It seems that 8 months after making this video, the RUclips algorithm is suggesting it to a bunch of new people! Welcome to everyone new. For all the new viewers, I have created an "essentials" playlist here - if you enjoy this video, make sure to check the playlist out, as it will give you a good idea of what this kind of regenerative gardening looks like: ruclips.net/p/PLWcGSYiimOLxSGAkqn1OYnf8nE2auy3y6 Specifically, I suggest starting with a few particular videos: 1) Who we are, what is permaculture, what it's all about: ruclips.net/video/39_V9d5t_Xg/видео.html 2) This will change how you garden forever - which really talks about my 2 golden rules of gardening: ruclips.net/video/cFLyGVhu0bY/видео.html 3) No land, no problem? This is one about planting TONS of trees, and is a soft-intro to Guerilla Gardening in a responsible way: ruclips.net/video/oiIJkzahH1k/видео.html If you enjoy those, then feel free to dig deep into some of the deeper permaculture videos in there on pest control, pruning, water management with swales and ponds, etc. Thanks for watching!
I'm so fortunate. Whatever happened, I'm ao grateful for it. I hope you all enjoy my videos. I can't wait for this spring, to see all the really young trees start growing more!
I had a large thornless blackberry in my back yard for years. A skunk moved in under it when the plant was about three foot around. I never had a problem with him. He only came out at night and kept the bugs in check. 20 years later and 10 feet across. We still live in peace.
The skunk might have keeping some other critters or birds away to that are not wanting to get sprayed. Sounds like the scene for a children's story on sharing and compassion :)
The house is in the high desert in Arizona, on the edge of a small town. All kinds of animals visit our yard. We have found large toads and bats by the front door. I always keep a large bowl under the garden hose connector to catch any leaking water hose. That small amount of water has saved many animals from the heat. With no fence and the property completely covered with as many of my favorite plant’s that I could manage. Many animals that were abused found comfort in this yard as they passed through. Many memories indescribable joy.
@Shaggy Dog: In most northern and eastern states, every county has a county extension agent and office where the employees give advice and help to people with the plants they grow. They are usually connected with whatever state university in your state has the agricultural school. I recommend checking to see if your state has a County Extension Service. If so, call your local office and ask your questions. Sometimes they will do soil testing for you, and evaluate your land, especially if you have changes in elevation or other unique challenges that might impact the success of different fruit varieties. Often they have free publications and really good, county specific advice. If you do not have a County Extension Service, investigate your state universities and find out which one teaches agricultural science. They are the people who know what plants will be successful in different areas of your state, which varieties to purchase, and they can give you really good advice on methods of planting to get a good crop. Blessings!
Wish I could grow blue berries, but my soil isn't acidic enough. I have all the others except honey berries that will be planted when the snow melts and my local seed store gets them in
This reminds me of our garden back in Russia. I was born in Russia Rostov-on-Don, and in that city, much like in all of Russia people grow much of their own food. Even today in modern times a large part of Russian population still grows parts of their own food. It’s a normal thing in Russia. The Russians who live in densely populated urban cities grow food in their “Dachas” (Дача) which is like a Summer vacation house located somewhere in remote country area. Russians go away for the summer to live in their country houses. Wealthy people don’t grow their own food but for fun they keep flower gardens in their dachas. The reason why I said this video reminds me of our garden back in Russia, is because one of our plots which we utilized for gardening/ food growing was surrounded by a fence made out of raspberry bushes. I could never describe in words the difference between homegrown berries and veggies and fruits and store bought . There is no comparison!
Thanks for posting that. I am really enjoying my Russian watchers. It is so cool to connect to people on the other side of the planet who are choosing to live the same way.
If you actually want to heal the soil you have, there are a LOT native bushes with edible berries. Viburnum, serviceberry, Spicebush, chokeberry, gooseberry, and highbush blueberry to name a few. And some are nitrogen fixers and grow incredibly fast. So maybe think about planting some native stuff in order to get more beneficial insects. Studies have shown that pollinators are extremely more likely to be attracted by native plants than nonnative ones.
So do strawberry leaves. Is rose hip marmalade actually...good? I made a spoonful of jelly as a test a couple years back and it was nothing to write home about.
I vehemently agree, bushes are vastly under rated, but my reasoning is their use as wind breaks and wind diversions and wind channellers, so much of micro climate is wind dictated. Wind can create arid regions, absence of wind drops evaporation exponentially. Ground cover can alter ground temperatures by enormous amounts.
Song playing in the back of my mind while watching video about bushes: "Everyday I worry all day. About what waiting in the bushes of love. Something's waiting in the bushes for us. Something's waiting in the bushes of love."
Sweden here (lat 64, about the height of Fairbanks Alaska)! Try to make coldbrewed black currant lemonade, delicious. Half a bucket of berries, fill up with boiling water, slice a lemon and put them on the surface (or stirr in citric acid). Keep cool for 2-3 days and then sift it. 4-6 dl...I guess that is about 1,5- 2 cups...of sugar and stirr until the sugar has disolved. Less sugar = keep the lemonade in the freezer. More healthy than boiling or steaming the berries. Bought garden raspberry does not taste as good as the ones I pick in the forest, have gotten rid of all of mine...but I have them in the forest around our village. Sea buckthorn has not wanted to live in my garden but I will give them another try. Rose hips are very wholesome; vitamin C/A/E, folate, calcium, potassium, magnesium and antioxidants.
Black current jam is my all time favorite, too! I make a "raw" jam without cooking, just blend the berries with sugar and keep the jar in the fridge. Vit C is a bomb here if keep it uncooked.
@never mind: Look up recipes for freezer jam. You don’t have to freeze it, but if you want to store it longer you can. The fresh taste it retains and the increase nutrition are awesome and really worthwhile!
You can also make a fermented jam, using just fruit and honey. Tastes awesome, still has all the Vit C and stores for longer than just regular blended/freezer style jams!
Let me add... Oregon Grape Bush. altho very invasive a very medicinal plant. Super Tart/bitter but add sugar and the jelly is to dye for. Very purple hands upon harvest!
You didn’t mention gooseberries. Since you like tart berries I’m sure you’d love these. They also have a TON of pectin so they’re awesome to combine with other fruits for jam. I concocted something called “ Bluegoose jam” last year from blueberries and gooseberries. It’s sooooo good.
Jam combos are something I'm going to mess around with a lot this year. Love gooseberries. Another thorny plant, but makes a bigger sweeter currant (ribes family).
also: Josta berries. They are a hybrid of black currants and gooseberries. The Berries look like black gooeseberries (a little smaler) taste is also a good mix but : no thornes. There are also gooseberry cultivars without thornes.
And 2021 and 2022 and 2023. I think 2020 just showed us how VALUABLE prepping can be. The challenges that we face in the next few decades will make Covid look like child's play. Its never been a better time to start a garden and plant some fruit trees!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Definitely. Our friends used to think we were weird preppers and just accepted home grown organic vegetables without knowing their true value. That has changed and they are now asking for space to grow their own.
If this whole pandemic and lockdowns help create more growers and build resiliency into families all over the planet, then that is a very nice silver lining to a terrible thing. And its exactly what humankind needs right now.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy 100% correct. CDC saying this wasn't even "the Big One". Social systems will collapse when the big one hits. You can protect yourself somewhat by divesting from *all* animal products in your diet. Nearly all of the horrid epidemics of mankind have zoonotic sources, including COVID. You know what doesn't give us really deadly diseases? Plants.
Veery late comment, but! You can also make rose jam out of the rose hips. That's what traditionally we have our pączki stuffed with here in Poland ;) Yummy
I found some raspberries growing near a spring I get water at and transplanted them. A few years later the neighbors were harvesting raspberries, and a year later their neighbor behind them too. There was no way they could complian since we all had hollyhocks coming up everywhere. That's not even close to mint I had growing once though. That stuff made the entire neighborhood smell like mint, especially if I mowed the "grass." Mint spread rampant and fast but somehow didn't go into everyone else's yards too much and keep going endlessly.
I love it man, this was a great list! I live up in zone 3a, north of Bancroft Ontario and I find my favourite wild berries to pick here are saskatoon/service berries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, elderberries, chokecherries, sumac, etc. While in the garden, raspberries are my favourite hands down both black and red, currants, grapes and strawberries. I plant them with hardy pears, plums and apples. Maple Syrup production is king in spring here though! All the berries are frozen to be crepe sauces with maple syrup.... yumm!
Do you know the varieties you plant for the pears, plums and apples? I will be in a 5a zone soon and really want some extra cold-tolerant varieties so a plum that survives in 3a would be amazing!
Bend the raspberries over, anchor to the soil with a rock and they will root. Easy! Same with blackberries. In fact, many cane plants will propagate this way.
@@AliciaLovesYAHUSHA I wouldn't worry. They grow a bit differently than regular bushes, in that instead of short forked branches they send out these really long, bendy canes.
To eat rosehips, cut open the ripe hip (bright orange or red, flower has completely vanished, usually mid to late autumn), scrape out the seeds and the spiny inner material, and eat the remaining flesh of the fruit. Rosehip jam and rosehip marmalade are delicious, but most importantly, rosehips contain a lot of vitamin C (which is why they're so strong when not sweetened into a jam, syrup, or jelly).
Do the rabbits leave them alone in winter? We live in the city and I have a problem to pick bushes, too many have been completely destroyed by rabbits during our cold MB winters. Also, any suggestion for a shadowy place to put an edible bush in?
Elderberries are also loved by chickens. I've been growing some elderberry bushes from seed that I collected from some spectacularly productive elderberry bushes growing in a hedge here in the UK.
Black currant is my favorite 🤗 it does very well here in Finland, taste is amazing and the yeild is always good. Even harvesting it is pretty fast compared to some other berries.
Black currants make an excellent fruit juice, too! Toss in a blender with some sugar/honey/sweetener of your choice with some water, blend, and strain! Stick the pulp in the freezer or dehydrate to use in baking. Drink the juice! Can the juice if you want as well (Be safe with your canning methods please!)
Ha! I just came across your channel. Did my first guerilla gardening this weekend - planted a rock rose and lavender bush in a park opposite my house where the council had ripped out some shrubs. Hoping to plant sunflowers in a lawn opposite my house. Lockdown native flower planting to bring happiness to neighbours. 🌻🌹🌼
Ugh - I had a fail with currents here in St. Louis, and I love them remembering that my grandmother grew them. The gooseberries nearby have done well. Great video!
My mom grows about 15 different types of berries. Her absolute hands down favorite in terms of abundance, taste is the Illinois mulberry. The only problem is keeping the size in check.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope you include some Arctic or Siberian kiwis. I bought a pint once in a local grocery store that were unlabeled. Most delicious, complex fruit I ever tasted. The size of a grape. I know there's a big difference in their culture, but I can't find the book now.🥴
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's inspiring to know! Have you had fruit from them yet? If so, are they the grape-sized fruit, or the blueberry-sized fruit, which I've not tasted?
Just bought some berry bushes two days ago, although i only have a little balcony and have to plant them in pots. Now RUclips showes me this video. Funny I love the taste of berries. They always were a great thing in my childhood at our garden and my grandma's garden. Of course, we always grumbled a little when we had to harvest a full bush or to fill our bucket with berries before we were allowed to play outside. But we grew up with all these flavours and enjoyed the taste of jams, cakes, fruit jellies and other canned summer harvests. That was so great. I still have these pictures in my mind and can even smell and taste it in my memories. 😊🍇
If you like tart berries with complex flavors you should try Oregon grape, Mahonia aquifolium, which isn't a grape at all. Zones 5-9. When I had access to some I'd juice them, dilute with lots of water and some sugar, to make the best beverage I've ever had. You made me realize it'd have made the best jam or jelly I've ever tasted too.
Thank you very much for mentioning the cultivation area. Your wonderful work, inspires me to watch what I could do at home. May the year 2021 be a year of plenty
That's a great list you have there. I planted my first Raspberry bushes this year. I actually have them in a food plot that's intended for the deer, rabbits and birds. I also plan to plant some Beautyberry bushes on the edges of the treeline. Never heard of the Currants - might see if I can find some this Spring. Thanks!
Re-watching as a few things in our yard are starting to poke their heads out. Currants we bought and planted in October are budding, saffron we planted at the same time are sprouting out of the ground too. Very excited for everything to "wake up" as you said!!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy hahaha well we're not totally out of the woods for freezes or cold temps yet so we'll see, it always seems to come March/April (just as you're getting excited for warm weather). We are getting a spot prepared for quails though so hopefully that'll help make any cold snaps seem more bearable! Hang in there though, my husband and I love watching your videos and are greatly anticipating any updates this year! Maybe in the meantime a few games of hockey will help? 🏒
excellent info thank you !! I'm in the Golden State of California and will absolutely plant these bushes you recommended in my "new"perma forest garden🍀🍀🌈💫
I was pretty excited the other day to wander around, what we call a berm. We have huge spruce and balsam growing on the berm but underneath it’s like …..THIS AWESOME WHOLE other WORLD. I found so many different plants and bushes, but to my surprise I found wild raspberries, highbush cranberries and wild gooseberries. Anyways great video. 🇨🇦🐝
My food forest includes Oregon grapes, Salmonberry & Thimble berries. Also I grow my greens most of the year especially in shade of the trees in summer. 😋
Hascaps are only sour on certain varieties or if you don't let them ripen. They can be some of the sweetest berries out there. you probably just have a tart variety. all types taste different
Always remember that a West Coast zone 8/9 (long but mild winters, often cool or low humidity summers) is very different than the same zones in the US Southeast and other continental-influenced climates (short but sharp & often irregular freezes, generally torrid summers). If you live in the Southeast, make sure you know your area's Chilling Hours (essentially, how long winter is) and try to find the winter chilling requirements for the crops you are interested in, though this is more reported for conventional/marketable crops (usually your [or nearby] state's landgrant [have Agricultural colleges] universities do a good job with that) than for oddities like jelly palms and pineapple guavas that fewer people know as foods. If you see something grow well in your area as an ornamental, and it happens to be edible, and you are growing for your family rather than for the market, that is worth investigating.
I’m in Oregon our summer are very dry and quite hot. The air isn’t dry enough to make your nosebleed like further inland, but spill a glass of water in August and you won’t find a trace in ten minutes.
This was my first year gardening and I had so much fun growing ground cherries. They are very invasive, which is why I chose them and so cute. They were a big hit at work. Now all my coworkers want to grow ground cherries.
That's great! Yoy can grow everything i grow here. Some of the stuff gets harder in zone 8/9 but pretty much anything you see on my channel will also work in zone 7.
Rabbits , one winter, ,before we fenced in the garden, decimated our entire raspberry patch by eating the bark at 'snow' level. When they also repeatedly ate all the bean seedlings we quickly learned to keep bunnies out of the garden .
I definitely can see why people think that way. I like them myself. They do damage but they also leave so much fertility behind. I find for me they mostly eat my kale and clover that I plant for them, so for me that's manageable. I'm sure that doesn't work everywhere though.
So glad to see several of my working standby plants in this video--blackberry, elderberry, raspberry and currants. 100% correct about the currants--they make the best jam, hands down. This spring, I'll be planting the roses for the rose hips (want to try rose hip jelly). Lots of great suggestions, and I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! Thank you.
Rose hips can be two completely different things sure one of them is immature rose flowers but that is not the type you would make jelly from. The dog rose tree produces flowers and then makes these small red fruits called rose hips (they type you make jelly from) the seeds inside are usually pressed for their oil which has the smallest molecule size of all oils and is great for breaking up scar tissue and healing stretch marks.
we just had to clear our 78ft long by 30ft wide backgarden from blackberry bush :( left a small amount in one corner where my composting bins will eventually be, if the blackberry dont make it then i will not be sad! bloody stuff gets everywhere! much love from the uk xxx
My personal top six are raspberry, blackberry, serviceberry (saskatoons), currants, gooseberry, and Damascus roses but this year I'll add some native grapes and haskaps. I grow on a 1/6 acre town lot in PEI.
Black currants as jam or cordial are great. I'm from Scandinavia and we always had them. Cordial made from 2/3 black currants and 1/3 red is great. Cordial with 2/3 raspberries and 1/3 red currants is also very good. The red currants add a freshness to it. The leaves of black currants are also often used in the brine for pickled cucumbers.
I can't imagine my garden without red currants,literally have more than 10 bushes for sure.I also like raspberries,and their hybrids.I growing some golden currants (ribes aureum)cuz I have some troubles with black currants.(taste is really nice,more sweetier from black currants,but berries size is much smaller). Goseberries is really nice bush,modern varieties have good imunity and big sized berries. I really want to grow haskapberries (I think canadian varieties on the top now) Chaenomeles is really underrated,ppl should use it not only for decorative.
I must not have ever had a really good quince, because I'm not really a huge fan. I may pick up a tree just to say I have them - and that I'm not judging it based on storebought quince. I mean... I'd be silly to judge strawberries based on storebought ones.
Great content! You grow a lot of things I wish I could but down in Texas we get up to 115F a couples times a summer. This last summer we also went almost 3 months without rain so my conditions unfortunately won't allow a lot of these awesome plants. Each climate has it's perks I supposed. I get to grow figs at least!! Thanks for the great work and for reaching out!
Indeed! I wish I could grow some of the stuff you can grow. Scarlet runner beans for example. Caucasian mountain spinach. Yacon. But there are major benefits to being in a colder climate. More steady rains, cooler summers, etc. It's really important to be grateful of the blessings of the climate you call home, and not focus on what we don't have, but love what we do have.
Oh, I just realized who this is. I just binged your videos a few days ago. We are like brothers from across the continent. /fistbump Also FYI, I'm not sure why youtube picked up this video ajd pushed it to people. It's just a very avg video. You may really enjoy my soil microbiology guide, or permaculture guild guide, or "this will change how you garden forever". Those ones are really good starting places! ❤️
What a great video. I would love for a follow up video about your "honorable mentions to" plants AND another video about how to propagate all these plants (you mentioned how to do this with a few in this video and that information is INVALUABLE). I am so happy to have found your channel-- fellow Canadian in zone 4
That's awesome, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's definitely hard to make a video that talks about all of this stuff. I find when my videos get too long, the watched time remains the same, and people miss out on all the extra content. It is much better to keep them to roughly 10-15 minutes maximum, and split extra topics into their own video. Hardwood propagation can be a great video, and same with some more on some of those honorable mention bushes. They are all incredible too! I just had to keep it to 6 in order to keep the video length down, and have some time allocated to each bush to talk about them a bit (currants great for shade, elderberry great for wet soils, etc.).
Awesome video, will definitely take some of these amazing plants into consideration! My wife and I are moving into our first home this summer (Zone 5b, 0.1 acres) Not a lot of land to work with, but we are excited to finally put some of these permaculture principles into practice after years of apartment building vermicomposting, lol...
You’re opening skipped straight to Haskaps. And we have a wonderfully abundant crop of delicious berries on the property we got last year. And the hugest most juicy Saskatoon berries as well. The previous owners had a “U Pick”. I need to get the business side of it sorted out, but last year it was a “come on over and help yourself Pick” farm. 😂
Try growing Goumi berries. Very early, right after haskap. Very delicious, just let them fully ripe. On top of that they are also nitrogen fixers. And they look great.
If your freeze Cranberries the same thing happens. For breakfast I boil 21/2 cups of water, through in a hand full of cranberries , let it return to boil then add steel cut oats. Let it cool for 1/2 an hour add 1 cup of almond milk, sugar free. Turn to simmer then shut off while you have your coffee. Bowl it up. It is delicious. All of a sudden it is sweet but no sugar was added.
My hound used to eat all my raspberries. He was so good at it too! Took me nearly all summer to finally figure out how the ripe raspberries were disappearing. He also would purloin sugar snap peas through the welded wire fence. Who needs squirrels with a foraging hound?
I’m really looking forward to my seaberry this spring will be it’s first year. I’m planning on using them in the future as an edible privacy/security fence around the property along with some BlackBerry and raspberry mixed in.
Another underutilized fruit bearing shrub is the chokeberry (Aronia family). These shrubs are well behaved, have great fall color, and are very cold hardy. The berry is blue black, astringent like cranberries, but with great flavor. The seeds are a rare natural sources of vitamin K. Native Americans would make a fruit leather (seeds and all) for winter consumption. A super food too. Many juice combos in your supermarket will use chokeberry as an ingredient. Not sweet, but has a delicious taste to it. Great in fruit smoothies. OH and because it is native with early flowers, is an important pollinator plant for native bees.
Great list! I like how your food forest design still allows plenty of room for the dog to play. I don't have a yard of my own to experiment yet, but I've been curious about planting thorny stuff around the chicken coop, for predator protection and a tasty treat. I just did a quick Google search and apparently adding a low percentage of seabuckthorn flowers to their diet can increase egg production. Those thorns look like they'd be a pretty good deterrent. Yikes.
Have you thought about sloe trees (blackthorn) you pick them after the first frost, so quite a late berry, here in the uk you can find them all winter. Also quite a resilient plant that wants to grow, I will be adding them to a future planned garden as they grow strait so useful as bamboo alternatives. They are very dry to eat but get sweeter after frost, but still dry.
Prunus spinosa can be pretty invasive in some spots, so as long as people keep an eye on it, that's fine in my eyes. We have one on our property. Fun fact, you can also grafts many common fruits to it and they will produce.
In your honorable mention list I noticed autumn olive. I'm a huge fan of autumn olive and would plant them in my back yard if it were legal in Michigan! Instead I go to public land where it's growing wild to harvest them. I like to eat them raw and make jam.
Roses great food. Gather the hips after a good hard frost or better yet a snow or two. This brings out the sweetness and flavor. I have made rose hip butter the same way you make apple butter and it is wonderful. Also the petles can be made in to rose petal preserve. A elderly Pollish lady showed me how and we love it. Teas and jelly are easy too.
I tend to have a talent for finding wild black berry and mulberry plants around there's a big mulberry on the furtherest corner of my grandparents property and a whole thicket of black berry separating her land from the neighbors though given the straight line they seem to go in I have a feeling the previous owners put them in and they where forgotten :p the spot her house is on was a part of a cow field so who knows but yay berries to pick and propagate
Nice list hard to choose with so much to love! I would add Amelanchier and Aronia AMAZING FALL COLOR (VERY TART) .;) Organic Alfalfa meal from feed store is loved by berries and roses increases cane break (produces more canes). In hot areas like California helps plants deal with the heat due to naturally containing triacontanol the triacontanols will also increase yields. O Goji is an easy plant also wish I could get a buckthorn hard to find. Love the taste of eleagnus but they are Invasive in a lot of areas. THANK YOU FOR VIDEO BEAUTIFUL GARDEN!!!
I love to follow you, even if I live in Sweden, most plants in our foodforests are the same! Hass berry and elderberries rasberries and currants. . . They come in so many varieties and colours theese days. So your foodforest can become so beautiful! Ad some thyme in a stonefence or waterlillies in a swell... there are so many ways to go to build foodforest according to where you live and has access to. Good luck with your wonderful garden and happy new year!
It seems that 8 months after making this video, the RUclips algorithm is suggesting it to a bunch of new people! Welcome to everyone new. For all the new viewers, I have created an "essentials" playlist here - if you enjoy this video, make sure to check the playlist out, as it will give you a good idea of what this kind of regenerative gardening looks like:
ruclips.net/p/PLWcGSYiimOLxSGAkqn1OYnf8nE2auy3y6
Specifically, I suggest starting with a few particular videos:
1) Who we are, what is permaculture, what it's all about:
ruclips.net/video/39_V9d5t_Xg/видео.html
2) This will change how you garden forever - which really talks about my 2 golden rules of gardening:
ruclips.net/video/cFLyGVhu0bY/видео.html
3) No land, no problem? This is one about planting TONS of trees, and is a soft-intro to Guerilla Gardening in a responsible way:
ruclips.net/video/oiIJkzahH1k/видео.html
If you enjoy those, then feel free to dig deep into some of the deeper permaculture videos in there on pest control, pruning, water management with swales and ponds, etc.
Thanks for watching!
I'm glad they did :) Try the rosa rugosa flower petals in salad too. I just eat the petals like candy when I walk by them. So yummy :)
Well grateful for the algorithm I guess! Glad to have found you. Newest sub!
Thanks 😊
Im new also!! Thanks :)
I'm so fortunate. Whatever happened, I'm ao grateful for it. I hope you all enjoy my videos. I can't wait for this spring, to see all the really young trees start growing more!
I had a large thornless blackberry in my back yard for years. A skunk moved in under it when the plant was about three foot around. I never had a problem with him. He only came out at night and kept the bugs in check. 20 years later and 10 feet across. We still live in peace.
Haha thats a great story.
What is this black magik thornless blackberry bush!!? I've only seen the wild hella sharp ones
The skunk might have keeping some other critters or birds away to that are not wanting to get sprayed. Sounds like the scene for a children's story on sharing and compassion :)
The house is in the high desert in Arizona, on the edge of a small town. All kinds of animals visit our yard. We have found large toads and bats by the front door. I always keep a large bowl under the garden hose connector to catch any leaking water hose. That small amount of water has saved many animals from the heat. With no fence and the property completely covered with as many of my favorite plant’s that I could manage. Many animals that were abused found comfort in this yard as they passed through. Many memories indescribable joy.
Wow! Thanks for the reminder, we can co-exist together 🐬💦 Beautiful! Beautiful!
1) Blackberries,
2) Black Currants (shade loving),
3) Elderberries,
4) Haskap berries
5) Raspberries,
6) Sea buckthorn berries (purchase thornless)
7) Blueberries
I bought blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes yesterday.
I'd love to have all of them but would they grow in the desert southwest? 110 in summer -10 in winter.
@Shaggy Dog: In most northern and eastern states, every county has a county extension agent and office where the employees give advice and help to people with the plants they grow. They are usually connected with whatever state university in your state has the agricultural school. I recommend checking to see if your state has a County Extension Service. If so, call your local office and ask your questions. Sometimes they will do soil testing for you, and evaluate your land, especially if you have changes in elevation or other unique challenges that might impact the success of different fruit varieties. Often they have free publications and really good, county specific advice. If you do not have a County Extension Service, investigate your state universities and find out which one teaches agricultural science. They are the people who know what plants will be successful in different areas of your state, which varieties to purchase, and they can give you really good advice on methods of planting to get a good crop. Blessings!
@@salyluz6535 Thanks much. I'll have to check into that. God bless.
Wish I could grow blue berries, but my soil isn't acidic enough. I have all the others except honey berries that will be planted when the snow melts and my local seed store gets them in
This reminds me of our garden back in Russia. I was born in Russia Rostov-on-Don, and in that city, much like in all of Russia people grow much of their own food. Even today in modern times a large part of Russian population still grows parts of their own food. It’s a normal thing in Russia. The Russians who live in densely populated urban cities grow food in their “Dachas” (Дача) which is like a Summer vacation house located somewhere in remote country area. Russians go away for the summer to live in their country houses. Wealthy people don’t grow their own food but for fun they keep flower gardens in their dachas. The reason why I said this video reminds me of our garden back in Russia, is because one of our plots which we utilized for gardening/ food growing was surrounded by a fence made out of raspberry bushes. I could never describe in words the difference between homegrown berries and veggies and fruits and store bought . There is no comparison!
Thanks for posting that. I am really enjoying my Russian watchers. It is so cool to connect to people on the other side of the planet who are choosing to live the same way.
В каждой фразе рашн. Это секта "Рашн" и рашн-пропаганда?
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you! I’ve enjoyed watching your videos.
@@hobogardenerben Thank you!
If you actually want to heal the soil you have, there are a LOT native bushes with edible berries. Viburnum, serviceberry, Spicebush, chokeberry, gooseberry, and highbush blueberry to name a few. And some are nitrogen fixers and grow incredibly fast. So maybe think about planting some native stuff in order to get more beneficial insects. Studies have shown that pollinators are extremely more likely to be attracted by native plants than nonnative ones.
Thank u for this list. I've been looking for cold region spices and have never heard of spice bush! I'll definitely check it out.
Thank you for your list we are trying to for native choices as much as possible, also biodiversity as well
The rose petals make tea, marmalade, oils for massage, filling for cushions... and the bees love the pollen...don't underestimate your roses.
And keeps deer pressure out. Great useful plant for so many reasons.
And rosehips - vitamin c
And a cold extrication process (rose water) can be done with the petals.
Rosehip had more vitamin c than orange.
So do strawberry leaves. Is rose hip marmalade actually...good? I made a spoonful of jelly as a test a couple years back and it was nothing to write home about.
I vehemently agree, bushes are vastly under rated, but my reasoning is their use as wind breaks and wind diversions and wind channellers, so much of micro climate is wind dictated. Wind can create arid regions, absence of wind drops evaporation exponentially. Ground cover can alter ground temperatures by enormous amounts.
Song playing in the back of my mind while watching video about bushes:
"Everyday I worry all day.
About what waiting in the bushes of love.
Something's waiting in the bushes for us.
Something's waiting in the bushes of love."
Sweden here (lat 64, about the height of Fairbanks Alaska)! Try to make coldbrewed black currant lemonade, delicious. Half a bucket of berries, fill up with boiling water, slice a lemon and put them on the surface (or stirr in citric acid). Keep cool for 2-3 days and then sift it. 4-6 dl...I guess that is about 1,5- 2 cups...of sugar and stirr until the sugar has disolved. Less sugar = keep the lemonade in the freezer. More healthy than boiling or steaming the berries.
Bought garden raspberry does not taste as good as the ones I pick in the forest, have gotten rid of all of mine...but I have them in the forest around our village. Sea buckthorn has not wanted to live in my garden but I will give them another try. Rose hips are very wholesome; vitamin C/A/E, folate, calcium, potassium, magnesium and antioxidants.
Oooh this is right up my alley
Black current jam is my all time favorite, too! I make a "raw" jam without cooking, just blend the berries with sugar and keep the jar in the fridge. Vit C is a bomb here if keep it uncooked.
Oh wow
Thank you for this...
Can this be done with any fruit?
And
How long can you keep it?
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@@nevermind7253 try it 😁
@never mind: Look up recipes for freezer jam. You don’t have to freeze it, but if you want to store it longer you can. The fresh taste it retains and the increase nutrition are awesome and really worthwhile!
You can also make a fermented jam, using just fruit and honey. Tastes awesome, still has all the Vit C and stores for longer than just regular blended/freezer style jams!
Let me add... Oregon Grape Bush. altho very invasive a very medicinal plant. Super Tart/bitter but add sugar and the jelly is to dye for. Very purple hands upon harvest!
Thanks!
Great bushes. I'm squeezing in a few of these in my tiny garden. I like food forests
Awesome! They are life changing thats for sure!
You didn’t mention gooseberries. Since you like tart berries I’m sure you’d love these. They also have a TON of pectin so they’re awesome to combine with other fruits for jam. I concocted something called “ Bluegoose jam” last year from blueberries and gooseberries. It’s sooooo good.
Jam combos are something I'm going to mess around with a lot this year.
Love gooseberries. Another thorny plant, but makes a bigger sweeter currant (ribes family).
also: Josta berries. They are a hybrid of black currants and gooseberries. The Berries look like black gooeseberries (a little smaler) taste is also a good mix but : no thornes. There are also gooseberry cultivars without thornes.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Try blackberry and red plum jam......delicious.
I love em! I’ve got 4 varieties.
@@two-sense Try huckleberry jam. Got a jar from Idaho. FANTASTIC!
2020: The year of the food forest permaculture prepper
And 2021 and 2022 and 2023. I think 2020 just showed us how VALUABLE prepping can be. The challenges that we face in the next few decades will make Covid look like child's play.
Its never been a better time to start a garden and plant some fruit trees!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Definitely. Our friends used to think we were weird preppers and just accepted home grown organic vegetables without knowing their true value. That has changed and they are now asking for space to grow their own.
The puppet masters have already disclosed that the crisis' to come will make Covid seem like a minor inconvenience.
If this whole pandemic and lockdowns help create more growers and build resiliency into families all over the planet, then that is a very nice silver lining to a terrible thing. And its exactly what humankind needs right now.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy 100% correct. CDC saying this wasn't even "the Big One". Social systems will collapse when the big one hits. You can protect yourself somewhat by divesting from *all* animal products in your diet. Nearly all of the horrid epidemics of mankind have zoonotic sources, including COVID. You know what doesn't give us really deadly diseases? Plants.
Blackcurrant has been my favorite since I was a child. Lovely to see someone else planting them!
Definitely underappreciated because its not a massive sugar bomb. They are so good though. Really enjoyed them this past season.
Veery late comment, but! You can also make rose jam out of the rose hips. That's what traditionally we have our pączki stuffed with here in Poland ;) Yummy
I found some raspberries growing near a spring I get water at and transplanted them. A few years later the neighbors were harvesting raspberries, and a year later their neighbor behind them too. There was no way they could complian since we all had hollyhocks coming up everywhere. That's not even close to mint I had growing once though. That stuff made the entire neighborhood smell like mint, especially if I mowed the "grass." Mint spread rampant and fast but somehow didn't go into everyone else's yards too much and keep going endlessly.
I love it man, this was a great list!
I live up in zone 3a, north of Bancroft Ontario and I find my favourite wild berries to pick here are saskatoon/service berries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, elderberries, chokecherries, sumac, etc. While in the garden, raspberries are my favourite hands down both black and red, currants, grapes and strawberries.
I plant them with hardy pears, plums and apples. Maple Syrup production is king in spring here though! All the berries are frozen to be crepe sauces with maple syrup.... yumm!
Do you know the varieties you plant for the pears, plums and apples? I will be in a 5a zone soon and really want some extra cold-tolerant varieties so a plum that survives in 3a would be amazing!
Bend the raspberries over, anchor to the soil with a rock and they will root. Easy! Same with blackberries. In fact, many cane plants will propagate this way.
I'd be concerned they may snap?
@@AliciaLovesYAHUSHA
I wouldn't worry. They grow a bit differently than regular bushes, in that instead of short forked branches they send out these really long, bendy canes.
To eat rosehips, cut open the ripe hip (bright orange or red, flower has completely vanished, usually mid to late autumn), scrape out the seeds and the spiny inner material, and eat the remaining flesh of the fruit. Rosehip jam and rosehip marmalade are delicious, but most importantly, rosehips contain a lot of vitamin C (which is why they're so strong when not sweetened into a jam, syrup, or jelly).
Rosa acicularis has the best hips, sweet and not hairy.
Great addition to smoothies!
Do the rabbits leave them alone in winter? We live in the city and I have a problem to pick bushes, too many have been completely destroyed by rabbits during our cold MB winters. Also, any suggestion for a shadowy place to put an edible bush in?
@@natalieklassen9775 Honeyberry, or haskap is shade tolerant.
@@ferniek5000 Also rabbit resistant?
Subscribed. Knowledge of my country is so important.
Definitely. Thanks for watching:)
Elderberries are also loved by chickens. I've been growing some elderberry bushes from seed that I collected from some spectacularly productive elderberry bushes growing in a hedge here in the UK.
This is GREAT! Much needed advice for our Northern Climate.
Thanks 😊
Black currant is my favorite 🤗 it does very well here in Finland, taste is amazing and the yeild is always good. Even harvesting it is pretty fast compared to some other berries.
My number 1 choice is everbearing strawberries. They are sweet abundant and delicious)
And NOTHING like the storebought ones that are picked green and packaged and sent for a week's journey in a truck, sit on a shelf for a week, etc.
We make mead from our currants. I'm looking up the sea buckthorn, thank you.
Black currants make an excellent fruit juice, too! Toss in a blender with some sugar/honey/sweetener of your choice with some water, blend, and strain! Stick the pulp in the freezer or dehydrate to use in baking. Drink the juice! Can the juice if you want as well (Be safe with your canning methods please!)
Ha! I just came across your channel. Did my first guerilla gardening this weekend - planted a rock rose and lavender bush in a park opposite my house where the council had ripped out some shrubs. Hoping to plant sunflowers in a lawn opposite my house. Lockdown native flower planting to bring happiness to neighbours. 🌻🌹🌼
Haha awesome! Make sure you check out this video, sounds right up your alley: ruclips.net/video/oiIJkzahH1k/видео.html
Just found you. Thank u for going to zone right off . I know you can vary things but , most never mention it right off the bat .
Sea buckthorn is a miracle plant glad you have it . Every tree has different flavour .The berries won't spoil . no sugar . A true keto berry
A very informative video, I've taken notes about the fruit bushes! Thanks for sharing
Awesome thanks 😊
"The thorns have thorns, guys!" Lol
This is so awesome, making plans for these right now.
Ugh - I had a fail with currents here in St. Louis, and I love them remembering that my grandmother grew them. The gooseberries nearby have done well. Great video!
My mom grows about 15 different types of berries. Her absolute hands down favorite in terms of abundance, taste is the Illinois mulberry. The only problem is keeping the size in check.
How big does here's try to get? I have one but it's still young.
So grateful to follow a Canadian Permaculturist! Thank you for this awesome video! I hope you do one on cold hardy fruit and nut trees too.
Oh you bet! I am going to do one on each and every layer, all 7 layers of the food forest.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope you include some Arctic or Siberian kiwis. I bought a pint once in a local grocery store that were unlabeled. Most delicious, complex fruit I ever tasted. The size of a grape. I know there's a big difference in their culture, but I can't find the book now.🥴
Indeed, have many kiwi
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's inspiring to know! Have you had fruit from them yet? If so, are they the grape-sized fruit, or the blueberry-sized fruit, which I've not tasted?
I've had a few. They are grape sized and very tasty!
Just bought some berry bushes two days ago, although i only have a little balcony and have to plant them in pots. Now RUclips showes me this video. Funny
I love the taste of berries. They always were a great thing in my childhood at our garden and my grandma's garden. Of course, we always grumbled a little when we had to harvest a full bush or to fill our bucket with berries before we were allowed to play outside. But we grew up with all these flavours and enjoyed the taste of jams, cakes, fruit jellies and other canned summer harvests. That was so great. I still have these pictures in my mind and can even smell and taste it in my memories. 😊🍇
Awesome! If you have any questions let me know, I try my best to answer them all
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy
Thanks for your nice offer. 🌱
This dude is great i have wild raspberryin my back yard
Try making rosehip jam, it is absolutely delicious, I think it's my favorite jam. Very healthy.
Absolutely! It's so good!
If you like tart berries with complex flavors you should try Oregon grape, Mahonia aquifolium, which isn't a grape at all. Zones 5-9. When I had access to some I'd juice them, dilute with lots of water and some sugar, to make the best beverage I've ever had. You made me realize it'd have made the best jam or jelly I've ever tasted too.
Oh wow thanks, I will check them out. I've never heard of them.
The bush layer is my favorite. All the delicious berries are the best part of this stuff. I wish strawberries grew on big bushes like blueberries 😆😆
Thank you very much for mentioning the cultivation area. Your wonderful work, inspires me to watch what I could do at home. May the year 2021 be a year of plenty
I agree! 2021 will be even better than 2020 was (for my garden, and hopefully also for the rest of the world as well!)
The bush layer is my favorite. All the delicious berries are the best part of this stuff. I wish strawberries grew on big bushes like blueberries
Good list! This year I added Nanking Cherry bushes. Never stop planting in the food forest. 😀
Thorns have thorns 🤣 best line ever. Planted a male and female last year 2022.🇨🇦🧡
Good luck!
I planted a yellow raspberry bush last year and although we only got a few fruits from it, they were delicious! I can't wait to grow more.
That's a great list you have there. I planted my first Raspberry bushes this year. I actually have them in a food plot that's intended for the deer, rabbits and birds. I also plan to plant some Beautyberry bushes on the edges of the treeline. Never heard of the Currants - might see if I can find some this Spring. Thanks!
Great!
Re-watching as a few things in our yard are starting to poke their heads out. Currants we bought and planted in October are budding, saffron we planted at the same time are sprouting out of the ground too. Very excited for everything to "wake up" as you said!!
Exciting! I'm still 2 months away. I'm going to go in the corner and cry a bit.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy hahaha well we're not totally out of the woods for freezes or cold temps yet so we'll see, it always seems to come March/April (just as you're getting excited for warm weather). We are getting a spot prepared for quails though so hopefully that'll help make any cold snaps seem more bearable!
Hang in there though, my husband and I love watching your videos and are greatly anticipating any updates this year! Maybe in the meantime a few games of hockey will help? 🏒
Elderflowers make amazing syrup/cordial and jelly, and you can batter and fry them.
I love that you give ideas of permaculture when you are in area 4, I am in Finland area 4a and is difficult to get ideas, so thanks so much.
excellent info thank you !! I'm in the Golden State of California and will absolutely plant these bushes you recommended in my "new"perma forest garden🍀🍀🌈💫
I was pretty excited the other day to wander around, what we call a berm. We have huge spruce and balsam growing on the berm but underneath it’s like …..THIS AWESOME WHOLE other WORLD. I found so many different plants and bushes, but to my surprise I found wild raspberries, highbush cranberries and wild gooseberries. Anyways great video. 🇨🇦🐝
Purchasing land in jorthern Ontario as i write! Thank you for this video cant wait to start my own food forest !
Awesome!
My food forest includes Oregon grapes, Salmonberry & Thimble berries. Also I grow my greens most of the year especially in shade of the trees in summer. 😋
I need to try some salmon berry, if for no other reason than they are in stardew valley.
We have the red huckleberry on the coast and the blue/ black huckleberry all over BC.
We have so much Oregon grape but not a fan!
Hascaps are only sour on certain varieties or if you don't let them ripen. They can be some of the sweetest berries out there. you probably just have a tart variety. all types taste different
Always remember that a West Coast zone 8/9 (long but mild winters, often cool or low humidity summers) is very different than the same zones in the US Southeast and other continental-influenced climates (short but sharp & often irregular freezes, generally torrid summers). If you live in the Southeast, make sure you know your area's Chilling Hours (essentially, how long winter is) and try to find the winter chilling requirements for the crops you are interested in, though this is more reported for conventional/marketable crops (usually your [or nearby] state's landgrant [have Agricultural colleges] universities do a good job with that) than for oddities like jelly palms and pineapple guavas that fewer people know as foods. If you see something grow well in your area as an ornamental, and it happens to be edible, and you are growing for your family rather than for the market, that is worth investigating.
I’m in Oregon our summer are very dry and quite hot. The air isn’t dry enough to make your nosebleed like further inland, but spill a glass of water in August and you won’t find a trace in ten minutes.
Go out to water trees at midday you better have a space blanket in case you start feeling faint. Give people some time to find you.
Hello from Alberta. I am also from Russia far east. I'm very excited to grow even in cold climate. Thanks for your channel.
Beautiful province you chose. One of the nicest places in Canada. Good luck! You will make something fantastic.
This was my first year gardening and I had so much fun growing ground cherries. They are very invasive, which is why I chose them and so cute. They were a big hit at work. Now all my coworkers want to grow ground cherries.
So tasty too. Amazing in salads.
I just found out about them and collected thousands of seeds, I hope to grow many of them this year
I was that found you today! I live in zone 7 so your site will help me learn. Love it!
That's great! Yoy can grow everything i grow here. Some of the stuff gets harder in zone 8/9 but pretty much anything you see on my channel will also work in zone 7.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Great!
Rabbits , one winter, ,before we fenced in the garden, decimated our entire raspberry patch by eating the bark at 'snow' level. When they also repeatedly ate all the bean seedlings we quickly learned to keep bunnies out of the garden .
I definitely can see why people think that way. I like them myself. They do damage but they also leave so much fertility behind. I find for me they mostly eat my kale and clover that I plant for them, so for me that's manageable. I'm sure that doesn't work everywhere though.
Elderberry jam is my absolute favorite
So glad to see several of my working standby plants in this video--blackberry, elderberry, raspberry and currants. 100% correct about the currants--they make the best jam, hands down. This spring, I'll be planting the roses for the rose hips (want to try rose hip jelly). Lots of great suggestions, and I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! Thank you.
Awesome! I'm also on the lookout for more wild roses. So many comments on roses!
Rose hips can be two completely different things sure one of them is immature rose flowers but that is not the type you would make jelly from. The dog rose tree produces flowers and then makes these small red fruits called rose hips (they type you make jelly from) the seeds inside are usually pressed for their oil which has the smallest molecule size of all oils and is great for breaking up scar tissue and healing stretch marks.
we just had to clear our 78ft long by 30ft wide backgarden from blackberry bush :( left a small amount in one corner where my composting bins will eventually be, if the blackberry dont make it then i will not be sad! bloody stuff gets everywhere! much love from the uk xxx
My personal top six are raspberry, blackberry, serviceberry (saskatoons), currants, gooseberry, and Damascus roses but this year I'll add some native grapes and haskaps. I grow on a 1/6 acre town lot in PEI.
Black currants as jam or cordial are great. I'm from Scandinavia and we always had them. Cordial made from 2/3 black currants and 1/3 red is great. Cordial with 2/3 raspberries and 1/3 red currants is also very good. The red currants add a freshness to it. The leaves of black currants are also often used in the brine for pickled cucumbers.
I can't imagine my garden without red currants,literally have more than 10 bushes for sure.I also like raspberries,and their hybrids.I growing some golden currants (ribes aureum)cuz I have some troubles with black currants.(taste is really nice,more sweetier from black currants,but berries size is much smaller).
Goseberries is really nice bush,modern varieties have good imunity and big sized berries.
I really want to grow haskapberries (I think canadian varieties on the top now)
Chaenomeles is really underrated,ppl should use it not only for decorative.
I must not have ever had a really good quince, because I'm not really a huge fan. I may pick up a tree just to say I have them - and that I'm not judging it based on storebought quince. I mean... I'd be silly to judge strawberries based on storebought ones.
Great content! You grow a lot of things I wish I could but down in Texas we get up to 115F a couples times a summer. This last summer we also went almost 3 months without rain so my conditions unfortunately won't allow a lot of these awesome plants. Each climate has it's perks I supposed. I get to grow figs at least!! Thanks for the great work and for reaching out!
Indeed! I wish I could grow some of the stuff you can grow. Scarlet runner beans for example. Caucasian mountain spinach. Yacon.
But there are major benefits to being in a colder climate. More steady rains, cooler summers, etc. It's really important to be grateful of the blessings of the climate you call home, and not focus on what we don't have, but love what we do have.
Oh, I just realized who this is. I just binged your videos a few days ago. We are like brothers from across the continent. /fistbump
Also FYI, I'm not sure why youtube picked up this video ajd pushed it to people. It's just a very avg video. You may really enjoy my soil microbiology guide, or permaculture guild guide, or "this will change how you garden forever". Those ones are really good starting places! ❤️
What a great video. I would love for a follow up video about your "honorable mentions to" plants AND another video about how to propagate all these plants (you mentioned how to do this with a few in this video and that information is INVALUABLE). I am so happy to have found your channel-- fellow Canadian in zone 4
That's awesome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
It's definitely hard to make a video that talks about all of this stuff. I find when my videos get too long, the watched time remains the same, and people miss out on all the extra content. It is much better to keep them to roughly 10-15 minutes maximum, and split extra topics into their own video.
Hardwood propagation can be a great video, and same with some more on some of those honorable mention bushes. They are all incredible too! I just had to keep it to 6 in order to keep the video length down, and have some time allocated to each bush to talk about them a bit (currants great for shade, elderberry great for wet soils, etc.).
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy well it was super great information. I can't wait to learn more!
Thank you for this video. I'll be heading out to our local nurseries to see what I can find. 😊
You can use the seabuckthorn to make very good fish hooks.
I love it , Blue berries , Raspberries
Are my favorites , I like to know how to prepare the soil to grow those wonderful food trees .
I use elderberry in spinach smoothies with very little sweetening. I got 6 gallons of juice last year from wild plants.
lol. Font size justified. I also enjoy your videos because I like your energy. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks Sven :)
We call hascap bushes honey berries here in Vancouver, Washington.
totally agree with you on the BUSHES :) i LOVE my fruit bushes :)
Awesome video, will definitely take some of these amazing plants into consideration! My wife and I are moving into our first home this summer (Zone 5b, 0.1 acres) Not a lot of land to work with, but we are excited to finally put some of these permaculture principles into practice after years of apartment building vermicomposting, lol...
That's a perfect way to spend apartment years. The skills you learned will help you so much in your new journey. Such exciting time ahead of you!
Finally found haskaps in france. With our calciferous soils blueberry was a no go. I’ll try to expand our bushes even more
Thank you for the video sir, I appreciate your time and service to our community
Thanks for watching :)
i agree with you about sour fruits making good jam - plum especially. if it's not a sour fruit, add lemon juice.
I agree black currant is crazy good tasting. Just found your channel. Living in MB.
You’re opening skipped straight to Haskaps. And we have a wonderfully abundant crop of delicious berries on the property we got last year. And the hugest most juicy Saskatoon berries as well. The previous owners had a “U Pick”. I need to get the business side of it sorted out, but last year it was a “come on over and help yourself Pick” farm. 😂
Try growing Goumi berries. Very early, right after haskap. Very delicious, just let them fully ripe. On top of that they are also nitrogen fixers. And they look great.
Have goumis also. Very good plant also, especially since it's a nitrogen fixer as you say :)
They "look" a bit average to me, but I definitely enjoy the scent of their tiny flowers.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve added this to my list. 😀
Every bush is his number 1 favorite!
Lol it's definitely true.
If you freeze the berries it activates the natural sugars. I do that with chokecherries and it calms the bite.
Thanks for this :)
If your freeze Cranberries the same thing happens. For breakfast I boil 21/2 cups of water, through in a hand full of cranberries , let it return to boil then add steel cut oats. Let it cool for 1/2 an hour add 1 cup of almond milk, sugar free. Turn to simmer then shut off while you have your coffee. Bowl it up. It is delicious. All of a sudden it is sweet but no sugar was added.
That should read "let it cook" for half an hour or more, in use my little brain to pureed it.
I’m building a Zone 5b hardy food forest. Love your channel!
Good luck!
I've heard that cutting the thorns off new growth each year is a good way to make seaberry a little nicer.
My hound used to eat all my raspberries. He was so good at it too! Took me nearly all summer to finally figure out how the ripe raspberries were disappearing. He also would purloin sugar snap peas through the welded wire fence. Who needs squirrels with a foraging hound?
LOL
I’m really looking forward to my seaberry this spring will be it’s first year. I’m planning on using them in the future as an edible privacy/security fence around the property along with some BlackBerry and raspberry mixed in.
Another underutilized fruit bearing shrub is the chokeberry (Aronia family). These shrubs are well behaved, have great fall color, and are very cold hardy. The berry is blue black, astringent like cranberries, but with great flavor. The seeds are a rare natural sources of vitamin K. Native Americans would make a fruit leather (seeds and all) for winter consumption. A super food too. Many juice combos in your supermarket will use chokeberry as an ingredient. Not sweet, but has a delicious taste to it. Great in fruit smoothies. OH and because it is native with early flowers, is an important pollinator plant for native bees.
Great list! I like how your food forest design still allows plenty of room for the dog to play.
I don't have a yard of my own to experiment yet, but I've been curious about planting thorny stuff around the chicken coop, for predator protection and a tasty treat. I just did a quick Google search and apparently adding a low percentage of seabuckthorn flowers to their diet can increase egg production. Those thorns look like they'd be a pretty good deterrent. Yikes.
Definitely 👍
Thank you for introducing me to Haskap and Sea Buckthorn! I have the other plants in my food forest, “practically in Canada” (I am in Michigan)
THANK YOU 🙏 FOR SHARING THIS WITH US ENJOY YOUR DAY 🙏💕😊
You too! Thanks for watching:)
Have you thought about sloe trees (blackthorn) you pick them after the first frost, so quite a late berry, here in the uk you can find them all winter. Also quite a resilient plant that wants to grow, I will be adding them to a future planned garden as they grow strait so useful as bamboo alternatives. They are very dry to eat but get sweeter after frost, but still dry.
Prunus spinosa can be pretty invasive in some spots, so as long as people keep an eye on it, that's fine in my eyes. We have one on our property. Fun fact, you can also grafts many common fruits to it and they will produce.
In your honorable mention list I noticed autumn olive. I'm a huge fan of autumn olive and would plant them in my back yard if it were legal in Michigan! Instead I go to public land where it's growing wild to harvest them. I like to eat them raw and make jam.
That's great. I'm a big fan of harvesting the wild ones. Also check out goumi berry. It's related to autumn olive but bigger berries and not invasive.
I adore cooking berries/ fruit with meat or veggies. They add incredible aromas and flavour. Thanx for this great video!
Definitely!!
Thanks so much for this - I'm loving these videos!
for refrence in descending order:
* blackberry ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html )
* currants ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html )
* elderberry ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html ) tall
* haskap lonicera caerulea ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html )
* raspberries ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html )
* seabuckthorn / seaberry ( ruclips.net/video/RkLLnyvQTwg/видео.html )
Nice!
Roses great food. Gather the hips after a good hard frost or better yet a snow or two. This brings out the sweetness and flavor. I have made rose hip butter the same way you make apple butter and it is wonderful. Also the petles can be made in to rose petal preserve. A elderly Pollish lady showed me how and we love it. Teas and jelly are easy too.
I planted like 40 Rosa rugosa this year. I'm excited for them to grow.
I have an Osage Orange tree. It also has the most incredible thorns also.
And one of the hardest densest woods for firewood. Amazing tree.
I tend to have a talent for finding wild black berry and mulberry plants around there's a big mulberry on the furtherest corner of my grandparents property and a whole thicket of black berry separating her land from the neighbors though given the straight line they seem to go in I have a feeling the previous owners put them in and they where forgotten :p the spot her house is on was a part of a cow field so who knows but yay berries to pick and propagate
Nice list hard to choose with so much to love! I would add Amelanchier and Aronia AMAZING FALL COLOR (VERY TART) .;) Organic Alfalfa meal from feed store is loved by berries and roses increases cane break (produces more canes). In hot areas like California helps plants deal with the heat due to naturally containing triacontanol the triacontanols will also increase yields. O Goji is an easy plant also wish I could get a buckthorn hard to find. Love the taste of eleagnus but they are Invasive in a lot of areas. THANK YOU FOR VIDEO BEAUTIFUL GARDEN!!!
Thanks! Great comment! Also I love your username.
I love to follow you, even if I live in Sweden, most plants in our foodforests are the same! Hass berry and elderberries rasberries and currants. . . They come in so many varieties and colours theese days. So your foodforest can become so beautiful! Ad some thyme in a stonefence or waterlillies in a swell... there are so many ways to go to build foodforest according to where you live and has access to. Good luck with your wonderful garden and happy new year!
It's a really good point. Many different colours is great food for the soul :)