4 Perennial Herbs You Can Divide and Multiply With Ease!
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- dividing plants can be so daunting, but there are a few plants that can be easily divided to make more plants to either sell, give away, or even just add more plants to your garden!
Hostas are edible. In fact in Asia they are grown just for that and rarely used as decorative plants.
I was just thinking the same thing. :)
How do they taste?
Please give us more information on how to use an eat Hosta.
@@relosiebo6889 I read, and I believe you can eat the young shutes.
@@relosiebo6889 supposed to be able to use them like wraps steamed and also tempura battered & fried
Lemon 🍋 Balm! I love to grow this for winter tea! I sit and drink it on a cold winter night in Michigan, and think of a warm summer day in Michigan!
I love Lemon Balm❣️ thank you so much for this reminder!!! I had a patch for many years and it died out one drought year. Not sure why I didn’t replant it but I sure am going to replant it now. Thanks so much!!!
Just discovered lemon balm and it’s amazing 💜
I ended up with a lemon balm from our annual plant sale…I’m trying to learn what to do with it besides smell it. I have some in a glass in my refrigerator with sliced lemon…I’m going to strain it and drink it. I have it in a container sunk into my garden so it doesn’t spread.
@@lgarden7086 makes a wonderful iced tea with a bit of honey 💜
If you like lemon balm, you will LOVE lemon verbena. Does not survive northern winters but you can bring it indoors.
I spread mint on my lawn so when they start popping up I mow and that mint smell...chefs kiss multiplied.
Mint…what a mess if planted in ground. I learned that lesson years ago. I have mine in planter and it’s controlled.
Mine broke through crack in planter and went underground
And oregano too. I've now got mint all over in the flower bed, yard, garden, etc. etc. etc. I moved a little one foot section of oregano last year to a section of the flower bed. Oh my goodness!!!! That section is now about 15 ft by 8 ft!! And they have choked out everything else in its path!!!
@@Blackwaterswamp Wow…no kidding. That stuff is a beast to get rid of. But I believe ya….it’s a survival plant that’s for sure!
Chives, mint, oregano, Egyptian walking onions,
A big thankyou.I teach victory garden programs to school kids here in the ottawa valley ont canada. You send alot of seed for someone, to share.She in turn supported our little program with enough seed packages for all the kids to go home and plant their own Victory Gardens. The crazy plant lady....
Go crazy plant ladies!!! Gotta teach the kids so they can become future crazy plant people too! 😉
LOL!!! Oregano, Luke you’re not kidding with this one!!! I planted some oregano over 25 years ago in a little herb garden I created at that time that no longer exists. Oregano was one of the first herbs I planted in the little garden. About 4 years later I discovered it was in our hay field. Then it went into the ditch by the road. Last year I discovered it is now all the way down our road about half a mile and in my neighbors tree line about half way down her 15 acre lot 🤣 It is certainly a hearty little plant that the bees and bumblebees love the purple flowers. So I guess it helps our area by providing food for the pollinators. The little herb that I have recently divided in my garden is Thyme. We really enjoy it in our cooking and I didn’t realize it was so hardy- handles WI winters with no problems and I love it’s aroma. Thanks for all that you share Luke, I love watching your videos and I always learn something new from you❣️
We have oregano. It will easily choke everything out of your herb garden if you don't control it
I'm jealous I haven't been able to grow oregano no matter what I've tried. I've followed guides, I've spent years making the perfect soil I've tried starting them in the house, I've bought starts.... it all just dies
@@BBCTopgearfan Where do you live? Maybe it’s your climate. I live in Ohio and my oregano thrives on neglect.
Thyme also self-sows easily
Awe, Daniel, that really surprises me that it isn’t growing for you!! I can tell you that it grows best in what I would consider “lousy soil”. Like soil that doesn’t have a lot of composted organic matter in it. It seems to become even more aromatic the lousier the soil. I now am growing the white flower oregano in my herb garden, I think it is called Greek Oregano, and it seems to be doing well in a more robust, healthy soil. We use a lot of oregano in our dishes so it’s a real must have herb for us. I sure hope you can figure out how to be successful with growing it. And Michael Ellis is correct in that once it takes hold, watch out because it will take over the country side!!!! But then you will have a life time supply 😊
Wild chives are the bane of my life .... for 20 years.
I love my Egyptian walking onions...started with 12 about 5 years ago, and every year I get 100+ onions. When I harvest I simply replant the bulbules for the next year.
Hosta are most def edible! And delicious! Daylillies are edible too!
How do you use them for food?
I live next to national forest land and I’ve dug up all my chives, mint, catnip, etc. just to not be part of the problem with invasive plants. They are aggressive, even here! They are safely confined to pots in a greenhouse, now.
I planted mint and oregano purposely by the edge of my flower gardens because deer don’t eat them (plus they smell amazing when I mow the edge of the garden). Sage is another herb that’s attempting to take over by spreading out of it’s bed. I’m enjoying it’s purple flowers currently, but the dehydrator is coming out so I can start drying these plant leaves for future recipes.
I love ANYTHING distasteful to deer! I had a neighborhood deer herd eat 2 entire apple saplings over the winter and I have to say I am on a "vegetative vendetta" now!
What a great idea Charlie Hoos, I am definitely going to try this as I am still finding remnants of the mint in my asparagus garden and I love the idea of giving it another home and purpose❣️
@@lightwavz Fencing is the best way to keep them out. If that's not possible, try spraying pepper solution on the plants, and using other scent deterrents. I've been growing datura as a deterrent, since it's toxic and I like the flowers. I'm planning on adding foxgloves into the mix, and possibly monkshood. Good for pollinators, bad for deer.
Another option, which there is a great section on in the book Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway, is to create an edible fedge (food hedge) on the deer-side of your garden, that both feeds them and leads them away from your property :)
Yes! It smells amazing to mow over the mint. I have a mint bed in my garden, but it has spread to the pathway. It doesn't bother me though.
I was told Mint is called, The useful Weed. Good information.
For those folks that haven’t had their 3” pots take over…. If you are trying to get rid of your overgrown mint, chives, oregano, etc., if you leave any little bits in the grown the plant will come back! So hard to get rid of it all, so beware! We have had mint move from one part of the yard to another by itself after 15 years of chasing it. Good news, I have t had to buy mint tea in years!😂☺️😉
Can confirm...we have it everywhere and only planted in one spot. The upside of mint is the pollinators absolutely love it so it's not so bad at all. We pull it out and trim it back a few times a year.
Beats sunchokes trust me. Huge tubers I keep digging up every few days. Invading my other gardens. Broke down and tried herbicides. No help.so the pitchfork every few days and hopefully win the battle.
I planted them where nothing grows and its now a fragrant spot, love the tea! Will do the same with lemon balm soon.
after watching this I was inspired yet again by Luke, and went out and dug up some chives, purple coneflower and mint, split em all up, lovingly stuck them in smaller pots, and since we've got a city wide garage sale this weekend I figure I can add these to my wares. The frog strangler just got here so i beat the clock! It's pouring down buckets!!!
Update: I sold all the purple coneflower and mint that I potted up.. nobody needed any chives so they'll find a new home somewhere else on the property
Your smile is contagious! Thank you for always sharing great ideas for the garden. I love the notion of sharing, not only the fruits of our gardens, but the plants as well.
Thanks, Marie.....( I mistyped 'onions also. lol )
My son took a flame thrower to my marigolds one year. Yep, thousands of marigolds!
I grow All my herbs in pots! Some (chives) have lived in the same pots for years
Do you bring them in for the winter? Will they survive in a garage? Thank you
@@maryrapp1321 I put the pots in the corner of the house right next to a wall outside kind of by a wood pile I’m zone 5b Bordering on zone 6
That's very helpful. I absolutely hate wasting anything (savior complex.) Thank you for sharing this information with me.
Hostas, mums, day lilies… all edible! 😂. Great info though… i just couldn’t resist 😈
And to think I struggle to get mint and oregano to come back every year
Do you plan on selling the walking onion on your website sometime in the future?
Thank you Luke. 🙂
This reminded me to ask my sis if she wanted some mojito mint. ♡
Blessings! 💜
I have a 2x8 strawberry bed that started with 3 plants 4 yrs ago. I thinned them for the first time a couple weeks ago and gave away roughly 150 new plants! And…… I’m not nearly done yet.
What awesome plants to grow I recommend these for those who are wanting to start gardening
I think you should do a video on getting rid of plants. A friend just gave me oregano and I had no idea it would do this, may rethink planting it in my garden.
You can dig it out, as long as you get all the rhizomes. I would just leave it there though, and intercrop other things with it. The smell of oregano is good for deterring pests, and it makes a good ground cover to protect the soil from erosion and sun damage.
Chamomile - what started as a small patch in the center has turned into an entire 8x4 raised bed of it! It’s also growing along the outside edges and found its way to neighboring beds. Wasn’t expecting that to happen - lots of chamomile tea!
Currants, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, and gooseberries
I had the exact same thing happen with one little lemon balm plant as Like did with one little oregano plant. It is now a kind of "hedge" along one side of the house.
I am up to my armpits in both Oregano and Mint! I need to get some pots and soil and start gifting them to friends and family with a little warning label haha
Our lawn is probably 40% oregano from the summer we put it in our garden 15 years ago 😂 It smells good when you mow over it though!
Hopping on tonight to load up on seeds. So nice to see you.
Started with one lemon balm plant and now its taken up about half my raised bed 😂
dont forget about lemongrass. i love the smell of it so much i grow it as a hedge. great channel, thanks for all of the helpful tidbits!
We have the Egyptian walking onions all over our property. We let them go though since they help hide little critters and bugs for the birds to eat. We have 10 acres though. In one of our raised beds the Bermuda grass has actually choked the onions and Prim Rose's out. I'm trying my hand at growing some of your Silvery Fir tomatoes! I have a few small raised beds that my black seeded Simpson lettuce is almost done for the spring so the tomatoes are going in there 🙂 thank you for the amazing information your channel provides!
I grew the Silver Fir last year and saved the seeds. My first time saving seeds. This spring I started a bunch of seeds not knowing how many would take. About 99%. I love that it fruits before my indeterminate tomatoes . The flavor is great and is that perfectly round tomato. This one will always be in my garden.
Do you eat these onions?
@@kimjaeger7142 yes I use them as scallions/green onions in lots of recipes. I even dehydrate the greens and whites separately and turn them into my own onion powder
@@BassingirlCrafts picked a bunch today!
@@kimjaeger7142 awesome!
I love the idea of perennials and self growing annuals that can take over. They are easily contained in most cases, and are great for people without a lot of time. The problem I run into is I have no idea out to incorporate some of them into my diet, on a large enough scale to bother growing them.
For example, I have no idea how to use walking onions when preparing food. I don't know if you just use it like green onions, if the bulb on top can be cooked like other onion bulbs that form on the bottom, or any other details in its preparation. For some of the lesser known plants, I don't even know what they would taste like.
You just change your mindset and come up with your own ways of using it. Just eat what you have. I did that last year and cooked up some pretty delicious dishes that other people would think might be weird but it was amazing to eat sustainably for more than 6 months out of my little garden. I like the greens of the walking onions best, but the bulbils are really great when pickled.
We would eat them in the spring like spring onions, greens are also edible. It's something you experiment with. Start growing and start experimenting...
You could dehydrate the walking onions and powder them up and use just as you would use onion powder!
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Nice box
I have Egyptian walking onions everywhere and Jerusalem artichokes
I put some oregano in a rockery because I want it to spread. I’m on a mission to crowd out some horsetail as much as I can. Can’t destroy the horsetail so I’m just making its living quarters less appealing. 🇨🇦👍🇨🇦❤️👩🌾🪴. Oregano is great for bees!
Horsetail is GREAT for all sorts of things! Medicinal & great as a tea. Wish I had some growing here ;)
@@brooklinkayce7828 boy, I wish I could give you ALL my horsetails!!!! Absolutely NO way to get rid of it!! I had to give up 4 large raised beds where they took over and competed with my veggies....and won!! 😕
@@eileenbartnick7202 Wow!! I wonder why they like it there so much?? We have the plantain (not banana) all over part of the front yard. I harvest it periodically. I wonder if we have the medicine we most need growing around us??? ;)
@@brooklinkayce7828 I wonder??!! I'll have to look up the medicinal benefits of horsetail. I don't know anything about it....other than it annoying me 😂 !!
I’ve watched a few videos tonight! Thanks so much for teaching me. I’ll definitely be back searching this page for tips on what to do while things are growing. Excellent stuff…now I feel like I can grow onions with a bit more confidence!! 👍👍
We learned that about Oregano and Chives in our early years of gardening. I bought 3" pots of 5 or 6 types of herbs that I thought we would use. Well, The chives ended up in our walkways because we enjoyed the flowers...not knowing how easily they spread, and the oregano ended up with such deep strong roots and it filled up a 4x4 garden bed. Lesson learned. Thanks for sharing your tips about how to control the herbs.
Oregano. The plant that ate my yard.
Thank you. My favourite that provides endless supply is New Zealand Spinach. ( I believe you did a video a while back).
It is the most flavourful spinach for me.
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Egyptian walking onions are supposedly the oldest known cultivated onions. They are a piece of garden history. They also make the best French onion soup.
Your lucky! Those plants i can't grow.
THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR
Thank you for the knowledge
Loveage is a great herb that I divided this year and gave tons of plants away. It has a tasty celery flavour that is really good in homemade tomato soup 🍜
Yes, the leaves are great in soup. But did you know that if you grind the seeds with salt, that is celery salt! Been done since the Roman empire... ;)
@@ericalloi5486 celery salt was difficult to find this year. I need to find Loveage
My English, German and lemon thyme spread like crazy, which I love. I tripled the size of my herb garden this year so I had plenty to move into the new spaces along with new herbs I'm trying this year. I've got multiple varieties of basil from MIgardener seeds. The smells and colors are amazing. The first year, my herb garden was a small 4x6 space by the back door. This year it's up to 10 x 18 plus a couple small shade herb gardens here and there.
Thyme is amazing, it has such a nice savory flavor that is great in stocks, soups, curries, maybe it's just me but the umami flavor of thyme with cooked mushrooms totally reminds me of bacon :)
I can't get enough thyme to grow! The oregano is insane though.
@@jswhosoever4533 my oregano is going crazy this year too. I love it. Basil is doing better than ever too. I agree on the thyme. I keep adding more and more. I've had people ask why I grow so much herbs. I showed them the difference between a big fresh harvest and how much there is after drying it. They said it's easier to just go buy a jar at the store. Some people just don't get it.
@@tonileigh8660 exactly!😊
Thank you for sharing this information MI
Watching this on my break :)
Love your energy! Thank you for sharing your experience in gardening… You are a genius! God bless you!
0:35 - hostas, mums and daylilies ARE EDIBLE. not trying to nitpick, but they are.
How do you use them for food?
Thank you soooooo much for all of your helpful gardening tip videos!!! I have really benefitted from watching them and putting the tips into practice :)
I planted lemon balm in my garden once. I loved the scent. Smelled like lemon pledge. However it spreads rapidly. We have dug it up constantly, now done to a few small patches.... for now.
We have lemon balm too, spreads everywhere easily. I planted just one plants years and years ago. Makes a great tea for calming though! I cut it all back and dry the leaves for teas 👍
@@anneh7725 i have tried a couple leaves in hot tea but i dont feel it adds any lemon taste unless im doing it wrong
@@tammyinwv1 Yeah it's not that lemony in tea. But can be paired with fresh ginger or other herbs to make the taste better. I always add honey but I admit it's not the best tasting. I just use it for some calm 😊
@@tammyinwv1 also, if you're using fresh, chop them up really well and put in strainer. I use a small handful for a stronger tea. If drying for later, keep the leaves whole until you use, then crush in hot water, found that worked best. There's also salves you can make from it but I've never tried it. Good ways to control it and not waste it I guess. Happy gardening! 🙂
@@anneh7725 try lemon verbena for your tea. Much more lemon flavor. It's a nice bush and in some areas it winters over. It does not take over like lemon balm!!
Here near Brisbane in Queensland, I can add rosemary and lemongrass. Plus my parsley has lasted for years.
Not to mention my free chillis and capsicum from my compost bin, as seed in the compost mix.
1. Chives
2. Mint
3. Oregano
4. Egyptian walking onions
My thyme comes back bigger each year by itself. English and lemon varieties. I haven’t tried to decide it. But it’s DEFINITELY hearty here in Ohio.
Hostas are edible 😋
Herb is a fancy pseudonym for weed 😂
one of my 2 onion plants is getting a bulb like that at the tip. I think I will let it stay and see how it develops into new onion.
great Tips Luke speaking of oregano I planted some from a tranceplant I started Indoors into a five gallon container I also made mistake and planted some Into my raised bed I well never do that again
Daylilis are edible good with creamchees and salat
My dad's neighbor let me use his backyard for a garden about 3 years ago, I was using his old raised bed and his entire garden was taken up by oregano even after I amended the soil and pulled up all the oregano and replanted the entire bed the oregano seemed to come back more aggressive than ever, lol the growth of that herb is no joke
I moved from an apartment where I was living to a house. During that process, I took pots (in March, when there was no visible growth) that I had mint and oregano in and dumped them into a compost bin that I had along with other soil. I brought this to the new house, tilled the soil into a bed with a rototiller right after the ground thawed. No seeds, no nothing, and that bed is FULL of mint and oregano!
@@ecas13 yea I made the mistake of planning peppermint in my garden as well lol next time I do peppermint it's definitely going in a container 😂
My lemon balm was in a 1” pot. I put it under my hose hook up since it drips when I water. I will never buy again as it went to seed, and is now all over and in every pot I have. I laugh when people buy it and tell them they can have all they want from my garden.
Divide and conquer.
I cut the flowers and have them in vinegar. I also cut them back and make chive oil.
My walking onions actually produced a few flowers as well. Kind of hoping they cross bred with my potato onions.
That would be interesting, if that's even possible. Both types of onions are so different, it's hard to imagine the results.
I love my walking onions.. its got a little crazy lately.. need to thin the herd
Can you tell us more plants like this ? .can you please share info on basil types and how to row and take care off them ?
Found out last year day lillies are edible! And hostas I found out this year! Had some young chutes chopped into a dish freshly picked
Love it !!! I have never seen the Egyptian walking onions ...where do you buy the seeds ?
I got them on Etsy.
cool
Chives, mint, oregano, and Egyptian walking onions. We've also divided French tarragon.
We have wild horehound everywhere
Hostas are edible in their entirety. The early shoots taste like asparagus, I understand. ~ Lisa
What time of year would it be ok to do this? I need to re-locate my oregano, sage, and rosemary that are in my beds and now in the way. Sure this be done in winter, early spring, fall, or doesn’t matter?
Im in 4a. Just over the bridge of Michigan .twin cities.
I keep my mint in pots.an havnt had a problem with them zpeading.
I have a question. If i may.
I started my squashes in the house weeks before putting it outside. An it was starting to flower.
Ive just planted them outside aweek ago. An the flowers have opened.
Should i pick them off or leave them be?
Great!!! I love edibles... So if I divide my clusters will they spread faster?
Yes
Not on topic Luke, but could you tell me if there is a way to kill the leafhoppers and small grasshoppers in the garden? They are decimating my greens. I know it isn't cabbage loopers because there are no worm/caterpillars. The plants don't get taller than 2-3 inches and all that is left is ribs.
I need to get some winter onions going again... problem would be, we may have always called them that when I was growing up, but apparently that isn’t their actual name. 🙈 About all I know is that they’re a perennial bunching onion that can survive zone 2 and zone 3 winters, white flower, go to seed the same as chives but are much bigger, you only use the greens to eat, and they’re definitely not the Egyptian Walking onions that I always seem to find when I’ve gone looking for them. 🤦♀️ I should try to find some of the Egyptian Walking Onions to plant as well though, they do look interesting. 😂
Hello i have a question i just build a 4x5 foot raised bed its 3 foot tall i wanted to know last year I had some beans in 7 to 10 gallon grow bags and they got mosaic virus i was wondering if I could use that potting mix at the bottom of the raised bed to help fill it?
What do you think about pyrethrum daisies? Are you able to grow them? I’m trying but….
I’ve learned that yarrow multiple and dominate like crazy
I wish I'd know about the oregano before I planted it years ago. It is now everywhere and there is no going back. I could start my own oregano farm. I pull when I can but .......
Where do u get the walking onions
Started with 1 tiny oregano plant but now I line all my veggie beds with oregano: 500’ x 1’.
Luke, do you plant to sell seeds, set or the Doman plant of Egyptian walking onion from your online store?? Garlic and tomato seeds from you grew well, and I want to try EWO .
I think you may need a slightly larger wheelbarrow 😄
So to be clear, there isn't any seeds in the flower head of the onions? Mint is my favourite for cuttings because its so easy. Just started basil cuttings.
Is there any where I can get those Egyptian walking onions I love n are annarbor
I can never find Egyptian Walking Onions. No one seems to carry them-Baker Creek, Etc and places on Amazon seem to have very low Reviews as to Viability or them being actual EWO's. Oh and apparently Hastas are edible. Not tried it-yet.
It's June 6th is ti ever too late to start a garden from seed or plants at this time of the season or can it be done even a little later?
I was thinking about strawberries but realized we’re talking about herbs 😀
what's the best timing to separate the roots and make a new plant?
Love your channel. Here's my novice question. On the walking omions.... Where, how far down, do you cut the bulbuals ( probably spelled that wrong )...Thanks, JK
Right under the bulbil. (Your spelling was just how Luke pronounced it!)
If you cut the bulbs flower thingy off the top that spreads can you plant them to make more?
Question.
Do you need roots on your sweet potato slips for it to grow? Or, can you just plant it as nd it will still produce?
For the Egyptian Walking Onion, yes, you can plant those bulbules. Garlic does the same thing. I've never done it but apparently it works very well.
@MIgardener
I want to grow this !
I checked your website but I can not find this over there!
I always have problems growing herbs i either start them to early are to late lol.
Are your bed frames treated lumber?