Thank you! I just about gave up on gardening a few years ago because of UA-cam gardening videos. I'm sitting on 25 acres of land, but i had my poor husband out building raised beds. I was crawling around on the ground laying down plastic weed suppressing fabric and trying to figure out how to get everything to grow vertically. I bought expensive bags of worm castings and lost an entire potato crop to potato bugs, which I was trying to kill with dish soap. I watched this woman planting in her raised beds while reciting poetry and teaching me how to use a black light at night to find and squish horn worms on tomatoes. I had planted enough seeds for a zillion acres of farm land, and I ended up with like four tomatoes, six beautiful asparagus spears and a gigantic parsley bush (which I never watered, weeded, or looked at). No food, no fun, and no poetry. Then I watched your videos, and I thought, "Hey, I'll just throw some seeds out, try to weed, and possibly fertilize with diluted urine. I'm STILL digging potatoes that I forgot I planted, sweet potatoes that I never weeded, and tons of other food, some of which we ate tonight. No kidding, you are a voice crying out in the wilderness, and you saved me from boutique gardening. And thank you for not caving to trends. Grow on, my brother!!!!
Go checkout Robbie and Gary on UA-cam . She grows in containers and she has several acres and she is successfully growing in totes without having to be on the ground. Here is a link to her chanbel ua-cam.com/users/Robbieandgarygardeningeasy
There is a time and place for square foot gardens and a time and place for row gardening. SFG are good for kitchen and summer gardens, but if you want to store food to eat all winter, it probably won’t work. So After years of SFG, I bought more land to grow in rows. Rows provide more volume with less work and have a purpose. Especially good if you have that much land!
I agree Marie that there is a time and place for everything. Different methods meet different needs and resources. The soil patch is like a blank slate, we can make the layout and use any methods we want within it, to match our resources and to best suit our needs. We can also 'mix and match' ideas. For example, I can do 3 or more corn rows (or half-rows) side by side for wind pollination, and have one 'extra wide row' for things like my small flax patch. I grew up row gardening, but I am having fun trying out new methods and ideas in the garden.
I just subscribed to your channel. The reason I did that is because I feel that you approach things in a scientific manner. You experiment, you come to conclusions, I like the way you do things. A lot of what you do doesn't apply to my situation, but I like to see things well thought out and tested, and the whole grow food first thing is great. It's very inspirational. I'm trying to go strictly organic this year, and I want to get away from tilling in my vegetable garden. I think you have some great ideas and you have the science to back them up.
This is by far the funniest video we have watched you do yet! We love the serious face whilst balancing the turnips! And the outtakes were amazing! Thank you David!
If you've got space, single rows are fine and you can use the unused soil for a second crop. You are certainly on point here man. Big thumbs up to you. I only have a tiny space to grow so it needs to be way more intensive. But horses for courses. 👍
im doing both, i have one 4x12 raised bed with beets, cat littler bucket containers with pickling cucumbers, and a small row garden with sweet corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, and a few pepper plants. My native clay soil is currently pretty poor, local farms usually grow wheat, beans, and corn here. we do what we can, and keep planting on lol
David, super fun and informative video! Sound advice, learn to grow food and worry about the rest of it later. Reminded me of my father when he took golf lessons..he asked the instructor about learning how to spin the ball like the pros did? Instructor looked at him and asked what his handicap was, my dad said 29, instructor shook his head and asked, why do you care? As if to say learn to hit the ball first and worry about the tricks later! Stay Warm !
You are crazy amazing I've been planting all year and honestly nothing looks as amazing as your plants... i wish i could figure this gardening thing out
Loved it! Where I'm at in my gardening journey is I plant in raised rows at about a foot and a half to two feet at most apart. And then I mulch in between them more so for water retention than weed suppressing( I still do a lot of weeding). For me I found its a good balance between traditional row cropping and more so permaculture ideas. I'm adding materials to try to add to, or at the very least, maintain the soil, all the while I keep the spacing closer to plant more in a smaller space and as the plants grow larger their shade also helps with water retention and choking out weeds to an extent. It's all a learning process. I don't think that there is an end to what you can learn while gardening.
Hubby bought me that book of yours for Christmas! We just fork over the gifts. Too old to wait. Might now last that long. ;) Great book! And important.
My hearing isnt so good, i watched the video several time and cannot make out the name of your wheeled weeding tool...if you could reply and let me know I would be so greatful...some months befire i can garden again ( here in NorthDakota) but i love to plan..thanx so much..positive waves to you and yours
Thanks! Always love your videos! If I don’t have the brains, you have. And I lend your brain with knowledge and try to do gardening over here in Stockholm.
Genius. I'm so glad I found your channel. I thought though that bare soil is suppose to be a big no no. I have a tiny space and am doing slight raised garden beds covered with straw.
I'm on the Colorado plains The ground basically is a brick when dry. I've actually started raised flower beds by digging out dirt and putting it on the border of the bed where it dries into hard border to hold in water and keep things like mulch from blowing away. I think it is like 'waffle gardening'. Than I add layers of whatever I can find. I'm not sure If I'd actually be able to grow anything on a bump row like you do (I guess I'm doing an 'innie' and you're doing an 'outie', lol. We also get hail and high winds. Do you think your row gardening method would work ok here? MIGARDENDER has mentioned core gardening where you bury a row of straw. Maybe that would help but I love your easy mounding idea since it doesnt require a lot of special things like peat moss or lumber.
That is some serious hard soil. I would try mounding soil in rows mixed with compost , or doing the "lasagna gardening" thing. But I'm not an expert on that climate. Definitely don't give up, but experiment like crazy in multiple spots and you'll soon know the best way. Also, you might want to research how natives and settlers grew food there, if they did.
I think on my sandy,slightly sloping garden I might have too much erosion,especially since we get a lot of rain,at least every other summer. This summer I think we’re in for an extra wet summer so I’m planning for heavy rains.
I dont want to weed at all i have been trying some sort of organic mulch and cardboard. Takes a little longer to plant put and set up an area that big but seemed to work my first small run im expanding it by a bunch and try again. Next yr im going to try grass and leaves for mulch. But you have really got me thinking. About tip 1. Also the just learn to grow food is a great tip Welcome to bama i love it here finally am back but short term for work but the weather is nice today way better than home in missouri
How good do you think that wheel hoe will do in Tennessee where we have a lot of rocks. I wiuld like to have one if only it will work here. I love this channel
Is the ground covered in rocks, or just a lot of hidden stones that are fist sized or smaller that keep showing up? If it is the latter, that is 'good soil' locally in eastern WV, USA where I grew up. The cultivator will work fine. Just keep an eye on the row post marker to lessen the meandering, and go more than once if you want to straighten the row abit and/or plow deeper.
So do you mix in the grass with a tiller and let that decompose first? We live in central Florida. Very sandy dirt. Love the videos we are learning a lot 💪🏼
Wouldn’t you lose more water through unregulated evaporation, opposed to a plant regulating the amount of water going through the soil/shading the soil?
For me, it's simple: I'm looking to expand the garden to at least 1/4 acre, maybe up to a full acre in a few years... and filling that kind of square footage with raised beds would cost so much in materials/labor as to kill the entire project.
Thanks for this! Starting to create our row garden, and a subreddit is going crazy after me! But I like doing the sweaty work and like the old-school look. Whatever works for you, right?
more plants equals more water conservation. With exposed dirt, water evaporates much quicker. Companion planting helps tremendously. I leave no dirt exposed and my soil stays moist for a long time.
Yes and no. Plants are solar water pumps. More plants will shade soil so it doesn't evaporate as fast, but more plants are more water pumping from soil and evaporating through leaves.
@@krzysztofrudnicki5841 yes, you are right for total water conservation, but overall you get more plants with less water per plant. It becomes a concern if there is not enough water to grow more plants. Depending on the climate also, in a very humid area, the plants will attract water in the night and early morning. So, yes and no -- correct.
Hello! I just joined the channel because there is such a wealth of information here! Will Single Row gardening work in South Florida or is it better to stick with the Florida Food Forest Model?
Was wondering something. Im a new gardener who has been watching your channel. I made my own swamp fertilizer is it safe to pour on the top of the plants I'm asking bc I put urine in it or should I only put it in the soil around the base of the plant. Any info on this would be appreciated thanks
Awesome I was thinking the day that the key to Gardening/Life Balanced between lazy and energetic Lazy enough to think, there must be a easier/better way Energetic enough to actually try it. Your approach reminds of that :)
My garden is being taken over by dollar weeds. What can I do about that? I let it get away from me. My whole yard and garden is getting overrun. Any advice will be appreciated.
@@davidthegood I see it behind you. Cut all the bushes and stuff. Anything can work. I also didnt want to buy mulch so I asked my neighbor who has a small woodworking bussiness and he throws away so much bark and stuff I covered a whole hectare with it in the fall.
I was sarcastically thinking "OMG!!! Nooooo, he's not doing no till!!!!" ;-) I know that it is late fall, but it looks/seems relatively dry. What do you plan on growing in the spring/summer? Any plans for watermelon and cantaloupe? When I moved away from the bayou country, I really missed the watermelon and cantaloupe. Always enjoy your videos.
I went to the local ethnic market and got some yams. I got yellow yams, name yams, and maybe? another one. So my question.... are Name and Discorea Alata the same? I have read legendary things about your Discorea Alata and can’t stand not having them. So I want to know if I have it dang it! Are you growing yams?
David I have read most of your books some of them 3 or 4 times. You seem to have changed your focus. Is this because this is being grown for a market garden?
Yes - and also poor soil, no irrigation, needing food fast and much more space than usual. Like I said, single rows are not my primary method but are a useful tool. I have only gardened this way once before, back in 2015 on some borrowed land without irrigation.
I am not an expert, but I suggest going along hill contours, not to plow straight from the top to the bottom of any notable hills. You can also keep a grass buffer zone between your garden and any ponds or streams, to help hold soil. If you have a long growing season, you may also have the option of planting ground cover crops.
everything you said is contradictive to all the other permaculture gurus ive watched so far (except for the howing reducing water loss due to cracking up the first layer. ive heared people refer to it as "dirt mulch" like in "the mulch thats the most available but with the least benefits") this keeps me wondering...its those two mind sets that both address the same questions yet contradict each other in the actions but they both seem to work... very confusing. thank you for the good videos, though. hope my questions find answers here
If it works to grow food and it doesn't require spraying poisons, I will try it. This worked well for me in a non-irrigated field in N FL so I'm doing it again. Test and see.
The lack of organic matter in the soil was driving me crazy initially, but when he explained his situation it made perfect sense. The point I took away: grow did in whatever way works for you now, in the space that you have, with the time and resources that are available to you. This worked.
Man, your info is not complete. As with most you tubers, it is moulded to fit a ideal that you can make a video with. And you don't seem to have a grip on history, and recent history. Our ancestors and even in my generation used horses or mules to plow and till the garden, thus the need for wide rows.
I love the prompt that comes onto the screen, right at the end....David is balancing a basket of veggies on his head, and the prompt is for a video about vertical gardening!!😂🪜🪴 Bev ❤🦘
Thank you! I just about gave up on gardening a few years ago because of UA-cam gardening videos. I'm sitting on 25 acres of land, but i had my poor husband out building raised beds. I was crawling around on the ground laying down plastic weed suppressing fabric and trying to figure out how to get everything to grow vertically. I bought expensive bags of worm castings and lost an entire potato crop to potato bugs, which I was trying to kill with dish soap. I watched this woman planting in her raised beds while reciting poetry and teaching me how to use a black light at night to find and squish horn worms on tomatoes. I had planted enough seeds for a zillion acres of farm land, and I ended up with like four tomatoes, six beautiful asparagus spears and a gigantic parsley bush (which I never watered, weeded, or looked at). No food, no fun, and no poetry. Then I watched your videos, and I thought, "Hey, I'll just throw some seeds out, try to weed, and possibly fertilize with diluted urine. I'm STILL digging potatoes that I forgot I planted, sweet potatoes that I never weeded, and tons of other food, some of which we ate tonight. No kidding, you are a voice crying out in the wilderness, and you saved me from boutique gardening. And thank you for not caving to trends. Grow on, my brother!!!!
That rocks! Thank you so much.
Go checkout Robbie and Gary on UA-cam . She grows in containers and she has several acres and she is successfully growing in totes without having to be on the ground. Here is a link to her chanbel ua-cam.com/users/Robbieandgarygardeningeasy
There is a time and place for square foot gardens and a time and place for row gardening. SFG are good for kitchen and summer gardens, but if you want to store food to eat all winter, it probably won’t work. So After years of SFG, I bought more land to grow in rows. Rows provide more volume with less work and have a purpose. Especially good if you have that much land!
I agree Marie that there is a time and place for everything. Different methods meet different needs and resources. The soil patch is like a blank slate, we can make the layout and use any methods we want within it, to match our resources and to best suit our needs. We can also 'mix and match' ideas. For example, I can do 3 or more corn rows (or half-rows) side by side for wind pollination, and have one 'extra wide row' for things like my small flax patch.
I grew up row gardening, but I am having fun trying out new methods and ideas in the garden.
This warmed my heart and tickled my soul. Haha well done!
How’s it going a year later? Especially with food and fertilizer as pricey as it is 😵💫
I just subscribed to your channel. The reason I did that is because I feel that you approach things in a scientific manner. You experiment, you come to conclusions, I like the way you do things. A lot of what you do doesn't apply to my situation, but I like to see things well thought out and tested, and the whole grow food first thing is great. It's very inspirational. I'm trying to go strictly organic this year, and I want to get away from tilling in my vegetable garden. I think you have some great ideas and you have the science to back them up.
Great video David. Once you learn to grow food and no longer have total failure your interest picks up and your skills grow naturally.
This is by far the funniest video we have watched you do yet! We love the serious face whilst balancing the turnips! And the outtakes were amazing! Thank you David!
Great point... get the food in the ground!
Start somewhere with something!
You can get picky and fussy later.
Peace, Walter
If you've got space, single rows are fine and you can use the unused soil for a second crop.
You are certainly on point here man. Big thumbs up to you.
I only have a tiny space to grow so it needs to be way more intensive.
But horses for courses. 👍
im doing both, i have one 4x12 raised bed with beets, cat littler bucket containers with pickling cucumbers, and a small row garden with sweet corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, and a few pepper plants. My native clay soil is currently pretty poor, local farms usually grow wheat, beans, and corn here. we do what we can, and keep planting on lol
It's the way my grandparents and my father did it. Looks fantastic and food is the reason I garden. 👍
David, super fun and informative video! Sound advice, learn to grow food and worry about the rest of it later.
Reminded me of my father when he took golf lessons..he asked the instructor about learning how to spin the ball like the pros did? Instructor looked at him and asked what his handicap was, my dad said 29, instructor shook his head and asked, why do you care? As if to say learn to hit the ball first and worry about the tricks later!
Stay Warm !
That is a great story and a valuable lesson.
You are crazy amazing I've been planting all year and honestly nothing looks as amazing as your plants... i wish i could figure this gardening thing out
You'll get it. It's a matter of repeated practice and getting to know what your soil and plants will do.
Great info and hope for all! No excuses with David the Good! Love your channel and your attitude!
Thanks, Deb.
Loved it! Where I'm at in my gardening journey is I plant in raised rows at about a foot and a half to two feet at most apart. And then I mulch in between them more so for water retention than weed suppressing( I still do a lot of weeding). For me I found its a good balance between traditional row cropping and more so permaculture ideas. I'm adding materials to try to add to, or at the very least, maintain the soil, all the while I keep the spacing closer to plant more in a smaller space and as the plants grow larger their shade also helps with water retention and choking out weeds to an extent. It's all a learning process. I don't think that there is an end to what you can learn while gardening.
Back to basics. Moral of the story, grow something, watch, and learn. That is truly the most important thing.
Grow or die... using the old tried and true method you are using now. Love the look of the graphic.
A very timely video and you remain my favorite gardening iconoclast.
Hubby bought me that book of yours for Christmas! We just fork over the gifts. Too old to wait. Might now last that long. ;) Great book! And important.
I did this with tepary beans in my front yard and it worked great. I just used a weed whacker to make rows in the bermuda grass
That is awesome.
This is great if you have that much space to grow crops. A great many of us, especially in urban settings, have a fraction of that much.
I love how you extend the visual examples (weeding with that wheel thing) to the point it starts feeling awkward haha
The best.
My hearing isnt so good, i watched the video several time and cannot make out the name of your wheeled weeding tool...if you could reply and let me know I would be so greatful...some months befire i can garden again ( here in NorthDakota) but i love to plan..thanx so much..positive waves to you and yours
It is a Planet Whizbang brand wheelhoe.
Thanks! Always love your videos! If I don’t have the brains, you have. And I lend your brain with knowledge and try to do gardening over here in Stockholm.
Lend...or borrow...?
Thank you
@@teresasoler9539 Borrow
Genius. I'm so glad I found your channel. I thought though that bare soil is suppose to be a big no no. I have a tiny space and am doing slight raised garden beds covered with straw.
Catching one of your videos is the highlight of my day! Thank you SO much for sharing your life with us!!!
Thank you - that is kind of you, Diana.
Exactly and it can be used in low/no maintenance areas, less accessible places and so forth.
Thank You for sharing this garden wisdom!😊
garden looking good Sir Good.
Here in the southwest it’s dry. We have to irrigate. Would love to live off rain water and am working towards collecting it.
Yes - you definitely have to work with your climate.
Sweet home Alabama .. .. ..green manure is the way to go .. .. ..Hoss tools is a good store .. ..
I'm on the Colorado plains The ground basically is a brick when dry. I've actually started raised flower beds by digging out dirt and putting it on the border of the bed where it dries into hard border to hold in water and keep things like mulch from blowing away. I think it is like 'waffle gardening'. Than I add layers of whatever I can find. I'm not sure If I'd actually be able to grow anything on a bump row like you do (I guess I'm doing an 'innie' and you're doing an 'outie', lol. We also get hail and high winds. Do you think your row gardening method would work ok here?
MIGARDENDER has mentioned core gardening where you bury a row of straw. Maybe that would help but I love your easy mounding idea since it doesnt require a lot of special things like peat moss or lumber.
That is some serious hard soil. I would try mounding soil in rows mixed with compost , or doing the "lasagna gardening" thing. But I'm not an expert on that climate. Definitely don't give up, but experiment like crazy in multiple spots and you'll soon know the best way. Also, you might want to research how natives and settlers grew food there, if they did.
I think on my sandy,slightly sloping garden I might have too much erosion,especially since we get a lot of rain,at least every other summer. This summer I think we’re in for an extra wet summer so I’m planning for heavy rains.
I dont want to weed at all i have been trying some sort of organic mulch and cardboard. Takes a little longer to plant put and set up an area that big but seemed to work my first small run im expanding it by a bunch and try again. Next yr im going to try grass and leaves for mulch.
But you have really got me thinking. About tip 1. Also the just learn to grow food is a great tip
Welcome to bama i love it here finally am back but short term for work but the weather is nice today way better than home in missouri
Very nice, thanks for going into a little detail on the single row beds.
How good do you think that wheel hoe will do in Tennessee where we have a lot of rocks. I wiuld like to have one if only it will work here. I love this channel
Is the ground covered in rocks, or just a lot of hidden stones that are fist sized or smaller that keep showing up? If it is the latter, that is 'good soil' locally in eastern WV, USA where I grew up. The cultivator will work fine. Just keep an eye on the row post marker to lessen the meandering, and go more than once if you want to straighten the row abit and/or plow deeper.
So do you mix in the grass with a tiller and let that decompose first? We live in central Florida. Very sandy dirt. Love the videos we are learning a lot 💪🏼
Wouldn’t you lose more water through unregulated evaporation, opposed to a plant regulating the amount of water going through the soil/shading the soil?
My favorite method! Great video!
For me, it's simple: I'm looking to expand the garden to at least 1/4 acre, maybe up to a full acre in a few years... and filling that kind of square footage with raised beds would cost so much in materials/labor as to kill the entire project.
Yeah, definitely. There is no need.
Thanks for this! Starting to create our row garden, and a subreddit is going crazy after me! But I like doing the sweaty work and like the old-school look. Whatever works for you, right?
more plants equals more water conservation. With exposed dirt, water evaporates much quicker. Companion planting helps tremendously. I leave no dirt exposed and my soil stays moist for a long time.
Yes and no. Plants are solar water pumps. More plants will shade soil so it doesn't evaporate as fast, but more plants are more water pumping from soil and evaporating through leaves.
@@krzysztofrudnicki5841 yes, you are right for total water conservation, but overall you get more plants with less water per plant. It becomes a concern if there is not enough water to grow more plants. Depending on the climate also, in a very humid area, the plants will attract water in the night and early morning. So, yes and no -- correct.
Your garden looks great David didn't think it would make it through the front but I see it did 👍
I deliberately planted cold tolerant vegetables, but that was a close one. Hit 25 here!
Thanks David merry Christmas from Tom and Alana in Florida.
Merry Christmas!
Great practical advice! Thanks for this video!
Am in Central Florida and have moles and armadillos in my soil/sand.. Supporting you on UATV
Thank you.
Very cool! I learned stuff. Thanks!
Thank you, Delila.
Hello! I just joined the channel because there is such a wealth of information here! Will Single Row gardening work in South Florida or is it better to stick with the Florida Food Forest Model?
It will work, but it does take some work to get the sand decent. Best results will be in winter.
Good advice. Thank You David!
Thanks, Bobbi.
What about mulching the e
Pry rows?
Lol this reminded me of the earth oven video where you put a chair on your head...
THANK YOU!
Was wondering something. Im a new gardener who has been watching your channel. I made my own swamp fertilizer is it safe to pour on the top of the plants I'm asking bc I put urine in it or should I only put it in the soil around the base of the plant. Any info on this would be appreciated thanks
With just this video you can learn to grow all the food your family needs
Thank you.
Awesome I was thinking the day that the key to Gardening/Life
Balanced between lazy and energetic
Lazy enough to think, there must be a easier/better way
Energetic enough to actually try it. Your approach reminds of that :)
When you complain about the cold in a place people go to escape the winter...
...you might be from the tropics...
My garden is being taken over by dollar weeds. What can I do about that? I let it get away from me. My whole yard and garden is getting overrun. Any advice will be appreciated.
It's snowing here. Guess that means it's time to dig up parsnips
Should be nice and sweet now.
Good one!!! TY DTG
I would really recommend mulching. You WILL get more!
And where would I get all this mulch?
@@davidthegood I see it behind you. Cut all the bushes and stuff. Anything can work. I also didnt want to buy mulch so I asked my neighbor who has a small woodworking bussiness and he throws away so much bark and stuff I covered a whole hectare with it in the fall.
Help. I have Florida sand and all the plants that grow exude a noxious latex. And they grow FAST.
How do you keep the weeds down? I am in Georgia and the weeds take over everything in 2 days. Saw this on Gab btw. Good video!
Hoeing.
Great video! Wow you guys don't even look like winter! We are 2 degrees!
YIKES
We're in the dirty south baba we can swim in December hahab noooo jk
Hi David, how do you keep the deer out
A dog helps
I was sarcastically thinking "OMG!!! Nooooo, he's not doing no till!!!!" ;-)
I know that it is late fall, but it looks/seems relatively dry. What do you plan on growing in the spring/summer? Any plans for watermelon and cantaloupe? When I moved away from the bayou country, I really missed the watermelon and cantaloupe. Always enjoy your videos.
Pumpkins, melons, lots of beans, corn.
P
Do you get deer often in your garden from the woods?
No - they have left this area alone.
how do you keep deer and rabbits from eating everything
I'm trying to join it won't let me !
Unfortunately he doesn’t do the kits anymore 😢
I went to the local ethnic market and got some yams. I got yellow yams, name yams, and maybe? another one. So my question.... are Name and Discorea Alata the same? I have read legendary things about your Discorea Alata and can’t stand not having them. So I want to know if I have it dang it! Are you growing yams?
Some of the "name" are D. alata, others are likely D. cayennensis - they are all great. I am not growing yams yet. In the spring I will.
Thanks for the reply! What kinds will you be growing? I hope to get the potato yam and the Purple ubi (ube?) yam.
Is it that much harder to just use a hula hoe without wheels? I already have one of those.
It takes a lot longer but it's not hard work. It's pleasant.
Farmin' Miranda
What is your spacing?
3'
"How am I supposed to do that if you are laughing?" I say that to my wife all the time.
David I have read most of your books some of them 3 or 4 times. You seem to have changed your focus. Is this because this is being grown for a market garden?
Yes - and also poor soil, no irrigation, needing food fast and much more space than usual. Like I said, single rows are not my primary method but are a useful tool. I have only gardened this way once before, back in 2015 on some borrowed land without irrigation.
Compost your enemies! Vegan compost!
Are these t-shirts available for sale? I did not find them on your website or on Amazon
Doesn't it rain in Alabama? I thought the Southeast got too much water if anything.
Yes, but dry lately
what about soil erosion?
I am not an expert, but I suggest going along hill contours, not to plow straight from the top to the bottom of any notable hills. You can also keep a grass buffer zone between your garden and any ponds or streams, to help hold soil. If you have a long growing season, you may also have the option of planting ground cover crops.
Just grow food!
David the good should grow poppy seeds
everything you said is contradictive to all the other permaculture gurus ive watched so far (except for the howing reducing water loss due to cracking up the first layer. ive heared people refer to it as "dirt mulch" like in "the mulch thats the most available but with the least benefits") this keeps me wondering...its those two mind sets that both address the same questions yet contradict each other in the actions but they both seem to work... very confusing. thank you for the good videos, though. hope my questions find answers here
If it works to grow food and it doesn't require spraying poisons, I will try it. This worked well for me in a non-irrigated field in N FL so I'm doing it again. Test and see.
I like that there's no one right answer.
The lack of organic matter in the soil was driving me crazy initially, but when he explained his situation it made perfect sense.
The point I took away: grow did in whatever way works for you now, in the space that you have, with the time and resources that are available to you. This worked.
David I love your work but can you please put some bend in your hat brim.
Why?
@@davidthegood Makes you look like a rapper
Okay, good reason.
@@davidthegood nothing wrong with rappers, they know all about hoes.
KRYSTAL
Did you move from Florida ?
4 miles over the border.
@@davidthegood oh OK. That's good hope you get your new spot up and growing soon. May you have a bountiful harvest good sir :)
@@davidthegood HAHAHA
Grown gardens my whole life in Alabama using only that method.
It works very well!
At the end of the chat, I asked because a Mexican told me to buy ladybugs for my Avocado Lace Bug infestation.
I bought mine online only stayed for a few days
Damn that obiwan figure is like $50-60 lol
Kids broke him - I had that thing since I was little.
It makes sense. I mean, if you've got all that space, why cram all your plants in tight just so you can mow the rest of it? Mowing is dumb.
Boa noite
Why don’t you just lay concrete in the pathways?
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Haha
Great information! Thanks for sharing your successes and failures. We learn from both. Hope you got my email
I get a lot of emails. Not sure which one was yours.
@@davidthegood I will resend with UA-cam in subject
Dude
3rd benefit easy weeding...no its exercise.
Weeding is good exercise. But there is a point where it just takes a long, long time to weed.
That's a lot of turnips.
Carmen Miranda's got nothing on you.
No one has ever said that to me before.
Go woodchips, it's better
Man, your info is not complete. As with most you tubers, it is moulded to fit a ideal that you can make a video with. And you don't seem to have a grip on history, and recent history. Our ancestors and even in my generation used horses or mules to plow and till the garden, thus the need for wide rows.
Yes, they did. But the spacing is still important for the reasons I gave.
use fertilizers and other minerals + irrigation = *modern* technology? or just waste space & time & labor.........
Very stupid first reason !! Guess why the weeds grow between your rows... THEY HAVE EXCESS WATER AND LIGHT !!!!
Take your meds.
@@davidthegood ok
I love the prompt that comes onto the screen, right at the end....David is balancing a basket of veggies on his head, and the prompt is for a video about vertical gardening!!😂🪜🪴 Bev ❤🦘
Where’s David the bad?