Grocery Row Gardening - From Scratch! (Complete Film with David The Good)

Leo and Sherry wanted to grow an organic garden, so we jumped in and helped them plant a Grocery Row Garden. Today you'll learn how to start a Grocery Row Garden from scratch and turn a lawn into a garden step by step in this feature-length presentation.
If you've wanted to start a food forest or make a vegetable garden or plant an orchard... why not combine all three in this exciting permaculture gardening method? Learn how to pick the right fruit tree, plant potatoes, grow herbs, mix perennials and annuals, companion plant the easy way, prune trees, create raised beds, and turn a lawn into a food production factory!
If you're stuck in your gardening and need an easy gardening method that produces a backyard food supply for your family, this video is for you. Learn how to plant a Grocery Row Garden with David The Good and you'll always have an emergency food supply and a fantastic ongoing yield of organic produce, right in your own yard. Get rid of grass and start planting fruit trees and vegetables today!
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[@davidthegood]

Thank you for watching - this is the Grocery Row Gardening booklet, if you'd like to support my work: amzn.to/42yjEq0

[@freewillchoice8052]

Hey David do you try and root the parts of the trees that you remove after planting them?

[@MissBetsyLu]

I'd like to learn that. Many blessings everyone.

[@davidthegood]

@@freewillchoice8052 Sometimes.

[@maiviousp.j.morgan4325]

Thank you for your advice. I'm going to try what you advised for my ground.

[@Mrbfgray]

Tip for bucket hauling water or anything heavy--have two buckets even in only half full, one in each hand to balance your load and make it much easier.

[@noah786]

Shout out to Sherry and her new garden. She asked good questions, had useful info and wasn’t annoying; has a pleasant disposition. Future updates would be appreciated and make good content.

[@anga.2359]

That's interesting, because I had never heard such novice questions before and I would be quite annoyed by such a blond. Each to their own I guess. I thought he had the patience of a Saint!!

[@noah786]

@@anga.2359 good for beginners

[@sishrac]

@@anga.2359 Agreed!

[@cherylmarie5477]

@@anga.2359 did you not pay attention to the fact that that’s his wife? Surely she knows all of this but was asking just the right questions for any novice or beginner, plus that’s not even her real hair lol (I know because I have that one) Don’t comment until you learn some humility please! lol

[@runningwarrior5468]

That isnt his wife. Davids wifes name is Rachel.

[@julievarner8273]

What an incredible testament your content is to the goodness of the Lord, the blessing of friendships, and the fruits of hard work and caring for the earth. Thanks for allowing God to work thru you to teach the rest of us! Praying blessings on your family!

[@elizabethb805]

You, sir, are the reason I compost. Love your books. Love your channel!!!

[@davidthegood]

Thanks, Liz.

[@loves2spin2]

This is so inspiring! I'm a visual learner, so this is perfect for me.

[@WargamingLobby]

I came back to this video after a while as i am starting my new gardens at the new house. I think i already said this previously but this is very close to what we used to do in Tuscany's mountains when there was no other way to make food than making it yourself. We have heavily terraced mountains where our grandpas used to grow olive trees, figs, apples, and all sort of fruit trees and they had grain, beans and potatos growing below them... Together with all other annuals. I like this approach as it is the closest one to the traditional farming in my area but with a lot of exotic plant ideas to improve resilience ❤

[@johnliberty3647]

I haul buckets without a hose, friends want to know why I never had a gym membership. Never needed one. My exercise plan involves eating healthy too.

[@MS-de7bb]

Yes!

[@brockberrick2727]

No Wayyy!! Sherry is a grocery row queen now! Please please film after 6 months 🥳🥳 and get her to start her own youtube channel showing the grocery row off every month haha!

[@davidthegood]

We'll definitely revisit it.

[@wanderingtheusa]

I personally don't like watching a woman flirt with another woman's husband

[@CeresIsABetterPlanetThanPluto]

@wanderingtheusa This kind of comment makes kind, outgoing women reading it worried to be themselves, to be curious, to ask for help, to start new things. Not a fan. Honor your marriage by joyfully being a good partner and teammate. If your spouse cant be trusted around kind, outgoing people, then the problem is *not* the outgoing person. If you cant trust your spouse around outgoing people, you need marriage counselling. Good heavens, a woman asking questions of an expert about the very thing that person is an expert in is EDUCATION not flirtation. How else was she supposed to learn anything? Text her husband and beg him to ask for her? Looks like the husband was camera shy or had other commitments. Sherry and her husband seemed like a really loving couple still willing to try new ventures together and were lucky enough to have David as a friend willing to help. What a shame to perceive ugliness when there was loveliness.

[@janetgarrison1584]

What a shame to perceived ugliness where there was loveliness. Your comment was truth in love, thank you for your example.

[@janetgarrison1584]

Plus David's wife is filming....I don't think their going for a whole series starring David and Sherry.

[@jenalexcabezon]

Such a great presentation! Loved her insightful questions. “People need pruning too.” Loved it.

[@julievarner8273]

I particularly loved that statement, too!

[@formation1now517]

Oh David and family!!! This was a wonderful video with such excellent content for everyone! I loved that the background of the video was filled with sounds of children and adults busy with just being together in a wonderful mix of endeavors. It was all a delightful symphony of people together. It was exciting to watch the progression of the garden and I look forward to seeing more future follow ups. I have watched many of your videos but I think this is new favorite! May the seeds of goodness you plant be a mighty harvest for all ! ❤

[@LK-3000]

Amen!

[@TheTamrock2007]

I'm late in life trying to learn to grow, 62, but so very excited too. To think in three years I have chickens and a small garden, and the beginnings of a small orchard is such a blessing. I so enjoyed this video. Keep going, your making a difference in many people's lives sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm.

[@melindarathke851]

I’m right behind you sister!

[@georgeulrich8820]

Very nice.. I'm peacefully new into gardening. I'm still learning @ 68

[@davidthegood]

Never stop! Good work, George.

[@SuperSherry1957]

Composting is addictive.

[@styx62]

Loved Sherrys excitement

[@aussieauntynette6892]

Love it ❤❤❤ Great to help your friends get started. I did Geoff Lawton's Permaculture Design Course about 8 years ago. This confirmed basically all that my parents taught me growing up as a child. Very much on par and out of the box thinking to norm at the time. This is great and wonderful knowledge you are passing on to your children ( as well as all the other people you have inspired and educated online) they will never forget. Heaven forbid, if something happened to you and your fabulous wife, this knowledge and physically going out and doing it, will stay with them for the rest of their lives. I lost both my parents as a young teen 2 1/2 years apart. The green thumb, the animal training (we were on a farm), the skills, knowledge, out-of-the-box thinking, the great inventions, the crazy inventions, mad and great and mechanics, building stuff, cooking and preserving foods we had grown, many types of art, sewing, top quality butchery and related skills, the native rescue animals (we used to help a local wildlife sanctuary a LOT), some would say we had a bit of a zoo but we had a farm filled with livestock and injured or orphaned wildlife, half paddocks, half bush and 5 house cows that were milked by hand, huge vege gardens and Mum's magnificent flower gardens, family birthdays, celebrations, and get togethers will always stay with me and have passed this on to my children, the cycle continues. I have over 10 siblings and LOTS of nephews and nieces. Life was ALWAYS LEARNING, doing, growing, inventing and encouraging. Most things had to have many purposes. Very few one-use things were ever around. We also bartered a lot and hardly went to the shops. Believe me that your time is not wasted teaching your children. They are very lucky too that you have so much wonderful valuable knowledge on your vids they can look at, as well as your books. Sharing your knowledge with others is a wonderful thing, thank you to all your family for the time and effort you put in. God bless you all, from Australia 😊😊😊 Edit: Sorry for the long post, didn't mean to get on a ramble.

[@healthyfitmom]

❤️❤️❤️ love this! Thank you for sharing your blessed life experience.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

What an incredibly beautiful childhood. My heart breaks that you had to lose your parents so early and so close in timing to each other's. If this is what your ramblings are normally like then never apologize for rambling! Sending sincere love from Dixie.

[@classicaltutor2370]

How blessed you were to have such an upbringing!

[@davidthegood]

Nette, that was quite a trial you went through. I cannot imagine. God bless you too. You are right!

[@kathleensanderson3082]

My daughter and I both have celiac disease, and I often use cassava flour when I'm baking. I like the texture it gives much better than most of the other gluten-free flours.

[@davidthegood]

It has a very nice, fine texture.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Sounds great. Many blessings everyone.

[@runningwarrior5468]

" The best food in the world is from animals" FINALLY!! A gardener that makes sense! Im so in the right place.

[@JohnEnserfud]

David. This is a nice thing you have done. God Bless You.

[@davidthegood]

It was a lot of fun.

[@lindarichards7277]

I started my first garden this year in central/north Florida and I used a lot of things I’ve learned from watching this channel. I started by tilling and making 5ft by 5ft ground beds. I layered the sandy soil with things like alfalfa and manure to help repair the hydrophobic sand then I mulched everything with some dead shredded palmetto tree trunks. It did way better than I expected through spring! Now I’m thinking I want to change things up and this grocery row garden idea seems cool!

[@MissBetsyLu]

Go for it. Enjoy every minute. Ask lots of questions. Many blessings everyone.

[@tomaitoe]

Amazing! How did you shred the palmetto trunks? I just got a chipper but I haven't tested chipping the palmetto palm stems yet.

[@lindarichards7277]

@@tomaitoe I actually just pulled them apart after they had sat for a bit.

[@DongusKong]

Definitely add some bio char to that soil, and you'll see exponential growth

[@oreopaksun2512]

I was just watching to pass the time because I only have room for a grocery row container, maybe, but this video is so packed with useful nuggets! Appreciate the visit. DTG, standing on the shoulder of giants, and little old grannies of thousands of cultures to bring us the Grocery Row. We appreciate the translation.

[@pierrelebourg4034]

Very very interesting !! Thanks

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@hellewellejus9163]

Writting from Denmark, without google translate 😉 I love to see you videos and learn so much. Most of all I love your energy and humor. Stay well

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@HennoS]

This system isn't only working like a charm, it's by far the most enjoyable piece of garden I have. Working in the grocery row always seems easy, and it also gives off a good vibe. The diversity feeds our souls in a very GOOD way. My grocery is going for its second year but it looks like it's been there for a while already. Incredibly lush and vigorous ❤

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. It has been good seeing your updates.

[@HennoS]

@David The Good The only thing that can improve a grocery row is adding another row 👍

[@MikeSchoon]

Awesome video! Just finished planting my moringa, sweet potato, comfrey, kale grocery row. Can't wait to see it in the Fall

[@rebecavalle7101]

Thank you so much for this example. I have been trying to explain your method to my husband unsuccessfully. This will help enormously. So excited to start my own. My house was recently rebuilt after Harvey flood and it ruined my soil so I have spent this year allowing my yard to grow wild in effort to rebuild bio and add life to it. Next year I will be following this example closely. Thank you so much!!

[@davidthegood]

Good luck!

[@dramatriangle]

Definitely! Maybe your husband will be inspired by this video, too! Definitely covers the basics.

[@breanne2117]

Thank you so much for this! Sharing this with a gardening class tomorrow! Perfect timing.

[@carolynsteele-pv1ls]

I’ve followed your grocery store gardening videos, but watching this episode is a great overall tutorial. I think I can totally do this!!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, Carolyn.

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

Excellent!!

[@johnshawngrubb4675]

Looking forward to this! Started ours last December and it’s really shaping into something beautiful! Such a different feeling to walk back from the garden to the table with the veggie or fruit we needed for the meal! Thanks Good family!

[@davidthegood]

I really do enjoy the diversity of it, and the surprises as different plants emerge.

[@sherrylubbers8185]

I have to say, all of your content is great. Always something useful to learn in your videos. I love that you do so many experiments with different kinds of gardening to see what works best. Grocery row gardening is hands down my favorite technique. I've referred your channel to many friends. I wish you had some grocery row gardening content for North Central Pa (zone 6 now)!

[@theIAMofME]

This was excellent! I watched the whole thing. I had to pause several times because...well, life happens. Where the heck were you when I started with fruit trees 15 years ago? They are a MESS!! We bought the book "Grow a little fruit tree" AFTER six years. If they grow any fruit, the critters get it. Although one year we had so many pears that it broke off branches. Then, my husband "pruned" it. Not a pear since. The minus 2 degrees in December killed our three fig trees back to the ground. But, they are coming back like gangbusters now. Thank goodness! Really enjoyed this. I had to laugh at the gal you were helping out. She knew even less than I did when I started. LOL But, I'm sure she's learned a lot just in this short time.

[@johndyer9232]

As you were looking at the Arapahoe berry plants it reminded me of the berry plants I got from a friend one year. He has a friend in the University of Arkansas’ AG department. This friend gave him some thornless berries that never made it to commercial sale because they are “too aggressive.” By the time I dug a couple canes to move to my garden. He had dozens if not a hundred plants. All of which derived from four. I love blackberries so much I don’t care that I can’t count how many I have now. I imagine this strain is closely related to the Arapahoe berries.

[@LibbyOnTheLabel.]

Great info on how to pick a good tree early in the year! I’m going to have to pot my current perennials and move them into the rows when I start all this.

[@sir.reelcinema]

Oh, I became a carnivore about three years ago. And yet I still have a vegetable garden, my friends and family pick on me. They think I’m crazy like raw fruits and vegetables if you’re not going to eat them. You nailed it dude. It’s a hobby. 48:34

[@wingsandbeaksbirder2312]

This was an amazing video with such magnificent amounts of usable information! Thanks for sharing!!😊

[@rochellesenti1516]

This video is an answer to my prayer this morning for help and direction. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with others in such a clear and helpful way. You and your family are a blessing!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@searchingfortruth9489]

David, I'm creating the new Pharmacy row garden! Where someone could walk along the row of medicinal plants and pick the ingredients needed to make natural medicine.

[@davidthegood]

Good idea

[@pampotgieter7611]

Oh WOW! Awesome! Thank you David and all the gang for sharing this video. Great to see how it is done. Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦👍

[@AnnaBananaRepublic]

You have probably saved so many lives. 🖤 #prepping

[@endgamefond]

This long form video is underrated. This is educational video on gardening for like entire process of gardening

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. I would like to make more long-form videos. This took about 40 hours to produce, but it's full of information. Popcorn-length.

[@mwnemo]

Nice long format video, thank you for doing all the editing and taking these wonderful videos.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@Cassie-em5kp]

That was an excellent video, thank you for sharing and educating me.

[@puracceber]

Very inspiring!!!

[@Sencman1]

Hello from Trinidad. Love this video. People need pruning too. 😂 That tiny shovel make your job a lot harder bro. Thanks for all the knowledge as usual. Blessed.

[@superledfrenzy]

Can't wait to watch this one - thanks for putting in the effort to make it!

[@PiedmontFoodForest-kz9fi]

@davidthegood, your technique reminds me of the Alan Chadwick gardening technique formally known as the Biodynamic French Intensive Method, which Alan developed at Santa Cruz back in the 60s. My wife and I were Peace Corps Volunteers in Guatemala back in the mid-70's. In training we attended a hands-on, 3-month school in the BFIM technique with 4' wide beds with 3' paths. The beds were double-dug with chop-n-drop green manure in the bottom before back filling, and screened forest duff on top as the 'free mulch'. Like @davidthegood, Chadwick was not a fan of "raised" beds, considering their downsides to outweigh any advantages. Anyway, many thanks for another great video! Added Grocery Row Gardening to my small library of David's books. Cheers!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@davidthegood]

I didn't realize they had the same spacing!

[@PlantObsessed]

Lol love it... Why am i in shoes? Her enthusiasm for learning is awesome.

[@blake775]

This is by far my favorite video, I love the longer videos David. Keep on experimenting and best of luck with your nursery business, but we know you don’t need luck when you have the best plants

[@billydawson229]

This is wife Kay I have learned a lot for you thank you for helping this old lady!!!!

[@davidthegood]

You bet

[@teresaroman3348]

"Why am I in shoes?" This is a very good questions. Thank you, David.

[@LelandM.G]

I live in atmore. This help a lot. Thanks for showing

[@joshlovegood9392]

This was such an amazing Video David. The chemistry between you all, and the many tips you talked about made this fantastic watching. Can't wait to see the updates.

[@davidthegood]

Thanks. We are good friends.

[@patrickguyot1290]

Im loving this video! ❤

[@joebobjenkins7837]

One thing Ive learned the hard way, this system is dramatically easier with flat land. Do your rows on contour of youve got a lot of slope or make terraces, preferably on contour. Trying to do straight rows on significantly sloped land spells bad news on a heavy rain. Also sun affects things quite a bit differently on a slope. Put your faster growing trees/bushes (elderberries) on the south side. Theyll make more shade for the other plants and theyll be forced to grow up straighter. I tried to do my taller stuff on the north side and now everything in my garden leans to the south. That little bit o shade forces the tree (and veggies) to try to grow taller first.

[@davidthegood]

Yes, good advice. You have to work with the slope.

[@lindaminor1985]

David, God blessed you with a real beautiful gem. She is adorable ❤😊

[@davidthegood]

She isn’t mine! But she is cool.

[@homesteadnurse]

David, one of your past videos inspired me to grow mango trees from store bought mangos. The cute little guys are about 12 inches high now! We also grew pineapple plants from store bought pineapples and this year they started fruiting. So far we have three beautiful pineapples growing! I have four lemon trees I grew from seed, one is 5 feet tall now. We also grew blood orange trees from seed and they are doing well! The first one made it through freezing temps in the greenhouse so we are going to plant it in the ground this year and cover it in the winter. We live in Alabama zone 8b. I think I will overwinter the mango trees indoors though. Thanks for your inspiration! We have all of your books!

[@GardeningWarrior]

So glad you did this. My daughter had me buy your grocery row garden book and we read it but we are very visual so this was very helpful..we are trying to do this in buckets..lol

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. Good luck.

[@GardeningWarrior]

@@davidthegood she's joining the JR Division of the Global Gardening Homesteading Community (formerly Shed Wars) and we are still working on this project..lol..Mommy needs more than luck..but thank you!

[@teresaminnick2252]

David the Awesome Instructor

[@fabricdragon]

that is an AWESOME garden center

[@vIaLExiAcHiCK]

That cat needs AA for catnip 😸🐾

[@maroosk]

Have to watch a few times, i hope her stuff is doing good. Great videos.

[@youngpek]

Give a friend some fruit, you'll feed them for a day. Teach a friend how to grocery row garden, you'll feed them for a life time. David really is the Good 👍

[@joyces.9021]

Thank you for this amazing content, David! Appreciate you and your family.

[@gloriagodfrey3899]

Thank you so much.

[@sylviakirchel2519]

Great video!!!

[@EmeLightheartArtisanDesigns]

Ya I dropped seeds like you said to do, very liberating! ❤️ can’t wait to see the greenery.

[@charlinecartwright1116]

I love the grocery roll garden! I'm working on mine's

[@ethancurtin7486]

Thanks brotha!

[@FlavorsandTextures]

😍! Love it!

[@janebadon3988]

This video has helped me understand the grocery row concept even better! And I saw potato SEEDS! Fantastic!

[@JoybileeFarm]

That was awesome. I love watching the kids drop the manure on the garden. So fun to see how uninhibited they were.

[@Sandfarm]

I love this way of gardening! I started mine this year and it is so fun to gather food every day or so. I also love that you mentioned it’s good for the very organized to disorganized, I tend toward disorganized, and it really works well!

[@dramatriangle]

Good point about the organization of the garden. I’m going to go revise my biggest hügelkultur bed right now.

[@terencechandler845]

So wholesome man I love you community approach. ❤️

[@deltorres2100]

David I totally LOVED IT 🌱🌱 I had to share and I agree we should all be doing this

[@stephenluna7932]

Very cool

[@libertykatrkm]

Awesome

[@JulesGardening]

Enjoyed it all. Thanks David. 👍

[@CIB8282]

Thats a very nice garden install. Great work 👏

[@Golden_SnowFlake]

that is an EPIC grocery row garden!

[@honeybee52000]

Thanks for taking us along on this personalized tutorial! My brand new gardens (southern central FL) are a jumbled up version of super tips from you and a few other homestead gardeners! I have growth and produce after 2 months - from sandy nothingness ~ wahoo!!

[@markfomenko8873]

Tarping is great. Black plastic works well in killing vegetation and sterilizing. Rototilling disrupts the subsoil and some folks argue well against tilling. I've done tilling and no tilling and got similar results.

[@davidthegood]

Yes. We used the tillage to loosen the top enough to raise the beds.

[@ppetal1]

Great layout spacing tips. Mulch paths. Different weather in Liverpool UK. Definitely allow root seedlings to scab up in cooler wetter climates. Farmers here are losing multiple plantings and belatedly going for more woodlands and ground cover, if they're not flooded out of business. Btw I used to sneer at labor-saving before my hernia😅.

[@johndyer9232]

That garden already looks amazing.

[@deankaufman825]

Great job. The Lady videoing did a great job. Very informative.

[@secretstacker]

Great vid we grow our ginger in old washing up bowls

[@sansomspressurecleaningpoo9519]

You rock. God bless y’all.

[@hamburger512]

Tiller in bare feet you absolute mad lad

[@SamTheManFL]

Thanks!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you very much!

[@SouthernLatitudesFL]

I really enjoyed watching this from inception to growth. Really interesting to hear the thought process behind it.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome - glad you enjoyed it.

[@murrayzuckerman123]

Thanks or sharing.

[@tomsensible3999]

Howdy!!

[@joelalexander4513]

If we still had mom and pop video stores,..this flick would be in the Romance section.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

David im really excited to see how your bread compost pile is going as you seemed to make it, during the bsf season and there is probably plently of larvae for your chickens.

[@JustJamiesAdventures]

I loved watching this! I wish I would have learned about the grocery row system before I started my garden a few years ago. I’m in the process of converting my garden to the grocery row now. I am waiting until the fall/winter season to complete the conversion since some of my perennials are still producing. I figured out the hard way that my attention can’t be infinitely divided, a lot of my perennials that I planted that first year ended up neglected and either died or are stunted because they weren’t near the annual vegetable garden. This is the best system for me 💚 thank you!

[@freespirit2194]

Really loved watching these rows being created. Got some good tips and looking forward to updates on how it evolves. Much love and blessings from Australia :)

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@Mandy138Cool]

Pears love to shoot up, yeah, but their branches when laden with fruit will bend down and touch the grass. Definitely need to stay on top of pruning them. Personal best suggestion via experience is to do some spring pruning, then some late fall (after dropping leaves). I do this for all my trees, tying 'markers' on throughout the growing season so I know which is best. No science behind it other than personal observations for *my* trees and micro climate. :)

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

+100 for all the hard workers in this video. Also, taking out fire ants just like Granny did! 😃🌱🐢

[@kiwimuma8189]

Awesome💕 Thank you for sharing. Blessings from Australia 🇦🇺

[@heatherk8931]

❤ Your friend Sherry sounds just like me about the whole "who touched my food along the journey " to my kitchen😢😊

[@cieramadre2458]

raw cassava is not toxic. Remove the hard outer layer completely and you can eat it, which is more nutritious and filling too. you can also cook it mixed with other root veggies with saute' onions and salt 😄

[@bl4643]

Incredible video, thank you for the time