The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

Composting

Composting, Container Gardening

Balcony Gardening in Containers: Compost Everything Edition

Ryan writes about his balcony garden and how it benefitted from the composting methods in Compost Everything: Read 94.2% of…
Bananas, Composting

A Banana Circle Around a Composting Toilet?

Emily asks about banana circles and composting toilet systems: Dear David, I’ve been following you on YouTube and reading your…
Chickens, Composting, Garden design, Goats

Here’s a Chicken Gardening/Composting Idea

Right now we have chickens in a couple of movable tractors. A cattle panel one, and a PVC one. I…
Chickens, Composting

Harnessing the Power of Animals in the Garden and Closing the Nutrient Loop

Closing the nutrient loop is a long-term goal of mine. At our old place in the Caribbean, I built cabins…
Composting, Green Manure, Videos

Composting Secrets from a Humus Junkie

This week I released a long-form video called “Composting Secrets from a Humus Junkie.” In this post, I’ve edited the…
Composting

Humus Is What We Need

When the soil is poor, the most important thing to add is humus. It helps sand hold onto nutrients, it…
Composting

African Melon Pits?

I haven’t heard of “peace gardens” before, but it sounds like the melon pit method I describe in Compost Everything.…
Composting, Green Manure, Videos

Improving Poor Soil with the Deer Plot Method

My wife Rachel is quite pregnant at the moment, so I did a video vlog-style yesterday and took the camera…
Composting, Worms

Pesticides in Worm Composting? Should We Worry?

An entrepreneurial reader writes about the worry of pesticides in worm composting: “I am thinking of starting a system of…
Composting

Is Composting Paper Bad?

D writes: “I just watched one of your composting videos, which Marjory Wildcraft had put up. You stated anything could be…