My experience. Asparagus from seed is the clear winner. For the price of a crown, you can plant hundreds of seeds all spaced out correctly. And all of those seeded plants are going to catch up to your crown the second year anyway. It also gives you a cheap opportunity to have multiple varieties
@@faithsrvtrip8768 Asparagus is a lot like honey in my opinion. You really have to have a lot of self-discipline to not harvest too much that second year. Take just enough for a serving or two so you can taste it.. but the more you don't harvest, the more amazing every year will be after that.
My grandmother planted a rhubarb-plant in my parents garden when she and my grandfather owned the house. It is still alive and productive 30 years later.
when you fry or cook sunchokes, soak them before or add during cooking, lemon juice. It breaks down the fiber in the choke, giving more nutrition but also reducing the gassy effects.
Planted my fig 4 years ago here in the Northeast. I’m averaging 40-50+ figs annually. Pruning annually in the fall and planting on the hottest/sunniest side of your home has been the game changer I believe! Its October and I’m still pulling figs
I love that you’re not like other TH-camrs in that you don’t constantly try to plug your channel or your store. Makes me want to support you that much more.
@@ChaiLatte64 Nobody likes sitting through ads, etc, however, should we not financially support those that are doing good work? Most don't hesitate to accept ads and pay big corporations every day without a second thought. It does the world a disservice when the attitude of "good people should not be trying to make money with their good work" is perpetuated.
100% on fruit trees. This year the Missus and I had more apricots than we knew what to do with. All of our friends and colleagues got a jar of jam and I got almost 2 liters of amaretto from this year's harvest. A good fruit set will give you an embarrassment of riches. I'm investing in a pressure canner for next year.
@@jackiek4159 We inherited the apricot when we bought our house. Once established, they seem to be quite hardy in zone 7a. I'll have to try air layering this tree for some insurance scions, but given its vigor this season, I would say that getting an apricot through its first couple of years will result in a very healthy tree in the right climate. Given that apricots are from the Near East, I wouldn't go lower than zone 6a for cold hardy varieties, though some new types might be even more cold hardy. Be sure to check when you're purchasing. Regarding the taste, homegrown can be picked at the peak of ripeness so will be sweeter, though this year I harvested mine a little on the tart side for better shelf life (and to prevent more loss from storms). The tarter ones also have a better texture when baked.
Same thing with our raspberries and red/white currant. I make jam and freeze them, and we never run out. I have an apricot tree and other fruit trees but I never had more than we could eat raw 😅
We have two apple trees and they were crazy this year. We are still eating apples, made a lot of apple puree, sooo many apple pies and we gave a lot of apples to friends and family. Fruit trees are a true life hack.
The only thing I would have added would be nut trees. In my Zone 8 I have hazelnuts, almonds, and pistachios. Walnuts and Pecans would grow here as well, but they're just too big for my small yard. As an aside, I would also mention herbs.
About to tell you I have pecan tree sprouts I would be happy to give you. They are very big trees though. I have 2 that are at least 60 feet tall, maybe taller, and 1 that was hit by lightning and topped back, and it is still 35 feet tall.
Onion, clove of garlic, tomatoes, rhubarb chopped and stewed with 1/4 cup chick broth. Simmer and pour on top of chicken legs thighs or quarters. Salt and pepper to taste. Bake and enjoy. Savory Rhubarb dish.
As for "fartichoke" the tuber contains inulin, an indigestable form of sugar. If the tubers are pickled in vinager, the acid will help to convert the inulin into fructose.
hi dude, im not even to farming or agriculture, but when i saw your youtube shorts i was so hooked!, i was also shocked because back in elementary school gardening is so boring for me. But you're story telling and sharing knowledge is good. Keep up the good work! Respect👊
I inherited a rhubarb plant (variety unknown) that was first grown by my great grandfather around WW2- well, mine is technically a division of the crown, but im counting it as 75+ because why not. I'd say with a bit of digging, you can keep rhubarb going quite a while longer than 10 years!
dont forget jalapenos and bell peppers! in milder climates they are perennial's I have a few pepper plants on their second year (overwintered outside last year in their first year). Also orange trees, olive trees, roses, Beets (if youre trying to get their seeds making them biennial I suppose), pomes, tomatoes can even become perennial, blakcberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries etc
I have reset every bed in my garden. I have not left them bare, from your other video my chosen cover crop is brown and red borlotti beans. I actually hope they cross pollinate and produce more nutritional advanced brown - red beans 😁😁. Thks for the informative vid
I was told by my garden teacher that fermenting ”fartichoke” changes (or destroys) the nutrient that causes all those gases, and that it’s quite tasty too. I haven’t tried it yet since I don’t have a plant, but it’s on my list to try since it seems like a good perennial to have 🙂
My parents has Rhubarb in the garden and those are huge compared to yours, maybe because they are old, and i didn't know that you could make pie with them usually my mother makes jam & (dulceață in Romanian) but before that you have to pell them, and you could use them in soups they give a sour taste and that's unique, very nice and informative video thanks for sharing 🫡👍🏻
I will use rhubarb to make a sweet & sour sauce for meats like pork, but in the USA, the main use is strawberry + rhubarb pie. (I prefer to mix rhubarb chunks with pie cherries for my pie, but rhubarb and strawberries are both ready to harvest early in the season in the cold climates where rhubarb prefers to grow. There may be analogous opportunities to mix rhubarb with haskap (Lonicera caerulea edulis)--probably needs tapioca or eggs to set because the haskap are mostly juice and would likely disintegrate on cooking--but haskap is barely known in the USA at present.
I literally just harvested most of my sunchokes today. It's invasive lol reason number 1 for using raised beds. And to reduce the inulin content (the part that makes most of us pass wind), lacto-ferment. Bugs will eat up the inulin and convert to fructose. I've also heard you can par-boil with lemon juice to extract inulin, then roast or mash like potatoes. You don't need to suffer the wind.
My mother planted Jerusalem artichoke 30 years ago in her yard. After 3 years it’s become a big problem. We still fight with this very invasive plant. My mother’s garden in a zone 6 b.
How about green onions? They've been so easy to care for. Reauire very little water. They last several years. The shortest was 2 but all the rest have been going for 5 years now. They don't mind a lot of heat and sun.
I camp hosted at a state park in NW Montana. There is a massive rhubarb plant that comes back every year. It's at 3300 feet elevation and they are expecting snow this week. It still comes back, every year.
Cant wait to taste my asparagus! A couple of mine are shooting up stalks that are pencil sized now at the end of Year 2. Planted from seedlings. Planning to plant rhubarb next year since I didnt get it done this year.
3:18 It may depend on the variety, I’m not entirely sure, but there is a 50 year old rhubarb pant at my grandparent’s place! It’s an absolute beast, about 4 ft in diameter!💚
I grew up in BC. My grandmother had a rhubarb plant and made amazing pies and jams. When my parents got the house, they didn't want the plant😢. It took 3 years and finally digging a 6x6x4 hole (and replacing the soil) to get rid of it. It truly is a beast of a plant
Kevin, I've become a big fan of your channel especially since you live in San Diego. I'm in zone 9B out in Jamul so everything you grow and when has been extremely relevant to my wife and I's gardens. Love to see it!
Talk about perennial, I harvest asparagus from plants my grandmother put out more than 70 years ago, plus some I planted over 40 years ago. Here in the mid-Atlantic states the fruit that is most trouble free and dependable is blueberries. We started with a few and divided and transplanted. This summer I harvested around 80 pints, stocked my freezer and gave away more than half of them.
A tip with messy asparagus ferns. I plat my asparagus. I get three small and close growing stems and plat them, just like you plat hair. Works great, they still get air and sunshine and they are upright, tidy and not shading the surround plants out.
@@sandracastle9319 makes Scripture make sense, never heard that word used in modern times until now. Thanks for sharing about the asparagus, just planted my first this year.
Rhubarb lasting ten years is a bit of a complicated topic. Because their root network gradually expands over time and needs to be split every 4-5 years, you can technically keep rhubarb going more or less indefinitely. The rhubarb in my garden was split from the rhubarb in my mom's garden, which was split from the rhubarb in my great-grandfather's garden, so depending how you count, you could argue that my rhubarb is at least 60 years old.
Love, love, love this topic! Many of us wish we had all day to garden, but need to focus our time on the most productive tasks...and not always start over. Thank you!
I find that it's not hard work to maintain a garden, it's taking smart action. What I do find is necessary, is just being in your garden -- eating, enjoying, watching the butterflies and bees. If you are working more in your garden than you are enjoying it, my opinion is that you are doing it wrong.
@@feralkevin I think I am doing it wrong. I definitely need to learn more! I have had some success, but the squirrels seem to eat up everything that starts to grow. I don't mind feeding them, but my family would like some food also. The thought of growing some perennials is cool to me.
@@feralkevin yes I am. I am not a natural at all, but I am trying to learn. Critters seem to eat anything small and green that starts to grow if if I don't have it covered with a cloche. Celery, all greens, swiss chard except one with a good cover. None of my berry plants lived, but I don't think that was the squirrels. A pepper plant and lots of basil have survived. Now, some carrot tops and beets seem to be ok. Parsley has done ok if I transplant when bigger. A cucumber plant lived and we finally had something to harvest. We had one melon make it to the size of a baseball - so exciting - then the next day it was completely gone - no trace or crumb left. It could possibly be snakes, but we have only seen squirrels. Our little dog ate some stuff, but then we switched to raised beds.
@@momrocks9971 You can check out my new course, free on TH-cam called Survival Gardening: Growing for Total Beginners. That might provide a framework that could help.
perennial food plants are going to be my focus for next year. I have 4 greenstalks worth of strawberries that I plan to baby all winter in my high tunnel (zone 7a Oklahoma). And my two giant goji berry plants have giant pots, but they really need their own bed somewhere. . . I like goji berries, but I'm not sure what to do with them. Lol!
Could you keep the scarlet runner bean tuber dry and cool inside, replant it come early spring, and have it regrow then as a defense against rotting in moist soil?
Hmm. Consume garden real estate all year, for a small harvest in spring only. I'd rather plant greenbrier, unless I really needed something that can take saline soils. Even then, Atriplex is probably a better crop.
It's ponderous... I've got an asparagus plant that was originally planted 35 years ago. There's no way to know if the plants growing now are part of the OG root, but over time, they DO spread a bit, so, there is THAT fact to ponder! But your point is correct, it IS a loooong term perennial !!!
I moved to my current home in the late 80s. There was already an asparagus patch growing. I still have that same patch of asparagus, it is probably over 40 years old. Two years ago, I thought I had accidently killed it, so I bought crowns and seeds and started a new patch of asparagus. My old patch came back. And now I have two patches of asparagus. My rhubarb DIED this year. I have no idea how many rhubarb plants have died on me. . I am in zone 6b. Other people grow rhubarb here. It was the Victoria too. I keep trying it. I LOVE rhubarb.
We have a Rhubarb plant thats about 5-10 years old, I forgot how old, my Mum would know, always had Rhubarb every year, amazing taste and with a bit of cream never hurt.
my favorate perennial is the humble pigoen pea. It can give a lot pods and each pod produces 3 peas, it is a large growing, it has beautiful medium sized yellow flowers, but it only gives pods for 7 years. It needs only part shade. They do not take too long to sprot about average time for lagume. I love the taste green pigeon peas it tasts like soybean.
Nice! I've always wanted to know about survival crops like this or weeds you can grow as food. Just anything that is edible and keeps coming back or things like squash that last forever and have a good amount of volume. Wish i knew more. I know he tried to survive off his garden for a month and had trouble. Would love another attempt in a the next year. Im trying but i have hoa😢 indoor isn't enough
You can plant just about ANY food producing plant in your pristine HOA front yard landscape. Just pop the food plants in between your meatball shaped boxwood, and the other non-native showy flowering plants you've got. And hey - if you've got an HOA, you MUST also have a BACKyard. Why not plant a food garden back there? They don't police your backyard too, do they???
@@gardengatesopen yeah she got my neighbor for putting in a little sugar maple. It's crazy. I wish we normalized edible ornamentals in the landscape more as a community but they're control freaks unfortunately. Just want a few acres in the middle of nowhere an I'll be happy haha
I don't have any property yet, but here's a few I'm considering if/when the time comes: trees: mulberry, plum, chestnut shrubs: blueberry, blackberry, prickly pear cactus, hazelnut vines: groundnut (apios americana), maypop (passiflora incarnata), grape herbaceous plants: strawberry, dandelion, jerusalem artichoke, walking onion hope this gives you a few ideas :)
sweet potatoes by me grow like a weed. i grow em in barrels and pallet containers and sometimes i forget a vine or 2 and it grows under or behind and when i go to harvest i notice potato vines coming from my gorund and have been pulling slips year round. even my compost if i forget to check will have em growing from it. thankfully our farmers market we buy from is all organic so most of my compost starts growing
We all ate rhubarb as children back in the 70s. 😮 All still toes up. Maybe someone who has gout or arthritis should avoid? We ate it both raw and cooked. jelly, baked goods etc
@@7paula777once cooked, the oxalate breaks down. Since it’s primarily used in cooked dishes, that’s probably why you don’t have a problem. And, of course, it’s all in the dose.
I love perennials as a permaculture guy, but perennial vegetables have their share of issues as well. I am have been experimenting for 20 years with annuals, perennials, and mixing them together and have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't.
There;s a way to use rubarb like red bell pepper... I don't like pie so, I've done that. In california, I grow herbs as perennials, not just lavender butt basil, rosemary, jasmine, mint, etc. And wet tubers like calla lilies, canas.
Ooooh! The fartichoke is called topinambur where I live. Cool! Never tried it. I hope it won't be too "farty" for me. LOL Thanks for all the suggestions!
I dug mine up late winter and and fried them to see what they tasted like. They taste much like a potato and no gas. I think them freezing before and also cooking is why no gas.
Fun fact, the name "Jerusalem artichoke" comes from a mispronunciation of the Italian word "girasole" which means "sunflower." The artichoke part comes from how it tastes like an artichoke to some, and it is related since both are in the Asteraceae family. So sunchoke is the name I prefer for _Helianthus tuberosus._
I've had better luck with Homesteader's Perennial Kale than with the tree kale. It's a more ancestral variety of kale that does not die off after going to seed in the spring. While it was difficult to get started due to all the pests around here, my plants that survived last winter went to seed and then kept growing strong. I've used the seeds to start dozens more. They'll have a random assortment of genetic traits, so it's interesting to see what you get.
Asparagus is great - then someone who is supposed to be pulling weeds in the walkways goes into the beds and pulls them out (during a few minutes of them not being supervised). *sigh* They got tossed into a shredder and destroyed by the time I got back out there. 😢
I love Rhubarb 😊 But live in 9B in NE Florida. Do you think it would do better in a deep container instead of in the ground? I can chase the shade if it is portable!
SUNCHOKES MENTIONED!!! I dont know who started it but people keep parotting that that "sunchoke is in the sunflower family and not the artichoke family". Sunchoke and annual sunflowers are in the same genus Helianthus (pretty darn closely related) which is part of the sunflower family Asteraceae. Artichoke is in the genus Cynara which is more distantly related to sunflowers than sunchoke; but nonetheless is in the sunflower family Asteraceae. Also most varieties of sunchoke do spread, however the variety Supernova makes all of its tubers close to the base of the plant. There is also a truly dwarf 18 inch tall variety whose red tubers form right on the stem.
I planted artichoke one season… from seed. I got like 2 tiny heads and they werent that good at all. Super disappointed in it. And I’m in SW KS… not sure if that helps any?
Perennial #1 Asparagus
Perennial #2 Rhubarb
Perennial #3 Fruit Tree (apple, peach, fig)
Perennial #4 Tree Collar/Kale
Perennial #5 Artichoke
Perennial #6 Scarlet Runner Bean
Perennial #7 Jerusalem Artichoke
My experience. Asparagus from seed is the clear winner. For the price of a crown, you can plant hundreds of seeds all spaced out correctly. And all of those seeded plants are going to catch up to your crown the second year anyway. It also gives you a cheap opportunity to have multiple varieties
It also allows you to grow varieties that just aren't sold as crowns. Plus, it's fun 😁
Thanks! I'm looking to buy a small house and the first thing I want to do is start planting stuff. Asparagus is def on my list!
I'm a seed planter myself.🎉🎉
I throw seeds everywhere and let them find places to survive
@@faithsrvtrip8768 Asparagus is a lot like honey in my opinion. You really have to have a lot of self-discipline to not harvest too much that second year. Take just enough for a serving or two so you can taste it.. but the more you don't harvest, the more amazing every year will be after that.
My grandmother planted a rhubarb-plant in my parents garden when she and my grandfather owned the house. It is still alive and productive 30 years later.
Wow nice! Love the taste if rhubarb tea!
when you fry or cook sunchokes, soak them before or add during cooking, lemon juice. It breaks down the fiber in the choke, giving more nutrition but also reducing the gassy effects.
Thanks for the info. I have a large amount of sunchokes and will be looking into recipes to cook them. It's nice to know how to degass them
How long should I soak them?
@@reneebrown2968 i normally do 5-10 min.
@@christopherrenn8137 thank you very much
Spinach and Sunchoke dip🤌❤️
My asparagus plant went and made ONE seed this year! it has never done that in the 14 years we have had them😂😅
Looks like it's time for a NEW BABY!❤
Love how these perennial crops provide continuous harvests year after year! Nature’s gift that keeps on giving! 🌿🍃
Planted my fig 4 years ago here in the Northeast. I’m averaging 40-50+ figs annually. Pruning annually in the fall and planting on the hottest/sunniest side of your home has been the game changer I believe! Its October and I’m still pulling figs
what I thought Eric was dead?! glad to see he's still alive and kicking!
I love that you’re not like other TH-camrs in that you don’t constantly try to plug your channel or your store. Makes me want to support you that much more.
Same. And even though they always plug a sponsor , it's always for a good cause.
@@ChaiLatte64 Nobody likes sitting through ads, etc, however, should we not financially support those that are doing good work? Most don't hesitate to accept ads and pay big corporations every day without a second thought. It does the world a disservice when the attitude of "good people should not be trying to make money with their good work" is perpetuated.
Keep in mind he was already a millionaire before the channel began. They recently had a deal with a seed company that gave them over $10mil.
@@emiwoo9355 I did not know that
100% on fruit trees. This year the Missus and I had more apricots than we knew what to do with. All of our friends and colleagues got a jar of jam and I got almost 2 liters of amaretto from this year's harvest.
A good fruit set will give you an embarrassment of riches.
I'm investing in a pressure canner for next year.
Does home grown apricot taste different than grocery store?
Are apricot trees easy to grow and take care of? Really want to add one to my collection! 💚
@@jackiek4159 We inherited the apricot when we bought our house. Once established, they seem to be quite hardy in zone 7a.
I'll have to try air layering this tree for some insurance scions, but given its vigor this season, I would say that getting an apricot through its first couple of years will result in a very healthy tree in the right climate. Given that apricots are from the Near East, I wouldn't go lower than zone 6a for cold hardy varieties, though some new types might be even more cold hardy. Be sure to check when you're purchasing.
Regarding the taste, homegrown can be picked at the peak of ripeness so will be sweeter, though this year I harvested mine a little on the tart side for better shelf life (and to prevent more loss from storms). The tarter ones also have a better texture when baked.
Same thing with our raspberries and red/white currant. I make jam and freeze them, and we never run out. I have an apricot tree and other fruit trees but I never had more than we could eat raw 😅
We have two apple trees and they were crazy this year. We are still eating apples, made a lot of apple puree, sooo many apple pies and we gave a lot of apples to friends and family. Fruit trees are a true life hack.
The only thing I would have added would be nut trees. In my Zone 8 I have hazelnuts, almonds, and pistachios. Walnuts and Pecans would grow here as well, but they're just too big for my small yard. As an aside, I would also mention herbs.
That would be awesome! Especially with the price of nuts!
About to tell you I have pecan tree sprouts I would be happy to give you. They are very big trees though. I have 2 that are at least 60 feet tall, maybe taller, and 1 that was hit by lightning and topped back, and it is still 35 feet tall.
Onion, clove of garlic, tomatoes, rhubarb chopped and stewed with 1/4 cup chick broth. Simmer and pour on top of chicken legs thighs or quarters. Salt and pepper to taste. Bake and enjoy. Savory Rhubarb dish.
Thank you!❤
Finally!! something besides pie lol
Thank you
Yum
As for "fartichoke" the tuber contains inulin, an indigestable form of sugar. If the tubers are pickled in vinager, the acid will help to convert the inulin into fructose.
Just planted my first sunchokes. I've never seen any plant grow that fast
Spreads like crazy too.
@@Gardenergal i planted them in the shade and they're doing great harvested 10 pounds last week from about 6 plants
hi dude, im not even to farming or agriculture, but when i saw your youtube shorts i was so hooked!, i was also shocked because back in elementary school gardening is so boring for me. But you're story telling and sharing knowledge is good. Keep up the good work! Respect👊
I inherited a rhubarb plant (variety unknown) that was first grown by my great grandfather around WW2- well, mine is technically a division of the crown, but im counting it as 75+ because why not. I'd say with a bit of digging, you can keep rhubarb going quite a while longer than 10 years!
dont forget jalapenos and bell peppers! in milder climates they are perennial's I have a few pepper plants on their second year (overwintered outside last year in their first year). Also orange trees, olive trees, roses, Beets (if youre trying to get their seeds making them biennial I suppose), pomes, tomatoes can even become perennial, blakcberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries etc
I have reset every bed in my garden. I have not left them bare, from your other video my chosen cover crop is brown and red borlotti beans. I actually hope they cross pollinate and produce more nutritional advanced brown - red beans 😁😁. Thks for the informative vid
I was told by my garden teacher that fermenting ”fartichoke” changes (or destroys) the nutrient that causes all those gases, and that it’s quite tasty too. I haven’t tried it yet since I don’t have a plant, but it’s on my list to try since it seems like a good perennial to have 🙂
Good to know! We have a ton of them and they love to multiply.
You can't go wrong with fruit trees! They are the best investment you can make for your garden! 🙌💚🍋
My parents has Rhubarb in the garden and those are huge compared to yours, maybe because they are old, and i didn't know that you could make pie with them usually my mother makes jam & (dulceață in Romanian) but before that you have to pell them, and you could use them in soups they give a sour taste and that's unique, very nice and informative video thanks for sharing 🫡👍🏻
I will use rhubarb to make a sweet & sour sauce for meats like pork, but in the USA, the main use is strawberry + rhubarb pie. (I prefer to mix rhubarb chunks with pie cherries for my pie, but rhubarb and strawberries are both ready to harvest early in the season in the cold climates where rhubarb prefers to grow. There may be analogous opportunities to mix rhubarb with haskap (Lonicera caerulea edulis)--probably needs tapioca or eggs to set because the haskap are mostly juice and would likely disintegrate on cooking--but haskap is barely known in the USA at present.
@@Erewhon2024 o thanks for sharing if I was you I will ad some pineapple tho the sauce ( it's just a thought) let me know how it turns out 🙏
I literally just harvested most of my sunchokes today. It's invasive lol reason number 1 for using raised beds. And to reduce the inulin content (the part that makes most of us pass wind), lacto-ferment. Bugs will eat up the inulin and convert to fructose. I've also heard you can par-boil with lemon juice to extract inulin, then roast or mash like potatoes. You don't need to suffer the wind.
My mother planted Jerusalem artichoke 30 years ago in her yard. After 3 years it’s become a big problem. We still fight with this very invasive plant. My mother’s garden in a zone 6 b.
Artichokes and Jerusalem artichokes are both in Asteraceae, the sunflower family. They are in different genera within Astereaceae though.
How about green onions? They've been so easy to care for. Reauire very little water. They last several years. The shortest was 2 but all the rest have been going for 5 years now. They don't mind a lot of heat and sun.
Green onions are incredible, the only bad thing about them is that they attract pests
On the beans...we planted Asian Yard Long Beans three years ago. They just keep coming back and are delicious!
I camp hosted at a state park in NW Montana. There is a massive rhubarb plant that comes back every year. It's at 3300 feet elevation and they are expecting snow this week. It still comes back, every year.
Rhubarb can go in any climate if you have the right type, my rhubarb plant can take 60 mph winds to -30 f temperature.
Cant wait to taste my asparagus! A couple of mine are shooting up stalks that are pencil sized now at the end of Year 2. Planted from seedlings. Planning to plant rhubarb next year since I didnt get it done this year.
Your garden is beautiful, the air is fresh and peaceful. Thank you for sharing your techniques when planting and caring for the garden.
3:18 It may depend on the variety, I’m not entirely sure, but there is a 50 year old rhubarb pant at my grandparent’s place! It’s an absolute beast, about 4 ft in diameter!💚
I will also note that I am in Western Washington zone 8b so that also could be part of it.
I grew up in BC. My grandmother had a rhubarb plant and made amazing pies and jams. When my parents got the house, they didn't want the plant😢. It took 3 years and finally digging a 6x6x4 hole (and replacing the soil) to get rid of it. It truly is a beast of a plant
Kevin, I've become a big fan of your channel especially since you live in San Diego. I'm in zone 9B out in Jamul so everything you grow and when has been extremely relevant to my wife and I's gardens. Love to see it!
Talk about perennial, I harvest asparagus from plants my grandmother put out more than 70 years ago, plus some I planted over 40 years ago.
Here in the mid-Atlantic states the fruit that is most trouble free and dependable is blueberries. We started with a few and divided and transplanted. This summer I harvested around 80 pints, stocked my freezer and gave away more than half of them.
A tip with messy asparagus ferns. I plat my asparagus. I get three small and close growing stems and plat them, just like you plat hair. Works great, they still get air and sunshine and they are upright, tidy and not shading the surround plants out.
Same as "braid"?
@@heather46918 Yes. Just like a braid. I am from Australia and it is called a plat over here. Cheers.
@@sandracastle9319 makes Scripture make sense, never heard that word used in modern times until now. Thanks for sharing about the asparagus, just planted my first this year.
@@heather46918 Maybe that tells you how old I am. Haha
@@sandracastle9319 or simply wise haha
Eric and Bethany is the same episode. Truly Epic! 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
I hope I'm lucky enough to meet Eric in real life one day 🤣
Rhubarb lasting ten years is a bit of a complicated topic. Because their root network gradually expands over time and needs to be split every 4-5 years, you can technically keep rhubarb going more or less indefinitely. The rhubarb in my garden was split from the rhubarb in my mom's garden, which was split from the rhubarb in my great-grandfather's garden, so depending how you count, you could argue that my rhubarb is at least 60 years old.
Love, love, love this topic!
Many of us wish we had all day to garden, but need to focus our time on the most productive tasks...and not always start over.
Thank you!
I find that it's not hard work to maintain a garden, it's taking smart action. What I do find is necessary, is just being in your garden -- eating, enjoying, watching the butterflies and bees. If you are working more in your garden than you are enjoying it, my opinion is that you are doing it wrong.
@@feralkevin I think I am doing it wrong. I definitely need to learn more!
I have had some success, but the squirrels seem to eat up everything that starts to grow. I don't mind feeding them, but my family would like some food also.
The thought of growing some perennials is cool to me.
@@momrocks9971 Are you new to gardening? What types of things have the squirrels been eating?
@@feralkevin yes I am. I am not a natural at all, but I am trying to learn.
Critters seem to eat anything small and green that starts to grow if if I don't have it covered with a cloche. Celery, all greens, swiss chard except one with a good cover. None of my berry plants lived, but I don't think that was the squirrels.
A pepper plant and lots of basil have survived. Now, some carrot tops and beets seem to be ok. Parsley has done ok if I transplant when bigger. A cucumber plant lived and we finally had something to harvest.
We had one melon make it to the size of a baseball - so exciting - then the next day it was completely gone - no trace or crumb left.
It could possibly be snakes, but we have only seen squirrels.
Our little dog ate some stuff, but then we switched to raised beds.
@@momrocks9971 You can check out my new course, free on TH-cam called Survival Gardening: Growing for Total Beginners. That might provide a framework that could help.
Whoa, Eric Gardening lives!
perennial food plants are going to be my focus for next year. I have 4 greenstalks worth of strawberries that I plan to baby all winter in my high tunnel (zone 7a Oklahoma). And my two giant goji berry plants have giant pots, but they really need their own bed somewhere. . . I like goji berries, but I'm not sure what to do with them. Lol!
Thank you for sharing this video. I am still trying to find my way around my small garden. Who is also a newbie? 🖐️
Could you keep the scarlet runner bean tuber dry and cool inside, replant it come early spring, and have it regrow then as a defense against rotting in moist soil?
Asparagus can go for up to 50 years. I have seen it.
Hmm. Consume garden real estate all year, for a small harvest in spring only. I'd rather plant greenbrier, unless I really needed something that can take saline soils. Even then, Atriplex is probably a better crop.
It's ponderous...
I've got an asparagus plant that was originally planted 35 years ago.
There's no way to know if the plants growing now are part of the OG root,
but over time,
they DO spread a bit,
so, there is THAT fact to ponder!
But your point is correct,
it IS a loooong term perennial !!!
I moved to my current home in the late 80s. There was already an asparagus patch growing. I still have that same patch of asparagus, it is probably over 40 years old. Two years ago, I thought I had accidently killed it, so I bought crowns and seeds and started a new patch of asparagus. My old patch came back. And now I have two patches of asparagus.
My rhubarb DIED this year. I have no idea how many rhubarb plants have died on me. . I am in zone 6b. Other people grow rhubarb here. It was the Victoria too. I keep trying it. I LOVE rhubarb.
We have a Rhubarb plant thats about 5-10 years old, I forgot how old, my Mum would know, always had Rhubarb every year, amazing taste and with a bit of cream never hurt.
my favorate perennial is the humble pigoen pea. It can give a lot pods and each pod produces 3 peas, it is a large growing, it has beautiful medium sized yellow flowers, but it only gives pods for 7 years. It needs only part shade. They do not take too long to sprot about average time for lagume. I love the taste green pigeon peas it tasts like soybean.
Nice! I've always wanted to know about survival crops like this or weeds you can grow as food. Just anything that is edible and keeps coming back or things like squash that last forever and have a good amount of volume. Wish i knew more. I know he tried to survive off his garden for a month and had trouble. Would love another attempt in a the next year. Im trying but i have hoa😢 indoor isn't enough
You can plant just about ANY food producing plant in your pristine HOA front yard landscape.
Just pop the food plants in between your meatball shaped boxwood, and the other non-native showy flowering plants you've got.
And hey - if you've got an HOA,
you MUST also have a BACKyard.
Why not plant a food garden back there?
They don't police your backyard too, do they???
@@gardengatesopen yeah she got my neighbor for putting in a little sugar maple. It's crazy. I wish we normalized edible ornamentals in the landscape more as a community but they're control freaks unfortunately. Just want a few acres in the middle of nowhere an I'll be happy haha
I don't have any property yet, but here's a few I'm considering if/when the time comes:
trees: mulberry, plum, chestnut
shrubs: blueberry, blackberry, prickly pear cactus, hazelnut
vines: groundnut (apios americana), maypop (passiflora incarnata), grape
herbaceous plants: strawberry, dandelion, jerusalem artichoke, walking onion
hope this gives you a few ideas :)
sweet potatoes by me grow like a weed. i grow em in barrels and pallet containers and sometimes i forget a vine or 2 and it grows under or behind and when i go to harvest i notice potato vines coming from my gorund and have been pulling slips year round. even my compost if i forget to check will have em growing from it. thankfully our farmers market we buy from is all organic so most of my compost starts growing
So stoked to harvest asparagus this year- they’re only on year 2, but they’re so beefy… I’m going to harvest a few this year 😊
Rhubarb is extremely high in oxalate. Do not feed to children or the elderly, or to anyone who has joint problems or has passed a kidney stone.
We all ate rhubarb as children back in the 70s. 😮 All still toes up. Maybe someone who has gout or arthritis should avoid? We ate it both raw and cooked. jelly, baked goods etc
Fake news! Oxalis acid is in the leafs which nobody eats….
@@7paula777once cooked, the oxalate breaks down. Since it’s primarily used in cooked dishes, that’s probably why you don’t have a problem. And, of course, it’s all in the dose.
OMG I love owls! Watched the link thank you for promoting this wonderful organization! 🙏🙏💖🦉
LOL. Wearing a Padres jersey while talking about Arti "choke."
Rhubarb stalks also contain oxalate. There's some chemicals that they sell in grocery stores for removing oxalate from food
I love perennials as a permaculture guy, but perennial vegetables have their share of issues as well. I am have been experimenting for 20 years with annuals, perennials, and mixing them together and have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't.
When would be the best time to transplant asparagus plants from starter plants to the ground?
I wonder if you could store the scarlet bean tubulars somewhere for the winter or just cover them with a bucket to keep water from rotting them.
Artichokes, we usually dig the roots out in the summer to separate the new parts from the old and replant them without the old part!
There;s a way to use rubarb like red bell pepper... I don't like pie so, I've done that. In california, I grow herbs as perennials, not just lavender butt basil, rosemary, jasmine, mint, etc. And wet tubers like calla lilies, canas.
Ooooh! The fartichoke is called topinambur where I live. Cool! Never tried it. I hope it won't be too "farty" for me. LOL Thanks for all the suggestions!
LOL ERIC
Do you eat scarlet runner beans? I grew them one season but wasn’t impressed with the beans…. But they are so pretty!
I dug mine up late winter and and fried them to see what they tasted like. They taste much like a potato and no gas. I think them freezing before and also cooking is why no gas.
Asparagus can last for hundreds of years if properly maintained. Plant near a small stream where often wild asparagus can be found.
Growing up, we would eaat sunchokes sliced thin and as an extra added to the tops of salads.
Fun fact, the name "Jerusalem artichoke" comes from a mispronunciation of the Italian word "girasole" which means "sunflower." The artichoke part comes from how it tastes like an artichoke to some, and it is related since both are in the Asteraceae family. So sunchoke is the name I prefer for _Helianthus tuberosus._
I don't grow the tree kale because it makes kale.
I've had better luck with Homesteader's Perennial Kale than with the tree kale. It's a more ancestral variety of kale that does not die off after going to seed in the spring. While it was difficult to get started due to all the pests around here, my plants that survived last winter went to seed and then kept growing strong. I've used the seeds to start dozens more. They'll have a random assortment of genetic traits, so it's interesting to see what you get.
@7:10 Kevin must wake up each morning with a nice, cold glass of hater-ade
😂😂😂😂
technically sunchokes are related to artichokes, they are both in the daisy/sunflower family Astersceae!
♥️♥️♥️ asparagus + artichokes - thistley poinky medicines!
go 2 zones colder when picking trees? ok I'll go grab some zone 1 cactus
Thank ya'all! 😊
Asparagus is great - then someone who is supposed to be pulling weeds in the walkways goes into the beds and pulls them out (during a few minutes of them not being supervised). *sigh* They got tossed into a shredder and destroyed by the time I got back out there. 😢
Loved my spring Asparagus in Pennsylvania.
I didn't know you could propagate kale from cuttings! With regular kale/brassicas too or mostly just that walking kale variety?
me 2 minutes in: oh, a special guest? is it eric?
me 12 minutes in: YESSSSSSSSSSS
Kevin do you companion plant strawberries etc with asparagus or best alone for planting asparagus?
I wonder if pressure cooking will destroy the compounds that make you gassy when you eat Fartichoke like with beans.
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I love Rhubarb 😊
But live in 9B in NE Florida. Do you think it would do better in a deep container instead of in the ground?
I can chase the shade if it is portable!
SUNCHOKES MENTIONED!!!
I dont know who started it but people keep parotting that that "sunchoke is in the sunflower family and not the artichoke family". Sunchoke and annual sunflowers are in the same genus Helianthus (pretty darn closely related) which is part of the sunflower family Asteraceae. Artichoke is in the genus Cynara which is more distantly related to sunflowers than sunchoke; but nonetheless is in the sunflower family Asteraceae.
Also most varieties of sunchoke do spread, however the variety Supernova makes all of its tubers close to the base of the plant. There is also a truly dwarf 18 inch tall variety whose red tubers form right on the stem.
Rhubarb leaves can be soaked in water and sprayed as a pesticide
WHAAAAT.... WHAT'S ERIC DOING HERE?!?? He's supposed to be dead!! 😂😂😂😂😂 loved the surprise 😂😂😂
Jesrusalem Articoke is called Topinambur in Germany ^^
Kevin's alter ego, "Eric" has (sort of)😂a rougher "aesthetic".😂Well done!
10:23 How to prepare for winter in colder climates?
Peppers are my favorite homegrown ammo
Try making a blueberry rhubarb pie. You won't be disappointed
Can you plant asparagus in a large raised bed or only in the ground? I'd love to plant some, but I've seen mixed reviews on what is best.
12:32 finally Eric has embraced his inner Eric lol 😂
Perennials are the best!!
With enough rhubarb you can make wine which is very good. Pies are good but wine will can be better.
Mulberry is by far the easiest tree to grow and the fruit is very healthy
back to basics. excellent
Love your videos man. But can you continue to start them off by popping up as if from nowhere? Much love from South Australia.
Very nice information for plants
Oh snaps! Eric is back 🤣
Dang! I was hoping Okinawa spinach would make the list...!
More perennials pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I planted artichoke one season… from seed. I got like 2 tiny heads and they werent that good at all. Super disappointed in it. And I’m in SW KS… not sure if that helps any?
Where did you get tree collards from???
Eric is on more than just perennials if you catch my drift