Despite the heat and lack of rain, the Grocery Row Garden is a jungle of food!
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It’s time to take a grocery row garden tour. Growing cassava, yams, mulberries, and lots and lots of other plants in a wonderful food forest orchard style.
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Despite the heat and lack of rain, the Grocery Row Garden is a jungle of food!
Come meet us at SCRUBFEST II and learn how to start Grocery Row Gardening – and more! See details here: https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/scrubfest-2023/
Get the little Grocery Row Gardening book: https://amzn.to/3OMQuic
Thank you for watching! -David
This year has been good for learning what will persist through just awful hot dry conditions and still provide food. The stars of my mid-missouri garden this year: lamb's quarter (both for greens and using the immature seed heads like huazontle) tomatillos (queen of malinalco) and maypops (passiflora incarnata, my beloved). Kaho watermelons also impressed for both flavor and hardiness, though i'm sure they're nothing compared to ezekiel's landrace.
The resilience of grocery row polyculture is really eye-opening, and has been a life saver this brutal summer. It hasn't just been the heat, or just the UV index, or just this storm that is barreling up on us; it is the crazy combination of all sun sun sun, then unforecasted storm with wind that is worse than named storms have been, freak hail storms…..who can get aclimated to this? The best area of my garden requiring least amount of work, water, or additional amendments has been the densely planted "island" centered by a banana and papaya, ground covered with sweet potato and taro, and a rotation of annuals wherever there is room. I am actually snuggling in many of my containers into the bed to ride out Idalia.
Thanks for the tour. I love that it was "as is" and that it looks so lush and still working for you, even during this summer to beat previous summers!
David I can't believe it's been almost a year already !! you are the quintessential food forest whisperer/ crooner !!
Love the tour, thanks. Alabama summer!!! Ugh!! I get to this time every year and want to scream. But fall will be here soon…….
I’d love to know how you actually get peaches from your trees. I’ve been trying for the 7 years we’ve been here. The trees that were here originally have all died. The ones I’ve planted are 5 and 6 years old now, but if they do get a few peaches they are too buggy to eat.
My grocery rows did pretty bad since this was their first year. But I’ll keep going because I love the wide mixed up rows. Thanks again.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! DAVID YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!
❤love it!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience David! You have taught me almost everything I know about gardening here in FL
Dave, that's a lovely Green Lynx Spider, and it's eating one of it's favorite meals (a flying insect that comes after nectar in flowers, ambush is her game!). Here's a lovely look at what most, including me, call a crab spider, and it probably is somewhere in your garden. It's more of a web capture kinda gal, like that large lady you filmed later, the Yellow and Black Garden Spider, they both do large webs with the "zigzag" patterns in the middle – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMtgWH4_AI . However, our "crab" is really called a Spiny Backed Orb Weaver, which I guess it is, but it looks like a "crab" to me, so probably what you were thinking about. Actual "Crab Spiders" don't look as much like a crab to me, but they are ambush predators like your Green Lynx. And they have wonderful camouflage, looking very much like the plants/flowers they most like to hunt in. I have many times snapped images of various flowers, only later to find one laying in wait in the blooms I pictured.
Could you do a video covering each month as to what a food forest gardener need planting? I know to plant the trees when they are dormant but what about something like sugar cane or black berries? Do you plant in fall and over winter or plant on spring. Just do your zone and I can adjust accordingly. Although I think we are close in climate. East texas zone 8b here.
wheres the link to scrubs!!!???
❤I love Everymans! that's where I got my favorite sweetpotatoes and started my slips.
thank you! have you ever grown boysenberries?
Are you in line for a visit from Idalia?
Glad i watched till the end, lol
I’ve often chucked to myself wondering how the newbie grocery row gardener is managing to keep the pear tree pruned in her small space:)
My Taro are looking terrible too. We have prioritized planting Giant Bamboo(s) along the West side of our property, the plants just can't take the Sun anymore.
Thanks for the video David, hard to believe how quickly stuff has grown! BTW how do you process or use the sugar cane you're growing?
Ducks Reminded me of seein a chicken eat a scotchie pepper in Jamaica I thought oh look he’s seasoning himself! Ha! I just ate cassava leaf do u eat the leaves?? Nice vid 🙏
Thanks for the encouragement.
2:48 Wow extreme climate change is really making it difficult to grown food. Definitely need some shade trees from sun exposure and heat.
Bahaha! Every video has at least one little Easter egg that makes me keel over laughing . Philadelphia experiment 16:36
that Tobasco plant is gorgeous!!!… ferment them bad boys using the LABS and saltwater for a month then blend with vinegar to taste but I know you know this already!… beautiful garden my friend!!