Plant Onions With This One Weird Trick (And I Explain the Grocery Row Garden Concept)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In which we see brand-new chicks and plant rare Kujo Negi onions from Japan.
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Planting multiplier onions in the Grocery Row Gardens.
In which we see brand-new chicks and plant rare Kujo Negi onions from Japan.
Also, what is up with those "one weird trick" ads. They crack me up! Let's do something weird with our multiplier onions!
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Two things about chickens.
1. The caliper of a chicken's leg is directly related to the quality of it's vascularity which directly affects it's ability to lay eggs. This is a very clear genetic trait which can easily be measured for breeding purposes.
2. Chickens don't particularly like digging around in onions.
Possums dig up my dead meat offerings for plants, ughh
My thumbs are starting to sprout. Praise God I'm learning so much from you and 2 others who shall not be named.
I am finally starting to understand the grocery row garden. I have very limited gardening space in south gulf Florida. We just survived Ian. Many large landscape plants are being hauled to the curb, if they have not blown away. I’d like to plant some small fruit trees, which can stay small with pruning, and plant other things among them. It will be interesting!
DTG gets onions smuggled from Japan mailed to his PO box. Nice.
You are just living the abundant life. Chicks hatching. New baby about to be born. Keep crushing.
Man! That dirt in the grocery row looks 100% better than it did a year ago.
good stuff. you can never have to many onions in your life...or hot sauces.
Oh goodness! What an amazing gift! I love it!
If someone sent me multiplier onions in the mail we would be instant friends!😁
New rake looks nice !! The soil is looking better
Thanks DTG! 🙏❤️
Sufficient onto today.... Amen! :)
My garden IS frozen hard rn. And it's snowing :) So I've filled oblong container with gardening soil, added some biochar, planted a bunch of store-bought onions. Now I'm waiting for them to start growing chives.
I hear a lot about no till martket gardening, I think its time for the Grocery Row Market Garden.
Thanks for the ongoing inspiration. I’m currently reading “Free Plants for Everyone”. Then, I’ll start in on “Compost Everything“. Then, I’ll purchase “Grocery Row Gardening” and that broccoli guy book. Thanks for teaching us good stuff!!
Thank you for another great video God bless you and your family PS was at Royal Palm Beach Florida at edible acres picked up a couple of Seminole pumpkins made me think of you lol keep Planting
Missed the Goodstream....again! But that breakfast plate of Steak,.....Steak for breakfast?!! Sure beats a bowl of oatmeal or cream of wheat,lol....with a side of scrambled fresh organic eggs and some fermented Daikon radish, Miss Rachel treats ya like royalty David! Saw in the livechat replay that's ready to give birth, praying all goes well and ya all have a new baby that is as beautiful as the Momma and as intelligent as Dad! Kujo Negi, is this growing for the large onions? Good to know, we can grow the green onions we get in the supermarket like you show us here with the Kujo Negi. :)
Apparently this variety is a green onion.
@@davidthegood I may be wrong, but the Kujo Negi sound similar to what we call Egyptian or walking onions.
So, I have been growing those Kujo Negi onions this year... I'm still waiting for them to taste like onions. Maybe they will as they get older. These are the most mild green/spring onion I have ever tasted. I really don't like raw onion, but I could eat these raw. Cooked, they have virtually no onion taste and just the residual sweetness of cooked onion. They grow well in pots. I have some in a 2G black pot that looks like Beaker the muppet and a Chia Pet had a baby. They're doing really well with the heat, which is why I got them in the first place. I think they will be on my forever list
you need Brahma chickens
i have Brahma chickens and i love them
How dull does your machete get from digging in the sand like that? :D
Mexican sunflower are a beautiful plant
My brother saved me an overabundance of malabar spinach seeds. I like the stuff. It's got that mucilaginous, slimy texture like okra but not near as pronounced. I only got 20-25% germination last time I tried them but that was just 8 or 10 seeds in my 3 method scarification trial
I messed up the experiment by not labeling the groups but I'm thrilled to be able to have fresh seeds that I bet will go better. Do you want some? I'll prolly give some to the guys over at the dtgg fb group
Just this morning I was telling friends that steak and eggs is a good breakfast.
It gives you power without a carb crash.
Texas Pete hotter sauce is my favorite unfortunately most of the stores that used to carry it don't carry it anymore it's getting harder and harder to find.
It is really good. The local grocery had it, much to my delight.
@@davidthegood Whenever I find it I buy all the bottles that they have.
No way! What musical instruments are y'all building? Magnolia sounds fun to use.
I would like to make a new stick dulcimer.
Sounds good; I will try this.
Is one time I hatched 25 eggs and I got 24 roosters. What are the odds of that?
HAHA
@@davidthegood also, I was on the way to the grocery store when I saw this video...I bought 4 bunches of spring onions!
@@davidthegood no mother hen to sing lullabies to the eggs...so they all turned out to be evil roosters.. lol
How do you water your beds?
Anyone have a link to where I can buy onion slips ( NOT SETS)
Hey man....got any seeds?
Specifically, Seminole Pumpkin and Everglades Tomato?
Yes: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
Whatever happened to the explosions? I miss the explosions. Anyhow I’m drooling over those onions. Never heard of them.
Me either!
I'm assuming that in the GRG style that crop rotation doesn't become an issue of concern?
Not really - I just plant various things as areas open up. Orchards are not rotated, and neither are the perennials, but the annuals move around.
Works for garlic too. I eat/cook the big cloves and plant the little ones. They're growing so fast right now, last years are pushing out the newer cloves out of the ground.
It results in a nice system but it would seem it increases maintenance and decreases tree yeild, say compared to just planting an orchard. Or is this used to benefit the annual production?
Yes. If you want fruit trees but also want near instant yields, the overlay of annuals is very useful.
We have pulled out hundreds of lbs of food since this went in this spring. Orchard is easier, of course, but we would not see significant food production for multiple years.
@@davidthegood Thanks David, I understand it takes a long time to see yields with orchards. My question really is. If you planted the trees away from the vegetables you would not have to cut them which decreases their yield and also takes some time for busy people. So rather than mixing big trees with small plants would it not be better just to plant all the big trees in their own rows as a mini orchard? This way you can let them grow and produce more. Cheers.
Oh yay I was just growing radish this year to ferment…… I’m the only one one who eats them….are they good
Oh yeah
Next time hatch snake eggs
Love watching your show! If you can fix the speaker part on our end your in and out on my head set drives me nuts when I can't hear you.
I am on mono and balanced. Not sure what you are hearing. Timestamp?
Watched half this video about some weird trick to onions and all I seen was a few chicks coupled along with Texas Pete dabbled on steak...have better things to do than watch you screw around
Cannot stand the anticipation of waiting for those onions to start growing- cute Christmas chicks! Your brother has cute Christmas pigs also! For crying out loud now I have to eat fermented daikon because I heard RTG’s voice telling me to make tiny perfect cubes of perfect radishes….but where is your manger???? I’m pretty sure you’re going to need one soon. For God’s sake man! Get your priorities straight!!!
Is that a kid or child crying in the background?
Could be goats, chicken, children, chupacabra...
@@davidthegood you gonna be selling Kujos next year?
When I watch other gardening channels it makes me thankful you are one of the first online gardeners I was exposed to. I roll my digital eyeballs at the products and procedures and drama many out there call "gardening". You say out loud many things I think in my head like, "Keep it simple, it's not hard, God does the hard part. We just stick stuff in the ground and try not to mess it up." That's now my motto for gardening 🤭 I think I ll put it on a sign and hang it in my greenhouse (with appropriate citation, of course).
Those perennial onions look great. I have been growing the '"Egyptian" walking onions, but they are only the size of green onions.
Grocery shopping in the garden is the best
Hey brother thanks for the plug!
You wanna stick a chilli pepper or two in with that daikon ferment. I do it and it's awesome. I also grow that same negi, yes eternal leeks. Love from Japan.
Btw, the deeper you plant those negi, the more white bit you get, which is the best part.
Onions don’t survive here but that’s what I do in the spring, get bunching onions from the store and plant them out.
GREAT NEWS! My blackberry cuttings I took a few months back finally rooted, 15 cuttings and 2 rooted. I have them in soil now with my fingers crossed. Blackberries should not grow here in Z3 but the plant my mom brought here is surviving our winters so cloning it is high on my list right now 😊
Please don't forget to hit like. Always happy to this channel. Thanks for sharing.
Rachel continues to break the inter web with her awesomeness. I love steak and eggs for breakfast! David is a blessed man. 😀
Some friends stopped by and gave up some steaks - why not serve 'em for breakfast!
A good carnivore breakfast right there
Grocery row gardening: row gardening intercropped perrennials and annuals for high yields and low maintenance
Your chicks look great, we just bought the same incubator from tractor supply, that was encouraging to see, your hatch.
We wanted to try our hand at hatching eggs, we too have production red, black australorp, Isa brown, prairie bluebell, light brahmas. This will be a mixed bag of bird dna, we will see how God chooses to bring some features forward and recess others. Kind of like Jacob.
The gal at TS recommended it to me - it is the best yet for sure. Good luck.
Thanku God bless you
Feed the garden! Great minds think alike. I love your high density planting, it works, it just works!
That soil lookes beautiful now. you done good
So fun!
Lovely
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What, no lyrics to go with the somber piano music at the end?
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Yes compost absolutely everything I even compost tin cans
Extra minerals!
I'm a hobby BlackSmith and like watching you not bending to work with the hook knife Yeah might copy your garden tool also Bear protection, Well if I was a bear or cougar I would stay away 😉
Thanks David
David the Good should make his own Carolina Reaper homemade hot sauce
I've figured out not to help the one or two chicks that are having a hard time hatching. It always seems that there's something wrong, because they never do well, and eventually just die. So now I just let nature take it's course.
I had gotten some green onions from the grocery store for a recipe I wanted to make. I only cut the onions down to where the white bulb started, and like many people have done before I planted them out into my yard. Wouldn't you know, they survived our Maine winter and came back again this spring! I go out and cut off a leaf or two when I want some, and it grows right back.
My local Arby's now has small packets of Texas Pete's, I just discovered and had some today. It is good. BUT, my current favorite is: El Yucateco Salsa Picante Ahumada (smoked hot sauce) Black Label Reserve (Chile Habanero). It has a great smokey flavor.
If I need to bump it up a notch or two (and still be under the hiccup threshold) - I use Jamaican Country Style Scotch Bonnet Pepper Sauce.
Thanks for the info on the onion sets, locally, the garden stores have zero fresh plants right now (zone 6a).
I'll have to remember to pick some up at the grocery store when I get back into town I guess.
FWIW Texas Pete's is made in North Carolina... no truth in advertising there.
Onions are my favorite! Unfortunately, they don't like me and refuse to grow in my garden :(
For me it's carrots. Mine are puny.
I figure that, if the dog digs up your garden, you just compost the dog.
Matthew, Sermon on the mount.
Thanks for the info...just made a splurge purchase on 3 David the Good books on Amazon!
Thank you. Nice to see you again.
I bought 3 Heritage raspberry plants at Lowes a few weeks ago. They were like 3 1/2 feet tall and bushing out...looking pretty sad. The garden shop guy marked them 1/2 price because he said they were looking too rough to sell at full price. I just brought them home and pruned ruthlessly and they are just shy of 4 ft now. And im 9b. They may not make it, but they might. I'm learning not to trust the zone compatibility completely. Some things they say won't grow here do just fine so its trial and error.
Better gardening through experimentation!
Hey David, I wanted to tag you in the thread on my original comment where I just replied to G-man with a quick update but I don't know how to do that so I'm posting this comment.
The leek volunteers from the Lancelot root-plates are doing amazing, they did die back during single-digits but they regrew with a vengeance and are completely picture perfect! They all got at least 1" thick before sending up the scapes, and I don't know if you've ever tried eating the scapes but they are AMAZING! Leek scapes are very very different from garlic scapes, you really do need to eat them within a few hours of cutting from the plant but they are incredibly tender, juicy, and sweet with no bitterness or "heat" to my tongue and a faint taste of caramelized onion. I just took a bite out of the two culled plants that lodged early on (might have been random but I still have 20-odd plants that are all upright so I feel comfortable removing the lodged plants from the potential future gene pool).
They now have flower stalks 5-6 feet tall and are in various stages of open blossom.
They are also sitting about a foot away from two rows of very mixed-up onions, shallots, and garlic that are all currently in flower so there is some chance for crossing but we won't know for at least another year. If I am able to pay enough attention to the garden to catch the garlic as it flowers I will pull the bulbils from the garlic so that the flowers survive and potentially contribute to hypothetical wide crosses so yea, fun times in the future and who knows what will grow out from the saved seeds.
I continue to enjoy and appreciate your channel, sending my best to you and your family!
Nice good vibes, I just uploaded my food forest garden tour.
Hello David. Is there an update video on the onions?
No. They are growing fine, though.
Fantastic breakfast and very thoughtful onion gift. Counting down #10
I know half of your gardening tips are not suitable for my garden, but every video makes me smile. Thanks!
How in the world do you keep your lemon balm from taking over everything? Mine is even in my front yard now.
Those incubators are evil. Poor chicks never know their mother!
Oh, please.
You know, peripherally along these lines it is good for people to know something that I don't see mentioned hardly ever:
Leeks are not very far removed from muktiplying onions, and a surprisingly large minority of many plants from any given variety will in fact set bulblets at the base, which will grow into new leeks if you don't pull the roots of this season but instead either cut the plant off just above the root baseplate OR let the first generation flower and die in the summer without self-seeding... like let the flowers stay for a while and then cut off the stalk before seeds set.
I have about 30 new leeks from the 120 Lancelot planted in spring, some are doubles from the same base but most are singles.
I will probably separate these next spring, and after another year or two I will have a big enough population to be able to eat some and still progressively expand my crop.
Rather than waiting for people like me to do this and hopefully sell them one day I think it is a whole lot better (and faster) to do this at home ourselves.
There is a lot more inherent diversity present in any given variety of any given seed-propogated crop than people realize, and in the Allium family that does indeed include genetics for setting root bulblets. This includes both OP varieties (whether isolated or not, though cross-pollination obviously increases diversity) and hybrids.
I even have something like seven new onions growing from root bulblets (also out of 120 original plants). I think they are all purples, but my mix was an even mix of purple, Candy, and a yellow storage that were interplanted and all scapes were cut at first sight.
These were baby plants I ordered, not home-grown seedlings, and they were planted in brand-new beds in a never-farmed location with freshly-composted stall waste from our six horses. The roots were sheared off all plants before shipping, and I washed the bases well before planting, so I know these are not from late-germinating latent seeds.
I will be watching these to see how they do over the winter and next sspring/summer as well as whether this is a one-off happening or if it seems to be an inherent trait of these particular plants.
These discoveries were totally accidents caused by an overly-busy schedule, and I doubt I would have recognized their potential significance without my recent discovery of dry farming and subsequently (due to mention in one of my recent book purchase on the subject) so-called "landrace" crop selections.
More importantly it was the underlying concept of innate diversity and rapid enhancement of diversity through intentionally crossing just a few varieties that have traits you personally value and seed saving from the few plants that exhibit any one of these traits.
It only takes a few years of this selection process to end up with a home seed bank that contains significant genetic diversity while also producing a majority of plants with trait combinations that perform adequately (or better) in your local conditions, which is really the key for truly sustainable and affordable self-subsistence.
While your video and my comment do not directly involve this full process, awareness of these facts and a fairly superficial understanding of the concept is enough to allow people to "develop" free varieties/landraces that give them everything they desire at home in a very reasonable period of time (you see significant results even when you plant the first round of home-saved seeds from such a process).
This is super, super easy to do with pretty much everything except modern tomatoes, because they are one of the few self-fertile modern crops that have a single-digit percentile probability of natural cross-pollination for any given fruit that sets when side-by-side varieties are in flower together, and then you would have to both save such a fruit and then plant 100% of those seeds in order to have a very high chance of growing the hybrid plants... which then obviously have to do well enough to set fruit in your garden (pretty likely but not for sure). This is because the pollen receptacle is significantly shorter than the pollen stalks, and so you either have to hand pollinate OR you need to have a row of a wild tomato like the Everglades variety because those have an exposed pollen receptacle and are thus easily hybridized by pollinators that visit their neighbors. After a few generations of careful selection you will have a naturally self-perpetuating outcrossing tomato landrace or "hybrid swarm."
Luckily people have already put that qork in, so you can search Google "tomato hybrid swarm" and get a nice head start on adapting it to your location without all that up-front work.
Nearly everything else that is insect-pollinated has at least a 25% chance of natural hybridization from neighbors, so if you plant alternating rows with a few varieties (or better yet just mix the seed from the 3-6 varieties you like in a jar) you will rapidly estabkish your own locally-adapted diverse populations of peppers, beans, okra, etc.
Wind-pollinated crops, like nearly all grains, just need to be staggered as noted above and you just save seed from the plants that have SOMETHING appealing, even if some are pretty unhealthy. It only takes a few generations to breed the genetics for larger fruit/seed size, a color or two, shade/sun tolerance, etc., from a few unhealthy plants into the gene pool to a point where the majority of your plants have most or all of the obvious important traits you want.
I see the old hands at this mention the importance of saving enough seed to where you can mix in seeds from the previous two harvests to get a fairly equal representation of genetics that survived different growing season conditions and thus maintain resiliency against a weirdly wet/dry/sunny/cloudy/cold/warm/etc year.
Anyways, while I know some will be interested in that info my main purpose was just to share some uncommon knowledge regarding the very real and accessible possibility of allowing your alliums to show you their latent genetics if you are interested in what is essentially perennializing an annual crop without any significant time or effort apart from the initial seed starting and normal gardening chores you would do anyway.
I did this with storebought "green onions" three years ago and out of 15ish bases I planted there were three that have now divided once or twice a year into about 15ish total stems with huge tender leaves that resist rust, taste great, and require no particular attention from me. I always have more than I need for fresh cooking a few times a week, and next spring I will finally need to uncrowd them by uprooting and splitting the plants.
That was also an accident, born from laziness, and I am super happy with this because theae green onions thrive no matter what st this point... the one time I pulled at them the entire bed around them lifted so I know their root systems are way bigger than we would typically expect.
Love your channel David, the past two years have been especially good and you continue to really step forward into a great resource for rediscovering the "old knowledge" that is essential for homesteading and even many home gardeners, but has too much yield variability to be commercially sustainable in the common market due to the very low profit margins.
Good book ya wrote
@@g-man9684 hahaha thanks!
As an update, those volunteer root-plate leeks have overwintered incredibly well for a variety that is supposedly not particularly winter-hardy!
I gave zero protection and zero maintenance, and at one point we were in the low teens to single digits for several days so they did die back almost completely a few months ago... but now they are literally picture-perfect! I am honestly pretty shocked at just how well they grew back, I mean there is zero disease.
I cut a few that lodged once the scapes started showing up, and the rest are being allowed to flower and (hopefully) set seed, and we'll see if more volunteers come from these root plates later in the summer/fall!
I do have them planted near a number of other alliums, a pretty mixed-up series of shallots, bulb onions (white and purple), and hardneck garlic... and there are a fair number of "Elephant Garlic" plants a few rows away so we'll see if any weird crosses pop up but I like everything that's growing so it is fairly unlikely that any unfavorable crosses will arise but you never know... just looking forward to planting the seeds and revealing the findings whether expected or otherwise!
The onions in the bed are also either root-plate volunteers or small onions I somehow missed during harvest last fall, and some of them have divided into like 10+ individual onions that are gorgeous and already larger than golf balls (nearly all of these are purple onions). We'll see how big they get over the next month, but considering there has been zero work put into them aside from a once-monthly cut-back of the surrounding grasses, clover, dock/sorrel, and other native plants that have volunteered themselves I am very happy with how things have turned out so far.
I am also watching three scarlet runner bean plants that apparently overwintered and are regrowing, that is also quite exciting! I will be planting my home-saved seeds around them and putting other accessions of runner beans in different parts of the farm so that I get at least two consecutive years of localized epigenetics and hopefully also more plants that end up overwintering in place.
Finally I have started my 3 Sisters mounds, the corn is growing rapidly (lots of different sweet corns but the ones in the ground right now are Six Shooter, Astronomy Domine, and Painted Hill) and it's time to shove beans into the ground, with melon seeds getting started in trays (I have rigged a self-watering reservoir so that I can literally just walk away from them for an entire month) today for planting once the beans are 6-8 inches, which based on what I am seeing in other places where I have already shoved home-saved beans into the ground only takes about 10-14 days (WAY faster than I expected).
I am also going to start a bunch of groundcover plants, mostly common thyme but also a few other low-growing non-leguminous perennials and also some low-growing annuals like marigolds, with a smattering of micro-dwarf tomatoes every so often just to see what happens!
I think that next year I will actually be able to get all this started 6-8 weeks before my last frost date and have a serious head start, but it is also becoming fun and relaxing to just take things as they come and see what I will see.
It helps a lot to know that the only thing that REALLY matters this year is getting some home-saved seeds from the survivors of this year's garden to start next spring.
I haven't looked up the tomato swarm info yet but I just wanted to let you know I appreciate the information and the update.
I have heard on one of Joseph Lofthouse's landrace garden videos that the tomato varieties from elsewhere ( I believe Andes) have larger flowers with exposed pollen. Sorry, my mind is muddled as I've not felt well, but you will know what I'm saying... either the stamen or sepal is longer and exposes the pollen. Crosses are easier.
I'm not sure where to get these varieties but it would be cool to work with if they are something that tastes good and enough survive in your climate to get enough seed.
Again, I'm sorry about the rambling. I wanted to thank you and mention the type of tomatoes before I forgot 😅
Do you ever plant Jerusalem artichokes. ? I planted about 5 tubers.. Just harvested about 15 pounds.
Yes, I have some in the garden. I love growing them, but do not eat them.
@@davidthegood why they are tasty...
@@robertacattan3449 It's an acquired taste. That's fine. I have over a hundred plants but I think of them as "survival food."