If you’d like more information on perennial vegetables, you can get a handy overview of 20 PERENNIAL VEGETABLES, their growing requirements, what parts are edible and notes on propagation on my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/growntocook. Thanks so much for watching!
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Thank you. Very inspiring! We also eat Dandelions, Nettles, Hablitzia Tamnoides, Ground Elder (eat it so it does not spread too much) Miner’s Lettuce (May be an annual but self sows prolifically!) Sweey Cicely, Western Waterleaf (very early) Salsify, MuskMallow, Lemon Balm, Tree Collards, Wild mallow, Wall Lettuce and Baby leaves of many shrubs and trees. Many thanks to Stephen Barstow!
Beautiful bounty. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with growing food. Everything looks yummy and I can't wait to get started. Have a blessed day. Teresa in SC ❤
Thank you for covering this interesting and useful topic. I especially appreciate the fact that you provided the scientific names for these crops. Makes it so much easier To research them further and to find the correct seed.
@@GrownToCook Agreed! I’m Dutch, too, and when I read about an interesting plant in English, I always google the Latin name first, and then the Dutch one. Example with lots of confusing names: Tragopogon porrifolius, (White Salsify) which is called several things in Dutch, and some of those are also used for plants of completely different plant families! Here’s the list of Dutch names I’ve found so far (there are quite a few English names, too, I believe...): - Paarse morgenster (paarse bloem) - Armeluisasperges (maar geen familie van schorseneren...) - Haverwortel (haver?? Dat is Avena...) - Keukenmeidenverdriet (vanwege het kleverige sap?) - Witte schorseneren So confusing! Lots of indigenous plants like this one, of course, have regional names, some of which long predate the scientific naming system (and public libraries, let alone the internet!) so that explains why there are so many names. 😅
I did not know that hostas are edible! When I used to work in Brunei, they had a fern vegetable that you could buy in the open market. It was quite tasty. I loved it! Maybe I should grow the Ostrich Fern you mentioned on this video. Thanks!
HI Marilyn, I'm quite new to osrtich fern myself but I hear it's very popular in the USA. I definitely want to add more plants to the garden this year.
I grow egyptian waking onions, and soon I'll be growing sunchokes and perrenial kale. Rhubarb also comes up early and so it works well as a solution for the hungry gap.
Rhubarb was one of the first plants I bought for our garden. I love it. It flowers every other year and I get one or two more. I tried Sunchokes last year because I was too late to order potatoes. As a friend of mine said 'it's an acquired taste' I found that I do not want to acquire it. 😃
Hi Vera, just discovered your channel via Hugh's recent polyculture video with your input. I am 3 years into a permaculture food forest garden and orchard with chicken tractor from Omelet (fantastic). My perennial veg n fruit include Jerusalem Artichokes, globe Artichokes, and perennial kale, Dauphines I think. I have added berberis for colour and berries, elder is a new one for me as it grows wild everywhere but I have added the Californian variety, (between the apple trees in the new orchard), which has larger flower clumps and therefore more fruit. It is a fruit full of health benefits, for cordials and cough medicine with extra spices like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, it keeps well, and is useful during our current Corona virus times. Plus the flowers can be used for elder flower champagne. The amount of work involved in your garden is amazing, a lot going on in the background, so neat, mine is more wild and weedy, great job best of luck Brian
@@eyesofthecervino3366 I have plenty of space inthe garden for Artichokes but I keep them as a survival item because they contain good calories when shtf. Which seems closer every day.
Not a perennial, but great for the hungry gap are spring onions. Sown late summer/early autumn they will serve as spring onions if the weather is not too severe. Or, if left, by may they will have a big bulb for use in place of the onions and shallots from last year that could be finished or gone off. Thanks for the useful video.
I'm not sure what all varieties of green onions or spring onions there are, but I pretty much just harvest the leaves. That makes the plant remain year-round to keep growing more leaves. Winters where I live are mild so even in the winter, the leaves are still growing, so I can have more green onions all year long.
I watch a lot of gardening videos and this was fantastic. Things I didn’t know till now and would like in my garden: perennial broccoli, hostas (didn’t know they were edible), fiddleheads and perennial kale.
One caution re fiddleheads (I'm from Canada where they are harvested and available in grocery stores in spring). They MUST be cooked in water (discard the water) before eating otherwise they are toxic. Below is the link to the health information & cooking directions. www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-safety-fruits-vegetables/fiddlehead-safety-tips.html
Found some nice ideas for the next year. My all time favorite for early spring harvest is nettle, grows everywhere in the garden and is very nutritious.
I love nettle too (though I try to keep it mostly outside of the garden :)). There are actually several recipes with nettles on my blog, this one especially is a favourite: www.growntocook.com/?p=887
I like to hike a lot and there are always nettles growing in my area so I harvest from the wild so I don't have to fuss with the plant in my garden. Gives me a reason to go on a hike and leaves more space for more selections of food in the small back yard garden.
I'm so happy that I found your channel. I didn't know that you can eat hosta. It's one of my favorite plants. You're a great gardener and a good teacher. Thank you! Nooh from Georgia USA.
I love harvest videos, so relaxing. It was so satisfying hearing the crunch when you cut the asparagus lol. That and Brussels sprouts are what I want to plant once we have our forever home. I'm container gardening right now since we move often but I've had some success. Gardening is my new hobby and I'm really loving it. Wish I was interested in it when I was younger, I could have spent so much more quality time with my mama who spent most of her days outside working on her garden while I stayed inside the house. I regret it now but she's so proud of me that I love the same thing she loves and we have more to talk about now other than her grandkids lol.
Thank you for some good ideas. My favourite perennial vegetable in my back yard is stinging nettles. They're delicious and very nutritious and really take care of themselves. Others I grow which I love: lamb's quarters, sun chokes, and horseradish. The leaves are edible as a green and not strong if cooked in a pressure cooker.
Wow, really glad I stumbled across this video. Lots of new ideas to get down ready for next year. I just looked up for more information about planting under fruit trees, particularly welsh onion as I've just "inherited" some seed and came across a blog post written by you. I will continue to look out for your work in future.
Thanks! There are more glimpses of the herb layer of our food forest in my 'tour of the garden' videos and I'm also planning on making a video on how to design a fruit tree guild (supporting plants to plant under a fruit tree). But how many videos I can make will depend on whether I get enough Patreon support since I don't make any money on TH-cam and making videos is a lot of work :)
A wonderful perennial green that I grow is Italian stridolo, which I grew from seed many years ago. In our mild, marine climate it has perennialized and also self-seeds. I am harvesting it now, in late January, and it will continue to give greens until it flowers. It doesn't mind having its flowers cutback for more greens growth, although it tends to be bitterer in that second harvest.
Thanks for the tip - I looked it up and now I know what it's called in Dutch :) I actually saw this green in my friends' garden 2 years ago and they were quite enthusiastic about it a swell. I'll see whether we can get seeds!
Fantastic vid with really useful info! I've watched a few vids already on the hungry gap that didn't say much so I appreciate the great advice here. Xxx
Thank you! I have been transitioning my garden to having more perennials. These suggestions are ones I mostly hadn't heard of. This gives me a lot to play with.
ohno Vera...you make my wishlist evergrowing hahaha. Fortunaletly I inherited an artichoke and some rhubarb from the previous allotment-renter. Also some gooseberries. And so far I've managed to get my hands on some cuttings or rehoused plants like autum yellow raspberry, red currants(aalbes?!) and even an asparagus-plant. Hoping it will have survived the transplant and winter, no sign of life so far. Sowing some myself this year, very exiting! I would love a perennial broccoli(steeds uitverkocht bij denieuwetuin) and kale, if you have some left-over cuttings, do let me know! Oh and now I want the Welsh Onion as well..thinking of making my own gildes for my apple-tree in my backyard as well as our plum-tree in our front-yard. Thank you for all the inspiration!!
Thanks! I found a couple things to try and add into my garden. I can’t wait to start being able to harvest things. My asparagus hasn’t started coming up yet, but should soon!
i don't think you mentioned rhubarb? Not my favourite to eat, but very nice to make juice concentrate / cordial! Not as early as asparagus but still pre-midsummer. Also wild garlic, or ramson! Can be found in the wild in some locations, but I'd like to grow some in my garden from next year. Seed in fall, they need a winter to germinate. Thanks for the video, I have just started establishing a vegetable garden in my small 9x5m garden, and I was sad there was "only" annual vegetables! How wrong I was. Asparagus was already on my list as my parents grow it, but I now have many more!
Have you ever tried Red-veined sorrel? Had it last year and found it quite tasty (normally I do not like sour vegetables, but this sorrel was not sour - more like salad in taste) 🙂
I watched with interest! I always welcome a few new ideas! I grow Jerusalem Artichokes, a great alternative veg to potatoes, really earthy taste (my kids aren't too keen!) But really tasty roasted. Easy to grow, will hold in the ground through most of the winter (am at 52° north) but may not survive hard frosts. And amazing tall yellow flowers in summer, bees love them, like little mini sunflowers! But are a bit robust so can be difficult to clear so put in an area that you are happy to let them take over!! Give them a try..
Thank you! We have grown Jerusalem artichokes for many years in the community garden and they grew splendidly with no care at all but we encountered the same problem - there weren't many takers. Like you, I like them roasted nut my kids won't eat them so I stopped growing them, Maybe I'll plant tehm again when they move out and it's just me and my husband, who will eat almost anything :)
I have many of these, but wish they were more widely known and used. Would love to see how other people that grow them end up using them in the kitchen.
I have a few recipes with perennial vegetables on my blog if you're interested: www.growntocook.com/ But lots of the leafy ones I use in mixed salads in spring
Lilium davidii var. willmottiae(tiger lilie), day lilies (whole plant, but closed flower buds with eggs mostly),Sun chokes, elephant garlic (because it self seeds), wine cap mushrooms,sorrel, dandelion, mint, garlic Chives, arugula. You gave me a few new ones. Great video. Garlic will come back a year or two, but I replant it every year to get bigger bulbs.
Thank you, Joe! We have some of the ones you name (I love day lilies!) but I sort of gave up on sunchokes because my kids refuse to eat them. Too bad - it's such an easy plant to grow and in our climate we can just dig them up as needed throughout winter.
Greetings from Down Under! I admire your willpower to wait for your young edibles to grow on a little before harvesting. I love cooking from my garden and as soon as I bring home a new plant, I am looking for recipes where I can use the recent acquisition. The fiddlehead ferns look amazing as both as an edible and as an architectural plant. Cheers! (or how do you say it in Dutch? Proost?)
I didn't know that was perinatal. But I just found that out because I have new growth coming on from last years plant and turnip greens stayed all winter too. We have Polk greens and many wild eatibles .
Hi Lukasz, some of the plants I mention should be hardy enough for your zone too, but for more info, the the book 'Around the world in 80 plants' by Steven Barstow - he's in northern Norway.
Greetings from the US ! Great channel--subscribed ! Glad I stumbled across it. My maternal side of the family is all Dutch & were all great farmers a generation or two back :) I now live in the warmer client of Arizona, but many of these are still applicable w/ the right micro-clime...Easy to follow video ! Thank You :)
Thanks Jeff! How interesting that your family has ties to the Netherlands! And I'm so happy that my video is useful for you even though your climate is so different.
@@GrownToCook Thank You. Too funny you just made this comment; as I just finally got around to watching much of another one of your videos...with your kids taste testing tomatoes a yr ago :)
Love this (and love you!). Always learn so much. One I would want to add is 'Kaukasische rankspinazie', Caucasian Spinach. This is a plant that grows like ivy; if the winter isn't too harsh, it will not wither, but even if it does, it will emerge and grow again the next season. Here is a link (in Dutch) to learn more about it. Edible like spinach (as the name says) and very popular in Scandinavian countries. I have only just started to grow them myself, and am very much longing to find out how it will work out :-)
You have some very nice veg there. Your nine star broccoli looks good - mine looks as if it's ready to pull. I guess I'll get some seeds and resow next year. You might want to look at Paul and Beckys Asturian Tree Cabbage whis is a short lived perennial cabbage which isn't strong flavoured - If it flowers hacking it back gets it to resprout. Seakale - you can also eat the roots (which do get bigger than the one you have) Szorzonera - usually grown for the root also produces edible shoots in spring. I've got it returning in places where I've previously harvested the roots as it can grow back from quite deep. Just harvested a single root that was a kilogram. I only managed to get two feet of it before it broke off and I lost it so it'll be back :) It can be propogated by breaking the shoots off the crown and replanting them but will produce yellow flowers followed by copious amounts of seed which will germinate where you least want them. Sorrel - wonderful citrus flavour. Theres a variety called Profusion that doesn't flower so won't get as bitter. There's also a Welsh Onion that doesn't flower so always produces leaves called Perutil Speaking of yellow flowers - what about the dandelions, I saw that you're growing them. One thing I'm growing that no-one seems to have heard of in the UK is Oerprie, mostly for the bulbs but it can be eaten like leek in the spring.
Thanks for all the great recommendations, Jason! I have several different kinds of sorrel (My favourites so far are French and 'Belleville') but I do not know the variety you mention and neither the non-flowering welsh onion. We do occasionally eat some of the dandelions that appear spontaneously in the garden :)
@@GrownToCook You can remove the dandelion leaves then put a bucket over the plant plant to blanch the leaves so they aren't as bitter, plus this depletes the roots so they die off after a while. Or you can dig out the roots, clean them, roast them and grind them as a coffee type drink.
Thank you, Vera! I also first saw you on Huw' s channel. I am in Oregon, have Good King Henry, and lovage - have tried Sea Kale (there's a well established population near a lighthouse on our coast that's a bit current than the one we can get from seed) and want to order Kaleidoscope Perennial kale grex seed .... My son-in love and daughter have a row of hostas, and I had just recently learned they're edible! I also have nettle and the red veined sorrel, self heal, primrose, day lilies, and a number of perennial herbs 🌱
Hi Vera, I already grow most of these, but have some reservations about the hostas and fiddlehead ferns, which I believe some people consider to have potentially unpleasant side effects if not processed correctly. I tend to err on the side of caution, so it was interesting to see that you are enjoying eating these without bad effects. In addition I really like scorzonera hispanica, not for its roots which I haven’t tried yet, but it’s delicious flowers and shoots which it reliably produces every spring. It produces a rather alarming coloured yellow sap when cut, which might put some people off, but I enjoy it nonetheless. Other staples of the hungry gap for us are, self sown lamb’s lettuce (valerianella) and land cress (barbarea verna) which come up reliably every autumn over my annual veg beds and last through to the hungry gap. They are mostly going to seed and past being edible by late April, though. A new success this year has been winter purslane (claytonia perfoliata) which comes up with zero effort on my part by self seeding, like the ones previously mentioned. However, it seems to have a longer season and took us right through the hungry gap this spring until my summer lettuces were able to take over. I have found these three particularly useful as their season of growth means they don’t compete with my main vegetable crops, they also keep the ground covered and protected over the winter as a green manure crop would, but have the added benefit of being an edible crop in their own right. Thank you for your delightful and inspirational broadcasts.
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Thanks for the video! You gave me a few more ideas of things to plant. If they can survive TX bugs. I'm just hoping they don't become a salad for them here.
Very interesting! Greetings from Québec - I think i'm going to search for sea kale and perrenial broccoli. I guess im going to plant asparagarus afterall - its the wait the problem.. 3-5 years from seeds! I have also walking onion and échalotte de sainte-Anne (saint-anne's shallots - i love how it multiplies), there's also horseradish, Jerusalem artichokes(think twice before planting) and rhubarde, nettle. I'm in zone 5b.
Not familiar with the broccoli, but Brassica oleracea such as perennial kale / "tree collards" (not the same as sea kale, which is Crambe maritima and hardier) seems to be Zone 8. You or I would probably have to take it indoors for the winter, which rather defeats the purpose.
Great subject and good timing. I'll be looking to add a couple of these to my growing garden patch. The first time I heard of eating fern shoots was many years ago when I used to work in a very remote mountainous area. Each spring an older couple would appear for several days to harvest the wild growing fern shoots. They were kind enough to explain to me how they prepared them but I've long since forgotten. I just remember they said they tasted like beef. That was surprising.
In where I used to live in Asia, it was a delicacy and we ate them fried in oil or butter and garlic, seasoned with soy sauce, sometimes spiced with chili peppers.
It is unfortunatelly not very long lived, but a few years of harvest should be possible. It is so nice to be able to harvest these large florets right now!
If you’d like more information on perennial vegetables, you can get a handy overview of 20 PERENNIAL VEGETABLES, their growing requirements, what parts are edible and notes on propagation on my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/growntocook. Thanks so much for watching!
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Try also broad leaf sorrel, three cornered leek and wild rocket in spring, these are also "once planted will live forever" plants.
I really appreciate the format with segmenting each plant, so I can skip back to the ones I need to see again.
Thank you. Very inspiring! We also eat Dandelions, Nettles, Hablitzia Tamnoides, Ground Elder (eat it so it does not spread too much) Miner’s Lettuce (May be an annual but self sows prolifically!)
Sweey Cicely, Western Waterleaf (very early) Salsify, MuskMallow, Lemon Balm, Tree Collards, Wild mallow, Wall Lettuce and Baby leaves of many shrubs and trees. Many thanks to Stephen Barstow!
Perennial rocket or wild rocket is a good one, it's pretty peppery but grows like crazy and doesn't need much sun.
You are so wonderful. This gardener appreciates all your videos. The knowledge you share is much appreciated.
Thank you so much, Jonathan! We’ve just finished filming a new video- it will be uploaded as soon as I get it edited
The way you manage your farm is so inspiring
Beautiful bounty. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with growing food. Everything looks yummy and I can't wait to get started. Have a blessed day. Teresa in SC ❤
Thanks so much, Teresa!
Just subscribed after seeing you on Huw Richards' gardening channel. Very informative videos.I'm enjoying watching them. Your English is amazing. 👍😁
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Ma'am, this was a very informative and well done video. Thank you. Your English pronunciation also was very good and easy to understand.
Thank you for covering this interesting and useful topic. I especially appreciate the fact that you provided the scientific names for these crops. Makes it so much easier To research them further and to find the correct seed.
Thank you! I also always find it easier to start with the scientific name - plants can go by many names otherwise :)
@@GrownToCook Agreed! I’m Dutch, too, and when I read about an interesting plant in English, I always google the Latin name first, and then the Dutch one. Example with lots of confusing names: Tragopogon porrifolius, (White Salsify) which is called several things in Dutch, and some of those are also used for plants of completely different plant families! Here’s the list of Dutch names I’ve found so far (there are quite a few English names, too, I believe...):
- Paarse morgenster (paarse bloem)
- Armeluisasperges (maar geen familie van schorseneren...)
- Haverwortel (haver?? Dat is Avena...)
- Keukenmeidenverdriet (vanwege het kleverige sap?)
- Witte schorseneren
So confusing! Lots of indigenous plants like this one, of course, have regional names, some of which long predate the scientific naming system (and public libraries, let alone the internet!) so that explains why there are so many names. 😅
Wow I didn’t know there was a perennial broccoli! I always learn so much, thank you!!
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Yes ! Leafy varieties too :)
I am inspired!!!! I love perennial and your video introduced me to some I did not know about! Thank you! I am looking now for seed ! ")
I did not know that hostas are edible! When I used to work in Brunei, they had a fern vegetable that you could buy in the open market. It was quite tasty. I loved it! Maybe I should grow the Ostrich Fern you mentioned on this video. Thanks!
HI Marilyn, I'm quite new to osrtich fern myself but I hear it's very popular in the USA. I definitely want to add more plants to the garden this year.
I grow egyptian waking onions, and soon I'll be growing sunchokes and perrenial kale. Rhubarb also comes up early and so it works well as a solution for the hungry gap.
Thanks, I also grow walking onions, sunchokes and perennial Kale. I'm not a big Rhubarb fan....what other perennial vegetables do you grow.
Rhubarb was one of the first plants I bought for our garden. I love it. It flowers every other year and I get one or two more. I tried Sunchokes last year because I was too late to order potatoes. As a friend of mine said 'it's an acquired taste' I found that I do not want to acquire it. 😃
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Very cool, hope to have a garden like that one day :)
That is the biggest asparagus I've ever seen. Love the information! Thank you
Thank you! I am very happy with this variety - thick spears and very productive!
Hi Vera, just discovered your channel via Hugh's recent polyculture video with your input.
I am 3 years into a permaculture food forest garden and orchard with chicken tractor from Omelet (fantastic).
My perennial veg n fruit include Jerusalem Artichokes, globe Artichokes, and perennial kale, Dauphines I think.
I have added berberis for colour and berries, elder is a new one for me as it grows wild everywhere but I have added the Californian variety, (between the apple trees in the new orchard), which has larger flower clumps and therefore more fruit. It is a fruit full of health benefits, for cordials and cough medicine with extra spices like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, it keeps well, and is useful during our current Corona virus times. Plus the flowers can be used for elder flower champagne.
The amount of work involved in your garden is amazing, a lot going on in the background, so neat, mine is more wild and weedy, great job best of luck Brian
Brian, I've heard that elder flower fritters are a real treat. There are directions on TH-cam. It's a must try!
Hey, I've been thinking about trying growing Jerusalem artichokes! What do you think of them?
@@eyesofthecervino3366 I have plenty of space inthe garden for Artichokes but I keep them as a survival item because they contain good calories when shtf. Which seems closer every day.
How SUPER to get an idea for winter produce! A new world opens up👍😉THX!!
Not a perennial, but great for the hungry gap are spring onions. Sown late summer/early autumn they will serve as spring onions if the weather is not too severe. Or, if left, by may they will have a big bulb for use in place of the onions and shallots from last year that could be finished or gone off.
Thanks for the useful video.
I'm not sure what all varieties of green onions or spring onions there are, but I pretty much just harvest the leaves. That makes the plant remain year-round to keep growing more leaves. Winters where I live are mild so even in the winter, the leaves are still growing, so I can have more green onions all year long.
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I watch a lot of gardening videos and this was fantastic.
Things I didn’t know till now and would like in my garden: perennial broccoli, hostas (didn’t know they were edible), fiddleheads and perennial kale.
Andrew Harris I am not sure where you live, but my area some peppers are perennials, and if you find those fiddleheads- please let me know where!
Thanks so much Andrew! I'm glad my video inspired you to try some new plants!
One caution re fiddleheads (I'm from Canada where they are harvested and available in grocery stores in spring). They MUST be cooked in water (discard the water) before eating otherwise they are toxic. Below is the link to the health information & cooking directions.
www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-safety-fruits-vegetables/fiddlehead-safety-tips.html
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Found some nice ideas for the next year. My all time favorite for early spring harvest is nettle, grows everywhere in the garden and is very nutritious.
I love nettle too (though I try to keep it mostly outside of the garden :)). There are actually several recipes with nettles on my blog, this one especially is a favourite: www.growntocook.com/?p=887
I like to hike a lot and there are always nettles growing in my area so I harvest from the wild so I don't have to fuss with the plant in my garden. Gives me a reason to go on a hike and leaves more space for more selections of food in the small back yard garden.
I'm so happy that I found your channel. I didn't know that you can eat hosta. It's one of my favorite plants. You're a great gardener and a good teacher. Thank you! Nooh from Georgia USA.
Thanks so much, Ahmed! I'm happy the information was useful to you. Isn't it nice to find out that something you're already growing is edible too :)
Excellent and informative video! Thank you
So glad you enjoyed it!
I love harvest videos, so relaxing. It was so satisfying hearing the crunch when you cut the asparagus lol. That and Brussels sprouts are what I want to plant once we have our forever home. I'm container gardening right now since we move often but I've had some success. Gardening is my new hobby and I'm really loving it. Wish I was interested in it when I was younger, I could have spent so much more quality time with my mama who spent most of her days outside working on her garden while I stayed inside the house. I regret it now but she's so proud of me that I love the same thing she loves and we have more to talk about now other than her grandkids lol.
Better late than never 😊
Thank you for some good ideas. My favourite perennial vegetable in my back yard is stinging nettles. They're delicious and very nutritious and really take care of themselves. Others I grow which I love: lamb's quarters, sun chokes, and horseradish. The leaves are edible as a green and not strong if cooked in a pressure cooker.
I love nettles too! We have some growing on the edges of the garden :)
Wow, really glad I stumbled across this video. Lots of new ideas to get down ready for next year. I just looked up for more information about planting under fruit trees, particularly welsh onion as I've just "inherited" some seed and came across a blog post written by you. I will continue to look out for your work in future.
Thanks! There are more glimpses of the herb layer of our food forest in my 'tour of the garden' videos and I'm also planning on making a video on how to design a fruit tree guild (supporting plants to plant under a fruit tree). But how many videos I can make will depend on whether I get enough Patreon support since I don't make any money on TH-cam and making videos is a lot of work :)
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adding many of these to my plant wish list! we just moved to our acreage and are determined to plant all my perennial edibles first.
Great show. I love lovage. I am looking for more perennial veg in South Africa.
In the back yard of our cabin is a rhubarb plant, the same one my grandmother had when she and my grandfather lived here.
A wonderful perennial green that I grow is Italian stridolo, which I grew from seed many years ago. In our mild, marine climate it has perennialized and also self-seeds. I am harvesting it now, in late January, and it will continue to give greens until it flowers. It doesn't mind having its flowers cutback for more greens growth, although it tends to be bitterer in that second harvest.
Thanks for the tip - I looked it up and now I know what it's called in Dutch :) I actually saw this green in my friends' garden 2 years ago and they were quite enthusiastic about it a swell. I'll see whether we can get seeds!
I didn't know about the perennial broccoli either :) I love good king Henry and also grow asparagus, artichokes and perpetual leeks
Wonderful information. My chickens devoured one of my large hostas!
Oh no! Maybe make a small cage out of chicken wire?
Great video! I had never heard of the perennial beet!
sorrel, nettles, ox eye daisy, are my spring greens
Fantastic vid with really useful info! I've watched a few vids already on the hungry gap that didn't say much so I appreciate the great advice here. Xxx
Thank you, I'so glad you've found the video helpful!
This is great information ! I just sprouted sea kale . I will try to find some of the other plants . Thank you I'm glad I found your channel !
This is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time! Extremely informative and inspirational
Thanks so much, Mark!!
Thanks for sharing your video..your new friend Boy Dahon watching from Philippines...stay healthy and take always.
I enjoyed also this time. Thank you, Vera 💖
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you! I have been transitioning my garden to having more perennials. These suggestions are ones I mostly hadn't heard of. This gives me a lot to play with.
Thank you, Nellie! I'm so glad the info was useful to you :)
Thank you, you have helped me in knowing what to plant as a very keen learner.
I'm glad to hear the video was helpful, Cath!
Thank you for sharing these. We have only some of the ones you mentioned; we have some extra sorrel, dandelions, ștevia and lemon balm.
Hello Lavinia.
Urzica, Curled Dock,Leurda sunt foarte bune.
Succes la gradinarit. 🤝🇨🇦
Ty so much now I’m getting my list I’ve searching for perennials
ohno Vera...you make my wishlist evergrowing hahaha. Fortunaletly I inherited an artichoke and some rhubarb from the previous allotment-renter. Also some gooseberries. And so far I've managed to get my hands on some cuttings or rehoused plants like autum yellow raspberry, red currants(aalbes?!) and even an asparagus-plant. Hoping it will have survived the transplant and winter, no sign of life so far. Sowing some myself this year, very exiting! I would love a perennial broccoli(steeds uitverkocht bij denieuwetuin) and kale, if you have some left-over cuttings, do let me know! Oh and now I want the Welsh Onion as well..thinking of making my own gildes for my apple-tree in my backyard as well as our plum-tree in our front-yard. Thank you for all the inspiration!!
Hello Vera! Thank you for this video. Stay blessed.
Thank you, you too!
Thanks! I found a couple things to try and add into my garden. I can’t wait to start being able to harvest things. My asparagus hasn’t started coming up yet, but should soon!
The first asparagus of the season is always such a treat! Though our kids don't agree with this :)
Thank you, quite informative
i don't think you mentioned rhubarb? Not my favourite to eat, but very nice to make juice concentrate / cordial! Not as early as asparagus but still pre-midsummer. Also wild garlic, or ramson! Can be found in the wild in some locations, but I'd like to grow some in my garden from next year. Seed in fall, they need a winter to germinate.
Thanks for the video, I have just started establishing a vegetable garden in my small 9x5m garden, and I was sad there was "only" annual vegetables! How wrong I was. Asparagus was already on my list as my parents grow it, but I now have many more!
Fantastic. I had no idea Hostas were edible. My to-do list grows. Really love your garden - it looks like mine!
Than you and glad to hear you were inspired to start eating hostas :)
Your video's are so informative and surreal, you have a extra ordinary skill of presentation 👍
Have you ever tried Red-veined sorrel? Had it last year and found it quite tasty (normally I do not like sour vegetables, but this sorrel was not sour - more like salad in taste) 🙂
a.k.a. “Bloody Dock”! I’m going to start growing that this fall 😊
Wonderful to discover your channel. Thanks to Huw Richards! Happy gardening :)
Thank you so much! It was very kind of Huw to invite me for a collab on his channel - hopefully there will be more in the future!
I've watched 3-4 vids now, love the channel. No-brainer sub!
Thanks so much for subscribing and welcome!
My mom has grown Hostas all my life, so I'm going to surprise her with some Hostas in a meal in the near future!
I watched with interest! I always welcome a few new ideas!
I grow Jerusalem Artichokes, a great alternative veg to potatoes, really earthy taste (my kids aren't too keen!) But really tasty roasted. Easy to grow, will hold in the ground through most of the winter (am at 52° north) but may not survive hard frosts. And amazing tall yellow flowers in summer, bees love them, like little mini sunflowers! But are a bit robust so can be difficult to clear so put in an area that you are happy to let them take over!! Give them a try..
Thank you! We have grown Jerusalem artichokes for many years in the community garden and they grew splendidly with no care at all but we encountered the same problem - there weren't many takers. Like you, I like them roasted nut my kids won't eat them so I stopped growing them, Maybe I'll plant tehm again when they move out and it's just me and my husband, who will eat almost anything :)
@@GrownToCook sounds like a plan!!!
I have many of these, but wish they were more widely known and used. Would love to see how other people that grow them end up using them in the kitchen.
I have a few recipes with perennial vegetables on my blog if you're interested: www.growntocook.com/ But lots of the leafy ones I use in mixed salads in spring
Right! That's where my creativity stalls out. I would love to have everyone share their #1 favorite way to use each of the veggies mentioned. Thanks
I grow babbington leeks which are Perennial.. they have a delicious garlicky taste and help fill the hungry gaps too 🙂
Lovely video Vera x
Thanks so much!
Great video - I came from Huw Richards and have now subbed!
Thank you, Gawain, and welcome!
Thank you so much for this. I will definitely be adding these to my garden.
Very informative. Thank you.
Glad the video was useful for you Robert!
Nice work. Thanks for the info.
Well done and explained thanks
Glad you liked the video!
Well done thanks, Dom
Thank you for sharing these useful tips.
I really love that you showed actual harvesting and commented on taste and cooking.
Very nice video, thank you! I must do Asparagus !
Asparagus is so worth growing if you have a bit of space! It tastes much sweeter when it's absolutely fresh.
I’ve now subscribed to your TH-cam channel and all blessings
Thank you and welcome!
Thank you so much for these amazing tips! I can't wait to introduce them to my garden :-)
Thank you for sharing
Great video, added several new items to my wish list!
Thank you, Rob!
Nice! Thanks for the share!
Lilium davidii var. willmottiae(tiger lilie), day lilies (whole plant, but closed flower buds with eggs mostly),Sun chokes, elephant garlic (because it self seeds), wine cap mushrooms,sorrel, dandelion, mint, garlic Chives, arugula. You gave me a few new ones. Great video. Garlic will come back a year or two, but I replant it every year to get bigger bulbs.
Thank you, Joe! We have some of the ones you name (I love day lilies!) but I sort of gave up on sunchokes because my kids refuse to eat them. Too bad - it's such an easy plant to grow and in our climate we can just dig them up as needed throughout winter.
Thank you for sharing. I had no idea that the host wa edible. I have lots in my garden!
You're welcome! They are actually some of my favorite perennial veg!
Greetings from Down Under! I admire your willpower to wait for your young edibles to grow on a little before harvesting. I love cooking from my garden and as soon as I bring home a new plant, I am looking for recipes where I can use the recent acquisition. The fiddlehead ferns look amazing as both as an edible and as an architectural plant. Cheers! (or how do you say it in Dutch? Proost?)
Awesome vid! I had never heard of some of those!
niko v Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I didn't know that was perinatal. But I just found that out because I have new growth coming on from last years plant and turnip greens stayed all winter too. We have Polk greens and many wild eatibles .
Great video! But are there any videos, books, etc that can help with the hunger gap in climates that are not oceanic (e.g., hardiness zone 5)?
Hi Lukasz, some of the plants I mention should be hardy enough for your zone too, but for more info, the the book 'Around the world in 80 plants' by Steven Barstow - he's in northern Norway.
@@GrownToCook thank you, you’re amazing!
@@Lucas-pe6fg Thanks th-cam.com/video/CRYzSVPN9s8/w-d-xo.html
Greetings from the US ! Great channel--subscribed ! Glad I stumbled across it. My maternal side of the family is all Dutch & were all great farmers a generation or two back :) I now live in the warmer client of Arizona, but many of these are still applicable w/ the right micro-clime...Easy to follow video ! Thank You :)
Thanks Jeff! How interesting that your family has ties to the Netherlands! And I'm so happy that my video is useful for you even though your climate is so different.
@@GrownToCook Thank You. Too funny you just made this comment; as I just finally got around to watching much of another one of your videos...with your kids taste testing tomatoes a yr ago :)
Very useful thankyou.
Sea kale dose seem to do well in clay.
True! I planted some in my parents garden (pretty heavy clay) and it's thriving there!
Thank you for the Hosta information.
You're welcome, Perry! It is nice to discover that some plants you maybe already have in the garden are edible :)
Love this (and love you!). Always learn so much. One I would want to add is 'Kaukasische rankspinazie', Caucasian Spinach. This is a plant that grows like ivy; if the winter isn't too harsh, it will not wither, but even if it does, it will emerge and grow again the next season. Here is a link (in Dutch) to learn more about it. Edible like spinach (as the name says) and very popular in Scandinavian countries. I have only just started to grow them myself, and am very much longing to find out how it will work out :-)
Thanks so much, Meike! I have seen this plant in someone else's garden but am not growing it myself yet - thanks for the reminder!
Meike van de Linde hablitzia tamoides? It's Brilliant!:)
Nice video thank you I will try some...
I love this video♥️so much good info. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, Sonya!!
You have some very nice veg there.
Your nine star broccoli looks good - mine looks as if it's ready to pull. I guess I'll get some seeds and resow next year. You might want to look at Paul and Beckys Asturian Tree Cabbage whis is a short lived perennial cabbage which isn't strong flavoured - If it flowers hacking it back gets it to resprout.
Seakale - you can also eat the roots (which do get bigger than the one you have)
Szorzonera - usually grown for the root also produces edible shoots in spring. I've got it returning in places where I've previously harvested the roots as it can grow back from quite deep. Just harvested a single root that was a kilogram. I only managed to get two feet of it before it broke off and I lost it so it'll be back :) It can be propogated by breaking the shoots off the crown and replanting them but will produce yellow flowers followed by copious amounts of seed which will germinate where you least want them.
Sorrel - wonderful citrus flavour. Theres a variety called Profusion that doesn't flower so won't get as bitter.
There's also a Welsh Onion that doesn't flower so always produces leaves called Perutil
Speaking of yellow flowers - what about the dandelions, I saw that you're growing them.
One thing I'm growing that no-one seems to have heard of in the UK is Oerprie, mostly for the bulbs but it can be eaten like leek in the spring.
Thanks for all the great recommendations, Jason! I have several different kinds of sorrel (My favourites so far are French and 'Belleville') but I do not know the variety you mention and neither the non-flowering welsh onion. We do occasionally eat some of the dandelions that appear spontaneously in the garden :)
@@GrownToCook You can remove the dandelion leaves then put a bucket over the plant plant to blanch the leaves so they aren't as bitter, plus this depletes the roots so they die off after a while. Or you can dig out the roots, clean them, roast them and grind them as a coffee type drink.
Didn't know that hostas were edible! Thanks!
They are quite nice to eat too, as long as you harvest them early in the season :)
Thank you, Vera! I also first saw you on Huw' s channel.
I am in Oregon, have Good King Henry, and lovage - have tried Sea Kale (there's a well established population near a lighthouse on our coast that's a bit current than the one we can get from seed) and want to order Kaleidoscope Perennial kale grex seed .... My son-in love and daughter have a row of hostas, and I had just recently learned they're edible!
I also have nettle and the red veined sorrel, self heal, primrose, day lilies, and a number of perennial herbs 🌱
Try Egyptian walking onions and pregnant onions. Once established, they will provide all the onions you need.
I do have Egyptian onions but have not heard of pregnant onions?
Hi Vera, I already grow most of these, but have some reservations about the hostas and fiddlehead ferns, which I believe some people consider to have potentially unpleasant side effects if not processed correctly. I tend to err on the side of caution, so it was interesting to see that you are enjoying eating these without bad effects.
In addition I really like scorzonera hispanica, not for its roots which I haven’t tried yet, but it’s delicious flowers and shoots which it reliably produces every spring. It produces a rather alarming coloured yellow sap when cut, which might put some people off, but I enjoy it nonetheless.
Other staples of the hungry gap for us are, self sown lamb’s lettuce (valerianella) and land cress (barbarea verna) which come up reliably every autumn over my annual veg beds and last through to the hungry gap. They are mostly going to seed and past being edible by late April, though. A new success this year has been winter purslane (claytonia perfoliata) which comes up with zero effort on my part by self seeding, like the ones previously mentioned. However, it seems to have a longer season and took us right through the hungry gap this spring until my summer lettuces were able to take over. I have found these three particularly useful as their season of growth means they don’t compete with my main vegetable crops, they also keep the ground covered and protected over the winter as a green manure crop would, but have the added benefit of being an edible crop in their own right.
Thank you for your delightful and inspirational broadcasts.
I have chickens. I are got the dumb, but I want person's to like me with a small brain. I got born this way, and I like to make plants grow like this lady
Robert Wilson nice one, Robert. How many languages do you speak?
In soviet russia the plant grows lady
What a great video!
Thanks so much, Claire!
Thanks 😀
This video is amazing thank you for your precious time,I’m going to grow the lovage
Thank you, Thomas! I'm glad it has inspired you to grow something new :)
Thanks for the video! You gave me a few more ideas of things to plant. If they can survive TX bugs. I'm just hoping they don't become a salad for them here.
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Thank you and welcome!
Very interesting! Greetings from Québec - I think i'm going to search for sea kale and perrenial broccoli. I guess im going to plant asparagarus afterall - its the wait the problem.. 3-5 years from seeds! I have also walking onion and échalotte de sainte-Anne (saint-anne's shallots - i love how it multiplies), there's also horseradish, Jerusalem artichokes(think twice before planting) and rhubarde, nettle. I'm in zone 5b.
Not familiar with the broccoli, but Brassica oleracea such as perennial kale / "tree collards" (not the same as sea kale, which is Crambe maritima and hardier) seems to be Zone 8. You or I would probably have to take it indoors for the winter, which rather defeats the purpose.
Great subject and good timing. I'll be looking to add a couple of these to my growing garden patch.
The first time I heard of eating fern shoots was many years ago when I used to work in a very remote mountainous area. Each spring an older couple would appear for several days to harvest the wild growing fern shoots. They were kind enough to explain to me how they prepared them but I've long since forgotten. I just remember they said they tasted like beef. That was surprising.
In where I used to live in Asia, it was a delicacy and we ate them fried in oil or butter and garlic, seasoned with soy sauce, sometimes spiced with chili peppers.
@@comfyincambridge9588 Thank you! I think that's what they told me I just couldn't remember. I just may have to try that.
I didnt know there was perennial broccoli. How neat!
It is unfortunatelly not very long lived, but a few years of harvest should be possible. It is so nice to be able to harvest these large florets right now!