David The Good, Author at The Survival Gardener

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A Compost Everything Testimonial

One of the readers of Compost Everything: The Good Guide To Composting sent me a nice note yesterday letting me…
Crops, Sweet potatoes, Videos

New Video: Planting and Growing Sweet Potatoes The Easy Way

I’m a big fan of sweet potatoes. I grow them in beds, in the food forest, on a train, in…
Garden design

The rapid rise and precipitous fall of a worm bin tower garden

My friend Curtiss may in fact be a more enthusiastic gardener than myself. One day he showed up at the…
Berries, Crops, Foraging

Florida wild blueberries, blackberries, plums and more!

Wild blueberries! It’s time for wild berries! In my neck of the woods there are blackberries, blueberries and Chickasaw plums…
Bananas, Books, Crops, Fruit trees, Greywater, Malanga

My Greywater Oasis: Two Years Later

Check out that lush spectacle. Back in January of 2013, I launched an experiment in which I ran the drain…
Berries, Foraging, Poisonous plants, Videos

Deadly water hemlock identification vs. elderberries

In my new video, I compare water hemlock with elderberry: Though water hemlock looks similar to elderberry, it’s pretty easy…
Pest control, Videos

Dealing with aphids, killing aphids, organic aphid control and an aphid spray recipe!

Photo credit I often get asked questions about aphids. Questions like: “How do you kill aphids?” “Will aphids kill my…
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@The Brilliant Homestead: Four Ways to Dig a Well

Since I was a little kid I’ve always wanted to dig deep enough to hit water. Where I live I…
Crops, Sweet potatoes

A sweet potato experiment

That looks like a regular sweet potato bed, right? Wrong! Instead of loosening the ground and directly planting sweet potatoes,…
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Welcome, visitors!

For those of you visiting for the first time via my article over at Lew Rockwell’s, thank you for stopping…