5 Best Gardening Tips From 1908: Old Timey Organic Wisdom

There have been many universe-jarring advances in agricultural technology over the past 100 years, but sometimes being more sustainable means going back to the way things used to be. A lot of those advances in technology rely HEAVILY on fossil fuel, a finite resource whose limited supply we are arguably still in the sweet spot of, but which is causing climate change on a scale rarely witnessed in the history of the planet.

In this video, I find some of the best gardening tips from the Biggle Garden Book. This was before the advent of hybrid crops, biotech, and chemical pesticides and fertilizers, so pretty much all this gardening wisdom was considered organic gardening.

But the history of agriculture is not all peaches and cream. Many useful technologies and a lot of useful information about how everything works has been discovered since this book was published. This is back when people were ingesting lead, mercury, and arsenic like it was skittles. But it was also before DDT, agent orange, and glyphosate. In the next Biggle Garden Book video, I'll be talking about the 5 scariest tips.

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[jennifaison]

4:56 he gets around to the ideas mentioned in the title of the video

[mikeycbaby]

I look forward to your posts. It’s like getting a handwritten letter in the mail. A real treat.

[NashvilleMonkey]

i read a 1907 paper on strawberry cross-breeding, basically hybrids, and the strawberry plant itself is a hybrid from the 1600-1700's

[AAHomeGardening]

I love to learn the old ways, thanks for sharing

[peterwhelan]

Dan, as far as the world population goes, I know it’s not that popular but, have faith in God to work things out - he is far smarter than man .

[bodilskumsrud]

Fantastic photos!A very interesting book...a time travel.Thanks!

[diannerisdon]

Hey Dan, this was really interesting. It was exciting to see that you posted a new video! Thanks for the little travel into the past.

[donnabrown]

The Biggle Garden Book can be found on Amazon!

[robertcrocker]

Manure horse water loveing care bit of dust that’s Aussie tomatoes grosse Lizzy the best Aussie bert

[songweaverHim]

“Limits on human population”?? You must be kidding me! Do you really want the government to have that much control?! I believe in freedom! This is absurd reasoning, and you lost a follower.