What if everything collapsed tomorrow? What if the shelves on the supermarket were empty? What if you couldn't get gas for your tiller? What if you didn't stockpile fertilizer... or water? What if you've never even planted a garden in your life... and your life depended on growing your own food? Don't panic! Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening has the answers. From hand tools that will till the ground better than a tractor to plans for growing all the calories you need in a crisis to easy-to-follow crop rotations that will beat the pests, this book is the cheapest insurance you can own against the crash we all know is coming sooner or later. You'll discover how to scrounge for seeds in unlikely places. How to till without a tiller. How to preserve your harvest. How to beat pests without poison. How to convert a lawn into a food factory. How to garden to survive in emergencies and crises. Expert gardener David The Good, author of the bestselling Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting, has written the gardening book that could one day save your life. Easy to follow and entertaining, Grow Or Die doesn't bog down in the technical details, but focuses on how you can turn your garden into a tool for survival. It's perfect for those interested in preparedness, low-tech gardening and living with a lighter, more ecologically sustaining footprint.
Composting is so simple anyone can do it. Nature does it all the time! Don't get caught up in big lists of dos and don'ts - rediscover the joy of compost in this brilliant and entertaining book by David The Good. Stop sending potential soil fertility to the landfill and feed your garden for free!
You can compost:
Meat
Leftovers
Bread
Logs
Cake
Yard Waste
Lasagna
Fish
Bones
Your Enemies
...and lots more!
Learn the secrets of composting everything with David The Good.
If you're ready to throw out the rule book and return as much as you can to the soil, Compost Everything is the book for you. It's time to quit fighting Mother Nature and start working with her to recycle organic matter and create lush and beautiful gardens with some of the most extreme composting techniques known to Man! These easy composting tricks will turn you into a pro in no time - and you'll have fun along the way.
Can your Florida garden feed you in tough times? The answer is yes, and it's easier than you think.
In this important new book from Florida gardening expert David the Good, you'll learn how to grow staple crops and provide your family with enough calories and nutrition to get through a crisis. Learn to beat weeds and pests, turn Florida sand into soil, garden with very few resources and provide your family with survival food without breaking the bank. Florida Survival Gardening is the culmination of decades of research on growing food in the Sunshine State. Discover the staple crops that will keep you full and the nutrient-dense plants that will keep you healthy. Stop worrying about uncertain supply lines and difficult times and plant a survival garden that will keep going through the year in Florida's unique climate. Step-by-step, you'll learn exactly how to grow a Florida garden that works with the climate and requires just hand tools to start and maintain in this illustrated guide that includes plans and survival crop suggestions for gardens in both the northern and southern halves of the state.
Don't panic. You can do this. It's time to harvest the bounty Florida can provide.
Picture yourself strolling through a lush and tame jungle loaded with sweet fruit, vegetables, roots, medicinal herbs, flowers and darting butterflies. Now imagine that Eden is your very own Florida yard - it can be if you plant a food forest! By creating an edible forest garden, you'll be working with nature instead of against her. No matter where you live in the state, you can transform a patch of grass or woods into a magical edible Eden in just a few years. A food forest is Florida gardening on the easy setting! Your fight to grow food in Florida is over.
In this massively expanded, revised and extensively illustrated second edition of Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, David The Good shares notes and details on many exciting plants and how to fit them into your Florida food forest system, with both tropical and temperate species recommended depending on your location in the state. Hundreds of original botanical illustrations are also included from over fifty different artists. You'll learn how to start and maintain a food forest in Florida despite the sand, the bugs and the climate by tapping into the bounty of the tropics and the delight of your own imagination.
If you enjoyed the first edition, this new edition will blow your mind. Discover the permaculture breakthrough that may one day feed the world. Start a Florida food forest and build soil, get plants for free and grow more food with less work!
Do you want to grow apples from seed? Or learn to graft? Or germinate seeds from that awesome old honey locust tree in your Grandpa's backyard?
In Free Plants for Everyone, you will learn tried and true methods of plant propagation that will allow you to grow pretty much anything you like without giving your hard-earned money to plant nurseries. Gardening expert David The Good takes the mystery out of plant propagation and shares propagation secrets from the nursery business as well from his many years of experience.
Whether you're interested in starting a plant nursery, saving money on gardening, saving old fruit tree varieties or simply want lots of plants to give away, this book is for you. Start plants from cuttings, seeds, division and more. Includes information on propagating and saving seeds from 101 different species, as well as pen and ink illustrations by the author.
Have you ever wished you could grow mangoes, coffee, oranges and other delicious tropical plants... but find yourself limited by a less-than-tropical climate? If you long for Key lime pies at Christmas, or homegrown bananas at breakfast, you're not alone! Expert gardener and mad scientist David The Good fought for years to figure out how grow tropical plants hundreds of miles outside their natural climate range... and he succeeded!
In PUSH THE ZONE: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics, David the Good shares his successes and failures in expanding plant ranges, and equips you with the knowledge you need to add a growing zone or two to your own backyard. Based on original research done in North Florida, PUSH THE ZONE is useful for northern gardeners as well. Discover microclimates in your yard, use the thermal mass of walls to grow impossible plants and uncover growing secrets that will change your entire view of what can grow where!
Are you struggling with South Florida gardening? Would you like to grow lots of food, even in a tiny backyard? Would you like to beat the pests, improve your soil, and harvest baskets and baskets of delicious homegrown food? You CAN grow food in South Florida, and grow more than you ever thought possible.In this helpful guide to gardening in South Florida, native Florida gardener David The Good shares the secrets to getting great harvests from our unique climate. Learn the crops and the methods for explosive year-round gardening success in The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide!
Grocery Row Gardening
An Exciting New Permaculture Gardening System
Imagine creating a garden where apples and asparagus thrive beside beans and broccoli. Picture beautiful rows of trees, vegetables and flowers all growing together as butterflies, birds and bees dance overhead. Walk through with a basket and pick pears and blueberries, peppers and tomatoes, herbs and cut flowers - all from the same garden.
With Grocery Row Gardening, you'll learn to harness the power of a forest's edge by linking the abundance of a food forest with a traditional vegetable garden.
Grocery Row Gardening is a new permaculture gardening method that combines multiple different gardening systems into a resilient, pest-resistant, long-term food generating machine for your backyard. It combines ideas as diverse as Steve Solomon's writings on micronutrients with Geoff Lawton's food forest design, with Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard and Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Farming, with Ann Ralph's backyard orchard culture and edible hedges. It makes for a beautiful and powerful permaculture method that sails through weather extremes and creates a survival garden which will keep your family fed with a wide range of produce, month after month.
Though this system is still in development, this book outlines how you can join in the fun and experimentation as Grocery Row Gardening takes off. Learn to think about growing food in a whole new way and create your most diverse and beautiful garden yet.
Gardening is merely a hobby for most men-but for Jack Broccoli, it becomes a matter of life and death.
Terrorists from a radical farming cult have been murdering soil scientists and agricultural experts all around the world, leaving their corpses to disappear into the earth. Jack and his boss are next on the list. His life turns upside-down as he's forced into a terrifying world of international No-Till intrigue.
Turned Earth, by master gardener and YouTube dominator David T. Good, is the first in the Jack Broccoli series of gardening thrillers.
When Jack investigates a series of suspicious wildfires, he is drawn into a global conspiracy to destroy Earth's climate. They control communications. They control the press. And now they are taking control of the weather! Not only that - they want Jack to join them - and they have Penny in their clutches!
Can Jack face killer robots, shadowy billionaires and a world gone mad to save the woman he loves and stop the destruction of the planet's entire ecosystem? Find out in GARDEN HEAT - the thrilling sequel to TURNED EARTH!