The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Composting, Cows

Making Our Own FAST Compost Pile

After watching Geoff Lawton’s recent video on making fast compost, I was inspired to get my own pile together. It’s…
Composting

Building a Fast Compost Pile

Geoff Lawton on making quick compost: It’s impressively brown after a couple of weeks. Looks like it could use a…
Fruit trees, Peaches

Peaches in Lower Alabama – Worth Doing?

Let me preface this post with this point: I am not a professional peach grower, and I have only lived…
Announcements, Plant nursery

Launching a New Plant Nursery

We spent almost all day yesterday working on a space for a new plant nursery. We had a mimosa tree…
Uncategorized

Comfrey is So-So

I did it:
Announcements

Comfrey

Over the last weeks I released two videos, one titled Comfrey is Terrible, and the other follow-up video, Comfrey is…
Announcements, Videos

Getting Ahead on Youtube: Content vs. Quality?

For the last few months I haven’t been able to keep a consistent video release schedule. We’ve been shooting for…
Garden design, No-till

Captain Ron Does Some No-Till Gardening Science

On my recent video of Noah Sanders demonstrating till vs. no-till soil, Captain Ron comments: When I first heard about…
Pumpkins and squash

Planting Pumpkin Hills the “Good” Way

In 2021, we had great success with our pumpkin patch. I planted multiple hills in the terrible soil at The…
Encouragement

Grow What You Can in Your Garden – Don’t Worry about the “Experts!”

The point of vegetable gardening is usually to grow food. One person may have his little “therapy garden” and another…
Announcements

To-do list

Buy a new string trimmer Clean up the main pasture’s fence line Kill off cogongrass patches Finish cutting down popcorn…
Encouragement

One Year Ago…

…we were planting a “regenerative cover crop” on the land we were renting. Little did we know we’d be ejected…