Sow THESE PLANTS ONCE & HARVEST Them FOREVER! Part 9-CREATING a PERMACULTURE PARADISE & FOOD FOREST!
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- There is nothing better than being able to harvest vegetables between late March and early May without having had to plant them that year! That's the idea of a food forest! Plant your perennial vegetables and herbs and fruit trees, and so on, ONCE, and harvest them forever! In today's video, I am going to show you those plants that will give you fresh greens from the garden in early spring (March to May!), maybe earlier in warmer climates! And I'm going to show you other uses these same plants have in your garden at the same time!
I'm 20 years old. And I invest in my future by planting a permacultural paradise, I picked up another peach tree yesterday
That’s fantastic! You’re also investing in the planet’s future! Planting a tree is a true act of faith in the future.
I'm 42 and have two kids your age. It's so cool to hear you're mind is on real things that are important!
Very good I wish I had started that young. I forage now working like he shows. I'm glad we exist. I hope it spreads where one day people are teaching it to their kids. It would be an amazing world
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That is why I do these videos! I hope more and more people learn to live like this, in harmony with nature.@@PrettyBlueSkyeEyes
I've subsribed!! Great Tips...
Synopsis:
- Sorrel
- Evening Primrose (harvest in spring)
- Oregano
- Rosemary
- green onion (cut come again - don't take the main leaf- stop in June)
- chives
- Walking Onion - Egypt (July & August Harvest)
- dandelion - is sweet before the flower shoots out. Powder the root and it will be a coffee drink but non caffeine - when flowers are fresh pick'em & stuff as many into a jar as you can fill with water and rest 24hrs - strain add some sugar and boil to reduce water = dandelion honey ❤
- chicory root
- comfrey
- kale & lettuce
- stinging nettle (cut it back & steep it, arthritis cure )
- wormwood (tinctures & bug repellent)
- Curly Dock ( little bitter to eat / rub on beestings - pain gone in 30 seconds)
- lemon balm
- mint
- Rhubarb (cleans arteries)
Thank you! Great synopsis! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Awesome!
Thank you! ❤️
a huge thank you!!!
Your're welcome! It's a pleasure!@@jessicasand9381
Love the succinct, calm manner in which you teach about permaculture....love the scenery and sound of the water. It's a joy to watch, learn, and be reminded in a way, to live a more sustainable, natural life, without sounding a doomsday alarm. I have subscribed. Thank you, from Texas 🤠
Thank you! And welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
16 years keeping my 1 acre Permaculture food forest, Zone 6 with very reliable rain region. I would recommend planting Rapini, a type of very hardy broccoli, produces small florettes, survives through winter, and produces abundant seeds to reseed itself year after year. Really enjoyed this video, big thanks! 🍎
Thank you! I will definitely try that. Probably still plenty of time this season to plant it! And thanks for watching!
Thanks!
You're welcome!@@carolschedler3832
It never ceases to amaze me all the things God has provided. Yes! Let’s get back to the basics. VERY inspiring video. We homestead/learn at home with our 5 and grow many of these. You’re an excellent teacher. Blessings from Nova Scotia ❤
Thank you Heidi! God bless you and your family.
Tincture of Wormwood - Artemisia- heals and strengthens broken bones. It works.
I’ll have to learn how to do tinctures. It’s on my list. 😊
Enjoyed the video. You have a cool teacher mentality, not taking everything to seriously. I hope to grow as wise as you :)
Thank you! This means a lot to me.
Now this is the kind of garden video worth watching, one where you actually learn something. Many of us are in the learning stages and even though we may already have some knowledge, you’ve given my husband and I more tips and tricks. These days it’s extremely important to educate ourselves on home gardening and stay away from the grocery store food as much as possible. We really stretched our budget a few years ago and invested in a 20’x24’ greenhouse, best decision ever!
Thank you from Rose Bay, N.S. ☀🇨🇦
Thank you for sharing, I'm glad you found the video useful! Yes, for us too, the greenhouse was a stretch this year! Well worth it! However, I went many many years without it!
Thank you so much for this encouraging video. I've been gardening ever since 1976. I'm still learning.
Thank you! It’s a real pleasure!
I have about 50 billion dandelions on my property (maybe more!). I tried the dandelion "coffee" for the first time this year. It's delicious. I heard that cleavers (sticky willies) have caffeine, apparently you roast the seeds!! I also have lots of that. I'm in N Germany and similar climate to you, bit warmer this year I think. There's a kind of tea bush that has caffeine and will grow in my climate, but it's really hard to get. I'm on the waiting list in one place.
I have the knack of getting nettles without gloves. Grab stem from underneath. I have plenty on my land, in fact I'll be trying to get some up in my new garden area I'm starting this year in my super sunny corner of my field.
I would love some Walking onions...
I have some dock growing in my pathway next to my pak choy. I've left it, because it has been ravaged by some bug or other ... But my pak choy, and the field beans opposite are untouched! I like letting Nature do its thing!
Nettles spread easily. Be careful where you put them in the garden. We harvest heavily to keep them in check. Dock is great if you have it available all over the place. So with the dandelion coffee, did you roast and then grind the roots?
Plant some evening primrose too. Every part of it is edible like dandelion but sweeter.
Check out this short about evening primrose:
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@@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you!
You're welcome!
When it comes to gardening I can listen all day. Lots of good info.
Thank you so much Rebecca! I am glad you enjoy our videos!
One of my goals in developing our growing systems, whether in the food forest or the more conventional garden areas, is to get food plants to naturalize and proliferate, such that my "weeds" are all food ;)
That’s the idea! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Smart!
There are so many plants considered weeds that are nutritious and edible!
Well until I get out of this city/apt living, I am growing my beard as long as yours😂🎉
😊😊😊Does your city have community gardens you could have access to?
I can see clearly now
That's wonderful!@@janea.miller7489
Stinging nettle and potato soup is delicious!
Thank you for the idea!
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture it is a very 'creamy' and yet nutritious soup. I can drop a link to the chap who I learnt to make it if you want?
I would like that, thank you!
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This is delicious! th-cam.com/video/4xgwlO5LYU0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zuNczfWSCpCeRxrJ
Thank you!
Dandelion root is great to roast and make a tea. Great for UTI’s, bladder and kidney health. It’s a diuretic so expect to urinate often.
Thank you for sharing! 😊 And thanks for watching!
I enjoyed the video, thank you! We are harvesting dandelions, walking onions, chives, Miner’s Lettuce, chickweed, sorrel, and some kale and tatsoi, which overwintered. Great fun!
That’s great! Tatsoi is one I’d like to do. I’m not familiar with chickweed. I’ll have to give it a try. And thank you for the comment!
❤ wow man. I live in zone 5 and 6 Chicago. I finally been bless with a 1/2 plot. Went over board in planting stuff. Too excited 😊 thank for video..
It's a pleasure. Yeah, I know about going overboard. Sometimes, you plant so much, nothing has any space. Spacing is important. That's the subject of the next video.
Always enjoy your videos. We are receiving some much needed rain here in the Ozarks. Been enjoying the first strawberries and asparagus of the season. The walking onions have fallen over and started walking. I started a wine cap mushroom bed.Thanks for the information you provided. Best wishes
Wow! You’re walking onions put out their onion tops early! Mine don’t put them out till July. Of course that’s probably because I harvest the greens until early June, then let them do their thing.
Grew up in Dodd city Arkansas way better growing season then where I live now.
@@onestar1017 what is your climate zone?
We live in Mt Grove so not too far from your area. How and where did you get your wine caps . I haven't researched them but I would love to try to grow them. Thank you
Do you mean the black cap raspberries? I looked up wine caps and found a type of mushroom we don't have.@@ladawilson9265
Dandelion roots and leaves are medicinal also, you can dry the leave and use it as a tea ,and dry the root and tincture it. It helps the kidney's and bladder. Dandelion is a natura diuretic and it help with stomach issues like upset stomach and things like that.
Thank you! It’s so important to share this info so people can learn to appreciate the dandelions that are all around us anyway!
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture your welcome sir.
Hi, love your video and your wisdom.
Great attitude and gratitude. Gardens help us feel nurtured and happy.
Thank you so much Pamela! I am so grateful for so much! Gardens and nature do all of that and keep us healthy too!
I'm in zone 5a and grow perennial tubers for survival sustenance. Skirrett is the most delicious root crop ive ever tasted, and the first year expect maybe 5-10 offsets per mother plant, so you quickly can get many beds going in only 1-2 years. Red and black courrants (after 5 years) and rhubarb gives a wonderful juice with huge amounts of vitamin C. Orange daylilly tubers are loaded with stored energy, you dont need to eat many. Jerusalem artichokes are absolutely delicious crunchy pickles brined for 1-2 weeks (1 tablespoon salt in canning jar of tubers) and the enzymes do the predigestion and if fermented long enough it loses the fartyness, youll be able to tell :). There is so much more to learn. Nodding onion and wild ramp like being in the woods. Blazing star and camassia quamash are great dividers, they were used by the indians as a food source. Forage for solomons seal in the woods, you can break the root in half and replant it and keep the larger half so you dont diminish your food supply. Garlic is just great also, potatoes are great, you can leave them in the ground, and no matter how well I harvest them, I get volunteers next year. Pokeweed leaves/stalks when young are one of my favorite foodsources, just as good as asparagus which absolutely needs full sun; pokeweed does not.
Thank you for all of this George! I have never heard of skirrett. I'm going to look it up. I'm still waiting for my daylillies, nodding onions and sunchokes to appear to do a video about them. I forgot to show our ramps. Thank you for the info on fermenting the sunchokes. I love them, but do they ever give me gas! I'm going to try that. I also am not familiar with camassia quamash. I'm going to look it up. Glad to know about the blazing star being easily dividable, thank you! I didn't know they were edible, same for the solomons seal - I'm going to look both up! We've got both here! Our potatoes volunteer all the time too! It's something I didn't know until it happened! I'm going to look for getting some pokeweed. I don't think we have any. Thank you for this detailed comment!
Thank you for info just learning
It's a pleasure! Thank you for sharing!@@bettynickelson779
An easy and great way to eliminate ' fartyness' is to cook with Aesofotedia ..available at your local India grocery store. It does smell odd when uncooked, but when cooked has a delicious shallots plus garlic flavor.
You need just 1/4 tsp or so. Put it in the oil before sauting whatever you r cooking. Healthy too.
I lived in zone 5a and Solomon Seal were always random. I cd never get to transplant them.
I love the Burdock. And how their leaves turn upwards before the rain.
Thank you for the recipe! I'll look for the aesofotedia next time I'm in town.
I have just discovered your channel and subscribed. Myself and my husband are doing the same thing on a half acre. We live on the edge of a wooded area. We have chickens and quarter acre garden. I left the trees and use no chemicals. We are retired so it is just the two of us. We are in N. Georgia. Looking forward to watching your videos! They say wirmwood is good for cancer.
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! That’s fantastic - all the best with your garden and chickens! I would like to learn how to safely use wormwood. So far, I have not found a lot of info. I have tons of wormwood. For now, I simply enjoy brushing on the plant as I go by, it acts as a repellent and we use it also as a structurally visual plant to frame otherwise empty areas because it grows big and you can shape it easily.
I subscribed. Very informative. Thank you.
It's good for cancer because it's an anti-parasitic. 😊
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!@@judybroshears7974
What a great video. I learned a great deal. Thank you!!!
Thank you Cheryl! It’s a pleasure!
Qué bueno que llegué para ver el en vivo. Saludos Familia !!!!
Gracias. Hola! Disculpa. No pude estar. La pila de mi cellular se descargó. Apenas llegué a casa.
Just found your channel and also am southern Ontario, can’t wait to learn from a local gardener !
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
Hi from Mid-Michigan 👋
And hello from Ontario! 😊
Using rubber gloves under your garden gloves, it stops your hands getting stung.
Thank you for the tip! ☺️
Useful stakes
Thank you!
Dandelion flower fritters are delicious.
That sounds great! 😋
Oh , your so sweet. I love the peace that comes from your pace....movement. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be negative. It was a great video. I'm just being impatient. In other words it's me ,not you. You had so much good information
And thank you for sharing all your wisdom and experience!
Thank you Shelley. And thank you for taking the time to share your comments.
Thank you for all your knowledge! This was very helpful and I learned some new things. The stuff you weren't sure about is definitely catnip 🙂
Thank you Marleen. I found our lemon balm. I knew I had some somewhere (we have catnip all over the place on the other hand). I found the lemon balm at the foot of the raspberries beside the bee hive.
Yippee ❤
Gardening is a great blessing and resource for the best of everything. Exercise, bountiful harvests, learning and transformational energies in alignment with love and harmony with respect for the Earth. All good things ❤
Thanks for sharing your time and expertise with us ❤
Thank you for watching and sharing your comment! All so true! ❤
Pick, pick ,pick
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Love your work
Thank you!
Thanks for all the great tips. That’s great that you utilize your dandelions. I have started drinking dandelion tea as well. It is a natural detoxifier for the liver and kidneys. I hadn’t heard of the lemon sorrel plant you talked about. I will have to give that a try.
You're welcome! Thank you for sharing! Sorrel is something good to add to meals for those few weeks in the spring when things are just getting started, but definitely not meant to be a staple. It's healthier to boil or steam it, but we also eat it raw.
Wow, I am so much smarter after watching this video! Thank you.
It's a pleasure! Thank you for watching and sharing your comment!
Thank you for sharing about the early greens in forest garden! I have planted lots of berry shrubs, etc. But didn't think of the greens! I enjoyed watching and will be back again to learn more!
Thank you Suzanne! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
Formidable vidéo bravo 😊
A bientôt
Merci beaucoup! Un plaisir de recevoir un commentaire de vous! Je suis désolé que dernièrement il y a moins de vidéos en français. Avec le printemps et le travail dans le jardin, il y a moins de temps pour toutes les vidéos.
I was about to.comment about chicory after your dandelion but you beat me to it. Great video, enjoyed it. Thanks!
Thank you! ❤
I love this video!
I have been studying permaculture and beekeeping casually for a while now. This year I invested a lot of time and money to increase my properties production.
I'm also trying to work with the weeds not against them. I made my first dandelion tea last week and it was good. I'll have to try the honey idea!
That’s fantastic! And thank you! In part of my next video, I will be harvesting dandelion flowers and making the honey.
This is a wonderful channel. Thank you
Thank you so much! 🙏
I've grown over 100 rhubarb plants from seed, the first year they need to be babied, they are huge full sized plants by year 3.
That’s great to know! Thank you! I’ve never grown them from seed. Next year, I am going to let one of my plants go to seed and give it a try!
Thank you for this very informative video! I have started a food forest in Eastern Nova Scotia. In terms of perennial vegetables we have rhubarb, walking onions, dandelions(galore, asparagus and oregano. You have inspired me to find some sorrel, and try the red lettuce and Russian Kale. I’m watching in late May, and staring at loads of yellow dandelions! I may try the honey! I’ve subscribed and look forward to learning more! Much appreciated!
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! Let me know how the honey goes! I did a video in which I prepared the honey. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/TmS8caww7A8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=URlkt-x_VfG1FBqM
Thank you, for making this video.
It’s a great pleasure! Thank you for sharing!
I drink dandy lion root. It is very good. I drink it hot like coffee and I also use one teaspoon and make it like iced tea. It is very good both ways.
Very healthy! Thank you for sharing!
Love videos like this. Please keep us posted on your methods
Thank you! ❤️ Will do!
Thank you so much for the video and knowledge! I found your channel today and I am just getting started on my homesteading/food forest journey in North Carolina (Zone 7b).
Still very much a beginner but am excited to learn and slowly scale my home toward self-sustainability!
That’s fantastic! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! I hope our videos are helpful!
Love the music and the video at the end. Wonderful! Love it! ✌️
Thank you! I'm glad you took the time to watch all the way to the end. I like ending my videos with something peaceful, meditative and beautiful, after all the talk! 😊
Dude your voice makes me sleepy so calming lol
😆That’s great. You’ll remember the videos better.
Loved your video ❤ I wish I’d learnt all this many years ago but better late than never. I’ve made careful notes and added other plants to the list that can be treated like broccoli’s 2 year initial planting cycle. Very excited. I need more land. Subscribed. ❤
Thank you! You can do all of this in small areas too! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
Great video thank you.
Thank you!
I'm new to your channel and glad that I've found it. I'm a city dweller right now and finishing up a long career but i have lots of relatives that are mostly rural and have had the privilege of growing their own foods. My mistake is that I felt that there would be no way for me to grow most of what I eat so year to year i would try growing a handful of things like, tomatoes, pickles, cucumber, Brussel sprouts, zucchini, peppers red and green, onions, jalapeños, green onions, carrots and the list goes on. Not all at once just a few each year and some of those that I mentioned didn't do well at all. I didn't let that stop me and i hope to someday soon move to a location where I have a little more space and resources (like neighbors such as yourself that have an abundance of knowledge on how to grow) I enjoyed your video and information as well as the encouragement. Thank you for sharing of you knowledge and I wish you much happiness.
Thank you Len! It sounds like you’re halfway there with your experience. You can definitely do it. Today’s video talks about how you can maximize space (so you can apply it to your city garden)! Thank you for sharing, it means so much to me. All the best!
Very informative. Enjoy the rain, looks like it will be followed by some warm sunny weather
Thank you! Yes you were correct. Sun these past few days. But now another several days of rain. A very spring like spring this year!
Thank you sir
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Awesome 🙌
Thank you! ❤️
hostas are another perennial plant that is edible. good replacement for asparagus, lettuce, or spinach if needed and tastes good imo. flowers edible garnish, leaves can be wraps, shoots good.
Thank you! Also if you plant them far from the garden, you might steer the deer away from the garden, because they like them too, apparently.
Loved your video, stumbled on it today
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Thanks for the lovely information
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Love the knowledge thank you for sharing
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Whoa, you could literally be Mr Stephen Jenkinson's doppelganger! 🙏🏽
That's interesting.😊 Thank you for your comment.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Of course! Brillant, brilliant man...and SO ARE YOU!
Thank you. 🙏🙂
Awesome video. Very informative. Thank you. God bless
Thank you! God bless you too!
Thank you, i did not know that dandelion leaves get bitter when they start to flower! I have always only picked them during and post flowering periods. My go to was evening primrose as it is a sweeter eating plant.
It’s a pleasure. I love evening primrose root! This year I am going to try the leaves.
I enjoyed this video so much I subscribed! I hope I get to enjoy many more videos about food forests and specific plants you use Jin your permaculture system ❤️
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! 😊 Yes, I’m just getting started! Finally, the growing season is here and there will be so much to show and share!
I think curly Doc is a companion to stinging nettle. Once I got into stinging nettle in France and the woman grabbed Doc and rubbed it on and the stinging stopped immediately
That’s correct. You can often find them growing together! Burdock too.
Permaculture is the way to go folks😊😊😊!!!
Thank you!
Thank you. I learned a lot. Loved it! 😊
It’s a great pleasure! Thank you!
I also just found you today!! Thank you so much for all the wonderful information.
I’m grateful and encouraged to try this ♥️♥️♥️
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Love your video. Thank you so much. Be well.
Thank you! I’m glad you liked the video!
❤ 👨🏻🌾 This is such a great video, that I've just subscribed. This is one of the most informative videos I've ever seen. And, I love your philosophy, calmness and kindness. Thank you for all your advice 🙏🏻👩🏻🌾
Thank you so much! ❤️ Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
Finally met my twin 😅😂😅
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Hello Canada! My grandmother and mother always planted food that lived basically forever
That’s fantastic! What were their favourites?
Great video!
Thank you!
Absolutely wonderful great info
Thank you!
Thank you! Great video.
It's a pleasure. I'm glad you liked it!
I love your videos and style of growing with permaculture and observations but feels very approachable and not too intense! The exact style I’m trying and going for! Look forward to more content and continuing to learn from you!
Thank you! I think it is an approach that truly allows people to learn with confidence. I also just enjoy doing it that way.
Thanks for sharing
It’s a pleasure. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
new subscriber, very informative video. will be watching more i hope
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There is also wild arugula that comes up every year for me in the PNW. I just found out about it about 4 years ago. Thought it would do well in your garden too. 🐿️
Thank you. I have some arugula I will soon transplant. Is wild arugula the same as the stuff we plant in vegetable gardens, if I let it go to seed?
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I don’t think so, as it just comes up like a perennial every year in the same place. It tastes the same though as the kind from seed. I just never had good luck with the seed kind.
I'm gonna see if I can find some.😊
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I enjoyed your video. I have lots of wild flowers also the dandelion and the purselane. I’m still learning.
Thank you! Purslane’s great! It starts. Little later here.
I live in Alberta and I’m just starting my permaculture gardens around a farm we’ve inherited. I’m finding that it’s extremely difficult to find many perennial plants which are known to be beneficial. Sunchoke, horse radish and Egyptian Onion. All very difficult to source. On the positive side, there’s a business opportunity out there!
Thanks for the info! My list is growing exponentially ☺️
A subscriber told me Mapple Farm in New Brunswick sells them. The mini onions could probably be sent by mail. I suppose I could do the same. Ours are ready in August. Contact me then if you haven't found someone. I first got mine from a friend. Are you part of any local gardening social networks. There might be a gardener close to you who has them, the sunchokes, horse radish and so much else. Also, try to search for native plant nurseries in Alberta. They will have the native fruiting plantings that would do well in Alberta, for example.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture thank you for the response! I’m just starting out and finding that it’s not as easy to find things as I thought it would be. Once I find growers/suppliers I’ll spread the word. You’re very inspiring!
Thank you! Yes, finding good suppliers was our priority, especially of native plants, but also of vegetables seeds, until we could build up our own seed collection.
Thank You!☮️💜🌈🌱
It's a real pleasure! Thank you for the comment!
I'd like to take a closer look at the plants to recognize them, I think ignorantly we stomp on some of them and don't take advantage of them
I’ll do a better job at getting visuals of plants in upcoming videos. Thank you.
I appreciate your work doing this video on your garden, but mate you’ll starve trying to survive on what you have. Comrade you and your mate need to think big and a Thousand times what you’re showing here in this video. Maybe you should look at the forest around you go out and plant there to increase your yield. Just a thought mate. Maybe try some Amaranth, Jerusalem Artichoke which has a root stock similar to , not a look a like but still a Potato. Amaranth has edible leaves and seed. Look it up for your self. I tried what what your trying now with a garden and let me say hunger is no fun. Plant Chicory to go along with the Dandelion Root. Make a great tasting Coffee substitute. Plant a llex Vemitoria part of the Holly family that contains 5 to 10 times the Caffeine of any other plant including Coffee. Look this up to because you need to know to prepare this so it doesn’t live up to its name. Just a few thoughts that might help you. Comrade, you’ll need at least 50 Wild Edibles different plants to survive. More if you can plant them. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips with me.😊
Thank you for sharing this comment. I appreciate the time and thought you put into it. I guess I need to be clearer in my videos. This video was a snapshot of what is available in March, when most people think there is nothing in my area. We harvest it while still making meals with harvests of so many other things stored from last fall, which we will continue to have well into the summer. Most of what you mention, we also have here, but it hasn’t started its season yet, so no video yet for that. I like to do the videos at the right time. (I talk about this around 1:34). The sunchokes will start to come up in a few weeks, the amaranth too. Just to mention a couple. We have a couple of thousand species on our land that we are aware of. Not all edible, but hundreds and hundreds that are. Over the year, we’ll get through them all in the videos. I would have to do a several hour (or dozens of hours) video to cover them all in one. Check out some of our other videos, and you'll get a bigger picture. Of course, they're only just beginning! 😊
Have you tried to harvest the onions, cutting the bulb off, leaving 0,5cm of the bulb and the roots in the ground. They regrow with 3-5 thinner stems that can be harvested again.
I will definitely try that. Thank you Nadietta!
Boiling sting nettle takes the sting out? I boiled and poured off the water of polk salad 3 times but never ate stinging nettle, just always tried to stay away from it when riding horses in pastures lol!
When my daughter was 5 years old, biking with me along a trail, she biked right into a thicket of stinging nettle. Got it all over her legs and arms. Luckily there was a huge burdock plant next to it (which is often the case). I grabbed a couple of leaves, and rubbed all the areas down, and she was better in less than a minute, but she was crying with pain when it happened.
I am building a heritage garden and i can already tell you need to be careful about introducing any plants that spread readily. At the same time thesr are going to be some of the highest yeild plants you can have. It is a balance shifted by the amount of caretaking you are willing and able to do.
That’s right. However, even if you don’t put in a fast spreader, nature will put one in for you. So one way or another, there’s caretaking to do. The thing that makes it easier is when you find uses for almost everything that grows!
I let three of my capsicum/pepper plants stay in place instead of pulling them out like I usually do and they grew leaves and more capsicums the next season. Many obviously can if you can spare the space to leave them be for another giving season.
Thank you for your comment. 😊Years ago, when living in an apartment doing balcony gardening, I did that once - brought them inside to overwinter them. It’s too cold in the winter here for the peppers to survive.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I’m in Melbourne, Australia and we don’t get snow which I am happy about. It is a temperate zone.
Yes, that must be really nice. Is there a time of year when you can rest a little from the gardening?@@gayedawn1
Chives would do nicely in your food forest. Once they bloom the green becomes like a stalk and not easily eaten. The chive blossoms are very tasty in salads or sprinkled over soups. Un
Thank you! We have chives too. I always forget to show them, because they are in the small gardens right next to the house, convenient for the kitchen!
I have Artichokes that never need watering you just cut down the old stock before spring. chive onions, garlic, strawberries.
That's fantastic! We've got chives too, in our flower gardens, and also in the contour of the main garden. I think I'll film them when they're flowering! We have to wait another month for our strawberries, and the garlic will be ready in July.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I have been planting strawberry, garlic and kale in the same beds and rows, they do well with compost tea containing crab, salmon and urine, been using 30 half gallon containers of wet weeds to extract the micro slugs from the bed.
@@woodchipgardens9084 that’s fantastic!
So curly dock and plantain both good for stings.
Yes. And burdock which I will show when it grows is good for stinging nettle sting.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Stinging nettle is great for arthritis. You actually lightly hit the area that hurts with the plant. Stinging nettle tea is good for seasonal allergies. I've never done it, but I understand that nettle fibers can be used for weaving cloth.
That's really interesting about the arthritis. It doesn't surprise me that something so powerful, like the sting of a plant, would carry with it healing powers. We just had stinging nettle soup today. It was delicious!
Noticed you are in long sleeves. We are in hot southmost Texas 😅
Thank you for your comment. You’ll see me in long sleeves even in almost 90F weather while the mosquitoes are around. 😊 The sleeves will be lighter though.
Just had a second thought. You have a fantastic stream. Are there water plants that can be grown also. I’m sure there is a bullrush or something that you can eat the roots.
Thank you! Yes, we have bull rushes and cattails. But they hadn't really started to show anything when I recorded this. So you'll see them in another video later! Thank you for sharing!
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture oh fantastic, can’t wait to see that one 😊
Thank you!
Love your information on sorrel! I have been hunting it in ontario forever, and at grocery stores, they dont even know what im talking about. I am also in Ontario - Burlington. Do you hqve any advice where i could get sorrel seeds, so i could start growing it, please?
Much appreciated ❤
If you send me a self-addressed envelope with postage, I could send you some seeds.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture is there a private way to contacted you?
I would love to send you a self addressed envelope and have some seeds, please and thank you 😊
@@kasiaio go to the links page from there you can find my Facebook profile and from there you can send me a message through Messenger. You can also contact me through our website: willowsgreenpermaculture.com
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I followed your page on FB and messaged you :) Most likely, the message went to "other" folder. I wanted to comment on your post, but for some reason, I am not able to. I hope you get my message :)
Thank you. I got your message. Even this one was held in review folder until I noticed it today.@@kasiaio
Where did you get your Egyptian walking onions from? Lots of good information, love to listen and learn more!
I got a few of the small onions from friends. I’ve never actually seen them for sale in nurseries.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I wondered, ok thanks!
If I ever see them for sale in a catalogue, I'll mention it in a community post on the channel.@@robertahinsperger9231
A subscriber in Nova Scotia said they got their walking onions from Maple Farm, in New Brunswick. So there's one source! 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Territorial Seed in Oregon carries the seeds and I think I saw them listed in a Burpee catalogue, too.
Have grown plants for many years and have tried dandelion many times. It has never been palatable. Wish I could eat them though.
I tried the coffee thing this week. Same. Bitter. But I harvested the dandelions in bloom. Next year, I'm going to be ready, and I'm going to harvest some nice big roots in early spring before the flower buds appear, and see if that works. The leaves are quite good at that time of year, but very bitter as soon as the buds start growing. We don't eat them alone, we add them to salads, and we make a sweet salad dressing as well, or add fruit to the salad.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Appreciate the info. I try to enjoy everything that naturally grows in the area where I live. Will try the dandelions next year earlier still. Even if I may not like a particular plant it is still fun for me to know what can be eaten if necessary.
@@rickskeptical that’s right. Same here, there are edible plants I have but don’t harvest - just keep them around just in case, and to share info like this.
I've made a delicious pesto with dandelion leaves. It doesn't freeze as well as a basil pesto, so best eaten freshly made.
It sounds great! Thank you!
Any man with a beard like that knows what he’s talking about
Thank you! 😊
My mum makes soup from sorrel
That’s great! ❤️ Do you have a recipe?
Sorry mate can u provide a list of green to grow that I can keep seeds. Thank. ❤ Chicago
Pretty well everything mentioned in this video. I will do a video about this question though. I think lots of people would find it useful. I would include a large number of plants.
I want to grow food plants inside a vehicle, specifically a minivan. Using human waste like greywater.
A great idea! See if you can cut a skylight into the roof of it!