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We started building our gardens a scant three months ago, and it’s finally coming together. In the annual gardens, lack of rain, freezes and animal damage took their toll, but I think we’re gonna be fine in spring! And the new food forest is really going to come together. This time as I plant a food forest, I am actually staying on the same property.
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Thank you all for joining me – lots happening, and the spring is going to be amazing!
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Have a great Monday – I'm off to move the cows to a new pasture.
The man has sugar on his mind
That isn't that asbestos tile construction debris in the ground?
I'd have to say that's probably an old Terra cotta roof that got busted up to fill in a hole.
Satsumas are the best cold hardy oranges I know of. I’m due East of Savannah Georgia and there’s some orchards near us. They can withstand 22 degrees I think.
WISH I had known the canopy trick before I planted my Persian lime awhile back…! The dragonfruit tucked in between the crepe myrtle is also a clever idea. Note to self… and wondering David, if that might work for a vanilla orchid as well ? Houston zone 9a/b.
I bought some sugar cane cause of all those videos!
Congrats on the tiller!
Glad to see how far the garden has come in a short time! On another note..your music is a whole as$ mood. Keep it up!✌️
Whoo! Y’all have really been busy! Hey, I like the roofline on the old barn back there! If I can find some cane, I’ll be looking for an old squeezer, too.
Looks amazing!😃
If you have a sandhill (or are willing to build up a sand/rubble pile for xeric stuff) , try Peniocereus greggii (need 2+ genetically different ones for good pollination) from our Southwest. Supposedly hardy to at least 20F and often 15F when more mature (& growing into mesquite or other thornscrub, which is where it hides from herbivores). Not sure about its pH preferences (you can do multiple hills to trial, just keep the alkaline [e.g. concrete rubble] ones far, far away from your blueberries etc). Supposedly the fruit tastes a bit like maple candy, which is far superior to my experience with Hylocereus dragonfruits, insipid garbage (Selenicereus megalanthus is good however). Always wanted to try naturalizing Peniocereus into N. FL turkey oak scrubland. Unfortunately now up north. Anyway you can look at TX and SW foraging channels for ideas about edible desert plants that you could use for companions and/or support for the Peniocereus (which is a scrambler). Mesquite may be an aflatoxin risk in the rainy Southeast, since I have seen cautions not to harvest after the monsoons begin in there native area. Ocotillo could be very beautiful (if your children know how to be wise about thorns), and the flowers are edible. I have eaten Graptopetalum paraguayense before, but while a cute rock garden groundcover, it just tastes like hard water, so I am not advocating it as an vegetable. Talinum paniculatum would be good near the base of the hill(s), where it isn't so dry. Tastes like purslane, but prettier.
Are you moving to another location?
Lmao! I was wondering you were addicted to syrup. Lol.
You forgot the fountain ⛲ buddy love what your doing still your biggest fan! Take care my friend!!!
Nice quiet day!
But I like the old hobbled-together shed though, its got character! 🙁 😉 🙂 🙁 😉 🙂
Thanks! I hope the loquat survives!
I bought a thin skin lemon at a shop and took the seeds and stuck them in a pot, just like you said. They are growing.
Missed the Premiere David, but here enjoying and marveling your November Garden and New Food Forest Tour and now that I've watched this COOL garden tour, there's a cane boil video that I still haven't watched.
Buckminsteri fulleri XD
You have a wonderful piece of land, David. I'm sure that you're grateful. It's very nice.
Blessings from NW Florida! So glad to see the beautiful soil in the new homestead! May our Lord richly reward your efforts!
Behind every self respecting redneck is a good woman and a yard full of outbuildings…as long as we don't veer into lots of broken down cars on blocks, it's all good 😉
Thanks for the information about using a single post for grapes. I have never seen that before. I collected some wild muscadine grapes on a fishing trip to the swamp and want to start the seeds. What do you think of using crape myrtle as a living post? They are incredibly tough as well.
Did your ducks join you for Thanksgiving? 🍴
"Finally got it in the ground." So much long-awaited satisfaction in that phrase – we're happy to see you finally puttin' all the roots down!
Every video needs to be a cane boil or I'm outa here.
Congrats on the tiller! Yes you need it very much w the size of your garden and family? Your older kids will love it too!
Got 120 pounds of sweet potatoes for 29 cents a pound, gonna save some to plant, and make some shine with the rest.
The tillers I have are always the clapped out old ones from church community gardens after someone donates a new one. And then it usually winds up with someone asking "alright the new tiller is great, does anyone want to get rid of the old one?" And I'll be volunteering before they even finish the sentence.
Dave quick question your quite knowledgeable on gardening, could you do a video or the importance of corn gluten meal in the garden any pluses or minus to there benefits let us know!
What a great tiller at a great bargain! Sorry they cancelled the cane boil, but SO glad I got an inspiring tour instead. Do you know how blessed you are to be able to have a winter garden?
Wait, Ison's from Brooks, GA? They're pretty close to me. What are your thoughts on them?
Thanks for sharing.
Totally amazing progress in such a short time! You scored on the tiller and you will LOVE it! I bought one in 1983 or so, and my husband has replaced the motor and of course, the tines and kept it alive all this time.
Why did it bother me so much when you didn't say "may your thumbs always be green" 😅 nothin but love for ya! Thanks for the tour!
9:26 "hazelnut makes nuts but it's also useful for caucusing" – what's caucusing?
What zone are you in? Your in Alabama right? Im in south coastal Georgia, zone 8b. My Mandarins did great without a canopy last winter but it was the first winter since i planted them. We got fruit off of it this fall after just one year in the ground.
Cool. Can't wait to see how things progress and learn more.
Thanks for the update!
Everything looks so awesome! 🎉 Congrats on the tiller. It will greatly save you one of the most valuable resources in the world…time
Sorry so belated… buy the dang thing dave, geez! Not getting any younger, to say the least(sorry) time goes on. Your great at being your own man surrounded by many. May the day bless your humanity and be as close as you're willing. Never be closer to anything than, YOU are close to that ANYTHING!! Awwwww, thankyou soooo mush for your gift as an an an an uhhhh, solar system surfer an teater, yeeeeah mf'r
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