No-Till, SCHMO-TILL! Hey, Do You Want to Grow LOTS of Food OR NOT?

[@moonsquatch4478]

David I swear this is the most wholesome channel😂

[@scottwhite4645]

OMG...I can see the movie shot now...it’s night time and a huge posse of torch bearing no-till gardeners with Charles Dowding, Elaine Ingram and Paul Gauci leading the way with a pack of hounds yelling “Find him”! ..”find David the Good.. that dirty tiller?”!!!

[@sarahmannluker7528]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nancyseery2213]

OK Scott, get your camera out!! Would this be cowboys or vampire? Or better yet, werewolf!

[@craigdonald551]

Charles Dowding is too nice a person to do such things

[@scottwhite4645]

Craig Donald That’s for sure!

[@scottwhite4645]

NANCY SEERY Oh the possibilities !!

[@AaricHale]

In the 16 years we lived out here we was able to get wood chips dropped once and that was last winter . We put them down about a foot thick this year in a couple of gardens and we been happy with them so far . Most years we bag up grass clippings and mulch what we can because it takes so much to cover a area . Most years we don't have enough mulch to cover very much of our gardens . I learned over the past 20 plus years to grow with what I have on hand or cheap . Thanks for sharing !

[@bri4real]

Yea I live in rural NC I never could get wood chips delivered even though they are destroying 2000 trees a day here to build houses. I even called up companies. Then I thought-THE FIREANTS would love them. I gave up on that now I’m up to 5000sqft. I rarely till, just my potatoes, peanuts etc

[@bri4real]

@@TheAngelOfLights I drive pass 18 ft stacks of woodchips every day of my life. I thought about loading the Corolla, or getting a truck. But let’s be honest-we can make food with whatever we have. Fruits and vegetables were fine before humans, and they will be fine after humans

[@TheVigilantStewards]

LOL @ that intro.... love the slow pan footage after too... great job. I was surprised when it got so serious so fast, I like the way you are never fully serious or funny... and you can bounce so far in the other direction. A true sign of great madness, I mean genius!

[@chelseahartweg2938]

I love how you approach things practically instead of dogmatically. We're in the process of buying land and I hope this go around to try a living pathway system perhaps. I dunno. Maybe some combination of things or go slowly with it. But honestly growing food is more important than doing it perfectly. I love hearing your thoughts. Thanks for sharing!

[@davidthegood]

I would try all kinds of things. Have you used a gardening method in the past with success? Set that up, too!

[@russwilkerson2741]

I can’t believe you have a Polaroid instant camera. That was like 1975. And yes , then it was instant. You didn’t have to take your film to the camera shop to develop. WOW. You made an awesome point and great comparison. I’m still watching.

[@thechaosgardener]

I turn my Amazon shipping boxes into mulch with a 10 sheet paper shredder. Amazing cover

[@LeaC816]

I don’t know how you only have 139k subscribers. You are one of the most knowledgeable KZbinrs I have found on gardening and by far the most entertaining! You explain stuff so well, thank for such great content!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you - I appreciate it.

[@hal7ter]

I only found this channel last night, while looking for chicken tractor material.

[@davidthegood]

Check out the new Grocery Row Gardening book here: amzn.to/3s8G2G4 And the new tee-shirt design: the-david-the-good-store.creator-spring.com Thanks for watching. Mulch it like a Polaroid.

[@lovecatspiracy]

Yassss!

[@chopis531]

Thank you for always being honest about the pest problems that come with heavy mulching in temperate climates, too!

[@davidthegood]

I have a friend who deep mulches. She can't even plant seeds in it because the bugs tear up all the sprouts. She has to grow the transplants first, then put them in.

[@groundedinfirstprinciples383]

San Antonio, Texas. Zone 8b-9a depending on who you ask. Love the wheel hoe! I also did a heavy mulching lasagna style system for a perennial system. I tried annuals too in my open space while waiting for my perennials to fill out. Mercy! BUGS! Megatons. I added 6 to 12 in of material. Back to Eden inspired. After 18 months it added a layer of porous water retaining soil over my clay pan. Cool experiment I'm glad I did. Tilling Works amazing too. Seedlings in heavy mulch is a no go. I could not get a seedling to grow due to the slugs, etc. I had to build a seedling station with a basin of water in it so the seed pots could absorb it as needed in the heat. Once the plant got big enough to leave the Red Solo cup it could grow in the ground. 100% agree. Seedlings in heavy mulch are not possible with a full-time job while keeping one's sanity. They definitely need to be hardened off. It's a long start time to heavy mulch. If i had to do it all again.. buy the two years by getting high quality screened compost from my source you know isn't full of pesticides (good luck or use David till method. Love the show! Love the viewers comments. Love the green thumbs! Sweet potato planting time with the soon to be 4 year old this weekend! Like your Alabama Soil, my soul is nutrient poor. What are the key additives you use in Alabama. I already have a chunk of homemade liquid fish fertilizer for nitrogen base and chop and drop comfrey.

[@ashwyld]

This is gold. 😂🤣 As always, I thank you and your lovely lady for sharing. 💜🌱🤘

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@jcmustian]

Just got an old Troybuilt Horse Tiller/Chipper yesterday. I already have a wheel hoe I was trying to use with no till beds with very little success. Now I feel free to dream about a field of wheat, root crops, and hardy greens over the winter that I can easily expand and keep weeded.

[@kathleenhunter3161]

One of the reasons I like to garden is the fact I just give them a chance to grow and they do the rest. It’s fun to watch them do there thing without a lot of science money or work. This year this northern girl moved to Texas. Small lot bad soil bad back little money. No tools. I chopped holes in the grass and added some city compost dropped in squash and other seeds and potatoes sets and onion sets and grew more food and better food than I could have bought with double the money. The plants want to grow. Hopefully We’re just helping them do there thing whatever method we use

[@livesoutdoors1708]

Bringing in the BAGELS!😆❤️ May our Lords blessings continue to shower upon you DTG!

[@donnagaudette6502]

When you started with bagels I laughed so hard. By grandma ( in mind you I am 58) would bake bagels but back then called bread with hole. Not sure why. Any how, when they went stale she would throw them out in the garden along with all the other table scrapes. Well not the meat. She feed that to the coonhounds. She said it made them better hunters. 🤪going back to the bread, My grandpa swear that she never planted seeds. He would say that her bread along with the scrapes, grew every kind of vegetables you could think.

[@scottj5149]

You are supremely entertaining while giving us the truth that productive gardening can happen using a variety of systems.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, Scott.

[@vansgardens2304]

I’ve watched a lot of videos so I’m “Basically an expert”. 😆😆

[@notmyfault6835]

San Diego growing zone 10b checking in 🌱👩‍🌾🌻 My first car was a 76' Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme!! Land Yacht to the max!!

[@lucaskolinger3916]

I just took over a 60 acre farm in croatia a year ago and honestly got a little overwhelmed with wanting to always use only the best possible method for growing food. I've watched a few of your videos and they really opened my eyes in a way. Youre right, growing food comes first.

[@davidthegood]

That is a big responsibility - thank you for the kind words. Good luck!

[@mjk9388]

Everything has pros and cons. Intelligence lies in seeing both.

[@MatthewSherriff85]

When i started i just dug up the soil and put seeds in it, i figured if it produces food i must be doing something right.

[@robertwashington2759]

This is hands-down the most eye opening gardening video for me. I have tried to stick to 1 ("The") way to do it 'right'. Now I'm free! I can do each way that works! Thanks! Whew!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@joycejudd5109]

eating my supper while watching this video...don't judge me...and you're saying "to each our own"...and I'm eating corn, green beans, tomatoes and okra from my 1/4 acre yard...including the spot the house is on and the driveway. I do mulch....but not my walkways...and I'm so thankful for you David, because you are the one who inspired me to "grow it"...and you are the one who taught me to use canna lily leaves as mulch...and you are the one who taught me to take cuttings from my cucumbers, root them and grow more...and I already have 3 tinsie little cucumbers coming on...and you are the one....well, I'm just thankful for you and this channel. You keep doing what you're doing...and thankful for sharing with us what YOU'RE doing, so we too can learn to do as well!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you - great work, Joyce.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Yes yes yes. No way I'm getting away with much on this hardpan Tennessee clay without breaking up the ground. Food trumps everything. Heck, if things got really hairy, I'd use Miracle-Gro if I needed to. Chips win.

[@davidthegood]

Chips are the height of modern civilization. If they fall, everything falls.

[@Logiwonk]

@@davidthegood Gotta add that to the FEMA Waffle House house scale.

[@samuelkorger3567]

Pumped up kicks being hummed by David strikes fear into anyone who’s watched the music video.

[@kathigreer4656]

David, your compost everything gave me an idea i want to share. I am incontenient, i wear adult diapers that have a cotton fill in them ... so i am now tearing the diapers apart and adding the urine filled cotton to my compost ... the cotton has helped hold moisture to the beds

[@davidthegood]

Compost everything!

[@Homesteading_heathen]

It’s like hugelkultur… with diaper. Quick, what’s the German word for diapers? We can start a new movement.

[@taylorsessions4143]

@@Homesteading_heathen according to Google it's Windel! (Remember that in German, the W makes a V sound)

[@tinnerste2507]

@@taylorsessions4143 just baby cloths are windel. Adult diapers and pads are called binde. Lol but... It may have other additives like polyester fibers mixed in so burn a bit that's dry and if it smells like burnt paper than your good. Bindekulture..

[@taylorsessions4143]

@@tinnerste2507 thanks! I definitely didn't know that

[@herrickkimball]

Good one, David. 👍👍👍

[@jiggjohns1028]

You’re a madman , the end about the bagels had me lmao.😂🤣😂

[@Roescoe]

Hey, stop right there, no one has called him that. Ever.

[@bigwooly8014]

🤣😂🤣😂 that intro killed me. Thanks for giving that beautiful ol jeep a little spark of life. Love this channel.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@tmontero8492]

You have the makings of an evil genius, and we are grateful your powers are used for good, sir. Your out-of-the-box approach to gardening brings logic, practicality, and common sense to growing food. I appreciate your respect and willingness to explore and share all gardening practices, no matter how strange... You first shook my world about a year ago when first learned of you and your outrageous composting practices -- my garbage disposal now leads a most quiet and dull existence. Thank you, Mr. Good, and Mrs. Good for your hard work behind the scenes.

[@Steve197201]

I enjoy tilling my garden. It aerates the soil and makes it nice and fresh and soft.

[@julietripp465]

I love Dave's videos. I live in the city. I've signed up for chip drop, a year and a half ago. I've yet to get any wood chips from chip drop. I got my hands on wood chips when my next door neighbor were having their trees trimmed. I went to the tree trimmers and asked them if I could have the chips and they dumped a truck load in my driveway for me. I think we can only do what we can do.

[@scottwhite4645]

Going thru a tree service is the easiest and cheapest way to get wood chips. You’re saving the company from paying a dumping fee.

[@92bagder]

I get my wood chips from my public parks; they just have piles of chips just laying there

[@flatsville1]

Tree limb chips & with green leaves are the best chips. Any branch 1 1/2 in or less has active green lignen which aids in the decomp along with the nitrogen from the leaves. They are called ramial wood chips.

[@angelaobrien7698]

Well said. Thanks for reminding me that there is more than one way to garden. It's easy to get hung up on the so called perfect way when the end objective is food.

[@anitapaulsen3282]

My word! That's a jungle you've got there! Such a beautiful jungle! I think that speaks for itself. Bagels galore! Hello! Lots of bagels! Lol!

[@matthewlucas2577]

Thank you all gardening is good you tell them David

[@davidpritchett855]

Totally agree chips are very hard to come by in the country unless you have the time and equipment to take a pickup and trailer to the dump on a regular basis. If you are interested in a cost/time effective mulch you want to use round bales of hay. You can cut the net and unroll it into roughly 8in thick mat of hay to plant in. It will unroll around 150 to 200 ft long and you can often find low quality, aka unsprayed, round bales for around 30 dollars. Buy enough they may even delver for free but it's usually not too expensive. Our plan next season is to do potatoes that way, roll out a bale in the pasture and shove a bunch of potatoes in. It should help the carbon content of the pasture.

[@davidthegood]

The problem with hay that I have seen is that they're now spraying persistent herbicides on the fields to control broadleaf weeds. Roll the hay out, garden gets killed for the next year or two. Otherwise, I like the idea.

[@davidpritchett855]

@@davidthegood yep graze-on is one of the worst things to come out in the last few years. Should have mentioned the herbicide potential I'd feel bad if someone got their garden nuked because of me. Some places around here market "goat hay" which has a lot of the Forbes and weeds since goats love it and I assume they don't spray, haven't called them up yet. But that was part of the reason I was thinking do it in the pasture. I can stand to nuke my clover and plantain in the pasture and just lose some seed potatoes.

[@betty8173]

The proof is in the pudding!!! You are feeding your very large and sweet family!!! Very funny to think of all the purists, they would be dead, if dropped onto property like you were, and tried to grow their food their way...you have done such a great job, it has been a joy to watch. Most of my little garden did okay, funny, I have the biggest crop of malabar spinach, in several places, where I did not even plant this year, the ones in the shady area is as big as my hand...but the chicks get most of it, as I am careful of the higher oxalates... I feel so blessed by your farming, your channle, but moreso by your family values, your trust in God, your music, your joy for life, thank you for helping me through a difficult year, may God continue to bless you, Rachel and all the Good children.

[@davidthegood]

I am growing Malabar spinach and not eating it too. You're right about the oxalates. Not worth eating, even though it's pretty.

[@heysuz701]

So glad you shared the picture! It was exactly what I thought it would be! Lol! Need to frame that for your man cave/shop/garden house.

[@davidthegood]

Good idea.

[@amyjohnson7834]

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I will no longer feel guilty about not having deep mulch EVERYWHERE! Keep it up Mr The Good!😊

[@Beltloop29]

This has to be one of my favorite videos you've done.

[@Homesteading_heathen]

I got pretty lucky. There was a job site just down the street and they were clearing this entire lot. Had a massive chipper on site and it was just tearing through trees like butter. I asked them if I can have the mulch. Turns out, my yard is closer and cheaper than the place they had to take it. So now I have over an acre with about 1.5’ to 2’ of mulch. They brought be 38 triaxle dump truck loads. 🤣 completely free.

[@davidthegood]

SCORE

[@chasedavidson2855]

Now that is luck

[@ericmoulton9533]

I missed this one but pissing my pants now! Haha! Your like the" Good " Humor ice cream Gardening guy. I love it! If it isn't fun don't do it!

[@chasedavidson2855]

How much mulch to cover David's crops in 1 inch of mulch: 11,320 ft² × 1 in mulch × (1 ft/12 in) = 943.3333 ft³ That's 944 cu ft. of material for every inch of mulch. Mind you 1 inch definitely isn't suppressing weeds at least the kind we get down south

[@CliffWarren]

I love this! I could not agree more! And I have 16,000 square feet. I even tried word chips once. Complete disaster. Not all of our soil types is the same. For wood chips to work for me, I'd have to apply the chips, WAIT 10 YEARS, then maybe I could grow something. Beneficial bacteria is "easy come, easy go." Throw some compost tea out there and you've got what you need. My garden philosophy is, "grow enough to make a difference!"

[@TheTexasBoys]

DTG- you always keep it real bro. Thank you!

[@hamhawk4027]

That shot starting at about 2:30 Is gorgeous.

[@carlafawcett3851]

You're such a riot! Keep on with the fabulous work : )

[@corymiller9854]

Hello everyone. I am starting to get set in my ways with no till and organic heavy mulch system. However I do use a lot of weeds for chop and drop:] I see your point hear and I agree easy ways that produce an abundance of food are always better then over working. Sheer utter neglect is actually a style of gardening which is very enjoyable and abundant but I live in the city so no need to attract unwanted hate:] Keep up the good videos I always learn something.

[@moniquegebeline4350]

I went no till raised beds because I was tired of drilling through cement so I started building UP rather than fixing ‘down’ 😂

[@loves2spin2]

David, you crack me up. I completely agree with your thoughts here. Well done. The point is to grow FOOD, however that happens. I do always feel badly in the spring when we rototill and kill all those poor unsuspecting earthworms, though. I have no guilt over fungi and bacteria.

[@tozlink]

That Polaroid film ain't cheap. That's real dedication to the bit.

[@davidthegood]

It's like $2 per shot! Almost as expensive as ammo!

[@davidpritchett855]

@@davidthegood lol it's worse. At least around here and online it can still be had for less than a buck a shot even for my 30 06 deer rifle it's still 1.50. Though shotty slugs are, and always have been, ridiculous

[@scottwhite4645]

David The Good Almost...😉

[@juliekraft4102]

You're a hoot!😄 Good information & comedy keeps me coming back.😜

[@oddlyspecific186]

no tilling is basically not an option depending on how terrible your soil is and what you want to grow. round up has a place too, especially in the case of something like bindweed or johnson grass infestation. Mulching, flaming, constant pulling every 2 days wont stop plants like that. Theres no other way to get rid of those plants unless you want to remove 5 feet of topsoil from the entire area and even then id be willing to bet some of it will come back. I dont think glyphosate is really an issue when it comes to consuming it through most vegetables. Your most likely eating insecticides and fungicides along with store vegetables, and the glyphosate gets snuck in on grains and seeds grown for oil. Its common practice to spray grains with roundup as little as one week before harvest as a dessicant and force fruiting. The dry dead grains are easier on the machines.

[@lornasten3124]

There’s space for all of us in the garden ❤️ We don’t have to always agree - but we certainly can still learn from each other. 🪴

[@ViniciusPelizariTremDoido]

I know you are doing that David!! Great video!! Nice equipment!

[@briannestevens4979]

Oh my gosh...I come for the comedy and leave with the gardening knowledge. Keep being you!!!

[@ccccclark2605]

❤️ur humor! 🤣😆😅😂 ❤️ Ur gardening techniques. 🇨🇱🇺🇸✝️🙏❤️👍

[@davidthegood]

Thank you.

[@everlastinggrass]

Soooo f'n funny!!!! Hahahahahahahhahaa!!!! oh geez! Never let em' see you (wear a sweat,))))er ! Oy vay! Struggle, no struggle, struggle, no struggle! I like caffeine and happen upon struggling sometimes myself! Keep up the awesome work/play! You keep me motivated to just keep putting stuff in the ground, keeping my hands in the dirt and remembering my place. THANKYOU! My canna's are next to my peaches, plum, and elderberries I started this year. So cute with pintos and buckwheat. I like bagels too!!!!!

[@Iloveorganicgardening]

Way to bring it in David!!

[@c.j.rogers2422]

I don't care how deep the mulch or what's used as a weed barrier, weed seeds will blow in and simply grow on top of the mulch. I design & build custom landscape beds, customers always want a weed barrier and rocks or mulch on top, thinking they won't have to weed anymore. They never believe me til 6 mos later and their rocks/mulch are full of weeds. Now they either have to spray or get on their hands & knees and pull weeds...constantly, for 2/3 of the year here in FLA.

[@The_True_]

Exactly! I even dug deep trenches between rows and filled them with woodchips to stop weeds and catch water, but the Bermuda grass didn't care about my plans. Lol.

[@finagill]

I have a bunch of wood chips that I need to spread. Bermuda is growing up several feet through them. I swear Bermuda grass will outlast cochroaches.

[@drackar]

As someone who's very pro-mulch, it's not...about not having weeds. It's about water retention and having an easier time pulling weeds. I also have clients that want one and done projects and I tell them about the wonders of concrete.

[@Hy-Brasil]

@@drackar one and done projects 🤣 did they learn everything they know from Farmtown?? WOW!!! my mom is all about that lifestyle, wants beautiful flowerbeds and gardens and orchards but doesn't want to put in the work. the garden looks fantastic the first week. but once the weeds creep in .... nope. One and Done is a good description...just not the way people think.

[@drackar]

@@Hy-Brasil yeah. I've been called out to work in peoples yards that get mad at me when there are weeds a month later.

[@laurenpaolini7073]

Omg the b roll... Flipping hilarious!!!

[@Jeff_PNW]

Well said, David. 👍 Use whatever method works to maximize your crops with the least effort & cost. Just like you I use different methods for different things. While I do prefer no dig/no till, it's not always viable or the best option. Bottom line, don't get stuck on one method of growing...mix them up, whatever works to put food on the table.

[@susanjordan2130]

Thank you for all your videos. I enjoy them so much and learn so much from you.💖

[@jonathanhicks3342]

I really appreciate your content and humor

[@matthewfarrell317]

Love this, the number of people who have growled at me because I didn't use "their" system is insane. Amusing as well at the same time as I grow 3 different ways, I have the no-till food forest in the front, tilling is pointless as it would hurt the roots of the perennials, and since I want to attract native wildlife I do not spray and try organic mulches/woodchips. In the back yard, I have raised beds, and I till the hell out of them each crop rotation to feed in max amounts of goodness. Because annuals are heavy feeders, I do use a mix of organic and non-organic here, and some sprays to control pests. Then in the side yard, I have my hydroponics, a thing to breathe fear into the organic or nothing people, which is 100% non-organic growing lol. There is no best way to grow, to a way to grow, pick and choose what best suits you, what makes it fun and enjoyable. The more people who grow their own food, the better we all are.

[@cetate93]

I put in 1500 square feet of mulch and I absolutely hated it. Tractor couldn't pick it up so I had to hay fork into a wheelbarrow and then wheel it over to the plot, then dump and spread. I'm just going to use the mulch for little intensive raised beds or something from now on and dump leaves on that patch.

[@FlomatonFamous]

Good info! We'll said.

[@manjawarner3162]

Reality Check ✅ Thanks for always helping us find center in the Good, Better, Best quest of producing food on our little patch of earth. Your videos and books have been very grounding for me as I plan for my next big garden project. Thank you for being a trail blazer paving the way for us through your real life experience, experiments, trials, and insights. Much appreciated. 🙏

[@lucibrdf1]

Thanks for talking about this! I live in a country where wood chips aren't even free or easily available at all. It's just uncommon here, so there are a few places that sell mulch and it's very expensive if you want to cover a big area. It just isn't doable for me either.

[@garden_geek]

“Everybody knows that chips win.” LOL so true

[@MalkiZee]

Wood chips. JK

[@adamburleigh927]

The lens on this one is amazing DTG. Amazing

[@davidthegood]

Antique Minolta lens.

[@emilyacevedo4746]

Haha, I can tell you put a lot of thought into your outfit in the first scene 😆. And I really appreciate how non-“religious” you are about gardening systems. I too just want to grow a lot food, as naturally as possible, and I’ll use whatever combination of methods to achieve that. Thanks for bringing the bagels, David.

[@John-Adams-Can]

Wood chips caused me to get pnemonia from the mold that was created from me piling chips for too long and digging into a blue mold pile weeks later. Also caused ticks that loved my ankles and dog.

[@trillium7582]

The purity spiral is the enemy of the garden. Thanks, David. Very rational. I'm looking forward to the new ebook!

[@senorjp21]

I am trying ruth stout and the amount of hay required is surprising. A round hay bale (3'x4') will do about 100 sq ft of garden, and it takes 12-18 months before much of it has composted. And, it can interfere with rain getting to the soil when conditions are dry. However, squash seem to love it.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

I do know one person that has done biointensive double dug method for his market garden and kept the paths mulched with chips and the beds mostly mulched lightly with straw on nearly a full acre. That was my biointensive mentor at Shine's Farmstand. It took him a year to fully get all those worked in and established. It is indeed a lot of work if you don't enjoy it or have time!

[@luckychicav7981]

Hey, I drove an Oldsmobile Cutlass, beautiful burgundy with caramel vinyl top. ☺️

[@robinmarie5180]

Mine was a metal flake brown and carmel rag top. 😆

[@charlescoker7752]

I had a 71 Cutlass Supreme Would love to get another 71!

[@davidthegood]

I had the '82 2-door. I miss that car.

[@robinmarie5180]

@@davidthegood The interior was cream fake leather. ' 82 also

[@charlescoker7752]

@@davidthegood 71 was a beauty. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6jPqZyYmreqms0&ab_channel=I-95Muscle

[@valoriesmith8875]

Oh David, you are so cute and so funny. Thank you, I needed to hear this!

[@hebrewhomesteadupdatewalee8303]

Your a true comedian!!!!!😅🤣🤣🤣😄😄😄

[@mjk9388]

I like to learn about different gardening systems and take what I like about each and apply it to my own. Square foot, Permaculture, Korean Natural Farming, Agroforestry...it's all good ideas.

[@trudymautz4388]

You do you DTG, I mulch my beds, but I can get chips easy around here, and my garden is 1/3 your size. You have to work with what you have and what works for you. I don't garden shame, keep up the great videos.

[@davidthegood]

Thanks, Trudy. You can build lovely gardens with deep mulching.

[@kandybolea]

😂😂your videos are awesome. Ain't nothing wrong with your gardening style. It's alot like how we do things here in Fiji. You even have plants and crops that grow here....another reason why I like your content. Awesome garden, catchy tunes and a cool azz gardener 😎 Bring in the bagels man!!!😂😂😂

[@sheilaackers3854]

David you are awesome love to you and yours ♥️

[@Ransetsu]

always good info David!

[@Hy-Brasil]

i already knew i was going to like this video the moment i saw you in that hipster getup.

[@CliffWarren]

I also use a wheel hoe, except mine has a motor on it. It turns a set of "hoes" around and around and does a great job. Once in season where the plants are growing, just let it skim the surface to not disturb plant roots. All in all it takes about an ounce of fuel to do my massive garden.

[@sarahktm]

The levels of hilarious...And Truth! So good, Mr. Good! Have to mention whatever awesome camera lens you got going there too, holy cow, what beautiful focus. Noyce!!

[@MarlonVanderLinde]

Good stuff David. The opening scene is just the wrap on the kinda folks that paraphrase and quote and namedrop and term-drop things all the time. In the end, if you know what you need to know, you can grow food and soil without all the buzzwords.

[@jeannechin5052]

Very good points!

[@dagnytaggart5216]

OMG! I’ve only heard the first sentence and I’m laughing-out of guilt. 😂

[@littlegreen5845]

Great camera. Total power move!

[@agrarianarc]

Hey David, I appreciate you addressing this sometimes exhausting topic. Its pretty clear one can have success with a variety of methods, and it's wise to hone in on one's unique location/soil/climate/surroundings. In your opinion, with regard to the factors above, when would someone be well-suited to do no till-no dig?

[@davidthegood]

In hard clay soil, deep mulching helps, along with generous applications of gypsum. It's also great in perennial systems where you're not worried about seeds being devoured. In some climates, particularly with deep freezes, I think it would work better than in more tropical climes.

[@agrarianarc]

@@davidthegood Thank you. I appreciate your feedback. We are discussing plans for the (large) garden, & our property is kind of unique. Northern WI, deciduous forest, clay loam, only 18-30" deep before hitting bedrock (we're on the crest of the Niagara Escarpment)... after clearing to let in more sunlight, we feel we need to focus on building soil as best as we can. We have unlimited access to woodchips as well as several high quality sources for compost to supplement our own. We shall see... if you're ever in the area (😬) I'll hire you for a consult, or we can barter artwork projects. Keep WI in mind 😁

[@billclinton6040]

When it comes to wood chips, I find that the easiest and cheapest source is simply renting a wood chipper for those times when you are trimming your own trees.

[@AlaskaPilot18]

I bought a little electric SunJoe chipper just for mulch. There's always SOMETHING I can trim...

[@hal7ter]

I use them for flower bed mulch but find wood shavings from our local mill the best because they will breakdown faster.

[@carlacowling1789]

Thanks for explaining your thought process for this. I have been hardcore "no till", but my only goal is to produce good food in the cheapest and easiest manner possible, so this makes total sense. Especially during the first few years establishing a growing area. Damn, now I need a tiller 😑

[@royrodgers567]

I like a good Shotgun gardening technique. Try it all and find out what works in your area.

[@theurzamachine]

I plant potatoes densely (4/sqft) and the foliage is so thick that it shades out the weeds and parts of the lawn next to it. It's close enough to no-till.

[@davidthegood]

Yeah, it's a living mulch.

[@dwheywood]

Not dissin’ your will to till-there may be times and places and preferences that make tilling desired by one grower but not another-but it may be helpful to flesh out the no-till picture a little bit further than mulching. You know these options I’m sure, it’s just this one video didn’t address them. Grab a bagel, and kick your feet up, as this is longer than I intended- There’s alotta examples of layering the compost on the garden bed instead of tilling it in. “Famous” one’s include: Singing Frogs Farm, Josh Sattin, Paul Gautchi (make no mistake by how he chooses his vocabulary: he adds compost to his *annual* garden, not chopped up wood chips, unless they are composted chips, or sometimes raw chips screened to 1/2”, but almost always it’s composted material he adds to his *annual* garden.) For larger areas, cover crops and intercrops are another option. You talked of this going on in your perennial grocery rows, but it can be done in annual beds too. Instead of bringing in mulch, we can grow it in place, ala Gabe Brown and many others. Adapted for a garden setting, cut it down when going to plant seeds, or even a few days after planting seeds, but not tilling it in (although the soil health benefits of growing it in place is much more than just a mulch provides, as you know). We can also keep the cover crop alive, growing it along with our food crop. Gabe Brown has mentioned in the past they don’t use glyphosate (Roundup), but did every few years sometimes use herbicide to control weeds on their acres of land-but moving away from it. For example, the field in this video has had no herbicide in 7 years: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnK5eWNnl9N3Zrc Gabe Brown works large scale, but the concept can be used in gardens. One of my best areas this year is herbs and greens intergrown with field peas, kind of a cover crop (field peas) mixed with my food crop. When the peas begin to pod, I pull them and plant more in their place, and/or mulch with the pulled peas. Another: Col Seis’s pasture cropping for grains and grazing intermixed. If anyone knows of a temperate example of pasture cropping, I’d love to know. Col is in Australia. (Note to self: brainstorm ideas for garden scale versions of pasture cropping.) (I did find the following video, where at 7:08 Gabe Brown is growing grain mixed with perennial Alfalfa, which might be the same field as in the video link above: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4fYn32Mn7p-i8k - the previous link above indicates this field is also grazed: pasture cropping!) Finally, we’ve had decent results in a cut flower garden cutting off the weeds at the dirt’s surface, drawing a little furrow, and filling with a soil mix. No mulch, just some weeding, watering, and occasional fertilizing. Not an ideal no-till, as no-till includes the concept of soil building that the large areas of bare dirt we left between rows didn’t allow for. So, adding some legumes, clover, or something in between the rows is something we may try. Again, this is not an anti-till comment. Just fleshing out the no-till picture. In contrast, the Hopi, for example, grow their corn in widespread groups, with bare soil between. But rather than rebuilding soil, or adjusting the ecosystem (ala permaculture), they’re working with the landscape as is. Different approaches. Many options, so we can do what we like with what is available to us in a given situation.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

On a serious note, I love using my Fiskars reel mower and often wonder about living pathways and watch Farmer Jesse talk about that..... but in hard times irrigation would be lacking for those paths and that is probably needed unless you live in a very moist place. It's hot and semi dry here in North Dallas. I'm always thinking about how to scale up stuff like this, it honestly gets very tricky !

[@gardenlady58]

I love your channel. I don't know about where you are but here in north Ga. the fire ants love wood chips.

[@scotmhead]

Oooh, at 2:43ish you are getting some cool spiral bokeh.

[@davidthegood]

It's really weird - I like that effect.

[@abuhabibalkhair250]

Instead of bringing in the wrong materials necessary for mulch I find it far easier to just grow it. If you use the symbiotic relationship between the lagoon and the grass I’m sure you know you can replenish your soil while creating mulch and even get a crop in the same space as well

[@davidthegood]

I think you're right. We're growing a lot just for biomass.

[@amyblueskyirl16]

Thanks for this! Just realized that if I use my pasture mowed hay to mulch the garden, I’d be adding tons of grass and weed seeds lol Mow earlier?