Thank you all for taking the time to join us - Rachel and I had a blast making this video! Here's Compost Everything: amzn.to/3Z5CDXB And here's Steven at Skillcult, of whom I am a fan: www.youtube.com/@SkillCult Have a great week. -DTG and RTG
Rachel is such a good sport (aka helpmeet) and vice versa. Fun to watch and informative as well. You are so right about Steven at Skillcult. I am a fan too, for many years now.
The creativity and connection between you two is truely immeasurable (in a positive way, ha). Thanx y'all for your unique take on homestead information!!!
YES and yes and another yes he can ...... just found David the Good from Marjory Wildcraft and my garden hat off to my new organic food forest gardener friends
Gotta say. I have done this before but you make it look simple. I got a good bit, but the dang roots were a bit to deal with. Really great skit. Excellent cinematography. I would say this is an excellent idea for seed start material.
Absolutely epic! Loved Rachel as Mother Nature. In the middle of all the things going on in the world today, y'all made a little Happy spot! Thanks for the inspiration!🙏💞
This video is so timely. I did this on my property line today. I' made 4 huge piles. Only thing that sucks is the tree roots, they was everywhere in it. If it weren't for the tree roots I would have probably got six piles. You will know when you find it because it has the most rich Earth smell I've ever smelled. Great video!!
Storm water drainage ditches .. you know, some homeowners will PAY to have the culverts running under their driveways cleaned out. Yep .. you can get free compost, and get paid to carry it away. Leaves, too .. Rachel makes for a great Mother Nature 😊
lol....at the beginning Mother Nature was anything but happy, more like VERY ANGRY, reminded of that margarine commercial of years past, that its not nice to fool Mother Nature, and ditto not nice to STEAL from her either! But then when Mother Nature sees for what purpose you took her compost, she smiles and you invite her a glass of wine(from her grapes),and she, concerned about the bottle cap if it was biodegradable, you DTG went to retrieve it, meanwhile Mother Nature was drinking straight from the bottle! XD
I tries this at my place in TN and was surprised given the number of trees and how long they had been there how thin the organic layer was before I hit clay. But there are certainly enough seasonal leaves to set up leaf mold bins. And I got some nice rotten logs out to start the beds.
Yes - there are some areas here like that too. It seems to cycle down fast. Finding deeper indentations where lots of leaves catch makes a big difference. Think "gutters!"
Consider planting winter kill covercrops. The organic matter (roots) can go deep & keep soil life working until a deep freeze hits. You can save your gathered leaf mould for top mulch covering.
So dramatic! Too funny! Mother Nature looked a little scary! Hahahahaha. Was glad to see her smile. This is a great idea because I was just thinking about expensive compost is when you dont have some ready to go! Thanks so much for this video!
@@Katydidit David and Rachel, what??!! You all have 10 kids??? For real???!!! Wow! Rachel looks super great! I only had six and I'm still 10...ok maybe 15 pounds from me and oh, my baby is only 23!!! Rachel rocks. I would have had more if the man was right.
My hubby, who is not into gardening at all, expanded his hitting area for golf....don't ask. He is now 300 feet into the downhill, wooded side of the property. Yesterday he says "there is some really nice dirt down there". This is not my hubby.
Loved this video. Rachel makes a great mother nature. The house I grew up in was in a sandy area but we had 4 large oak trees. I used to dig little holes & rake the leaves in the holes & put the dirt back on top to keep the wind from blowing the leaf piles around & it not look messy.
Great video! I tried robbing mother nature last summer. I took one shovel into a composting stump and my youngest and I got stung by ground hornets. I'm a bit nervous to try it again. -Alana
I saw that Skilcult video about finding compost on the uphill side of logs! And the facial expressions just before the end of "Mother Nature": priceless.
Twenty-five years ago, after 40 years of composing, I bought an electric blower/vacuum, with reduction 15-1. I stopped raking leaves, composting them. I sucked them into blades, shredding 15-1, going into a cloth sack. I poured the contents directly on my garden as winter mulch. It worked so well, I stopped composting, just using shredded leaves.
Yall! Wow! I laughed...I cried....even had the chills at one point because Rachel is so FIERCE! DtG, my friend..you won the lottery with this lady. However, you get bonus points for the all black ensemble and the fact that you penned my fave jam of all time (biscuits anyone?) I'm always looking at how beautiful the soil is in the woods. Mother Nature knows her stuff!
Perfect timing! I've been digging up hummus all weekend for my new beds. I remember when I moved here this summer being greatly disappointed there were few trees down the last couple years for firewood, but there's about a dozen or more big ones that have been rotting a decade or so. I mulched what trunk was left by hand with a sharpish spade, and then just dump punky chips and hummus (and some biochar, with some ceramic fragments as well) into the beds to till into the clay. 3 beds ready for early planting, I have 6 more to finish before warm weather.
excellent mother nature by Rachel! very creative and I have missed her. Your both very creative and sooo well suited for one another and all those great kids. BE BLESSED GOODY FAM!
Yes, good points. Did this in the fall. Took my younger boys on a hike with hatchets, shovels and buckets. Found a fallen tree, many years old and let the boys have at it. It was practically powder when they were done.
I have a small pond that dries out often when it doesn't rain for a while. I throw a lot of my weeds and extra cuttings in there and then when the pond dries out I take all the rotted down plant matter out with a shovel. Works pretty well if you want a really easy compost mud to slop around your trees and tough plants
Great vid David! (Sigh), the biggest thing I miss from the North. Is leaves!! I was just thinking of that tiday!! And yes! I compost everything! Can’t believe how much you have gotten done there! It’s awesome!
Mother Nature often deploys Fair Wood Fairies to express her possessivness - so always, ALWAYS recite a nature inspired poem in the woods and hug a few trees if they aren't busy. I did not know about the Prosecco - great tip bro 👍🏻
Amazing video, now lets hope not every garden suddenly starts going out to the woods to take compost, the woods themselves also need some. funny thing is i already did this but in return i also take a lot of diffrent organic material and put that back into the spot where i took the already made compost from the woods, not sure it helps but i like to believe so :)
Thank you so much for the demonstration!! Very helpful I truly appreciate it. I thought you were merely going to pick up leaves. WOW incredibly impressive compost!
Oh wow, the most beautiful mother nature, haha love those expressions 🥰 Again what can I say, you two are brilliant. Way to bring so much knowledge in such an entertaining way xo
@@Katydidit Yes I live close to multiple nature preserves and It's very tempting. I do Korean natural farming and it's the best place to get indigenous micro organisms to make your garden extremely fertile. I recommend it to anyone who grows food. It"s a game changer.
I live in a fairly dense populated area... I know taking 1-2 wheelbarrows out of the woods wont hurt it too much, yet it feels wrong. I want to leave the forest and "nature" around me as untuched as possible because we people damage it enough already. I instead just took a few hands full of the soil and infused my compostpile with it to transplant the microorganisms and fungi and stuff into it.... in the hopes to quicken the decompositionprocess a bit.... Edit: i get most of my compost from the local recycling-depot. People bring their grassclippings and woody material there so... its localy sourced and without peat
Informative and entertaining. I have about four acres of woods, some of it used to be a bullfrog pond but I put in drainage. I have that pond bottom and pine needles under 50 ft tall pine trees. I have a compact tractor with a toot bar on the bucket to cut through the roots and a landscape rake to gather the mulch.
Awesome video! I love it when you splice an instructional video with a clever, funny skit. I also like when Rachel has a part - I've said it before, she's a great character actress. I love her facial expressions when she goes from angry and vengeful to gracious and moved. A local group I'm in was recently chatting online about the prices and quality of different potting soils from various vendors (eg, $10 per cubic foot at one store, or spend almost twice as much buying online, but it saves you an hour of driving?) And I looked out my window at the field and the woods, and thought, "But...there's plenty of organic soil RIGHT THERE! Why would I spend money on something that's all over my backyard?"
Adorable! You two are just too cute! .....and I thought no one knew about my clandestine trips into the Conservation for a little bit of native soil here and there....and everywhere. Apparently, not an original theft. And, DTG, you play with cow patties with bare hands, then use horrible flimsy medical gloves to sift woodland soil? Good thing you are on the good side of Mother Nature.
🤣😂 I love you guys..🤣I just spent the last X-number of days building raised beds, and a few hours filling them. Well the rented tractor filled them. I had all of these plans to grow in the ground....anddd.....🤨🤔 22 oak trees, they have a lot of roots...shallow, deep..in my compost pile 😮..I'm not fighting it anymore. I've had enough of the buckets and tubs and bags..and...I sucked it up and got real raised beds. I got my soil test back and it had a big.. 😂🤣on it..( not really- but it was bad) I could hear the tech...good luck with that! 🤣1.5% organic matter. Done- raised beds it is. 😄
Never, ever, ever, never ever give up gardening. I am overcoming an input of aminopyrolid laced soil. So... now this season.... so very grateful to finally see weeds!! Praise God!
Thank you all for taking the time to join us - Rachel and I had a blast making this video!
Here's Compost Everything: amzn.to/3Z5CDXB
And here's Steven at Skillcult, of whom I am a fan: www.youtube.com/@SkillCult
Have a great week.
-DTG and RTG
Rachel is such a good sport (aka helpmeet) and vice versa. Fun to watch and informative as well. You are so right about Steven at Skillcult. I am a fan too, for many years now.
This video made my day! :)
The creativity and connection between you two is truely immeasurable (in a positive way, ha).
Thanx y'all for your unique take on homestead information!!!
And the Oscar goes to David the Goods Wife
They actually gave it to Zelenskyy 🤣
@@plantabundance hahaha
Yes! Go, girl!!! 😊
Naw I’m don’t like pagan witches! All thanks to the mighty creator yahusha for his beautiful creation!!
@@plantabundance UNFORTUNATELY, but you're hilarious 😂
If there is an award for best, most entertaining gardening video, you just won. 🎭
Fabulous!
Never fails to educate and entertain. Love it!! Rachel is definitely your soul mate. Beautiful and willing to help. Blessings to you both!!
She and I were made for each other. We laughed so much...
@@davidthegoodyou guys are the sweetest. #relationshipgoals. 😉❤️
Out there in the woods, sifting compost wearing a ski mask.... You make me proud to be part of the gardening community!
Only David The Good could take something like compost and turn it into an entire production. Cheers!
YES and yes and another yes he can ...... just found David the Good from Marjory Wildcraft and my garden hat off to my new organic food forest gardener friends
Dude you put so much extra into the videos. Truly impressive. Like if Kevin Costner made gardening videos.
Thank you
Haha
"If you plant it, it will grow."
another masterpiece
the family that films together stays together
thanks for sharing your knowledge
Gotta say. I have done this before but you make it look simple. I got a good bit, but the dang roots were a bit to deal with. Really great skit. Excellent cinematography. I would say this is an excellent idea for seed start material.
The roots can be an issue. I really like this tough little shovel with the sharp end - it helps a lot.
Absolutely epic! Loved Rachel as Mother Nature. In the middle of all the things going on in the world today, y'all made a little Happy spot! Thanks for the inspiration!🙏💞
LOVE the thumbnail!!
You two play so nicely together! I love your channel😊❤
Thanks, Kimberly.
It's kind of odd you have all those clothes and ski mask... Lol, funny as always, thanks!
Thank you for the tip. The ski mask cost me a brutal $9.99.
This video is so timely. I did this on my property line today. I' made 4 huge piles. Only thing that sucks is the tree roots, they was everywhere in it. If it weren't for the tree roots I would have probably got six piles. You will know when you find it because it has the most rich Earth smell I've ever smelled. Great video!!
Good to know
Storm water drainage ditches .. you know, some homeowners will PAY to have the culverts running under their driveways cleaned out. Yep .. you can get free compost, and get paid to carry it away. Leaves, too .. Rachel makes for a great Mother Nature 😊
That's a great idea
Love it. Rachel was stunning and David so stealthy. Compost everything!
Haha! You guys rock and y'all are my kind of nerdy. Love Rachel's makeup job, very creative!
So creative... obviously Rachel rocks w Mother Nature!
lol....at the beginning Mother Nature was anything but happy, more like VERY ANGRY, reminded of that margarine commercial of years past, that its not nice to fool Mother Nature, and ditto not nice to STEAL from her either! But then when Mother Nature sees for what purpose you took her compost, she smiles and you invite her a glass of wine(from her grapes),and she, concerned about the bottle cap if it was biodegradable, you DTG went to retrieve it, meanwhile Mother Nature was drinking straight from the bottle! XD
That was a great production and Mother Nature is looking so lovely today
I tries this at my place in TN and was surprised given the number of trees and how long they had been there how thin the organic layer was before I hit clay. But there are certainly enough seasonal leaves to set up leaf mold bins. And I got some nice rotten logs out to start the beds.
Yes - there are some areas here like that too. It seems to cycle down fast. Finding deeper indentations where lots of leaves catch makes a big difference. Think "gutters!"
Consider planting winter kill covercrops. The organic matter (roots) can go deep & keep soil life working until a deep freeze hits. You can save your gathered leaf mould for top mulch covering.
Rachel! 💥
Don’t forget to be grateful and thank Mother Nature for what you took!
😂
You two are the best. As always you get your information across in an enjoyable, and light-hearted way. Always look forward to seeing you videos.
So dramatic! Too funny! Mother Nature looked a little scary! Hahahahaha. Was glad to see her smile. This is a great idea because I was just thinking about expensive compost is when you dont have some ready to go! Thanks so much for this video!
Glad you and mother nature worked it out in the end. Flattery gets you everywhere.
😂
Thank you, Rachel and David. This is the first time I saw the more frightening side of the mother of 10. -- Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
That is Hilarious! Mother of 10... I would say COURAGEOUS! The make up was quite well done, I am certain you agree!!
@@Katydidit David and Rachel, what??!! You all have 10 kids??? For real???!!! Wow! Rachel looks super great! I only had six and I'm still 10...ok maybe 15 pounds from me and oh, my baby is only 23!!! Rachel rocks. I would have had more if the man was right.
My hubby, who is not into gardening at all, expanded his hitting area for golf....don't ask. He is now 300 feet into the downhill, wooded side of the property. Yesterday he says "there is some really nice dirt down there". This is not my hubby.
That's awesome.
Your hubby possessed by Mother Nature... Lol!!
That's so sweet that he noticed and pointed it out to you, aww!
Loved this video. Rachel makes a great mother nature.
The house I grew up in was in a sandy area but we had 4 large oak trees. I used to dig little holes & rake the leaves in the holes & put the dirt back on top to keep the wind from blowing the leaf piles around & it not look messy.
You were a natural composter at heart!!
Great video! I tried robbing mother nature last summer. I took one shovel into a composting stump and my youngest and I got stung by ground hornets. I'm a bit nervous to try it again. -Alana
Yikes!
Great content. Definitely sharing.
Thank you.
@@davidthegood I shared on about a dozen Facebook groups.
Rachel is a natural lovely Mother Nature!! Bravo
What a fun video to tell us about the mundane way you can just go get Forest Humus. Another great entertaining educational video from Mr The Good.
Thank you, John.
Very cute video. Rachel was cool as mother nature.
+100 for Rachel the Good. Rachel dropping trees like a boss. 😃
I saw that Skilcult video about finding compost on the uphill side of logs! And the facial expressions just before the end of "Mother Nature": priceless.
Twenty-five years ago, after 40 years of composing, I bought an electric blower/vacuum, with reduction 15-1. I stopped raking leaves, composting them. I sucked them into blades, shredding 15-1, going into a cloth sack. I poured the contents directly on my garden as winter mulch. It worked so well, I stopped composting, just using shredded leaves.
Yall! Wow! I laughed...I cried....even had the chills at one point because Rachel is so FIERCE! DtG, my friend..you won the lottery with this lady. However, you get bonus points for the all black ensemble and the fact that you penned my fave jam of all time (biscuits anyone?) I'm always looking at how beautiful the soil is in the woods. Mother Nature knows her stuff!
That was great! I laughed through the whole thing. 🤣 Great tips!
LOL .. very cool .. loved the skit with Mother Nature!! Well done!!
I’ve never been creeped out watching a garden channel before, but loved it !!!!
Blessings
Perfect timing! I've been digging up hummus all weekend for my new beds. I remember when I moved here this summer being greatly disappointed there were few trees down the last couple years for firewood, but there's about a dozen or more big ones that have been rotting a decade or so. I mulched what trunk was left by hand with a sharpish spade, and then just dump punky chips and hummus (and some biochar, with some ceramic fragments as well) into the beds to till into the clay.
3 beds ready for early planting, I have 6 more to finish before warm weather.
Good work.
Looks like you are well on your way!
You're creativity always make me smile. I love that you're wife is in cahoots with you!
We just harvested the mulch/ compost from under our mesquite trees,great source if you live in a desert. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Yes - I imagine it gets thin there. Mesquites are a truly useful tree. I heard of someone keeping one alive in Florida - one day I'd like to try.
excellent mother nature by Rachel! very creative and I have missed her. Your both very creative and sooo well suited for one another and all those great kids. BE BLESSED GOODY FAM!
Yes, good points. Did this in the fall. Took my younger boys on a hike with hatchets, shovels and buckets. Found a fallen tree, many years old and let the boys have at it. It was practically powder when they were done.
I have a small pond that dries out often when it doesn't rain for a while. I throw a lot of my weeds and extra cuttings in there and then when the pond dries out I take all the rotted down plant matter out with a shovel. Works pretty well if you want a really easy compost mud to slop around your trees and tough plants
That's very similar to the method described in F. H. King's "Farmers of 40 Centuries," where the canals were being dredged. Great plan.
@@davidthegood Oh cool! Guess I got lucky when i found this out. I'll have to look that up, he sounds like a rad guy haha
Great vid David! (Sigh), the biggest thing I miss from the North. Is leaves!! I was just thinking of that tiday!! And yes! I compost everything! Can’t believe how much you have gotten done there! It’s awesome!
Excellent 😂😂🌱
Rachel makes a great Mother Nature 🌿🌿
We usually watch your videos together but today my kids were riveted 😂 Fantastic!
Mother Nature often deploys Fair Wood Fairies to express her possessivness - so always, ALWAYS recite a nature inspired poem in the woods and hug a few trees if they aren't busy. I did not know about the Prosecco - great tip bro 👍🏻
Y’all are so tuned into one another…love it…a wonderful partnership…stay blessed
Man! That as pretty entertaining...score, editing, the whole bit.
How do you not have a million subs or your own tv show. So talented and informative. Much blessings :)
I am content. Thank you.
LOL we don't get to see Rachel all that often, but when we do is usually epic!
Wonderfully done! The classiest garden show in all of interwebia!
I can't help but love Mother Nature!!! Great video, entertainment with education!! THANK YOU.
Wow. A Carnival hommage! Thank you for making me smile.
Amazing video, now lets hope not every garden suddenly starts going out to the woods to take compost, the woods themselves also need some. funny thing is i already did this but in return i also take a lot of diffrent organic material and put that back into the spot where i took the already made compost from the woods, not sure it helps but i like to believe so :)
Thank you so much for the demonstration!! Very helpful I truly appreciate it. I thought you were merely going to pick up leaves. WOW incredibly impressive compost!
Very cute, plus an awesome message! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all🤗💕🇨🇦
I was sold when I saw the hamburgler outfit.
Rachel truly puts the mother in Mother Nature.
Loved it! Thanks, David & Rachel.
Too sweet! Love you both! 🌿🌱🍂
The most entertaining garden video I have ever seen!! 🤣🤣🤣 This video deserves one million views!
Thank you.
Very creative and true. I loved it. And Mrs Good was excellent
mother nature seems please with the enormous compliments she is hearing from David the Good!
Fine production and excellent message David. 👍
Thanks, Jules.
This is wife Kay thanks Rachel for playing along with hubby now I am off to the woods to gather compost!!!!
Because of your humor you're by far my favorite gardening channel. God bless you.
Thank you
Oh wow, the most beautiful mother nature, haha love those expressions 🥰 Again what can I say, you two are brilliant. Way to bring so much knowledge in such an entertaining way xo
Love it! Thanks for the great content and laughs!
Classy lady that Mother Nature . If you treat her with respect she will always take care of you.
Loved the information and the creativity! Such a fun video. You guys rock!! Thanks for always sharing your knowledge with us. I love this channel!!
Thanks, Jennie.
Looks like what I'm taking out of my chicken yard. Me & my chickens helping Mother Nature!
Oh yes - the chicken yard is like a compost factory.
You two crack 👏 🙌 🤣 me up! Thanks for the knowledge and the video.
I do that alot but be careful not to be in a nature preserve. That's big trouble if you get caught.
Good to know... I am certain some will be tempted by old forest tree roots!!
@@Katydidit Yes I live close to multiple nature preserves and It's very tempting. I do Korean natural farming and it's the best place to get indigenous micro organisms to make your garden extremely fertile. I recommend it to anyone who grows food. It"s a game changer.
What’s wrong with drinking out of the bottle? 😁. Very artistic! Loved it!
LOL what an incredible video. 😂Your editing skills over the past couple of years have been increasing tremendously, too. Love it!
I spent a lot of time researching cinematography - thank you!
You make things seem easy and fun. Thank you Mother Nature for the abundance.
I love this !! Rachel is soooo cute !! yeah you guys are meant to be together 💚💚
I live in a fairly dense populated area... I know taking 1-2 wheelbarrows out of the woods wont hurt it too much, yet it feels wrong. I want to leave the forest and "nature" around me as untuched as possible because we people damage it enough already. I instead just took a few hands full of the soil and infused my compostpile with it to transplant the microorganisms and fungi and stuff into it.... in the hopes to quicken the decompositionprocess a bit....
Edit: i get most of my compost from the local recycling-depot. People bring their grassclippings and woody material there so... its localy sourced and without peat
@Nils None Watch out for persistent pesticides, you'll know after its too late.
@@jeffmeyers3837 yeah i know its a risk
Wow! We were on the edges of our seats!! Thanks for the great info!!
Informative and entertaining. I have about four acres of woods, some of it used to be a bullfrog pond but I put in drainage. I have that pond bottom and pine needles under 50 ft tall pine trees. I have a compact tractor with a toot bar on the bucket to cut through the roots and a landscape rake to gather the mulch.
That is a great resource.
Thanks again for some good info! Folks need all we can get! Love your family 🥰
@4:25 excellent shot haha!!
Brilliant presentation!
My plan is similar. I’ll ride my tractor up the mountain with empty sacks. The maple trees grow big up there . My compost !well done video!☀️🍀🌱
Awesome video! I love it when you splice an instructional video with a clever, funny skit. I also like when Rachel has a part - I've said it before, she's a great character actress. I love her facial expressions when she goes from angry and vengeful to gracious and moved.
A local group I'm in was recently chatting online about the prices and quality of different potting soils from various vendors (eg, $10 per cubic foot at one store, or spend almost twice as much buying online, but it saves you an hour of driving?) And I looked out my window at the field and the woods, and thought, "But...there's plenty of organic soil RIGHT THERE! Why would I spend money on something that's all over my backyard?"
Adorable! You two are just too cute!
.....and I thought no one knew about my clandestine trips into the Conservation for a little bit of native soil here and there....and everywhere. Apparently, not an original theft.
And, DTG, you play with cow patties with bare hands, then use horrible flimsy medical gloves to sift woodland soil? Good thing you are on the good side of Mother Nature.
Such a cute video. Thank you!
🍄Funguy is where the Good sh*t is..🥰
We love you so much Dave🌱
You two are great ! Awesome episode 💚
🤣😂 I love you guys..🤣I just spent the last X-number of days building raised beds, and a few hours filling them. Well the rented tractor filled them. I had all of these plans to grow in the ground....anddd.....🤨🤔 22 oak trees, they have a lot of roots...shallow, deep..in my compost pile 😮..I'm not fighting it anymore. I've had enough of the buckets and tubs and bags..and...I sucked it up and got real raised beds. I got my soil test back and it had a big.. 😂🤣on it..( not really- but it was bad) I could hear the tech...good luck with that! 🤣1.5% organic matter. Done- raised beds it is. 😄
Rock on - whatever it takes to grow food. I think you'll be pleased long-term.
Never, ever, ever, never ever give up gardening. I am overcoming an input of aminopyrolid laced soil. So... now this season.... so very grateful to finally see weeds!! Praise God!
Great Video and so creative. Thanks!
Heheheheh! Great video, so much fun! Great idea for mulch and compost.
It's not nice to fool with mother nature! Lol 😂 great one!!!
No butter for you!!
Very informative and entertaining. Thank you both
Hilarious. (Gotta use my emojis while I can )I knew I needed to get popcorn… time to go dig up the forest around my yard!
I was wondering what that screen was for! Thanks for showing me! Very funny too!
I just recently got your compost book. Pretty sure I have a great little collection of your books now!👍
Thank you
@@davidthegood Thank you. And,,,, your wifey was Awesome!