7 Vegetables that Double as Ornamentals for the Cottage Garden, RANKED
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Vegetables that can also be used as ornamentals in the cottage garden. Discover which plants you can use that serve double duty as edible and ornamentals.
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Created by: Siloe Oliveira
Keep in mind, if your carrots are heirloom and you let them go to flower you can harvest them for seeds, so it is not entirely a loss.
Yes, I just discovered that I can grow the carrot flowers after we ate the organic carrots. Too tricky to grow in my zone in Florida but I'm delighted I found a way to get free flowers.
Do you know if the carrots are good at self seeding?
@@christines2787 My Danvers carrots self seeded and produced great carrots.
@@jessmcg4438 we are really trying to get everything possible to self seed. Creating permaculture areas. Retirement in a decade. We want to be able to age in place and are trying to make the land as productive and self sustainable as possible
I did discover "volunteer" carrot seedlings before winter.
I transplanted them to another area.
They went dormant over winter, and with winter winding down they're waking up nicely 🙂
Your videos are like sitting down with a good old gardening book. Not that I would let living in a more modern house stop me, but the dual method seems right at home in old home as you have. The old timers would have done exactly this with limited space.
I never buy carrots seeds but have many in our garden! From carrots I buy from the supermarket, I often will leave about a half inch or so of the head of the plant and place in the garden soil. They'll either grow and eventually flower and I let them self-seed in the garden, or the kitchen scrap doesn't revive and just becomes more compost. A win for me either way.
Same if I have old carrots in the fridge (or many other root veggies) that are no longer fresh enough to eat, I often just plant the whole carrot or top half of the carrot back into the ground and end up with a lovely large healthy carrot to harvest later in the year (or to let go to seed).
Wow! Interesting ... asked myself already whether it could function. Coz sometimes veggies are sprayed against germination
oooH such a good idea! I've done it with potatoes, so why not carrots. Also, carrot chips in the dehydrator. My air fryer has a dehydration function. 2 hours at 180-165. Thinly sliced carrots in layers. SO YUM!
I’ve needed this! I grow more veggies than anything else but love the look of ornamental gardens!!! Thank you!
Also, I’m so excited every time you post! Best production quality of any gardening channel!
Hope it was helpful
I love cilantro as a double duty plant. Once it gets hot it flowers and then the flowers turn into green coriander that you can dry
That carrot germination method is next level. Omg....
I would add okra to the list. The flowers are stunning and you get edible food though the season too.
I have been trialling ways to make soil blocks as I find them very good for growing and your way is genius
It is quite handy and it cost nothing really
I'm so happy to see you've posted! I have been gardening much more mindfully lately and your videos have been a huge inspiration! So everything I grow is edible and medicinal, and many can also be ornamental. I am in zone 9a. Here is a list of mine: Parsley (flat leaf and curley leaf), all types of basils including thai, tulsi, and greek columnar, rainbow chard, lemon balm, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, lavender, dianthus, daylily, chamomile, nigella, corn flower, dwarf kale, borage, crimson clover, sweet alyssum, black berries, bay leaf, hollyhocks, Roselle, damask roses, olive trees, aleppo pepper, violas, calendula............ I realize most of these are not technically what we call vegetables but they are all edible/medicinal..
And rainbow chard!!! Spectacular!!
I like listening to gardening UA-cam videos while cleaning or gardening. Your videos, however, must be saved for a time when I can give them 100% of my attention. They are always so visually stunning.
This guy is the most impressive person on the internet. Puts Leonardo da Vinci to shame.
Yay! You are back!!!
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That was a fun video to watch. I love how you take clips from different times of year to show the whole lifecycle of the plants. Your timing was great because just yesterday I was looking at my Suzhou baby bok choy, which has just begun to bloom, and thinking about what a beautiful plant they are and that they should be in the front of people's flower borders.
My favorite ornamental is a Scarlet Runner Bean. I love the red flowers plus the beans are delicious! I am going to try the basil!
Thank you for sharing this information. It has so much information and attention to interesting details, including additional views of your beautiful garden structures as well as the plants themselves. It really inspires me to allow myself to enjoy every moment of my own hobbies. You have a way of making seemingly ordinary chores -elegant.
I adore Cardinal Basil...I was glad to see it made it to the top!
I stumbled across you this morning. I'm in the UK and whilst not all your content applies (basil outside! Not a chance 😂 ), the rest is fabulous. I love cottage gardens and try hard to style mine around the same aesthetics.
I wish I had come across you 2 weeks ago BEFORE I tore down my old shed :(
Please keep the content coming as it IS possible to teach an old dog new tricks ;)
I just found your channel and I really appreciate how you take alot of time to educate each thing.I enjoy all the tips of germanting and planting.Your very thoughtful to take your time to share your knowledge.Thank you looking forward to seeing more videos and looking at your past ones as well.Also I love your collections and tiques beautiful home inside and out!
Great format! Now I'll have to try the Aji cachucha peppers - who wouldn't love that branch of colorful, interesting looking peppers - Sweet! Hopefully that Cardinal Basil can be grown in zone ten. I would add two more - African Blue Basil - short lived perennial, 3 to 5 years - awesome flavor, big bush of fragrant flowers, bee magnet. It's sterile but easy to propagate, cut a medium size branch and stick in water. Can be a statement plant due to its size and over abundance of gorgeous lavender/purple blooms. No pests. Bronze Fennel - truly lovely golden yellow blooms, pollinator friendly, Swallowtail butterflies and practically carefree - tell people it is part of your butterfly garden (true:) and is so very tasty - chefs adore the leaves. I'm glad you mentioned the carrot flowers - they are tricky to grow here in Florida so I've given up but I can snip the top and grow greens - stick the organic carrot tops in the ground and get free flowers after eating the carrots. Love your channel!
Gosh- love your videos! Thank you for existing ✨
Thank you for the kind words
This is perhaps the highest quality, coziest and most educational UA-cam channel of all time. Thank you for this content. It seems like so much thought, effort and care goes into it. What a gift. ❤️
Another interesting plant i use as ornamental is Brussel sprout plant .... it is visually different and adds a quirkiness to my garden i enjoy
Hello from Australia. I have just found your channel and am loving it. I am not an artist and, to be honest, I do not have much talent in that area. But I have learned enormously from your masterclasses on the cottage garden, all about the composition and structure and also the colour masterclass. I enjoy learning from you on the interior design of your home as well, especially the library - I am inspired to work on my own version of the library and garden using what I have learned from you. Thank you.
I always grow vegetables as ornamentals in my flower borders together with herbs ...try to have goid companion planting ...and I have less pests or diseases.
There were many great ideas and new varieties for me to try this year, thank you! Especially that basil is gorgeous and basil is easily my favourite herb!
I would have added asparagus on this list, since I find the whispy ends after spring harvesting season quite beautiful and once you get a patch growing it's reasonably easy to take care of. Although one won't get to eat them for first few years I still find asparagus worth it as an ornamental and edible plant 😍
Love these videos!
I would really like more cooking as well!
I always enjoy your videos and learn soo much. From seed to plate I give 5/5 leaves!
Yayyyyy new one! Great one. Thanks Siloe. Love love love your shows
Yes 👍🏽 loved it ; would be awesome 👏🏽 to see more videos like this on vines, flowers, perennials butterfly flowers and even west coast cottage flowers-keep up the edibles SO inspiring and fun!
Always looking for great double-duty growers...learned of a great one here!! Thanks!
I'm so happy that you're posting again! I love your garden
You have an interesting style & calm voice. Thank you for putting so much effort into your videos. Last year I bought a six pack of kale thinking we would eat off them until it got too hot. And we did. But they got HUGE & beautiful. People asked me (front yard garden) all the time what they were. Their faces when I said “kale” was so funny. I winter sowed some this season & they are already out and thriving!
Thanks for this video! I really enjoyed it! My favorite edible and ornamental plants are fennel, okra, amaranth, and Thai basil
A fresh take! Lovely, and though not all the plants are for me, I think the approach you took as you considered all aspects of the plant is applicable to any zone, any taste. Thank you. And now to add another basil to my ever-growing collection.
Your videos are beautiful
I would like to save this to a playlist!
Mmmmmm Will try that recipe. Love the variety of your choices. Entertaining and elegant video graphics as always ❤❤❤
I really enjoy watching your videos. So well done!
Great video format, considerate rankings!
As always - great video and graphics too!
i absolutely love this style of video!
I lobe your carefully edited videos. Should be a tv show !
I have very little space, only about 6X4 balcony. It seems like everything dies in August from the extreme sun. I am in DT Portland Oregon. Great videos and thanks!
Carrot top Pesto is one of the most nutritious ways to use those bolted carrots!
might be considered cheating so as an honorable mention, ill throw in "a bunch of fruit trees". things like plumb trees put out lovely blossoms and then form fruit to eat. does require a bit of patience and a lot of space though lmao.
I also quite liked onions flower, while something like strawberrys can make nice edging flowers.
I wouldn’t consider fruit crops cheating, even if they are not vegetables. Maybe they need a video for them
Lovely to see you again, thank you
Man, you are great! World is a better, greener space, thanks to you! Awesome job you're doing!
I grew persian basil and with my magic molly budelia and black lace elderberry, it was a stunner! Very tasty and easy with pesto.
I just love your videos! Thank you infinitely for all the work and thought you put into them
Glad to see you watching again!
@@suburbanhomestead Me too! Your arduous work is evident in these gems of videos. I keep watching, commenting and sharing.
Thank you for your helpful videos.
So fun to watch!!!
I’m still waiting on another garden tour! 😂
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Cur the carrot top off. Use it to grow greens.
Greens can grow into flowers.
Flowers can develop seeds.
Seeds for more carrots.
I have done it and like all great discoveries I did it unintentionally 😅
Wonderful! Thank you!
nasturtium and amaranth are my favourites for this category, also peas
Always love this content
20 seconds in and I’m intrigued!
I have mixed all of my veggie and flowers together 🌻🐝🍅
Great video!
I have been sooo excited to see what’s going on in your garden! I love the peppers - it’s too late for me this year, but maybe next year 😅 I have so many problems with slugs in my garden. I wonder if slugs like peppers? They eat pretty much everything else, so I haven’t figured out what I can sow in my kitchen garden, besides onions 😢
A few others I'd add would be amaranth (really pretty and edible leaves), lemongrass, and chamomile. I really appreciated this though. I'll have to try that salsify and cardoon.
More please.
Love the chocolate lillies
I take the largest and have a staggered harvest! you can also interplant fast harvest plants between starts that eventually get huge ... using the space so you are harvesting more than once a season.. Check out Charles Dowding no dig gardening videos...His spacing info and interplanting work well for more yields and for aesthetics I also will seed flowers/herbs between the veggies for pollinators and a happy visual garden community...covering the ground as much as possible... like the perennial border this takes a bit of design chops and timing strategies...
Deer ruin my plans for using edibles in an ornamental way… I love how most edibles look in a landscape but the deer eat them if I don’t keep them protected. Luckily I can use most herbs in the landscape at least, just not things like kale, lettuce, cucurbits, strawberries, even tomatoes & peppers get demolished 🦌
For sure. I think the basil here should be immune to that
Add to that, Bronze fennel. Most of the deer resistant vegetables are just not preferred but when food is scarce deer become less picky.
Love your videos!!!! Very interesting!
The most beautyfull double duty plant allready grows in your garden. Dahlias. You can eat the tubers like potatoes and you will be suprised how good they are.
Thanks!
Interesting information. Love the look of the Cardinal basil. Will try the gel method of carrots next year. I've heard of salsify, but never ate it. What does it taste like? TFS 😊❤
I have heard about the board method in growing carrots but would like to know if you have to keep the board wet and how long do you leave it on? thank you for your time and effort making these videos.
Okay now we're done with the garden. House tour time, please. 😅
I have very limited space. I have a west facing condo balcony. I container garden. I would have loved to hear container and light needs. To for sharing.
Brilliant, will you share your veg design cages?
There are 3 old videos that show how I built them. I am upgrading them this year though.
That Tofu kale sandwich looks good.
lovely and thank you
That looks good,imagine adding fresh tomatoes instead of tomate sauce,😊mmmmhh
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❤ very helpfull
I miss your videos. Any plans for Fall planting in the garden?
I’m finishing a new video soon
Have you ever grown Apios Americana? If so, any tips?
Edible tubers, purple flowering vines, it makes edible beans too. Best 3-in-1 I've found. The tubers are about 18% protein, but need to be peeled. I'm planting some for the first time next week.
???Have you showed how you make your soil blocks??? Do you place soil over your plate germinated seeds.
I am super surprised to find cardoon in this list. I had bought the seeds to try and cultivate them this year because we cannot buy the stems as a veggie in Germany. My Sicilian grandma always fried them in a kind of eggwash and my mom and I have a lot of nostalgia for this recipe. So maybe you just need to find the right recipe for the stems.
Southern Garden forget Cardoons... Artichokes grow as a perennial... Flowers " look like dinosaur food grandma!)
All picky eaters love their artichokes...i make bernaise yum.
5 out of 5
Half my garden is carrots because I just was too lazy to pull them 😂
Really hard for me to plant the paper at home...
are there still nutrients left when vegetables are cooked? i know that cooking affects the nutrients.
Well at risk of sounding weird I think you might be my favorite man. 😂☺️
Is the music still yours?
It's a shame my grandpa doesn't speak English. He'd love this
Sent it to him anyway. The visuals should work well enough 😂
What is his heritage?
I have ourmental Perenial vegables have you ever heard of they’s before I have sea kale which makes big white beautiful flowers and is a Perenial kale relatives with blue foliage and lots of flowers. I have Chinese lantern a cool looking tomato relative that makes. sour exotic looking fruits. Turkish rocket is very good with yellow flowers and is Perenial vegable like a broccoli substitute. Chinese yam and Japanese yam discorea are very exotic looking climbing plants with edible tubers. Tree collard are very easy to grow and beautiful kale plants that get huge they much easier grow then other brassicas. Slyvettia arugula has yellow flowering Perenial arugula that has a wild spicy flavor that is very good. Giant flowering sea kale crambe cordifolia is very cool huge beautiful kale relative that is very ournamental but very hardy to get. Maximillion sunflower is wild relative of jursuleum artichoke that is very cool and better smaller leaves and aren’t as invasive.
Just cut the carrot tops off, and replant them. You then get the carrot, flower, and seeds!
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Have you thought of putting in a chicken run?
You are incredible and I think I’m developing a crush on you!😊
I would add Jerusalem Artichokes in this list.
Oops.....It is on the list!! I thought that it was done before we got to it.
You're cooking the artichoks wrong. It doesn't have to be complicated. Everything else is awesome, thanks.