I live in the Abruzzo region of Italy and this stuff is so prolific here that it even grows on the side of the road. I eat gobs of it every day. I have 8 plants going but while I’m waiting for them to mature, I’m foraging most of it right now. It never stops. This is one of the most kick ass hearty plants I’ve ever seen. All year it’s giving you something.
Yeah, but it's like dating advice from dudes in NYC. There's so many women that any man can get a date. This 5 acres is in a Florida climate, and when there's a place so green there's usually a reason = it rains and it's humid and warm. Try growing stuff in a place where it don't rain, hot & dry summer, bitter cold winters, and soil like concrete
@@pappyfiddle Every region has it's challenges, I am >1000kms south of Mark, but I can still grow this. Mark has to irrigate his property, this is Australia, we lurch between droughts and flooding rain. Mark has a video about what happened to his garden when he went on holidays and had the irrigation turned off.
Please more cooking the veggies. This is very helpful as well as the gardening and growing tips. Veggie storage and persevered like picking and canning too.
You’re doing some great work brother! You make me smile and feel happier with the empowering info you give freely to the world. I wish you were my next door neighbour.
I really learned something here! I had not heard of this plant before. My problem has been the very quick bolting of my greens. Because of space limitations I have been doing "bucket" gardening wherein the 5 gallon buckets on recycled pallets on top of recycled patio tables serve as my raised beds. Relatively good results for tomatoes and peppers but my greens only last a few weeks before bolting to seed. So, this spinich looks to be an answer! Thanks again, and as always KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!
You never need to boil greens or other brassicas. Just chop and add to a pan with a splash of olive oil and garlic salt and a sprinkle of water. Cook on medium heat for a few mins but watch it. The veg should be steamed nicely in its own juices.
My wife just started making a dish very similar with spinach and bacon bits but she used mini-muffin bake pans. You can freeze them and reheat 3 or 4 for breakfast. Yours looked delicious!!
I absolutely love watching your videos, you're so enthusiastic and happy to share information!! Thank you for sharing, and your suggestions are VERY well noted for future reference!!
Thanks Mark, I went to my local nursery and ordered perpetual a spinach plant. I’ve been veggie gardening in Victoria for years but never heard of it, so thanks again. Cheryle
Big green thumbs up Mark! And next year I'm growing some so I can clickety-click the stalks as you do! Thanks for sharing your yummy recipe too, and blessings to you and your family! I always enjoy your videos and great attitude and personality. Your place is so lovely too.🙏👵🐕🌺👍
Love it, thank you for sharing. I think I would have to grow this one in a bucket for it to survive in Central SW Florida. The ground is saturated with water, endless rain for days with no end in sight and temps at 100 degrees. I wish I was in your winter right now, hot, humid, soaking wet and still raining. Looking forward to your next video. God Bless Florida Girl.
I tried this species of chard after watching your video last spring. The plants lasted through the over 100 deg. F. summer here in south Texas and now are doing very well this winter. thanks
Mate I noticed you've got quite a large block of store bought butter there! You should culture your own, it only requires heavy cream, buttermilk and two days of your time, and it's one of the most satisfying things I've learned to make recently :)
Thank you for your info sharing, Mark. I've just discovered your channel, and am really excited to see not only Australian, but warm climate Australian ,self-sufficiency info. :) I hadn't heard of this plant until last year... I planted just one plant, and it lasted months and months and months and only succumbed in the hottest weather while we were away. Now i know how to keep it happy and encourage more plants by cutting it back and liquid fertilising.. It's delicious!!
That recipe looks good. I do the same thing with spinach, mustard, kale, turnip, collard, radish greens. But fry the eggs and cheese instead. Thanks for the video.
Good to see good Aussie Western Star butter being used. Not quite obvious product placement, but those of us who know good butters, recognised the packaging.
Im growing the perpetual spinach. We have been eaten so much of it for years. I make spinach rolls stuffed with rice and mince meat. It really is delicious
Could you do some videos on how to store, dry, preserve stuff from your amazing garden? Such as how to dry and store herbs if we have an over abundance. How to keep our produce fresh as long as possible.
Almost exactly a year after this video, I've picked up a perpetual spinach plant and just wanted to know the basics of how to make it thrive, and here you are with exactly the info I need. What a legend
A number of people have asked for the botanical name. Please provide that. It would clear up the confusion & misinformation of a number of comments. Thank you! I love your enthusiasm!
You sold me on Malabar spinach, and it is doing absolutely fantastic. It is a great producer. Thank you! Now I am going to try this. Great idea about the propogation!
I started my perpetual spinach last year. They were small by fall so we didn't get to taste but this spring, they have grown and you are right! They taste delicious! Thank you for the recommendation 😊.
I grew this stuff from seed for the first time this year, thanks to this video! Today I harvested leaves for the first time, and tonight's dinner will be perpetual spinach and feta quiche!
G'day Mark, Damien from Brisbane here. Followed your recipe tonight, although i did add Mizuna, Rocket and shallots which i had in abundance after the rain last week. It was great. My girlfriend loved it also. Thanks mate
Love it , we grow it all year around and not just for us we share it with every one , pancake mix with no sugar add a bit of mustard powder and salt, cut up the greens add to pancake mix and cook as normal
Mark I have to say you have inspired me into gardening, I starting watching your channel a few months ago, even though your on the total opposite side of the world from me. I love your content and information you give in your videos, so I started looking into others more in my area of the US for what is grown and tumes to plant, but I have to say I'm up to 7 raised garden beds and everything is growing wonderfully, I'm planning on 12 raised beds and hopefully will be putting in a greenhouse soon, along with chickens in the spring here. Hope to see more of your videos I find them inspiring and I try to learn something new almost every day
G'day Will and thanks mate! Sounds like you are empire building regarding your raised beds and I can totally understand why because once I got the food growing bug I was hooked lol! All the best 🙂👍
I grow rainbow chard and it is very similar to your version of chard. Here in Las Vegas (USDA 9b) it is a perennial. I am on my 3rd year and while it is not the best tasting green it is great for stir fry and soups and best of all it takes the 110+ degree temperatures in stride.
Never heard of perpetual spinach before. So thankful that you shared this with us. It is a must in my garden next year. Love your videos with so much information for growing our own produce and being more self sufficient like you. Thank you so much for all you share!
I've never heard of it! Thank you for telling us about it! I have troubles growing regular spinach, I don't know why. I hope it stays perpetual in my frozen tundra zone 4! Your recipe looks very good, too. I love quiche. I bet sun dried tomatoes and a little basil would be great for a twist 👍🏻😉
Your garden is gorgeous, as usual! I love your enthusiasm and that you share this invaluable info with us. The way you use the veg is soooo helpful and I can't wait to try it. I went right to my favorite seed company to order for fall planting here in zone 8a Dallas Texas. Thank you so very much!
I'm hoping by next spring or at least next fall hopefully that I'll have my square foot gardening going still got a lot of planning to do and watching people like you has given me a lot of ideas of course being a truck driver in the states I'm going to have to make a lot of my guarding automated
Just ordered some Perpetual Spinach seeds. Going to build a raised bed and have it close to the backyard entrance for easy grabs. Going to have it divided into two parts. One area will be where I maintain little leaves for eating raw, and the other area will be for leaves to get larger for cooking, and for feeding my tortoises. Thanks Mark!
You are the reason why I started my own veggie garden.
I live in the Abruzzo region of Italy and this stuff is so prolific here that it even grows on the side of the road. I eat gobs of it every day. I have 8 plants going but while I’m waiting for them to mature, I’m foraging most of it right now. It never stops. This is one of the most kick ass hearty plants I’ve ever seen. All year it’s giving you something.
Does it grow from seed or cuttings?
@@chrisz.9974 Cuttings
I finally got some to establish itself in my garden. It stayed small forever, but then took off over the winter.
Fantastic plant I started to grow it this year from seed and love it bonus because my son eats it too ❤
Gardening tips and recipes. Wow. Can't wait for the next one. Please tell your wife she did a great job.
These gardening videos give me a smile at the end of a stressful day in the urban jungle.
Mark you could sell ice to Eskimos. Every one of your videos brings a new idea or variation of growing something.
Thanks Tim! Cheers mate 🙂👍
Yeah, but it's like dating advice from dudes in NYC. There's so many women that any man can get a date. This 5 acres is in a Florida climate, and when there's a place so green there's usually a reason = it rains and it's humid and warm. Try growing stuff in a place where it don't rain, hot & dry summer, bitter cold winters, and soil like concrete
@@pappyfiddle Every region has it's challenges, I am >1000kms south of Mark, but I can still grow this. Mark has to irrigate his property, this is Australia, we lurch between droughts and flooding rain. Mark has a video about what happened to his garden when he went on holidays and had the irrigation turned off.
I don't know... I'm in Florida. That rain and humidity brings lots of disease. The heat just melts almost everything in summer 🤷♀️
@@melissab8500 ...and alligators
Hello from Florida, USA. We are learning so much from you. Thank you for all you do!!
Yes indeed we are! Thanks Mark
Please more cooking the veggies. This is very helpful as well as the gardening and growing tips. Veggie storage and persevered like picking and canning too.
thanks for the tips...I also add garlic to my spin & ricotta quiche
Only found this guy last week and I’ve watched most of his vids!! ⭐️💟🌈 excellent advice and tips for veggie growing!
You’re doing some great work brother! You make me smile and feel happier with the empowering info you give freely to the world. I wish you were my next door neighbour.
Thanks Kevin, I appreciate your kind support mate 🙂👍
I really learned something here! I had not heard of this plant before. My problem has been the very quick bolting of my greens. Because of space limitations I have been doing "bucket" gardening wherein the 5 gallon buckets on recycled pallets on top of recycled patio tables serve as my raised beds. Relatively good results for tomatoes and peppers but my greens only last a few weeks before bolting to seed. So, this spinich looks to be an answer! Thanks again, and as always KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!
You never need to boil greens or other brassicas. Just chop and add to a pan with a splash of olive oil and garlic salt and a sprinkle of water. Cook on medium heat for a few mins but watch it. The veg should be steamed nicely in its own juices.
Love your greens
My wife just started making a dish very similar with spinach and bacon bits but she used mini-muffin bake pans. You can freeze them and reheat 3 or 4 for breakfast. Yours looked delicious!!
Good day mate! Love your new video mate! Keep your recipes few ingredients and simple.
Best wishes to you and your family.
I absolutely love watching your videos, you're so enthusiastic and happy to share information!! Thank you for sharing, and your suggestions are VERY well noted for future reference!!
Thanks Seth! 🙂👍
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Wow, this looks so awesome! I can’t wait to plant this and try the recipe. Shows more videos like this. Your awesome! Thanks for the inspiration. 😊
I’ve never heard of perpetual spinach before. Thank you for the tip. I’ll be looking for some seed to start my own.
You will find the seeds being called Leaf Beet or Leafy Beet as well as Perpetual Spinach, or even Spinach Beet.
Congratulations on your over 400'000 subscribers! Have been here for quite some time, good to see you growing!
Thanks Stefan! I appreciate your support 🙂👍
I am so glad I found your channel.. I am a vegetable garden freak.. love gardening.. Good day mate from Palm Springs, California...
I’m growing perpetual spinach here in Bristol England, it’s in its second year, lovely taste
i love the added sound
You have been a great help with my garden and I am very thankful
Look and see the world through her eyes...
amazing
LOOOOVE the cooking bonus, quick and easy, "awesome"..., make more of these please.
Thanks for the bonus recipe. Can grow half this stuff but got no idea how to use it. Sure beats boiling it in a pot. Keep up the great videos.
That quiche looks awesome.
Delicious looking recipe and excellent plant. Thanks. So nice to see Australian gardening content as not everything from the US is relevant to us.
i love growing that spinach, it's so easy to grow.
I like the use of hands for mixing.
Love your videos. I learn something new in each one. You are super awesome!
It was a mystery to me- until now. Thanks for the knowledge!
love your videos, I will be ordering seeds this week . I also purchased some Egyptian spinach for this year. Thanks Tom
Thanks Mark, I went to my local nursery and ordered perpetual a spinach plant.
I’ve been veggie gardening in Victoria for years but never heard of it, so thanks again. Cheryle
Big green thumbs up Mark! And next year I'm growing some so I can clickety-click the stalks as you do! Thanks for sharing your yummy recipe too, and blessings to you and your family! I always enjoy your videos and great attitude and personality. Your place is so lovely too.🙏👵🐕🌺👍
Thanks Melody! 🙂
Hi Mark, Just wanted to say you are appreciated. Thank you for all your video's. Always very informative and entertaining.
Thank you for taking the time to say so and for inspiring me to keep creating 🙂👍
That looked fantastic! I'll be adding this to our garden.
I got my two shirts I ordered and am so impressed with the quality! They are really well made and I LOVE THEM! Thank you!
Love it, thank you for sharing. I think I would have to grow this one in a bucket for it to survive in Central SW Florida. The ground is saturated with water, endless rain for days with no end in sight and temps at 100 degrees. I wish I was in your winter right now, hot, humid, soaking wet and still raining. Looking forward to your next video. God Bless Florida Girl.
I love it when you add recipes too! Awesome video, thanks!
Loved the bonus recipe! Real food!
I tried this species of chard after watching your video last spring. The plants lasted through the over 100 deg. F. summer here in south Texas and now are doing very well this winter. thanks
What species of chard? Please and thanks
Great looking quiches Mark👍👍
Awesome! Been growing it for a while too! Hope you’re enjoying the holiday! Congrats on 400K Subs 🤗
Mate I noticed you've got quite a large block of store bought butter there! You should culture your own, it only requires heavy cream, buttermilk and two days of your time, and it's one of the most satisfying things I've learned to make recently :)
Thank you for your info sharing, Mark. I've just discovered your channel, and am really excited to see not only Australian, but warm climate Australian ,self-sufficiency info. :) I hadn't heard of this plant until last year... I planted just one plant, and it lasted months and months and months and only succumbed in the hottest weather while we were away. Now i know how to keep it happy and encourage more plants by cutting it back and liquid fertilising.. It's delicious!!
Fantastic info. I have this plant grew it from seeds. Its delicious
Really like that you added a recipe to go along with the regular garden tips! Thanks!
That recipe looks good. I do the same thing with spinach, mustard, kale, turnip, collard, radish greens. But fry the eggs and cheese instead. Thanks for the video.
Good to see good Aussie Western Star butter being used. Not quite obvious product placement, but those of us who know good butters, recognised the packaging.
Love it thank you. Here in Arizona, we have very similar weather. Love the tips!
Great Video Mate !! I have never tried this !! Something new to Plant this year !! Thank you for sharing !!
Im growing the perpetual spinach. We have been eaten so much of it for years. I make spinach rolls stuffed with rice and mince meat. It really is delicious
Nice tips and the cooking was great mate
Could you do some videos on how to store, dry, preserve stuff from your amazing garden? Such as how to dry and store herbs if we have an over abundance. How to keep our produce fresh as long as possible.
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I love watching this channel grow. You content is so good. Hoping to see 1 million+ subs by the end of the year. You deserve every click you get.
Amazing video, as usual!! Can't wait to have my own garden, and refer back to your videos for everything!!!
The recipe was a nice addition to the video
Almost exactly a year after this video, I've picked up a perpetual spinach plant and just wanted to know the basics of how to make it thrive, and here you are with exactly the info I need. What a legend
Just got my seeds. Planting them this week.
A number of people have asked for the botanical name. Please provide that. It would clear up the confusion & misinformation of a number of comments. Thank you! I love your enthusiasm!
Quite the dramatic music for spinach cooking!
Pastry crust on the bottom and add some fresh minced garlic and you have a CHAMPION.
You sold me on Malabar spinach, and it is doing absolutely fantastic. It is a great producer. Thank you! Now I am going to try this. Great idea about the propogation!
Thank you for the masterclass
I really love chard, its very delicious and productive. I have planted this year red chard
Love the music getting you ready for the action scene. Chopping time.
Thanks for showing how to strain manure fertiliser.
I started my perpetual spinach last year. They were small by fall so we didn't get to taste but this spring, they have grown and you are right! They taste delicious! Thank you for the recommendation 😊.
I just ordered my perpetual spinach! Cant wait to plant this summer. Thanks for the plant idea we love spinach!
Thank you! The absolute best recipe for quiche!
I didn't know, thanks for further educating me.
I grew this stuff from seed for the first time this year, thanks to this video! Today I harvested leaves for the first time, and tonight's dinner will be perpetual spinach and feta quiche!
Thanks for the recipe, mate! I made it last weekend... except I used kale and didn't have any feta so just used some shredded. Good stuff.
G'day Mark, Damien from Brisbane here. Followed your recipe tonight, although i did add Mizuna, Rocket and shallots which i had in abundance after the rain last week. It was great. My girlfriend loved it also. Thanks mate
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know Damien 👍
Love it , we grow it all year around and not just for us we share it with every one , pancake mix with no sugar add a bit of mustard powder and salt, cut up the greens add to pancake mix and cook as normal
Excellent! Love it 🙂👍
mate i just saw this plant in the store and wondered if it was any good. I haven't watched in a while and this was a great episode to come back to!
I love it. Thanks for the recipe.
I love your channel! I am learning so much about gardening.
You can't beat spinach, my favourite leafy green, I use it in all sorts including my home made veggie sausages.
Mark I have to say you have inspired me into gardening, I starting watching your channel a few months ago, even though your on the total opposite side of the world from me. I love your content and information you give in your videos, so I started looking into others more in my area of the US for what is grown and tumes to plant, but I have to say I'm up to 7 raised garden beds and everything is growing wonderfully, I'm planning on 12 raised beds and hopefully will be putting in a greenhouse soon, along with chickens in the spring here. Hope to see more of your videos I find them inspiring and I try to learn something new almost every day
G'day Will and thanks mate! Sounds like you are empire building regarding your raised beds and I can totally understand why because once I got the food growing bug I was hooked lol! All the best 🙂👍
I grow rainbow chard and it is very similar to your version of chard. Here in Las Vegas (USDA 9b) it is a perennial. I am on my 3rd year and while it is not the best tasting green it is great for stir fry and soups and best of all it takes the 110+ degree temperatures in stride.
THX I’ve got my first batch here in S. Florida in middle summer!
Din Din's have not heard that for ages! Will start growing this, thanks for the video.
Love the recipe. I will be making that for sure!
Never heard of perpetual spinach before. So thankful that you shared this with us. It is a must in my garden next year. Love your videos with so much information for growing our own produce and being more self sufficient like you. Thank you so much for all you share!
Its other name is Swiss Chard
Looks delicious Mark
Thank you for your recipes!Yummmmmm!!!!
I've never heard of it! Thank you for telling us about it! I have troubles growing regular spinach, I don't know why. I hope it stays perpetual in my frozen tundra zone 4! Your recipe looks very good, too. I love quiche. I bet sun dried tomatoes and a little basil would be great for a twist 👍🏻😉
A crustless quiche.... why not?! Looks fab.
Thanks Mark!! Im buying some today for my indoor garden.🙏
Excellent recipe, thanks ❣️
Your garden is gorgeous, as usual! I love your enthusiasm and that you share this invaluable info with us. The way you use the veg is soooo helpful and I can't wait to try it. I went right to my favorite seed company to order for fall planting here in zone 8a Dallas Texas. Thank you so very much!
Thank you Denise! 🙂
Recipe looks great, gotta try it.
Great video and thank you for sharing🤗🤗
I'm hoping by next spring or at least next fall hopefully that I'll have my square foot gardening going still got a lot of planning to do and watching people like you has given me a lot of ideas of course being a truck driver in the states I'm going to have to make a lot of my guarding automated
Best of luck with your garden and let me assure you that a reasonable sized food garden requires less work than most people think once set up 🙂👍
Just ordered some Perpetual Spinach seeds. Going to build a raised bed and have it close to the backyard entrance for easy grabs. Going to have it divided into two parts. One area will be where I maintain little leaves for eating raw, and the other area will be for leaves to get larger for cooking, and for feeding my tortoises. Thanks Mark!
I am growing perpetual spinach so I great idea on the quiche I will try that this week as I have about 40 of my own hens too. Great video
Thanks men. Video excellent