You can’t grow that here! Zone 8 is too cold for that!
Oh yes you can. And we give thanks for the great harvests! Check out all the beautiful tropical crops we grew in our gardens this year.
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Today, David The Good and family harvest true yams, including Dioscorea alata, Dioscorea pentaphylla and Dioscorea bulbifera. We also harvest cassava, Jamaican sorrel, luffa/loofah, sweet potatoes, persimmons and a lot more. Plus, we plant a big bed of sugarcane. Come and join us to see all the amazing tropical root crops and great produce you can grow in Florida and Lower Alabama!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Daisy has posted some more true yam varieties in her seed store, if anyone is interested: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
Have a wonderful time of thanks, my friends. -DTG
Hoping to see that cassava variety in the etsy store after next winter. Great content
Sweet find on the cane mill!!!!!❤
Do you need to protect persimmon from winter frosts when it's young?
Persimmon pie is yummy. Made just like pumpkin pie but decrease the sugar a bit.
The Cassawa will do better if you plant on small mounts
I had to bring in my Fuyu persimmons two weeks ago because the birds were pecking them and the flies and wasps were eating the rest. Whoa! That cassava was impressive. Never had luck getting sorrel to germinate, I need more seeds to try again.
Lovely Tanzanian dish for cooking cassava leaves is kisamvu na karanga! Pounded cassava leaves cooked in a peanut sauce
I dug up my Husk Cherries and put them in pots inside under lights before the freezes over the next few night so I can have some sweet fruits this winter. It was warmer than I thought it would be and several partially eaten ones I tossed in an area where I want them to sprout next year sprouted and grew in mid October. I saw a big brown Praying Mantis trying to catch bees on basil blooms and brought her inside to stay warm. There`s above average temps expected by the 1st week of December and she can go back out then to find a place to hibernate. I took cuttings of my tomatoes and stuck them in some pots to put back out in spring. They seem to produce much faster than seedlings. After they grow outside in early spring I propagate a patch with more cuttings. It works well. I have tomato plants from 2022 still producing.
That part about the toughness of sugar cane makes me wonder about the difficulty of getting sugar from beets. In VT I'd focus on maple sap as a sugar source if doing long-term subsistence. Thankfully, lots of that going on around here, much of it in wood-fired boilers, so there'd be maple syrup in the local market post-collapse. I could trade them something for it.
What is that beautiful fruit at 21:12?
Just wondering if it is necessary to cut the cane in to pieces vs. laying just one long piece when planting?!?!? Just my mind on "I wonder if" once again!! God bless y'all and keep growing. First time with white yams this year and one vine produced a huge lump of a yam where most had roots like sweet potatoes.
Good work ya'll!
That was so satisfying to see it being weighed and then the steps of fame with all your bounty. Happy Thanksgiving!
Don’t know how you can figure out where to dig in that mass of sweet potato vines! I’d have to put landscaping flags up or something! Thanks for the video!
I bought cutting of the cassava, I can't wait to plant some next year! Any suggestions on how to plant it?
I LOVE CAÑA DE AZÚCAR!! I remember in Puerto Rico, the truck used to transport the caña and we will follow them and hop on the sides to get what fell or hanging from the trucks. Now you don see any trucks on the roads😢…times has changed…
When the yams are left for two or more years to get even bigger.. do they get too fibrous to eat, or are they always tender and edible at any size?
❤❤❤ Great harvest
The sweet potatoes leaves are great for salad, taste like sweet potatoes.
I watched a documentary years ago about a tribe in the Amazon that practiced one woman with 2-3 husbands. Part of the documentary focused on how they provided (food) for each family. They would stay in an area where they planted cassava in a previous year, harvest the cassava and then replant with the intention of returning to harvest again in 2 years. The cassava looked like the cassava you got in the 13:41 mark. They just kept moving to previously planted areas.
Well that was a very satisfying video, thanks David!
Food porn, thank you David!,,
Hi David, at 11:48 i was screaming use a broad fork.
G'day David. I'm growing cassava for the first time in Australia and I'm interested to know how you process it? I've seen a few videos on how they do it in Africa and I would like to know if you use the same methods there.
Did you have to protect that Jamaican sorrel?
I remember the stupid fire ants that lived in our yard in Georgia. I do believe your ants in the SE USA are worse than the ants here in the southern Philippines.
Hey Dave. … … What happened to your pigs Dave? … ….. …….. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR PIGS??!!! ……. 😉
"Nothing but vines forever…" That should be a song. 😉
Wowzers!
In Inspired. I love that your children are in the back and hearing their sound and laughter.
I need a list of your yams. Please? I couldn't spell them if I tried😂.
I'm very familiar with yams, but many of the ones you listed are new to me. Thanks for sharing
Oh, where did you purchase your starter cassava? You have a lot of island/ intentional foods. I love it. Your family has international palates. Good stuff!
Man I was so unprepared for the cold this year. Scrambling to get stuff protected the best I can. My makeshift greenhouse isn't usable at the moment. Wind tore the plastic all up. Not seemingly enough left to cover it again I'm pretty sure. Worked on it today. Best I can do at tge moment is sheets and tarps. Please send some prayers!
I sort of like your video, but some of them veggies like purple flowers in the pot you do not mention the names clearly and I don't recognize. I am sure I am not the only one😊
What are those purple/redush flower like you cut from the vine on the tree?😊
Wait what are the red, spiky things?
In Iowa and just finished digging the last of my carrots and finished seed harvesting. Great video as always!
Someone in the background has a beautiful voice!❤
David, you could also plant some sorghum. The juice from the stalks boiled down makes good sorghum syrup.
Gosh! Just got my hands on some sugar cane…considered planting but figured zone 8 was too cold. I am going to give it a whirl!
Thanks so much for the video – it’s so helpful to see the harvesting so I know what to look for/do when the time comes Hope to plant cassava in the next few months (Qld Australia 🙂
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Hi David beautiful harvest ❤❤
What did you have growing on that tree? And what did you bury next to the tree? Thanks
That’s a large yam
Wow!!! That’s fantastic !! Great harvest!! Deo Gratias!!! 🙏
Cool share!
Hi DTG, how do you preserve all those cassava roots after harvest? I’ve heard they spoil quickly if not eaten within a few days.
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How do cook that