The EASIEST VEGETABLES to Grow from SEED & HARVEST Seed From - START YOUR PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST!
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- YOU CAN DO IT! IT JUST TAKES ONE SEED! If you're just getting started on a window-sill garden, a balcony, patio or backyard garden, or you've been gardening for a long time, it's always great to know which vegetables and other food-giving plants are easy to grow, and better, EASY TO GET SEED FROM, so you can KEEP GROWING THEM YEAR AFTER YEAR!
In today's video I am going to be talking about just that! I am also going to talk a little about the idea of a PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST. It's important to remember that nature is always changing, always adapting, and nature in balance, a healthy vibrant ecosystem, is biodiverse. That diversity includes the idea of what consists of a permanent forest ecosystem that gives you food - a Permaculture Food Forest. It is not necessarily what is often viewed as a forest as a dark place full of old trees growing closely together. In the FOOD FOREST, there are many levels that all interact in balance. There are the tallest mature trees, which provide a canopy high in the air, then there are the big trees that aren't quite mature, there are the shrubs and small trees, there are the vines that grow up all those tree and shrubs, there are the herbaceous plantes (the low growing leafy plants that are so many of our vegetables, native wildflowers and herbs), there are the ground covers, like wild ginger and wild garlic, and then there are the plants whose main parts are below ground, the root, the tubers, the fungi, and so much else. All of these layers interact in balance, and they don't always look like a traditional forest. In fact, your backyard vegetable and flower garden with some trees, shrubs, vines and groundcover can be a microcosm of a Food Forest.
And there is one extremely interesting point that is the most important to remember: THE MOST BIODIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS are what are called EDGE HABITATS. These are the areas that are in the places (on the edges you could say) between major different ecosystems, like between a forest and a prairie, between a grassland and a creek, between a wetland and a lake, between a forest and a river, etc. In these EDGE ECOSYSTEMS, you have plant, animal, fungi and other species from both ecosystems that surround that edge, so you have twice the biodiversity.
A FOOD FOREST that we can create can very much imitate this type of edge habitat, and can take on many looks. There is such a diversity of ecosystems in the world, that FOOD FORESTS can have an equally diverse image.
I explain all of this in this description in order to show you how a simple vegetable, herb and wildflower garden with a few trees, vines, groundcovers and shrubs added to the mix, which can all fit in a small backyard, or even on a tiny scale, on a patio, can all be set up if you are on a journey to learn about GROWING a FOOD FOREST. You don't have to do it all at once. I've been gardening for 30 years, but I only began creating a food forest where I live 4 and a half years ago. I created food forests at schools where I worked in the past, but never at home. 4 and a half years ago, I finally had a chance to throw myself fully into this process at home. But all those years of gardening prior gave me the skills and knowledge I needed to make the process now just such a joy, so natural, and so successful.
All you have to do is begin. Plant stuff, and let those plants, let nature, teach you. Observe, look up the needs of the plants you grow, and just do it. The plants and nature will take care of the rest!
This video is about what you can easily start with, so you can easily have food, and harvest seed and keep doing it year after year while you learn more!
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Hello and Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture on this Holiday Weekend in Ontario, Canada!❤🌳If you have any questions, I'll be here to answer them for you!
Your episodes give me please and hope for sustainability of earth and the magic and wonder of nature. You are inspiring me and I am 65. The science, the history❤
Thank you! That means so much to me!
Very informative, I feel like a lazy gardener when I watch you … but … you do motivate and encourage me to do better!
Thank you! That’s actually a very popular method of gardening (lazy gardening) I think it’s a version of ‘no dig’. In my next video I will be showing examples of just that. No dig, and also wet spot gardening (so no watering). Lazy gardening the method I believe is a no dig, no watering, no weeding method. It is actually the ideal method because it most imitates nature. And it is what I am slowly setting up here so you could say I am a lazy gardener in the making. I aspire to be a lazy gardener!!! 😊
I may have missed some but this is the gist of what he went over:
1. Garlic in the Fall (not near peas or beans)
2. Walking Onions - little bulbs in Aug, harvest in spring (not near peas or beans), plant them everywhere!
3. Potatoes - they will come back and over winter in the soil.
4. Mustard leaves
5. Yarrow - tea, medicinal, can get thousands of seeds late june/july, collect seeds, fern like plant, deer don't like it.
6. Peas - on trellis
7. Calendula
8. broomcorn sorghum -
9. Amaranth
10. Millet / Corn / Rice
11. Kale that went to Flower
12. Barley
13. Curly Dock -can be ground into flour, leaf good to rub on stings
14. Swiss Chard - same family as beets without the root bulb, let it go to seed
15. Tomato (warm start in greenhouse or indoors)
16. Watermelon (warm start in greenhouse or indoor)
17. Squash - queensland blue, butternut won't give you "true" squash
18. loafa squash - not to eat, don't put near eating squash
19. Cantaloupe
20. Cucumbers
21. Basil
22. BEANS
Love garlic scapes! I'm late to the planting party but I'm finally able to purchase the fruit trees, bushes, and grapes. If I had bought the smallest plants/twigs really - bareroot instead of waiting until I could get larger plants - I would have 4 to 5 year old fruit trees - baring fruit. It's true, you start when you first buy your property cause it takes time to grow!
Thank you! I started with lots of bare roots trees 4 years ago.
Totally, I just bought land a year and a half ago and we bought a couple muscadine grape plants, goji berry, fig trees, avocado, and elderberry from fast growing trees to get a jump start. It's a long process before abundance but so well worth it!
Yes. Very much worth it. And once the abundance arrives and keeps coming the time you had to wait seems like so much less.
I love garlic scape pesto
Sounds delicious!
I have been eating Egyptian loofah for decades, I pick them at about 8 inches long and slice them up, egg- bread crumbs - parmesan cheese - dried herbs - fry in cast iron skillet with high quality oil.
That’s wonderful! I didn’t realize they were edible! Thank you! This is my first time growing them.
Holy smokes! That garlic patch is amazing!!!
Thank you! ❤
I've quickly learned that Calendula is my favorite flower. It just helps me feel so successful. It's easy, gorgeous, and so satisfying to save the seeds. So glad I found your content!
Thank you! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
I can follow your voice so easily and understand, pace and info is perfect
Thank you so much! ❤️
Love that little yellow flower at end.
Thank you! That is called marsh marigold! One of the first flowers to bloom in the forest.
Last summer I learned how much garlic needs consistent soil moisture. I grow Music. Heat and drought are tough on them. I have some garlic chives that are starting to take off after a few years. I collected some seeds and that clump will go in my back yard garden. The original is at the farm next door.
I've never failed to have volunteer lettuce, tomatoes, or compost squash.
I have about 4 liters of calendula seeds. It's nuts how they multiply.
Wonderful! Sounds like you’re having lots of fun!
In a future video, you should mention that only hard neck garlic makes garlic scapes. I have been told that the soft neck garlic, which is good for making a garlic braid with does not make the garlic scapes. I have also heard that the scapes can be used to make a pesto that is out of this world. I think they blended it with butter and good quality olive oil, parmesan cheese, pepper and a little basil and oregano. Served it on pasta.
@@tommielourogers4327 I’ve never attempted to grow soft neck as apparently it doesn’t thrive in cold winters. We are able to braid our garlic, but not to the extent you can the soft neck.
Thanks for confirming my experience. My beets are never as good as the year I started them in pots. Every year the packet says sow directly but I distinctly remember a bigger yield from the year I began indoors. Next year I will go back to starting in pots so they can have the space they need.
They’ll do better. Conventional thinking seems to say don’t start a root vegetable in a pot, because you’re gonna bother the root when you transplant. But it doesn’t make much sense, because all plants rely fully on their roots.
Thank you so much for all the great info! I'm a new subscriber and looking forward to going back and checking out previous videos! I have potato plants that are covered in flowers and never knew they would produce seeds later that I could harvest! I appreciate your teaching me something new!
It's a great pleasure! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! Don't forget, that potato fruit is not edible, even if it smells very sweet sometimes. The potatoes I grew from seeds like this were really good!
Found your channel this morning. I grow most of the plants you sow and save the seeds every year. Trying Mennonite Sorghum for the first time this year. Found the seeds from Nova Scotia so should grow in my zone 4b on South Georgian Bay. Love your channel. I am doing a small food forest in my back yard in town.
That’s fantastic! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! 4b. What are your main vegetables? Sorghum grows fairly quickly once it gets going, so you should be ok.
Could you share a video of how to make calendula cream you mentioned? Did you grow these plants in this video at the same time in the nursery? Thank you God bless you Maranatha
I have never made it, but I would like to try, so if I do, I will recored it. All the plants you see in my videos, I either start ahead of time in small pots either outside, in the greenhouse, and I few I started in the house in January and February. And I also direct seed some in the garden (like the garlic for example). God bless you too!
In this video, I talk about when I sow them. I sow different vegetables at different times depending on their needs: ruclips.net/video/n_lFxh3IbGk/видео.htmlsi=KoNRt77ZFm932FZ3
Thank you, I've been having trouble growing beets, and carrots
You're welcome! Try starting them in pots. It should help. And give them their space. Best of luck with the beets and carrots!
I love the compost garden idea. I will definitely try that. I made a three sisters today and my teepee poles are from small cedar trees which i also have alot of in my woods and they were already dead. I already had corn planted and its about 10-12" high and a couple squash plants so i sowed pole bean seeds and more squash seeds. Unfortunately something ate the tops off of all my dragon tongue bean plants in another part of my garden. I don't have the perimeter secured yet. Enjoyed the video.
Thank you Barb! Eventually, growing your own beans, you can have so many seeds that you just replant if a few seedlings get eaten. You still have plenty of time to replant your beans. But those ones that got eaten on the top might still regrow as well. Often my squash seedlings get eaten by cucumber beatles and so I plant back ups and transplant them into the ground in June and I also early resow them. By mid-June, the cucumber Beatles seem to be in check here.
Super good video! Thank you so much!!! You are awesome 😎!!!
Thank you! ❤️
I just finally found your channel and really appreciate it! I grew up a bit north of you (in the Upper Peninsula) but am now in the mid-Atlantic. Gardening is so good for so many reasons, and I love your passion for it. One note: I notice the large patch of jewelweed at the end of your video. I'm sure you are aware of how well it takes away stings? It's one of my favorite medicinal plants! thank you for a great channel!
Thank you! And yes, I have used the jewelweed for stings. It's also a beautiful plant!
Blessings
Thank you! Blessings to you too!
I wish you could give us a video on preparing the soil and what should be used as soil and fertilizer for the most successful gardens!!! I love the explanations of all the types of vegetations you use!!! Ty!!!
I will make a note of that and do a video on soil building in a regular garden. I’ve done a couple of videos on building the soil in wets spots with a chinampa . But that’s a little different. Thank you!
Calendula my most popular in my Etsy shop, I make salve oil etc, growing alot this year❤
That's great! Thank you for watching!
When you said “fern like” plant, I thought of fiddleheads 😊
We get fiddleheads too! Beautiful Ostrich ferns that grow naturally here. We have two other kinds too, but they're not edible.
Nice just love It. ❤
Thank you!
You just made me realize a mistake I made planting this spring. I deliberately put potatoes and onions together. Whoops! Oh well. The deer have eaten the tops off the potatoes anyway ;)
You’ll still have onions. They maybe won’t be very big. I’m surprised you have deer browsing on your potatoes. The plant is toxic to humans same as tomato. Getting your potatoes trimmed by the deer will barely slow them down by the way.
Hello from Nova Scotia. New subscriber.
And hello to you from Ontario! Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture!
When you save your seeds they have adjusted to your climate and soil. Bought seeds come from a different climate and soil and they often use chemicals which leave a trace in the seeds
Yes, that is all so true. The seeds I direct sow outdoors in the soil do even better by comparison to the bought ones. However, what is interesting is that even the ones I start indoors or in the greenhouse in a very neutral environment do better.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Interesting! I've heard that even GMO seeds will adjust and go back to origin within at least 3 years
For the sake of life on this planet, I hope that is true.@@happyhobbit8450
Great video....
Thank you!
So helpful, thank you sir 😊
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Thank you so much !!!
Very Helpful information ⭐️⭐️⭐️
It's a great pleasure! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very informative.
It's a great pleasure!
Thank you! I’m so glad I found you. You have been really helpful and encouraging.
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Thank you for this very informative video!!!
It's a great pleasure! Thank you for watching!
So many good tips. Thanks so much for your videos!
Thank you! It's a real pleasure!
Thank you your videos at very helpful. Hello from north carolina
It's a great pleasure! And Hello from Ontario! Thank you for watching!
Some of the simplest vegetables to grow from seed include garlic, which can be planted from a bulb and will produce garlic bulbs, scapes, and seeds after a few years. Other easy-to-grow vegetables with seeds that can be easily harvested and used for the next growing season include garlic, Walking Onions or Egyptian Onions, potatoes, mustard, broom corn, amaranth, beets, millet, corn, kale, barley, curly dock, Swiss chard, and various squash and melon varieties. The speaker emphasizes the importance of proper spacing and weed control when growing these vegetables from seeds and shares tips on how to collect seeds from some of them.
Thank you for this sinopsis. 😊
Me encantó el video, aprendí mucho. También me encantó verte recostado sobre el suelo mostrando las plantas, yo disfruto tanto el contacto con la tierra y ver que otras personas también lo hacen es maravilloso! Miles de gracias, saludos desde Chile
¡Gracias Marcia! A mí también, me encanta el contacto con la tierra. Por eso por lo regular no utilizo guantes cuando trabajo en el jardín y cuando y habré terminado el trabajo duro, voy a empezar a trabajar en el jardín descalzo también!
Thank you
It's a pleasure!
New subscriber to your channel. I live at 8800 feet in Co. I’m going to try gardening here this summer. I moved here from Tx last year so I’m not used to waiting so long to start plants. Your advice is greatly appreciated.
Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! I can imagine there must be a big difference in the climate! I'm sure you probably have a plenty long growing season however. For some of my plants, I have to wait until June! But I still have plenty of time. My climate zone is 5b, how about yours?
Those are really nice containers you use for your beans. Where did you buy them from? I typically use mason jars, but I like the look of those and would love to grab some.
They great for anything dry that shouldn’t be hermetically sealed. I got them at a place called Dollarama. I think Bulk Barn sells something similar.
Nice informative video, however, -33C is -27F, not +22F. I will need to try the potato from seeds method.
Thank you! Did I say -33C was +22F? Or did I write it? I apologize for the error.
Loving your videos! Please keep sharing your gardens progress. ❤ I’d love to know the names of the sorghum you plant, so I can search for it. I’m in southern Alberta in zone 4a on the edge of 4b. Thanks!
The main one I plant is Williams Sorghum. That's the syrup sorghum. It also plant coral sorghum which also gives excellent grain and sugar cane, and broomcorn. The broomcorn sorghum doesn't give sugar cane. This year, I am also trying a popping sorghum called Allu Jola.
plant some tansy close to your beetle prone plants. i have them all over my food forest. their flowers are great for consumption as well. pollinators love them too. wonderful plant.
Thank you! I don't actually have any here, but I know the plant. It would be nice to have. Does it repel the beetles or is it a trap plant for them?
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture potato beetles, et al hate tansy. i have them around for cucumbers and gourds too. very effective. we have much in common. i purchased my property in the early 80's. it had very poor soil coarse sand with nearly no organic matter. spent the first 10 yrs composting mountains of arborist wood chips and laid it on 50cm deep all over my little orchard. killed all the grass that way and my raised beds are exactly like yours, just pile of aged wood chips and i do the same thing with "weeds" (i too hate to use that word) and use them for compost but i also make liquid fertilizer with them. i have tons of fruit trees, berry bushes. i also love many "weeds" like the great mullein which i consider one of the best plants in existence for its medicinal and soil improving uses. i have them all over. i have walls of black berries, raspberries, boysenberries, etc. i use goumi berries instead of goji because they are tastier and are a great nitrogen fixer and companion for my fruit trees. just discovered your channel and am happy you are here. i do not have the patience to do vids but i am sure binging your vids 🙂 i usually do not let my tansy go to seed but i could do that this year and send you some seeds if you like. oh, and i planted loofah nearly 10yrs ago and it was really fun but i got so much loofah, i am still using them 🙂
@@AlsanPine Definitely going to use tansy! I'll see if I can find some in the wild. It can be complicated sending seeds over the border. At least from here to the US it is. It's the very round small yellow flower, correct? I just went and checked and there were others that were purple and looked nothing like the tansy I know. I'd forgotten about boysenberries - I haven't heard that word in 20 years. I looks like a blackberry to me. We have a ton of those! We'll show those and a number of others in the next video. How do you use the mullein for medicine? I love that plant! And how do you use it for improving the soil? I just let mine grow because I know it's medicinal, but I haven't gotten around to learning how to use it, and also, I just love the plant! I can't wait to see what the loofah does. I don't know if I have enough season for it to ripen and dry on the vine outside, but we'll see. How long was your growing season when you grew it?
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture yes, round puffy flower which is what i pick for medicinal use and keep from taking over. there is a look alike, however. make sure you see the flowers for full id. if you have a flower with 5 petals, that is the wrong plant 🙂
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Great Mullein is great for calming the skin and lungs as well as effective for ear aches. there is quite a lot of information on the web for it. i also distill a lot of essential oils from my herbs. they have a very deep taproot so they are great for breaking up hard soil. i also use the leaves for my liquid compost. dead leaves add nutrients to the soil. they also attract bugs and worms and cover the soil with their huge leafs providing excellent habitat for bugs and organisms. loofah will need full sun and heat. i grew it 3 years with little success because the weather got cold too fast. 4th time i started inside in a 5" poo pot (these are biodegradable pots made out of cow dung) and once the roots start coming out, i planted it and protected it as here our springs get cold at night. treat it like a watermelon. building a little greenhouse cover will allow you to put it in earlier. still, you want to do this on a year forecasted to be nice and hot. like this year 🙂 my successful year, we had a good 4 months of daytime heat. June - September inclusive. i started the loofah late march. it will benefit from powdered egg shells if you save some. i rinse my egg shells and dry them in a bucket. then crush them and grind them to powder in a little coffee grinder. i end up with tons of shell powder i use on my garden. tomatoes also love them. i put some in my compost too. i usually end up with a couple gallon jugs of the powder each year which is plenty for my whole orchard 🙂
I love your videos! I learn so much from every one and hope to eventually implememnt it all in my own garden!
One question about the potato fruit (Im so excited to try growing potatoes from their seeds, I didn't know!!) Is it safe to put the flesh of the fruit int he compost?
Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
Thank you! I’m glad my videos are helpful!
It is safe to put the potato fruit in the garden. When I say you they’re not edible, it’s for the same reason that the potato plants or the tomato plants are not edible. But you can still put them in the compost.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture wonderful! Thank you so much!!
You're welcome!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your seedlings and garden are beautiful. My gardens are growing like crazy, found some potato bugs today, I don't use pesticides so I hand picked & dusted with diatomaceous earth. What do you use ? My strawberries are coming to and end but had a good harvest for first year berries. Planted a new orchard this year. I'm trying to grow millet and milo this year first time. Best wishes
I rely on the frogs, birds, companion plants and predatory bugs to control the bugs. But when I do come across things like potato bugs right in front of me, I do pick them off. This might sound a little strange, but I always say to them 'ok, start your new life' and then I just crush them and wash my hands with a little soil. I figure, it's alot quicker for them then throwing them in soapy water or something, and their life force is immediately reintegrated into the soil, to eventually be absorbed by soil life, animals or plants. I talk to my plants too. I talk to the animals too. It seems to work better when I don't actually verbalize. Only thoughts.
Not strange at all you have deep connections and respect for nature and living things. Thank you for your reply
Thank you.
Hi, I’m a new subscriber and I’m really enjoying your videos and learning so much 😊 I’m a new gardener, so some of the plants you mention are completely new to me, so it will be great if you could maybe write the name of each plant on the screen (if that’s not too much). Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much! If you go to the settings button at the bottom of your RUclips screen, it looks something like this⚙, you can turn on your English Subtitles, and so you will get the words on your screen. One thing I always try to do is correct the subtitles, so people can watch in many languages. Please let me know if you try this, if it works. It should.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture oh yes, you are right! Thanks very much 😊
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Curious as to what effect do you see with peas and onions/garlic planted close together? I have planted garlic near some peas and want to understand what to expect
I did it once, forgetting that I shouldn’t. The peas didn’t grow as well. They were quite close. Maybe only 15cm separating the row of garlic from the row of peas.
Thank you. I appreciate your videos. I take what I can even though my summers here in N Texas are very hot and dry. It is a challenge growing food ( or anything) here.
I would suggest trying to find out what food plants are native to your region. For example, I'm guessing prickly pear (nopal) cactus must grow there (even we have a type of native prickly pear cactus that grows here, but it's pretty tiny). You may have quite a few plants adapted to your region that you can eat.
N Texas can grow vegetables. I am doing it. But I grew up here. My families have been farmers and gardeners. The hard part is picking the best time to plant the seeds.
Try experimenting with different times with the same seeds. See what works best. That’s where I’m at with the onions. I sowed some indoors I. January and then others in the greenhouse in March. My first impression is the March sown ones may overtake the January ones.
@@joyinthewind1 true. It is difficult to plant fall seeds when it is almost 100 until the end of September. I am in a microclimate where most of the summer rains bypass me. Last year I went 4 months with no rain and the year before 6 months. I cannot plant anywhere I cannot get a hose to.
That is difficult. I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, and that was my exact experience. I was on a hillside and my gardens were above the house, so no hoses for them. I couldn’t plant any vegetables. However, I did native habitat restoration there, with some real, for me, cool plants. So I enjoyed that. Just no homegrown food there.
Yarrow, esp white yarrow is invasive in my garden. I’ve been trying for years to get rid of them.
It is a very useful plant. It actually benefits the health of the plants around it. However I can spread but it isn't difficult to control like mint or raspberries can be, with their long runners.
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'They' say not to plant beets in pots because they're roots will grow crocked ???
I find that transplanted plants take too long to adjust to the soil . . . I tried a comparison and found that it's better to grow in my raised bed in covered tunnel and then transplant.
Definitely a raised bed is a truly comfortable environment for your plants, and for you! They mostly say the same thing about any root vegetable - to not start it in small pots. But I do it with carrots, onions and beets. For me, it's just easier. And they do, do better. It's because, when I direct sow beets, carrots or onions, all of them are really slow sprouters. The only way they have a chance against the weeds direct sowing is by sowing intensively. But then it's just too much work thinning, which I end up doing half-hazardly, so I end up with smaller beets, smaller onions and smaller carrots. They all do well transplanted from pots. I was honestly surprised about the carrots.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I am doing carrots both ways this year so I'll find out.
Definitely have a point about giving them a head start from weeds!!!
Good luck with the experiment!
Where in Ontario are you guys?
We are in the Stirling area. Eastern Ontario.
Do you get snakes given you encouraged frogs? Any suggestions?
Yes, we have northern water snakes and garter snakes. They also help us in the garden. Both kinds are harmless. They love the different chinampa gardens we have made.
Be careful with crossbred/hybridized squash. The hybrids can be toxic. At best you get a tummy ache (happened to me). At worst you can die - which is what happened to a guy in Germany. My sister in Germany drew my attention to it. It was reported in the media.
Thank you for this comment. It’s a subject all growers of cucurbitae should be aware of, especially if they are seed collectors. Toxic squash syndrome is very rare and is caused by the cross pollination of squash with wild cucurbita. It can be avoided first visually. If the squash looks unusual, then that’s a sign to be wary. Next, it’s a question of tasting a small sample. If it’s bitter, spit it out and do not eat the squash (or the seeds).