Today I share three easy ways you can use your lawn to feed your garden. If you have to cut the grass, recycle those clippings into high-quality food for the soil, which in turn will grow you some great food! You can learn more about producing lots of compost from a wide range of materials in Compost Everything: amzn.to/3DH1Z5M As a side note, this video was filmed on a vintage Russian Helios 44-2 lens, adapted to the Canon R6. Canon R6: amzn.to/3Or7BpM Helios 44-2 lens: amzn.to/43N7vOR Thank you for watching.

I thought my step dad was a little touched in the head. He had the best tomatoes and a happy garden. He talked to the veggies. Now I'm talking to my veggie plants.

@paularaegram9965

Жыл бұрын

I literally thank the green bean plants for every single bean I harvest. they seem to enjoy gratitude...

A few weeks ago on the side of the road, someone had stacked twenty large, empty Tidy Cat litter buckets, complete with handles and lids, with a sign that said "free". Of course we swerved quickly and got 'em all! Then, I checked the number on the bottom of the buckets on the internet, and turns out they're food grade. So now, we're gonna mix up Dave's swamp water liquid fertilizer in a few of them. I'm telling you, this free fertilizer thing is AWESOME!

@HillCountryGardenGirl

Жыл бұрын

I do the exact same thing with kitty litter buckets. They are great!

@davidcoley8500

Жыл бұрын

I use them to collect scraps for the compost.

@timothy4weigel

Жыл бұрын

I think your missing it, as in my neiborhood they sell grass for 20 bucks for a little bag.

@AnakiteOG

Жыл бұрын

Dave's method is good . However, the Jadam method is superior. And Dave's swampwater is only missing one step. Go out and find leaf mold under an old healthy tree the woods. The microbe quality will be very diverse and plentiful. The microbes from the leaf mold will help break down the material in the buckets.

@nwsunshinepatriot3161

Жыл бұрын

I've made self watering planters out of kitty litter buckets as well as using them for fertilizers. Nice find!!

Pro tip: put whatever your making compost tea with in a pillow case. That way you can just take it out and not clog your wayering can.

@Scotty.G

Жыл бұрын

Like a tea bag brewing in a big ol' cup of tea. I like it. 😁

@Katydidit

Жыл бұрын

That is what my Mom used to do!!

You know what I really like about David and his family!? He shows you don’t have to be all extra to do this bullshit. You literally can live in a townhouse with a tiny piece a grass in the front and small patch of vegetable garden in the back. I call it mullet gardening. Clean in the front party in the back baby. Anyway he shows it’s genuinely not rocket science and after a few years of failing you’ll finally get it half right and that’s a success. Dude is in love with the process. And makes videos and books because he cares about us like we’re part of his family too. It’s crazy

@flamingdonut9456

Жыл бұрын

"Mullet gardening." I like it.👍

Elaine Ingham says that freshly mown grass is one of the best sources for beneficial soil arthropods.

I'm naughty, I use old beer and pizza boxes. 😂

I dig out cardboard from our local cardboard recycling bins. They are already broken down and you can be picky and grab the sizes you want.

Be nice to your friends & compost your enemies...love it!

@danfay4860

Жыл бұрын

Be nice to your mother , always say please ,be loyal to friend and compost your enimies

@meru7591

12 күн бұрын

​@@danfay4860how can you be nice to someone who is Not nice to others

Another reason for some grass (we don't use herbicide or fertilizer, don't even irrigate it )... Place for kids to play :)

Yep! Our grass is turned into mulch, compost, and eggs. Love the song!😂🎵

You guys, I made a massive tote of compost water and dumped in all my failed mushroom grains and lots of pineapple and coffee...i didn't realize the ferment (plus all green cuttings n chx poop) was so good bcz everything was at the bottom of the tub and mellow...i think my entire yard is drunk right now, it's going off like i can't believe. Gallons of yard beer, smells like a factory out here🤣😂❤ its werkin!

Hi from Southwest TN. It is beautiful today. Not so hot. Thank the Lord!

Quack quack quack quack quack quack! “It’s not funny!” Ahh, I laughed pretty hard right off the bat!

You showed me how to make green tea. Nice. Thank you. I've used grass clippings that have started to rot to top dress veggie when they need a boost before flowering. 2 Compost piles gets no sun and water if it rains. Compost is hot. Leaf mold is ready to sprinkle some on compost kitchen scraps, brown bags from grocer, paper towels. I crush rinsed/air dried eggshells for the wild birds. They need calcium for nesting. I don't have the green thumb but I know stuff. lol I don't use my city water for the garden. It kills bacteria. Everyone should be allowed to have an artesian well.

Just found you on Spotify. Now I can listen to your tunes while gardening. 🎵🎧

Out here in the plains of Colorado I don't have much 'grass' grass. Just loads of weeds and wildflowers. Everything is always in seed. But I decided I'm gonna load up these pallets with it anyway! If there are gonna be weeds anyway, I might as well get some compost along with it. So I just stopped worrying about it! ( I do shovel out the prickly pear and thistles when I see them out in the yard though.) Thanks for encouraging us to be simple and get er done. :)

It is hot here in East Texas. 105 degrees out on the deck. Been running some of my drip irrigation 24 hours at a time every other day. Black water from the bottom of the lake. I had to get high volume self clearing line for pond water applications. The normal stuff plugs up even with filters. I am finding small wormlike creatures in my filters but the plants love it, no droopy squash leaves even in this heat. A lot of aphids on my cow peas though. Grass works quite well to kill grass around fruit trees. Thank you David for all you have taught me through your books and videos. I’m still waiting for another Jack Broccoli book though!😂❤

It hasn't rained much here recently. All I got is carbon material, other than my garden. We got a tiny bit of rain yesterday, but not enough to soak in. I need to get the solar pump going and get some of this river water working for me.

Your song at the beginning just brought on a flashback from around 5 yrs old playing alone outside pondering if the word was aminal or animal and getting myself all confused. I really spent some time on it. Thanks for everything you do!

Love your gardening wisdom, music(😁), and Scripture! God bless and thanks!

Subscribed when he said “take those lemons and make some lemonade”

Ah, the melodius melodies of DTG.

Thank you again for the great information. I am learning so much and I am learning how to grow things I never thought I could in this South Carolina oven. 🥵God bless you and you family.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, you too.

Thanks, yal!! Little attitude, hahahahhaa awsumm I made a little ring of wire mesh and mix the scraps with the grass. The worms love it. I just started putting cardboard under it to keep the grass and tree roots out. Muey bueno!!

We’ve been throwing our grass clippings in the chicken run. Whatever they don’t eat breaks down. Once it’s not 1 million degrees out in the fall I plan to scoop some of that black gold and top dress the beds. Let it mella out over winter and hope for the best in spring.

@FloridaGirl-

11 ай бұрын

BLACK GOLD!

I'm the box Kang and thats exactly how I ask ..I wait by the backdoor until someone comes out. It works best if you jump out and startle them

Love the duck intro.😃🌱🐢

Got your book yesterday. Hoa requires my front yard to be a lawn... but or up a solid 6ft fence and now working on my tiny food forest. Front lawn will now be useful. 😂

Love the info as always..but the duck intro slayed it. I laughed so hard 🤣

I bag and save my grass clippings every time I mow the lawn. Makes excellent compost when mixed with dead leaves.

DTG's Ode to Grass (Shshhh, not THAT grass)! So Cool! So, people lucky enough to attend your plant sales also get a container with some Good Compost, with all the contributions from your hardworking animals and possible enemies. Awesome! I could make the real David's Fetid Swamp Water starting with a bit of that potting soil.

That vintage lens bokeh 🤤 📷 😍

My neighbour is my enemy, so i composted him, now he's a jack fruit

“Welcome back….*🪿quack quack quack*…”IT’S NOT FUNNY!” 🤣had me rolling! I had to play it back😂👍🏽

David, I missed the 3 o'clock bell today. I was out preparing a new garden bed. AND, you were there 😆 Water that layer, water that layer, soak that layer.. 🤣🤣Thanks for the help.

I love the image quality of this video! Lovely! And I would watch you talk about almost anything.😂 You and your family rock!

Totally digging the Alice in Chains, STP vibe

Glad to see that you have joined the Scag riding community. 🤔Maybe we could get matching leather jackets.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

hahaha

Hilarious as always! Thanks for the laughs.

Great info. Thanks for standing up for Jesus!

Hi ya'll from North Florida 😊

Haha! If you’re not careful you might become a better comedian instead of a wicked gardener. I’m going to try this I need to mulch my orchard trees! Wohoo!🎉❤

Ok the Russian lens made the video. 😂😂😂. We use our grass for all 3 of those uses. Just the swamp water makes me want to🤮 every time I open it up. Thank y'all and have a blessed day.

Very picturesquely presented and sonically.❤️🙂

Shredded bill, grass clippings, left over rooster parts and ch I cken manure. Great compost

Martha would love that🤣😂🤣😂❤

The songs were perfection!

David smokes grass too. Or so it would seem! Great video presentation

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Not I. Thank you, though.

That lens is lookin *muah* *Chefs kiss*

I love the grass music❤ it makes your videos unique

❤ the music!

thankyou fir the courage

I get my cardboard layers (for FREE) at COSTCO - the cardboard that is between the layers of most food packaged items is IDEAL - it's about 4'x4' square, typically no ink or printing - and does not need to be cut or folded. Look between the pallets also for a vertical stack of cardboard - the story is people use this for school projects, or painting.

Very tropical, humid over summer here in Taranaki New Zealand. So hopefully this would rot down fast here? And very keen to try this method. I have severe chronic pain, and this method makes this achievable. And the cost of food is absolutely crazy, growing food is absolutely essential at this point 👍👍 So gonna try start now in preparation for spring coming end of September 😊😊

@FloridaGirl-

11 ай бұрын

I live in FL and have done this for years. (Zone 9b). Yes it decomposes fast actually

Thanks!

love and peace to y'all

❤ this channel

@oneperson5760

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Positive, helpful vibes are just what the world needs.

Loved the song!!! use the grass as cow manure!

Compost Everything is a great resource and very entertaining. Get it!

This reason I have a bag and lawnmower. 110 in the shade and I’m out bagging my grass.

otro awesome video! saludos desde Costa Rica :)

Our grass has a lot of weeds that quickly go to seed so I’m afraid to use grass clippings because they’ll be loaded with weed seeds. Can’t mow 15 acres frequently enough to keep them from going to seed. I suppose we need cows. 🤔

@strugglingathome

3 ай бұрын

At about 140 degrees F composting sterilizes seeds. Just run a long hot batch of compost. I do it all the time!

I just watched your Russian version...now I'm watching this...😂

Is the best place to get boxes is those Rent to own places or furniture stores because they have massive boxes.

Hi from SouthEast Texas i the Big Thicket

@oneperson5760

Жыл бұрын

Hi from central Louisiana, piney woods and pastures.

Your cows are adorable! I want one so bad!

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

They are fun

Buddy love the tunes. And the knowledge.i just bought land in Ecuador. I've planted.30 fruit trees

@davidthegood

11 ай бұрын

Congratulations

@travisbaker286

11 ай бұрын

@@davidthegood I've got 6 black soldier flies that hatched today

Built 5 new 54 cu ft raised beds this year. Filling w/~80% grass clippings....remainder is kitchen scraps & a little leaf compost from last year....and let the whole thing compost in place. I'll throw some cow manure & clover on them after they go through the heat & plant in them in April. Phoey on all that turning crap. Nature. Doesn't. Turn. Anything. 💯

@davidthegood

11 ай бұрын

That ought to grow some great produce

My chickens love eating my grass, and rabbits too. And then i use their used grass to feed my gardens

I’m so glad you have brown (Jersey?) cows instead of Holsteins!

@davidthegood

11 ай бұрын

Thanks. They are Dexters. Sweet cows.

One last thing lol get a drinking water hose. Well worth the investment!!

Question, according to Elaine Inghram (soil food web lady) the green grass when left to dry will still be considered a "green" in the compost as it retains nitrogen. But you mentioned the nitrogen evaporating as ammonia. Am I then right to assume the evaporation happens during composting but not during the drying process?

@TheEmbrio

Жыл бұрын

You lose some drying. Not enough to make it a ’brown’

I've heard through the years that "weed tea" or whatever type of discarded garden materials tea is not really any better then maybe chopping and dropping or just mulching with organic materials. Have you seen these studies? Love your channel!

7:18mins that was a cool shot!

Hey everyone, new gardener here and want to start a raised garden bed soon. 2 questions. 1 - can I throw my old grass clippings onto my lawn and problem areas to help the lawn? And if there are some weeds in my clippings is it still ok to compost and use in the garden? Don’t see why not but just wanted to get some knowledge. Thanks

You remind me of STP. Remember them? Loved that band.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes

@karalevskyborzoi

Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking Ray Stevens might be DTG's real father...

@LittleBitOfSunshine4u

Жыл бұрын

Haha!

@user-ic2ug8ys1z

Жыл бұрын

And they call him the streak! All your missing is a Benny Hill musical montage now.

Here for the Muzak.

I wish but I have Bermuda grass and I have worked hard to pull it up from my garden beds and the areas up to the beds. Using any part of Bermuda could create new areas in no time in the fertile soil. I chop and drop my cold hardy banana leaves (Musa Bajoo) instead.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Good idea

Make hay for bunnies (meat rabbits) which might be easier for a small two person family to manage than a whole cow when they can just hunt moose (Alaska homestead)

David being bullied by ducks now? Man must be losing it

To the commenter who said Dave reminded him of STP, that'd be incorrect. Obviously David is lead singer of Spin Doctors. 👍 OH, and Scag mower police say put your roll bar back on. 😂

Where can I listen to this song? 😂 it’s the best!

by the way, i adore both rap songs... the cutting grass like an animal and compost your enemies.

...but David the Good told me to go to the liquor store.

TFS

Is that song original? Love it!

grass is cow and sheep food but is nice to walk on, my paths are grass because I don't have cows or sheep.

your cows are sweet! and beautiful!

I've got extremely sandy soil with practically zero organic matter. Is there any reason not to till fresh grass clippings with no seed heads into the soil as I revamp for fall?

My man can garden but still doesn't realize that a benefit of a wheel barrow is to dump the load out.. and thennnnn spread the stuff around.

The dicots and the monocots were fighting for the lawn....

Ive composted plenty of enemies 😂

So uh ...... have you got any links to sites where I can purchase cardboard boxes online?

most of my pathways are the remains of my lawn. i just try to put clover mixed in.

Tenacious Weeds...new band name?

Also colored cardboard yuck lol... I'm probably too picky but i only use non colored boxes with no tape

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

I am hoping the dyes provide vitamins and minerals.

@michaelarchambault217

Жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood 🤣 i know I'm being very picky lol because I'm growing a million things in my tiny backyard and using every square inches so i even stopped using the weed whacker cause i don't want all those bits of plastic from the string going everywhere 🤣 that lead me to compost all the giant weeds like burdock and thistles and now i dump 5 gallon buckets full of compacted weeds in my compost several times a weed as a result... i got really inspired by your weed compost videos last year so i use EVERYTHING! Burdock is awesome as it gives almost a lbs or weeds in one quick easy pull

Ive been putting my weeds into bucket. Put water in let sit for 3 days and dump it like a mulch plug around my banana.

Love your videos...but your water intensity is large. Can you come up with ways to do this without so much input...we collect water in barrels off the barn. Field layout and electrical supply make it prohibitive to run water lines so we carry water anywhere we need..can use tractor but then there is the foot print issue. Would love to see how you would think about it. Perhaps a tarp to prevent evaporation during the day??? Not sure but love your ideas.

@davidthegood

10 ай бұрын

Watching rainwater is ideal. We used to have a 600-gallon tank at a previous house, but have not gotten set up here yet.

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