Touring the Grocery Row Garden (at 6 Months!)

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Here's a David The Good garden tour for mid-March, 2023!

[@madisontcarter]

"If it fights, it fights! if not, it's companion planting!" haha! love it

[@scottmyself8648]

Probably my favorite part of the whole video!

[@vimondireksri8820]

Thank you again for helping me make my family more self sufficient day by day. Even when I don't learn anything from your videos, which is rare if not ever, you still keep me motivated to grow,, experiment, and be ready for the zombie apocalypse :p , Your family, , knowledge, humor, and humbleness is inspiring. I spend most of my trying to learn the simplest ways to be nearly 100% self sufficient (with barter) At 50-60% now for $20 a month ( baking soda, bt, neem oil, tools and seeds). Your videos got me started. Jadam, KNF and you (first or all) simplified everything and effective (expiremental) methods have changed my five or 6 potted plants for fun to be more self sufficient every day. I am not religious but love the blessings, levity you put into the videos you share mean everything to us. Get well soon.

[@Golden_SnowFlake]

They are indeed a blessing, Their humor keeps me able to watch and learn, even when I am not feeling up for an educational video!

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

You need to repent unto Jesus Christ. Nothing you do for yourself of your family pleases God if you are living in rebellion against him. You do not have time to gamble with your soul!

[@SCOTTBULGRIN]

That's the fastest 21 minutes I've watched in a while. Time flies when you're having fun.

[@SuperStruct]

The cap + machete makes you look like the captain of the garden

[@karenpeddicordbaranauskas3211]

Thank you again to you and your family......take us to see your cow😮

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

What a difference a couple of zones makes! Our walking onions seem to handle heat fairly well, we neglected a bunch during last year's drought, and they came roaring back.

[@margiemurray2147]

We are in zone 9B and was wondering about your walking onions. Did you start your walking onions from seed or from a plant start? What zone are you planting in at this time? Thanks for the info thank you. The younger Nana from Central Florida

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

@@margiemurray2147 We got started plants .. not a lot, but they multiply very easily. a dozen or so, and 2 years of dividing, and you may never need onions again

[@ScarletKnightmare]

​@@Green.Country.Agroforestry Love your channel, buddy. Glad to see you over here

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Yeah, throw some of that thyme in a bowl of just-boiled water; make a tent out of a towel and breathe in those great thymol molecules. It'll help clear up the rest of that congestion. Of course, you're probably already doing that. But I needed to say it anyway. The garden looks great. Thanks for the tour, and I'm glad youre back on your feet.

[@oreopaksun2512]

Wow. Give DTG some real soil, and voila! What a transformation, can't wait for the 9 month tour....it will be a Food Jungle, made up of all sorts of permaculture guilds, AKA the Survivors of DTG Companion Plantings. Sign me up for a subscription to the Two Rachels' Radishes and Other Ferments.

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Your comfrey looks magnificent! Where I am living now, you can't find either starts or seeds, so I think I am going to have to put out a request to some of my UK family members, who will be coming to visit me later in the year. They like to bring 'thank you' gifts, for letting them stay with me.

[@lagoya]

My favorite way to eat radishes is sliced thin and pan fried until tender, or roasted. Preferably in bacon fat

[@loves2spin2]

Oh it's all looking so nice! By the way, have you grown garlic chives before? My experience with them is that they are an invasive monster!!!

[@betty8173]

Funny you say that, we arecstill walking new property in West Virginia, lots of chives, randomly planted here and there, also, happily, daffodils! All the wild fruit canes died back but the chives look great! Even in snow!

[@FloridaGirl-]

When I grew them I always made sure when they start to bloom . Give em” a good cutting, so the seeds don’t spread!

[@loves2spin2]

@@FloridaGirl- yes that is excellent advice! The regular chives, at least here, don't seem to spread by seed drop, but the garlic chives spread enthusiastically!

[@davidthegood]

They weren't all that vigorous in Florida.

[@brockberrick2727]

These are my favorite videos. I watched this one 5x times already haha. 1 cut showing off growth

[@RainbowWarriorChris]

I have to doing a lot of research and watching a lot of videos a guy in California said chill hours doesn't really matter for apples they get acclimated to wherever they are eventually

[@mesutozsen903]

Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel vlog için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍

[@williamlong4997]

Thanks David. Appreciate the garden info and good choice of scripture at the end.

[@heather1452]

Could you please do a video specifically about pruning fruit trees for Grocery Row type gardening. Amazingly educational and helpful - even all the way in Canada

[@koicaine1230]

Everything looks incredible! My "garden" has a mountain of boxes I was supposed to lay down last Fall...

[@shadyman6346]

I’ve saved a ridiculous amount of eggshells and coffee grounds. Always behind, even though I write the schedule...

[@charlesdevier8203]

Nice garden. Here in mid-Missouri, temperature is dropping to 20 degrees tomorrow night. Only the rhubarb is up.

[@tradermunky1998]

Looking good, and smart thinking having Rachel plant that apple tree, I hate it when things I plant die... Thanks!

[@DustyGoatHomestead]

David.. Rachel and I had a great time! And the sauerkraut is delicious.. I really enjoyed hanging out and can't wait to see yall this week!! Great video! (Rachel)

[@davidthegood]

That's awesome. Love you guys.

[@DustyGoatHomestead]

@@davidthegood Awww we appreciate you and your family, so glad to have become friends with yall!

[@brettchampagne4440]

You can crank out all the basketball size cabbages you want here on the gulf coast if you plant Brunswick in the fall to grow through spring.

[@anarchyfarming]

It looks so easy how u do it. And when I come back to my garden I am overwhelmed of work again haha! But truly I have to put your principles into my mind - working as natural does and it’ll be all good! Thanks for all those amazing videos. Greetings from Germany ✌️

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

Good job, I hope that you are blessed with abundance.

[@isabelladavis1363]

Lots of child labor lol love it granted much much better than being prompted by the games on the videos and total all encompassing’ tune out! ‘ I was my grandmothers child labor and loved every moment…the older I get the more I love the garden and the joy and nutrition it brings..your garden looks amazing always love this tome of year and the promise it brings…planting radishes soon here waiting on the frost to pass us by…as well as a bit more growth,trying the Adirondack blue myself they just started to push through the soil…as well as three sweet potatoes types and and three white potatoes…I PLANTED WHITE GARLIC FROM THE GROCERY STORE and it looked like it was doing an amazing job growing and purple onion I purchased online all,of a sudden all of the white garlic is gone but the purple is still looking great…any idea what may have happened ? I’m totally perplexed…melons five different kinds I’m praying do well in 8b ,time will tell …thanking you for all of the encouragement and for sharing your garden…oh and I’m growing raspberries thanks to you and your video of growing them in Florida …POLKA has been wonderful and a serious treat since I haven’t had them since I was a child in Bavaria …stay blessed and growing ❤️

[@borracho-joe7255]

Good job. AND you are a great dad to those kids…so much patience!

[@nancyjg1424]

Your garden looks great! Collards awesome! They are a good source of calcium for the chickens. I love them myself. Thank you for you Neverending vault of knowledge 😊

[@tropicalfoodforest_]

Your knowledge content and your books are absolutely incredible. I have learned so much. I hope to create my own plant based business this year. I have so many ideas now and it is difficult to choose and where to begin.

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. You might start an edible plant nursery. I did well with that, back in the day.

[@williamvillar2519]

Hoping the Amelia live up to the hype. Think I only got five seeds in the packet I bought from the local feed & seed. Was really bummed that the Fall garden was a total loss this year but that was my fault for planting too late. Excited for your southern apple orchard. I grew a ton of apple and pear trees from seed and when I finally planted them all out, deer came though overnight and ate every single one of them to the ground. Haven't had the hear to start again but maybe I'll get around to it this year. Waiting for the "monsoon" season before I start trying to root cuttings.

[@lynnjasmine3216]

One of my peaches(from seed) is blooming! We had a hen today that narrowly escaped the stew pot. If she gets in that garden one more time........

[@dodadodo25]

Love seeing David patrolling with his machete. You know he means business when he's out with it

[@patriciaserdahl5577]

I absolutely love the garden tour David everything looks wonderful so Happy for you n your family God bless 🙏 🇺🇸 😊

[@deannewilliams3321]

Great to see a new episode of DTG! Your garden looks awesome! Thanks yall!

[@gryphonrampant24]

I have seven baby apple seedlings and a mulberry cutting under grow lights right now because of you.

[@davidthegood]

Awesome.

[@freedomisknowledge777]

Congratulations. Glad your feeling better. You were in our prayers. Much love brother. Blessed tp be a part of your journey.

[@vasg1269]

If there were two thumbs up option, i would click it. Love this guy!

[@heyasmin0818]

I love your garden tours!

[@Ricosyard]

Exactly right companion planting it’s cool that what makes it fun also

[@debbiemarshall3748]

Dont send me radishes but do tell your recipe for your pickles. Thanks for sharing glimpses of your life. 🙋‍♀️💝

[@newpathcenter]

There is a bunch of us gardeners here in Clearwater that you have inspired! We all have huge back yard GRG and food forests because of you. Thats about 10 massive gardens ! Thanks !

[@southofthesticks]

It's looking good, David the good ! 💚👍

[@robertb4744]

There are a lot of great blueberry varieties for the south. If you like blueberries. If I had that property I’d have SO MANY! I am currently growing 20 varieties of berries. Who doesn’t love berries.

[@davidthegood]

I have about 200 wild ones in the woods. They are great.

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

in the summer we buy no veggies, we are working on winter veg. I have not bought some things for years, like tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes, egg plant, eggs, potatoes, and every year i get a little better at it.

[@Aaronlewinterukulele]

Can’t wait to hear more about the flower garden. Dahlias!!!!

[@Coastal.Redwood.Homestead]

Awesome video and I never have tried picked radishes. Can your wife share her recipe ☺️

[@danielriddellsfoodforestgarden]

You've got a solid echo out there, music man! 😎

[@FloridaGirl-]

David . I’m seriously AMAZED all you got done in just 6 months. Looks great. I forgot. Are you still in Alabama or in Tennessee? 🤔 How much property do you have there? I hope you are feeling better quick! Looking great! 👍

[@davidthegood]

I am just north of the Florida border, in Lower Alabama. We own roughly 15 acres.

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

I out of dirt also! Check out weatherman plus on weather! I hope you don't get the freeze we're getting. This freeze is to much! My potatoes have frozen tops, even worth row cover...NE Alabama! I just don't know when to grow anymore. I'll take some of those pickled radishes! Sounds 👍.

[@moniquegebeline4350]

Can Rachel post her pickled radish recipe please? I’m going to bring you some tomatoes I have extra

[@tommyluck19]

God bless You all

[@wandakelly2173]

I have stevia seedlings going. Not sure what to do with it but I’ll figure it out! Glad I can watch how yours grow.

[@RainbowWarriorChris]

Oh and I grow the Caroline raspberry in south Mississippi same zone as you 8b and they do wonderfully

[@hummingbirdhillhomestead]

Love it! I can't wait to see the garden this summer. You mentioned that the Dwarf Everbearing Mulberries aren't the best. We are in central Georgia, in zone 8A. Do you have any advice on a good mulberry cultivar? Thanks so much!

[@echandler673]

Great video! If you have a freeze drying machine, you could marinate all those extra radishes dry them off and freeze dry them. It will become super yummy chips, just like if you freeze dry dill pickle chips.

[@fishinghole333]

I absolutely love the garden tours! Gives me hope and ideas.

[@Mrbfgray]

His overstated lax hasty fashion not only entertaining but usefully suggestive of what we can all do with limited time and nothing ideal to work with. 😀

[@Bluegill_Hill]

Nice! For a moment I thought a dirt track race car was waking up for spring too but guess is a bike.

[@tommyluck19]

Hey,David! Will You cover your melons ,pumpkins ,peppers and tomatoes in the next few nights ,when the cold comes? I have to do it here in Molino FL. when the forecast or even my phone shows 37-38 we have frost. Take care! Appreciate you!

[@nhatleentertainment]

beautiful garden

[@Highlander.7]

Much love and blessings to you and your family brother

[@Golden_SnowFlake]

Love the companion planting!

[@laurachatfield4142]

Thanks for the 6-month tour, but go back to bed and get well!

[@terencechandler845]

A great way to grow potatoes is just pile up straw over them. They groe really well and when it comes to harvest time they are perfectly clean no dirt on them.

[@davidthegood]

Yes, that can be done, but I haven't found any pesticide-free straw here.

[@terencechandler845]

@davidthegood I was thinking of that as I was writing my message to you. I remember that post of yours. Have you thought about making a hand baler for harvesting your grass? I made one out of two timber pallets and a few bits a bobs. Simple and effective. By the time you've slashed the grass gathered it up and baled it theirs hardly any seed left in it. The guy is on utube. It's a Russian hand baling press. Have a look its really simple to make one 🙂

[@melissasekely5107]

I hope the honey crisp grows!!! It’s one of my favorite!

[@emilyneal7888]

I love that you don’t get so concerned about tidy little rows. Plug and play. It makes it interesting.

[@euncieives5738]

Your Rachael mulberry looks like a giant white and the other looks like an everbearing variety (smaller fruit)

[@markjardis5393]

35 here in garden city Michigan. Got 18 trays of starts in the basement. Waiting for spring to break

[@debbierhode6291]

Lol you had me at Lots of Child Labor😂

[@sampedro9316]

Big inspiration. Cabbage moths always get my cabbage

[@TheRealHonestInquiry]

Have you tried making the decoys?

[@natasha3922]

Your cabbages look great! Well done!

[@FourSeasonFarming]

Well prepared garden 🪴

[@screamingstarprime3503]

Pickled radishes! 😍

[@amydeik4231]

Absolutely amazing

[@kdavis4910]

I'm taking a llloooong walk this year, so people will garden for me 😀

[@connorsikkenga6591]

You're awesome dude! I got into gardening because of your videos and others and got started a month or so ago. I have a few things planted, beans, peas, sweet potatoes and a bunch of gourd/squash plants sprouting everywhere. I'm in Arizona, so it should be interesting! Also, what's up with the pickled turnips? 😁

[@davidthegood]

Good luck - thank you.

[@vimondireksri8820]

We're all learning together.what growing and homestead channels do you follow. Would love to see a live stream or video about your learning experience. No pressure but love a good story.

[@walrusiam6233]

You mentioned growing potatoes from true seed. I'm planning on trying that this year as well; I've been inspired by you to try more landrace gardening and propagating more from seed. I know you've referenced Joe Lofthouse many times, have you also read Carol Deppe's work on plant breeding? I'm working through that one now. It's quite a bit more dense and organized than Joseph's book, but not specialized exclusively on landrace breeding like Joseph's book.

[@davidthegood]

I have read Deppe's book as well - it's great.

[@walrusiam6233]

@@davidthegood I particularly enjoyed her Resilient Gardener. Looking forward to being able to try these landrace techniques. Also looking forward to your 9 moth update - and your 20 year update someday.

[@breaking_bear]

I also have an overwhelming plethora of radishes this harvest. Also, I got my radishes mixed up with our turnips. How can we tell the difference between radishes and turnips? I would love to see your wife's recipe for pickled radishes so we can put ours away as well.

[@davidthegood]

As they grow, you'll notice the radishes have hairier leaves, and the roots will become obvious faster than the turnips.

[@maroosk]

Woo! That's a lotta work!

[@unsaltedtomato899]

Awesome

[@christophercain8749]

Given the times and availability of or lack thereof. Can say things like sweet potato be left in ground, heavily mulched and survive to come up the following year? North central Oklahoma 7a. I don't have a root cellar or adequate storage space everything so looking for alternatives. Love your channels!

[@ScarletKnightmare]

The radish pods are indeed "zippy" 😂 perfect way to describe them

[@gabrielglouw3589]

Been watching a lot of your videos. You’re kind of a weird dude, but you seem to know your stuff. I subscribed. 😉

[@davidthegood]

Welcome

[@Shane_O.5158]

i recon you can do a 7 and 8 month tour too, so we can see the groath.

[@terrieholloway9066]

Cool 😎 thanks

[@Tunkabear]

Where do you buy your seed potatoes and bare root fruit trees? Great job setting up the new homestead! You’ve done a lot in 6 months!🌱🌿☘️

[@davidthegood]

Thank you. We got ours from the local feed and seed in town.

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@davidthegood 😒 not much help

[@Peachy08]

Everything is looking great!

[@TheFruitfulFIG]

I've never had pickled radishes. Sounds yummy. I collected radish seeds for the first time last season. Idk you could eat the seed pods when they are young till just a few days ago. Gonna try them this year.

[@deannewilliams3321]

🍀 Friday is St Patrick’s Day! Let the shenanigans begin!! 🍀

[@DJ55419]

I truly wish I could hire you to get me started in my garden. Zone 8A. I'm 69 just don't know were to start anymore or where to begin again. 😪😪😪 It would be more than worth it to me! I'm getting a very late start because of an illness on the family!

[@betty8173]

Please just get some supplies, and start small, a few pots of basil. It helps you be happy, and keep going. Even with some aches of age, it keeps me moving.

[@DJ55419]

@@betty8173 thank you! I will definitely give it a strong try. I got a soil test but don't have a clue what it means lol. I'll need to go to my extension office to get them to help me out with it. 💚

[@bgatlin5918]

@@betty8173 Yes! Starting with herbs in containers, then hopefully on to bigger & better. Like David does, just start!

[@rainbowstu314]

Always great content. Thank you.

[@newmoore4894]

Yeah white mulberries has those leaf patterns

[@mindalick8867]

hard freeze tonite in Pensacola

[@JustJamiesAdventures]

I’ve been waiting for this video!!! ❤

[@DDWASH9595]

Been tracking all the mulberry trees in my neighborHOOD lol There’s quite a few in a 10 mile radius more than I would’ve expected - I only found one white the rest are nickel sized black that taste somewhat bland or grassy. Are mulberries generally lackluster? Thanks for the Tour David ❤

[@blueskies6475]

No, they aren't. They are sweet!

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

A hodge podge garden that works for you and if we look close at nature it's the same. No gardener has ever been able to mimic what God has already done, but we do our best with what we have, not to mimic God's creation but to work with the wonderful things He blessed us with. I crowd my garden because it's very small and I want to use every inch of space to grow something. Give your bulbing onions lots of nitrogen until they start bulbing and cut off the fertilizer. In the south you can grow huge onions if you push them hard enough.

[@andreygfc]

Hello from the Shoals, Northern Alabama. Do you have a video on how you made your garden fence? If not, it would be great to hear how you made it!

[@davidthegood]

I don't have a video on it, really.

[@umiluv]

🤣 “lots of child labor” I wish I could get my 5 year old to be interested in gardening. He does love the cherry tomatoes though.

[@DanlowMusic]

I'm looking at those cabbages wondering how you got such nice looking ones. The cabbage I tried last year was a Flat Dutch and it never formed a head but got really tall. It was weird.

[@FloridaGirl-]

Yes I’m planting a different variety next year. My dutch flats were decent. But loose. I like tighter cabbage.

[@DanlowMusic]

@@paul.1337 it was warm but not too bad. It's western WA so mid 80's was close to the high last year. They already were growing tall before we really started our summer. Usually we get our sun starting in June but this last year it waited until after the 4th of July. It did last longer than usual going into October with warmer weather.

[@blakeelkins9547]

David i wonder why iv never seen a canna edulis in your gardens? They seem to be a hardy potato making survival crop with good yeilds thats right up your alley

[@TheRealHonestInquiry]

Check out the previous grocery rows

[@justinharpold2892]

Get the short day verity onion is best for southern

[@haou132]

Blessings +++!!!