Propagation - Free plants are the best plants!
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Today we propagate a bunch of plants and basically print money. The best kind of money. The kind you eat.
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I ran into a young lady last weekend at our local feed store. She had taken classes for her PDC and needs to get her hours in. She will be stopping by tomorrow so we can walk my property and decide my goals. She is willing to design my property as part of her completing her hours toward her certificate. How sweet is that!!
Holy what a blessing! Absorb from her! Ask her tons of questions 😀
My whole garden started as a rescue garden. Saplings and young bushes that were growing on shoulders and verges where they would be plowed down, perennials being thinned out by neighbours, seeds from friends and wild sources, cuttings both grafted and rooted, and compost from all kinds of free sources.
That's so awesome! So many sources of free plants out there if you are thrifty enough to go find them!
Mine too! We found all sorts of incredible species this way and started an edible plant garden, mulched with wood chips and grass from the city organic yard. Hardly any money was put in, just hard work, and the soil and plants are healthier than anything we had there before!
Wow, thats really beautiful 😊
I laughed when I saw the trowel - I have one just like it.
Not only does it work absolutely fine, it fits into my jacket pocket so much better than the one with the handle.
Useful looking spade. I must admit, I do have trouble splitting up some of my perennials. The old Hemp Agrimony grows in a mat that's as hard and unyielding as a paving slab.
Since I have a few spare spades that I never use and a husband with a well-stocked workshop, I think I could get him to fashion one for me.
Also, I took some Haskap cuttings a few years ago. Never come across a plant so easy to propagate.
I was pruning back a whole plant, so I could move it into a better position, and just shoved the prunings into the ground nearby. I'm not sure if I didn't even bother to trim them into proper cuttings. I certainly didn't use any rooting powder.
I didn't know much about Haskaps at the time, they were quite new to the UK, so I assumed they were probably going to be fussy and took no notice of the prunings after that.
Anyway, they grew. I tried to split them up last year, but the roots had gone down so far (between rocks) I couldn't lift them.
Indeed! Haskaps, Willow, and Elderberries are all really easy to propagate, and are great ones to practice on, in terms of cuttings.
Root splitting is dead easy for comfrey, and hostas, burdock, etc, also for flowering bulbs like daylillies, daffodils. These are all great things to practice.
😂 New Comfrey plants created!!! Each time to use the shovel... very funny!
I am fascinated about the whole Permaculture Movement. I look forward to all of your videos. This is one of the most exciting movements that I have seen in many years! Go man go!
It is very satisfying ! I have my own little one - even a small yard - you just make all your plants edible ! :) and put an apple tree in the middle :)
I'm absolutely thrilled how much it's picking up also. I think it's the silver lining for all the crap that we all went through the last 3 years with Covid, lockdowns, etc. It really taught people that we need to sort stuff out, because the things we depend on may not always be there when we need them. Gardening in general went through a huge boom during Covid, and climate change and ecosystem collapse is driving a lot of people to look towards sustainability. We are finally starting to see the ground swell of support for a system of actually giving a crap about the world we live in, and the world we leave our children.
The comfrey flower stems will also make new plants ,buried some to feed the fruit tree’s in the fall and this spring they became a new plant. I spread the comfrey all over my property last week also,placed a big patch beside the compost bays to add to the compost. Just added the wine cap spawn about a month ago and looks like mycelium is spreading 🤞
Plant trees even whose shade you will never sit under.
Love that quote. "Societies grow great when..."
Love this! Wish I was dedicated enough to go through separating plants to that degree. I'm much more hack-and-slash (but I'm still multiplying) and this is the part of my garden (food forest?) that I'm most excited about. Plants are just trying to live and are really resilient "dropped" all my blueberries this year and just took cuttings at random for one branch that was too long. Rooting hormone and tossed them in another bed - and 2 of them made roots!
This is such a well documented process. Thanks for your time. I only hope that I can both replicate these processes and properly document their success in my videos. Thanks again for your quality content.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
With as many people as I see complaining about comfrey being uncontrollable once it's in the ground, all I can do is laugh imagining them 100 years from now trying to take it out but just making more plants
The main problem is that people don't know HOW to deal with plants like this. They try to fight it from the bottom. I.e. digging it out. Comfrey just cackles maniacally.
You can get rid of it easily, but you have to fight it from the top. Smother it. Starve it of sunlight. That or just CONSTANTLY chop and drop it and use it to feed fertility as you slowly starve the root system of energy by never letting it do photosynthesis. NOTHING can survive that. You just need to be right on top of it constantly, and never let it collect sunlight.
Ha, yes!
I have my own Comfrey control - the hungriest slugs and snails in all Britain. They mow down any new Comfrey plants I make and it's several years before the crowns are large enough to overwhelm the little beasties.
Great video! Last fall I separated my iris and used many of the heritage plants as markers for the pathways through my food forest. I am happy to say that they have all survived and are growing well. I also have an unlimited supply of the Orangeman's or Ditch orange lilies and have separated my yard from one of our woodlots with them. I will continue to make more edges this year as time allows. We will likely spread them along the fencelines. Many plants and shrubs are so easy to propagate to create beauty, food, and habitat, so I hope many of your subscribers will follow your example. Perhaps I'll get some photos to your Facebook site this spring and summer.
I just got a new pair of mini clippers to keep I my bag for such opportunities! And there's even things going to seed already nearby, just acquired some marigold seeds in a local carpark. My garden is in shared council property outside my flat and I want it to be nice for everyone
I carry around pruners in the car for that exact reason! lol
I go around council car parks after they do the tree and shrub pruning, and will pick up some useful trimmings and, at other times, seeds to make new hedging plants that way.
I gained some free Cornus alba from prunings left by council workers on the ground. (I know it's a bit common, but it does make a very useful soil bonder for those of us with sloping gardens. And it can be used for making some nice coloured rustic hanging baskets if you're into that sort of thing.
One of my Cherry trees comes from a fruit which a bird dropped on my head in a public park.
My first Viburnum opulus fruits originally came from a bush in a car park. 20 minutes cooking and they are safe to eat as a jam.
But I think one of the prettiest plants I got was from prunings off a sort of alpine Willow. Amazing grey, fuzzy leaves. Lovely in arrangements with the Cornus alba as mentioned above.
The last is a type of rose (unknown) with jet black hips. I picked one hip took it home, but only managed to get 2 candidates to grow.
Never mind though...
Last year, I picked the petals off its first Summer flowers, froze them, and then picked the Autumn hips off - cooked the 2 together to make a very fragrant, deepest purple, 'a la dente' jam.
Of course, I saved the seeds from the hips, sowed them, and now have about 30 new rose seedlings sprouting their first true leaves.
So it does pay to be really aware of local authority plantings. They're not all rubbish stuff.
Identify what looks interesting (to make sure it's safe, but councils in Britain don't generally plant poisonous plants any more), and be there to cash in when the time is right.
Cool idea with the comfrey on the edge. I've been using day Lillies to do the same kind of thing. It makes it where I can mow right up next to the beds.
Exactly! That works really well because they hang over the mowed spot, ajd fight the grass creeping from above AND below.
Just got that root buster I think I just fell in love thank you so much. I have an entire hill full of Japanese knotweed I am trying to reclaim. Planting anything was so exhausting before with a normal spade.
I've seen videos of people pulling that thing out. They call it a foundation killer (house foundation). They say you need to an excavator to get rid of it if it is very well established!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yeah I hacked down a whole stand of it and wood chipped close to a foot thick and it still comes back. I go out and pull the new stuff every few days hope to exhaust it. It can be a foot tall in 5 days. We will see if it is possible haha.
You could always make a new handle for that small hand-shovel, tool repair & restoration is a vital skill set to have and one of the reasons behind fastnacht day (you'd spend the day servicing your tools in preparation for the new year while relaxing eating fastnachts). You'd be surprised how much easier it is to use gardening tools that have been sharpened, polished, and kept rust-free year after year.
I need to pick up welding and metalwork as a skill. Just no time, always so busy. I've tried making wooden handles for it but they keep breaking.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy if your wood handle keeps breaking then your using the wrong wood. my grandpa left me his old blacksmith forge.. could totally recraft a new handle then perhaps rivet the handle on or just make a new garden tool out of scrap. problem with welding that is it may be a cheap pot metal and would actually damage your spoon.
I planted more black locust for that exact reason! Being able to harvest branches for tool handles, but also fence posts, etc.
Wonderful bits of useful information.
Awesome video, never knew this, I did just recently learn comfrey is eatable!
It is. Just be aware that there are certain reports on toxicity. However, they are coming from some illnesses and I believe even a death, where someone was using comfrey and concentrating infused oils and consuming them at a ridiculous level.
When in doubt, start very small and go slow. Also be aware that my opinion is just that. An opinion. And I do not have a medical degree.
I have a trial that looks exactly like that Anya people ask me want to buy a new trail cause honestly I wish I was better but I’m not averse to buying stuff but I’m still like yeah but it still works
Another great video! 🙌
Thanks Georgette 😊
A different take on comfrey as root barrier to grass. I prefer to increase the diversity of native plant species (mostly from seed) on my site, rather than add more comfrey clones. (I have over a dozen comfrey plants--that's plenty.) I keep the grass out out of my beds with logs, rocks, and by reusing old pavers, bricks, etc. that I pick up through my local "Buy Nothing" group.
Yeah, this is a big focus for me in the internal areas. The Bermuda grass is just so aggressive, I need to focus on the best solution to it. Using diversity on my edge was tried in several places, but every single non-comfrey plant was really substandard for the job of fighting Bermuda grass.
On the internals of the beds, ajd all around the pond, it's extreme diversity of natives.
One note on the extreme diversity idea also. I think its something that needs to be done alowly, as one learns about each plant. Familiarity is so important, because what happened one year is that I planted 50 new different plants (roughly 500 total plants, 50 different types), and the next year, I was having a hard time knowing what was MY planting ajd what was volunteer. I was spending so much time on a plant app, identifying things, finding out they were a volunteer invasive, cutting it out, etc. It would have been better for me to slowly learn 5 new plants and work with those and do that every month as I built up my knowledge base.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Lol, well that was a crazy plan! Yes, just a handful of new plants each year, year after year...it really adds up. Often I will buy a single individual, site it with excruciating care, and observe how it does before I add more. Sometimes if the plant is happy I don't need to add more, because the plant can obviously do that itself. Or other times I'll start a single six-pack with seeds and do the same. I plant them out in beds where the patchwork border is already in place, with no expectation that they'll hold the line against grass. I choose new plants by asking, what would be growing here now if not for a reckless land use history?
I loved watching the leapfrog comfrey planting 😉
😆 🤣
My friends all call me cheap but they don't understand that I just don't like being wasteful. I would weld a new metal handle on that shovel and then have one better than what they sell in the stores
exactly. I need to learn welding.
What an awesome video!! I appreciate the editing of old footage to see the before and after. Suuuper helpful!
I'm going to be doing that a lot more now that I have a video library of my food forest history :)
Was just wanting to "spread the wealth" with my comfrey 😊 Perfect timing for this to Pop up 👏(and the shovel looks great, too--and the price has actually gone down!)
I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve taught us. I’m on a small suburban lot (
Blessings to you ajd YOUR family for taking the leap! 40 Acres! I'm jealous! Make sure you start small. Have some big ideas, but keep your work focused on small areas at a time.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yes, as you say, build small guilds that are well rounded & which you can propagate
He has a broken shovel and the wife has three good ones😅
Have you ever tried air pruning beds? I have a hillside that I took out of production on our farm and I would like to reforest it. I'm looking for something that can be scaled up to produce hundreds of trees quickly.
I've seen it done a few times, haven't done it yet though. Right now I just directly sow any plants I make. However I would try some air prune beds if I ever started selling plants, so that I could get robust root systems on them.
I see you have undertaken the challenge of life in condos and apartment living. It's an important question, how to deal with both growing plants and those condo boards that discourage people from having plants on balconies.
I now have 2 types of current bushes, took cuttings from the hascap and have increased the edible herbs, not just culinary but tisanes and lip balm making.
Geoff Lawton is back, after quite a break. People should look at what they've done in the Jordanian desert. Bald rocky soils to a food forest that's lush and productive. Unbelievable transformation.
Anyone who says changing desert to food forest, or any other landscape to productive, healthy lands don't have the understanding of what permaculture can do.
Yeah, the main reason I haven't done it yet is because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it justice, because it's just not my reality.
Great video. Off topic, but I just bought some ceder trees about 2 1/2 feet high. Can I plant them now? Or when is the best time?
Best time in cold climate is spring, because the season of death is winter, and spring is the farthest from the winter.
Best time in hot climates is fall, because season of death is the summer, and planting in fall gives the tree the longest time to grow before summer heat.
Have you found that when you dig to plant stuff on the inner part of those beds that comfrey comes up in there? I'm wondering about long term if it will keep keep filling in all the spaces inside the bed too as you plant more and more
Not yet, but I do have a few areas I'd rather comfrey not come up (areas with 6 inch samplings that it would smother). When it pops up I just cut it and drop it. If you stay on top of doing that, then it dies. Covering it with cardboard is also an option (I.e. sheet mulching on top of it). Just be careful, it's a strong plant ajd will try to pry itself up through the cardboard layer, so you may need to reach under and slice it as it tries. Do that once and it should get smothered and die.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks for sharing that 1st hand experience!
Can you elaborate on why you are stopping the spread of grass? Is it a visual or functional reason? Is it the particular type of grass? I ask, because I am out here in SW United States (arid, high elevation). And I was starting to seed water-wise native grasses just outside of my beginning food forest (for mulch, ground cover, bio-diversity, and visual appeal). So I am wondering whether I need to be aware of potential problems with my productive systems?
I do specifically because it's Bermuda grass, and it outcompetes almost all my other herbs and flowers.
If you have native grasses that are water-wise and that's a big concern in your area, then I wouldn't necessarily try to stop it coming in.
I'm guessing that your mound building technique could be improved by putting a layer of cardboard around the plant before building the mound to create a definitive divide between old and new roots.
It could, but it would also act as a water barrier for the host plant.
lovely. Are you referring to a public tour?
I did one before covid years. The only downside was that about 40 small trees got trampled.
I've been thinking of doing one again, I'm just not sure if I will do it this year or wait another year to allow some of the smaller trees to grow a little bit more so they are little more visible.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I will keep my eyes peeled and be happy to sign up when the time comes.
Do you have honey bees on your plant-nation?
Thanks for an other great video. Can anyone confirm that not all daylillies are edible?
delishably.com/foraging/Should-You-Eat-Your-Daylilies
That is a good article
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy ah, it makes sens why you saying like you did in the video. Easy to get confused. Though i did know on my language daylilly and lilly not the same and lilly poisonous, however I did not know that daffodils is not the English word for daylillys, that's it to different plant. Thank you for that, i really liked this video, where we followers getting to see the propagation development in you foodforrest. Excited to see if edible mushrooms will pop up everywhere. Mine grafted on wood last year seems to fail, I'll have to try and other variety i think. I also god inspired of the asparagus propagation. But haven't get going, i think I have to much wildlife, dear and rabbit, that it properly will be eaten down. Mine haskaps isent doing that well, i don't know why, but don't seems to like it at my place. But many of my trees starting getting pretty established, and also fruit bushes yielding last year, this year i see blossom everywhere, on most fruit trees, but really heavy on some of my bushes, apart my haskaps :)
If you have lots of wildlife, you can try to use a circle of chicken wire around the plants you want to get established.
Gardening is my drug of choice and propagating feeds the addiction. I suppose there are worse things, right?
It's a damn fine addiction!
I love your analogy 😂 Same, same.
For your hand trowel why don't you just use a stick with a slot sliced through an inch. It might fall off but it should be more comfortable than using your thumb for leverage
Tried, it just breaks
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Maybe some duct tape taped along the edge; you could put some cottony stuff between it and the spade for a little cushion.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that sucks. At that point I would just relegate it to seedlings. Even if you didn't get a new trowel I'm sure you already have better tools that can accomplish the same task.
Although I just had a funny thought. You can make some sort of primitive hatchet with it, Apocalypse Style.
I would drill a few holes in the trowel and bolt a handle to it
Can plums grow from cuttings just pushed into the ground
Technically yes, but I find they don't. You really want to do them in a warm damp box. Edible acres has some good videos on his cutting propagation method for these kind of cuttings. ruclips.net/video/ddExGakaqZk/видео.html
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Love Sean, he is an amazing human being. A huge inspiration for my backyard forest garden in the middle of VKH, ON. Long live the Natural Farmers and Guerrilla Gardeners!
Yes , I took a cutting and stuck it in the ground close to the mother plant about 5 inches deep. I was pruning just before leaf buds started to wake up
@@Growinginontario cool I just did the same
The real test will be if it still has leaves in a few months. The cutting itself has a bunch of water in it, which it can use to survive for a few weeks. After that, it will need roots to have formed to transport water into the plant. However, if the plant looks dead in a few months leave it there for at least a year. Sometimes the roots will survive even though the upper plant dies, and it will be able to send a new shoot up next spring.
WOULD COMFREY PREVENT MOLES FROM PASSING INTO A BED ?
Not sure but I doubt it.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy ok, thank you 😊
I have moles that tunnel under and through the root systems of some of my plants and I'm hoping to find an alternative to put an underground hardware cloth fence around the roots of many plants.
Hi:) I am from Norway and I have followed your channel for a few years now. I love it! Thank you!
I started my little food forest 3 years ago and you have been giving me a lot of inspiration, knowledge and motivation.
In this video you say that "not all daylilies are edible". I have two varieties of daylilies (one yellow and one orange) that were already in the garden when I bought the place, both are edible and taste good. Last year I got some hybrid hemerocallis. I did google "Hemerocallis" and was told: "As long as you have correctly identified a plant as a Hemerocallis, you can eat it"..
Do you know if there are any daylilies (Hemerocallis) that are dangerous (poisonous) to eat?, or do you think it is safe to taste my new hemerocallis hybrids? ..and see if I get any reactions before I eat more of them, (if they taste bad or are poisonous I don't want them in my food forest).
Keep on making the world a better place! Respectfully, Kjetil.
I am definitely not a mega expert on daylillies, so I'm not sure I can help any more than just providing a warning. I'd yoy Google "are daylillies edible" you should find a few good articles that go into detail.
A really good indicator is of the flowers point upwards or downwards (not edible). However I also don't think that's a golden rule.
Thank you very much for your answer! After more research I decided to dig out the Hemerocallis Hybrids from my food forest and put them in pots for ornamentals and hopefully a happy place for friendly insects. I spread the old safe (and tasty) Daylilies and stick to eating only them. 💚
yeah why buy plants when your living near them and on them. (except the other plants around the world)