I'm very glad to see someone putting in a food forest in South Alabama. I love living in southern Alabama and putting in my own food forest at my home. I look forward to seeing what you plant and why.

@checkerational

Жыл бұрын

What city are you in? We just moved to Millry and I'd love to get in touch!

@mauser8515

10 ай бұрын

Millry! Once named Carpenterville from my Ancestors. I grew up in Frankville, and my last 6 generations are from Millry. Carpenter road is where my old family settlement is at.

That’s me shoveling... especially in my front yard... but it’s not too many roots... it’s rocks. Someone tried planting rocks, but they just sit there and never germinate.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious.

@MalkiZee

3 жыл бұрын

Dug out 15 gallons of rocks so far. It's looking much better now.

@BaloosCluesOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@cherriemckinstry131

3 жыл бұрын

@@MalkiZee depending on what type of rocks, they could be very useful.. and then rocks are good for many projects..

@BaloosCluesOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

@@cherriemckinstry131 I was thinking the same. If there's no need for them on the property, hopefully they get offered on the local Buy Nothing fb page.

Well I’d say most of us came for the food growin’ and stayed for the content. And the trove of knowledge in the comments! Bless you and yours!

I admire your seemingly endless planting and starting over power.

Why do we subscribe to your channel? Because something in your videos always makes us smile, and sometimes laugh out loud.

@Chickmamapalletfarm

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! I laughed out loud when you pulled out the pumpkin seeds! I wish I could add a picture of my cucerbit seeds foe just that purpose.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

You are hilarious and full of so much information. Thanks for taking the time to film and share. Pumpkin and sweet potatoes - duh!

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Anne.

In the high dessert here, goji plants become invasive. They need their own LARGE container or to be planted in the lower 40. We love the juice we make from their berries. Thank you for sharing your wonderful forest transformation.

This is very inspirational. It makes me kick myself for all the years I thought about about doing cool things and planting cool trees but was always holding back, unsure of myself. I always wanted a loquat and a kumquat. Well by George I am going to DO IT! THANK YOU Mr. Digger. :)

@BaloosCluesOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

You know you've succeeded when you inspire someone to do something outside of their comfort zone.

@lisakukla459

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! No one can stop you!! 💪

@kristenharrison4656

Жыл бұрын

My mawmaw had a loquat for years! They're delicious. We live in Central Alabama

Cherokee tan pumpkins are my favorite for southern Alabama growing. Because they root so much it is one kind you don't have to worry about vine borers. This pumpkins will thrive no matter how many times it gets hit with borers.

@checkerational

Жыл бұрын

Where are you at in Southern Alabama? We just moved and would love to get in touch with other gardeners!

@reneebrown2968

Жыл бұрын

@@checkerational silverhill

We had a garden group successfully grow bannana plants in a garden in Pennsylvania by planting next to a cement wall that warmed the area, and they cut it back and mulch it. It came up the next year and produced bananas. It was encouraging.. A guy in Nebraska has two greenhouses full of citrus trees also a really cool idea. He's a senior now but many have video taped his garden. Gives me hope for growing interesting things. Like coffee bean ahrubs..

Ah! Yet again, thank you so much, David, for modeling for us a permaculture system. It felt like you took us on a friendly walk through your new project. I take comfort in the fact that our yard looks like yours (well, a year ago for you). I have new ideas that I can actually DO now thanks to this video (I seem to find them in random order, probably my loss). -Jill and Carson

DVG is my mentor in gardening I definitely like digging! But Fire is EVEN BETTER!

I just realized that the neighbors behind me have a black locust tree and that’s why the most prevalent weed in my garden are little seedlings that are identical to the one you just planted! Invasive is absolutely how I would describe it. They drop zillions of seeds at even the slightest breeze! Lol they’re pretty though.

@kathleensanderson3082

3 жыл бұрын

Black locust is also really useful, although not so much for food. The flowers are supposedly edible, but my trees (I have a back yard full of them) are too tall to reach the flowers. The wood is extremely rot resistant, some of the best for fence posts, and for lumber if you can get long enough straight sections. The young trees can be pollarded for growing garden poles and such. Black locust is even one of the better North American bow woods. I like having them in my back yard for the light shade they give, and the way the leaves just disappear into the grass and I don't have to rake them (although I'd love to have leaves to mulch my garden). I understand that a lot of people consider black locust a weed tree, but like many 'weeds,' it's got a lot of value.

@thomasjcorson7502

Жыл бұрын

I've seen a video on locust trees the pods are high in protein and can be fed to livestock

I have a wild Red Mulberry that planted itself and somehow it's already fruiting after maybe 3 years at most. I was surprised to say the least.

I’ve shared so many of your videos in the past few months. People are just convinced that bad soil means no gardening. I share these videos with them.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Great video love when people do lots of plants in one video instead of a video for each plant.

Can't wait for the book 😍

To answer your question...you are good at what you do and make it fun.

Have you thought of using your anarobic compost teas as a methane digester. They release methane naturally and when completely deprived of oxygen they produce more and you can store it up and use for cooking or perhaps a gas forge or gas charcoal mix and when making the charcoal you can harvest woodgas aswell.

Love this idea. Beautiful plants that are FOOD

"any day is a good day to plant a mulberry" -David The Good forgetting about those 105 degree days with low humidity

Looks like my soil. I love that you are showing this planting, step by step.

Our yaupon is part of our survival food forest because its the only plant native to North America that produces caffine.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

David, gotta get a sturdy steel post hole digger, man. They cut through rocks even.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This Alabama food forest project is just what I have been looking forward to. I am looking forward to seeing the guilds you use. I will be following suit.

Always entertaining! Lets start fires 🔥!! Just when I thought you weren’t like me and my pals enough! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Another Alabama neighbor here. Clarke Co. Yaupon holly is one of the trees on my list, along with a shagbark hickory.

@cherriemckinstry131

3 жыл бұрын

Cool hickory nuts.. now that's edible

Dave...love the heart of hand cultivation...u need a small tractor and a couple cheap attachments. Subsoiler and middle buster

I have a lot of roots. Sharpen that spade shovel. It works. Just remember what your working with. Upgrade the handle with a heavier handle too.

Good info. Thank you. Looking forward to a follow up video months down the road. I wonder about the deer. Cheers from across the bay in Mobile County! :-)

Hope you have a solid, clean well- it's about to be 90* with a drought around the area. Been brewing triclopyr and fermenting it for festive drinks. Good luck David- it looks you're leaning a tad towards clay, vs sandy loam, that will help with moisture retention.

You're finished with it and I got it today!

When you want to make a hole through a thick root layer use the shovel so it is at 90 degrees to the ground and use your foot to stomp on the shovels metal top.

I tried to do the cardboard trick to block the weeds around my fruit trees. Just a little warning it only lasted till the first yard mowing. Apparently nothing will slow the grasses in southern Alabama

You had me for a second...I thought you meant the channel name switch was the April fool!

Best add ever

Missed this IRIE Goodstream but I'm here watching and listening to the replay, Sir David The Good is CRUSHING IT, well I mean planting an Alabama Food Forest! Loved seeing that li'l Black Locust, beautiful flowers, hard wood, great for furniture and just recently found out here on KZread the flowers are edible? I asked our former landlady back in se Utah if she could send me some seeds to grow here, see if it catches on here in central Mexico with this subtropical, semi-arid land and she sent me Honey Locust! lol....well at least she sent me some Catalpa seeds, aching to plant those and see if they'll do well, West Indies Jacarandas is tropical deciduous tree, so I know we shouldn't get disappointed at seeing Black Locust or Catalpa shed their leaves come fall. LOL...those smilax rhizomes look tough, kinda like the roots(or rhizomes also?)of common purslane, once that purslane gets established its there for life, and upon the first sign of fair weather and ample water, it THRIVES! Thumbs up David The Good, liked and I'm noticing another Goodstream of 1 hour 14 mins. and 11 secs., but leaving that for tomorrow. :D

Watching these old videos and I dont remember the pumpkins being such a big thing but its in my PNW Grocery Row Garden i started this year.

David, I encourage you to acquire a 5# mattock. It's life-changing.

You need the root slayer shovel! Its so great i recommend to my friends and family and everyone has been glad they bought one!!

@lornaschauseil9074

3 жыл бұрын

Root slayer even works for 72 year old frail women like me! It is a great tool.

So much fun! Cannot wait to have good soil. One of these days. ;-)

Root Removal when digging... I use a reciprocating saw (battery powered). to dig out roots and cut them. I go through a few blades on a small project but I tear up and removed roots on shrubs I remove.. in the middle of doing it right now as my batteries recharge so I will watch and comment on David the Good

youre the greatest

I have some nice big boxes to use that my trees are being delivered in. Have box cutter, will travel...out to the yard and start laying down, and cover with acacia tree branch mulch. It's daily afternoon storm season, so it will stay wet

My dad has a shovel called the root slayer. Very useful for situations like that

A battery operated sawzall works great on those roots :) I just gave away about $300 in vegie starts because my place isn't ready enough to plant...and I still have a bunch and just started more. Someone said when the black berries get blooms this early, we're due for another frost (NE AL)...ug!

I love food forests as its things you can eat, and healthy for you. I like how you give your feeling about any given situation, and future ideas. Bitter can be caused by soil content and heat or stressors... would transplanting the plant to a different place improve the taste? I know I've had that with radishes.. certain minerals "sweeten" the soil..

Love the video David I have about a 10 feet by 5 that is just gravel with weeds in it so I guess I'll be digging good thing the other side is green grass 👍

At 9:00 into the video... And here we are again. ⛏️🔪🥄🤦

DAVID THE FIRE GOOD

Got some seedling Pecans I can donate, but it may be cooler just to plant a bunch of seeds from the orchards around there!

Check out the Cold Steel Spetsnaz shovel on Amazon. Works great as a large trowel, light axe for chopping through roots, and light pick for breaking up tough clay soil. Keep up the good work.

I used a drill with a huge auger to get poles in my back yard.

Good luck.

I think I already mentioned this, but another nitrogen fixer to check out is Southern Wax Myrtle (Morella cerifera). You probably have it growing in your woods.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea.

I have a native mulberry and a dwarf mulberry bush/tree. I love to munch mulberries and so do the birds, which will help make more mulberry trees. 😆

"Ten Amazing Garden Hacks From The Dollar Store!!"

Oooo I just saw the pot laying there.

I always take a 5 gallon bucket and put a very slow seep hole at the edge of the bottom. I fill it up onc a week no matter how dry or wet for the first year...I put the seep hole where it drips about a couple inches from the base. I've hardly lost a tree planted with this method...

@davidthegood

2 жыл бұрын

Very good idea.

Ah, yaupon holly, the ubiquitous understory "tree" of the Gulf Coast. I couldn't bear cutting down all the yaupon holly that grows behind my house bc I know how important the berries are to birds and other wildlife during the winter. Also it is closely related to the yerba mate tree in South America, and the leaves can be brewed as a tea. But I digress. I think your food forest is going to struggle without some SERIOUS soil amendment. I am thinking something really radical like a three foot deep layer of coffee grounds. Start collecting them from all your local SB's, it shouldn't take too long, but I think the results would be profound.

You inspire me! Im so interested in the Florida food forest book even though I don't live there. In going to go find your link. Is 8t 8n the drop down?

I bought a couple of lemon grass. I hope it , the rosemary and thyme will live as perrinially in my hightunnel. We get pretty cold

I planted thornless blackberries along my fence on the west side of my back yard.

💚

Which Smilax to you fight with there? An extract from the roots of some species - most significantly Jamaican sarsaparilla (S. ornata) - is used to make the sarsaparilla drink and other root beers.

You have a wonderful landlord! I know sugar sand runs in your veins, but don't you just love us Southern folks?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

It must've been an incredible task to have cleared all that with a butter knife! Digg'n Digg'n Digg'n... Digg'n Digg'n Digg'n... Digg'n Digg'n Digg'n! Biscuits!

5 pm for me ,Ill be there.

Is this strategy effective in my context of a high desert in southern Arizona? Can you incorporate this with a large scale swale or are these strategies mutually exclusive? Thanks for the video

DAVID! That is freaking hard work....heavy machinery???

Had no idea you were in Alabama... howdy neighbor. Blount county here

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Howdy! Baldwin here.

Anyone in north Alabama doing this? close to Gadsden? I just moved to Attalla AL and bought 10.2 acres with a pond and the folks that lived here prior took me around the property to show me everything they had already started planting. So many fruit trees! Now I just have to figure out how I’m going to do this. Very hilly place. I want the whole 10 acres to be food lol. My pigs, chickens, and goats are helping clear up some under brush. I need friends! I don’t have any. We’ll accept my kiddos and a few older folks

In looking at the CC texting and trying to make sure of a plant.... is it Smilax? Is what prints and sounds like.. in curious.. I learn so much from you.

@carladelagnomes

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, Smilax aristolochiifolia

Glad for the video, I always want to be digging and planting...and you reminded me that I have peaches and plumbs, maybe, in the fridge, in dirt...more planting!!! But really love seeing Rachel in your commercial, thank you...

I have three mango trees growing from one pit

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Polyembryonic.

@drewsfoodforest_tv

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood bought a organic mango from the grocery store

Smilax for the camera!

If you had some drive an augur or something sharp around the perimeter do you think it could sever those roots to break down in and soften up the earth?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Probably.

I came for the shovels. . WtH. Fire's pretty cool though I guess

@mikedoyle9934

3 жыл бұрын

You can sharpen up a spade or pick an axe to run into the dirt. Helps with big roots

Fires go well with beer

A small backhoe would help brake up the ground and give you more time to do other things.Maybe a neighbor could help food for some help?

You have your own caffeine source -- yaupon holly!

I've got about 2 acres of ravine on my land in zone 5, I'm planning on planting most of it as a food forest, what tree's and other plants would you suggest i plant?

@anthonyjensen669

3 жыл бұрын

about 5600 ft elevation, and currently growing sagebrush, pinion pine, and western juniper (not eastern red cedar).

I've heard yaupon has caffeine, and is related to the south american yerba mate (pronounced ma-teh). If I'm right, you could consider cultivating some.

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Yes, we have it

Looks like you did not crush the biochar before you spread it. Your thinking. It does not need it?

Digging videos rock, or at least find them.

The tool "root slayer" would slay those nasty roots

Some marigolds around your peaches? And then turn them back into the soil?

"Hummock" is the word you're looking for. From "chop & drop" to "slash & burn?"

Could you do jazz hands while walking backyards?

Time to invest in a mattock.

I keep forgetting to order those cone-tainers.

Hey brother I have a viscous asparagus fern vine that I can't seem to get rid of. It literally takes over everything and is resilient as hell. I have tried 30% vinegar and soap weed spray and it still seems to come back. I don't want to create a long term problem for the soil and was wondering what you would do to mitigate this. I have read that the root system can go as deep as 15 meters into the earth which is crazy to me.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

I doubt that's possible. I would hack it to the ground, then put a double-layer of cardboard, then a foot or so of leaves or mulch over it to choke it out.

With this acreage are you going to get into beekeeping??

Yo, How many food Forest do you have in total XD. Thats impressive. Do you buy the land or, do you rent it? Good Video

soaking the cardboard in a tub of water is a lot easier than trying to spray it with water

Something to learn here. Would it make sens to plant those trees Ellen White way. I know more digging. Thank you for shearing.

@davidthegood

2 жыл бұрын

I have looked at it, but have not tried.

David where is your machete, they are even cooler when you are back in the USA!

Can we get an update on this food forest?

@davidthegood

2 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a forest now. Smilax is eating it.

Man, check out those guns!

Smilex sounds to nice for a vine that the roots start and grow out of hell...I call them let me go vines...I got other choice names I won't say...