Dear Alexandra, I've been following You for some time now and it's always a pleasure to see Your new contributions, but I regularly return to the old ones as well - every time there is something new to hear. I always learn something from You, thank you for that! Greetings from Croatia 🇬🇧🙂🇭🇷🙋♂️
Alexandra, you deserve all the awards! I am so grateful for your work...and it is wonderful that you are expanding and giving permaculture and foraging a place to shine.
What a fascinating video! I’m going to have to watch it several times and make notes!! I’ve so many plants in my garden that are apparently edible, according to this video! 😮 I certainly like the term “edimentals” and heartily approve of growing trad veg amongst ornamentals, it’s so pretty, plus I’m not willing to sacrifice a big plot for a stand-alone veg patch - I love my ornamentals too much! 😝
I tasted dead nettle soup when I was a kid...from a friend's vegan mother. I still remember it as one of the most delicious things I have ever tasted...40 years later!
Spot on! It's good to see folks remembering their ancestral ways. We're often too quick to turn our backs on our culture and heritage, and usually it is to our detriment. I often use the Willow as a prime example of this as it's such an incredibly important keystone species in the ecosystem. Where it shines, though, is in how it can also be used by people as a medicine (the earliest form of aspirin) as well as for making wonderful baskets. When we turned out backs on the willow weavers the 60's, we lost generational knowledge that'd taken eons to build up. We lost traditions and culture and heritage.... but also an important pollinator plant and provides a slew of ecosystem benefits. We gave that up for what? Plastic baskets? We turned our backs on our own craftsmen in our own towns, so we could employ people working in a plastic factory in some far off country? So we lost jobs, history, culture, and all that ecosystem function just so we could fill our landscapes with plastics that'll be polluting the world for centuries to come. It's a weird place to be, honestly. I'm glad to see some folks are sharing the knowledge.
Thank you for sharing your English Cottage gardening style that brings such beauty and harvest... I'm 12 miles from the ocean in Southern California... good climate, though not as wet as yours! 🎉 Love this ❤😊 channel
My beautiful friend Sarah, sent this Video to me. It made me cry, becuz my whole life I grew SO many of these plants and herbs! Now age 75 and health issues, I have gotten myself in a pickle. And this year, I lost almost my entire garden to Squirrels, possible Wild Bunny, but most distructive was my young 4yr old Apple Tree that has (5) Different Apple Varietys on it. IT WAS Loaded this year! One day in July I went out to smile and enjoy the loaded tree, and there was (1) Apple or any remnant of an Apple there! Racoons! Oh no! Yep they stole EVERY single one of my Apples! Maybe they also nibbled down my beautiful 'Brussel Sprout Plants" too? So my 😢😢😢 discouragement has out weighed my joy of gardening this year. I live in the city! What to do? I have gardened since I was 20 yrs old! ❤❤❤
SE Florida weeds among the ground cover: Weeds in around shrubs and bushes, no problem. Easy to maintain. However, very aggressive weeds have taken over my ground cover. I could not keep up with the maintenance, so I decided to adopt the weeds and treat them like a feral pet. "You can stay but you have to behave". I keep them under control with a hedge trimmer. Now I have soft green pillow-like shapes where the ground cover used to be. Not a "forever" solution.
Aquilegia leaves are very nice, they taste like broad beans. The biggest issue though with all these perennial veggies is yield. Appart from the perennial veggies we already know, like artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, asperagus or fruit bushes, there's just nothing left that will give you a great yield... As a result, it's a lot of work to pick and choose, it takes ages just to make a salad. It's a big commitment, one that very few people are ready to make. In my opinion, it is much more worth it to just grow fruit trees, learn which ones are true to seed like apricots and peaches, so you can propagate them for free, the ones you can propagate with cutting like elder trees, and overall just learn which unknown fruits you can grow like feijoa, persimon, amelanchier, medlar etc... Coz THOSE are worth it and will provide for you year after year with very little work. While stuff like the perennial leeks and onions and whatnots are just way too low in yield compared to the annual equivalents. So in my opinion, edge your bet on the fruit trees and fruit bushes. I'm part of the staff at a community garden too, taking care of all plantings, and our approach is : zones for veggies, zones for herbs, and zones for ornamentals. Otherwise it's too complicated for people. You can't expect them to tell the difference between an edible foliage and a poisonous one, we have kids in this garden. So we have to make it simple for them. What we do mix in, in all three types of zones, is fruit trees and bushes. They provide shade, water and nutrient to other plants thanks to mycorhizae, and of course fruits. For some, we buy one and propagate, like fig trees, elder, or plum. Others we have to buy them all like apple and pear trees. And even when I tell more experienced people that they can eat aquilegia leaves, or sedum leaves, or blackcurrant leaves, they're just not interested.
I love "foraging" my own garden! I have been trying to make my whole garden as edible and as colourful as possible. A minimalist in the home, but definitely a maximilist in the garden! I want ALL the plants! 😂 I leave in "weeds" which are acting as valuable ground cover until I'm ready to plant up with something else. I try to plant in guilds using the 7 layers and permaculture methods as much as possible. It has taken time, I try to cultivate small areas at a time to make it more manageable. My favourite border this year is against a South facing wall. I have tomatoes at the back, with delphiniums adding height and colour. Mid section has kale, calendula and dahlias and at the front campanula, lavender, and violas. I have no real method just pop plants where they will fit! Apparently nettles blended up into a smoothie are supposed to be brilliant for hayfever. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking about having a patch somewhere.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I guess it all breaks down in the blender, my friend has never had a stinging problem. I'm still yet to try it. It seems nettle tea is also good for hayfever, you wouldn't need to consume the leaves after steeping, but I imagine you'd need to drink a lot more of it as it's less concentrated.
the entire pea family has lovely flowers, and interesting texture... the herbs are great! especially the variegated thymes and oregano... and so many of the edible shrubs are great year round! most of my garden is either edible, medicinal, or specificaslly planted for pollinators (or a combination, like echinacea and sage)
Hi, once again, beautiful and interesting video. This is literally my favorite subject, between the foraging, and useful plant relatives, etc. One of my favorites is purslane, I don't think it was mentioned. One thing mentioned right away -- be sure what you're eating! Sweet cicily was mentioned, and I usually am pretty confident of my plants, but I've found people near where I live who have this growing almost side by side with poison hemlock. I know you can tell the difference, but I'm never totally confident, especially when they are small. I am at war with poison hemlock in my area and will regularly call the parks dept to remove poison hemlock from the parks. Sorry I went off on a tangent again. I really loved your video🌿☘️.
I agree, better to say 'be sure what you're eating' too often than not enough. I put it in about four places, but maybe I could have said it more often! And thank you.
I really enjoyed that, thank you.I do something very similar in my cottage kitchen garden. The plant next to the seating area wasn't actually rosebay willowherb but broad-leaved willowherb
This is a great video, thank you! I have been starting out my first garden and this kind of gardening interests me. I have been starting seedlings in my little greenhouse so I can then replace any vegetable that has been growing in a flower/herb border when I harvest it so there's not so many gaps. I am also going to allow my herbs to flower, too.
Excellent, and inspiring too. I've just started to look at what I already have growing in my garden. Your video alluded to one, Rosebay willow herb, and I keep finding Lambs quarter. I shall be encouraging both! Thank you.
I didnt know geraniums were edible! Always learning something on this channel. Love this video, exactly the kind of garden Im trying to create, thank you for the info and inspiration 💜
Had no idea you can eat hosta?! Alexandra, sow Scutellaria lateriflora(Skullcap) in your garden. Very easy to grow. It is perennial and makes an excellent relaxing tea. Combine it with mint, lemon balm or camomile to mellow its taste. It really does have a nice calming effect. Make sure it's the Lateriflora, American skullcap it is also known as. Another edible perennial, Redvein Dock, is an interesting compliment in the garden bed. I'm not a big fan of the bitter taste, but I do love to use it for the colour contrast in the flower beds. It's not an aggressive spreader and it keeps its form, doesn't flop.
I'm a bit nervous to try "wild foraging", especially in the city. My main garden in the back is mostly large containers (many brought from my old home, where the garden was on my deck), and I currently have Bright Lites Swiss Chard, Cherokee Purple tomatoes, Boysenberries (hybrid of loganberry, red raspberry, and blackberry), grapes, and herbs next to my roses and other flowering plants. Since I have clay soil and gophers, it's been easier not to dig a traditional vegetable patch. My raised garden beds now have too much shade due to 3-storey condos built next door in 2018. :(
A lot of veggies & other edibles have beautiful foliage (e.g. fennel & artichokes) and flowers (e.g. okra) & thus blend well in an ornamental garden. Problems can arise however when plants with very different requirements are mixed. Veggies can need a lot of fertilizer which can lead to overly rapid growth in ornamentals making them vulnerable to pests & disease. Some ornamentals (e.g. roses) require spraying which is not advisable around plants you eat. Just some things to think about. Always enjoy your show here in North Carolina. Please send rain.
I learned the hard way when the permaculturalists say to plant guilds. Plants in guilds also need to have the same water requirements. Killed a tree and almost killed a second one that were drought loving when mixed in with water loving edibles and herbs.
Thanks for this - to me it's odd not to grow flowers and food together! The only real difference is you cannot use fleece or netting. I agree it is a classic cottage garden but this can fit equally well into more formal styles. Our garden has topiary and lavender - also plants like chard, kale or pumpkin. Even carrots (why not?) actually contribute beautiful flowers the next year, the same with ornamental chicory. These are all just plants...
It’s too dry here to do permaculture. It would be a nightmare to keep oaks, black walnut and cedars cleared out. We do leave wild black caps grow in the back and the nettles I’m trying to get rid of and then there is buckthorn that is difficult to control as neighbor does nothing with their acreage. I’m not one to eat flowers and never know when or what you could be allergic to. Also the oaks and especially the cedars rob moisture like crazy. Have a flowerbed that I can’t keep watered.
One comment about Epilobium angustifolium, which is one of the willow herbs, we call this variety fireweed in the US, its sap can irritate the skin in susceptible people, I avoid it as it gives me welts. I also have Chamaenerion angustifolium growing wild in my yard, I might give that one a go regarding consumption.
Tubalghia is a very good alternative to garlic (flowers and leaves only you want to keep the bulbs forever). The thing is that apart from asparagus, fennel, artichoke, rhubarb and aromatics, the rest is symbolic regarding our needs which is exactly why human beings spent many many years working to increase taste, yield, etc in order to avoid famine. At one point my usual produce seller at the market used me as a cobaye for « new » products. Wild pears, tiny, hard as rocks : really ??? Barbary pear supposedly tastes similar to watermelon : really again! Otherwise top enclosure in Spain, no sane person would dare to trespass.
Yes, this certainly isn't about agriculture or self-sufficiency as you would need higher yields. But I'm going to try the Caucasian spinach as we use a lot of spinach.
Great video! Thank you. I have 2 questions, please: Can you remove black spot from roses naturally? How to safely keep common hogweed in your garden, for consumption? I am worried about picking it and getting the sap on me, or my children accidentally breaking it and getting sap on them. Also, any specific ways of cooking and eating it? Thanks again.
I don't know enough about hogweed to answer that, but in terms of the black spot, I have just interviewed Ian Limmer, who has been growing roses for Peter Beales for 46 years, and he says that the important thing is to fertilise your roses after their first flush of flowering. This will produce healthy new leaves. There is nothing either chemical or natural that 'removes' black spot as the fungus keeps evolving, but Ian Limmer says that it won't hurt the plant, especially if you are fertilising. I did a video on roses, also a short extract which I put on Instagram, and one of the UK's other top rose growers, Michael Marriott, formerly of David Austin Roses left a comment to say he absolutely agreed with 'ignore the black spot and fertilise the plant to increase the number of healthy leaves.' I think if two of the most experienced rose growers in the UK say 'don't treat black spot, don't worry about it, fertilise the plant' then that is likely to be the best advice. Rose video here: ruclips.net/video/5OSf7ZvwpIU/видео.html
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden thank you for this comment and advise. I will try that. I would like to use roses for medicinal and edible purposes, so I don't want to use chemicals to get rid of the black spot. Thank you. Keep going with your videos. They are fantastic.
If you have enough room for one large shade tree, I would recommend a maple. Maple leaves are edible and the trees can be tapped for water and the sugar maple also has sap for syrup. I would also say to avoid the silver maple because of the notorious nature they have of dropping limbs even when they're VERY mature. For a smaller space, Japanese maple leaves are also edible.
That's a good point, although I think deer and chipmunk are already quite into edimentals - at least the deer in the UK are already eating as many ornamentals as they are veg.
Dear Alexandra, I've been following You for some time now and it's always a pleasure to see Your new contributions, but I regularly return to the old ones as well - every time there is something new to hear. I always learn something from You, thank you for that! Greetings from Croatia 🇬🇧🙂🇭🇷🙋♂️
Alexandra, you deserve all the awards! I am so grateful for your work...and it is wonderful that you are expanding and giving permaculture and foraging a place to shine.
Thank you
I LOVED this video! I feel like I will be be back to watch this over and over again :)
Me too!
I love this concept. I also grow self seeders like lettuce, kale and open pollinated peas and beans. You buy the seeds once and have them forever
What a fascinating video! I’m going to have to watch it several times and make notes!! I’ve so many plants in my garden that are apparently edible, according to this video! 😮
I certainly like the term “edimentals” and heartily approve of growing trad veg amongst ornamentals, it’s so pretty, plus I’m not willing to sacrifice a big plot for a stand-alone veg patch - I love my ornamentals too much! 😝
How interesting! I loved this !💕 thankyou. I’m a vegan and I could happily eat soup and salad for ever 🤗😁
I tasted dead nettle soup when I was a kid...from a friend's vegan mother. I still remember it as one of the most delicious things I have ever tasted...40 years later!
Learning a lot here specially edible perennial flowers. Thank you so much!
Fascinating. Thank you Alexandra, there was so much to learn from your video.
Spot on! It's good to see folks remembering their ancestral ways. We're often too quick to turn our backs on our culture and heritage, and usually it is to our detriment. I often use the Willow as a prime example of this as it's such an incredibly important keystone species in the ecosystem. Where it shines, though, is in how it can also be used by people as a medicine (the earliest form of aspirin) as well as for making wonderful baskets. When we turned out backs on the willow weavers the 60's, we lost generational knowledge that'd taken eons to build up. We lost traditions and culture and heritage.... but also an important pollinator plant and provides a slew of ecosystem benefits. We gave that up for what? Plastic baskets? We turned our backs on our own craftsmen in our own towns, so we could employ people working in a plastic factory in some far off country? So we lost jobs, history, culture, and all that ecosystem function just so we could fill our landscapes with plastics that'll be polluting the world for centuries to come.
It's a weird place to be, honestly. I'm glad to see some folks are sharing the knowledge.
Walking through my garden, touching trees / plants, and propagating making me so relax
Oh wow I didn't know so many of these plants were edible!
Thank you for sharing your English Cottage gardening style that brings such beauty and harvest... I'm 12 miles from the ocean in Southern California... good climate, though not as wet as yours! 🎉 Love this ❤😊 channel
Thank you!
My beautiful friend Sarah, sent this Video to me. It made me cry, becuz my whole life I grew SO many of these plants and herbs! Now age 75 and health issues, I have gotten myself in a pickle. And this year, I lost almost my entire garden to Squirrels, possible Wild Bunny, but most distructive was my young 4yr old Apple Tree that has (5) Different Apple Varietys on it. IT WAS Loaded this year! One day in July I went out to smile and enjoy the loaded tree, and there was (1) Apple or any remnant of an Apple there! Racoons! Oh no! Yep they stole EVERY single one of my Apples! Maybe they also nibbled down my beautiful 'Brussel Sprout Plants" too?
So my 😢😢😢 discouragement has out weighed my joy of gardening this year. I live in the city! What to do?
I have gardened since I was 20 yrs old! ❤❤❤
Oh, that is such shame! I'm sorry to hear that.
What a wonderful video! One of my absolute favourites. This is exactly what I would love to do!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm following that concept in my garden.
SE Florida weeds among the ground cover: Weeds in around shrubs and bushes, no problem. Easy to maintain. However, very aggressive weeds have taken over my ground cover. I could not keep up with the maintenance, so I decided to adopt the weeds and treat them like a feral pet. "You can stay but you have to behave". I keep them under control with a hedge trimmer. Now I have soft green pillow-like shapes where the ground cover used to be. Not a "forever" solution.
It sounds nice, though.
Thank you for sharing this information with us! It gives me a lot to think about when choosing my plants. Beautiful gardens!
Aquilegia leaves are very nice, they taste like broad beans. The biggest issue though with all these perennial veggies is yield. Appart from the perennial veggies we already know, like artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, asperagus or fruit bushes, there's just nothing left that will give you a great yield... As a result, it's a lot of work to pick and choose, it takes ages just to make a salad. It's a big commitment, one that very few people are ready to make. In my opinion, it is much more worth it to just grow fruit trees, learn which ones are true to seed like apricots and peaches, so you can propagate them for free, the ones you can propagate with cutting like elder trees, and overall just learn which unknown fruits you can grow like feijoa, persimon, amelanchier, medlar etc... Coz THOSE are worth it and will provide for you year after year with very little work. While stuff like the perennial leeks and onions and whatnots are just way too low in yield compared to the annual equivalents. So in my opinion, edge your bet on the fruit trees and fruit bushes.
I'm part of the staff at a community garden too, taking care of all plantings, and our approach is : zones for veggies, zones for herbs, and zones for ornamentals. Otherwise it's too complicated for people. You can't expect them to tell the difference between an edible foliage and a poisonous one, we have kids in this garden. So we have to make it simple for them. What we do mix in, in all three types of zones, is fruit trees and bushes. They provide shade, water and nutrient to other plants thanks to mycorhizae, and of course fruits. For some, we buy one and propagate, like fig trees, elder, or plum. Others we have to buy them all like apple and pear trees. And even when I tell more experienced people that they can eat aquilegia leaves, or sedum leaves, or blackcurrant leaves, they're just not interested.
Perhaps those small yields are just nice and nutrient-dense additions to the big yields? 😊
thank you for doing a video on this, it's incredibly intimidating to think about
I know what you mean! Feel somewhat intimidated myself but I think perennial veg may be the way to go.
Very interesting topic. I remember as a child chewing on all sorts of things, including grass!
Me too
Bardzo ładny ogród 😊🌺❤
Pozdrawiam serdecznie Gabi 🌺
I love "foraging" my own garden!
I have been trying to make my whole garden as edible and as colourful as possible. A minimalist in the home, but definitely a maximilist in the garden! I want ALL the plants! 😂
I leave in "weeds" which are acting as valuable ground cover until I'm ready to plant up with something else. I try to plant in guilds using the 7 layers and permaculture methods as much as possible.
It has taken time, I try to cultivate small areas at a time to make it more manageable.
My favourite border this year is against a South facing wall. I have tomatoes at the back, with delphiniums adding height and colour. Mid section has kale, calendula and dahlias and at the front campanula, lavender, and violas. I have no real method just pop plants where they will fit!
Apparently nettles blended up into a smoothie are supposed to be brilliant for hayfever. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking about having a patch somewhere.
Sounds lovely! I like nettle tea but haven't made it myself. Presumably the uncooked smoothie wouldn't sting?
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I guess it all breaks down in the blender, my friend has never had a stinging problem. I'm still yet to try it. It seems nettle tea is also good for hayfever, you wouldn't need to consume the leaves after steeping, but I imagine you'd need to drink a lot more of it as it's less concentrated.
the entire pea family has lovely flowers, and interesting texture... the herbs are great! especially the variegated thymes and oregano... and so many of the edible shrubs are great year round! most of my garden is either edible, medicinal, or specificaslly planted for pollinators (or a combination, like echinacea and sage)
Thank you, that was great.
Another lovely garden and interesting interview, thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely my dream garden ❤
Hi, once again, beautiful and interesting video. This is literally my favorite subject, between the foraging, and useful plant relatives, etc. One of my favorites is purslane, I don't think it was mentioned.
One thing mentioned right away -- be sure what you're eating! Sweet cicily was mentioned, and I usually am pretty confident of my plants, but I've found people near where I live who have this growing almost side by side with poison hemlock. I know you can tell the difference, but I'm never totally confident, especially when they are small. I am at war with poison hemlock in my area and will regularly call the parks dept to remove poison hemlock from the parks.
Sorry I went off on a tangent again. I really loved your video🌿☘️.
I agree, better to say 'be sure what you're eating' too often than not enough. I put it in about four places, but maybe I could have said it more often! And thank you.
I really enjoyed that, thank you.I do something very similar in my cottage kitchen garden. The plant next to the seating area wasn't actually rosebay willowherb but broad-leaved willowherb
I do this and it suits me, my garden is lush
This is a great video, thank you! I have been starting out my first garden and this kind of gardening interests me. I have been starting seedlings in my little greenhouse so I can then replace any vegetable that has been growing in a flower/herb border when I harvest it so there's not so many gaps. I am also going to allow my herbs to flower, too.
Love this topic! I’ve been seeing a lot about using fig leaves lately.
Excellent, and inspiring too. I've just started to look at what I already have growing in my garden. Your video alluded to one, Rosebay willow herb, and I keep finding Lambs quarter. I shall be encouraging both! Thank you.
I bought lamb's quarters at my farmers' market...it pairs beautifully with goat cheddar! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
I didnt know geraniums were edible! Always learning something on this channel. Love this video, exactly the kind of garden Im trying to create, thank you for the info and inspiration 💜
Had no idea you can eat hosta?! Alexandra, sow Scutellaria lateriflora(Skullcap) in your garden. Very easy to grow. It is perennial and makes an excellent relaxing tea. Combine it with mint, lemon balm or camomile to mellow its taste. It really does have a nice calming effect. Make sure it's the Lateriflora, American skullcap it is also known as.
Another edible perennial, Redvein Dock, is an interesting compliment in the garden bed. I'm not a big fan of the bitter taste, but I do love to use it for the colour contrast in the flower beds. It's not an aggressive spreader and it keeps its form, doesn't flop.
Interesting, thank you
I need to learn more about Roseberry Willow Herb!
Very comprehensive thank you
Thank you.
Excellent video. Thank you🙂
I'm a bit nervous to try "wild foraging", especially in the city. My main garden in the back is mostly large containers (many brought from my old home, where the garden was on my deck), and I currently have Bright Lites Swiss Chard, Cherokee Purple tomatoes, Boysenberries (hybrid of loganberry, red raspberry, and blackberry), grapes, and herbs next to my roses and other flowering plants. Since I have clay soil and gophers, it's been easier not to dig a traditional vegetable patch. My raised garden beds now have too much shade due to 3-storey condos built next door in 2018. :(
I'm pretty nervous of foraging myself. But I enjoy it (and eat it) when other people do it.
This is so useful. Thank you for this content
A lot of veggies & other edibles have beautiful foliage (e.g. fennel & artichokes) and flowers (e.g. okra) & thus blend well in an ornamental garden. Problems can arise however when plants with very different requirements are mixed. Veggies can need a lot of fertilizer which can lead to overly rapid growth in ornamentals making them vulnerable to pests & disease. Some ornamentals (e.g. roses) require spraying which is not advisable around plants you eat. Just some things to think about. Always enjoy your show here in North Carolina. Please send rain.
I learned the hard way when the permaculturalists say to plant guilds. Plants in guilds also need to have the same water requirements. Killed a tree and almost killed a second one that were drought loving when mixed in with water loving edibles and herbs.
Great. Thank you.
So interesting, tfs!
Thanks for this - to me it's odd not to grow flowers and food together! The only real difference is you cannot use fleece or netting. I agree it is a classic cottage garden but this can fit equally well into more formal styles. Our garden has topiary and lavender - also plants like chard, kale or pumpkin. Even carrots (why not?) actually contribute beautiful flowers the next year, the same with ornamental chicory. These are all just plants...
Sounds lovely
Also, if you have an over abundance, you can make flower arrangements.
Good point.
🌼SO INFORMATIVE‼️🌿
It’s too dry here to do permaculture. It would be a nightmare to keep oaks, black walnut and cedars cleared out. We do leave wild black caps grow in the back and the nettles I’m trying to get rid of and then there is buckthorn that is difficult to control as neighbor does nothing with their acreage.
I’m not one to eat flowers and never know when or what you could be allergic to.
Also the oaks and especially the cedars rob moisture like crazy. Have a flowerbed that I can’t keep watered.
One comment about Epilobium angustifolium, which is one of the willow herbs, we call this variety fireweed in the US, its sap can irritate the skin in susceptible people, I avoid it as it gives me welts. I also have Chamaenerion angustifolium growing wild in my yard, I might give that one a go regarding consumption.
Yes, that's a good point because any plant (indeed anything) has the potential to trigger an allergic reaction in those who are susceptible.
For WHATEVER REASON I have burdock growing all over my property this year. Found out they're edible so am letting A FEW stay.
Apparently they were the original ingredient for borscht, though I'm not sure where you'd find a recipe.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Interesting. I'll do a search.
#6. Don't forage if you don't know if it's been sprayed.
Excellent point
Tubalghia is a very good alternative to garlic (flowers and leaves only you want to keep the bulbs forever).
The thing is that apart from asparagus, fennel, artichoke, rhubarb and aromatics, the rest is symbolic regarding our needs which is exactly why human beings spent many many years working to increase taste, yield, etc in order to avoid famine.
At one point my usual produce seller at the market used me as a cobaye for « new » products. Wild pears, tiny, hard as rocks : really ??? Barbary pear supposedly tastes similar to watermelon : really again! Otherwise top enclosure in Spain, no sane person would dare to trespass.
Yes, this certainly isn't about agriculture or self-sufficiency as you would need higher yields. But I'm going to try the Caucasian spinach as we use a lot of spinach.
Great video! Thank you.
I have 2 questions, please:
Can you remove black spot from roses naturally?
How to safely keep common hogweed in your garden, for consumption? I am worried about picking it and getting the sap on me, or my children accidentally breaking it and getting sap on them.
Also, any specific ways of cooking and eating it?
Thanks again.
I don't know enough about hogweed to answer that, but in terms of the black spot, I have just interviewed Ian Limmer, who has been growing roses for Peter Beales for 46 years, and he says that the important thing is to fertilise your roses after their first flush of flowering. This will produce healthy new leaves. There is nothing either chemical or natural that 'removes' black spot as the fungus keeps evolving, but Ian Limmer says that it won't hurt the plant, especially if you are fertilising. I did a video on roses, also a short extract which I put on Instagram, and one of the UK's other top rose growers, Michael Marriott, formerly of David Austin Roses left a comment to say he absolutely agreed with 'ignore the black spot and fertilise the plant to increase the number of healthy leaves.' I think if two of the most experienced rose growers in the UK say 'don't treat black spot, don't worry about it, fertilise the plant' then that is likely to be the best advice. Rose video here: ruclips.net/video/5OSf7ZvwpIU/видео.html
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden thank you for this comment and advise. I will try that.
I would like to use roses for medicinal and edible purposes, so I don't want to use chemicals to get rid of the black spot.
Thank you.
Keep going with your videos. They are fantastic.
It would be ever be helpful if you can talk with someone about trees for impact and trees for shade in small garden room of 500 feet sq
If you have enough room for one large shade tree, I would recommend a maple. Maple leaves are edible and the trees can be tapped for water and the sugar maple also has sap for syrup. I would also say to avoid the silver maple because of the notorious nature they have of dropping limbs even when they're VERY mature.
For a smaller space, Japanese maple leaves are also edible.
Plenty to eat if you want to live on salad and tea.
Yes, it's just the gardening side of permaculture....since it's a gardening channel.
Gardening also covers fruit bushes and trees and other more substantial food sources that are included in permaculture systems.@@lesliekendall5668
I don’t see how this can be done with deer and chipmunk pressure…
That's a good point, although I think deer and chipmunk are already quite into edimentals - at least the deer in the UK are already eating as many ornamentals as they are veg.
I thought campanulas are poisonous
No, it's edible. I checked several sites and they all said the same - Here's one: www.agroforestry.co.uk/product/campanula-latifolia/