Henno comments on YouTube:
“This system isn’t only working like a charm, it’s by far the most enjoyable piece of garden I have. Working in the grocery row always seems easy, and it also gives off a good vibe. The diversity feeds our souls in a very GOOD way. My grocery is going for its second year but it looks like it’s been there for a while already. Incredibly lush and vigorous. (…)
The only thing that can improve a grocery row is adding another row.”
We have certainly enjoyed the way it’s worked out, and others are catching on as well and planting their own Grocery Row Gardens.
Our first two Grocery Row Garden beds in North Florida:
Our next ones, in Grenada, just being planted:
And a few months later:
Then, we moved to the states, and built the system again at The Sand Pit of Death:
Despite the “soil,” we still had success.
And now, at our current (and hopefully final) homestead, we have planted our largest Grocery Row Gardens yet:
In a few more months it should be as lush as the ones we had in Grenada and at the previous homestead down the road.
If you’d like to see how this system can be created, from start to finish, check out our complete video demonstration:
And/or, get the popular little booklet that lays it all out.
We’re having lots of fun – I think you will as well.
Finally, here’s Henno’s Grocery Row Garden:
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DTG, I wasn’t sure why you had linked Henno’s video (except for the Grocery Row in the title….) but like a good subscriber, I check out your posts faithfully….lol. Can you say ‘baaaaaa’?
BUT that guy, in spite of his “I don’t care…I don’t know…I don’t mind” is a devoted gardener! And, he knows EXACTLY why and how long, and to what end goal he is gardening for, and what of the wilderness is allowable in his areas. Thank you for the introduction! I would never, ever have found him on my own!
I’m lost for words ❤️❤️❤️
As I am often in my videos.
Thank you Monica, this really means a lot.
And ofcourse thanks David for seeing my worth
Henno
What are those large variegated leaf plants in the foreground of your ‘sand pit’ garden? Edible or for chop and drop?
They are a variety of canna. I thought they might be useful for chop-and-drop, but they weren’t vigorous enough. Instead, they were mostly ornamental. Though the flowers are edible.
Your time living in the sarlac pit was memorable. Proof that biochar helps. If you don’t mind digging a giant hole by hand with a digger in the background. Also making a few very large trees into charcoal every year. Plus that place needed Solomon’s gold in a giant drip IV.