The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

Permaculture

Crops, Encouragement, Florida gardening, Food Forest, Fruit trees, Garden design, ginger, Insectary plants, Malanga, Mushrooms, Nitrogen-fixers, Orchards, Permaculture, Pest control, Plant propagation

A Subtropical Fruit Tree Guild

A few weeks ago I designed a fruit tree guild for the subtropics for a client in Central Florida. Today…
Garden design, Permaculture

When Life Gives You Scrubland, Plant an Amazing Permaculture Garden! (Pt. II)

(For part one, click here.) That’s what a permaculture garden should look like. Of course, I say that as somebody…
Fruit trees, Permaculture

When Life Gives You Scrubland, Plant an Amazing Permaculture Garden! (Pt. I)

I had the good fortune to finally visit my friend Sam’s place somewhere out in the Florida scrublands. Out in…
Food Forest, Nitrogen-fixers, Permaculture

A look at some nitrogen-fixing trees for food forests in Florida

I confess: one of the areas I overlooked at the onset of my food forest were the nitrogen-fixing support plants,…
Acerola cherry, Crops, Fruit trees, Mulberry, Nitrogen-fixers, Permaculture, Pest control, Poisonous plants, South Florida, The Great South Florida Food Forest Project, Yams

The Great South Florida Food Forest Project Update, May 2015: Failures and Problems

Yesterday I took a look at some of the successes we’ve had in The Great South Florida Food Forest Project……
Acerola cherry, Chocolate pudding fruit, Food Forest, Fruit trees, Permaculture, South Florida, Starfruit, Tamarind, The Great South Florida Food Forest Project, Tropical almond

The Great South Florida Food Forest Project Update, May 2015: Successes!

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven’t been able to visit The Great South Florida Food Forest Project for…
Berries, Crops, Fruit trees, Insectary plants, Japanese persimmon, Permaculture, Pest control

A magnificent result: check out my perennial garden bed!

I’m really loving the way this perennial garden bed is looking: This is not only a food bed, it’s also…
Food Forest, Garden design, Insectary plants, Nitrogen-fixers, Permaculture, Seeds, Uncategorized

Want a FAST food forest? Try a crazy cover crop seed mix!

Behold my epic cover crop seed mix! That’s right boys and girls – I mixed roughly 1.5 trillion different types…
Fruit trees, Mulberry, Peaches, Permaculture, Videos

Festooning Fruit Trees

I recently watched a film called The Permaculture Orchard. In it, Stephan Sobkowiak demonstrates his method of bending down the…
Bananas, Permaculture

Crash Gardening S2, Episode 3: The Banana Circle

Interested in growing lots of bananas? In the latest episode of Crash Gardening, I take a look at my friend…