Amen!

Yes especially these days……I remember my Dad playing catch with me and I ended up being a great ball player.

it's a pleasure to see the wholesome

Thank you very much. If you ever could use something I have but don't have the money, just write me. I will give it to you.

@@davidthegood choking up here David. What a great heart, and mind👑❣ Update AND FUNNY!

@@davidthegood thank you for inspiring others. I've watched you in many places. Even your island home. I enjoy each issuee.

New Brunswick?

Buckaroo - I'm in Charlotte Co. also.

is the ash fresh from the fire, or does it set awhile? water washes out the nutrients, so i'm wondering...

This has been the process used in Asian crops and rice fields.

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Great work, Sharon. You'll like the new book I have coming out in a few weeks, too - it's just on South Florida. You can do so much there!

Which video did you learn about soaked biochar? This is my first time seeing one of his awesome videos.

@@jofipps376 I learned of it first at an in person lecture. The first video I viewed about it was from a month ago, "Backyard Biochar....."

@ Sharon Pineo: Happy Relocation & Happy Gardening. You are doing well in your experimentation. Somehow David is making us all a little bolder,creative,crazy in our gardening, even my little God 🙏 Blessed Garden in BK. Blessings to ALL!

Where in south/central Florida are you? I am in DeSoto County and the Arcadia Garden Club has been Re-vitalized coming out of the pandemic. Look for us and our activities on Facebook, maybe come down to visit.

Yeah... I didn't really notice anything different. (That's not a bad thing.)

Mum would put a liver under the passion fruit vine :)))

Yeah, or my mother just sprinkling it on the surface. Lol. "Ma, stop it. I got it."

Wonder how deep they buried the blocks....interesting....

@@norxgirl1 Not sure exactly, deep enough to plant on top of, shallow enough to still be heated by the sun. And some of them were the side stones on the wall of the terraces, so exposed to the air and sun. Im thinkin abouy burying naturally black stones under my crops to try have same effect, without the stones being large.

@@dustinbrandel59 across Europe they set small fires in vine fields to stop the grapes being frozen by frost and one person stays up and tends them. I'm sure it's been done for other crops too.

Wow! Good to know.. going to get some big rocks from the river bank and try that. Even just placing them around the plants may help.

Wow that’s genius !

Do you have any seeds to share?

Freeloaders feed the world (for free)!🤭

Yt introduced us.

Some of us watch videos AND buy books! You can too!

@@sharrylou i have bought his books and even his fiction books.

@@joshuavazquez5534 Great! Then you are not a freeloader!

I'm not too chicken

Hahahaha

Thank you very much.

Gnosticism is fake and gay.

@ Speak Life Garden: Thanks for the old clothes, cardboard idea..... How creative & ingenious..... circumstances & necessity will birth them both ( creativity and ingenuity).... Condolences to you and your family........YOU WILL BE WELL THIS YEAR AND BEYOND. BLESSINGS & GREATER EXPECTATIONS MADE MANIFEST!

So sorry for you. My daughter died at 26. I carry on for a son and and daughter. Son is 60, 2x prostrate cancer. I trust God's plan. mine never worked. We are all gonna die, anyway. SO I believe in Jesus just in case God's not done with us. Like the seeds,, they die but become like JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT IN ME.

@@jeannemurray276 sorry for your loss. Yes, we all will die in this world, but there is hope for those who love Jesus for he will raised the dead at his return. This is the blessed hope i am waiting for.

I would love to have any seeds that you're giving away. I would be happy to send you postage and an envelope!

Comfort to you. Blessings.

Pumpkins and Shrooms, sweet lol

Where did you buy the nosey neighbours

@@FeelingShred you're absolutely right, choosing plants with strong roots is always a good idea, especially the first year in a new spot. I've had good luck with beans and sunflowers and okra for breaking into this clay. Beans have the extra advantage of being nitrogen fixers. If you can wait a year, it can be very helpful to grow grasses and clover in a new spot and just let them work for a season. Many such cover crops can be grown over winter if your climate is mild enough. The grasses put out lots of fine but deep roots and the clover (or other legumes) fixes nitrogen into the soil. Whenever possible/practical, let plant roots do the work for you. Plus I almost always leave roots in the ground when I harvest a plant or even cut down a tree, so those roots will compost in place and return organic matter into the soil.

@@imaniniles-perez8529 I was kidding about burying the nosy neighbors. Honest. But we do have a sign on our gate that reads "Trespassers Will Be Composted" LOL

Dry climates could plant into 1x1 depressions, kind of like "waffle gardens" in the desert.

@@FeelingShred well there are about a thousand different kinds of grasses. You sure wouldn't plant quackgrass... I was speaking about ones used specifically as cover crops, like wheat, oats etc. Rye grass is often used and yes it can be a bit difficult to get rid of. But at worst turning over the thin layer of sod, covering that with cardboard, dumping a little compost on it and moving forward with whatever works pretty well. The cardboard will break down and eventually become soil. Black tarps etc will certainly knock back anything that's already there, but they don't really do anything to actually build more soil. I prefer to always keep living roots of one kind or another in the soil whenever possible. There are a LOT of ways to skin this cat... one of the most accessible and budget- friendly ways to start a new bed is "lasagna gardening," there are loads of videos about that.

I recall a very productive orange tree that grew over a septic drain field.

@@FeelingShred I grew up in America's Dairyland, surrounded by farmers, and my experience was much the same as yours. It's sad. Even now many/most of them really resist any idea other than burn fuel tilling, buy tons of synthetic fertilizer and lime and patented seed, repeat forever. And they can't figure out why they're always broke :/ They're also doing a lot of damage to the soil, creating run-off problems and erosion issues, etc. It's because of a century of relentless brainwashing as you said (marketing, advertising, whatever you want to call it). The Big Ag corps that sell all that stuff have the farmers by the balls, and they own the gov't too.

@@FeelingShred Yeah. It's really hard to get through to people like that.

@@dogslobbergardens6606 Sounds like you and Jim Kovaleski would get along just fine, good guy in Florida. Green Dreams channel has a new vid featuring him.

@@NoNORADon911 I think I've heard that name or saw a video with him somewhere. Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out! EDIT yep I remember that guy! Thanks for the reminder. I've been thinking about using soil blocks, just haven't got around to it yet. I like the air-pruning aspect very much. I've started some things in homemade little grow bags and ventilated pots, and they do a lot better in transplanting. No root-bound plants and they just take right off with no shock.

You are a bit behind me! We are almost done planting.

Thank you, too.

You too, Therese.

Chicken manure is extremely strong & will burn your garden veggies if you don't dilute it's concentration.

That's awesome and very efficient. We sometimes boil up a pot of chicken leg quarters to feed our dogs, pull all the bones out, make broth with the water and save the bones. I haven't made bonechar with them yet but I'm pretty close to having a full bucket of the bones to work with.

@Karalevsky Borzoi I'm thinking because the processing date was some time prior so they were put into the freezer. Good idea though 😊

Hope u know chicken feet and maybe beaks are boiled for collegen. Makes great soup for colds, leaky gut, etc.

@@annestrada1724 Thank you, Ann! I'd heard of that, but the chicken feet dragged around in the dirt for a day or two before I could process them, so into the deep garden rows and pits they went. Because of your encouragement I'll try to boil the feet on chicken processing day. Any additional source of collagen is welcome!

I'm waiting on Grocery Row Gardens. I have Grow or DIE book also. I'm still alive, phew...

Love stories like that. It's so important for youngsters to have those positive experiences; it sticks with you your whole life. My Dad used to send me out fishing for bullheads a couple times a summer. Partly to get me out of his hair I'm sure, but then he would chop them all up and bury them between our garden rows. I think he learned that from reading about Native Americans' techniques. I'm fifty-ish now and we still save all the guts and heads whenever we go fishing, even if we take the fillets first, for the same purpose.

Your dad was amazing - thank you.

I’m late fifty ish lol. I think it’s important to share what we know. Thanks! And yes, thank you…my Dad was very amazing and loved gardening, he had the compost and chickens, lots of books, etc. Another thing he did was plant around and over the chicken coop/pig pen. It looked like your grocery row garden. Whatever grew inside the animals got, whatever grew outside we got lol. Such fertile, rich soil! And the critters loved it 😊 Vines like grapes & mirlitons, cucumber, peas and beans. I bet fruit trees would have done really well there.

@@deannewilliams3321 we're going to try a technique called "forage circles" in our chicken run. You just make little rings of wire fencing or whatever and plant greens etc inside them; they're mostly protected from the chickens till they grow some, then you pull off the fencing and move it a little and plant more the same way. So the birds have a steady supply of fresh greens and then they're fertilizing each spot in turn. Another channel plants fruit bushes and small trees right in the chicken run like you said. He surrounds the bottoms of them with log chunks or whatever's handy so the chickens don't dig into the roots.

Great ideas! You could also start plants in planters and give them one at a time.

Chickens really like it too. I have "caught" my darling wife buying extra bread just for chicken treats :p

Dude - that is awesome.

Guess I'm gonna sound really ignorant here, but this is the first post I've seen on this channel, What is landrace???

@@patriciatinkey2677 you mix together a diverse set of seeds, let them crossbreed, and then select seed from the healthiest most prolific plants each year. After many seasons you develop something that thrives in your area.

@@ManMtn7 Thank you for the explanation! Sounds cool, & much more sensible than attempting to grow stuff (year after year) that just doesn't like your area. 🍀 to you!

Thanks, K

Good work!

Thank you.

I pray good people come into your life. Thank you, Jackie.

Thank you.

Way to go, homeschool mom!

That's Beautiful! Unfortunately that would be illegal in the USA. :"(

Grass is always greener over the septic tank

That sounds amazing.

Nothing better than bare feet soil. Winter comes to soon.

@@jeannemurray276: Until you get the ground itch.

You need to plant some vigorous plants that will cover the ground completely before those invasive grasses get a chance to re-establish.

I give up on no till when Johnson and Bermuda get involved.

@@timothypollard4332 is tilling gonna make them go away?

@@tesha199 no but it gives me time to get a crop in and ahead of the grass. And a tool to knock it back between rows. Plenty of compost seems to help knock it back too.

Rats are the usual reason not to put meat or cooked vegetables in a compost heap.

@@valeriepritchard677 ya, it can attract coyotes, raccoons and all sorts of other predators too. Never thought of burying it! Such a great solution.

Thank you, George. I agree. The "third world" still grows a lot of food in backyard farms and gardens.

Right, protein is high in nitrogen among other good things. I agree with your outlook; everything on this earth is intertwined one way or another.

Good luck!

It's not up yet. Waiting on my wife to film the stock-making portion.

Yes, you can graft onto a grafted branch.

Thank you.

Interesting idea! See what happens.

They will cross but it will not be obvious until we plant next year's seeds.

@@davidthegood yes... we knew that basic concept, but nonetheless we ended up creating a new set of crosses by accident. Got a lot of rather strange and highly-varied squash last year out of one package of saved seeds LOL. One of your videos helped me understand which squash/pumpkin varieties will cross with one another, so thank you for that!

See my other pumpkin vids on breeding and crossing. Same species cross, diff usually do not. Seminole pumpkins and C. moschata types do well there. So do watermelons.

@@davidthegood appreciate your help!

Judging strictly by every single hole I've ever dug in our very clayey soil, those trenches will fill with water quickly, and stay full a long time even if it doesn't rain for a few days. (which is not much fun when you're putting in a bunch of fence posts.) The not-so-great part is that the water in them will always be the color of, well, clay... and sometimes it'll seem almost thick enough to stand a spoon up in. I suspect that might be a problem for fish. ;) I do think that catfish are probably the most likely type to be able to deal with it, since they're used to muddy rivers. But even in really muddy rivers, the water is constantly moving/refreshed. That might not be the case in your trenches. Fishies generally need quite a bit of oxygen in thier water. Also, stagnant water has an alarming tendency to fill up with mosquitoes in warm weather. I do not mean to discourage you, just thinking out loud. I'll be watching for answers that are more helpful than mine :) It's a fascinating idea for sure.

BTW I'm also pretty sure you could line the trenches with heavy plastic pond-liner to keep the water cleaner. That may or may not be prohibitively expensive, depending on what that stuff costs in your area and how much of it you need. We looked into building a fish pond on our property and ran into a LOT of problems. Not just our clay soil and the expense of lining it, but also the fact that our soil is only about 18" deep and then you hit solid bedrock. That's just not enough depth/volume of water to support most food fish. In our case we decided to just skip the pond, and instead we're starting a fairly big raingarden with plants that can handle the constantly wet soil, and berms around that sort of like the raised beds you described, for planting things that like better drainage.

I like the idea.

@@dogslobbergardens6606 actually, the fish specie I am going to rear is known as walking catfish, and they like muddy water, and if they will get a slight flow of water , they tend to swim away against that, and they generally inhabitant the bed of stagnant water bodies, so I am going to plant my trenches in such a way that they will not be able to escape , and as the water level will fall , they can be easily harvested, if I will try to catch them in high water level, then they can easily give a painful sting I have already made a liner pond in my upper garden and stocked it will Native snails and Gambusia fish to keep the mosquitoes in check , they will also serve as a food source for my Catfish Unlike the Carps or barbs or many other fishes, the Caliras Batrachus and under studied Caliras Magur can breath atmospheric air, and can survive in ammonia rich waters , where other fishes may suffocate, and the African Caliras , the Sharp tooth Catfish can even survive in sewar systems, but I don't want that, because it's an invasive specie and under a legal ban by Government of India since 2000 But as a precaution, I have planted Lotus on the treach bed and Ipmoea Aquatica ,the water spinach on the sides to keep the nitrates under check, if I have to remove some nitrates, then I can easy cut and remove Lotus or Water spinach leaves, and use them as green manure for my garden, as dinitrifyling Bacteria will convert Ammonia into nitrites and than into nitrates, that should not cause any problems And I am going to also use that liner pond as the hatchery for the catfish eggs I can understand your worries my bro, but I have measured the water before going down into it ;) Btw, thanks for your suggestion:-D

@@basantprasadsgarden8365 that's fascinating, thank you for sharing!