Thanks for watching this interesting little planning experiment - I was excited about the possibilities. Also, SCRUBFEST is coming! Hope to meet you there in October! Link here: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/
I'm pretty north, but if this wasn't on Self Reliance Festival weekend, I'd try to be there. Sounds like a good time to be had by all! I'd love for you to show your face at SRF next year (not sure of spring and fall dates yet).
I love this kind of content! Wish you could see what we have done in 3 years in a 34x100 ft backyard. Greenhouse, chickens, meat rabbits and who knows how many lbs of food every year. The only thing I have weighed are potatoes and dry beans. We will all have to live this way once again in the near future. Get your neighbors into it now, then they won't be tempted to help themselves to yours later.
Let us know how you convinced your township/city/village to allow chickens please! We attempted last year and they came back with so many restrictions and a limit of four per household-and it still was voted down :(
With the economic climate and actual climate being what they are, videos like this are very timely. Owning a big patch of grass is not the best use of that land and I think we're reaching a point where it's increasingly necessary to grow our own fruits and vegetables, at least as much as is practical. Hope you do more videos like this! Thanks!
I agree. I passed some big McMansions on the road with acres of grass and men mowing them. It made me think... man... if things get bad... where's the food?
When the hordes are starving they won’t get far and they will be too weak to fight. Still be prepared for them because they might hit a few places but it’s not like everyone will get hit. When food gets scarce even the wealthy go hungry. Sure they will buy up the last of it but you can’t eat money nor CBDC. My parents generation shunned gardening outside of a few tomato plants and spices. My grandparents generation all gardened or a heavy majority of them even in cities, that’s the generation that came of age in the Great Depression.
Point taken. However, the bigger problem that gets ignored far too often are the chemical inputs used in conventional ag. That should be enough to motivate people to garden.
Yep, everyone should produce their own food just to know how. Should be taught in schools. Not that I like institutional schooling but if we must have them why not give the students a real education instead of testing their ability to memorize propaganda
@Disabled.Megatron Watch what happens in the US and other area of civil unrest - gated communities and armed guards. Coming soon to all other western countries (incl here in oz) - hope you are all in areas likely to be on the inside of the gate! 😬
My neighborhood lawn mowers dump the neighborhood grass clippings in a little corner of my front yard. I grew a volunteer winter squash in a lasagna bed made of leaves and grass clippings. It weighs 18 pounds. I have 1/5th of an acre in an HOA neighborhood. I have 7 fruit trees, trained like Grow A Little Fruit Tree. I also have 2 table grape vines, and raspberries, elderberries, black currants and filberts. It can be done!
from personal experience, a surprising amount! The key is to utilize that vertical space and intercrop. Also don't be led astray by "farm" spacing, backyards are their own beast. Our challenge was extending the growing space out to the areas that were cemented with thick clay underneath, we chose to container garden in those areas while we amended the heck out of the rent of the plantable space - after several years of composting we have it in pretty good condition. My favorite plant in the garden, one that self-seeds and grows beautifully with no bug issues is New Zealand Spinach - in my Illinois garden it grows all summer and fall and is NEVER bitter when the lettuces get too hot.
I’m in South Carolina. I turned my entire yard into a food forest back in 2020. I am in a small subdivision. And yes I am growing a ton of food. And my name is also David 💪🏻 I love your videos man. A garden and a library are what keep me sane. I haven’t added any videos to my channel since may. But one is due
@@davidthegood I would love to! And I don’t need it reposted. I’ve been doing it for three years and all I’ve ever wanted is for someone to tell me what I’m doing right or wrong. Someone who’s read more books than I. I’m watching your video now. Watching how you can visually place plants because you’ve had your hands on so many that you know what fits. How it grows and what it likes. I’ll be harvesting some stuff at the end of august and I’ll record what’s going on. It’s all on 1/4 acre. 20 chip drop loads of mulch. Then I read the Bible and let God lead the way. I heard hear 4 is better than year 3. So I can’t wait
I just subscribed to your channel. You have more than twice the real estate I do with a 50 by 100 foot lot. I am just starting to upload too from zone 6 Connecticut. Was no mow during the pandemic but I let a small patch of lawn...mostly clover, wild violets, plantain etc grow back in front. You'll see when I do the front yard stroll. Uploaded a backyard stroll last week and overlooked a bunch of stuff I have planted. Please give a look and lmk your thoughts. David the good... been watching you for quite some time... thanks for the inspiration and tips.
When you talked about Hannibal being cold, I kinda laughed. My hubby and I think about moving to MO for the warm weather and mild winters. Currently in Northern Iowa.
Oh my God, this is another one of those, "I was just thinking about the SAME exact thing, and then David the Good immediately has a video about it the very next day" videos! EEK! So excited! Food forest! 🍉🥬🫑🌽🥕🥔🫐🍓
O, Please do more of these! It is so great to watch you think about the potential of any new space; really gets creative juices flowing. LOL: kitchen window with a view to a chicken "aquarium"! Love the idea of a wheel spoke garden surrounding a water feature, so genteel, beautiful and productive at once.
I live in a rural area. Half an acre lot. One third of it is forest one third of it is house. The back yard is to wooded to plant in plus I like the privacy. Luckily I have no hoa but what I did was put up a picket fence around entire front. I have 2 extremely large tulip trees that sit fairly close to the house and a large dogwood. Love the trees as well but because they are so massive I couldn't dig in yard. We then laid out a plan on paper. I made 3....2 foot by 20 ft raised beds. Then all around I made several other beds. This is our third year with front yard garden. This year I planted 31 assorted squash, 20 assorted tomatoes, 4 cucumbers, 2 eggplants, 2 cattle panel hoops with green beans, 4 peppers, 9 okra. In early spring I had carrots, broccoli. A few weeks ago I ran 2 rows of corn. Started some black eyed peas. About to be putti g in my fall crops of carrots,cabbage and broccoli. I harvest so much food. Plus I have a trellis with 2 types of grapes. I put 4 blue berries in the corner of the fence. I have black berries that were bred for pots.Intermingling flowers throughout it all. I have chickens out back that make my compost for me. I use all the leaves that fall in the winter for my beds. On the opposite side of the fence I planted a row of limelight hydrangea to keep the neighbors happy. They can't really see any of it. I do share veggies with my immediate neighbors. The space is about the size of that backyard you were in. In all the little nooks I have pots with more veggies. It can be done🙂
I’m growing quite a bit on my small (acre) property. I’ve had to do a LOT to make it prosper due to many huge trees (and roots). Many, many, many (over 100) 18 gallon totes, ten 8x4 raised beds, a large area that’s been done with cardboard (no dig), a small hill growing strawberries and melons, several Greenstalks plus grow bags. It’s like a jungle and basically three gardens. Planted everywhere we don’t need to walk and a decent area left for my child to run.
Great video! When I start dreaming like this is what inspires me to get up in the morning. Our macadam driveway is butt against our house and in the crack grows anise hyssop and native columbine from seeds that blew there; the concrete walkway butt up against the house is a similar feature.
Good encouragement, as always. I'd consider rabbits instead of chickens if there are ordinances or cranky neighbors that complain about a little noise. Rabbits are sneaky quiet. If no one minds the chickens, 4-5 hens for eggs AND a couple rabbit hutches for meat can go a long way to providing a family's protein needs.
Quail are game birds and not regulated by cities. They can be kept indoors in their cages, and produce eggs every day for more than a year. They also start laying at 8 weeks, as opposed to chickens that take much longer to mature. They also eat grass seeds, acorn meal and other stuff that is easy to procure if feed is unavailable. We haven't bought eggs in three years!
People in other countries eat cuy...a large guinea pig. It's listed in the US as rabbit and venison as far as meat goes. Not illegal. But people here ( except for immigrants from some South American countries) would turn their noses up at the thought. But the HOA would think it's a pet colony.
What a delight to walk through the possibilities of this urban yard! I hope the owner of the B&B was watching - it would be a big attraction for more people if they got to stay somewhere they could also possibly harvest contributions for their meals while staying. It could also start a chain reaction with neighbors - if one person starts growing food, another sees it and thinks, "Gee, if they can do it I bet I can, too!" And before you know it, more folks will value the richness of the soil rather than the perfect cut of their "weed-free" wasted space. And that is how city and county ordinances get changed... For the BETTER.
I saw the most coolest thing that inspired my container garden!! The was a hollowed out kayak full of plants in a front yard. What?!?! I love travelling and seeing the imagination of others
I love this. Lens and rain still makes it artsy fartsy. :) Seriously, I love you doing a quick analysis of a property area like this! I wouldn't hate it if you threw one in now and then. Find a local realtor and make a video on an empty property - they could use it to show potential buyers the potential of the land. Make them pay you a % as side hustle monies! ;) Seriously, what a lovely thing, in such a lovely setting.
I would not recommend planting perennials between the street and sidewalk, because there is a good chance that area will be buried under snow plowed from the street and shoveled off the walk. And the snow from the street might have salt.
TIt was so cool to see DtG do a take on Missouri backyard gardening! Speaking from suburban mid-missouri, the various native baptisias (wild indigo) are really nice for the roadside verge--they maintain blue-silver leaves and attractive seed pods through the winter, and tend to form nice little hedges that look good year-round. Also, some maypops up a trellis does really well here, with both edible leaves and fruit!
Old houses have been painted many times with several coats of paint with lead. The windows for example have been scraped, sanded and painted again and again. The dust will be around the home in the soil closest to the home. Stay away from root and leafy vegetables. Fruits or veggies from flowers are advisable. That soil unless previously removed is likely to contain lead. Remove old soil and replace. Or just plant flowers next to the home.
Good video filled with great ideas. We’re trying to make sure that most of our landscaping is edible but we also plant flowers and flowering trees as well.
fruit tends to not have heavy metal and contamination as much, and it raises it up off the range of dog pee and etc. so small trees would be an option for that parking strip. you could also put in an arbor arch and grow something up over it? but you really have to check the regs. pollinator plants are the safest bet
Great ideas! I live in town and have a smallish garden in my back yard surrounded with privacy fence. Every year add more. I live on a very busy corner in town and always wanted plum and/or cherry trees. Have a perfect spot for strawberries, too, but I won’t plant any food in the front. I know my neighborhood and people will come and pick and eat in the middle of the night!! Not that I mind sharing! But enough to deal w rabbits, squirrels and other nibblers! Enjoyed the video! Thanks again.
In an urban area and our back yard is about 20x60 ft. Right now we have a 14x19 foot garden with annual vegetables, a couple 4x4 beds for sweet potatoes and have started with an apple tree and a peach tree. Hoping by 2025 to turn a 20x15 ft area into a permaculture area and have several more trees and perennials. In an urban yard you just have to use a little more imagination on how you're going to fit it all in, but its definitely doable. Great video.👍
"Something useful. Probably comfrey" 😂 My main garden is 20x24 and I had about 90 garlic plants, have 100 onions, 75 tomatoes, 50 peppers, 50 corn stalks, 10 cabbages, some broccoli, one brussels sprout plant, 6 summer squash plants, about a dozen cucumbers, a couple dozen bush beans and many many sunflowers, marigolds, calendula and nasturtium growing. That front yard could be exploding with food! ❤❤❤
What an incredibly beautiful house and how fun to dream about what could be done with that blank slate. Oregano or mint would make a beautiful ground cover for those two little pockets by the front steps. Golden oregano surrounding 2 brown turkey figs would probably be very happy there. Or twin crab apples. I would be really tempted to put ground cherries along the brick wall along the front yard facing the street, with wild thyme underneath so I could stand on the sidewalk below and be able to snack without bending over since I am lazy like that and they would come back every year from here to eternity. At my house I had a 3 year old dwarf Stella cherry in my yard essentially in the same sport as you said you would put a peach, it was covered in buds this year and it survived every late frost but a 4pm flash drought after an all day drizzle fest zapped it like a lazer gun and killed it within 15 minutes of the sun coming out back in June 😢. You have some very interesting ideas.
Oh man, wish you could visit my yard and give me more ideas to expand my Tampa Bay garden. You have so much knowledge about what goes where, when and how to achieve. I just started gardening on Mother’s day 😂. I hope they give you the opportunity to make that property into a productive garden.
Thanx, David. After years of living in the middle of a townhouse block, shadows cast from neighboring roofs and privacy walls heavily dictated what/ where we could plant to provide the max harvests. The front yard faces east so the grass/ weeds were replaced initially with permanent ornamentals followed the year after with select veggies, set farther back from the public sidewalk. We're trying to be sensitive to the HOA restrictions by not planting more obvious things like corn/ pumpkins and keeping the front garden "manicured". Pushing the envelope, but as of this writing we've not butted heads with the HOA (too much). Becoming serious about bio-char, actively composting kitchen waste and no unvetted outside manure compost.
I love this video! It reminds me of the real estate agents videos selling houses. I was waiting for the homeowner to come out " Hey! What are you doing in my yard with that camera! 😂 There's an idea for you. Start making videos where you show up in random places and lay out a plan to make it over into a David's food forest. Wish we could have made it to Hannibal this year, keep up the great work and keep it funny.
During the victory gardens era people did pull up their lawns to plant food wherever they could. I had several neighbors who started doing that again in 2020 when supply chains first got disrupted. I’m also not the only one with chickens in the backyard around here. There’s more people into this lifestyle than you realize in urban and suburban areas. When you run into zoning issues you find stealth ways to do it and/or band together to get the powers that be to change the rules. My very large city actually encourages keeping chickens to reduce food waste going to the landfill. I didn’t have enough distance from my neighbors to legally have chickens but I got inventive after reading the rules closely and worked within them by banding together with my nextdoor neighbors to form a “co-op” that met the guidelines.
omg that back yard is huge. a clump of paw paws, espalier trees, either grocery row garden type or raised beds... heck, with that space thety could be growing cut flowers in one 4 by 8 or 10 for a market bouquet...
I have no space here in town. Put totes on one side of sidewalk n planted tomatoes n peppers in wicking totes. Lots of containers of herbs. Built raised beds from pallets in any spot I could find. Bought kiddie pools n planted in them. N turned one parking spot into raised beds n they planted corn n beans n squash. Etc. doing the best I can with what I have. Oh n I have 3 greenstalks. Love love love my greenstalks.
Next year going to concentrate more bbon medicinal herbs than so many peppers n tomatoes. Can’t have chickens or bees in town 🥲🥲 pollinators few n far between but I’m growing watermelon. Yah. A first in my 71 years on this earth.
I so enjoy your channel and all of the things you teach us. Thank you!! Maybe you've talked about this, and I missed it but... In an urban area, with so many people spraying their yards for "weeds", is there a risk of the tree leaves being contaminated with herbicides if you use them in your garden for mulch? Many neighbors spray their lawns, tons of leaves but...should I use them?
Thank you for this. My property is bigger than this one but suburban. I’m in Houston so plant selection is different but good ideas for me to mull over.
I love your videos and I'm learning so much from them, so in thanks I hope that I can help you and your viewers a bit too: Please don't tell people to plant kudzu. It's a nitrogen fixer and also goats adore it, so it sounds like such a good idea. But it's an invasive species. We imported it from Japan to help us with our soil erosion problems, but it turns out, it does the opposite. It shades the ground below it so that smaller plants with more extensive root systems can't grow, thus making it easier for the soil to get loose and wash away, silting up the rivers and robbing the land of... land. Ground cover plants such as clover and alfalfa would be better nitrogen fixers. Add in some andropogon gerardii and/or some sorghatrum nutans and you're set. The latter two are especially good at growing strong, LONG roots and holding onto moisture while also keeping the soil firmly in place.
The way you said you would put your layout is exactly how I did mine down to the shrubs between the trees along the fence line all edible to the chicken coop.thays funny
Prepsteaders likes doing videos on secret garden kindof plants where people in a place like that probably wouldn't know it's food, and it's decorative, like sweet pototoes :)
Missed the Goodstream David, but enjoying your dream about this fine home in Missouri(pronounced Missoura by locals?) I can only imagine your scolding me on how to grow tropicals and probably a prickly pear patch,maybe a Myrtleberry Cactus tree with our semi-arid, subtropical climate.😅Thanks for sharing what you have in that IRIE brain!👍
If you've got a shady corner where not much grows transplant some wild Garlic Mustard there. It will thrive in the shade and produce delicious leaves even in Winter.
Come visit me on your way home! I'm just across the river in Illinois and I also have a north facing front yard, and similar house built in the 1870's. My front yard is loaded with brocolli and cabages that are still producing due to the shade it gets throughout the summer. There are also carrots and beets, and Jerusalem artichokes. The other east side of the front yard has fig trees and rhubarb at the bottom of my slope (I'm also on a steep hill). My city let me put a small peach tree in the median, there are strawberries there, some random potatoes from years past, chicory....once planted never fully leaves, pac choy did fantastic in the steeply sloped easment as did jerusalem artichokes, though it is a chore to chop and drop them. My front side yard has American Hazelnuts, a corn patch, a patch of greens that loves our summer heat...Asian salad Amaranth (it's lower growing and beautiful, looks like coleus, and some "Egyptian Spinach" as well as Jute (for the greens) tomatoes and carrots and sugar beets. I have a smallish corn patch near there as well, about 8x8 filled with Trucker's Favorite Dent corn. Prior to that I grew wheat over the winter in that spot. After I harvested the wheat I planted the corn. In the back I have apple trees with watermellons and pumpkins beneath them, my patch of garlic was replaced by Korean Daikon radishes, the huge kind, and more cabages. In containers along the walkway are potatoes, carrots and Japanese white yams. There are also yams in the East of the front yard, trained over a cattle pannel, leading to a side patch of a different variety of dent corn and more Jerusalem artichokes. Those sunchokes are everywhere. I like them though. The back also has rasberries, blackberries, gooseberries, mulberry trees, something akin to a nanking cherry, but it's a different variety of bush cherry, and a passion flower vine that likes this zone. I also have tomatoes over cattle pannel arches and grapes and another more mature grape vines in the far back, enough to make all my grape jelly for the year with a house full of kids. Two more peach trees in the back, a third corn patch. I even have ginger sucessfully growing back there! more beans, and native plants that feed my quail. If ya wanna see what three years of transforming clay soil can do and how much food it can produce on 0.13 acre lot with a massive house taking up most of it please come by....I also have an 800 gallon water tank on my southwall that won't freeze over the winter. Soon I'll be building an earthen oven back there.
I live in SW Missouri; zone 6B. I have to cover and mulch Rosemary to get it through a winter. One winter it dropped to -8 F so the Rosemary died. I just replant. 😂🤷♀️😂
How do you overcome the tree roots? Both in regard to that big tree, and with the "islands", I've been wondering about this. I'm assuming fruit/nut tree roots live nicely with other plants?
My experience has been that they play nice. I've been growing fruit trees in containers the past couple years, and the raspberry and strawberry plants didnt seem to mind being in the same containers as the apples and pears.
@@NTon13 Good to know, thank you! I have an in-ground bed that is constantly being invaded by a massive Chinese Privet, and I wonder what David means by "overcoming" the root creep. I'm sure he's addressed it before, I need to find it!
My yard is smaller than that but you gave me some good ideas. Most of my space faces south/east. The south is partially blocked by a tree and a 3 story house. I’m in 6a any ideas for things that grow good in 5 to 6 hours of sun? I grew potatoes and kale in that space this year grew beets and pea/beans there last year and even the dreaded “Z” plant that we must not speak of.
As far as ducks go, I've seen videos of kiddie pools with a drain in the bottom and the pipe goes to water plants. It's easier to clean. If ducks weren't so noisy, I'd do it that way and have them. Duck eggs are good.
Thanks for watching this interesting little planning experiment - I was excited about the possibilities.
Also, SCRUBFEST is coming! Hope to meet you there in October! Link here: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/
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I'm pretty north, but if this wasn't on Self Reliance Festival weekend, I'd try to be there. Sounds like a good time to be had by all! I'd love for you to show your face at SRF next year (not sure of spring and fall dates yet).
I love this kind of content! Wish you could see what we have done in 3 years in a 34x100 ft backyard. Greenhouse, chickens, meat rabbits and who knows how many lbs of food every year. The only thing I have weighed are potatoes and dry beans. We will all have to live this way once again in the near future. Get your neighbors into it now, then they won't be tempted to help themselves to yours later.
I would love to see it. You can email me.
We all would love to see your garden!
Yes!! Alllll of the things!
Let us know how you convinced your township/city/village to allow chickens please! We attempted last year and they came back with so many restrictions and a limit of four per household-and it still was voted down :(
We can have 3 chickens in the city limits but no roosters. I believe it’s because so many of the kids here are in 4H. Might try that angle! Good luck!
With the economic climate and actual climate being what they are, videos like this are very timely. Owning a big patch of grass is not the best use of that land and I think we're reaching a point where it's increasingly necessary to grow our own fruits and vegetables, at least as much as is practical. Hope you do more videos like this! Thanks!
I agree. I passed some big McMansions on the road with acres of grass and men mowing them. It made me think... man... if things get bad... where's the food?
When the hordes are starving they won’t get far and they will be too weak to fight. Still be prepared for them because they might hit a few places but it’s not like everyone will get hit. When food gets scarce even the wealthy go hungry. Sure they will buy up the last of it but you can’t eat money nor CBDC. My parents generation shunned gardening outside of a few tomato plants and spices. My grandparents generation all gardened or a heavy majority of them even in cities, that’s the generation that came of age in the Great Depression.
Point taken. However, the bigger problem that gets ignored far too often are the chemical inputs used in conventional ag. That should be enough to motivate people to garden.
Yep, everyone should produce their own food just to know how. Should be taught in schools. Not that I like institutional schooling but if we must have them why not give the students a real education instead of testing their ability to memorize propaganda
@Disabled.Megatron Watch what happens in the US and other area of civil unrest - gated communities and armed guards. Coming soon to all other western countries (incl here in oz) - hope you are all in areas likely to be on the inside of the gate! 😬
My neighborhood lawn mowers dump the neighborhood grass clippings in a little corner of my front yard. I grew a volunteer winter squash in a lasagna bed made of leaves and grass clippings. It weighs 18 pounds. I have 1/5th of an acre in an HOA neighborhood. I have 7 fruit trees, trained like Grow A Little Fruit Tree. I also have 2 table grape vines, and raspberries, elderberries, black currants and filberts. It can be done!
from personal experience, a surprising amount! The key is to utilize that vertical space and intercrop. Also don't be led astray by "farm" spacing, backyards are their own beast. Our challenge was extending the growing space out to the areas that were cemented with thick clay underneath, we chose to container garden in those areas while we amended the heck out of the rent of the plantable space - after several years of composting we have it in pretty good condition. My favorite plant in the garden, one that self-seeds and grows beautifully with no bug issues is New Zealand Spinach - in my Illinois garden it grows all summer and fall and is NEVER bitter when the lettuces get too hot.
Hey, I'm also in Ilinois. Where did you find your seed for the New Zealand spinach?
I’m in South Carolina. I turned my entire yard into a food forest back in 2020. I am in a small subdivision. And yes I am growing a ton of food. And my name is also David 💪🏻
I love your videos man.
A garden and a library are what keep me sane.
I haven’t added any videos to my channel since may. But one is due
That is awesome. Please post a video tour and share it with me - I'll repost it.
@@davidthegood I would love to! And I don’t need it reposted. I’ve been doing it for three years and all I’ve ever wanted is for someone to tell me what I’m doing right or wrong.
Someone who’s read more books than I. I’m watching your video now. Watching how you can visually place plants because you’ve had your hands on so many that you know what fits. How it grows and what it likes.
I’ll be harvesting some stuff at the end of august and I’ll record what’s going on. It’s all on 1/4 acre. 20 chip drop loads of mulch. Then I read the Bible and let God lead the way.
I heard hear 4 is better than year 3. So I can’t wait
I just subscribed to your channel. You have more than twice the real estate I do with a 50 by 100 foot lot. I am just starting to upload too from zone 6 Connecticut. Was no mow during the pandemic but I let a small patch of lawn...mostly clover, wild violets, plantain etc grow back in front. You'll see when I do the front yard stroll. Uploaded a backyard stroll last week and overlooked a bunch of stuff I have planted. Please give a look and lmk your thoughts. David the good... been watching you for quite some time... thanks for the inspiration and tips.
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Whats your channels name?
I love that you're barefoot, even in Missouri
When you talked about Hannibal being cold, I kinda laughed. My hubby and I think about moving to MO for the warm weather and mild winters. Currently in Northern Iowa.
Oh my God, this is another one of those, "I was just thinking about the SAME exact thing, and then David the Good immediately has a video about it the very next day" videos! EEK! So excited! Food forest! 🍉🥬🫑🌽🥕🥔🫐🍓
O, Please do more of these! It is so great to watch you think about the potential of any new space; really gets creative juices flowing. LOL: kitchen window with a view to a chicken "aquarium"! Love the idea of a wheel spoke garden surrounding a water feature, so genteel, beautiful and productive at once.
always enjoy these smaller tutorials on improving existence by that small margin, thank you.
I live in a rural area. Half an acre lot. One third of it is forest one third of it is house. The back yard is to wooded to plant in plus I like the privacy. Luckily I have no hoa but what I did was put up a picket fence around entire front. I have 2 extremely large tulip trees that sit fairly close to the house and a large dogwood. Love the trees as well but because they are so massive I couldn't dig in yard. We then laid out a plan on paper. I made 3....2 foot by 20 ft raised beds. Then all around I made several other beds. This is our third year with front yard garden. This year I planted 31 assorted squash, 20 assorted tomatoes, 4 cucumbers, 2 eggplants, 2 cattle panel hoops with green beans, 4 peppers, 9 okra. In early spring I had carrots, broccoli. A few weeks ago I ran 2 rows of corn. Started some black eyed peas. About to be putti g in my fall crops of carrots,cabbage and broccoli. I harvest so much food. Plus I have a trellis with 2 types of grapes. I put 4 blue berries in the corner of the fence. I have black berries that were bred for pots.Intermingling flowers throughout it all. I have chickens out back that make my compost for me. I use all the leaves that fall in the winter for my beds. On the opposite side of the fence I planted a row of limelight hydrangea to keep the neighbors happy. They can't really see any of it. I do share veggies with my immediate neighbors. The space is about the size of that backyard you were in. In all the little nooks I have pots with more veggies. It can be done🙂
I hope the owner of this airBNB somehow sees this video and makes it happen! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It’s amazing how much you can grow in a small area!
I’m growing quite a bit on my small (acre) property. I’ve had to do a LOT to make it prosper due to many huge trees (and roots). Many, many, many (over 100) 18 gallon totes, ten 8x4 raised beds, a large area that’s been done with cardboard (no dig), a small hill growing strawberries and melons, several Greenstalks plus grow bags. It’s like a jungle and basically three gardens. Planted everywhere we don’t need to walk and a decent area left for my child to run.
Great video! When I start dreaming like this is what inspires me to get up in the morning. Our macadam driveway is butt against our house and in the crack grows anise hyssop and native columbine from seeds that blew there; the concrete walkway butt up against the house is a similar feature.
Good encouragement, as always. I'd consider rabbits instead of chickens if there are ordinances or cranky neighbors that complain about a little noise. Rabbits are sneaky quiet. If no one minds the chickens, 4-5 hens for eggs AND a couple rabbit hutches for meat can go a long way to providing a family's protein needs.
Rabbits are great in terms of protein but not everyone likes to kill them, but I don't have a problem with that they taste great, lean meat too.
Quail are game birds and not regulated by cities. They can be kept indoors in their cages, and produce eggs every day for more than a year. They also start laying at 8 weeks, as opposed to chickens that take much longer to mature. They also eat grass seeds, acorn meal and other stuff that is easy to procure if feed is unavailable. We haven't bought eggs in three years!
People in other countries eat cuy...a large guinea pig. It's listed in the US as rabbit and venison as far as meat goes. Not illegal.
But people here ( except for immigrants from some South American countries) would turn their noses up at the thought.
But the HOA would think it's a pet colony.
What a delight to walk through the possibilities of this urban yard! I hope the owner of the B&B was watching - it would be a big attraction for more people if they got to stay somewhere they could also possibly harvest contributions for their meals while staying. It could also start a chain reaction with neighbors - if one person starts growing food, another sees it and thinks, "Gee, if they can do it I bet I can, too!" And before you know it, more folks will value the richness of the soil rather than the perfect cut of their "weed-free" wasted space. And that is how city and county ordinances get changed... For the BETTER.
I saw the most coolest thing that inspired my container garden!! The was a hollowed out kayak full of plants in a front yard. What?!?! I love travelling and seeing the imagination of others
I love this. Lens and rain still makes it artsy fartsy. :) Seriously, I love you doing a quick analysis of a property area like this! I wouldn't hate it if you threw one in now and then. Find a local realtor and make a video on an empty property - they could use it to show potential buyers the potential of the land. Make them pay you a % as side hustle monies! ;) Seriously, what a lovely thing, in such a lovely setting.
I would not recommend planting perennials between the street and sidewalk, because there is a good chance that area will be buried under snow plowed from the street and shoveled off the walk. And the snow from the street might have salt.
TIt was so cool to see DtG do a take on Missouri backyard gardening! Speaking from suburban mid-missouri, the various native baptisias (wild indigo) are really nice for the roadside verge--they maintain blue-silver leaves and attractive seed pods through the winter, and tend to form nice little hedges that look good year-round.
Also, some maypops up a trellis does really well here, with both edible leaves and fruit!
Please do more of these! So many ideas
Always planning... Thank you for the inspiration🌱
This was a fabulous tutorial! More please! Thank you.
Thank you, David, for sharing this wonderful garden tutorial video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
This was brilliant David. Thank you very much.
Old houses have been painted many times with several coats of paint with lead. The windows for example have been scraped, sanded and painted again and again. The dust will be around the home in the soil closest to the home. Stay away from root and leafy vegetables. Fruits or veggies from flowers are advisable. That soil unless previously removed is likely to contain lead. Remove old soil and replace. Or just plant flowers next to the home.
Good idea.
Maybe a nice little area for a shaded chair to rest in, or a bird / bee bath?
Good video filled with great ideas. We’re trying to make sure that most of our landscaping is edible but we also plant flowers and flowering trees as well.
Just thinking of you my friend as I returned from my DTG inspired food forrest with a huge basket of abundance! 😊
Thank you
fruit tends to not have heavy metal and contamination as much, and it raises it up off the range of dog pee and etc. so small trees would be an option for that parking strip. you could also put in an arbor arch and grow something up over it? but you really have to check the regs. pollinator plants are the safest bet
This video is everything. Thank you! My suburban yard thanks you! You have changed the game.
Thank you for the free consultation. It was very helpful. 😊
Great ideas to show how productive a small space could be. Thank you.
Nice! Thanks, David.
"Probably comfrey..." I fell out lmao!😂😂😂
So creative. That one house could grow tons of food. Thanks.
Loved it. Wish I had your beautiful mind. I see lots of problems and try fixing said problems. Which them makes gardening harder.
Man, I love this channel!
Always something spectacular!
Window boxes on the upper floors with dangling plants would be fun.
Great ideas! I live in town and have a smallish garden in my back yard surrounded with privacy fence. Every year add more. I live on a very busy corner in town and always wanted plum and/or cherry trees. Have a perfect spot for strawberries, too, but I won’t plant any food in the front. I know my neighborhood and people will come and pick and eat in the middle of the night!! Not that I mind sharing! But enough to deal w rabbits, squirrels and other nibblers! Enjoyed the video! Thanks again.
Truly an inspiring video! There are always possibilities!
David, l ❤ the way your brain works ‼️
In an urban area and our back yard is about 20x60 ft. Right now we have a 14x19 foot garden with annual vegetables, a couple 4x4 beds for sweet potatoes and have started with an apple tree and a peach tree. Hoping by 2025 to turn a 20x15 ft area into a permaculture area and have several more trees and perennials. In an urban yard you just have to use a little more imagination on how you're going to fit it all in, but its definitely doable. Great video.👍
"Something useful. Probably comfrey" 😂
My main garden is 20x24 and I had about 90 garlic plants, have 100 onions, 75 tomatoes, 50 peppers, 50 corn stalks, 10 cabbages, some broccoli, one brussels sprout plant, 6 summer squash plants, about a dozen cucumbers, a couple dozen bush beans and many many sunflowers, marigolds, calendula and nasturtium growing. That front yard could be exploding with food! ❤❤❤
thank you David! Much love and peace to you all!
simply brilliant - great inspiration, hope the owners do something like you suggest...... Thanks again!
I love seeing my two favorite channels working together!
What an incredibly beautiful house and how fun to dream about what could be done with that blank slate. Oregano or mint would make a beautiful ground cover for those two little pockets by the front steps. Golden oregano surrounding 2 brown turkey figs would probably be very happy there. Or twin crab apples. I would be really tempted to put ground cherries along the brick wall along the front yard facing the street, with wild thyme underneath so I could stand on the sidewalk below and be able to snack without bending over since I am lazy like that and they would come back every year from here to eternity. At my house I had a 3 year old dwarf Stella cherry in my yard essentially in the same sport as you said you would put a peach, it was covered in buds this year and it survived every late frost but a 4pm flash drought after an all day drizzle fest zapped it like a lazer gun and killed it within 15 minutes of the sun coming out back in June 😢. You have some very interesting ideas.
I have a friend who has ground cherries and petunias in her front flower beds!
This was fantastic!!! It would be great if you could do this with more yards with different situations so we can learn the possibilities.
Oh man, wish you could visit my yard and give me more ideas to expand my Tampa Bay garden. You have so much knowledge about what goes where, when and how to achieve. I just started gardening on Mother’s day 😂. I hope they give you the opportunity to make that property into a productive garden.
Great conceps and very helpful if someone has a new home in the city.
You did this in the RAIN??? WOW, you really do love to garden, just takes a blank yard to get you growing!
Nice space, just the right amount to rotate stuff and utilize.
Thanx, David. After years of living in the middle of a townhouse block, shadows cast from neighboring roofs and privacy walls heavily dictated what/ where we could plant to provide the max harvests. The front yard faces east so the grass/ weeds were replaced initially with permanent ornamentals followed the year after with select veggies, set farther back from the public sidewalk. We're trying to be sensitive to the HOA restrictions by not planting more obvious things like corn/ pumpkins and keeping the front garden "manicured". Pushing the envelope, but as of this writing we've not butted heads with the HOA (too much). Becoming serious about bio-char, actively composting kitchen waste and no unvetted outside manure compost.
This was really interesting - thank you!
Fun factual family entertainment keep it up David prayers and hugs from uk
I watched both of you D&S and David channel 😊love booth ch
Very interesting on Spaces .. garden Victory
Inspiring as usual!! Thank you so much for your incredible work!
I love this video! It reminds me of the real estate agents videos selling houses. I was waiting for the homeowner to come out " Hey! What are you doing in my yard with that camera! 😂 There's an idea for you. Start making videos where you show up in random places and lay out a plan to make it over into a David's food forest. Wish we could have made it to Hannibal this year, keep up the great work and keep it funny.
During the victory gardens era people did pull up their lawns to plant food wherever they could. I had several neighbors who started doing that again in 2020 when supply chains first got disrupted. I’m also not the only one with chickens in the backyard around here. There’s more people into this lifestyle than you realize in urban and suburban areas. When you run into zoning issues you find stealth ways to do it and/or band together to get the powers that be to change the rules. My very large city actually encourages keeping chickens to reduce food waste going to the landfill.
I didn’t have enough distance from my neighbors to legally have chickens but I got inventive after reading the rules closely and worked within them by banding together with my nextdoor neighbors to form a “co-op” that met the guidelines.
Potatoes are a great start, I am loving my garden
Hi David, from the S. Cumberland Plateau TN
omg that back yard is huge. a clump of paw paws, espalier trees, either grocery row garden type or raised beds... heck, with that space thety could be growing cut flowers in one 4 by 8 or 10 for a market bouquet...
I have no space here in town. Put totes on one side of sidewalk n planted tomatoes n peppers in wicking totes. Lots of containers of herbs. Built raised beds from pallets in any spot I could find. Bought kiddie pools n planted in them. N turned one parking spot into raised beds n they planted corn n beans n squash. Etc. doing the best I can with what I have. Oh n I have 3 greenstalks. Love love love my greenstalks.
Next year going to concentrate more bbon medicinal herbs than so many peppers n tomatoes. Can’t have chickens or bees in town 🥲🥲 pollinators few n far between but I’m growing watermelon. Yah. A first in my 71 years on this earth.
I so enjoy your channel and all of the things you teach us. Thank you!! Maybe you've talked about this, and I missed it but... In an urban area, with so many people spraying their yards for "weeds", is there a risk of the tree leaves being contaminated with herbicides if you use them in your garden for mulch? Many neighbors spray their lawns, tons of leaves but...should I use them?
Thank you for this. My property is bigger than this one but suburban. I’m in Houston so plant selection is different but good ideas for me to mull over.
I love your videos and I'm learning so much from them, so in thanks I hope that I can help you and your viewers a bit too:
Please don't tell people to plant kudzu.
It's a nitrogen fixer and also goats adore it, so it sounds like such a good idea. But it's an invasive species. We imported it from Japan to help us with our soil erosion problems, but it turns out, it does the opposite. It shades the ground below it so that smaller plants with more extensive root systems can't grow, thus making it easier for the soil to get loose and wash away, silting up the rivers and robbing the land of... land.
Ground cover plants such as clover and alfalfa would be better nitrogen fixers. Add in some andropogon gerardii and/or some sorghatrum nutans and you're set. The latter two are especially good at growing strong, LONG roots and holding onto moisture while also keeping the soil firmly in place.
Victory gardens, here we come!
David i dont think they need to grow pot theyre doing well with that airbnb 😂✌🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻
Is it a good idea to plant a peach tree that close to a foundation? Especially an old foundation?
Great video.
The way you said you would put your layout is exactly how I did mine down to the shrubs between the trees along the fence line all edible to the chicken coop.thays funny
That is really cool. We've made lots of mistakes over the years. Every new project seems to work a little better as we avoid 'em.
Super helpful video.
Maypop are good and prickly pears, alpine strawberries don’t spread, cold hardy figs
Containers too… on that front wall, on the porch…hanging baskets… 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴
Clever idea for a video! You can grow food anywhere; you just have to be creative :)
Prepsteaders likes doing videos on secret garden kindof plants where people in a place like that probably wouldn't know it's food, and it's decorative, like sweet pototoes :)
Missed the Goodstream David, but enjoying your dream about this fine home in Missouri(pronounced Missoura by locals?) I can only imagine your scolding me on how to grow tropicals and probably a prickly pear patch,maybe a Myrtleberry Cactus tree with our semi-arid, subtropical climate.😅Thanks for sharing what you have in that IRIE brain!👍
I like how you think my friend
If you've got a shady corner where not much grows transplant some wild Garlic Mustard there. It will thrive in the shade and produce delicious leaves even in Winter.
Good idea!
Good video make more of this bro.
Interesting take on that small space. Wonder what the city would say though.
Come visit me on your way home! I'm just across the river in Illinois and I also have a north facing front yard, and similar house built in the 1870's. My front yard is loaded with brocolli and cabages that are still producing due to the shade it gets throughout the summer. There are also carrots and beets, and Jerusalem artichokes. The other east side of the front yard has fig trees and rhubarb at the bottom of my slope (I'm also on a steep hill). My city let me put a small peach tree in the median, there are strawberries there, some random potatoes from years past, chicory....once planted never fully leaves, pac choy did fantastic in the steeply sloped easment as did jerusalem artichokes, though it is a chore to chop and drop them. My front side yard has American Hazelnuts, a corn patch, a patch of greens that loves our summer heat...Asian salad Amaranth (it's lower growing and beautiful, looks like coleus, and some "Egyptian Spinach" as well as Jute (for the greens) tomatoes and carrots and sugar beets. I have a smallish corn patch near there as well, about 8x8 filled with Trucker's Favorite Dent corn. Prior to that I grew wheat over the winter in that spot. After I harvested the wheat I planted the corn. In the back I have apple trees with watermellons and pumpkins beneath them, my patch of garlic was replaced by Korean Daikon radishes, the huge kind, and more cabages. In containers along the walkway are potatoes, carrots and Japanese white yams. There are also yams in the East of the front yard, trained over a cattle pannel, leading to a side patch of a different variety of dent corn and more Jerusalem artichokes. Those sunchokes are everywhere. I like them though. The back also has rasberries, blackberries, gooseberries, mulberry trees, something akin to a nanking cherry, but it's a different variety of bush cherry, and a passion flower vine that likes this zone. I also have tomatoes over cattle pannel arches and grapes and another more mature grape vines in the far back, enough to make all my grape jelly for the year with a house full of kids. Two more peach trees in the back, a third corn patch. I even have ginger sucessfully growing back there! more beans, and native plants that feed my quail. If ya wanna see what three years of transforming clay soil can do and how much food it can produce on 0.13 acre lot with a massive house taking up most of it please come by....I also have an 800 gallon water tank on my southwall that won't freeze over the winter. Soon I'll be building an earthen oven back there.
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I live in SW Missouri; zone 6B. I have to cover and mulch Rosemary to get it through a winter. One winter it dropped to -8 F so the Rosemary died. I just replant. 😂🤷♀️😂
Is there any way to keep a fig tree small, no taller than 5 feet?
He recommends a book called Grow A Little Fruit Tree
Yes. Via pruning. Also, this far north, they usually freeze to the ground regularly, then return and fruit.
Ya think a fig tree could live well, among other food, in that space? I'm getting ideas for my own space!
I think so, along the back of the house.
How do you overcome the tree roots? Both in regard to that big tree, and with the "islands", I've been wondering about this. I'm assuming fruit/nut tree roots live nicely with other plants?
My experience has been that they play nice. I've been growing fruit trees in containers the past couple years, and the raspberry and strawberry plants didnt seem to mind being in the same containers as the apples and pears.
@@NTon13 Good to know, thank you! I have an in-ground bed that is constantly being invaded by a massive Chinese Privet, and I wonder what David means by "overcoming" the root creep. I'm sure he's addressed it before, I need to find it!
My yard is smaller than that but you gave me some good ideas. Most of my space faces south/east. The south is partially blocked by a tree and a 3 story house. I’m in 6a any ideas for things that grow good in 5 to 6 hours of sun? I grew potatoes and kale in that space this year grew beets and pea/beans there last year and even the dreaded “Z” plant that we must not speak of.
Rhubarb Lettuce Nasturtium Sassafras Grapes
Thanks
Thanks. This is 95 percent of what most of us have
Let's just solve that erosion right away-
Let's put some berms & swales in that front yard!
As far as ducks go, I've seen videos of kiddie pools with a drain in the bottom and the pipe goes to water plants. It's easier to clean.
If ducks weren't so noisy, I'd do it that way and have them. Duck eggs are good.
FINDING a paw paw seems to be a problem for me, but I'm wanting one.
You could make money consulting for gardening
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I would put pretty peach trees in the front. So they don't bloom to soon in the spring.