The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

sweet potatoes

Crops, Sweet potatoes

A sweet potato experiment

That looks like a regular sweet potato bed, right? Wrong! Instead of loosening the ground and directly planting sweet potatoes,…
Bananas, Crops, Food Forest, Grafting, Sweet potatoes, Yams

My 10 Great Gardening Ideas for the Coming New Year

I’ve got a bunch of plans for the homestead right now. There are way too many great gardening ideas in…
Crops, Food Forest, Sweet potatoes

More Food Forest Sweet Potatoes: Gainesville Edition

I posted last week on our wonderful success growing no-work sweet potatoes in our front yard food forest. Two days…
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Crash Gardening S2, Episode 2B: A Tour of My Food Forest (Continued)

Last week I posted part one of my food forest tour… here’s part two. Check out the wide variety of…
Crops, Food Forest, Frugality, Plant propagation, Sweet potatoes

Growing Sweet Potatoes in a Food Forest

For the last few years I’ve been growing sweet potatoes in various places. In Florida sweet potatoes are one of…
Crops, Irrigation, Survival Plants

7 Survival Crops You Can Grow Without Irrigation

Did you realize that many vegetables will grow without irrigation? Like us, most plants thrive when they get plenty of…
Crops, Sweet potatoes

How to plant sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are one of the easiest to grow vegetables, provided you have the right climate. Florida is perfect for…
Crops, Seeds

A (Almost) Secret Source For Rare Vegetables

Today I’m going to share my secret source for rare vegetables. Do you ever feel like you’ve “seen it all”…
Encouragement

Giving Thanks

Here’s my latest Natural Awakenings article. Issu no longer lets me embed, so I’m simply posting an image capture. Click…
Jokes, Sweet potatoes

Sweet potato firstfruits!

Recently, I read this book, mostly because I liked the cover (thrift store treasure hunting pays off): It also had…