Better Gardening Through Experimentation (full movie by David The Good)

[@davidthegood]

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[@olgakuchukov6981]

I guess you learned that when TSHTF, community supersedes whatever garden situation you’ve got going on. That’s a major lesson.

[@infiniteadam7352]

How can anyone call bacteria bad, Scientists have only identified 3% of them, I don't think anything is that bad, everything has a purpose, everything breaks down, even us.

[@ipeter7472]

Literally have been following a guy from Australia and most of the advice has been good. Finding you has been even a better source of information.

[@bonsaihorn]

It isn't an experiment unless it is peer reviewed! How many times do we have to tell you, it HAS TO BE IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL! ;)

[@masonkoller8962]

Thank you for your knowledge and humor, David. The iconic Florida man! 😂❤️

[@nancyfahey7518]

Wow, I was throwing scraps in a kiddy pool and the chickens got in there a couple of times. I was supposed to go dump it but a nut squash was growing so nice. So I threw in a zuccini and a Seminole pumpkin. Cool.

[@gracen3009]

I love it when I heard you saying “ you love the grain corn instead of the sweet corn that gives a lot of sugary stuff’.

[@chili.Hawaii]

You’re amazing. I love that you’re not afraid to explore new things. :) I was getting disappointed every time something died but over time I was like, well... I’ll plant something else and in bigger quantities to see if they grow better or more survive 🤙🏽. Aloha.

[@laurachatfield4142]

I just got my meta creature and I love it! I'm a 60 year old overweight woman but I can weild this thing pretty easily. Used it to dig up an spot for a elephant ear bulb. More to come!

[@josanders1428]

I’m having a hard hard time with maranga trees in Texas. So encouraging you are. Love this.

[@shaunawilliamson3178]

In the PNW, deeply jealous of the jackfruit trees! Thanks for the lessons.

[@anonz975]

Regarding tomatoes and sea water -- I have heard stressing the plant lightly greatly improves the flavor of tomatoes (the stress induces different plant chemicals that improve flavor). Tomato peeps say mix an aspirin in a gal of water and give that to stress them a bit and the fruit tastes great which is the same principle.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Elotes (roasted corn with butter, chili, and lime) - yum. This is fun. Thanks for sharing. Hugs.

[@philsexton70]

Got all my fingers and still own 5 five David the Good books and lots of food growing.

[@galestanton8617]

Thanks cant explain how great your education and encouraging helps out is!!!

[@Oukoyami]

I like gardening ..but i'm lazy so i'm going to do it your way for a while. Great video. You and Rachel are awesome : )

[@lenamccown5442]

Tons of good info. I love to experiment in the garden. Thank you

[@brigittelm6054]

Thank you David, I needed to hear that. My garden made it through the hot summer and winter. ❤I have been covering and uncovering each night to avoid damage from 32-30 degree weather here in California. Late last night it was 47 so I let everything be... Yep Woke up to FIRST SNOW LAYER 😱 Feb 27.

[@davidthegood]

Oh man. I'm sorry.

[@nikkitobin8356]

I'm literary a sponge on all the good nuggets in these videos THANK YOU

[@davidthegood]

Thank you!

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Got a tasty apple at the market called “opal” and stratifying the seeds, in the cores, all winter in a jar in the unheated mud room. Going to plant them this spring, when our other apple trees start budding. I think I’ll do some in pots, and others in the orchard itself. Was inspired by another of your videos to do it. So. Cool. Thanks, David.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome!

[@elizebethparker5412]

Failing toward succes! Yes!

[@NaturesCadenceFarm]

Saw this the first time during the summit. Watched the whole thing again b/c I forgot how much great info there was! Just FYI watching this video during the summit is what addicted me to your YT channel. Hope all is well at the new house! 👍

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. All is well. Still waiting for land nearby to be cleared. I'm tempted to buy a chainsaw and do it myself.

[@nancyfahey7518]

You brought the fun back to my gardening. So many failures when we moved from NY to Florida.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@vinnettepope8255]

You are right about the garden beds I had to replace them.

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Very inspiring! Thank you

[@NapoleonGARDENINGTV]

Thanks! That's right because we have unique environment, soil and climate in different places! I usually do experimentation too, but in small quantity only. Happy Gardening to all!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@eastcoastnews9529]

David the good the Bob Ross of gardening.

[@ZEPPELIN2739]

i can't give this a bigger thumbs up!!

[@vinnettepope8255]

Awesome 👌composting gardening tips 👌😀

[@kc8449]

Came here because I just listened to your Compost Everything on Audible. First time composting. I am having fun trying out your techniques. Thank you for sharing what you do!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love Audible.

[@thomasreto2997]

Glad to see this video from you. My apricot seeds are stratified nicely with long roots in the fridge. I bought some open hybrid corn as well as squash from Bill Merrill and want to start it indoors here in Pittsburgh come March. I will then plant it on some compost in a sunny location in my back yard. I will let you know how it goes😃🤙

[@davidthegood]

Good luck, Thomas.

[@ryankahlor3563]

Thank you

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

Strange how people don't read the information below the video and ask about your hand. Have a great weekend. Best wishes Bob.

[@pammops8668]

Yes... my compost pile has produced me many seedlings and I too compost in garden beds!

[@yahuahloveyou-jonybuss4058]

such a good doumentary movie you got skill DA GOOD

[@manguydude287]

Excellent video! I can tell you put a lot of effort into it. It shows! It is keeping up my excitement for springtime, I have been building up organic matter all winter and have an experimental deep hay bale garden that I started putting together last fall that I am sure will teach me a lot!

[@davidthegood]

Good luck!

[@dancingcedar]

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! perfect anti-dote to my attachment to being a "good" gardener!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just what I needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Blaculo]

"For the next hour" you're going to watch a 38 minute video. Damn good one at that.

[@davidthegood]

It's one of those new, smaller portion hours they're using thanks to inflation. Like the 12oz bag of corn chips replacing the 16oz.

[@LibertyNotLicense]

Commercials removed for your viewing pleasure... You know, like the nutrients were from store-bought produce. Also apparently 3 people don't want to have fun gardening....just follow directions....stay in the box. David is Good anyway.

[@SandcastleDreams]

I really liked the compost tea he made! Watched his videos until I almost fell asleep at the computer and had to stop and picked it up again tonight.

[@wleight1]

It was an hour in 2016 time. Turns out the Federal Reserve is printing time like crazy.....

[@baddriversofcolga]

I bought 10 strawberry crowns and planted them in 5 different locations so we'll see where they grow best. I even planted one straight in the red Georgia clay so we'll see what happens with that... :D Great vidya!

[@davidthegood]

Great. Good luck.

[@sherilcarey7100]

Love the shirt. You and me and the fashion police will have to rumble.

[@zmblion]

Awesome shirt

[@jt0mi]

Aunt Bettys.... Very nice touch! And love the video. Miss your videos so much and it's basically Spring in Ocala FL. Come back!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, Jennifer. Whoa - you know Aunt Bettys? You're the first one.

[@jt0mi]

David The Good yes but I have to give my ex credit for that one, I didn't know any of their music before.

[@greenfish13]

I found your melon pits also work well with cabbage, however my escaping chickens from their pen ate the cabbage plants before the cabbage could go into anything remotely looking like a cabbage ball. Those jerks. I hope to try it again.

[@davidthegood]

Chickens really are jerks.

[@shadyman6346]

This is top level boss stuff...fantastic site!

[@farisasmith7109]

I think the red corn is called strawberry. Baker Creek has that variety. Its supposed to be good for popcorn.

[@helen_grace_cosplay]

Thank you for this message! This winter has been so depressing that it hasn't been until this week that I've been up to getting back out there. Gardening is an act of optimism every time. Here's to an educational growing season 😀

[@davidthegood]

You too, Helen.

[@ellasladek3124]

I like your style, it’s fun 5

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, Ella. Glad you are here.

[@maceyloubrown]

I love your videos!👍🏻☺️

[@nereidapr1]

I love to do experiments too. Years ago I peeled a 🍓 and I put it on top of the dirt and put on top more dirt but I didn't know that the lizards loves baby strawberries. I decide to do it around again and made a video and I shut the camera and I it fell down and they died. But I got happy to see a baby strawberrie.

[@ryoanzobuk7915]

My Lord you are full of fantastic gardening info! And your humor just kills me. Anyhew, what are the chances I can get some JAck fruit seeds? Willing to purchase. I live wayyy south Florida. I think it would grow here. Do you do anything for the Bees? Hmmmm How about growing some Morenga? OK, off to urinate on my flower beds. let me know about the Jack fruit. Thanks for everything.

[@danielallouche2493]

David Don´t let anyone tell you that shirt is too bright. It has got to be to best pollinator attraction in the whole garden. Great throw back vid. I am looking forward to the new adventures of David and Rachel. I do hope you find a worthy plot of land to share with us.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@sambmendez2454]

Great great video brother ❤️❤️❤️😊❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏!!!

[@cherriemckinstry131]

I always wanted to know more about corn.

[@mjf719]

You have been MIA for so long! I hope all is well with you and your family.

[@davidthegood]

Yes, thank you.

[@vincentnicolas3601]

good work!

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

oh! grafting! yes, I have two junk Apple trees and one I want to clone!

[@johnjude2685]

Watermelon :. As my grandpa taught me, Make a hill , need 5' inside a circle, lots of sun, Get a quart can about 1" from bottom four 16D nail holes into the four sides. Fill 1/4 full of course sand Fill 1/4 full of Older chicken poop. Fill one inch on top of more sand. On your hill bury the can one inch above the level of hill. Plant watermelon seeds out about 1-2" from where the holes will drain from the can as you fill the can daily Okay enjoy your watermelons (also canolope)

[@philsexton70]

They should have taken the whike hand for that shirt. Glad you've found manly pearl button shirts now.

[@loves2spin2]

Yeah... I keep trying with zucchini squash. They die from squash bugs every year, whereas my neighbors grow tons of them successfully.

[@davidthegood]

Have you asked them what they're doing? I would start there. Might be a variety, might be the way they're growing them.

[@melodyhill5294]

They have distraction plants such as marigolds? They may have had some other plants in their garden that distracted them and yours just looked like a feast with easy eating ?

[@Babyprep]

Yolanda on Pinterest someone mentioned growing Icicle Radishes beside the Squash, and letting them flower to deter the borers.

[@farisasmith7109]

The metal creature looks a great . Where can I get one?

[@thenumerousfew1205]

easydigging.com

[@garykellogg2758]

You crack me up.

[@raphaelheimgartner904]

O David i tryed many times to graft on my hand. Belive me in that you dont have to try any more ;) it isnt working xD the rest of the experiments keep going so i can learn from you :)

[@sambmendez2454]

Great video brother what happened to your hand 🤚🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️!!!

[@kanaansouza8921]

Awesome vid we are the exact type of gardener which gives me hope cuz i know someday il be on a property lolike yours right wheb u said iv killed more plants then most people have grown i knew you know what ur talkin bout cuz ditto

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Try growing water melon at the base of a wall. Concrete, rock, steep slope facing the sun, etc. on a slope facing perpendicular to the summer sun was the way I got a ripe watermelon. This year they'll be planted by a concrete wall

[@davidthegood]

I had a friend who grew them on black plastic in Tennessee. She said the extra heat helped them ripen.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

it seems they need heat to set fruit and then two months of warm to grow. that's my experience anyway. so if I can get fruit set by late July, I should be able to get a ripe melon.

[@TrickyVickey]

I do not like sweet corn either. Never have. I was raised on white silver queen field corn. Maybe that is why no sweet corn tastes right. We raised 2 1/2 Acres of it! Had family corn shuckings with the truck bed backed up to the porch then we canned and froze it.

[@polecattgenetics6252]

I'm a long time synthetic grower, made the switch to organics this past summer & will never look back. Is sea weed from lakes useful as it is from the ocean?

[@davidthegood]

Good for you. Sea weed from lakes is still good, but it likely has less mineral content.

[@josanders1428]

What about sea salt will that work.

[@andrewvidler6693]

Thanks David. Amazing video... not so sure about that shirt though!

[@davidthegood]

It's from a thrift store - and it was actually made in Hawaii. Vintage. That doesn't mean it's tasteful, of course. Just that it's #authentic.

[@brigittelm6054]

Andrew Vidler oh, vote yes on awesome tropical shirt colors ..lol

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

How *_is_* your hand these days? How is Rachel? The children? The new home?

[@davidthegood]

My hand is healed. Rachel, the children and our new place are all well. We're waiting for a couple of guys with chainsaws to clear a lot where we can plant. Hopefully soon.

[@edwardleroy7648]

How do you control insects, bugs and worms etc. Pecans, if you mulch that tree a foot or more deep and keep the mulch three or four feet away from the trunk you will have pecans in 6 0r 7 y3ears and gobs of pecans in 12 to 15 years. I used my yard mower clippings dumped and spread under the tree. You will also have volunteer true seeded pecans from the ones that come up at the edges. Did you locate near the equator to get farther from the effects of the Grand Solar Minimum?

[@davidthegood]

Yes, I do think the world is going to get a lot colder. That's a side consideration for why I moved. Mostly, I moved because I think the US is in decline and wanted a freer place to live.

[@edwardleroy7648]

I understand. May we all survive.

[@melodyhill5294]

there is no other free place to live.. if America decline the world will follow suit, move because you require a different place to live , free is a mind set and always is your own choice. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

[@melodyhill5294]

The World has always gotten colder and then warmer, why cry about it or blame a country for natural concurrences ? The Government is not a fixed object, It, like everything else is always open for massive adjustments, usually against the will of those who would want it not to be :)

[@danielwoods621]

Lovely! what are your thoughts on 'no dig'?

[@davidthegood]

In some situations it works well. For annual gardens I prefer digging. If I have an area of hard clay I'd like to improve slowly over time, I'll pile up a lot of organic material and let it rot down there until the ground softens. If I need food quickly, I dig and amend with compost.

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

Dat thar is sum fun stuffs how do yu gets da Mrs Da Good to lets yu do dem thar fun stuffs?

[@davidthegood]

Let me? I just do what I like and she comes along for the ride.

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

@@davidthegood LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! :D

[@bodilheleneskumsrud6491]

Great video!Like a mix of Harry Potter and Geoff Lawton!😘But...WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAND??😱

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. I cut through two tendons with a machete.

[@bodilheleneskumsrud6491]

@@davidthegood ,oh no!You have to stop doing that!😱One year ago...?You are all good now,I hope!!Take care!🙌😊

[@melodyhill5294]

I think you need to look for cover? :P

[@susanwurtz4344]

Watermelons like to grow in full sun and in deep weeds to hide when they have small melons they don't like soggy wet feet just water ones in a while they like muggy heat

[@sansomspressurecleaningpoo9519]

You are too funny. I’m in Lake Worth Florida where are you.

[@davidthegood]

Central America. I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, though. Lake Worth is great.

[@brigittelm6054]

California 113 to 27... Not so mild anymore with manipulation of weather going on... Lol

[@dylancummings398]

Did somebody give you a machete again...I'm thinking you should take a break from gardening and invent a coconut holder lol

[@davidthegood]

No, this was recorded a little after the first injury. No second injury, thank God!

[@kellykoistinen1934]

Nice Macbeth reference lol

[@bradenmcdaniel2456]

14:00 the herb hit him

[@vincentnicolas3601]

hello man; I'm looking for strategics seeds for my food forest in Dominica Island. I'm looking for edible leaf like "Katuk" "Chaya" "Lagos spinach" "malabar spinach" "cranberry hibiscus" "Calliandra" "baobab" etc… Can you help me?

[@davidthegood]

Hi Vincent. Most of those are reproduced via cuttings. You'll probably have to get an import permit from the Dominican government, then order in the plants from the US or another island. Katuk, Chaya and Cranberry hibiscus I always grew from cuttings.

[@vincentnicolas3601]

Thanks David, I will doing it; thanks so much for all your vidéos.

[@mealbla7097]

Where fid you live in TN

[@davidthegood]

I lived in Smyrna.

[@TheHappyGardener]

Note to David the only thing that spontaneously happens is a wife's rage

[@kristen7775]

OMG I always tell people I kill way more than I grow!! Laughing my ass off!!

[@bobertcronos8433]

Pretty sure my compost tea is worse or maybe better 🤔

[@kanaansouza8921]

Pardon the spelling cracked phone and gloves on lol

[@humbllbug]

Yahshua - you know Him as Jesus - was born to a virgin, turned water to wine, taught, healed the sick, raised the dead, casted out demons, walked on water, and calmed the storm, among many other things. He was killed on the cross as payment for the sins of all mankind, three days later He rose from the dead. Forty days later He ascended into heaven where He sits at the right hand of the Father. He is returning very soon, but before He does, Satan, the devil, is coming to pretend to be Jesus/God. Satan is an angel, and he will have certain supernatural powers with which to try to fool everyone. He will, for example, be able to make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men. He will only be on earth a short time before the real King of Kings, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, returns. When the real Jesus comes we will all be transformed into our spiritual bodies at the same moment. Jesus came in the flesh to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life to anyone who believes and calls on His precious name!! Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. - Matthew 26:6-13

[@Babyprep]

I wish that green “super” fork would work in Homestead... All we have is grass on top of rock... sigh. 😩

[@davidthegood]

Yeah, that's a very different place to garden. I have read you pretty much have to cut holes in the limerock and then fill them with soil.

[@CaptTurbo]

Great video David! But ... it was a dirty trick and very cruel to make us wait to the very end to hear you rap out the story about what happened to your hand. I don't believe that story either but I will caution you that over-use can lead to blindness. lol!!!!.

[@desert5am098]

HOW DO KEEP FLIES AWAY FROM YOUR COMPOST TEA?? I DO T SEE ANY FLIES AROU D YOU. IN ARIZONA THAT WILL BE A FLY MAGNET!!

[@zemadeiran]

He's gone and done it again.....

[@justaddmusclecom]

What country are you in? Your Channel is incredible.

[@davidthegood]

Central America.

[@justaddmusclecom]

David The Good I used to have Property in Jaco Beach Costa Rica and in Punta Arenas. Also lived in Panama for a year in 87

[@shashakeeleh5468]

Dave... I want the shirt off your back. Unfortunately, it would be too small for me. Sigh... Be sure and make a video of when your finger grows back.

[@brigittelm6054]

Spontaneous hole manifestation, dirt accumulation on trapped animal..No just kidding....lmao

[@ryry3832]

#Nevergiveup you will starve.

[@furkids4ever]

Are you not afraid that free seed that started the red(?) Corn was a GMO variety? What a great way to contaminate a good food source ...

[@davidthegood]

No, not worried. GMO is almost non-existent where I live, and there are lots of old red corn varieties. I doubt there's a red GMO corn on the planet.

[@melodyhill5294]

Anyone that drank ocean water would not be well enough to give a darn about your video.

[@cupidsfckedupfairy]

Hey David! So I’m thinking of applying this information to growing my cannabis... have you ever considered growing cannabis or are you currently?

[@davidthegood]

No - I don't have an interest in it. Should grow well with these methods, though. Experimentation will help you figure out what works best.

[@wendysgarden4283]

you: corn, dark history me: OMG, he's a cereal killer!

[@BaloosCluesOriginal]

😄

[@ravenwolf9581]

"Failing toward success"--awesome advice, this is the video that got me to subscribe--thanks for the encouragement!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. Welcome, Raven.