David The Good, Author at The Survival Gardener

Crops, Frost protection, Sugarcane

Preparing a sugar cane bed for winter

Sugar cane doesn’t like the cold. How you prepare it for winter will make the difference between having cane next…
Fall gardening

Is it too late to plant a garden?

It’s November 21 and you had a really busy summer……
Composting, Fertilizing, Soil

Meet the amazing giant sunflower that fixes bad soil

Did you ever dream of growing something beautiful that also repaired lousy dirt? Probably not, but if you knew there…
Fruit trees, Papaya

Green papaya recipes

It’s time for some green papaya recipes! We got our first ripe papaya of the year this morning; a delicious…
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@The Prepper Project: chop n’ drop, SNAP cutbacks, free fertilizer, what’s killing the bees, cover cropping and more!

Here are a few of my latest posts over at The Prepper Project: Before Winter, Check Off These Four Garden…
Agrarianism, Tools

American made clothespins (that whip their Chinese counterparts)

When I was a kid, Mom would hang out the laundry on sunny days. Our backyard had a tangerine tree,…
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Giant Florida spiders…

…as seen online: Heh.
Crops, Sugarcane

How to make cane syrup at home… without a sugar cane press!

It’s sugarcane season again and time to make cane syrup at home. This post was originally written and posted in…
Crops, Sugarcane

Sugar cane harvesting

It’s sugar cane harvesting season. Year one and the cane harvest is already quite good! I estimate we’ll get about…
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Solitary bee///Bringing dinner to baby///Inside a windchime

Note to self: it’s time to build some solitary bee habitat.