Thank you for watching. Composting doesn't have to be a pain! Learn how to compost the easy way in my book Compost Everything: amzn.to/3zy4rYB Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/ "Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
Aloha Mr. Good. Ty soooo much! TWO questions please. #1...Is your book available in e.format ? #2 ... I'm on Maui and apparently everything i see is poisonous or toxic in some way. Where can I get info about what NOT to compost in the tropics ? I dont have time to become an Horti??? I'm confused, scared and about to give up. 😥
Yup, 40 year gardener here and that’s how I feel about my weeds. Green gold. I use all of your techniques and even grow a weed garden where I allow certain weeds to grow and then I mulch them with grass and leaf mold and compost. They are absolutely stunning and in flowering stage, the insects love them as do I. I tell people the birds planted the garden while the plant devas tend to them and I water and mulch around them.
I remember learning that weeds are full of nutrients and my first thought was how do I get to use that to my advantage in the garden? Then I learned about compost tea. I’ve actually made gallons of it, but never used because of fear of killing my plants. So, David the Good just answered my question…to dilute or not dilute! I’ll begin experimenting with both! Thanks, David!
I let one single weed take over my entire backyard this year in Arizona. I just removed it this week. It was a ground cover weed at least 25ft across. It started growing when I drained my pond water into my fire pit. It grew ferociously for 5 months, growing up the walls and onto my porch! I wanted to push that weed to an extreme that I didn’t know was possible. Thousands of little flowers. And it became a feeding ground for dozens of little birds. Of course it couldn’t have been possible without God’s generous supply of rain water this summer !
I wish I could do that!!! My neighbors would have a fit! lol. I don't see them as weeds but society does! Which is probably why we have such a big nature imbalance going on! The bees are disappearing....I make sure to leave the "weeds" until after they flower. So the bees have something until the other flowers come out. 😁
I love it! I let certain weeds take over temporarily for various beneficial reasons. Can you tell us what your wonderful weed is? Your story sounds like a Shel Silverstein song lol 😅👍👏
The ole permaculture adage “the problem is the solution.” My first job out of college was as a weeder on a 16 acre daylily breeder’s farms. We made massive piles that rotted down into great soil.
thanks for the enjoyable video and inspiration David! Timestamps: Method 1 compost 1:42 Method 2 vermicompost (worm composting) 3:13 Method 3 use fire 4:50 Method 4 chickens 7:44 Method 5 chop and drop 9:04 Method 6 weed Tea 10:51 Method 7 mulch over ‘em 13:22
Hi David. I don't 'weed's anymore. I 'harvest high value nitrogen.' Yep, it gets composted in my "Compost Everything" pile. Spoiled milk, meat, stale breads and chips, old dry beans and pasta, ALL OF THE KITCHEN SCRAPS go in that compost.👍😎👍
@@CG-mj8tk Yes...that is what he proposes whereas typical compost books or advice is to leave off the meat. I've always ignored it, though, and thrown it in anyway. :) Same with oil and grease, etc. I figure if it came from the earth and can decompose, why not?
I like to use a modified version of #5. I'll call it the "Pull and drop." You pull the weeds up so you get the roots out of the ground and then you drop 'em to slowly add back to the soil.
Depending on the weed, unless you cut the roots off or make sure there is no ground contact, they can re-root right there unless you bury it under cardboard.
Excellent content today, DTG! Love it! Btw, my best friend's son asked me, "have you ever heard of David the Good"? My beaming smile said it all! "...as a matter of fact..." Thanks for all you do...sharing your knowledge & humor have been a great blessing to me!
This was very neat!!! I live on 5 acres of powdery, hard, lime stone white clay. Nothing grows in it, but we cut the few grasses it grows and gather bags of leaves and clippings from neighborhoods and spread them all over the yard...it has made a huge difference from the time we moved in 15 years ago. Thank you!!
I know, here in Poland I've asked neighbors for their grass clippings. I simply don't understand why people destroy them or send them to the city compost when they could use them as fertilizer.
KEY TIP: If you call or stop by your local lumber company, they may just have giant FREE tarps that come covering their lumber deliveries. They are not always in perfect condition, but they are AMAZING for heating up your compost piles (or your freshly mulched beds) that will force any weed seeds to germinate fast. Leave the tarp on longer than that, and you will cook them. Ta Da, seed free mulch! Use the black (or darkest color possible) side up to produce the most heat. You can also cut these traps to the exact size of your raised beds and reuse them every Winter. Just clear and mulch your beds in the Fall, tarp them for the Winter, and by Spring you can just remove your tarps and start planting ! The more prep you do in the Fall, the less rushing around you have to do in the Early Spring. Happy gardening!
My first time seeing any of your videos, thank you. So intelligent to use what's causing problems, to fertilize with, these uses for weeds are great. I loved the song and humor, but especially like feeding your enemies to your plants. Thanks for sharing!
I have learned to love my weeds. In my food forest / garden area I compost the grass weeds, chop and drop the invasive germs, while letting the clover, plantain, self heal, violets and purslane stay for food and medicinal benefits, and great for pollinators.
This year I've been using them as a straw-like mulch on my annual beds. I'll rake in the seeds and lay the pulled weeds in a thin layer, which retains moisture long enough for the seeds to germinate while withering away enough in time to allow the seedlings to poke through.
I recently learned that most of the weeds we have, are edible (if they’re harvested early). I’ve been stumped on what to do with them after I’ve pulled them out or cut them down because I don’t want weeds growing in our compost. All of my weed anxiety vanished while watching this video 🥰👏🏻😁 Thank you! This is a gem❣️👊🏻
Eat your weeds checkout a good identifying video of simple ones to identify as food and slowly add to your diet while their other parts are being used as mulch,if you've got chickens give them purslane and don't forget to save some seeds for next year!
That opening had me 😅! Great video. I got a torch because of you... need a little rain though, the woods are getting to grow back faster than I can clear the left over logging wood on the ground. I don't want to be that person who has to call the fire department, lol!
I’m glad I’m growing my weeds food forest garden. Preach the “goodness” of weeds 🌱 brother. south Florida zone 10b here. I have to post an update video on my methods and relationship with the lovely weeds of the garden.
Dave, thank you for your video and your amazing work! The information is valuable and your humor is entertaining! Wonderful balance!! I wish you must success. You have a lot you have a lot of blessings for this world! I am grateful!
I was raised by a gardening tyrant who insisted on removing/ discarding all seeds/pods from Even the desirable plants she purchased, tied up young trees to force them into the shape she desired and worked for Hours to produce bare dirt with a wedeater > No crabgrass or dandelions Allowed!! I Love gardening & letting life be diverse & appreciate the unique qualities of all kinds of living things > we have limited water & No burning allowed where I live, but I'm watering useful "weeds" to increase diversity, nurturing my few dandelions, purslane, etc. just as I do my veggies & fruit & nut trees > Live & let live while life exists > waste not = want not. TY, David for all your helpful expertise!
This made me feel much more hopeful about my suburban backyard garden- I've been burying kitchen scraps in the bare dirt where the previous owners of my home removed a tree since we moved in but I'm just now trying to grow a garden and I'm intimated 😅
Thanks for the great video, Mr. the Good! I'm in zone 9B here in central FL and I'm slowly growing my food forest. Thanks for all the great info in your books. I've pre-ordered the new one. I appreciate your research and sharing of info about how to grow in my beautiful home state.
@@andreathenotsoterrible2939 I only had 2 grow. 1 just dropped off the vine, while small. The other one is growing right now. I haven't seen any critters yet. But I'm not quitting... going to try Seminole pumpkin this fall. Best of luck with your garden!
Looking forward to this video. I just hoe my weeds and leave on top of soil. If I have no crops immediately where the weeds are coming up then I let the weeds get up to about 3-4 inches high so I get a nice green mulch on top of my soil. If I have existing crops I then keep weeds below 1 inch high. The only sad thing is over time as I never ever let the weeds seed there becomes less and less weeds to mulch with .😩😩
The mace to the face made me laugh out loud, freak in hilarious. Thank you David and family. :) When is your Garden row book going to print? I've got the Kindle version but I still love a "real" book in hand.
Ok David, I'm watching, you know I've been complaining about a boatload of Oxalis! It makes me break out ( like poison ivy), so I'm here to learn to turn the table 😳🙄🤪🎯
I've drowned my weeds in containers for yrs. Wait a few weeks then throw the whole gluggy mess back onto the garden. I also throw weeds onto my lawn then mow them up and throw over my garden. My grass isn't actually grass either. Its weeds... I use it as mulch anyway. I use silverbeet leaves as mulch or "tea" as I have so many leaves that no one wants. Excellent video
Chop and drop, slash and burn, and compost pile are my 3 main ones I use for my olive orchid I avoid using a tractor, chemical weed killer and store bought compost saves me so much money and my soil is the best in my area.
Man just came across your podcast and in my opinion is one of the best You make it look so easy and instill a lot of confidence to tend to my garden I’m new just starting in south Florida
Yeah, my seedy weeds go into the DFSW. Same with scutch grass (cue horror scream). I want a worm bin, but I am a little weary of bringing stuff in to the house during the winter. Need to figure that out, first.
Funny jingle made me smile - nice content. Thank you. Maybe weeds don't even exist, in my mind they are either 1) food/medicine for us 2) food for the birds 3) food for the Earth..... I love your T-shirts "Compost Your Enemies" LOL
This was such an excellent video! Love the idea of getting to know your weeds and use them! So many amazing ideas here. Gratitude to you for taking the time to make these amazing videos! We are so stoked to get planting. Gonna start our seedlings soon. Green house will be going up too, so hopefully once they start to sprout up, we can take them out to the green house. Big love from Missouri. - Erin + Brian
i liked your weeds to fertilizer into tune, it was catchy lol. I always enjoy the videos thats a given . have the tub worm bin workin now too great stuff ! did my first bio-char this week too .We heat with wood up here in the north so ashes are my abundant go to for a long time. starting the chicken run nxt month . ive learned alot from you and Its coming along nicely.So thanks again and hope you have a good day David the good .
To dilute the weed tea, i do in ratio 1:10 litres. So 1 litre of weed tea to 10 litres of water. Also I water my plants before applying this liquid gold 👍.
Love your video's. David would you please address the bad nematodes and dreaded leaf footed bugs and other vermin of sorts that plague us with petulance? How to overcome!!!!!
@@davidthegood I tried to share in as many Facebook groups as I could. Then Facebook stopped me saying they stop people from sharing too many times because it might be spam. LOL
I think weeds, because they flourish where no other plant wants to grow, have something special to offer as compost. Awesome! Never remove any plant from the property! Thats just throwing away nutrients!
@@beckypetersen2680 Being on sandy soil, I totally agree. I've been chopping and dropping for years, and it seems that no matter how much I do, it just disappears into the sand. But it has to be doing some good, right? I've used my loquat tree which is at the back of the property as my yard dump. cut up branches all get put around it. The tree is gorgeous. Now, if the squirrels would just let me have some loquats, that would be great. Do squirrels make good mulch?😁
I currently have a xeriscape front yard (soon to change to clover and a neighborhood pumpkin patch) but all the weeds I pulled from the scape are in my vermicompost bin. Why let them go to waste at the landfill when I can use them. I'm planning on running around town this year collecting more weeds from the roadside to use in my bins as well. If people want to continue depleting their soil resources, then I'm fine with grabbing it up. Lol.
If you will leave weeds in water in a bucket for two weeks as mentioned in this video at 15:52 please be sure to put in a BT dunk so the mosquitoes don't multiply in that water. Mosquitoes lay eggs in standing water and in three days they hatch into mosquitoes.
Thanks so much for sharing! Some 'weeds' such as the various vetches.(pea family) and clovers are beneficial left in place. They fix nitrogen and vetches have long taprootsvthst that deepen your soil.
The Oxalis has suffocated my yard, front and back. It repopulated worse and worse every year. I can't pull that much & I'm allergic. And I've got tons of poke weed. So..... guess I'll make tea for the plants. Mam o man, have I been BLESSED!❣😘🌼 Yup, composting doesn't get hot enough. But I did get a potato, several peaches, apricots and avocado pots to grow. One year had great peaches on the compost tree. 10', had to let it die. Several kinds of Oxalis has taken over the yard, bees do love them but are distracted from pollination of fruit trees, etc.
Just be sure not to put too many weeds in an enclosed worm bin, it can lead to over heating as well as dead worms. I so much prefer giving my worms an escape path, they always come back when the temps are more ideal for them since the bin (feeding station) is full of worm food. And while they are gone they are checking out the closest garden.
i used to sift by hand but had an old cement mixer,made a tremmle out of rabbit wire and steel frame of an old fan(industrial) base and ct it out and welded rebar,,,,,attached with bolts,,,now sifting is fun,and sift red clay at slightly moist and not only make fluffy clay but humis/clay balls form in the tremmle ,rolling action,,,,,....but ya gotta have some sorta power
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Thank you for watching. Composting doesn't have to be a pain!
Learn how to compost the easy way in my book Compost Everything: amzn.to/3zy4rYB
Get my free composting booklet: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/simple-composting/
"Compost Your Enemies" T-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/vendors?q=The%20Survival%20Gardener
Sweet intro bud.
When you leave the Weed Tea to steep....do you put a cover on it ...so it doesn't turn into a mosquito breeding ground?
I LOVE your captioning of your song ("Bay buh")
Aloha Mr. Good. Ty soooo much! TWO questions please. #1...Is your book available in e.format ? #2 ... I'm on Maui and apparently everything i see is poisonous or toxic in some way. Where can I get info about what NOT to compost in the tropics ? I dont have time to become an Horti??? I'm confused, scared and about to give up. 😥
Yup, 40 year gardener here and that’s how I feel about my weeds. Green gold. I use all of your techniques and even grow a weed garden where I allow certain weeds to grow and then I mulch them with grass and leaf mold and compost. They are absolutely stunning and in flowering stage, the insects love them as do I. I tell people the birds planted the garden while the plant devas tend to them and I water and mulch around them.
That is fantastic.
That’s what I’m talking about! They break down pretty fast.
I remember learning that weeds are full of nutrients and my first thought was how do I get to use that to my advantage in the garden? Then I learned about compost tea. I’ve actually made gallons of it, but never used because of fear of killing my plants. So, David the Good just answered my question…to dilute or not dilute! I’ll begin experimenting with both! Thanks, David!
@@deborahandrews9728 look into black strap (unsulphered) molasses
@Atheist YES! that also!
I upcycled my kids' old wagon for gardening too! My heart is happy to see that I'm not the only one!
I let one single weed take over my entire backyard this year in Arizona. I just removed it this week. It was a ground cover weed at least 25ft across. It started growing when I drained my pond water into my fire pit. It grew ferociously for 5 months, growing up the walls and onto my porch! I wanted to push that weed to an extreme that I didn’t know was possible. Thousands of little flowers. And it became a feeding ground for dozens of little birds. Of course it couldn’t have been possible without God’s generous supply of rain water this summer !
That is amazing.
I wish I could do that!!! My neighbors would have a fit! lol. I don't see them as weeds but society does! Which is probably why we have such a big nature imbalance going on! The bees are disappearing....I make sure to leave the "weeds" until after they flower. So the bees have something until the other flowers come out. 😁
I love it! I let certain weeds take over temporarily for various beneficial reasons.
Can you tell us what your wonderful weed is? Your story sounds like a Shel Silverstein song lol 😅👍👏
@@Sunny-jz3dy AMEN!
@@iahelcathartesaura3887 I leave the dandelions, clover, yellow rocket...& a few others that flower but not the sure what they are called! lol.
The ole permaculture adage “the problem is the solution.” My first job out of college was as a weeder on a 16 acre daylily breeder’s farms. We made massive piles that rotted down into great soil.
Day lily farm? You must be in east Texas.
thanks for the enjoyable video and inspiration David! Timestamps:
Method 1 compost 1:42
Method 2 vermicompost (worm composting) 3:13
Method 3 use fire 4:50
Method 4 chickens 7:44
Method 5 chop and drop 9:04
Method 6 weed Tea 10:51
Method 7 mulch over ‘em 13:22
+Don't taste the swamp water 13:13
Method 4 (chickens) is my favorite.
Thank you for the Timestamps info. 💚
@Yojata Thank you your timeline is most interesting and valuable!
God Bless
Hi David. I don't 'weed's anymore. I 'harvest high value nitrogen.' Yep, it gets composted in my "Compost Everything" pile. Spoiled milk, meat, stale breads and chips, old dry beans and pasta, ALL OF THE KITCHEN SCRAPS go in that compost.👍😎👍
Wait what?! Even meat and cooked things? What about let's say.....leftover breakfast, Oatmeal? Eggs (cooked)?
@@CG-mj8tk Yes those items too
@@lucypearlmorgan3115 do you have to compost at first I can just put it directly in your garden bed?
Give your ideas a try and see what happens!
@@CG-mj8tk Yes...that is what he proposes whereas typical compost books or advice is to leave off the meat. I've always ignored it, though, and thrown it in anyway. :) Same with oil and grease, etc. I figure if it came from the earth and can decompose, why not?
I like to use a modified version of #5. I'll call it the "Pull and drop." You pull the weeds up so you get the roots out of the ground and then you drop 'em to slowly add back to the soil.
Depending on the weed, unless you cut the roots off or make sure there is no ground contact, they can re-root right there unless you bury it under cardboard.
Excellent content today, DTG! Love it! Btw, my best friend's son asked me, "have you ever heard of David the Good"? My beaming smile said it all! "...as a matter of fact..." Thanks for all you do...sharing your knowledge & humor have been a great blessing to me!
Aw, that's cool. Thank you.
My new neighbor and I were discussing our garden plans, and we both referenced David!
Come for the gardening tips; stay for the music. 🤣❤️
This was very neat!!! I live on 5 acres of powdery, hard, lime stone white clay. Nothing grows in it, but we cut the few grasses it grows and gather bags of leaves and clippings from neighborhoods and spread them all over the yard...it has made a huge difference from the time we moved in 15 years ago. Thank you!!
I know, here in Poland I've asked neighbors for their grass clippings. I simply don't understand why people destroy them or send them to the city compost when they could use them as fertilizer.
KEY TIP: If you call or stop by your local lumber company, they may just have giant FREE tarps that come covering their lumber deliveries. They are not always in perfect condition, but they are AMAZING for heating up your compost piles (or your freshly mulched beds) that will force any weed seeds to germinate fast. Leave the tarp on longer than that, and you will cook them. Ta Da, seed free mulch! Use the black (or darkest color possible) side up to produce the most heat. You can also cut these traps to the exact size of your raised beds and reuse them every Winter. Just clear and mulch your beds in the Fall, tarp them for the Winter, and by Spring you can just remove your tarps and start planting ! The more prep you do in the Fall, the less rushing around you have to do in the Early Spring. Happy gardening!
My first time seeing any of your videos, thank you.
So intelligent to use what's causing problems, to fertilize with, these uses for weeds are great. I loved the song and humor, but especially like feeding your enemies to your plants. Thanks for sharing!
Welcome!
This content deserves millions of views. Thank you brother love from South Africa ❤
The man is a varitable encyclopedia of Florida gardening! New Sub!!!
This is one of the most helpful gardening videos on YT. Thank you!
Thank you very much.
I’m so happy you mentioned Ruth Stout. I read her books years ago. She was a true pioneer for mulching.
I have learned to love my weeds. In my food forest / garden area I compost the grass weeds, chop and drop the invasive germs, while letting the clover, plantain, self heal, violets and purslane stay for food and medicinal benefits, and great for pollinators.
Thank u for verifying what I thought should be possible… people don’t understand how important weeds actually are
This year I've been using them as a straw-like mulch on my annual beds. I'll rake in the seeds and lay the pulled weeds in a thin layer, which retains moisture long enough for the seeds to germinate while withering away enough in time to allow the seedlings to poke through.
How are you NOT pulling 350K subscribers, dude?? Ordered a compost your enemies t-shirt. You rock!
Thank you.
Sneaky, dishonest algorithms.....
i love this channel
the vibes with the retro camera and the singing
just love it
I recently learned that most of the weeds we have, are edible (if they’re harvested early). I’ve been stumped on what to do with them after I’ve pulled them out or cut them down because I don’t want weeds growing in our compost. All of my weed anxiety vanished while watching this video 🥰👏🏻😁 Thank you! This is a gem❣️👊🏻
Eat your weeds checkout a good identifying video of simple ones to identify as food and slowly add to your diet while their other parts are being used as mulch,if you've got chickens give them purslane and don't forget to save some seeds for next year!
That opening had me 😅! Great video. I got a torch because of you... need a little rain though, the woods are getting to grow back faster than I can clear the left over logging wood on the ground. I don't want to be that person who has to call the fire department, lol!
GREAT INFO! GREAT HUMOR! GREAT SONGS! GREAT BLESSINGS!!!
I try to listen to ads. 😵💫 But u r worth it! ❤️✝️❤️🙏
David you are blessing for the entire world ! Keep up the good work!
The song in the beginning is banging. Nice job
I learn so much from you! And with humor and song.
Thank you, Diana.
I’m glad I’m growing my weeds food forest garden. Preach the “goodness” of weeds 🌱 brother. south Florida zone 10b here. I have to post an update video on my methods and relationship with the lovely weeds of the garden.
Dave, thank you for your video and your amazing work! The information is valuable and your humor is entertaining! Wonderful balance!! I wish you must success. You have a lot you have a lot of blessings for this world! I am grateful!
Thank you, Craig.
Just love listening to you all the time. Thanks for being there. Walzy-green from Nigeria appreciate you so much
What up Walzy?
I was raised by a gardening tyrant who insisted on removing/ discarding all seeds/pods from Even the desirable plants she purchased, tied up young trees to force them into the shape she desired and worked for Hours to produce bare dirt with a wedeater > No crabgrass or dandelions Allowed!! I Love gardening & letting life be diverse & appreciate the unique qualities of all kinds of living things > we have limited water & No burning allowed where I live, but I'm watering useful "weeds" to increase diversity, nurturing my few dandelions, purslane, etc. just as I do my veggies & fruit & nut trees > Live & let live while life exists > waste not = want not. TY, David for all your helpful expertise!
i do grass beds on cardboard,i dont pick or chop weeds anymore ever..Compost in place baby! Life is good
I learned a lot about composting weeds , thanks 😊 🙏
I'm inspired by this. The best thing that grows in my garden beds and yard are weeds. These are great ideas and now, I'll look at weeds as a blessing.
The song made me cry. So beautiful.
This made me feel much more hopeful about my suburban backyard garden- I've been burying kitchen scraps in the bare dirt where the previous owners of my home removed a tree since we moved in but I'm just now trying to grow a garden and I'm intimated 😅
I heard once that weeds are the BandAids for bare ground.
Seven Ways to Turn Weeds Into Fertilizer, baby! Love it. You should record a full version. 😄
That opening was awesome!
You always put a smile on my face, Dave.
Thanks for doing what you do.
Thank you
I really enjoy composting 👍 It's such a joy to harvest the new soil 🤗 We compost weeds as well.
0:50 the rip of the roots was so satisfying that I listened to it like 9 times
Thanks for the great video, Mr. the Good! I'm in zone 9B here in central FL and I'm slowly growing my food forest. Thanks for all the great info in your books. I've pre-ordered the new one. I appreciate your research and sharing of info about how to grow in my beautiful home state.
I'm in 9B too. Had a horrible cantaloupe insect issue. Lost every single one ☹
@@andreathenotsoterrible2939 I only had 2 grow. 1 just dropped off the vine, while small. The other one is growing right now. I haven't seen any critters yet. But I'm not quitting... going to try Seminole pumpkin this fall. Best of luck with your garden!
Thank you very much Alesha - I appreciate it. Green thumbs unite!
Looking forward to this video. I just hoe my weeds and leave on top of soil. If I have no crops immediately where the weeds are coming up then I let the weeds get up to about 3-4 inches high so I get a nice green mulch on top of my soil. If I have existing crops I then keep weeds below 1 inch high. The only sad thing is over time as I never ever let the weeds seed there becomes less and less weeds to mulch with .😩😩
The mace to the face made me laugh out loud, freak in hilarious.
Thank you David and family. :)
When is your Garden row book going to print? I've got the Kindle version but I still love a "real" book in hand.
Yes lol
Ok David, I'm watching, you know I've been complaining about a boatload of Oxalis! It makes me break out ( like poison ivy), so I'm here to learn to turn the table 😳🙄🤪🎯
I've drowned my weeds in containers for yrs. Wait a few weeks then throw the whole gluggy mess back onto the garden. I also throw weeds onto my lawn then mow them up and throw over my garden. My grass isn't actually grass either. Its weeds... I use it as mulch anyway. I use silverbeet leaves as mulch or "tea" as I have so many leaves that no one wants. Excellent video
thank you...new motivation for me in central, fl...because we def. have all the weeds for my plants' needs...
In addition to composting my weeds, I started sauteing the purslane. Yummy.
I have been doing this for three years now and it truly works
Which part are you doing? Thanks.
So full of knowledge!! Thank you so much!! You & your family are gems!! God bless!👍❤️🙏
Ha ha I was feeling glum, and your fertilizer song made me burst out laughing...yr adorable buddy. Thanks.
Chop and drop, slash and burn, and compost pile are my 3 main ones I use for my olive orchid I avoid using a tractor, chemical weed killer and store bought compost saves me so much money and my soil is the best in my area.
Love the intro, made me laff and the original song you sang... Won me over, I'm in 😍🤗💕💕
Oh and the content too!
Some really good ideas, and several worth trying.
Man just came across your podcast and in my opinion is one of the best
You make it look so easy and instill a lot of confidence to tend to my garden
I’m new just starting in south Florida
Glad to know that I've been doing some of these things already. Thanks!
Good work.
I liked simply because she pepper sprayed him lol! Protect yourself girl! Also thanks for telling me what to do with my weeds!
Great program. There may be hope for a city person like me thanks to your example and experience.
Thank you, George. There is always hope, this side of eternity.
Yeah, my seedy weeds go into the DFSW. Same with scutch grass (cue horror scream). I want a worm bin, but I am a little weary of bringing stuff in to the house during the winter. Need to figure that out, first.
Chop and drop question: do more weeds come up from the roots? If so do you just continue to chop and drop?
Sometimes, yes.
Yup, if u just keep chopping it just adds more fertilizer like a fertilizer making machine…
You’re videos are informative and entertaining! Love your music too! Thank you 🌻☀️
Thank you, Austin.
This is a great video. Fun and extremely helpful. I love your book. It has changed my life.
Thank you very much.
Funny jingle made me smile - nice content. Thank you.
Maybe weeds don't even exist, in my mind they are either 1) food/medicine for us 2) food for the birds 3) food for the Earth..... I love your T-shirts "Compost Your Enemies" LOL
Great intro! and interesting song. (can't get it out of my head!) But great video. Great ideas! I will keep this video in my reserves for the future!
This was such an excellent video! Love the idea of getting to know your weeds and use them! So many amazing ideas here. Gratitude to you for taking the time to make these amazing videos! We are so stoked to get planting. Gonna start our seedlings soon. Green house will be going up too, so hopefully once they start to sprout up, we can take them out to the green house. Big love from Missouri. - Erin + Brian
Your're only as good as your camera lady David the good! ; ) Great production to you all!
i liked your weeds to fertilizer into tune, it was catchy lol. I always enjoy the videos thats a given . have the tub worm bin workin now too great stuff ! did my first bio-char this week too .We heat with wood up here in the north so ashes are my abundant go to for a long time. starting the chicken run nxt month . ive learned alot from you and Its coming along nicely.So thanks again and hope you have a good day David the good .
Thank you. Good work, Tim.
Great video, I already liked my weeds, but now, wow!! lol...thanks for showing is the ways!
To dilute the weed tea, i do in ratio 1:10 litres. So 1 litre of weed tea to 10 litres of water. Also I water my plants before applying this liquid gold 👍.
Excellent video! I am now incorporating all these fantastic methods into my gardening! Thanks for sharing!
I totally love your approach to gardening!
Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing! Now I know what to do with the weeds! I used to be afraid to add them on my compost pile.
Dude I love your garden waste and informative videos. You totally remind me of Tom Green lol!
Love your video's. David would you please address the bad nematodes and dreaded leaf footed bugs and other vermin of sorts that plague us with petulance? How to overcome!!!!!
Love the vermicompost idea but what does one do on Friday night when it's bath night?
Jump in the creek.
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Great job, I love this video. Everyone should share this video on their pages.
Thank you.
@@davidthegood I tried to share in as many Facebook groups as I could. Then Facebook stopped me saying they stop people from sharing too many times because it might be spam. LOL
So glad I stumbled onto your channel! Am getting started tomorrow morning. Thank you so much for sharing+
I think weeds, because they flourish where no other plant wants to grow, have something special to offer as compost. Awesome! Never remove any plant from the property! Thats just throwing away nutrients!
I agree.
Definitely Have been using the drop method or put them in a pile in the garden - my sandy soil needs every bit of humus I can get it.
@@beckypetersen2680 Being on sandy soil, I totally agree. I've been chopping and dropping for years, and it seems that no matter how much I do, it just disappears into the sand. But it has to be doing some good, right? I've used my loquat tree which is at the back of the property as my yard dump. cut up branches all get put around it. The tree is gorgeous. Now, if the squirrels would just let me have some loquats, that would be great. Do squirrels make good mulch?😁
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Thanks for teaching me about the importance of weeds...😊
Thanks for your time. Turn a curse into a blessing that touched me. You know some call poke weed and dandelion weeds.
A quick question...when you are making weed tea/swamp water do you want to keep the container covered or open?
def covered, or you are making a mosquito home!
Yeah absolutley keep it covered! Like Betty said, SKEETERS! AHHHHHHHHHH......
If you wait until the larvae are big but haven't turned into mosquitoes, they're high protein to dump on the garden.
@@davidthegood Protein for chickens too!
Nice! Thank you. They can also have other uses as well.
I currently have a xeriscape front yard (soon to change to clover and a neighborhood pumpkin patch) but all the weeds I pulled from the scape are in my vermicompost bin. Why let them go to waste at the landfill when I can use them. I'm planning on running around town this year collecting more weeds from the roadside to use in my bins as well. If people want to continue depleting their soil resources, then I'm fine with grabbing it up. Lol.
the good and bad are in one. keep it up dave..
Still trying to find the blessing side of vine borers...
Good video DTG!
"You just try a little bit if you're not sure -- I mean don't taste it, but try it on your plants." 🤣😂🤣
If you will leave weeds in water in a bucket for two weeks as mentioned in this video at 15:52 please be sure to put in a BT dunk so the mosquitoes don't multiply in that water. Mosquitoes lay eggs in standing water and in three days they hatch into mosquitoes.
When does that song drop 😂 great video! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for sharing! Some 'weeds' such as the various vetches.(pea family) and clovers are beneficial left in place. They fix nitrogen and vetches have long taprootsvthst that deepen your soil.
The Oxalis has suffocated my yard, front and back. It repopulated worse and worse every year. I can't pull that much & I'm allergic. And I've got tons of poke weed. So..... guess I'll make tea for the plants. Mam o man, have I been BLESSED!❣😘🌼
Yup, composting doesn't get hot enough. But I did get a potato, several peaches, apricots and avocado pots to grow. One year had great peaches on the compost tree. 10', had to let it die. Several kinds of Oxalis has taken over the yard, bees do love them but are distracted from pollination of fruit trees, etc.
David the Good...more like David the Great!!! Loved this video lots!!
Hi David, i lives in tropic too. Greets from eastern Indonesia
I love composting!!! I look at my worms as.my employees haha and I just ensure they're safe, have a properly balanced " food and housng" etc
Whoa! I never knew this about weeds! Awesome!
Thank you, I'm a weed compost aholic❣️🤗😀🌄👍🦋🥑🌶️
Just be sure not to put too many weeds in an enclosed worm bin, it can lead to over heating as well as dead worms. I so much prefer giving my worms an escape path, they always come back when the temps are more ideal for them since the bin (feeding station) is full of worm food. And while they are gone they are checking out the closest garden.
i used to sift by hand but had an old cement mixer,made a tremmle out of rabbit wire and steel frame of an old fan(industrial) base and ct it out and welded rebar,,,,,attached with bolts,,,now sifting is fun,and sift red clay at slightly moist and not only make fluffy clay but humis/clay balls form in the tremmle ,rolling action,,,,,....but ya gotta have some sorta power
Perspective! Not nasty work weeding but happy work harvesting!