I've honestly gotten tired of watching gardening videos yet I continue to watch every new video you make. I think I'm just here for your sense of humor. Thanks for all the effort you put into not being boring!
Hey David, as I watched you plant your black cocoa beans I remembered that my husband made me a special planter for my corn and beans. It is a 40 inch piece of PVC tube with a slanted end on the end that I place in my furrow and I drop my seeds in from the top end. Saves my back from bending over and puts the seed just where I want it. I later fixed a plastic cup to the top end to hold my seeds instead of trying to hold the seed package, the tube and pick out the seed to plant. Now I just hold the planting tube and use my other hand to drop a seed down the tube right where I want it to go. My back has thanked my husband many times for my special planter.
That's a good point about the charcoal briquettes. A year or two ago my preschooler decided it would be fun to knock the grill over to examine its contents, and left a pile of charcoal pieces and dust on the lawn. I was too lazy to clean it up so I decided that it would be an interesting experiment to let them disintegrate on their own and see whether it had any effect on the grass. It took a while for them to break down but I can tell you the next summer the grass in that area was very lush and green. I haven't tried to grow any annuals there but I suspect that, as you said, if it's safe for cooking food, it's probably safe for your garden.
Dry beans are the way to go. Plant lots of rows. If you don't yank the whole plant out of the ground and cut it off at the base , we leave all the organic matter and nitrogen nodules in the Earth. Beans for soup, beans for seed, beans for baked. Dy no mite. 😉 Thanks for sharing your talents with all of us Dave.
I'm being honest when I say that you are the only garden channel I'm watching because you give me hope and the desire to keep trying. It's been a hellova month. I'm not even making time for Permies. Thank you. Thanks to your channel, I feel like planting another set of bush beans for the chickens to eat (but they pay me back with eggs and they don't eat everything ...). Maybe I'll see what I can do while waiting for other things to happen. It's not that late in the season. Besides, the chickens need a new sleeping spot and I have some more seeds that can have a chance.
I still love and chuckle at that outro even after seeing it almost a 100 times! With all those beans going in the ground I hope the home has good ventilation.
Good reminder that I need to get my fall seeds going. The heat and humidity here in the low country of SC is off the chain right now and my body is over it! Love your common sense approach to gardening…this channel is a gem!
Finally got around to ordering the “Vegan Compost” t-shirt for my son’s 31st birthday. I find it so absurd that it is not offensive, as in nobody could take it seriously.
It actually doesn't take a lot of space. My garden is just 2100 square feet (roughly 70x30 feet) and using David's Grocery Row method you can actually get a great deal of food from it.
@@mjk9388 NYC here! My veggie garden space is limited to about 320 Sq. Ft., of which I plant 25% a year and rest the remaining 75%. I joke with friends about plowing the lower 80! :) Honestly I still grow enough veggies to share with friends and neighbors.
DTG, could you do a video on your many knives or talk about them in a video? I really enjoy watching as you walk through chopping and digging with your machete or whatever it is, where do you get those and others? THANK YOU for all you do!
I enjoy watching your videos, learning a lot that I can apply hup here in the north. I’ve been gardening for years, this year has been the biggest challenge between woodchucks, bears, pests ( caterpillars on my fruit trees and blueberries, vine bores, cucumber beetles, powdery mildew, voles, etc)! Very rainy July/ summer overall! But I still love to garden and look forward to again next year. I live in upstate NY. Thank you for well explained approaches to gardening, you inspire me to be better with composting, will have to bury to avoid critters!
What a blessing to have okra!! Where I live okra is not possible, not even in a plastic tunnel. I'd need supplementary heat all summer to be able to grow any.
@@davidthegood At least I can harvest a few eggplant--IF I grow one of the very few varieties that work for us. I can grow ripe melons too---if I grow one of the very few varieties that work for us.
I was literally typing a question about watering as you said "people always ask me how I water all this space" guess you knew you holding a water hose would prompt that question.
Missed another Goodstream but here watching the replay, always love seeing your Good Garden David, and great you showed us your pumpkin harvest as well you riding your tractor with your two youngest sprouts. And never having tasted okra, let alone grow it, I'm DAZZLED by how high it gets and how productive it is, and two kinds, a green and a red okra. LOL....eating watermelon and spitting out the seeds for next year's volunteers, love that, kinda like the street fruit vendors here, they sell chopped watermelon and cantaloupe, the watermelon is too hard to pick out the seeds and the cantaloupe, sometimes they'll leave a seed or two on the fruit cubes, well here comes some customer, buys his fruit, spits the seeds out as he/she is walking along some sidewalk or vacant lot, spit a seed out and PRESTO, out of a crack in the sidewalk a watermelon or cantaloupe sprout appears! And that watermelon you ate is yellow interior? Seen some at the La Comer Supermarket, maybe I'll buy some, just watching ya eat the SCRUMPTIOUS Watermelon, makes me want to try some Yellow Watermelon! Thumbs up, liked and gotta love the vintage Compost comercial starring the Beautiful, the Talented and the Smart Miss Rachel! :)
Would you be willing to do a video on tortilla chip tree propagation for us survival gardening neophytes? Perhaps Dr. Pinkerton could chip in too. Thank you for your consideration. :-)
The grocery row gardens are looking pretty good. I just harvested some tomatoes, pak choi, kale, and parsley from my garden in north jersey. Planted salad crops for fall harvest. Peace
Well for sure you shouldn't use the match light style if you haven't burned it. The lump charcoal is closest to biochar but may still have some of the impurities in it. Next closest is the Japanese style hollow hexagon style. That tends to burn real hot and clean.
That's strange John Jeavons said watering twice a day, from what I remember reading the book and watching the biointensive stuff, they used much less water less frequently and just go for deep watering sessions once established. I left for Kenya and didn't water for 3 months and came back to all kinds of winter crops ready to eat in North Texas! I do water with overhead irrigation twice a day when seeding though
Love your music, humor and gardening advice. Really thought this video could use a cat litter gardening song. Throwing cheap cat litter in the yard, With your fingers crossed and by the grace of God, you'll have vegetables ready by May, and your cat wanted to poop in the garden anyway.
I love the compost your enemies t-shirt. Suprised at how many unprompted positive comments I am getteing from people. It's like ok because it's compost. But the vegan compost t-shirt not so much. I take it vegans are just really really annoying, not enemies.
Hey David, this might sound like a strange comment. But you remind me of a Maori ancestor of mine called Kahungungu. Kahungungu was a powerful chief who was known for his good looks, gentle character and was extremely hard working, especially when it came to producing and gathering food to impress his 9 wives and many children.
Watering twice a day? Lol. I’m sure Dr. Robert M. Pinkerton III has composed a peer-reviewed paper or two on The Science™ of watering; gonna have to study up! 😂😂😂 By the way, I can't get enough of this lens.
@David The Good I've made the same mistake with beans...and peas, lol. It's all good though as long as you're getting another crop and filling the pantry & freezer. Have you ever grown broad beans, aka Fava? I just started growing them last year, and they're fantastic...super tasty big honkin' things, and prolific producers, so you can put up a lot of high-protein food in short order. I'm on my 3rd crops of beans, peas & fava, all about 12" tall & flowering so I should get another decent harvest before the cold weather sets in.
Catching up. Excited the launch went well, and may have to go buy the kindle because I’m impatient for the paper back I just ordered now 😂 Your cinematography and sense of humor are the best.
I've always dumped BBQ grill ashes onto my garden. Charcoal is just charred scrap wood from sawmills. There's charcoal kilns all over the place around here. I planted some green onions 3 years ago that I bought from the grocery store into a 3 gallon pot that was filled with nothing but wood ash that I shoveled out of a burnt dozer deck. This past spring I transplanted those same onions into normal dirt and they're still growing just fine. I bet a guy could use ashes from a crematorium in his garden and it wouldn't hurt a single solitary thing.
...Amazon Purgatory.....TFF. Thanks Dude. Also, Many thanks for the Terra Petra vid. Indian gardens are rocking it here in the, New Tacoma, New Hampsha.
I love the "deep south " videos on the tube,,you know the ones , Kentucky or Alabama or something...I'm south west Florida,,what's that like 600 miles south of the "deep south "? Are we actually deep north in relationship to Antarctica? Help me out here.
Hellfire. Southwest Florida is subtropical. Y'all are Carribean, if y'all are anything. I'm in Zone 9A Texas "Golden Coast" and keep dealing with the silly people who think we're all cowboys and sagebrush. Deep South, in August, is wherever you want it to be.
Just realized I wasn't actually subscribed to the channel. Been watching for a while now. Sorry, man. I guess your videos were just showing up every day. I'm subscribed now. ✌️
I dry sweet potatoes in the shade on the porch, then put them in cardboard boxes in the dark pantry. The remaining ones at the end of the winter get replanted.
Ive always considered getting bush beans right to be important because you can kind of just grow them anywhere.... ive always had more luck with the yard longs tho or even just green pole beans. You may find those bush beans will put out climbers anyhow so you never know
Fried or Pickled. I am great with either. Though fried is more common. I always have some pickled somewhere. Would be an interesting video if you know how to pickle them. Just thinking out loud.
@@davidthegood yes! I love it raw. It’s also delicious roasted on high heat…split em in half scoop out the seeds and put in some cheese of choice. Also, slices of it in a pot of crowder\ field peas is so delicious. I could go on…lol.
Love the channel. Any chance of a "how not to kill your seedlings off in August" (in the South) video? Little paranoid I'm going to lose some flats of fall greens seedings in this heat & humidity.
Our new neighbor from a VERY western state just clear cut almost 200 acres so we have even more deer and raccoons than ever. I literally got nauseated and got tears in my eyes multiple times during the process.
The neighbor lets me borrow it and it's way easier than forking by hand. My Grocery Row Gardens are no till, but my single-row field crop beds alternate between cover crops and staple food crops with tillage a couple times per year as needed.
I agree with the logic to not cook with briquettes nor would I put them in the garden HOWEVER. in general they're probably ok provided they aren't the match light briquettes. They generally use a vegetable or corn starch binder and add lime to make the briquettes burn slower and have very white ash. I use lump charcoal and if you must use an accelerant to light the charcoal use denatured alcohol, it is cheap fully burns off and there is no after taste. We also use it for fondue when we have the time and enough brain space with our four hooligans.
My neighborhood rat problem has gotten so outta hand it’s ridiculously bad , I’m glad I left my fruit trees to grow tall because all the fruits are high in the air and there’s been owls around at night so the rats don’t climb up the trees 😁, wish all my neighbors would actually start doing something about it , my cherimoya tree is LOADED!!!
I'm sorry. In Grenada the farmers killed every snake they saw - and none of them were poisonous! The rats were terrible, so then they turned around and put rat poison everywhere.
@@davidthegood Man is good at shooting himself in the foot right :) I just saw a colorful western grass snake yesterday on rodent patrol and glad to have it!
@@davidthegood Thank you for making me more confused, I Could have sworn I heard another grower say something about being one the most productive protein source for a square meter of land .. Of course, I can't find that article when I need it. Are you not coming into winter soon?
That's pretty common. They like to hang out on okra. I don't worry about them much, but if you like you can put Amdro bait around the ground so they find it.
They say that there safe to cook with.... the briquettes that is... They also say artificial ingredients and gmo are ok.... but are they Like the Bible says my people perish from lack of knowledge I know your a smart man David, but things aren’t always what they seem ... Thad’s why I shop at natural grocers it’s a health food store. Kinda expensive but it pays in the long run. We don’t get sick and won’t have cancer in the future. Check em out And there are such things as natural briquettes
I've honestly gotten tired of watching gardening videos yet I continue to watch every new video you make. I think I'm just here for your sense of humor. Thanks for all the effort you put into not being boring!
Thank you - I appreciate it.
I re watched old vids last night just for the laughs haha
Cleaning vines out of tiller tines definitely deserves a song.
Hey David, as I watched you plant your black cocoa beans I remembered that my husband made me a special planter for my corn and beans. It is a 40 inch piece of PVC tube with a slanted end on the end that I place in my furrow and I drop my seeds in from the top end. Saves my back from bending over and puts the seed just where I want it. I later fixed a plastic cup to the top end to hold my seeds instead of trying to hold the seed package, the tube and pick out the seed to plant. Now I just hold the planting tube and use my other hand to drop a seed down the tube right where I want it to go. My back has thanked my husband many times for my special planter.
I've seen something like that and thought about it, but so far my back is okay.
Thank you for the suggestion. My knees will appreciate this, they’re older than David’s back!
@@whatsmamadoing9420 My back is 68 years old and has had two surgeries. Hope you like it as much as I do.
Sounds good to my 64 yo body! Be sure to drop an y more senior ideas you have.
The cleaning vines out of the back of the tractor song!
I used to love riding on a tractor with my Daddy! 💘
What a great table of pumpkins! 👍 The man can sing and play and compose! 🎼🎶🎸🎤🔥
That's a good point about the charcoal briquettes. A year or two ago my preschooler decided it would be fun to knock the grill over to examine its contents, and left a pile of charcoal pieces and dust on the lawn. I was too lazy to clean it up so I decided that it would be an interesting experiment to let them disintegrate on their own and see whether it had any effect on the grass. It took a while for them to break down but I can tell you the next summer the grass in that area was very lush and green. I haven't tried to grow any annuals there but I suspect that, as you said, if it's safe for cooking food, it's probably safe for your garden.
Dry beans are the way to go. Plant lots of rows. If you don't yank the whole plant out of the ground and cut it off at the base , we leave all the organic matter and nitrogen nodules in the Earth. Beans for soup, beans for seed, beans for baked.
Dy no mite. 😉
Thanks for sharing your talents with all of us Dave.
I'm being honest when I say that you are the only garden channel I'm watching because you give me hope and the desire to keep trying.
It's been a hellova month. I'm not even making time for Permies.
Thank you.
Thanks to your channel, I feel like planting another set of bush beans for the chickens to eat (but they pay me back with eggs and they don't eat everything ...).
Maybe I'll see what I can do while waiting for other things to happen. It's not that late in the season. Besides, the chickens need a new sleeping spot and I have some more seeds that can have a chance.
I still love and chuckle at that outro even after seeing it almost a 100 times! With all those beans going in the ground I hope the home has good ventilation.
It is a good idea to ferment beans before eating.
Tractor song is dope af lol
Valid point there about "if you eat what you cooked over them". Although my conclusion has always been to not cook with them either. 😁
Good reminder that I need to get my fall seeds going. The heat and humidity here in the low country of SC is off the chain right now and my body is over it! Love your common sense approach to gardening…this channel is a gem!
It's hard to get the work done for fall when summer is so hot. Evenings are the best.
@@davidthegood yep..im a out at the crack of dawn and back at dusk kinda gal this time of year. The skeeters love me too!
Finally got around to ordering the “Vegan Compost” t-shirt for my son’s 31st birthday. I find it so absurd that it is not offensive, as in nobody could take it seriously.
I wish I had David's space to plant what my heart desires. Keep my family well fed and healthy with all of those organic vegetables and fruits.
It actually doesn't take a lot of space. My garden is just 2100 square feet (roughly 70x30 feet) and using David's Grocery Row method you can actually get a great deal of food from it.
Yes - the key with small spaces is to greatly improve the soil and keep your irrigation up so you get maximum yields from less ground.
@@mjk9388 NYC here! My veggie garden space is limited to about 320 Sq. Ft., of which I plant 25% a year and rest the remaining 75%. I joke with friends about plowing the lower 80! :) Honestly I still grow enough veggies to share with friends and neighbors.
Three fellas with machetes! Reminds me of my SC bamboo childhood 😊
DTG, could you do a video on your many knives or talk about them in a video? I really enjoy watching as you walk through chopping and digging with your machete or whatever it is, where do you get those and others? THANK YOU for all you do!
regarding the charcoal, somewhere along the line I read down South they'd dump in a semi-load of coal to jump start a barren garden.
Thanks for the history lesson on spacing. 😉👍
I enjoy watching your videos, learning a lot that I can apply hup here in the north. I’ve been gardening for years, this year has been the biggest challenge between woodchucks, bears, pests ( caterpillars on my fruit trees and blueberries, vine bores, cucumber beetles, powdery mildew, voles, etc)! Very rainy July/ summer overall! But I still love to garden and look forward to again next year. I live in upstate NY. Thank you for well explained approaches to gardening, you inspire me to be better with composting, will have to bury to avoid critters!
Thank you. We had a lot of extra rain that caused mold and other issues too. It's a strange year, but there's always next year no matter what happens.
Favorite new song, DtG. They Might Be Giant-esque.
I realized after recording it that it sounded a lot like "Wearing a Raincoat."
What a blessing to have okra!! Where I live okra is not possible, not even in a plastic tunnel. I'd need supplementary heat all summer to be able to grow any.
I am so sorry. That is a painful thing to carry.
@@davidthegood At least I can harvest a few eggplant--IF I grow one of the very few varieties that work for us. I can grow ripe melons too---if I grow one of the very few varieties that work for us.
Longest day of the year, time to plan the fall garden because we are a month away from starting those seeds.
Good job!
Very true point about bbq brickettes..😀
I mean what's more purifying than fire? Even the briquettes that don't turn into ash have been subjected to much heat.
Awesome video ❤️❤️
We haven't gotten rain more than once or twice the whole summer. No God water. Except our city water is from the aquifer, so close! 😊💦
I was literally typing a question about watering as you said "people always ask me how I water all this space" guess you knew you holding a water hose would prompt that question.
Missed another Goodstream but here watching the replay, always love seeing your Good Garden David, and great you showed us your pumpkin harvest as well you riding your tractor with your two youngest sprouts. And never having tasted okra, let alone grow it, I'm DAZZLED by how high it gets and how productive it is, and two kinds, a green and a red okra. LOL....eating watermelon and spitting out the seeds for next year's volunteers, love that, kinda like the street fruit vendors here, they sell chopped watermelon and cantaloupe, the watermelon is too hard to pick out the seeds and the cantaloupe, sometimes they'll leave a seed or two on the fruit cubes, well here comes some customer, buys his fruit, spits the seeds out as he/she is walking along some sidewalk or vacant lot, spit a seed out and PRESTO, out of a crack in the sidewalk a watermelon or cantaloupe sprout appears! And that watermelon you ate is yellow interior? Seen some at the La Comer Supermarket, maybe I'll buy some, just watching ya eat the SCRUMPTIOUS Watermelon, makes me want to try some Yellow Watermelon! Thumbs up, liked and gotta love the vintage Compost comercial starring the Beautiful, the Talented and the Smart Miss Rachel! :)
OK, I preordered. Let's get those preorder sales up there. Let's goooo
Thank you, Cassie!
Would you be willing to do a video on tortilla chip tree propagation for us survival gardening neophytes? Perhaps Dr. Pinkerton could chip in too. Thank you for your consideration. :-)
The grocery row gardens are looking pretty good. I just harvested some tomatoes, pak choi, kale, and parsley from my garden in north jersey. Planted salad crops for fall harvest. Peace
Best butterfly in the summer heat interpretation!! Lol
I’m feeling ‘Peter peter pumpkin eater’ may be coming soon. I used to love playing that on piano when I was a kid.
Went and pre-ordered! Thanks for the heads up, can't wait to read it.
Same. Looking forward to it.
Well for sure you shouldn't use the match light style if you haven't burned it.
The lump charcoal is closest to biochar but may still have some of the impurities in it. Next closest is the Japanese style hollow hexagon style. That tends to burn real hot and clean.
Btw, I love your videos David, you are the best for the south I have found.
Thank you.
I hope the beautiful piano music is played by your family.
Yes
That's strange John Jeavons said watering twice a day, from what I remember reading the book and watching the biointensive stuff, they used much less water less frequently and just go for deep watering sessions once established. I left for Kenya and didn't water for 3 months and came back to all kinds of winter crops ready to eat in North Texas! I do water with overhead irrigation twice a day when seeding though
To be fair, it was when they are talking about watering new transplants: ua-cam.com/video/vBLuNpR5vNs/v-deo.html
@@davidthegood Yeah seeds and transplants regardless of biointensive or not in Texas I have to do twice a day. Thanks for the reply
for vines, use a pitch fork to scoop and lift them out. SO much easier.
Love your music, humor and gardening advice. Really thought this video could use a cat litter gardening song. Throwing cheap cat litter in the yard,
With your fingers crossed and by the grace of God,
you'll have vegetables ready by May,
and your cat wanted to poop in the garden anyway.
If you use a piece of 1/2" pvc about 4ft long. You can use it to drop the seed down exactly where you want it. No bending involved.
I transplanted corn today. Gave some to the chickens and ate some. It is a wonderful corn that used to be dried squirrel food. Not sweet but juicy.
Sounds like a grain type. May it give you a good harvest.
I will order a physical copy of your new booklet.
Thank you. Coming soon.
Great video as always David, I just got finished saving some of my Pigeon Peas and plan on growing a lot more around my home, have a great day!
Good work. They are an easy, storable protein source.
My one caveat to the e book, if there's no electricity, printed knowledge is power
Don't worry. Print is coming.
Charcoal brackets have coal dust in them, about 20%. People in West Virginian have gardens too.
Do you have a source for this? that would be important for people to know!
Nothing like the sound of gun fire to add that certain..gene se qua to your video...luuckyy!
I love the compost your enemies t-shirt. Suprised at how many unprompted positive comments I am getteing from people. It's like ok because it's compost. But the vegan compost t-shirt not so much. I take it vegans are just really really annoying, not enemies.
Try Big Boys or Zippers in the tilled space. My freezer is full of them.
Love the zippers from Hoss! I have a couple rows now that replaced my bush beans. Can’t wait to refill the freezer with them.
@@charitysmith5245 Yes! They are so good and they make a lot for the freezer.
Great info..appreciate your way of doing things ...blessings joy and health..
I just received my Everglades tomatoes from you Good gardens store!! Thank you God bless
Thank you.
David, speaking of beans, I'm looking for an update on the mystery giant African beans. Thank you! Always enjoy your blogs.
They didn't grow, they rotted I think, David can tell you better.
Yes - they rotted. Not a single sprout!
@3:38 ... great shot!
Thank you.
Hey David, this might sound like a strange comment. But you remind me of a Maori ancestor of mine called Kahungungu. Kahungungu was a powerful chief who was known for his good looks, gentle character and was extremely hard working, especially when it came to producing and gathering food to impress his 9 wives and many children.
I have thought about facial tatoos.
@@davidthegood Ta moko would be a good look for you.
Watering twice a day? Lol. I’m sure Dr. Robert M. Pinkerton III has composed a peer-reviewed paper or two on The Science™ of watering; gonna have to study up! 😂😂😂 By the way, I can't get enough of this lens.
@David The Good I've made the same mistake with beans...and peas, lol. It's all good though as long as you're getting another crop and filling the pantry & freezer.
Have you ever grown broad beans, aka Fava? I just started growing them last year, and they're fantastic...super tasty big honkin' things, and prolific producers, so you can put up a lot of high-protein food in short order. I'm on my 3rd crops of beans, peas & fava, all about 12" tall & flowering so I should get another decent harvest before the cold weather sets in.
I had poor luck with them in my Florida garden but I need to try again.
I need more land too May have to rent a spot somewhere.
Catching up. Excited the launch went well, and may have to go buy the kindle because I’m impatient for the paper back I just ordered now 😂 Your cinematography and sense of humor are the best.
I've always dumped BBQ grill ashes onto my garden. Charcoal is just charred scrap wood from sawmills. There's charcoal kilns all over the place around here. I planted some green onions 3 years ago that I bought from the grocery store into a 3 gallon pot that was filled with nothing but wood ash that I shoveled out of a burnt dozer deck. This past spring I transplanted those same onions into normal dirt and they're still growing just fine. I bet a guy could use ashes from a crematorium in his garden and it wouldn't hurt a single solitary thing.
That is cool.
Someone's looking real young!
Very nice I enjoyed watching 👌
Thanks, Lynette. Good to see you here.
Speaking of e-books and paperbacks... Please print the tabaccy book, David.
It is on the list
...Amazon Purgatory.....TFF. Thanks Dude.
Also, Many thanks for the Terra Petra vid. Indian gardens are rocking it here in the, New Tacoma, New Hampsha.
Very cool.
The 25th, yay!! My birthday week! Thanks DTG :)
Happy birthday.
@@davidthegood thank you 😊
I watch for the commercials at the end just as eagerly.
I think the problem with this kind of charcoal is the heavy metals in it
Greetings from Greece
That wouldn't be good!
@@davidthegood I suggest not to use a lot of it
Why not intercrop with the beans to make use of the trellis? I am sure you have already thought of this. Still I felt like being Lt. Obvious today.
We'll put some cabbages in soon, when the weather cools.
David, charcoal briquettes can be made with petroleum byproducts and are probably as bad for you compared to lump charcoal or wood
I guess I just need to make a big batch of wood charcoal again.
I love the "deep south " videos on the tube,,you know the ones , Kentucky or Alabama or something...I'm south west Florida,,what's that like 600 miles south of the "deep south "? Are we actually deep north in relationship to Antarctica? Help me out here.
Ya'll and sweet tea zone.
Hellfire. Southwest Florida is subtropical. Y'all are Carribean, if y'all are anything.
I'm in Zone 9A Texas "Golden Coast" and keep dealing with the silly people who think we're all cowboys and sagebrush.
Deep South, in August, is wherever you want it to be.
Just realized I wasn't actually subscribed to the channel. Been watching for a while now. Sorry, man. I guess your videos were just showing up every day. I'm subscribed now. ✌️
Talking about sweet potatoes vines, how do you preserve them thru the winter so you can have some vine in the spring?
I dry sweet potatoes in the shade on the porch, then put them in cardboard boxes in the dark pantry. The remaining ones at the end of the winter get replanted.
@@davidthegood I thought you could only grow sweet potatoes by the vine? Or you cut them like you do potatoes?
@@3bouldersurban653 I plant them, then take the vines for slips to plant more.
Ive always considered getting bush beans right to be important because you can kind of just grow them anywhere.... ive always had more luck with the yard longs tho or even just green pole beans. You may find those bush beans will put out climbers anyhow so you never know
I agree. The bush beans win on simplicity.
David, you must be elevated 😁
Hello David The Good!!!! Where can I buy canna lillies seeds, the edible kind? Thank you. By the way your videos are awesome!!!!
Just harvested a bunch of red okra today too, yum! What's your favorite way to eat it?
Breaded and fried. Or slimy. Or in Gumbo. 💘🌵🌴 Hey! Speaking of Gumbo....It's Scott Head from Black Gumbo!
Fried or Pickled. I am great with either. Though fried is more common. I always have some pickled somewhere. Would be an interesting video if you know how to pickle them. Just thinking out loud.
I like it raw, right from the plant. It's also great when Rachel roasts it until the edges are almost burnt in the stove.
@@davidthegood yes! I love it raw. It’s also delicious roasted on high heat…split em in half scoop out the seeds and put in some cheese of choice. Also, slices of it in a pot of crowder\ field peas is so delicious. I could go on…lol.
Go with peas. My black eyed peas are killing it.
They are super easy.
Love the channel. Any chance of a "how not to kill your seedlings off in August" (in the South) video?
Little paranoid I'm going to lose some flats of fall greens seedings in this heat & humidity.
I keep mine in the shade of a Magnolia, Southern style. So far, so good.
Pam says- Hey David the Good, I heard that pumpkin and squash leaves and tips were edible. Are all types edible or just a particular type?
I believe all of them are edible.
Our new neighbor from a VERY western state just clear cut almost 200 acres so we have even more deer and raccoons than ever. I literally got nauseated and got tears in my eyes multiple times during the process.
I’m so sorry - not sure why people do that other than to develop the land.
Yikes.
When's your new album coming out ?
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David dose it good
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I'll take two copies
I would have to take a week or two off to work on an album. Maybe in the winter.
I am interested in your reasoning for tilling with a tractor. Is this a one-time practice? Or your general method for garden beds.
Tractors are fun for the kids, for one.
He is a rebel!
The neighbor lets me borrow it and it's way easier than forking by hand. My Grocery Row Gardens are no till, but my single-row field crop beds alternate between cover crops and staple food crops with tillage a couple times per year as needed.
Ok so I have to know what camera you are using. It is amazing.
Same camera I have used for 2 years. Canon 80d. But put an old manual lens on it from the Soviet Union. Helios 44-2.
I agree with the logic to not cook with briquettes nor would I put them in the garden HOWEVER. in general they're probably ok provided they aren't the match light briquettes. They generally use a vegetable or corn starch binder and add lime to make the briquettes burn slower and have very white ash. I use lump charcoal and if you must use an accelerant to light the charcoal use denatured alcohol, it is cheap fully burns off and there is no after taste. We also use it for fondue when we have the time and enough brain space with our four hooligans.
Good idea.
My son gave me a charcoal chimney to light my charcoal without lighter fluid. Just paper. Works great.
Beans, beans, the magical fruit. 😂
Three Goodman’s with machetes! Were there any fingers left? LOL
10 left between all of us.
Where does one purchase that sickle machete you have?
My neighborhood rat problem has gotten so outta hand it’s ridiculously bad , I’m glad I left my fruit trees to grow tall because all the fruits are high in the air and there’s been owls around at night so the rats don’t climb up the trees 😁, wish all my neighbors would actually start doing something about it , my cherimoya tree is LOADED!!!
raise some harmless snakes that like rats :D
@@a4000t RAT snakes are the bomb.
I'm sorry. In Grenada the farmers killed every snake they saw - and none of them were poisonous! The rats were terrible, so then they turned around and put rat poison everywhere.
@@davidthegood Man is good at shooting himself in the foot right :) I just saw a colorful western grass snake yesterday on rodent patrol and glad to have it!
At 17:03 you said rental property? I thought you were buying the property?
No, just a rental.
I think the cheddar-chease brats are the dangerous part of this discussion!
Dude!
Dude!
Aren’t those okra too big to eat how do you cook them?
Depends on the variety, also if you cook them with acid like tomato sauce it helps them tenderize
The green ones can get pretty big before they get too hard to eat. Rachel fries or roasts them. I like them both ways.
I make crunchy okra chips in the dehydrator....so good!
@@charrasweeney-reeves2016 okra chips? Please tell me how you do it. We always have some okra that gets away from us.
@@southernmimi Just slice in 1/8-1/4 " slices, salt, pepper, and cumin is my favorite combo so far. I also do it with yellow squash and zucchini.
Are lentils very productive?
Not particularly, but they grow when the weather is chilly.
@@davidthegood Thank you for making me more confused, I Could have sworn I heard another grower say something about being one the most productive protein source for a square meter of land .. Of course, I can't find that article when I need it. Are you not coming into winter soon?
Any problems with Deer and/or Hogs?
No hogs around here. Occasional signs of deer, but no damage in the garden.
I have problems with fire ants climbing my okra! What can I do??
That's pretty common. They like to hang out on okra. I don't worry about them much, but if you like you can put Amdro bait around the ground so they find it.
And for the sake of those amazing green thumbs please sharpen your okra knife
So we’re supposed to pick the okra when it’s red/purple ?
Pick when they are soft before the ribs get hard. Colors vary by cultivar.
They say that there safe to cook with.... the briquettes that is...
They also say artificial ingredients and gmo are ok.... but are they
Like the Bible says my people perish from lack of knowledge
I know your a smart man David, but things aren’t always what they seem ... Thad’s why I shop at natural grocers it’s a health food store. Kinda expensive but it pays in the long run. We don’t get sick and won’t have cancer in the future. Check em out
And there are such things as natural briquettes
Nobody is guaranteed to not get cancer regardless of what they eat but I hear you
Do you sell seeds?
His daughter sells some seeds on Etsy
www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
I'm gonna have to get me a machete.
uh huh,it ain't no big thing... :D