Quick Calories: Adding Root Crops to the Grocery Row Gardens

As fruit trees grow, we count on fast-growing root crops to provide calories for the table.

According to the Farmer's Almanac calendar of planting by the moon, this is a good time to plant root crops. Today we're planting potatoes, potato mint, turmeric, arrowroot and more.

[MynewTennesseeHome]

I thought I was odd, I went to the store and saw they had loose red potatoes for sale and some had started sprouting... those are the ones I chose. The cashier looked at me weird as said, "you know you can pick any in the bin", I smiled and said I did😉
They're now in the ground😁

[tawnystair]

Just wanted to say thank you - between you, ice age farmer and a few others - I stopped panicking about doing it “right” and following a specific method. It is all now a great experiment- what works I continue doing and what doesn’t gets thrown out. I bought you book compost everything and I do the same thing there. I eat beans and potatoes everyday- wow- maybe I should focus on beans and potatoes and try just a few new things here and there. Thanks again.

[PDXGardenHome]

Thank you for giving permission to plant.old potatoes sitting around!

[nedweeks]

Here in Maine digging marine worms is a real occupation. I was down and out a few years back and learned how to dig by the old timers. My back never felt better. We're built to play in the dirt!

[derekclawson]

Thanks David for the shout out. Wasn't quick enough to get both links into the chat before the video ended. If it's agreeable to you I could post them in a comment here.

[monkeymommy]

Lol about the "gardener's crouch"-you are sooo right! Thanks for the great video.

[davidthegood]

As fruit trees grow, we count on fast-growing root crops to provide calories for the table.

[vineyardchickshomestead]

Thank you! We enjoyed seeing you at the LaLaFarms Livestream and enjoyed this video too! Lots of good info!

[PK-zqst]

I’m need to your channel but such a refreshing change of pace thanks. This year we have a 1acre field I bought a mix of seeds 2lbs of carrot, 2 lbs of Detroit dark beet, 5 lbs of turnip, 10lb daikon radish, 2 lb Swiss chard mixed them all together and we are broadcasting them. It’s gonna be a crazy mess of goodness.

[shnarklevonbarkle]

Lately, I've noticed that I'm no longer consciously aware of why I'm planting. I always get restless as the moon becomes full. I have to go for a walk or run in the middle of the night, and the next day I'm out planting. I also planted tubers yesterday and this morning. I planted half a dozen of those mint potatoes about a month ago, but still don't see any signs of life yet. My Jerusalem artichokes are coming up though. This is my first year planting them so I'm pretty excited.

I've acquired way too many seeds. I have bags of seeds I picked up from the lccal health food store which I had planned on planting individually to see what sort of germination rate I would get, but with all the seeds I ordered online, I don't have time to mess with them, so they all got mixed together in a bag and spread out by the retention pond behind my property.

[oldfriendbear]

Your crushing man. I’ve been watching you quietly for a while, and for what it’s worth, you know what’s up. I’m so excited for my garden this year, it will be the best so far.

[bsidesjess]

I do the same thing… just found this!!!’ I believe food will grow where it wants and I get all sorts of stuff with very little work

[CopperIslandHomestead]

In process of reworking my garden layouts to start implementing grocery row gardening this year here north of the 47th Parallel. 👍

[midkiffsjoy]

We turned two kitchen garden rows today and found 4 sweet potatoes that I SWEAR weren't there when we dug the entire area to harvest sweet potatoes last fall. 😀

[everettmcdonald]

I just finished reading your book, Grocery Row Gardening. I thoroughly enjoy your writing style, so easy to read and understand. It’s a great little book, I hope more people read it. 👍👍 And, I hope in a couple years you do a revision with updates. You should be getting a package with 2 different kinds of sesame seeds in about a week or so from SESE. Just to say thanks for what you do.

[sarahfryman]

I just bought your grocery row garden book when I woke up this morning. Looking forward to its arrival.

[melanielinkous]

I paused the video so I could go plant my potatoes that I saved. 😊

[ReidAnderson]

Good stuff watching now and adding calories to the garden. Orchard is thriving! Thank you for you time, David! God bless!

[holisticheritagehomestead]

We love your videos. The content. The humor. The approach. We are excited to get our potatoes in the ground tomorrow hopefully. Lots of calories.

[grahamblackall]

You Sir are a legend!
I am so enjoying watching your videos, they are really informative and interesting