Here are our Grocery Row Garden plans for 2026. Plus a look at the Shell apple hedge, the Southern apple orchard, and a good bit of fruit tree pruning.
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Today we do some late winter pruning of plums and apples, plus we have some blooming Shell apples for the first time. We’ll also look at the soil, and talk about how we Grocery Row Garden in a year when we don’t have time to plant vegetables.
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David, I wish I had your email to show you pictures of my Shell apples I bought from you at the Farmyard Fair last year. They are both in full bloom. Hopefully a few stick
Thanks for the pruning tips! I gotta dig into my pile of your books to learn how to fertilize naturally, kinda broke right now😢
You can do these kinds of walks as much as you want. It's almost like I'm walking through my own 2 acres with the way you think/talk.
Do you find it both interesting and strange how the land just kinda wants to revert to a mess? I don't even begin to understand how a formal garden is maintained to stay SO perfect all the time. It must require a daily team. Also, you have SO MANY trees! I need more trees. I have 3 bareroots coming. 2 lindens (one of my favorite scents & one got chewed down by something this winter) and a tree lilac to replace the one that was drowned out last year. (I got taught I wasn't planting things high enough last year).
I love the marriage advice too, “we just go our separate ways.” 😂
It’s going to be awesome to see what “full time job” DTG does with a garden this year. God bless, brother.
First year trying a grocery row garden. Putting in strawberries, asparagus, muscadines, figs, maybe a paw paw, blueberries, blackberries. And then we will see what room we have left for some annuals 😊 still just trying to get the ground prepped
Bro I just wanted to let you know you are a big part of the reason I still have my sanity. My son passed away 3 years ago and I was very depressed. I got lost in social media just so I could escape reality. Somehow I came across one of your videos and began watching every video you made. It helped me to keep my mind off the negative but also inspired me to get back into gardening and planting more fruit trees and have fun with it. Seeing it all come to life in the spring renewed some joy inside of me. Just wanted to say thanks bro.
Awesome content! Since atmore does not deliver, do have any nurseries that you find reputable that I could order plum, pears apples, chestnuts (American hopefully lol). I don't want to sound snobby but I dont want to go to Walmart or home depot or tractor supply for my fruit trees, the ones I have in the past don't seem the healthiest, course I could just be a horrible fruit tree keeper lol.
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I'm glad to see you have healthy apple trees. I bought 8 apple trees from Century Farms thanks to your recommendation. I have them under cattle panel arbor supported by tposts. I hope to keep them below 8', at least for the first few years. Some of them are more northern (ie Goldrush) so I plan to shade them in the summer. But thanks to the freeze they have little mesh fruit bags covering the tiny clump of leaves on top. It looks ridiculous.
I'm imagining a device like a miner's headlamp but with a camera strapped to it so you can use both hands while filming.
Solid update! Looking forward to seeing how the apple tree hedge works out. We like trees too. 🙂
A good thing about food forests is you can let them grow wild for a time and prune them back every few years and they will continue to produce. I’ll still be here when you post videos. May the Lord bless and keep you and yours brother. Keep the Son in your eyes. 👀
Great to hear your shop is doing so well! Your trees are looking beautiful with those first wee flowers. We've had a very dry and hot summer and the citrus and mulberry trees have suffered burnt leaves. Hoping for some rain this week! The chilli's have loved it though and I've got more than I will ever use now! Praise God for his bountiful blessings we can share! Blessing to you and the fam!
Blessings success to your store and family
Thank you, once again, David. Our gardens and orchards also get neglected quite a bit, but we just keep learning and doing what we can, when we can. Your materials have been instrumental in keeping us going and in the successes we have experienced.
Underrated how dishes can really make or break a union😅
Trees, vegies etc are so therapeutic.
You talk to them, they don’t talk back or nag you or anything. It’s just you and nature.
Sure, they might get infections or die on you, but we won’t baby sit them if they are prone to these, something i learned from you, were in the past i would babysit everything.
Good morning My out neighbor to the north in north bama 8a my methley and Santa Rosa plums are trying to bloom my peaches are budded up nice as well as blueberries so let’s hear it for spring ❤😊
Your videos got me out of my analysis paralysis and started gardening. So happy for y'all having a shop now!
Do you let the radishes and carrots flower ? I'm over run with 6 foot tall flower shoots right now. I'm giving my seeds away 😅
Fire blight is my nemesis! So, I'm down to one peach tree. I finally took out the pear trees and plum trees….oozing goop at the main "y" on all. I'm about to give up on fruit trees in NE Alabama.
My wife and I spent some time at the shop a few days ago, and I couldn’t be more impressed!! The only problem I had was that I wasn’t in my pick up truck!!
David and his staff( I assume his family) were all so helpful. We could have spent the day there. I live in Gulf Shores, Al and will make the trip there now for all our garden needs . What a wealth of information and hospitality!! God bless you David and your beautiful family. Roger and Betty
So much history lost, makes rediscovery most important to understand once again.
Life kinda hit me hard during the prep seasons so I am not sure if I will have much of a garden this growing season. My plots are still full of the late summer weeds that always become an issue due to the unbearable heat that keeps me from weeding the last half of summer. I do have some new seeds I want to try out, so they may be taking some of the space of a few of the staples I always try to grow if I cannot get enough cleared out in time. I just ordered a proper wood chipper (been using a cheap electric one and pushing it WAY past what it is designed for) so maybe that will help speed things along and make weed suppression a bit easier this year, but I will have to play it by ear and see what happens.
Keep the wind chill off the young fig trees with a tarp before the front and they'll almost always survive with little damage unless it gets in the single digits for days. I panicked as soon as I heard the prediction of a "warm" winter in the South and ordered a bunch of large lightweight tarps. They tricked me last year with the "warm" January lie and we saw a blizzard and record cold. I ruined most of my blankets and big lawn bags wrapping fig trees.