That description made me subscribe before even seeing his video....and it was a wise choice. Polo, cargo pants, and dad jokes. Throw in a fisherman’s hat and a pair of bright white NB shoes and this guy would be peak dad.
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Arugula (spicy) Oregano Day lilies Thyme Asparagus Mint, any mint Perennial shallot Egyptian onion Chives Sorrel (lemony zest) Garlic chives just cut and it regrows
Fantastic! Just amazing. Not that you learn more about permaculture, but you make smile the whole video through. When a man loves plants so much that he wants to rolls in it, this loves becomes contagious.
Arugula, daylily, thyme - good for dogs. Oregano - good for dogs in small amounts when raw. Asparagus - ok for them but tough for them to physically chew and can be rough on their digestion. Mint - everything except pennyroyal mint is good for dogs Perennial shallot, chives, sorrel, garlic chives - bad for dogs (anything in the onion/allium family) This is a great video! I did an intranet search to see if they're good for dogs. Obviously, dogs should only be allowed to ingest plant matter in modern.
I love the purple flowers on the chives, it's my favorite, I add them to a clear broth chicken soup, potato salad and bake into the top of a loaf of cheddar and chives bread. They're so beautiful! I like to see people's reactions to purple flowers in their food :)
The most accessible form encouraging spice plants I have ever seen. Everything in your field is a little dry, a little tangled, overgrown, non-ideal, just real. A wonderful story, crawling in the bushes, it fits nicely with the image and content. And everything seems to be delicious, easy, and lazy version. Thank you for the inspiration. I wish I had come across this channel before. ps. sorry for my bad English
I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up! We just retired, bought our first house!, with a tiny yard (.25 acre) and I'm so looking forward to spring planting. Supposedly, we're zone 8b; however, twice now we've gone below zero so I'm worried about what we put out in the fall. My husband even mulched.
I am in the same zone and I love to grow mustard. It reseeds itself every year. Attracts pollinators and repels certain pests. Tastes like "wasabi" paste(because most commercial wasabi is made of mustard and-or horseradish).
I just realized I have 8 out of these in my small food forest. I would also add Skirret and Crosnes, wild/feral strawberries and sage and stinging nettles. Cheers and keep up the good work, your food forest has been an inspiration for my much smaller version here in Germany.
@@Skashoon skirret is native to Europe and is in cultivation at least since Roman times. Crosnes originates in China I think. You can get both plants at specialist nurseries, I guess.
@@KaoXoni Der wächst hier zum Glück wild an unserem Hang. In unserer Gegend gab es mal Weinbau bis nach dem 2. Weltkrieg. Jetzt stehen hier wieder ein paar Weinreben, aber nur pilzresistente. Der Weinberglauch hat sich gehalten.
🤣 Ahahaha the peeking of of the plants that was great! I'm loving these videos. Very informative and is teaching me to go with nature instead of fighting it while gardening. Thank you!
I would add horseradish and nettle to my list for sure. Horseradish we make into an awesome condiment, with vinegar, salt and peper or with beets. Nettle we add to quiche or soup, just like spinach. Delicious!
Great list. I'm in a similar zone to you (I'm in BC), and some of my favorites that you didn't list are Good King Henry, which is a great green, slightly sour but mostly mild. And Sea Kale, which is our number one favorite. My favorite green is dandelion though; when I serve it to company I call it chicory and everyone thinks its something fancy, lol. I love that sorrel too, it's so nice that it doesn't get all weedy, though I love the look of Bloody Dock.
Yes I used to have great sea kale it would be my 2nd fave. Have good king Henry but haven’t used it. Dandelion is all about timing. Someone told me to pick it early morning it’s less bitter
This is one of my favorite channels! You are such a great teacher and I just love your personality! What is the source of your exuberant joy? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and love for nature.
I'm surprised for a Slav (Polish? Ukrainian?) you didn't mention either horseradish or nettle! Horseradish roots and leaves are great for pickling cucumbers, while nettle is essential for great green borscht!
I enjoyed your garden very much. I had all these perennials and plan to have them again in my new Garden. Thanks for a great reminder of what is important and that is to have fun in the garden and fun with food.
I bet you would just LOVE vineyard chives for its garlicky taste, enormous heigth (it grows wa faster and higher than the grass in the early spring, so you can even easily single it out in a lush meadow) and its hilariously shaped flowers and the deliciously intense tiny seed bulbs it produces.
I just learned that ggogle does not know "vineyard chives". I was describing Allium vineale, commonly called onion grass or stag's garlic. And that it is considered an invasive weed in the US and Oceania. Well... It is delicious, robust, abundant, healthy - actually all you want in a low maintenance food crop.
Wondering do you have a concern for getting a tick born illness through a tick bite? Watching you crawling around in the grass I kept thinking about ticks. You inspired me to buy garlic chive seeds, and some Egyptian Onion bulbs 🙂.
Sorrel is very good to make soup with boil egg added after finishing cooking.We in Poland cook it is often.When you have extra,you can cannedcfor winter.Very delicious soup with heavy cream
Great video. It’s important to repeat that he loves for these plants to take over. Garlic chives are a great example of a plant that will seed itself and take off like crazy(at least, in my experience). If you would like to keep garlic chives contained or control where the seeds land, be sure to clip the seed heads before they self seed.
I have a rescue boxer who is weirdly obsessed with mint in the pots (doggy safe varieties) I am thinking I should plant her a patch her rolling in it should keep it in check plus the pup smells minty fresh!
I have had garlic chaiv for many years. I eat them every day From the early spring to the end of season. Every year I send some to my friends or nearby neighbors, they are happy and I am happy, too. YES,, it's a Must to have it.
I bought the Profusion sorrel from Richters over 20 years ago. This plant is still growing profusely in my garden and has never shown signs of dying. I have even given plant sections away to people. Don't even bother with other sorrel, this one is perrenial with a capital P (and I am in zone 6B).
Love this delightful way to help us with our permaculture orchard. We made the mistake early on rototilling wormwood- ugh! It is a bear to get out. (Also horseradish in the garden taking over)
love your channel, great humor and wonderful information & advice. Will have to try sorrel and garlic chives for sure! thanks for sharing your favorites...
Hello, My name is irene, I just subscribed !!! You are funny ! I saw your blooper !!! Loved it . I will be watching your other videos . I'm a brand new person to you tube, just started my channel.. I will be learning from you about permaculture !!!! Thank you !
I have tons of daylilies, Oh boy, I can't wait for the flowers, to eat them... I'm in zone 5. You have the same taste as I do , I have all those plants except garlic chive, I'll go buy some tomorrow
@@ZaneMedia I've bought some today, it's now in the garden with rich soil and chicken manure ... 🌱 I'm starting celery from seeds, these guys are slow to grow, gezzzz.
@@kathleennorton6108 They grow well but so slowly, It might snow when they'll be ready :-0 They have to be started inside early in the spring. I use some normal cooking celery seeds, only 2 out of 100+ have started.
@@rejm1161 Magnus I just looked up how to grow celery and came upon a youtube video called "Celery Re-Grow Store Bought". It is really easy and fun. I would recommend you watch it.
Living down in zone 9 I can grow a lot of perennials. I have elephant garlic I planted fifteen years ago and it's still going strong. With my greenhouse I find peppers tend to grow for a year or more before needing to be cut back. Berries are also a good crop. I grow blackberries, raspberries, blueberries. My favorite for now and I couldn't say if they're perennials or not but I grow new zealand spinach in the greenhouse and I haven't had to do anything but harvest them for years now. All the spinach we can eat summer or winter. Collard greens can also grow for several years with proper trimming. Bunching onions will multiply into clumps of a hundred or more if you can find the right variety.
Lucky you. Yes many annual’ crops are perennial in tropical climes. Try climbing beans many should live for years and some like scarlet runner supposedly produce edible tubers when grown in a greenhouse or tropical clime. Grow on.
I have just recently come across (found) your channel. A great presentation style and whoever does the editing..... a great sense of humour too. G'day from Sydney Australia.
Great videos Stefan! I love what you are doing. Oh and thank you for the new perspective on mint patches. Then I better get use to counting myself lucky ;-)
Wow, so happy I found video, loved it and immediately SUBSCRIBED!! I have most of these plants in containers, can't wait till tomorrow, I'm off on weekend and going to my chalet and will be digging them out of the container and plant them on my vegetable garden
downbntout he literally got me to try some last week and I must say they’re quite good (they taste a bit like iceberg lettuce with a unique aftertaste)
I find them decorative for salads and the batter dipped fried is interesting but they are so delicate that the fried breading I'm just eating more fried food.
We call those Egyptian onions: walking Egyptian onions. As the seed head gets heavy it will cause the stalk to fall over & then the bulb starts a new onion in another spot. They are so cool. I got mine a couple of years ago.
Hi! Thank you so much for doing this video series! I purchased your DVD at the beginning of this year and am planning our orchard to be planted this winter. I'd love to know more depth of what you are doing in the nut tree part of the orchard. Maybe a tour? One question I have is how do you harvest the nuts with all that understory growth? Thank you again for your work!
Great video ! I also agree...Top 10 shrubs and/or tree cultivars might be a useful followup video...still being in the perennial family...never knew that about daylilly's...though not my favorite plan grouping, though I know there are many daylilly addicts & clubs...
You’re right they would be great follow up videos. Problem is we don’t even have 10 fruit tree species we could grow ( Apple, pear, Asian pear, cherry, plum, mulberry, seaberry, hazelnuts ) and less than 10 fruiting shrubs (black currant, red currant, gooseberry, haskap, Nanking cherry )
The shallot greens you can cut tgem finely and beat some eggs then mix them together with salt and black pepper. Then make small pancakes out of them. Great for breakfast
James shallot greens to make pancakes I have to try.. I'm working on developing a tiny home community with gardens and a business building for skills sharing or teach a class or sell items and barter if you wish.
What's great about this episode is most of the items you featured in your top 10 are either hard to get in the grocery store or they are expensive. I am a big fan of oregano and basil.
😎 Basil is very easy to grow from cuttings, like rooting the fresh basil you bought at the grocery store. Good quality very moist, well draining soil, semi shade until the cuttings develop roots and start growing. Most leafy vegetables do alright in partial shade.
I also planted garlic chives from Richters. Here's the thing, be careful what you ask for. I planted this in my garden and it took over everything. it took me five years to get this stuff out of my garden. Do not, I repeat, do not plant garlic chives near any type of garden. If you can put it near a hedge row or fence or hundreds of feet from your garden, etc., then fine, it does have a nice strong flavor. You were warned !!
Absolutely great video. Thank you for sharing. I don’t have a yard so can those grow indoors? I would really enjoy visiting you within the next 12 months.
This year I want to grow everything - every herb - every veggie. We are in Zone 9B SW Arizona (so far from Canada) and we will find out which grows best here so in the future we will know. Have already looked up and noted which garden plants like Full Sun, partial shade and the shade lovers - so I have laid out on paper what goes where. Will stagger our plants also for longer harvestings. Only a few things left to do before we can plant the garden areas which we extended. So excited because this year we have cattle guards (16 footers) for our climbing and tall plants to tie up those incredible arches. So excited. Starting hugelkultur also this year. Have all the amendments (and compost) for what each plant likes and needs. And, yes, we have plenty of room outside the veggie garden for wheat, corn, popcorn. We do have Citrus trees in the backyard along with Fig trees, Pakistani Mulberry, Everbearing Mulberries (3), two Apple trees, Barbados Cherry and Li and Lang Jujubes. Plan to get grape plants - 2 varieties in two different areas. Oh also a Pomegranate tree/bush. Will be planting the companion flowers for each area. Also will have white and sweet potatoes again. I think this year we will also try the round yellow potatoes. In our 70s so cannot extend much further but if we were younger we would plant the entire 6 acres. Judi
Question: why cut the whole clump of chives versus just a piece of it? Is there something specific about chives that would do best harvesting the whole clump?
Not at all harvest the amount you need. We just have so much we harvest the whole clump so we can harvest it again as newer growth later in the season.
Our old orchard doesn't have much sunlight at the ground. Which perennials would you suggest for us in USDA Zone 3? Love the idea of planting something as ground cover instead of always having to mow the grass between the trees 🙂
Arugula from the grocery store makes a great pesto with olive oil, garlic and roasted pecan ... wondering if this garden arugula would do the same or need to be combined with something else..?
Have most of these.Daylilies edible!will try,have them.1st variety of arugula I have not seen.Fresh daily additions to the dishes are the best.Go to your neighbors,most love to share.Hey nature nurture’s them ample.
Thank you very, very much. Super helpful :) I totally agree with encouraging edible plants that grow like “weeds.” I am so happy to hear you endorsing that. They are usually extremely nutrient dense as well. I appreciate how practical and helpful your videos are. Blessings. :)
This man is unapologetically dad-core and I love it.
That description made me subscribe before even seeing his video....and it was a wise choice. Polo, cargo pants, and dad jokes. Throw in a fisherman’s hat and a pair of bright white NB shoes and this guy would be peak dad.
Hehehe
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Arugula (spicy)
Oregano
Day lilies
Thyme
Asparagus
Mint, any mint
Perennial shallot
Egyptian onion
Chives
Sorrel (lemony zest)
Garlic chives just cut and it regrows
Fantastic!
Just amazing.
Not that you learn more about permaculture, but you make smile the whole video through.
When a man loves plants so much that he wants to rolls in it, this loves becomes contagious.
I absolutely love Lemon Thyme. Smells delightful, great with meat dishes!
Arugula, daylily, thyme - good for dogs.
Oregano - good for dogs in small amounts when raw.
Asparagus - ok for them but tough for them to physically chew and can be rough on their digestion.
Mint - everything except pennyroyal mint is good for dogs
Perennial shallot, chives, sorrel, garlic chives - bad for dogs (anything in the onion/allium family)
This is a great video! I did an intranet search to see if they're good for dogs. Obviously, dogs should only be allowed to ingest plant matter in modern.
Intranet is only a local network at your own house or business 😉 Internet.
I love the purple flowers on the chives, it's my favorite, I add them to a clear broth chicken soup, potato salad and bake into the top of a loaf of cheddar and chives bread. They're so beautiful! I like to see people's reactions to purple flowers in their food :)
I need this man to be my whole friend group
The most accessible form encouraging spice plants I have ever seen. Everything in your field is a little dry, a little tangled, overgrown, non-ideal, just real. A wonderful story, crawling in the bushes, it fits nicely with the image and content. And everything seems to be delicious, easy, and lazy version. Thank you for the inspiration. I wish I had come across this channel before.
ps. sorry for my bad English
I read your comment just fine. No worries. You did a really good job.
LOL loved your presentation... great INFO ! thank you sir
We have wild onions growing everywhere on our little property. The bulbs are tiny like shallots. But they are great to use the tops as green onions.
Peppermint and other mint plants are a wonderful mosquito repellent
Fantastic video! Thanks for the giggles.
1:52 Messed with my head. The narration "In the jungle..." and then seeing the black dog walk by, my mind perceived it as a panther lol
I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up! We just retired, bought our first house!, with a tiny yard (.25 acre) and I'm so looking forward to spring planting. Supposedly, we're zone 8b; however, twice now we've gone below zero so I'm worried about what we put out in the fall. My husband even mulched.
Before planting look what has been the record low in 50 years, them plant what will withstand that temp. All other plants are play plants.
Thank you. Yes to plants that grow like weeds!!!!! Plenty to eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in the same zone and I love to grow mustard. It reseeds itself every year. Attracts pollinators and repels certain pests. Tastes like "wasabi" paste(because most commercial wasabi is made of mustard and-or horseradish).
I just realized I have 8 out of these in my small food forest. I would also add Skirret and Crosnes, wild/feral strawberries and sage and stinging nettles. Cheers and keep up the good work, your food forest has been an inspiration for my much smaller version here in Germany.
Never heard of skirret or crosnes. Where do you find them?
@@Skashoon skirret is native to Europe and is in cultivation at least since Roman times. Crosnes originates in China I think. You can get both plants at specialist nurseries, I guess.
Hi! Tolle Gemüsesorten! Hast Du auch Weinbergslauch in Deinem Futterwald? Auf den würde ich nicht verzichten (wenn ich wieder einen Garten hätte).
@@KaoXoni Der wächst hier zum Glück wild an unserem Hang. In unserer Gegend gab es mal Weinbau bis nach dem 2. Weltkrieg. Jetzt stehen hier wieder ein paar Weinreben, aber nur pilzresistente. Der Weinberglauch hat sich gehalten.
🤣... in the jungle, orEggEn0, if i could save thyme in a bottle🎶... i love rolling on the earth!!! MARVELOUS HeMen!!😃💜🍀🌼
Elizabeth Borreson glad you appreciate the editing:)
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#1 - Garlic Chives
#2 - Sorrel
#3 - Chives
#4 - Egyptian Onion
#5 - Shallots
#6 - Mints
#7 - Thyme
#8 - Oregano
#9 - Day Lilies
#10 - Arugula
Thx for listing. Very kind of you.
Thank you for the list. Kind of you.
@ he's not. It's a useful recap and not a substitute for hearing the comments and tips
Thank you. I took a screen shot of your list after watching the video to save for later. 👍
@ They are in the video description..
🤣 Ahahaha the peeking of of the plants that was great! I'm loving these videos. Very informative and is teaching me to go with nature instead of fighting it while gardening. Thank you!
Mission accomplished. Thanks
I always thought of these as herbs and not perennial vegetables. Very interesting video, I learn a lot from you.
That's because they are herbs - the title is clickbait!
I would add horseradish and nettle to my list for sure. Horseradish we make into an awesome condiment, with vinegar, salt and peper or with beets. Nettle we add to quiche or soup, just like spinach. Delicious!
I love horseradish leaves too for salads and such.
Nettle tea is good too. A lot of nutrients.
Willing to share what you do with the horseradish and beets? I’m looking for ways to utilize beets more
Great list. I'm in a similar zone to you (I'm in BC), and some of my favorites that you didn't list are Good King Henry, which is a great green, slightly sour but mostly mild. And Sea Kale, which is our number one favorite. My favorite green is dandelion though; when I serve it to company I call it chicory and everyone thinks its something fancy, lol. I love that sorrel too, it's so nice that it doesn't get all weedy, though I love the look of Bloody Dock.
Yes I used to have great sea kale it would be my 2nd fave. Have good king Henry but haven’t used it. Dandelion is all about timing. Someone told me to pick it early morning it’s less bitter
Hooray!! A gardening channel from Canada :) I am zone 4 and already grow a few of those. Count me as a new subscriber!
What a character! Love your presentation. Learning a lot. Excellent channel!
I just love your video. Your presentation is delightfully informative and a cute sense of humor.
This is one of my favorite channels! You are such a great teacher and I just love your personality! What is the source of your exuberant joy? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and love for nature.
Your welcome. My source is the Holy Spirit. I’m nothing without Him.
@@StefanSobkowiak The only lasting source of exuberant joy, indeed! :)
Best answer. Hard to farm/garden without seeing the Creator's hand everywhere.
I'm surprised for a Slav (Polish? Ukrainian?) you didn't mention either horseradish or nettle! Horseradish roots and leaves are great for pickling cucumbers, while nettle is essential for great green borscht!
I enjoyed your garden very much. I had all these perennials and plan to have them again in my new Garden. Thanks for a great reminder of what is important and that is to have fun in the garden and fun with food.
I bet you would just LOVE vineyard chives for its garlicky taste, enormous heigth (it grows wa faster and higher than the grass in the early spring, so you can even easily single it out in a lush meadow) and its hilariously shaped flowers and the deliciously intense tiny seed bulbs it produces.
I just learned that ggogle does not know "vineyard chives". I was describing Allium vineale, commonly called onion grass or stag's garlic. And that it is considered an invasive weed in the US and Oceania. Well... It is delicious, robust, abundant, healthy - actually all you want in a low maintenance food crop.
Wondering do you have a concern for getting a tick born illness through a tick bite? Watching you crawling around in the grass I kept thinking about ticks. You inspired me to buy garlic chive seeds, and some Egyptian Onion bulbs 🙂.
Fantastic. We have ticks nearby but with our deer fence it keeps out most of them.
By far my favorite gardening video. thanks for the passion
Helps to get down at plant levels.
I would one more to your list: Horse radish.
Thanks for the article.
Horseradish rocks!
Even if you don't harvest the root the greens are awesome!
He-man bit actually made me chuckle. Great video.
How can you NOT like a video of a guy lying in his plants while praising them and nibbling them!? Cute :)
I agree! Great information too.
Bonnie Taylor my fathers extremely passionate I guess you could say haha
@@ZaneMedia like for the intro filming\edition, well done!
Loved him peeking through the daylillys...the dog in the background is like what is he doing now.
Awesome list! Didn't know arugula was perennial and that day lilies are edible, thanks for sharing.
The voles ate my daylillies... and everything else.
Same here!
Regular arugula is not perennial.
@@chrismako6734 wild arugola is perennial.
I love these videos and Stefans sense of humor is awsome.
All of these sound great! Love the little cartoon bits.
Love garlic chives! Snip the flowers onto sliced tomatoes w/a little feta cheese--heaven!!
The leafes are wonderful too. Take one from each plant, as needed.
Your channel is great. What a funny sense of humor and good info, too. Thanks.
SuzyQ thanks we’re always happy to hear positive feedback :)
Garlic chive, got to have! Merci :)
Thanks I was starting to look into the perennial plants for my back yard
Glad I could help
This video is a national treasure
Love it.
Sorrel is very good to make soup with boil egg added after finishing cooking.We in Poland cook it is often.When you have extra,you can cannedcfor winter.Very delicious soup with heavy cream
Great video.
It’s important to repeat that he loves for these plants to take over. Garlic chives are a great example of a plant that will seed itself and take off like crazy(at least, in my experience).
If you would like to keep garlic chives contained or control where the seeds land, be sure to clip the seed heads before they self seed.
I would use them as lawn cover, they are a lush green, but mowing them is quite an odorous experience, one all the neighbors get to partake in, too.😁
I have a rescue boxer who is weirdly obsessed with mint in the pots (doggy safe varieties) I am thinking I should plant her a patch her rolling in it should keep it in check plus the pup smells minty fresh!
garlic chives are very common in Korean cuisine. fantastic!
I have had garlic chaiv for many years. I eat them every day From the early spring to the end of season. Every year I send some to my friends or nearby neighbors, they are happy and I am happy, too. YES,, it's a Must to have it.
Love watching you!!! You are so funny.
I bought the Profusion sorrel from Richters over 20 years ago. This plant is still growing profusely in my garden and has never shown signs of dying. I have even given plant sections away to people. Don't even bother with other sorrel, this one is perrenial with a capital P (and I am in zone 6B).
So true and are they ever delicious.
Love this delightful way to help us with our permaculture orchard. We made the mistake early on rototilling wormwood- ugh! It is a bear to get out. (Also horseradish in the garden taking over)
love your channel, great humor and wonderful information & advice. Will have to try sorrel and garlic chives for sure! thanks for sharing your favorites...
Gina D Thanks we love that you’re enjoying our Chanel/content (can’t wait to share some more)
Great tips! I love sorrel soup with hard boiled eggs
Hello, My name is irene, I just subscribed !!! You are funny ! I saw your blooper !!! Loved it . I will be watching your other videos . I'm a brand new person to you tube, just started my channel.. I will be learning from you about permaculture !!!! Thank you !
I have tons of daylilies, Oh boy, I can't wait for the flowers, to eat them... I'm in zone 5. You have the same taste as I do , I have all those plants except garlic chive, I'll go buy some tomorrow
Canada Sirius the garlic chives are amazing
@@ZaneMedia I've bought some today, it's now in the garden with rich soil and chicken manure ... 🌱 I'm starting celery from seeds, these guys are slow to grow, gezzzz.
@@rejm1161 I have wondered about celery. I haven't heard if anyone who grows it.
@@kathleennorton6108 They grow well but so slowly, It might snow when they'll be ready :-0 They have to be started inside early in the spring. I use some normal cooking celery seeds, only 2 out of 100+ have started.
@@rejm1161 Magnus I just looked up how to grow celery and came upon a youtube video called "Celery Re-Grow Store Bought". It is really easy and fun. I would recommend you watch it.
Living down in zone 9 I can grow a lot of perennials. I have elephant garlic I planted fifteen years ago and it's still going strong. With my greenhouse I find peppers tend to grow for a year or more before needing to be cut back. Berries are also a good crop. I grow blackberries, raspberries, blueberries. My favorite for now and I couldn't say if they're perennials or not but I grow new zealand spinach in the greenhouse and I haven't had to do anything but harvest them for years now. All the spinach we can eat summer or winter. Collard greens can also grow for several years with proper trimming. Bunching onions will multiply into clumps of a hundred or more if you can find the right variety.
Lucky you. Yes many annual’ crops are perennial in tropical climes. Try climbing beans many should live for years and some like scarlet runner supposedly produce edible tubers when grown in a greenhouse or tropical clime. Grow on.
I have just recently come across (found) your channel. A great presentation style and whoever does the editing..... a great sense of humour too. G'day from Sydney Australia.
It seems he may have a son doing editing
Glad to have you onboard Chris. G'day.
Exactly, Zack does many of the edits (the best ones!).
Great vids. Why would anybody thumbs down? Crazy.
Great videos Stefan! I love what you are doing. Oh and thank you for the new perspective on mint patches. Then I better get use to counting myself lucky ;-)
I want to add Loveage. It's just like celery but perennial. My Norwegian friend introduced it to me.
Wow, so happy I found video, loved it and immediately SUBSCRIBED!! I have most of these plants in containers, can't wait till tomorrow, I'm off on weekend and going to my chalet and will be digging them out of the container and plant them on my vegetable garden
Wonderful, welcome aboard, lots to binge watch after gardening.
Great idea for permaculture.
I would never have thought daylilies were fit to eat. My jaw dropped!
downbntout he literally got me to try some last week and I must say they’re quite good (they taste a bit like iceberg lettuce with a unique aftertaste)
I find them decorative for salads and the batter dipped fried is interesting but they are so delicate that the fried breading I'm just eating more fried food.
Love how he laid down on the ground the entire video
We call those Egyptian onions: walking Egyptian onions. As the seed head gets heavy it will cause the stalk to fall over & then the bulb starts a new onion in another spot. They are so cool. I got mine a couple of years ago.
Love your channel ❤Like your video guy’s touch (your son has your humour). Time smells so good and want to visit your farm🎉
Thanks so much!
I enjoy watching your posts . Just a lot.. 👍👍👍
Hi! Thank you so much for doing this video series! I purchased your DVD at the beginning of this year and am planning our orchard to be planted this winter. I'd love to know more depth of what you are doing in the nut tree part of the orchard. Maybe a tour? One question I have is how do you harvest the nuts with all that understory growth? Thank you again for your work!
Sarah L great question in terms of a tour you’ll have to “stay tuned” ;)
Depends on the nuts. So far only hazelnuts are producing which are hand picked. We use a nut harvesting wire wheel for other nut trees elsewhere.
This video was great. Top ten shrubs next? This helps a lot for me deciding what perennials to grow
Great idea and great topic. I guess we could extend that to the top 10 tree cultivars we use...
@@StefanSobkowiak please!
Check out this Friday's upcoming video 'Top 5 Shrubs'.
@@StefanSobkowiak Maybe you should start with actual vegetables instead of herbs?.....
Haha.... nice video .. watching from Philippines.
Great video ! I also agree...Top 10 shrubs and/or tree cultivars might be a useful followup video...still being in the perennial family...never knew that about daylilly's...though not my favorite plan grouping, though I know there are many daylilly addicts & clubs...
You’re right they would be great follow up videos. Problem is we don’t even have 10 fruit tree species we could grow ( Apple, pear, Asian pear, cherry, plum, mulberry, seaberry, hazelnuts ) and less than 10 fruiting shrubs (black currant, red currant, gooseberry, haskap, Nanking cherry )
The shallot greens you can cut tgem finely and beat some eggs then mix them together with salt and black pepper. Then make small pancakes out of them. Great for breakfast
James shallot greens to make pancakes I have to try.. I'm working on developing a tiny home community with gardens and a business building for skills sharing or teach a class or sell items and barter if you wish.
Man you are excellent! Keep going
What's great about this episode is most of the items you featured in your top 10 are either hard to get in the grocery store or they are expensive. I am a big fan of oregano and basil.
😎 Basil is very easy to grow from cuttings, like rooting the fresh basil you bought at the grocery store. Good quality very moist, well draining soil, semi shade until the cuttings develop roots and start growing.
Most leafy vegetables do alright in partial shade.
My thoughts exactly re mint.. 🤗
I also planted garlic chives from Richters. Here's the thing, be careful what you ask for. I planted this in my garden and it took over everything. it took me five years to get this stuff out of my garden. Do not, I repeat, do not plant garlic chives near any type of garden. If you can put it near a hedge row or fence or hundreds of feet from your garden, etc., then fine, it does have a nice strong flavor. You were warned !!
Haha! That´s a very good Video!
Greetings from Germany :D
Nice ideas.
All of these are great ingredients for making chimichurri, the ultimate condiment for all your meats and other dishes too.
Yes love garlic chives to, and onion chives as I’m not able to eat onion so get the flavour without the illness.
Garlic chive is also my favorite!
It's so good!
No wonder the deer eat our Day Lillies in Pennsylvania. I love Gill Over the Ground, a remarkable mint for keeping my soil moist.
Asparagus is a perennial it's one of my #1 favorites. It's also in the grass family aka sparrow grass, not a shrub.
Fantastic! Thank you so much ❤️
Excellent video - Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you so much!! How do I know where to plant them? Mixed low sun and full sun.
Sun is good, they like sun.
another great video Stefan, thanks for sharing that.
Absolutely great video. Thank you for sharing. I don’t have a yard so can those grow indoors? I would really enjoy visiting you within the next 12 months.
I’m not sure about all of them but we bring in chives and garlic chives for the winter in pots.
If you make an enclosed patio that has earth areas you can do that or get some grow boxes with water wells.
So glad I found your channel!😊
This year I want to grow everything - every herb - every veggie. We are in Zone 9B SW Arizona (so far from Canada) and we will find out which grows best here so in the future we will know. Have already looked up and noted which garden plants like Full Sun, partial shade and the shade lovers - so I have laid out on paper what goes where. Will stagger our plants also for longer harvestings. Only a few things left to do before we can plant the garden areas which we extended. So excited because this year we have cattle guards (16 footers) for our climbing and tall plants to tie up those incredible arches. So excited. Starting hugelkultur also this year. Have all the amendments (and compost) for what each plant likes and needs. And, yes, we have plenty of room outside the veggie garden for wheat, corn, popcorn. We do have Citrus trees in the backyard along with Fig trees, Pakistani Mulberry, Everbearing Mulberries (3), two Apple trees, Barbados Cherry and Li and Lang Jujubes. Plan to get grape plants - 2 varieties in two different areas. Oh also a Pomegranate tree/bush. Will be planting the companion flowers for each area. Also will have white and sweet potatoes again. I think this year we will also try the round yellow potatoes. In our 70s so cannot extend much further but if we were younger we would plant the entire 6 acres. Judi
Judi I’m sure with a garden like that you don’t feel like your age.
@@StefanSobkowiak Yes with all the preparing I am getting stronger. Judi
These videos are fantastic. Thanks Stefan!
Chris Holcombe thanks always awesome to hear the positive feedback!
Question: why cut the whole clump of chives versus just a piece of it? Is there something specific about chives that would do best harvesting the whole clump?
Not at all harvest the amount you need. We just have so much we harvest the whole clump so we can harvest it again as newer growth later in the season.
Entertaining and informative
Our old orchard doesn't have much sunlight at the ground. Which perennials would you suggest for us in USDA Zone 3? Love the idea of planting something as ground cover instead of always having to mow the grass between the trees 🙂
The most profitable would be shade tolerant cut flowers. There are lists of such plants for each zone.
Just found you, we are new Subs! Love your videos!
Robbie and Gary and we love you guys! Glad you enjoy the content so far more to come :)
@@ZaneMedia yes...really neat!
Wow.. i just learned something new about day lilies 😍😍
Kim check out last weeks daylily video for more on them.
@@StefanSobkowiak thanks 😊
Arugula from the grocery store makes a great pesto with olive oil, garlic and roasted pecan ... wondering if this garden arugula would do the same or need to be combined with something else..?
It’s more potent than regular arugula.
Have most of these.Daylilies edible!will try,have them.1st variety of arugula I have not seen.Fresh daily additions to the dishes are the best.Go to your neighbors,most love to share.Hey nature nurture’s them ample.
Thank you very, very much. Super helpful :) I totally agree with encouraging edible plants that grow like “weeds.” I am so happy to hear you endorsing that. They are usually extremely nutrient dense as well. I appreciate how practical and helpful your videos are. Blessings. :)
dancingcedar awesome we’re glad you enjoy them!
Great videos. Super informative. Love the editing LOL