Protect this man at all costs!
As you were premiering this video I was actually at the property planting my cover crop of black eyed peas and various beans that I bought at Wally World! LOL
You are amazing.
@@davidthegood :)
I did notice that at the beginning of your video that soil already looked better than when you first set up those rows. Seeing you develop that land is so inspiring.
It's getting there. Thank you.
Definitely are and it's worth celebrating. Excited to see how they look come fall growing season.
6 TOTALLY IRIE Steps to improve a garden bed, and if we don't have chickens or live near a forest, then we can rake a neighbor's fallen leaves, saving the sugarcane pulp from when we bought sugar cane, save peanut husks, there just isn't any excuse for us NOT to compost and improve our gardens! Thank you David for sharing a bit more of your knowledge and wit!
Yeah man!
Listening to “grow or die”. Good to see the broad fork in use. Gonna go look for a vid on double digging too.
Thank you.
Tilling in alfalfa pellets, compost and straw or mushroom compost goes a long way. Bio char or compost tea. Cover an let cook in the heat for a couple weeks. Wahaha magic!
Nice video. It reinforces the saying- simplicity is best. I have found that keeping it simple is best all the way around. Also in the off season I put my chickens in different parts of the garden at diffrent times. I fence them with t post and 5 ft dog wire. With a moveable chicken house. They fertilize, till the surface, compost, eat bugs, work in cover crop or clear vegetation, and lay eggs all at the same time. Just move them every few weeks and your good to go. Here in central VA we have hard red clay. For years I have been working on improving it. It's good dirt so to speak but after 1 year of chickens in the garden I now have black soil that has worms and smells like rich soil. Best thing I ever did for the garden. I dont even bring in any more compost (which is expensive.)
The very concept of "watermelon flavor" becomes an oxymoron, at least the way they are grown commercially. We've made strawberry smoothies where the strawberry flavor was so amazingly intense that we could blend in an entire handful of mint leaves into a single glass and not taste any mint at all, that's how intense the strawberry taste was!
Because of your, um, *(actually Rachel's)* demonstration,several years ago, while you were living in Florida, I purchased a Meadow Creature . It is a Beast! I cringe when I see people using the ones with wooden handles. You did not have an affiliate link at the time, but I wrote in the order comment section that you referred me - hope you got compensated... thank you so much for your channel. So much entertainment, enlightenment, humor, insight and "oh my; well, gosh, golly, gee..." THANK YOU!!!
I have never had an affiliate link with them - I just like the tool. Thank you.
LOL you're always talking and breathing in all kinds of dust - the solomon's gold reminded me of that... I thought it was funny that you actually said something about it this time... funny edit of that .3 seconds of monster truck exposure like a nearly subliminal joke - good stuff :)
I'm learning GOD'S gardening tips from you and now I'm able to pass it on to others. SW FL. Garden the Good way! GBY David
Thank you - I hope I am doing His work.
DTG remember that bucket of DFSW I made some years back when you first moved to the tropics.... I still haven’t opened it it’s literally been sealed full to the top for years , you think it’s still good I’m kinda scared some weird creature is gonna hop out when I open it !!
It is good.
@@davidthegood my trees are gonna creek from growing so fast !!
No offense, but I'm kinda glad that your soil was bad. I was a bit late to your channel, so I kept seeing references to how you had taken poor soil and developed it into awesomeness. I felt like I had missed out 🥺 I am really enjoying being able to see the entire process from the beginning. I've learned a TON already!!
You're doing good David.
Thank you, John.
I appreciate you listing the alternatives. I'm just starting out and don't have any of the infrastructure in place yet. Gotta start somewhere! ^_^
Perfect video, thank you. And I love your “if you don’t have’s”…always so appreciated!
If you can get wood chips to put on top of everything you will add to the soil. And it will work wonders.
You do love your neighbors David. All of us. God bless you.
Just want you to know David, I am coming in covered in peach tree wood dust and pausing to watch your video! I just psychopathically :-D trimmed about 8 -10 feet off of a peach tree back down to picking level. Satisfying to have a huge bulk of limbs to feed back to the soil. I was on a roll so I went mowing through the vytex too to clear out lower limbs and lift it more
Great work.
@@davidthegood Yes! Except I just noticed that all the peaches I picked from higher branches have much less worm damage than the lower ones - perhaps a ladder or a picker pole would go a long way to get cleaner peaches and lift the canopy? Almost all the lower peaches of any size have a little white worm in them that every time I cut open a peach I have to cut around it and throw all it's mess away. It leaves a little brown spot and is always wiggling around in there. No just biting into it, but I've gotten used to eating them that way
This is getting close to the 5 cousins method, which has sorghum & a cheap nitrogen-fixer in it also, I'm really enjoying watching the David the Good method evolve...the biochar grinder that makes a spreadable slurry is a gamechanger, and I've added the Steve Solomon books next-in-line on Amazon because I obviously need to make my own Solomon's Gold for this sandy depleted Plant City soil I'm working with.
I also need to devise a plan for adding clay to this sugar sand.
@@reeferfranklin read his link. Bentonite from kitty litter ! How fun (it's not the 'best lay but it'll do
Gypsium or lime will help and lots of compost.
@@kaybell1501 this almost pure sand soil needs more than that, it burns through compost almost instantly...David has made note of this for sandy gulf soil in many videos.
Best end card ever... You guys are hilarious. And educational!
Excellent. I have Steve's book and got the soil tests. I have a pretty big imbalance. I don't quite have the neural ability to figure out the worksheet just yet... going to have to read his book again.
It's insanely hard.
Great video, David! Showing the different steps you use helps a lot.
For the chicken enrichment step you could also do the mobile chicken coop tractor thing, and fence them in the areas of garden your not using for a week or two. Then plant
Great work :))
i woud love to see an updare of this bed.
Step 7: Pee on it, Regularly. Only for Hardcore Gardeners in The Know.
Everyone knows it step 8, step 7 is drink a bunch of beers or other beverage of choice .
I love this one, David! Your tunes are very catchy too!
Screening over the wheelbarrow… genius. 🙏🙏
I've been using leaves to use as mulch, that I rake up at a park.
They won't have any herbacides.
Good idea.
Not sure if I watch your video for the humor or your knowledge on gardening or maybe both. Anyhow great video! Thanks!
I got one of those broadforks and it is fun to use. Does great when there's rocks to dig up
This is a good video, thanks for putting it together.
Everything you are doing here seems like a culmination of everything I have been studying to do. I'm really curious to see the results.
The jury is still out on Solomon. I agree the soil needs to be re- mineralized, but I have listened to farmers like Gabe Brown talk about the long term benefits of no till and cover crops and how that has improved his soil and the microbiology and nutrient density of his crops. So I'm still not sure about that, at least not a 100% adoption of Solomons insights.
I love the thumbnail!
Always an inspiration, sir. Thank you.
Another good one, David.
Given our house sells (pray!)
We’ll be turning our acre into the best kitchen garden and coop we can!
So I'm studying fast.
Great work.
Lord, may you let Michael's house sell so he may grow and garden for the sake of his family, in Jesus' name.
@@davidthegood thank you & God Bless you.
Similar to how we prayed for your family’s safety last year... Good outcome.
Thank you for all your videos. You teach me so much. 💖
I now pee in a jar thanks to David!
And rake seaweed off the beach...people probably think I was paid to do that lol
Thank you, Susan.
Wonderful information can’t go wrong!
hehehe Too funny - your monster truck rally patch. XD Yep, that's some shiny hair,(under the cap) I tells ya! Thanks a million for all the great info and ideas, and for making it fun. Blessings!
Arthritis limits the amount of physical work my old womans body can handle. Our place has a very thin layer of top soil with clay underneath so #1 drop the teeth on the tractors box blade & adjust it as far as it'll tilt to run thru the rows #2 add compost, leaves, wood chips, grass clippings #3 use the tiller as deep as it'll go 2 mix #4 watch my 40 yr old daughter do the bending to plant whatever she wants in "her" garden lol but definitely add bio char to the mix now. Have 4 of your books so far & love em. Thank you for all the advice & tips.
Get up. Go out and putter in the garden. Stick a bunch of seeds in the ground. Turn the hubby onto the cultivator wheelhoe. Go in and watch some David the Good with breakfast. Gonna be a great day. :)
If only the kids could find my hula hoe everything would be *perfect*. Lol
I especially likes how you brought your prior videos together into one conclusion action to build your beds. And I learned how to make beer char soil amendment sort of.
You tha f-en best! Who knew gardening could be so fun?!? Thanks for the great ideas! -Erin + Brian
Canolope is pick at it's peek ripeness is something hard to buy,Yes canolope might be a very big reason I garden.
I'm 69 and made my broadfork because good ones do cost and I can weld ( well made tools are worth their cost but lots of junk tools with pretty price tags)
I'm trying cover crops really soon planing a patch of canolope" Iroquois canolope" remaining our family favorite for 40 years.
Sugar Babys our favorite watermelon and also need to vine ripen for flavor.
As a kid Grandpa Jude taught fill a lard can 2" sand 4" chicken poop also as you from the chicken coop.
I'm going after black eye peas and might have saurgum on hand.
Very good timing for you to show me , I'm following you and next year my canolope should be improved.
David this sounds good wish Grandpa Jude could see this.I can get pig poopy 💩
Thanks again
Just amazing! I admire your work ethic and your smarts! love that you don’t drive to store and get dyed mulch. Looking forward to seeing what grows! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Thank you. I remember helping a relative put down mulch like that once. It rained afterward and red dye ran all over the sidewalks. Crazy.
Peoples obsession with stuff like that drives me crazy, dyed mulch, roundup, making sure everything looks emaculate and perfect
Inspiring! I have compost, i made biochar yesterday, and in the spring I will invade my chicken run with a shovel and wheelbarrow :) I don't think sorghum will grow in my climate, but i have my eyes on a huge patch of annoying flowers that escaped from my neighbor's backyard - they will be mulched and used to cover the ground under my cucumbers and tomatoes.
As a hobby Blacksmit I'll try your digging knife, and make a bend much the jappaninee hoe might be a good combo.
Thanks
I bought Solomons book and I read half of it til now. Thanks for the receipt.
You are very welcome.
Hi David great composting and cover cropping tips very nice 👍
Thanks, Lynette.
One of your best!
I never thought about taking dirt from my chickens coops..... There is so much of it
And for real its actual soil 😂
Gabe brown suggests at least 7 different species for cover crops.
I agree. To get the max sunlight in the soil, you need variable leaf and root habits.
That means warm weather grass, cool weather grass, legumes, and broadleaves.
thank you for the infromation
Thank you, Barbara.
I think that soil might be the best I've seen on your videos - it usually looks like either a jungle or a first world war battle site!😂
That chicken in the thumbnail is cooler than I'll ever be
Really like the tool your using. Do you know where you can purchase it? Looks like good excercise lol. Can't wait to see things grow in the garden Bed. Thanks and great job David.
It's in the description.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thankyou for sharing!!
David I love your videos. I have the same passion and wonderment for permaculture. It so hard to tell people how amazing yet simple it is. They just nod in agreement but it's an addicting method. From microbiology to delicious food. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you.
Great tips! I like your style with using the land to help produce most of the vital material needed. I've been doing this for many years.
Tillers are surprisingly shallow diggers. You'd want to get a ripper which can go 2 or 3 feet deep, then till after you've ripped. Rippers kind of look like a heavy duty version of your broadfork which is dragged behind a tractor.
Yeah, that would be perfect.
I get all my bean seed from the grocery store. You can even get organic beans and other legumes. Just have to keep an eye out for gmos, otherwise, it's awesome!
Put wheels on your sifter and then set on a couple of saw horses, then you just roll it back and forth to sift.
Yes more chicken content please
All my chickens wear sunglasses!
Their future is so bright, they have wear shades....(cheesy 80's song).
10 points to anyone who can name that song. : )
You just named it! Kind of anyway. The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)
I know...ok, what is the name of the band then?
@@boydchapman5660 Timbuk3. Had to look that up! Lol
Awesome Karen! You get the +10 points, plus +100 extra points for your effort. We should keep the game going...kinda like who's line. Love it!
@@boydchapman5660 LOL I'm honored to be the first participant! :)
Love my broadfork. Thanks for the recommendation! Now where should I find a good quality machete?
Tramontina machetes are good
Chickens are the best. I put a old bathtub in my coop full of mulch that created free chicken food and great dirt! Thank for the video.
Good idea.
you need to grow Gemma Grass. Native to south ala.
What about fighting these terrible jumping worms were trying to hand pick them but they’re blowing through my leaf mulch and compost leaving grainy hard castings behind. I think I acquired them from either plants I got from a friend or plants I purchased from a permie grower. I’m super sad about these stupid worms.
Extra step mentions: mycorrhizal inoculant, good biological compost tea once growth starts? Great video, LOVED this one!
0:59 I see David slinging seeds - can I get an "ANARCHY!"? XD
You are on fire!
How did I miss the premier. Hi guys.
I missed it, too! :(
Awesome 👌Fall gardening tutorial video
Thanks, Vinnette.
Where do you source the ingredients for Solomon's Gold?
And the sorghum? Thank you.
Haven't seen a broadfork used quite like this, but it makes sense, then water nutrients down into the deep cracks. I've got a Meadow Creature as well....
So, when the cover crop of black eyed peas is fully grown, do you wait till next spring to till it under the ground? Or do you just chop it where it is, and it just lays on top to decompose? And when do you chop it, before or after winter? Thanks for sharing this info! I'm trying to learn as much as I can this year on all things to improve a garden and the soil in it. 🙂👍
I'll just chop it when it's big and let it rot.
@@davidthegood thanks for replying to my question 🙂👍
Hello David, very interesting! I've already purchased your brilliant book on composting. Just a question: for how long do you soak the char in the water with kitchen scraps?
I want to try!
Hugs from Portugal!
Usually a couple of weeks. Thank you.
Biochar question! First time user here, I put some banana peels and liquid plant food and stuff like that in it and it had like blue and pink mold on it, like you would see on bread...or bananas. I'm hesitant to do anything with it now. Did I really mess it up? Or did I knock it out of the park? 🤣
No, that's great. Fungi are usually helpful.
Would love to try SS's mix, but having trouble finding anywhere I can get good quantities of the ingredients. I can find seed meal, but shipping on a 50lb bag is pretty bad. Surprised Tractor Supply doesn't have it. Open on any suggestions on places to look.
Do you have the recipe for the char juice you pour on your garden soil? I have a barrel of burnt wood char. Thanks for all you do and put out for us.
You inspired me to get a machete :D
Awesome! Hey what about them big beans?
They failed to germinate.
Awww..... I'm disappointed to hear the Daikon didn't go down through the compacted strata. I've got similar ground conditions, here in the high desert of NM, and was just about to sow some Daikon. I wish I could afford to purchase a broadfork; being a Senior citizen, I don't have extra funds for such things, nor do I have the strength anymore, to dig holes into rock hard dirt, with a shovel. Having just moved here, I've got a long way to go before actually having a garden. So far, I've only gotten a few things in pots. The high altitude heat, is scorching everything. It was 102° yesterday, and no rain to speak of, whatsoever.
It's a dilemma, but I guess I'll still sow the Daikon.
i live 5 miles from 7 spr9ings farm in check va was there 2 days ago i dug a hole made biochar threw in old veggies planted seminole plants and some critter dug it up LOL
Bummer!
@@karen-hillshomestead I guess the food scraps were too fresh good idea though
@@49testsamiam49 Next time try to bury them deeper. That may help. :)
Thanks!
I know this is an older video. But, I'm curious if you ever just dug a hole down into the dirt and looked to see what the problem is? How do you know there are rocks down there as compared to compaction or clay?
I'm in FL also. Our state uses to be much different when reading about it's history. Like everywhere else, much of our state was cut down and farmed. Between the rain compaction and plow pan and everyone wanting a 3" tall grass yard, our ground is hard. In my area, there is about 10-12 of gray sandy top soil. Then, a 4-6" layer of hard pan. 4-8 feet of white sand. Then into hardpan for a while. I've only seen 30ft down. Some areas have pockets of clay. Not on my hill though. My friend a few miles away has acres of clay and finds sharks teeth while digging or after a good rain. You better not leave his driveway if it's rained recently.
I’ve taken to giving my chickens all the garden weeds along with the kitchen scrap and recently I’ve been debating throwing our barn waste to them as well. We only have two small goats so it’s not that much manure. So far my compost pile has produced nice rich compost but it is FULL of weed seeds so I’m trying to remedy that. Thanks for all the tips!