We started this Grocery Row Garden back at the beginning of 2021. Now it’s an amazing jungle of food, filled with roots, greens, fruits, medicinal plants and wildlife habitat. Let’s do a summer garden tour and see what’s happening.
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In less than two years, we transformed a patch of terrible sand into a lush jungle of food, recreating the tropical system we first developed in Grenada. Grocery Row Gardening borrows and builds on ideas from Stefan Sobkowiak, Andrew Millison, Geoff Lawton, Ernst Goetsch, Dave Wilson Nurseries, Ann Ralph, Steve Solomon, Bill Mollison and more. It’s a food forest / forest garden system under control, in neat rows, alley cropping fruit trees and vegetables, short crops and long-term perennials together. Consider it an orchard with veggie beds beneath the tree rows – plus lots of other plants for the pollinators and for medicine. This is a good way to expand on backyard orchard culture and raised bed gardening – and it’s full of life and new surprises every year! We do not spray any poisons in this system, instead relying on nature to be our natural garden pest control. The beds were fed with alfalfa pellets, chop and drop, Dave’s Fetid Swamp Water, Steve Solomon’s Complete Organic Fertilizer mix, biochar, lime, and chicken run compost – and they look great! Even with very little care (and complete neglect for almost two months), it’s still thriving and growing. We have a survival food supply right here – storing food right in the ground! All these roots, including taro, yams, cassava, sweet potatoes and more – are a storable calorie source we can dig as we need.
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We started this Grocery Row Garden back at the beginning of 2021. Now it's an amazing jungle of food, filled with roots, greens, fruits, medicinal plants and wildlife habitat. Let's do a summer garden tour and see what's happening.
Get GROCERY ROW GARDENING for just $9.99 and learn to plant your own: https://amzn.to/3QGIoHO
Check out Daisy's Good Gardens store for seeds and live plants: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
Check out Derek Clawson's plant nursery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SixFlowersCrafts
Check out Josh Jamison's nursery Cody Cove Farm: https://codycovefarm.com/
Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thesurvivalgardener.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d1c57e318ab24156698c41249&id=1f74a21dc8
Compost Your Enemies t-shirts: https://www.aardvarktees.com/products/compost-your-enemies
David's gardening blog: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com
Thanks for watching!
Have anyone experimenting with this system in Central Oklahoma (7a)?
DtG I have exciting news! The husband has agreed to allow me to take over the South side yard and plant 80 feet of whatever I want! The plan right now is to espalier citrus and other fruit trees on the South-facing brick of the house and build a trellis over a narrow bed all along the opposite North-facing neighbor's fence. The entire space is only six feet wide at most, but that just means the space hogs will have to be grown in the backyard. Before it's all over, I intend to press the front yard into food production, too. DH pretends to protest, but then gives himself away when he asks what it would look like if he let me go ahead and sheet mulch it.
You've been the single biggest influence in my plans for both spaces and I'll be watching with great interest, and reading your book, as you build your new gardens. It's gong to be glorious. ~ Lisa
I want to keep watching but i feel like the Potato you filmed it with is messing with my eyes.
yay! a recipe finally!
I bought 6.5 acres of wooded land in Northeast Arkansas (zone 7b-ish) and would love to do this, whenver I can actually get consistent work done there, (as soon as I started making progress, had to move in with my parents to care for them)
Where is this? Australia?
I keep looking at Cody Cove Farm, because I am interested in the Tree Kale, chomolia. But, they have not restocked/put them up for sale. Do you know anywhere else that sells tree kale (Chomolia) cuttings?
You can also add moringa leaves and the green pods to coconut milk curries. Delicious! Look up Filipino coconut shrimp with moringa/malungay leaves.
Thanks!
Thank you for being you David vs. Goliath
Hi. I remember how my parent grew casava back in my country when I was a kid. I think they mount the soil around the base for bigger and longer roots. I am not quite sure because I didn't really know much around other then watching them sometimes. Maybe you can try that. Where do you get casava cultivar? I would like to try to grow here in East Texas zone 8b -I'm just 40 minutes west of Shreveport. Maybe we have similar weather.
great vid. and am now following josh. so helpful. gonna make some trellis!
the focus of the camera is so distracting it is making me dizzy – was that an on-purpose to be artful or the camera just did it? I had to stop watching …. but thanks for sharing this info for others.
this plantation is amazing. would love to know how many years it took to aquire all these different edibles. so cool dude
Aren't those yam berry vines also called cinnamon vine? If it is, when they bloom, they really do smell like cinnamon.
Where is your new place? What growing zone? Are you renting again or buying this time?
love the channel
34:44 ~ ''…at the new property, which we actually own.''
If there are property taxes, you don't own it… you rent it from the government.
Love the bokeh focus technic…. spicy apricot jelly?
must be a helios lens
I started a kind of grocery row garden in my backyard this year. It's my favorite spot now (don't tell my main garden that!). I'm in Michigan growing corn, tomatoes, sunflowers, watermelon, beets, kale, basil, and lettuce all together in one row! It's all so happy! Thank you! I will plant this way forever!
wow…….just wow
Darn I already missed the cannas!
I'm about to establish a grocery row garden in my yard in Raleigh, NC! I'm really excited about it! I'm trying out 5 ft rows with 5 ft paths giving the middle foot to the perennials and letting the annuals take the two feet on either side and plenty of room in the paths for grazing chickens and sprawling vines. I'm excited to see how it goes!
sweet!! I definitely want to buy the canna from your daughters store!!! I bought a canna and it's apparently a dwarf, only getting knee high
I am curious about the galangal you showed. What is the Latin name, I have found several different plants with the common name galangal and I really desire the fragrant one in your garden? Thanks, David!
It looks like our garden in Indonesia 😀
It's in Florida right
Tropical and Sub-Tropic Areas have great access to sun and Rain. So they grow really fast, but yes only certain plants will be able to.
I hope I can start permaculture and gardening next year as a full time Life :D. I'm preparing now.
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Thanks for the content. Love it because the way you do it by showing things as it is, proving it.
that camera is so annoying, why cant everything be in focus?