From LAWN to FOOD JUNGLE in 11 Months! A Grocery Row Garden Tour

Despite the heat and lack of rain, the Grocery Row Garden is a jungle of food!
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It's time to take a grocery row garden tour. Growing cassava, yams, mulberries, and lots and lots of other plants in a wonderful food forest orchard style.

[@davidthegood]

Despite the heat and lack of rain, the Grocery Row Garden is a jungle of food! Come meet us at SCRUBFEST II and learn how to start Grocery Row Gardening - and more! See details here: www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/ Get the little Grocery Row Gardening book: amzn.to/3OMQuic Thank you for watching! -David

[@carsonrush3352]

I've got a huge question for you. What do you do about various diseases in your garden? I get that the inclusion of plant partners that attract beneficials and distract pests are great strategies. But how do you keep up with diseases in a food forest or grocery row garden? Is tgere tgat much time in the day?

[@KyleTheFountain]

I am going to try to get some of my family to go. Also, if you go by Fort McCoy, try out the peanut man if he is there at the hardware store.

[@danfay4860]

18:03 I laughed (almost out loud) DTG is talking and and the ducks coming running through

[@msb8013]

I thought it was just good video production having the kids release the Ducks.

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

I like the system! I brought Italian green beans, tomatoes and watermelons to the church to give away. One of the men was totally blown away that the beans weren't stung up. He asked what I did and I told him I interplanted and he said, but what did you do? Lol!

[@oreopaksun2512]

The resilience of grocery row polyculture is really eye-opening, and has been a life saver this brutal summer. It hasn't just been the heat, or just the UV index, or just this storm that is barreling up on us; it is the crazy combination of all sun sun sun, then unforecasted storm with wind that is worse than named storms have been, freak hail storms.....who can get aclimated to this? The best area of my garden requiring least amount of work, water, or additional amendments has been the densely planted "island" centered by a banana and papaya, ground covered with sweet potato and taro, and a rotation of annuals wherever there is room. I am actually snuggling in many of my containers into the bed to ride out Idalia. Thanks for the tour. I love that it was "as is" and that it looks so lush and still working for you, even during this summer to beat previous summers!

[@Cheezitnator]

Same here, the sweet potato vines don't care at all and cover the ground almost too much lol. The bananas saved my blueberry from cooking alive. I give up on tomatoes and I think I'll go all in on peppers next year. Except for the everglade tomatoes. They love it. I hardly watered it at all and its still producing bunches of adorable marble size tomatoes.

[@oreopaksun2512]

@@Cheezitnator Yes, isn't banana a major helper? I know it needs lots of water, sun and food, but it seems fine with sharing with plants in its understory; it actually shelters them. And as a lazy summer gardener, I found banana is also very tolerant of partially broken down compost, so chop and drop under it, and the mulch just seems to keep the whole island fed and wet. Starting my non-Everglade tomatoes now for fall; and switching as many peppers to overwintering so they become perennials in zone 9B. I am so happy with how well my 2nd season poblanos did this year; keeping 3 families in peppers.

[@maroosk]

The ducls always crack me up, had to come back to watch it again 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i find my chickens by accident all over the yard and im addicted to the comedy of it❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@maroosk]

*ducks

[@fishinghole333]

Lovely garden tour! In this heat, i look out my window, wave at the garden, and say, "good luck!"

[@Sirius6g]

East Tx just went from barely any rain in last 3 months and temps of 108. Several fires all over….to some places getting 4 inches of rain overnight. The tap water doesn’t cut it for plants. Ive never been so happy for rain ever in my 43

[@MsTwiththeTea1980]

Oh wow, I have been hearing about that Texas heat

[@midwestribeye7820]

My most complicated shirt is my Live, Laugh, Compost Your Enemies.❤ DTG, you and your family are amazing.

[@johnslaymaker]

Great update, thank you! Amazing how quickly a lawn can become a whole edible ecosystem.

[@AlaFefe]

Your farming methods are inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Stay above ground for now David.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

that Tobasco plant is gorgeous!!!... ferment them bad boys using the LABS and saltwater for a month then blend with vinegar to taste but I know you know this already!... beautiful garden my friend!!

[@davidthegood]

No, new to me - thankbyou

[@ALoonwolf]

I divide my crop fields into three and rotate them each year: First root crops grow large looking for scattered nutrients, then compost is added and peas and beans flourish and add more nutrients, then even more compost is added concentrated at the roots of fruit and leaf crops...

[@TodaysBibleTruth]

We are in the Dothan area. That storm was wild. It seemed to come out of the blue.

[@markkristynichols845]

Hated that I missed you in Hannibal 😡. Love the Tabasco plants! Ours made amazing sauce last year!!! ❤ all y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@sarahmellott3181]

Sounds about right for August, very similar to SE Texas where we live and grow. That last second of the video... gold. pure gold. also, damn! scrub fest sounds rad and also 13 hours away.

[@hopebradley1417]

We are also poor and live next to the tracks. 😅 We know the whistle is long-long-short-long when they get to an intersection.

[@judymiller323]

David I can't believe it's been almost a year already !! you are the quintessential food forest whisperer/ crooner !!

[@karenkoerner6015]

Some fine camera work there. Loved the quick pivot to capture the ducks dashing through.

[@davidthegood]

I will let Rachel know. Thank you. All on a manual lens.

[@alysoffoxdale]

Out of all this interesting information, the thing that sticks in my mind is dementedly wondering when you decided to plant trains, and what they bring to the garden...

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Question: Did the ducks go after the watermelon vines and leaves the way they go after squash? The alternative to Premier one fence that we wound up using is cattle panels, cut in half, with chicken wire across the lower half: Sturdy, physical barrier that they cant push under or 'duck-pile' over. They are easy to move around and put together with baling twine, wire, or whatever you have that's handy. They still serve as trellises.

[@davidthegood]

They did go after them.

[@davidthegood]

I like the cattle panel idea.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

@@davidthegood I figured they might. I haven't seen anything in the family that they wont eat. I still need to let them come around some bottle gourd vines, and see what they do. I was a little surprised that they didn't eat sweet potato leaves, though.

[@lynnwest4737]

Loved this tour. I always learn alot from you and I tell my friends to listen to you. Keep up the good work and God bless.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

ducks are groceries, too! PS: you have plenty of kids. I'm sure they'll be able to dig you out of the dirt by next week.

[@gardengatesopen]

If not... They'll take care of him with some chop-n-drop!

[@isabelladavis1363]

You know it HOT when your okra burns…holy basil …okra …and tomatillos are all that are producing at the moment …soon to be gone …in this southern 8b garden …watermelon has been a bust hoping for a great sweet potato to harvest soon…so happy that y’all have set down roots for your own place thank you for sharing your EDEN….stay blessed

[@newcreationcoachingllc6491]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[@cherokeecountry]

Could you do a video covering each month as to what a food forest gardener need planting? I know to plant the trees when they are dormant but what about something like sugar cane or black berries? Do you plant in fall and over winter or plant on spring. Just do your zone and I can adjust accordingly. Although I think we are close in climate. East texas zone 8b here.

[@Katydidit]

Collard time will soon be here! My comfrey also bit the dust after struggling for 2 years. Still green in the garden is a definite win. All I have is peppers, eggplants and a few a few rogue cherry toms. 100° plus the index here in Houston Texas. Thanks for the garden tour!!

[@brockberrick2727]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! DAVID YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!

[@MsTwiththeTea1980]

Oh wow, nice growth for a year

[@ziggybender9125]

If you have a battery powered timer and drip line set up just on the soil surface for the summer time heat than all those plants would still thrive even after your vacation, just my 2 cents. I totally get that it's usually not necessary but maybe for just those extra hot months it'd boost production and provide more shade for everything.

[@tilhanab6307]

Killer ending btw - ROFL!

[@jamesveigue1496]

I’m glad you’re doing good bud. I just got a new homestead as well, I’m growing more a metric shit ton of flowers with the edibles in my polyculture and I have no issues besides cabbage moths. Got a old tennis racket, been serving the cabbage moths down range.

[@rlportillo]

I grow cayenne peppers specifically for my chickens. They LOVE them, and it makes their yolks a beautiful deep orange 😋

[@SG-vu4qy]

I vote yes for DAVID'S GOOD DUCKS!

[@MorePranaGardens]

My comfrey, here in North Texas, is also being very dramatic!

[@luzgiraldo2468]

I planted comfrey in Colombia in Valle del Cauca, (bosque tropical seco) under plantain trees and have great plants that are even flowering. But we do have had a lot of rain for the last two years. Let´s see what will happen with El Niño.

[@patientlywaiting9030]

Scrubfest! Looking forward to it!!

[@babetteisinthegarden6920]

Did you hear about Tropical Storm Hillary? Here in Southern California, you won't believe what 2 4/10 inches of rain can do. I have a green yard green everywhere. And thanks for the video.

[@babyrisie]

❤I love Everymans! that's where I got my favorite sweetpotatoes and started my slips.

[@Danfoodforest]

I had some issues with my okras from the heat and unfortunately lost a few of them. Beautiful jungle

[@joeledwards3734]

Scrubfest!! 🤘

[@TonyPaynecustomjeweler]

Thanks!

[@davidthegood]

Wow - thank you, Tony! God bless you, brother.

[@pastor1962]

I like the singing too!

[@PrintrBear]

Bahaha! Every video has at least one little Easter egg that makes me keel over laughing . Philadelphia experiment 16:36

[@davidthegood]

You knew the film!!!

[@davidthegood]

Did you see the clip at the very end?

[@PrintrBear]

Haha! Apparently I missed that 🤦‍♂️

[@yamomanemjazz]

If u whisper your name that garden spider will write it.

[@FloridaGirl-]

I love that!!❤️

[@jkdruid]

Is that true?Oh I do hope so.

[@gardengatesopen]

TERRIFIC !

[@NTon13]

We have a pet one who made her web on the corner of our house. We feed her grasshoppers most evenings. She just made a giant egg sac, so more garden spiders are on the way. Im tempted to relocate the babies out to our food islands to keep the grasshopper pressure down.

[@gardengatesopen]

@@NTon13 Go for it!!

[@koicaine1230]

My Taro are looking terrible too. We have prioritized planting Giant Bamboo(s) along the West side of our property, the plants just can't take the Sun anymore.

[@davidthegood]

Yeah, it's surprising how bad they burned.

[@koicaine1230]

@@davidthegood even worse, mine are in my pond :(

[@Danfoodforest]

That's great! There are a lot of yams.

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

We have a mixed patch of Jubilee & Charleston Grey watermelon and they are taking over!!

[@tilhanab6307]

If you make more pepper sauce I will buy it! Or relish or vinegar or whatever - I love hot pepper products but I have never managed to grow them successfully, at least not the hot ones.

[@michelifig6356]

Going great guns😉

[@MrLaking123]

hi from the uk the grocery row garden looks really good could you do a follow-up video about pruning the fruit trees

[@mattpeacock5208]

That's brutal heat when the okra doesn't like it.

[@melinda6024]

maybe you could put up a hoophouse to protect your plants.

[@luzgiraldo2468]

How about planting windbreaks form the sides that you have high winds? Bamboo? or other hardy trees.

[@anitamurphy2454]

Awesome! I needed a new video drom DtG to drop!

[@lindaholmes6411]

❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

[@Shane_O.5158]

there was a train ? i didn't hear it 🤣

[@kabbak]

Glad i watched till the end, lol

[@G.W.H.]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@susanbutterfly9579]

❤love it!

[@robertromatowski6938]

This is the video I enjoy watching!! More and more like this!!!!

[@gryphonrampant1]

This year has been good for learning what will persist through just awful hot dry conditions and still provide food. The stars of my mid-missouri garden this year: lamb's quarter (both for greens and using the immature seed heads like huazontle) tomatillos (queen of malinalco) and maypops (passiflora incarnata, my beloved). Kaho watermelons also impressed for both flavor and hardiness, though i'm sure they're nothing compared to ezekiel's landrace.

[@carlschmitt9562]

Love the train sounds! I haven't heard any Good music for awhile.

[@grumpymcgrump5822]

Gosh, David, y'all get hotter there in Alabama than we do here in the Philippines. (At least the part of Philippines we live in.) It is rare that we get a day in the low 90's. Usually our high temp is in the upper 80's.

[@PGTV101]

awesome video

[@robertgreatsinger9179]

Well where are you since in the 38 minute terra preta you were in Alabama ?

[@amandamckillip5025]

I know its a huge nope for most folks here in Texas.. but when its too hot to get outside to cut okra, ive noticed some of the too big to eat okra.. obviously not the woody ones. I can set them on the counter for a day or two, and they're tender enough to cut and throw in stews. Im sure the nutritional value still beats the grocery stores. My kids and i love all y'alls videos. Curious if you've dealt with any graspers yet where y'all are at?!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. I don't know what "graspers" are.

[@amandamckillip5025]

@davidthegood it's probably spelled grass spurs. They're awful stickers from a type of grass here. We didn't clean the tires on the mower before bringing it home, and now we have a garden full. Very prolific. Use to use pre emergent back in the day.. but now, with my littles.. just can't do that. Figured you would've stumbled across these where you live. If you ever do please make a remedy video on these little horrors!

[@jackielambert7980]

Goathead stickers! What a. Nightmare!

[@amandamckillip5025]

@jackielambert7980 No, thankfully, just the regular southern devil grass spurs .. stickers. Goatheads are around here but easier to get rid of

[@runningwarrior5468]

Watch out for Idalia!! 😮😮😮😮

[@DFosterXP]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience David! You have taught me almost everything I know about gardening here in FL

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@edenkogan6057]

Very hepfool info, its 10monts of sumer and 2 monts of fole over heir🤯🌻

[@poodledaddles1091]

I’ve often chucked to myself wondering how the newbie grocery row gardener is managing to keep the pear tree pruned in her small space:)

[@edzakete.3700]

Ducks Reminded me of seein a chicken eat a scotchie pepper in Jamaica I thought oh look he’s seasoning himself! Ha! I just ate cassava leaf do u eat the leaves?? Nice vid 🙏

[@davidthegood]

We sometimes boil and eat the leaves.

[@capitalismisdivisionofevil8322]

You need to grow more trees throughout your plants so your lower level plants do not burn and can retain moisture 🚄

[@davidthegood]

Yes, for sure. They are there. They're just small.

[@Shane_O.5158]

i'm surprised mulberrys grow so well in the heat, and taro and bananas burn, i thought my mulberry didn't suffer in heat cos it had its roots in the house pipes we had to cut it down and move it.

[@pastor1962]

hello from Mexico Missouri. good stuff keep it going!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@zoeshorthouse7913]

Great tour. I wonder if we could grow sugar cane in E. Tennessee.

[@PineappleQTpie]

Have you grown Malanga aka Yautia an edible root with beautiful elephant ear leaves?! I can’t find complete KZbin videos on them.

[@davidthegood]

Yes. I talk about it a little in this video. Taro.

[@lindafiller9092]

Love the tour, thanks. Alabama summer!!! Ugh!! I get to this time every year and want to scream. But fall will be here soon……. I’d love to know how you actually get peaches from your trees. I’ve been trying for the 7 years we’ve been here. The trees that were here originally have all died. The ones I’ve planted are 5 and 6 years old now, but if they do get a few peaches they are too buggy to eat. My grocery rows did pretty bad since this was their first year. But I’ll keep going because I love the wide mixed up rows. Thanks again.

[@ericdickson2248]

See you there already have the tickets

[@ZE308AC]

David the Good do you sell air potatoes?

[@MissChievousRN]

Air potatoes??? I'm so jealous. I'm in zone 5b and I can't grow?? many of the cool things you have in your spaces!

[@davidthegood]

Try Dioscorea polystachya for a cold hardy yam

[@kathleenmead9259]

thank you! have you ever grown boysenberries?

[@davidthegood]

I have not

[@SaraOchoa-n2o]

Where can you buy cassava "slips"?

[@David-kd5mf]

Harvested my first year landrace corn. Got a few highly crossed cobs for next years seed. Your grocery garden looks good. Im pretty sure that was a green lynx spider if it was eating a wasp.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome! We got some really weird crossed corn too. Will be interesting to see how it does in 2024. Also - I think you're right on the spider! Thank you.

[@ZE308AC]

Where should i buy the air potatoes from?

[@jefferyevans7299]

Great video, I live in southeastern Missouri, we have an acre and it's a bit bare (open canvas), what plants /trees would you recommend for fast growing chop & drop? I have hard clay soil and need to build it back up. Thanks

[@PushCoRednex]

Do the Discorea produce bulbils their first year growing from bubils? I have some that I planted in Spring, from bulbils, but no sign of bubils yet.

[@davidthegood]

Yes, if they are happy

[@bellen4329]

Are you in line for a visit from Idalia?

[@davidthegood]

No, not here

[@tcherinacombe9110]

Beau bells? Bobels? Potato like veggie? What are those?

[@davidthegood]

bulbils. It's a yam.

[@justinarnold7725]

Hats awesome where do I buy the book

[@communicracy]

Yeah, I didn't care for the Premier 1 fencing either

[@dougduhaime2829]

Can we get a video of ducks eating habenero peppers?

[@allanturpin2023]

Considering a hurricane live stream tomorrow? Not asking for a friend, I'm in the cone of death.

[@jana043]

Thanks for the video David, hard to believe how quickly stuff has grown! BTW how do you process or use the sugar cane you're growing?

[@davidthegood]

We will make it into syrup if we have enough canes after propagation and planting. I have some videos on making cane syrup. It's a blast.

[@jana043]

@@davidthegood thanks for the reply❣️ I love that idea as we have a lot of sugar cane here in Thailand and outside of getting it pressed for juice, I didn't know what else do with it. BTW we have been teaching people lasagna gardening here in Thailand and the results are truly amazing! 🙌 I can even send you a video on it if you'd like.

[@David-kd5mf]

Can we get a RATM parody cover of bulls on parade. " yeah im running through the garden, with a pocket full of bobills....produce on parade... garden produce on parade"

[@randyman8984]

Pretty nice-looking garden David!! this heat has been brutal man. I'm in North Georgia. For weeks my app read 95° feels like 106. I feel like those banana plants, im melting LOL. Quick question ,I get great looking plants growing on my property but about 10ft from my property line(a tree line) everything does terrible, any ideas?

[@davidthegood]

Might be the roots. Or the trees may be allellopathic.

[@MsTwiththeTea1980]

Oh wow poor bananas 🍌

[@breaking_bear]

Your stick trellis is your "trellis to make you sell this"... your "sticks to give you fits"

[@pa.fishpreacher6166]

To start a peach tree, did you have to "trick" it by putting it in the refrigerator for a while? Would it work with cherry seeds too?

[@ziggybender9125]

Just learn the word "Stratification" and google the seed your interested in and it will tell you if it needs to go through a cold period to be viable.

[@pa.fishpreacher6166]

now why would I want to do that when I can go directly to a source??@@ziggybender9125

[@davidthegood]

Yes

[@alohadakine4571]

Don’t ever be ashamed of showing off your garden! what matters is that you have it! Who cares if it’s overgrown we can’t always have it perfect.

[@lonigirl8807]

How do you get rid poison ivy? Alot of poison ivy.