The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Sugarcane

Planting a Green Sugarcane Variety in a Wagon Wheel

Let’s take a look at one fun way you can plant and grow sugarcane in a small space. Small-scale Sugarcane…
Encouragement

On the Joy of Working Hard

Sometimes I’ll be digging or broad-forking or scything or hauling logs on video and will get a comment like, “Dude……
Grocery Row Garden

A Grocery Row Garden in the Snow (And Other Stories)

A reader sends in this picture: She told me she just managed to get her last few trees planted in…
Experiments, Pasture

Oversowing Pasture without Tilling

Since we didn’t want to till up our ground and hurt the existing grass, I decided to experiment with over-sowing…
Black Walnut

Growing Black Walnuts from Seed

Today we plant to stratify some black walnuts from the single tree in our yard. Black walnut is a useful…
Cows, Pasture

Moving Cows and Planting Pasture for Winter

Yesterday we spent the entire day creating a corridor between two pasture areas, sending our cows from the well-eaten 4…
Announcements, Videos

Garden and Food Forest Tour at 3 Months!
Encouragement

Making Cane Syrup in Lower Alabama with Ben White

Happy (post) Thanksgiving! Here’s the latest cane boil video I posted yesterday: Though my YT viewers watch these syruping videos…
Announcements, Food Forest

Planting a New Food Forest

Yet again – but hopefully this time for keeps – I am planting a food forest. We were able to…
Crops, Sugarcane

Sweet Times: Making Cane Syrup in the Deep South

Over the last couple of weeks I have been documenting various sugar-cane boils. Thus far we have made syrup with…
Grocery Row Garden

Space Coast Grocery Row Gardens (in the Suburbs!)

I recently received this email sharing some new Grocery Row Gardens in Florida: “Good day, good sir! I figured you…
Soil, Terra preta

Making Terra Preta: Did Our Experiment Work?

Last year we attempted to make terra preta in a test garden bed: Here are the results we’ve seen, as…