Here in Texas the Whitetail Deer are a destructive force for perennials, especially fruit trees so before you can establish your perennials, you have to establish a game proof fence! I think this is important for people to know. Thank you for the video and the talk.
One perennial strategy that I have been pondering is to plant specifically to provide food and habitat for game animals. It is not so much a suburban strategy but on a homestead things like American Hazelnut, Raspberries, Mulberries, Perennial Greens etc. can encourage both small and large game as well as being useful for your livestock.
Many perennials act like annuals in the South due to the unique climate. So it can help to keep in mind and expectations realistic. For example, rosemary flourishes, but it commonly dies in winter and doesn't regrow. But by cutting a few sprigs to regrow inside during fall to spring, it's still possible to keep things going.
Praying you both aren’t spreading yourselves too thin and that God’s grace and love surrounds and lifts you daily. You seem VERY busy. No pressure. Don’t forget to rest in His love ❤ From Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
I spent all last year building my perrenial garden. My garden is 95% perrenail. I searched for a ton of different varieties and you would be amazed at what's available from herbs, onion, leeks, cold hardy prickly pear cactus, spinach, kale to Brocolli and string beans. Also a ton of exotic fruits that are cold hardy you would never think of.
My strategy was first plant all around the house, second plant fruit for each season and last have balance of food and flowers on my homestead, with least amount of work. Always have a project going.😊
Perennial vegetables, fruits and vegetables are so important. I'm from Sweden and my last frost day is around June 6th and the first in early mid September (sometimes as early as August) To have vegetables that can be harvested early, despite cold nights, I think is of great value. My forest garden is a place for both food and a place to de-stress. Dystaenia takeshimana, is a plant that is not common here but gives good green leaves early, started looking up a month ago. Rumex acetosa, evergreen viola leaf I harvest now and any more are on the way, Blitum bonus-henricus, Allium fistulosum Scorzonera hispanica. Some give from spring to autumn, others in the spring and then new good leaves come again in the autumn, other perennials for a short time in the spring or as the Jerusalem artichoke harvest in late autumn. And also all the fruit and berries that I love. A forest garden is a good complement to the annual vegetable garden both for safety, a long harvest time and for nature. Good luck! Inger
I love this! Timely for me. I just ordered some trees/shrubs for food and medicine to add to our mini orchard/medicinal plants. We already have several apples, pears, rasp- and blackberries, and blueberries, and black walnut. I've ordered peach, staghorn sumac, hawthorn, elderberry, and sassafras to add to the mix. We also ordered horseradish root and hops. When we started gardening we focused more on annuals, but over the years we've added fruit trees and medicinal herbs as we can. I love the beautiful/useful mixture of annuals, perennials, and wild-growing plants. The way I see it, there are things each year that do well, while other things may be piddly or bomb completely. I like having plenty of options so, while we may not get our 'druthers, we should have a variety of foods. God bless!
Witam was serdecznie. Oglądam wasz kanał i bardzom mi się podoba to co robicie. Ja jestem z innej części świata, z Polski. Prowadzę wraz z żoną ,, Mini gospodarka ekologiczna Jacka i Ewy''. Produkujemy eko - żywność na własne potrzeby. Fajnie by było jakby w waszych filmach były napisy to wtedy łatwiej byłoby mi przetłumaczyć to co mówicie. Dziękuje bardzo i pozdrawiamy z Polski, Jacek i Ewa
I was really tickled to hear your promotion of Lehman's. I love the store. We don't go too often, but it's about 40 minutes away and is a wonderful day trip. I wasn't even aware of a catalog, but I'll get one now! Thanks and have a great growing season.
I am the owner of a tiny lot in northern Illinois. I have been investing in my perennial garden for years. I air dry my herbs & tea ingredients ( mint ect) and really enjoy that. Great info as always.
Thanks Caroline and Josh for hosting Lehman’s. My husband and I ordered the 921 and got the 15% off. I ‘m so excited. This will be my second 921 and I love the one I have. All American pressure cookers are the best canner out there. They will last me a life time. Thanks again. I love your videos and all the information you guys put out.🪴
Recently I was discussing the subject of farmsteading on a small suburban lot, and suggested that the woman I was talking to, plant fruit trees in her back yard. She told me that the HOA where she lives DOESN'T ALLOW fruit trees of any kind because they are "messy". That just confirmed my feelings about HOAs being of the devil!
I think like you, that perennials are especially important when you start getting older, while still working your homestead. My husband and I are in our mid 50’s so we are slowly adding more and more perennials in our garden. It’s what I like about building a food forest. I often start my perennials in my raised beds, and then I transplant when they are larger and will have a better chance surviving there. As for fruits, I have planted and selected plants that ripen at different times during the year. This way we have fresh fruit all year round. While I do like rhubarb and asparagus, my favorite perennial is tree collards. They produce amazing greens all year round, and when fully grown, the stems are so tough that the gophers and other critters can’t bite through it. They produce so much, that we use a lot of it as animal food too. My favorite thing about building a food forest, is all of the wild animals it attracts. We have gone from seeding max 5 different birds, now I stopped counting after I got to 26 different birds. I am getting snakes now in the snake habitat we made, and we see more and more predator insects as well. Last fall when I checked my guava it was covered in beetles, which really frustrated me. I started researching what to do, but it turned out that I did not need it. When I checked the tree 3 days later, they were gone. All that was left, was spider webs. Some still with beetles inside them. So it turned out that I had enough and the right kind of spiders to take care of the pest for me. These two things have been life changing for me. I used to be terrified of both spiders and snakes, but I am not so scared anymore. They have slowly become work partners in our forest garden.
Great comment, but I was hoping you could expand on your use of tree collards as animal feed? We are hoping to get a few acres soon and have a ton of tree collard seeds (bought them as walking stick cabbage) and I plan to plant a bunch of them. I've read that in years past cows were raised on them, but I'm curious about how much of an animal's nutrition can be provided by them, and what kind of animals? Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
@@tracy419 we only keep chickens duck and rabbits as livestock, since we only have 1/2 acre . The chickens loves the collard greens. You pick from the bottom of the plant and it will keep growing taller and taller by setting new leaves on the top. If you have larger livestock grow clover and hay. I am planning on growing some amaranth and dandelions, since the ducks and rabbits prefer thin leaves and grass type vegetables. The ducks favorite is carrot tops, which we can get for free at the farmers market.
From experience, be prepared for "need help" for harvesting. When I got CV (too weak to walk), luckily neighbor kid harvested for me. He was able to salvage enough for me & his family too.
Good POINT about an HOA not recognizing perennials as a vegetable garden or towns suffering from zoning against a front lawn vegetable garden. Good point.
Suddenly I have a new appreciation for the minimal ‘flood’ that exited from under my sink last weekend when considering your basement flood issue. Carolyn, I love your mug! Please share with where I can find one? Helpful things to consider, thank you for sharing.
I’m responding to Multi species rotational grazing podcast and would like to recommend you look into Dexter cows. I’ve been following “Just a Few Acres Farm” who live in upstate New York and who really are quite knowledgeable about the positive qualities of Dexter’s milk and meat as well as the size of the Irish breed. The fact that you have so many children may make a small breed interesting and that the milk quality matches the Jersey’s milk and the meat marbling quality matches Angus’ meat. I love your podcast!
Hello from Ottawa, Canada! I had lots of Raspberry plants in my garden and was getting up to 8 litres of berries for several years then last year, most of my canes just didn’t grow and i only got one cup of berries! I was so astonished and so sad😢. The raspberries have been there for 12 years now. After planting, I didnt do much to them yearly except pick the fruit and pull out the dead canes each year. They were popping up all over my garden, almost like weeds, then suddenly, none! Josh and Carolyn, what could have caused this? There are a few canes coming back this year but most of the Raspberry patch is now grass😢. What to do???
I'm sorry. I have been getting through my first trimester of pregnancy and I just realized the video that I thought was missing was a video from January 13th! It must have been suggested to me instead of being in my recent uploads from people I subscribe to! Sorry I'm a wreck but you're not missing videos 😅🤭
The two of y'all seem to have a very close relationship. Do these pantry chats help y'all to make time for each other? I imagine it's easy to get super busy with chores and caring for little people and forget to prioritize the marriage time. I'd be interested to hear how and when y'all really figured out a good balance.
Is there a type of rosemary that survives being outside in the snow? I've grown it two different years here in middle Indiana, but the sub zero temps on a few of our winter nights kills it each time. I grew it as a perennial in northern California, and again in Georgia, but I've had no success here.
Here in Texas the Whitetail Deer are a destructive force for perennials, especially fruit trees so before you can establish your perennials, you have to establish a game proof fence! I think this is important for people to know. Thank you for the video and the talk.
Same in oklahoma
Same in CO that’s why a garden fence is a must
Yes. Tall tight fence (large size critters down to the tiny ones: deer, rabbits & mice).
I get upset when my food eats my food.
Same here in my area of North Idaho.
One perennial strategy that I have been pondering is to plant specifically to provide food and habitat for game animals. It is not so much a suburban strategy but on a homestead things like American Hazelnut, Raspberries, Mulberries, Perennial Greens etc. can encourage both small and large game as well as being useful for your livestock.
We planted mulberries, wild plums and elderbrrries in areas to attract deer for future hunting. If we get some fruit that's an added bonus.
Many perennials act like annuals in the South due to the unique climate. So it can help to keep in mind and expectations realistic. For example, rosemary flourishes, but it commonly dies in winter and doesn't regrow. But by cutting a few sprigs to regrow inside during fall to spring, it's still possible to keep things going.
Praying you both aren’t spreading yourselves too thin and that God’s grace and love surrounds and lifts you daily. You seem VERY busy. No pressure. Don’t forget to rest in His love ❤
From Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
I spent all last year building my perrenial garden. My garden is 95% perrenail. I searched for a ton of different varieties and you would be amazed at what's available from herbs, onion, leeks, cold hardy prickly pear cactus, spinach, kale to Brocolli and string beans. Also a ton of exotic fruits that are cold hardy you would never think of.
My strategy was first plant all around the house, second plant fruit for each season and last have balance of food and flowers on my homestead, with least amount of work. Always have a project going.😊
I am soooo fortunate to live 45 minutes away from Lehman’s ❤🎉 What a blessing ❤
Perennial vegetables, fruits and vegetables are so important.
I'm from Sweden and my last frost day is around June 6th and the first in early mid September (sometimes as early as August)
To have vegetables that can be harvested early, despite cold nights, I think is of great value. My forest garden is a place for both food and a place to de-stress.
Dystaenia takeshimana, is a plant that is not common here but gives good green leaves early, started looking up a month ago. Rumex acetosa, evergreen viola leaf I harvest now and any more are on the way, Blitum bonus-henricus, Allium fistulosum Scorzonera hispanica. Some give from spring to autumn, others in the spring and then new good leaves come again in the autumn, other perennials for a short time in the spring or as the Jerusalem artichoke harvest in late autumn.
And also all the fruit and berries that I love. A forest garden is a good complement to the annual vegetable garden both for safety, a long harvest time and for nature.
Good luck!
Inger
I love this! Timely for me. I just ordered some trees/shrubs for food and medicine to add to our mini orchard/medicinal plants. We already have several apples, pears, rasp- and blackberries, and blueberries, and black walnut. I've ordered peach, staghorn sumac, hawthorn, elderberry, and sassafras to add to the mix. We also ordered horseradish root and hops. When we started gardening we focused more on annuals, but over the years we've added fruit trees and medicinal herbs as we can. I love the beautiful/useful mixture of annuals, perennials, and wild-growing plants.
The way I see it, there are things each year that do well, while other things may be piddly or bomb completely. I like having plenty of options so, while we may not get our 'druthers, we should have a variety of foods.
God bless!
Witam was serdecznie. Oglądam wasz kanał i bardzom mi się podoba to co robicie. Ja jestem z innej części świata, z Polski. Prowadzę wraz z żoną ,, Mini gospodarka ekologiczna Jacka i Ewy''. Produkujemy eko - żywność na własne potrzeby. Fajnie by było jakby w waszych filmach były napisy to wtedy łatwiej byłoby mi przetłumaczyć to co mówicie. Dziękuje bardzo i pozdrawiamy z Polski, Jacek i Ewa
Are you not able to click on subtitles on youtube and have it translated to polish ?
Normally it's an option
I was really tickled to hear your promotion of Lehman's. I love the store. We don't go too often, but it's about 40 minutes away and is a wonderful day trip. I wasn't even aware of a catalog, but I'll get one now! Thanks and have a great growing season.
Great food for thought! Val C ❤🙏🏻
I am the owner of a tiny lot in northern Illinois. I have been investing in my perennial garden for years. I air dry my herbs & tea ingredients ( mint ect) and really enjoy that. Great info as always.
Thanks Caroline and Josh for hosting Lehman’s. My husband and I ordered the 921 and got the 15% off. I ‘m so excited. This will be my second 921 and I love the one I have. All American pressure cookers are the best canner out there. They will last me a life time.
Thanks again. I love your videos and all the information you guys put out.🪴
Thank you for the idea of beans on 'hoops' aka cattle panels to shade other crops. ❤
I'm in AZ at 3400 ft.
Been ordering from Lehman's for years from Oregon. Love them.
I Love Lehmans!
Recently I was discussing the subject of farmsteading on a small suburban lot, and suggested that the woman I was talking to, plant fruit trees in her back yard. She told me that the HOA where she lives DOESN'T ALLOW fruit trees of any kind because they are "messy". That just confirmed my feelings about HOAs being of the devil!
Amen
I think like you, that perennials are especially important when you start getting older, while still working your homestead. My husband and I are in our mid 50’s so we are slowly adding more and more perennials in our garden. It’s what I like about building a food forest. I often start my perennials in my raised beds, and then I transplant when they are larger and will have a better chance surviving there. As for fruits, I have planted and selected plants that ripen at different times during the year. This way we have fresh fruit all year round.
While I do like rhubarb and asparagus, my favorite perennial is tree collards. They produce amazing greens all year round, and when fully grown, the stems are so tough that the gophers and other critters can’t bite through it. They produce so much, that we use a lot of it as animal food too.
My favorite thing about building a food forest, is all of the wild animals it attracts. We have gone from seeding max 5 different birds, now I stopped counting after I got to 26 different birds. I am getting snakes now in the snake habitat we made, and we see more and more predator insects as well.
Last fall when I checked my guava it was covered in beetles, which really frustrated me. I started researching what to do, but it turned out that I did not need it. When I checked the tree 3 days later, they were gone. All that was left, was spider webs. Some still with beetles inside them. So it turned out that I had enough and the right kind of spiders to take care of the pest for me.
These two things have been life changing for me. I used to be terrified of both spiders and snakes, but I am not so scared anymore. They have slowly become work partners in our forest garden.
Brilliant. I really really appreciate your comment. I screen captured the whole thing. Thank you! ❤❤❤
I never thought of starting perennials in the raised bed, then transplanting! Great idea!
Great comment, but I was hoping you could expand on your use of tree collards as animal feed?
We are hoping to get a few acres soon and have a ton of tree collard seeds (bought them as walking stick cabbage) and I plan to plant a bunch of them.
I've read that in years past cows were raised on them, but I'm curious about how much of an animal's nutrition can be provided by them, and what kind of animals?
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
@@tracy419 we only keep chickens duck and rabbits as livestock, since we only have 1/2 acre . The chickens loves the collard greens. You pick from the bottom of the plant and it will keep growing taller and taller by setting new leaves on the top. If you have larger livestock grow clover and hay. I am planning on growing some amaranth and dandelions, since the ducks and rabbits prefer thin leaves and grass type vegetables. The ducks favorite is carrot tops, which we can get for free at the farmers market.
@@thewitchykitchen thanks, I appreciate you getting back to me.
From experience, be prepared for "need help" for harvesting. When I got CV (too weak to walk), luckily neighbor kid harvested for me. He was able to salvage enough for me & his family too.
Saskatoons/ service berry and strawberries are good perennials. Highbush cranberries/ cramp bark has fruit and is medicinal.
Good POINT about an HOA not recognizing perennials as a vegetable garden or towns suffering from zoning against a front lawn vegetable garden. Good point.
We’ve been referring to this winter as a roller coaster ride. Crazy weather swings here in VT. as well.
I plant pollinator heavy. Love my butterflies and bees.
Suddenly I have a new appreciation for the minimal ‘flood’ that exited from under my sink last weekend when considering your basement flood issue.
Carolyn, I love your mug! Please share with where I can find one?
Helpful things to consider, thank you for sharing.
“When life gets hard…, “ I love this comment. Currently using my established comfrey plant to aid in mending my broken foot.
Wow really. How, I have a few broken toes?
I’m responding to Multi species rotational grazing podcast and would like to recommend you look into Dexter cows. I’ve been following “Just a Few Acres Farm” who live in upstate New York and who really are quite knowledgeable about the positive qualities of Dexter’s milk and meat as well as the size of the Irish breed. The fact that you have so many children may make a small breed interesting and that the milk quality matches the Jersey’s milk and the meat marbling quality matches Angus’ meat.
I love your podcast!
I live in Ohio about an hour away from Lehmans love going to the store in Kidron, Ohio.
I would like you to talk about biannuals to collect seeds.
Aww, Lehman's is local for me!
Love Leamans ..
5:35 Carolyn, you had me cackling!! 😂
Also this year all my garden is open pollenated plants.
Great job you to💚🌟
Hello from Ottawa, Canada! I had lots of Raspberry plants in my garden and was getting up to 8 litres of berries for several years then last year, most of my canes just didn’t grow and i only got one cup of berries! I was so astonished and so sad😢. The raspberries have been there for 12 years now. After planting, I didnt do much to them yearly except pick the fruit and pull out the dead canes each year. They were popping up all over my garden, almost like weeds, then suddenly, none! Josh and Carolyn, what could have caused this? There are a few canes coming back this year but most of the Raspberry patch is now grass😢. What to do???
You guys have the life I dreamed, but I married a city sucker was never gonna happen. Maybe one day he’ll give and give me my farm.
A city sucker?!!
😂 😅 😆 🤣
Keep on him that it's better to live out in the country.
For those of us with smaller (in town) land availability, how much do you need to worry about tree roots and foundations?
I would look up each variety you want to plant and see their mature root dimensions so you can plant far enough away
Did your other video get taken down? I was about to watch it last night but decided this morning would be better, and I can't find it 😣
I'm sorry. I have been getting through my first trimester of pregnancy and I just realized the video that I thought was missing was a video from January 13th! It must have been suggested to me instead of being in my recent uploads from people I subscribe to!
Sorry I'm a wreck but you're not missing videos 😅🤭
We need cages for the roots of shrubs and trees because of a horrid ppcket gopher problem; hardware cloth bottoms for raised beds. 🙁
I just discovered you today, and I'm curious what zone you are in? I think I read your in Northern Idaho, but I'm curious about your zone there.
We are in zone 5.
Oklahoma weather is crazy.
The two of y'all seem to have a very close relationship. Do these pantry chats help y'all to make time for each other? I imagine it's easy to get super busy with chores and caring for little people and forget to prioritize the marriage time. I'd be interested to hear how and when y'all really figured out a good balance.
Is there a type of rosemary that survives being outside in the snow? I've grown it two different years here in middle Indiana, but the sub zero temps on a few of our winter nights kills it each time. I grew it as a perennial in northern California, and again in Georgia, but I've had no success here.
Take some cuttings before it flowers, and regrow in small pots over winter. That way you can pop new ones in come spring.
What is the best way to preserve eggs other than glassing ?
Freeze dry
You can't get catalog until May.
What growing zone are you?