I am surprised at how well a cover crop of sweet potatoes is keeping down weeds; I guess I have never grown them the way they were intended to grow. Amazing. Chopping and dropping pigeon pea between the vines every time I see a shoot that is getting tall, and loving the easy and lush summer gardening in Florida's sweltering heat. I think I was gypped: never got offered hemp, sun or otherwise, in university. I have to go back once I hit the ripe old age for free college courses, and see if that gets remedied.
I’m with you on that one! 54 years old and can’t wait to be old enough to take advantage of “senior discounts” on community college courses I paid full price for in the past! 🎉 woohoo!!
I went to Corpus Christi recently and saw miles of sorghum being harvested it was pretty cool. I really think the disciples were plucking sorghum when they were accused of breaking the sabbath. Great video David
Woohoo i accidentally stumbled on to the comment and rebuttal with regards to this video. I was taken aback by this author who started the rant with some backwards information and ended the same way. Im sure if he didn't feel like an ass before he certainly should feel that way now. If not he is just a wind bag with his panties on too tight I recently watched Nates garden like a viking where someone suggested he visit you(David) and do a collab. He remarked tgat he would be happy to travel from Indiana to Alabama for that experience. Being a fan of you both i was tickled to hear that suggestion.The both of you give me great inspiration in totally different ways and tet you have very similar ideals and practices. Nate us a huge fan of JADAM. Thanks Dave for responding with clear and direct facts. Like you mentioned they happen aling from time to time. Folks with great humor are often singled out by bitter-beer faced sadlings. Ill bet he didnt expect that. Oh by the way i like to sing silly stuff and other things in the garden and sometimes i get a song on loop for hours. Ive even had a couple of yours in there. The one about sittin in the back seat of the car…and the fruit salad fork. When the cat drags bunnies in now i smile. Thanks for sharing parts your life with me and the rest of the Goodfans. You ARE a rockstar
David, I've been watching you for a few years, and I just love your channel. How to garden on the cheap, in bad soil and all of that. I've learned a lot from you. I've been watching other gardening channels too, but in my opinion nobody compares to you. I've got a couple of your books, and am composting almost everything (I have dogs, so that kinda limits my option). Thank you for all you do.
@@davidthegoodHello David. I have found a Stone that looks exactly the same as Sunn Hemp Seed. It even have markings on where the seed sprout first. Going to do a few test and see if I can let them grow faster than normal. Also add a few extra benefits to it too like a Magneto Electric Torus Field. If you have more ideas on how to make them better please let me know and I will add it. Just after I Found the Stone and cleaned it in water the exact same form appeared in a cloud. Would love to make it better. Did already add more benefits to the plant. Will be better to get input from someone that is not a first timer to plant them. Have a Blessed season.
I hear ducks! This premiered 17 minutes ago; is it over? No live chat option for me! Temp has gone down to 103, and I have no A/C! Whoo hoo, love the heat 🔥
My mom said her teeth start chattering when it gets below 80 degrees LOL. Right there with you, we have no AC either and we're gardening in buckets in Central Florida The Nanas
I'm really sad that there was no egg/brain/fried egg in that little montage. It's really funny how easily I notice - and how much I love - that lens. I'm about to do some more cover cropping, was debating tracking some down, or sticking with buckwheat. I think I'll get more biomass, with nitrogen fixation, from the sunn hemp, but man, buckwheat is purdy and brings the pollinators!
You straight pulled a question out of my head that I had just yesterday- with discussing how there has to be a better way than buying seed packets; if interstate commerce becomes unavailable, there would surely still be local travel and need. I am really, rather, happy with the seeds for which I have taken the time to scour the internet. But what I realized is that it is not the Johnny Appleseed efficiency I had hoped to GENErate. Point being, that you again mentioning to buy local resonates with my recent needful thought (😃,) and share a serious humor in the idea of buying a bunch of seeds and just spreading them around. Because it occured to me at last, how truly bizarre it is that we as humans have farmed for centuries, this land was supremely fertile when "we" arrived, and yet no true crops grow anywhere but designated lands or private property. Why would we not see(d) the highways sweets potatoes. Or free corn. Melons. Anything. Why do parks not have food gardens? And why do street trees not bear edible fruit? (Ok, that WOULD be messy, but hey. Just another opportunity to find a cool new way to make organized compost.) Still, I would imagine the woulds and back lands would at LEAST bear the occasional odd cucumber, tomato, turnips, grain? Like, ALL the different types of grains and legumes that have been proliferate since the dawn touched the Americas, and none of them yet grow wild? Strange. Anyway. Thanks, David. And any one who read this far. XD
I recommend you read Samuel Thayer's three books on foraging! Those opened me up to a new world of wonder. There are LOADS of edible wild plants all over the place in every ecosystem, and if you know how to recognize them, harvest them (sustainably), and turn them into delicious food, you have a way to feed your family while letting things stay wild and full of wild creatures. It's quite amazing. Oh, and by the way, feral crops DO escape and grow in crazy places sometimes! I found a whole field of rye growing wild by a freeway near me, and we have chicory and flax all over the place as weeds in my neighborhood. Also, volunteer sunflowers (the entire plant is edible) show up everywhere, thanks to birds.
@@emilymarthasorensen1516 I'm not talking about escaped into the wild. I'm saying, there should be varieties that are several generations old. But the American grounds have been scrubbed, bought, or cemented. And thank you for the suggestion. Always looking for good foraging books.
When I used to live in Singapore, every Chinese New Year, when the cookies, crackers, snacks and mandarin oranges were finished, my local community garden would collect all of the plastic tubs and fruit peels from the community and buy some brown sugar and black-strap molasses in bulk, to make an enzyme liquid to use in our garden. It took months, but the longer you leave it, the better it gets. So we had loads left over from the year before, and we used in regularly, diluted down in water to spray on the soil and as a foliar spray too, to help our plants and trees thrive. The only thing you had to remember to do was 'burp' the tubs regularly, so gas didn't build up and make them explode!
I SUPER curious how you would deal with kudzu. We bought 27.5 acres of it 😂😭. We’ve regained some of the space over a year but it grows wicked fast and I feel like we’ll never be really have good control of it. We run a heard of 30 plus goats on it and a cow, steer and heifer calf, rotationally.
That's the big transition: leap from gardener channels saying you gotta compost (your enemies) and put that down on your garden beds to how apply the same ideas to a large scale where you could never get enough kitchen scraps to compost for a hundred or thousand acre farm ... then your mind is split open figuring out how to compost in place with cover crops. Sun Hemp is like Hairy Vetch in that it works for a lot of people but it can quickly become a weed problem. Winter Rye, Oats, Alfalfa, buckwheat, and Clover are pretty easy to work with and more readily available.
Those yams in the back are just out of control! Love the yams! My pentaphylla are doing great this year i was surprised at the size of the underground tuber after just one season, and it seems like they take our temperate climate (texas zone9a) better than the edible bulbifera
I found a spreadsheet of dynamic accumulators and thier super powers a few weeks ago; and I've been developing recipies for medicinal compost for fun in my spare time. I think that's how you know for sure you're a dirt nerd.
@@davidthegood Okay. My attention span is shorter than it used to me. For me, bring relatively brief, focused on one topic kept me going through the very end. (Not a criticism of your blog style videos) Having the previous footage of it working at your last place with such shitty soil convinced me that you weren’t just speculating that it might work. Also, I had no awareness of this specific cover crop, and it motivated me to take action. It made me want to see if it would grow in my harsh climate.
I'm seeing zone 8 for this. I may still try it on my 20 acre Alaska homestead as I'm on a rocky mesa above the surrounding ground and it gets as hot as I remember Hawaii being. Its supposed to be an El Nino next year too.
You make such good sense and you’re such a very articulate writer I don’t know why you don’t have a half 1 million subs just saying I enjoy your videos and I learned a lot. Thank you very much stay with a good God bless you and your family.❤
More great advice, great timing. My first chicken area cover crop (a variety of clovers and other such) didn’t do so well, as I could hardly break up the dirt clump...not even worthy of being called soil...yet!! The beans that I added did well, as I went back out after a rain and replanted each one...I really need to at least cultivate 1 time, to get it started. My heavy welded broadfork couldn't get in an inch, there's so much hatd pan and stones, rocks! I'm going to keep trying, though! Thanks. Prayers your sister and her husband are doing well...Brian added too. God bless you.
You should look into thw benefits of building with hempCrete . Its amazingly strong and cheap. Also great for making fiber for rope, paper, and other textiles.
He's ignored criticism for spreading the hypotheses that a soviet scientist arbitrarily made up, which caused the death of tens of millions of people due to famine. He probably won't look into the facts of hemp
@davidthegood there are about 20m2 of them might grow a row of them alongside my currants which grow alongside my row of raspberries which grow alongside a row of rooster potatoes I never harvested last year, which. Its been raining pretty much constantly the last two weeks. The potatoes get the nitrogen I collect in bottles straight up. Calcium rich leaves. But I can't talk about them they may hear me
Have you tried Fenugreek ? Its from India as well and is a legume but grow as land cover. Fantastic for Grazers and used for seasoning when cooking Organ meat in curry style. Sheep/Goat liver.
I use it in my cover crops, both seasons, a real plus for attracting Lady Bugs, and they use it as the nursery too. I do both the Seed/Fern varieties and the Root variety, it's not evasive but self seeds. Love it.
Have you ever tried an Asian style Bamboo Arbor to create extra growing space and to throw some shade on your Grocery Row Gardening TM system and grow crops in hot summers?
At the end of the season when you harvest the plant and you get ready for your fall garden do you pull the roots up or till them under ? I'm planting for the first time in the ground in wide rows and this is my first " tilling / cover crop" experience
Question for you, David: My tomatoes were very sick this year (disease more than bugs). I do most of my gardening in large galv. tubs (mobility issues) and they got moved this year. I lost track of what was planted in them last year and I'm thinking they were put into the tubs that either had tomatoes or potatoes last year. I'm looking for suggestions on how to heal that soil for next year. Even tho the plants didn't do well, I'm harvesting a fair number of tomatoes. Once done (they are almost there) I was thinking of planting peas or beans as a cover crop. Do you think that will help? What else can I add to the soil to prep it for next year? Thank you for all of your content. It helps a lot.
Save your seeds from the successful plants for next year. You may have gotten weak seed (inbread heirlooms or bad hybrids for poor disease resistance) Look up Joeseph Lofthouse Landrace Gardening.
So, if I may as well: When you say tubs, do you mean that they are without a porous bottom? I.e., do they have drainage? Because I find my tomatoes basically only have disiese when the roots are rotting in poorly drained or clumpy soil. Adding a highly diluted mixture of water and vinegar to the soil around the roots can help kill fungal root rot while adding some essential nutrients, no more than %5 vinegar in a bucket of %95 water is how I do it. Additionally, carrots like tomatoes apparently. Tomatoes do suppress their growth, but the carrots taste spicier. The carrots, however, boost the growth of the tomato plant. Just something to consider. Past that, this year: I tested the idea of growing smaller, bush type beans and peas in the pots I had other already established plants in. Because I wanted to grow other bigger plants direct sowed, and the legumes would feed my potted plants with nitrogen through their cycle, since my potted soil is a couple seasons old now. It's done well, and I have more legumes. =D That's all I can think that might help. I hope it does. Oh, I think it helps to remember where a plant originated. Tomatoes progenerated from south America's as a tropical, vining, fruiting perennial. That were used to jungle floors full of porous barks and less cakey leaves. More sand, and high humidity. Of course rain, but because of the floor structure, it would drain well. So tomatoes enjoy a good soaking because they have up to 3 meter long tap roots in open soil, some time to soak that all up, and then another bath. Sorry, if I'm telling you stuff you already know as if you're a child, I want to provide helpful information. Or rather, what experience I've found to be helpful.
@@ellifahmerril6611 The tubs do not have holes in the bottom but I drilled some about 2" up the side of the tub. The bottom is filled with old punky wood. I was experimenting with a modified hugelkulture method. It worked well last year, but it could be that the wood has already rotted to the point it''s only dirt now and therefore too much water in the soil at root level. I'm going to try the vinegar method you've suggested because I really feel like it's a fungus. Thank you!
Lots of ag stores around, ain't none of em carry sunn hemp. Had to order a measly 8lb bag on shmamazon. Wack. Whenever I called and asked a place, they sounded disappointed that I even asked. LOL. I'm in central Oklahoma! I can't imagine it would be really that difficult to find locally.
HELP! We had a wildfire back in 2014 and my eco system on our farm was destroyed. I am older and due to the issues I was having with Bermuda grass and an explosion of weeds after the fire. I decided to do raised beds. I used soil I made and when I ran out I ordered some soil rich mix load it was good and I made it even better. I had a friend tell me he was getting a load of the best soil available. I ordered a huge dump load spent a fortune it was crap herbicide soil my seedlings wouldn’t grow. It’s been three years and still won’t grow. So the next year I ordered from the original company and I am in the second year can’t grow it’s all damage from herbicides. I am just sick. I have lost a ton of money cover crops won’t even grow in this mess. I have lost so much. We are back to making our own soil but I need a ton. Someone told me that you had issues with herbicide soil??? I am reaching out. I am a regenerative farmer trying to restore our farm and eco-system. Have an awesome day! Wendy❤🐞
I'm sorry. We had luck planting grasses (corn, rye, etc) after Grazon wrecked our beds. We also turned fresh charcoal into the beds, which I believe soaked some of it up and deactivated it. More thoughts: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/rescue-garden-destroyed-grazon-contamination/
@@davidthegood I have done a few videos where I added biochar, my own rabbit manure and tried cover crops. I have sunflowers planted and corn to no avail. I purchased the soul two years apart from different companies. I am just sick. I refuse manures and compost from others all of the time I didn’t think about the rich mix having these issues. I am so against spraying any chemical that is what’s wrong with commercial agriculture and issues destroys soils and eco systems. Makes me so mad. Thank you David!
I live in Georgia and have Sandy soil that is devoid of nutrients, having trouble growing grass. Do you think I could plant the sun hemp then cut it down and broadcast grass seed and grow grass underneath the cuttings as if I laid straw down on top of the grass?
Random fact: Sweet potato is called kumura here in New Zealand. And it took me embarrassingly way too long to work this out😂😂😂 Maybe I'll start gardening channel n call it kumura to confuse people 😜😂😂 But people have access to google now n will probably work it out alot faster I did 😜😂😂😂
That wasn't my first question.. why aren't you showing those happy ducks was my question.. I hear them... oh.. I do have a sun-hemp question.. is it an annual or perennial?
Annual, at least in z8 and below. Perennial green manure isn't very compatible with row crop or mechanized agriculture, though it would be fine for small scale (hand labor) "chop & drop" in a family orchard. Well, not perennials like kudzu, but less invasive things like alfalfa (better in the West and other non acidic areas) and Amorpha fruticosa. Kudzu probably is only safe in its native Japan.
The ducks' contract requires that if they are shown, they must have equal screen time with DTG. Due to an unintentional loophole in the contract, they get nothing for voice-only work.
Some people say "never till" and others say it's okay to break sod the first time. Still others say it's okay if you're only "stirring the top couple of inches to establish a level seed bed and incorporate amendments". Is the rule that matters simply "never DEEP till"? Perhaps it's just skinning cats?
Grass kills food plants. Till to 'bust the sod' and then keep other plants growing. Like Winter Rye/Oats to drown out other weeds, Buckwheat to bring in beneficial insects. Grass is the mule of the plant world.
Will it germinate, take root, and grow, in 105 degrees with 20 mph winds, no rain, and a watering from a can every other day? I can't find anything that will stay alive right now.
@@davidthegood Well, I'll give it a shot and report back. Sorgham Sudangrass failed, buckwheat failed, so if this fails, I'll just call this places Hades and try harder to move north.
@@ChristopherPisz Good luck! Sometimes it helps to establish stuff before the heat so it can grow through it. However, this stuff really seems to take some brutal weather, so I hope it does well for you.
Your videos are the perfect dialectic. PAS. Problem, Agitate, Solution. Till, weeds, cover crop. WELL, if you'd quit tilling, you wouldn't have the weed problem and you wouldn't need the promoted cover crop. You steal so much stuff from Youngsang Cho's "Jadam Organic Farming," it's pathetic. Just once, give credit to him because you can't have been in this niche for so long and have never read any of his books. I've read all the comments to this video and you haven't liked or responded to any of them. You should at least have one of your "perfect" children do that for you. Garden Like a Viking responds/replies to all comments on his videos.
That's the wrong kind of hemp for me. I take the one that enlighten your IQ Weed suppressing weed. I love this topic 😂 ✌️ every form of hemp saves lives 😊 Send me the flowers, those are too expensive to compost man 😅
I am laughing so hard at "This is not the hemp everybody offers u in college" 😂😂😂😅😂
Sure about that mixed in to make extra money??
@@briankubik5041mayyybe🤫😬🤣
Awesome video tutorial on composting ❤❤❤❤❤
@TheStubbs97 at least it's not MARIJUANA
I had Nitrogen fixation issues. Therapy helped. 😊
I am surprised at how well a cover crop of sweet potatoes is keeping down weeds; I guess I have never grown them the way they were intended to grow. Amazing. Chopping and dropping pigeon pea between the vines every time I see a shoot that is getting tall, and loving the easy and lush summer gardening in Florida's sweltering heat.
I think I was gypped: never got offered hemp, sun or otherwise, in university. I have to go back once I hit the ripe old age for free college courses, and see if that gets remedied.
My friend Elizabeth grows sweet potatoes in the paths of her garden. It's pretty amazing, if is gets a head start.
I’m with you on that one! 54 years old and can’t wait to be old enough to take advantage of “senior discounts” on community college courses I paid full price for in the past! 🎉 woohoo!!
I went to Corpus Christi recently and saw miles of sorghum being harvested it was pretty cool. I really think the disciples were plucking sorghum when they were accused of breaking the sabbath. Great video David
Woohoo i accidentally stumbled on to the comment and rebuttal with regards to this video. I was taken aback by this author who started the rant with some backwards information and ended the same way. Im sure if he didn't feel like an ass before he certainly should feel that way now. If not he is just a wind bag with his panties on too tight
I recently watched Nates garden like a viking where someone suggested he visit you(David) and do a collab. He remarked tgat he would be happy to travel from Indiana to Alabama for that experience.
Being a fan of you both i was tickled to hear that suggestion.The both of you give me great inspiration in totally different ways and tet you have very similar ideals and practices. Nate us a huge fan of JADAM.
Thanks Dave for responding with clear and direct facts. Like you mentioned they happen aling from time to time. Folks with great humor are often singled out by bitter-beer faced sadlings. Ill bet he didnt expect that.
Oh by the way i like to sing silly stuff and other things in the garden and sometimes i get a song on loop for hours. Ive even had a couple of yours in there. The one about sittin in the back seat of the car…and the fruit salad fork.
When the cat drags bunnies in now i smile.
Thanks for sharing parts your life with me and the rest of the
Goodfans. You ARE a rockstar
Forgive the spelling glitches.
David, I've been watching you for a few years, and I just love your channel. How to garden on the cheap, in bad soil and all of that. I've learned a lot from you. I've been watching other gardening channels too, but in my opinion nobody compares to you.
I've got a couple of your books, and am composting almost everything (I have dogs, so that kinda limits my option).
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you
I completely agree.
100% agree!
@@davidthegoodHello David. I have found a Stone that looks exactly the same as Sunn Hemp Seed. It even have markings on where the seed sprout first. Going to do a few test and see if I can let them grow faster than normal. Also add a few extra benefits to it too like a Magneto Electric Torus Field. If you have more ideas on how to make them better please let me know and I will add it. Just after I Found the Stone and cleaned it in water the exact same form appeared in a cloud. Would love to make it better. Did already add more benefits to the plant. Will be better to get input from someone that is not a first timer to plant them. Have a Blessed season.
The only way to garden with naked feet😊
Local feed stores for the win!!! Always! Love the bud David hope all is great with all of yall!!
I hear ducks! This premiered 17 minutes ago; is it over? No live chat option for me!
Temp has gone down to 103, and I have no A/C! Whoo hoo, love the heat 🔥
My mom said her teeth start chattering when it gets below 80 degrees LOL. Right there with you, we have no AC either and we're gardening in buckets in Central Florida The Nanas
Curtis stone gave us some good ideas at the hurdles you can face on the bigger levels not quite full farming but its all learning Thanks ✌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
I'm really sad that there was no egg/brain/fried egg in that little montage. It's really funny how easily I notice - and how much I love - that lens. I'm about to do some more cover cropping, was debating tracking some down, or sticking with buckwheat. I think I'll get more biomass, with nitrogen fixation, from the sunn hemp, but man, buckwheat is purdy and brings the pollinators!
You have THE BEST bumper tunes!!
Hello David you guys doing the good job thanks for the video hope God bring rain for garden all over the world
OMG I'm dyin'! The Kool-Aid man busting through the wall. "Oh yeah!" What a trip.
I am glad someone liked that
David Brandt website sells it. Hopefully his widow will continue his cover crop work
2:05 Oooohhhh Das Ma Jam lol
You straight pulled a question out of my head that I had just yesterday- with discussing how there has to be a better way than buying seed packets; if interstate commerce becomes unavailable, there would surely still be local travel and need. I am really, rather, happy with the seeds for which I have taken the time to scour the internet. But what I realized is that it is not the Johnny Appleseed efficiency I had hoped to GENErate.
Point being, that you again mentioning to buy local resonates with my recent needful thought (😃,) and share a serious humor in the idea of buying a bunch of seeds and just spreading them around. Because it occured to me at last, how truly bizarre it is that we as humans have farmed for centuries, this land was supremely fertile when "we" arrived, and yet no true crops grow anywhere but designated lands or private property. Why would we not see(d) the highways sweets potatoes. Or free corn. Melons. Anything. Why do parks not have food gardens? And why do street trees not bear edible fruit? (Ok, that WOULD be messy, but hey. Just another opportunity to find a cool new way to make organized compost.) Still, I would imagine the woulds and back lands would at LEAST bear the occasional odd cucumber, tomato, turnips, grain? Like, ALL the different types of grains and legumes that have been proliferate since the dawn touched the Americas, and none of them yet grow wild? Strange. Anyway. Thanks, David. And any one who read this far. XD
Thank you.
I recommend you read Samuel Thayer's three books on foraging! Those opened me up to a new world of wonder. There are LOADS of edible wild plants all over the place in every ecosystem, and if you know how to recognize them, harvest them (sustainably), and turn them into delicious food, you have a way to feed your family while letting things stay wild and full of wild creatures. It's quite amazing.
Oh, and by the way, feral crops DO escape and grow in crazy places sometimes! I found a whole field of rye growing wild by a freeway near me, and we have chicory and flax all over the place as weeds in my neighborhood. Also, volunteer sunflowers (the entire plant is edible) show up everywhere, thanks to birds.
@@emilymarthasorensen1516 I'm not talking about escaped into the wild. I'm saying, there should be varieties that are several generations old. But the American grounds have been scrubbed, bought, or cemented. And thank you for the suggestion. Always looking for good foraging books.
@@ellifahmerril6611 His foraging books are the best I've read. I consider them must-owns and must-rereads. :D
When I used to live in Singapore, every Chinese New Year, when the cookies, crackers, snacks and mandarin oranges were finished, my local community garden would collect all of the plastic tubs and fruit peels from the community and buy some brown sugar and black-strap molasses in bulk, to make an enzyme liquid to use in our garden. It took months, but the longer you leave it, the better it gets. So we had loads left over from the year before, and we used in regularly, diluted down in water to spray on the soil and as a foliar spray too, to help our plants and trees thrive. The only thing you had to remember to do was 'burp' the tubs regularly, so gas didn't build up and make them explode!
I SUPER curious how you would deal with kudzu. We bought 27.5 acres of it 😂😭. We’ve regained some of the space over a year but it grows wicked fast and I feel like we’ll never be really have good control of it. We run a heard of 30 plus goats on it and a cow, steer and heifer calf, rotationally.
That's the big transition: leap from gardener channels saying you gotta compost (your enemies) and put that down on your garden beds to how apply the same ideas to a large scale where you could never get enough kitchen scraps to compost for a hundred or thousand acre farm ... then your mind is split open figuring out how to compost in place with cover crops. Sun Hemp is like Hairy Vetch in that it works for a lot of people but it can quickly become a weed problem. Winter Rye, Oats, Alfalfa, buckwheat, and Clover are pretty easy to work with and more readily available.
Thanks for the tip! I have been looking for a cover crop, that I can use for my compost. Whoo-hoo!
Many Conservation Districts will handle sacks of seeds for cover crops as well, and will be happy for backyard gardeners to stop and ask.
Jolly good old boy!
There's a guY called CrEative explained he said put a peach seed in the F R I D G E for 3 months I put mine in for 2 weeks and it is growing so fast
Those yams in the back are just out of control! Love the yams! My pentaphylla are doing great this year i was surprised at the size of the underground tuber after just one season, and it seems like they take our temperate climate (texas zone9a) better than the edible bulbifera
THANKS DAVID. GOOD video.
I found a spreadsheet of dynamic accumulators and thier super powers a few weeks ago; and I've been developing recipies for medicinal compost for fun in my spare time. I think that's how you know for sure you're a dirt nerd.
I’ve been watching you for years, David. I think this was your best video yet.
Thanks, but I don't think so.
@@davidthegood Okay. My attention span is shorter than it used to me. For me, bring relatively brief, focused on one topic kept me going through the very end. (Not a criticism of your blog style videos) Having the previous footage of it working at your last place with such shitty soil convinced me that you weren’t just speculating that it might work. Also, I had no awareness of this specific cover crop, and it motivated me to take action. It made me want to see if it would grow in my harsh climate.
@@YudronWangmo Excellent. I always have thought my best video was "IN SEARCH OF BILIMBI", but I see the point. Glad it was helpful.
Looks like a wonderful biomass crop. So frustrating as I can't seem to find it available here in Australia 😔
I'm seeing zone 8 for this. I may still try it on my 20 acre Alaska homestead as I'm on a rocky mesa above the surrounding ground and it gets as hot as I remember Hawaii being. Its supposed to be an El Nino next year too.
You make such good sense and you’re such a very articulate writer I don’t know why you don’t have a half 1 million subs just saying I enjoy your videos and I learned a lot. Thank you very much stay with a good God bless you and your family.❤
Thank you.
Any update on the Sunn Hemp plot?
Great idea, thank you!
More great advice, great timing. My first chicken area cover crop (a variety of clovers and other such) didn’t do so well, as I could hardly break up the dirt clump...not even worthy of being called soil...yet!! The beans that I added did well, as I went back out after a rain and replanted each one...I really need to at least cultivate 1 time, to get it started. My heavy welded broadfork couldn't get in an inch, there's so much hatd pan and stones, rocks! I'm going to keep trying, though! Thanks. Prayers your sister and her husband are doing well...Brian added too. God bless you.
Thank you - you too.
how long it take for the see to germinate
A few days. Very fast.
You should look into thw benefits of building with hempCrete . Its amazingly strong and cheap. Also great for making fiber for rope, paper, and other textiles.
He's ignored criticism for spreading the hypotheses that a soviet scientist arbitrarily made up, which caused the death of tens of millions of people due to famine. He probably won't look into the facts of hemp
ThankQ
Jerusalem artichoke and hostas are my annual covers. Here on the Antrim plateau
I bet the hostas are gorgeous.
@davidthegood there are about 20m2 of them might grow a row of them alongside my currants which grow alongside my row of raspberries which grow alongside a row of rooster potatoes I never harvested last year, which. Its been raining pretty much constantly the last two weeks. The potatoes get the nitrogen I collect in bottles straight up. Calcium rich leaves. But I can't talk about them they may hear me
Shoes and socks are you feeling ok? 😂😂😂
He's grounding without shoes on
I had been out in the tall weeds - took them off later!
Speaking of moving to an place you own - would you do another terra preta experiment so you could monitor it over more time or nah?
Yes
Have you tried Fenugreek ? Its from India as well and is a legume but grow as land cover. Fantastic for Grazers and used for seasoning when cooking Organ meat in curry style. Sheep/Goat liver.
Thank you. I had some in a seed mix once, but that was long ago. I should try it alone and see how it does.
I use it in my cover crops, both seasons, a real plus for attracting Lady Bugs, and they use it as the nursery too.
I do both the Seed/Fern varieties and the Root variety, it's not evasive but self seeds. Love it.
Lime can you go into a little bit more depth on lime ing soil?
I can't get it to grow in our sandy soil
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I've never grown sun hemp...may have to try?😊
Should I have to til the ground to plant the sunn hemp or can I just plant this over grass and cover the seeds with dirt?
Have you ever tried an Asian style Bamboo Arbor to create extra growing space and to throw some shade on your Grocery Row Gardening TM system and grow crops in hot summers?
I would like to but have not.
At the end of the season when you harvest the plant and you get ready for your fall garden do you pull the roots up or till them under ? I'm planting for the first time in the ground in wide rows and this is my first " tilling / cover crop" experience
What is growing behind you?
Big Dave...when are you and the family moving back to Grenada?
We are not
@@davidthegood Bye bye to God's sweet paradise on earth. ;)
Thank you. That was a helpful video!
Isn’t sunn hemp toxic when a young plant ?
Can you feed sunn hemp to horses?
David, who is Dale Strickland? I can’t find him anywhere.
Should have been Dale "Strickler" - I misspoke. www.dalestrickler.guru/ Thank you.
Thank for the info
Question for you, David: My tomatoes were very sick this year (disease more than bugs). I do most of my gardening in large galv. tubs (mobility issues) and they got moved this year. I lost track of what was planted in them last year and I'm thinking they were put into the tubs that either had tomatoes or potatoes last year. I'm looking for suggestions on how to heal that soil for next year.
Even tho the plants didn't do well, I'm harvesting a fair number of tomatoes. Once done (they are almost there) I was thinking of planting peas or beans as a cover crop. Do you think that will help? What else can I add to the soil to prep it for next year?
Thank you for all of your content. It helps a lot.
Save your seeds from the successful plants for next year. You may have gotten weak seed (inbread heirlooms or bad hybrids for poor disease resistance) Look up Joeseph Lofthouse Landrace Gardening.
So, if I may as well: When you say tubs, do you mean that they are without a porous bottom? I.e., do they have drainage? Because I find my tomatoes basically only have disiese when the roots are rotting in poorly drained or clumpy soil. Adding a highly diluted mixture of water and vinegar to the soil around the roots can help kill fungal root rot while adding some essential nutrients, no more than %5 vinegar in a bucket of %95 water is how I do it. Additionally, carrots like tomatoes apparently. Tomatoes do suppress their growth, but the carrots taste spicier. The carrots, however, boost the growth of the tomato plant. Just something to consider. Past that, this year: I tested the idea of growing smaller, bush type beans and peas in the pots I had other already established plants in. Because I wanted to grow other bigger plants direct sowed, and the legumes would feed my potted plants with nitrogen through their cycle, since my potted soil is a couple seasons old now. It's done well, and I have more legumes. =D That's all I can think that might help. I hope it does. Oh, I think it helps to remember where a plant originated. Tomatoes progenerated from south America's as a tropical, vining, fruiting perennial. That were used to jungle floors full of porous barks and less cakey leaves. More sand, and high humidity. Of course rain, but because of the floor structure, it would drain well. So tomatoes enjoy a good soaking because they have up to 3 meter long tap roots in open soil, some time to soak that all up, and then another bath. Sorry, if I'm telling you stuff you already know as if you're a child, I want to provide helpful information. Or rather, what experience I've found to be helpful.
@@ellifahmerril6611 The tubs do not have holes in the bottom but I drilled some about 2" up the side of the tub. The bottom is filled with old punky wood. I was experimenting with a modified hugelkulture method. It worked well last year, but it could be that the wood has already rotted to the point it''s only dirt now and therefore too much water in the soil at root level.
I'm going to try the vinegar method you've suggested because I really feel like it's a fungus. Thank you!
@@diananazaroff5266 I know it changed my gardening to discover vinegar.
You're welcome/ of course. =)
Lots of ag stores around, ain't none of em carry sunn hemp. Had to order a measly 8lb bag on shmamazon. Wack. Whenever I called and asked a place, they sounded disappointed that I even asked. LOL. I'm in central Oklahoma! I can't imagine it would be really that difficult to find locally.
HELP!
We had a wildfire back in 2014 and my eco system on our farm was destroyed. I am older and due to the issues I was having with Bermuda grass and an explosion of weeds after the fire. I decided to do raised beds. I used soil I made and when I ran out I ordered some soil rich mix load it was good and I made it even better. I had a friend tell me he was getting a load of the best soil available. I ordered a huge dump load spent a fortune it was crap herbicide soil my seedlings wouldn’t grow. It’s been three years and still won’t grow. So the next year I ordered from the original company and I am in the second year can’t grow it’s all damage from herbicides. I am just sick. I have lost a ton of money cover crops won’t even grow in this mess. I have lost so much. We are back to making our own soil but I need a ton. Someone told me that you had issues with herbicide soil??? I am reaching out. I am a regenerative farmer trying to restore our farm and eco-system. Have an awesome day! Wendy❤🐞
I'm sorry. We had luck planting grasses (corn, rye, etc) after Grazon wrecked our beds. We also turned fresh charcoal into the beds, which I believe soaked some of it up and deactivated it. More thoughts: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/rescue-garden-destroyed-grazon-contamination/
@@davidthegood I have done a few videos where I added biochar, my own rabbit manure and tried cover crops. I have sunflowers planted and corn to no avail. I purchased the soul two years apart from different companies. I am just sick. I refuse manures and compost from others all of the time I didn’t think about the rich mix having these issues. I am so against spraying any chemical that is what’s wrong with commercial agriculture and issues destroys soils and eco systems. Makes me so mad. Thank you David!
In Michigan we can legally grow 12 of the other hemp, but hemp growing requires a license.
This is not a real hemp - it's legal.
You should throw together a compilation of your songs...hilarious. lots of editing though.
Thanks - I have a music channel where I post some of them www.youtube.com/@davidthegoodtunes134
I live in Georgia and have Sandy soil that is devoid of nutrients, having trouble growing grass. Do you think I could plant the sun hemp then cut it down and broadcast grass seed and grow grass underneath the cuttings as if I laid straw down on top of the grass?
I would try
What's growing behind you at 3 min?
True yams. Dioscorea spp.
Random fact:
Sweet potato is called kumura here in New Zealand. And it took me embarrassingly way too long to work this out😂😂😂
Maybe I'll start gardening channel n call it kumura to confuse people 😜😂😂
But people have access to google now n will probably work it out alot faster I did 😜😂😂😂
That wasn't my first question.. why aren't you showing those happy ducks was my question.. I hear them...
oh.. I do have a sun-hemp question.. is it an annual or perennial?
Annual, at least in z8 and below. Perennial green manure isn't very compatible with row crop or mechanized agriculture, though it would be fine for small scale (hand labor) "chop & drop" in a family orchard. Well, not perennials like kudzu, but less invasive things like alfalfa (better in the West and other non acidic areas) and Amorpha fruticosa. Kudzu probably is only safe in its native Japan.
The ducks' contract requires that if they are shown, they must have equal screen time with DTG. Due to an unintentional loophole in the contract, they get nothing for voice-only work.
@@hughbrackett343 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩🤣🤣🤣🍀
"It's hemp. I swear it is..." 😉
Some people say "never till" and others say it's okay to break sod the first time. Still others say it's okay if you're only "stirring the top couple of inches to establish a level seed bed and incorporate amendments". Is the rule that matters simply "never DEEP till"? Perhaps it's just skinning cats?
Grass kills food plants. Till to 'bust the sod' and then keep other plants growing. Like Winter Rye/Oats to drown out other weeds, Buckwheat to bring in beneficial insects. Grass is the mule of the plant world.
We till when we wish, and don't when we do not wish.
There must be stickers where you tilled because you’re wearing shoes! 😂
Yes - I was walking through the tall grass before filming. It wasn't safe barefoot. Then I left my shoes on when we filmed.
Will it germinate, take root, and grow, in 105 degrees with 20 mph winds, no rain, and a watering from a can every other day? I can't find anything that will stay alive right now.
I don't know.
@@davidthegood Well, I'll give it a shot and report back. Sorgham Sudangrass failed, buckwheat failed, so if this fails, I'll just call this places Hades and try harder to move north.
@@ChristopherPisz Good luck! Sometimes it helps to establish stuff before the heat so it can grow through it. However, this stuff really seems to take some brutal weather, so I hope it does well for you.
I’m so new at this that I don’t know what you are talking about at times, cover crops, chop & drop, comfrey, Miranda. Still Greek to me 🤦🏼♀️
🙃 David is wearing shoes!
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Scrubfest!!!
Your videos are the perfect dialectic. PAS. Problem, Agitate, Solution. Till, weeds, cover crop. WELL, if you'd quit tilling, you wouldn't have the weed problem and you wouldn't need the promoted cover crop. You steal so much stuff from Youngsang Cho's "Jadam Organic Farming," it's pathetic. Just once, give credit to him because you can't have been in this niche for so long and have never read any of his books. I've read all the comments to this video and you haven't liked or responded to any of them. You should at least have one of your "perfect" children do that for you. Garden Like a Viking responds/replies to all comments on his videos.
I respond regularly, and share plenty from other writers. If you don’t find this video useful, fine.
Also, I will pray for you. Not sure why you are so bitter, but it is not good for your soul.
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That's the wrong kind of hemp for me. I take the one that enlighten your IQ
Weed suppressing weed. I love this topic 😂
✌️ every form of hemp saves lives 😊
Send me the flowers, those are too expensive to compost man 😅
Thank you David, my project is missing nitrogen fixers. This will be going in soon