The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Grocery Row Garden

Q and A on Sweet Potatoes and Ground Cover Succession

Laura asks about our cucumber/watermelon/sweet potato ground cover succession in the Grocery Row Gardens: “I had not thought about using…
Grocery Row Garden

Cucumbers as part of a Three-Fold Ground Cover Layer for Grocery Row Gardens

In 2023 we planted our landrace-in-progress pickling cucumber seeds along with some fresh store-bought seeds, mixing them all together so…
Composting, Fertilizing

Feeding a 2-Acre Desert Homestead – For Free!

What I like to call “Dave’s Fetid Swamp Water” is being used to good effect by Desert Gardens Homestead in…
Announcements

Plantapalooza Plant Sale – THIS SATURDAY – 12 to 5PM!

This Saturday we’ll be at Plantapalooza in Pensacola at Gary’s Brewery and Biergarten with lots of food forest plants for sale,…
Pineapple

A Method for Propagating Multiple Pineapple Plants from a Single Top

You’ve planted a pineapple top before – but did you know you could turn one top into at least four…
Pineapple

Growing Pineapples in Lower Alabama

We successfully grew our first Lower Alabama pineapple, as of yesterday: Now that’s satisfying! How we Grew Our Pineapple It’s…
Sweet potatoes

This is how we start sweet potatoes in abundance

In case you haven’t seen this method of starting sweet potato slips: You can also start with slips, then take…
Daikon radishes

Daikon Landrace Update: April 22, 2024

We had a very nice time at the Spring Gardening Masterclass on Saturday – thanks to all of you that…
Composting

Grandpa Knew What He Was Doing

I received a comment today on my popular Terra Preta video: Did you catch that? Ashes and charcoal, chicken manure…
Announcements

Last Chance for the Spring Gardening Superclass

I posted a video invitation yesterday – my Spring Gardening Superclass is this Saturday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrbDGrvps4 It’s an intense, three-talk event,…
Mulberry

It’s Mulberry Season!

And I’ve finally got mulberries to harvest again, thanks to the multiple trees in the Grocery Row Gardens, along with…
Food Forest

Bringing Order from the Chaos: Food Forest Hack

Last year our drought kept us from doing much work on the food forest. It hit hard, starting at the…