The Survival Gardener
by David The Good
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Carving Out a Florida Food Forest From the Palmettos: Possible?
I recently received a quite interesting question in my inbox relating to pine scrub food and Florida food forest planning:…
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Making Homemade Seed Starting Mix
We have been trying to figure out how to make homemade seed starting mix since buying potting soil here is…
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This compost will destroy your garden!
I’ve written many times on Aminopyralid contamination in compost, on herbicides in manure and on the danger of bringing amendments…
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Breeding Bacteria on Purpose
One of the best things about being a garden writer with some notoriety is that when I write something it…
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Soil Creation and Thoughts On Complexity
Soil is the key to a healthy garden – but have you ever thought about soil creation and how it…
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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…
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What do we do with sand?
When you’ve got lots of sand… what do you do? ADD ORGANIC MATTER! A couple weeks back, rycamor’s dad was…
David The Good
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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