The Ultimate Edible Garden & Storage Solution

Welcome to our video on creating the ultimate edible garden and storage solution, where we explore innovative ways to grow your own food and preserve it for long-term food security. As a prepper or someone interested in emergency preparedness, having a reliable source of nutritious food is crucial, especially during winter months when fresh produce is scarce. In this video, we will show you how to design and implement a sustainable gardening system that incorporates edible flowers, saffron, and other edible bulbs, while also providing shelving solutions for storing your harvest. We will also discuss the importance of organic gardening, gardening tips, and tricks for beginners, as well as the benefits of upcycled and recycled materials in your garden. Whether you’re a seasoned homesteader or just starting out with vegetable gardening, this video will provide you with valuable insights on how to create a thriving edible garden and effective food storage system, ensuring you have a steady supply of fresh, organic produce all year round. By following our guidance on preserving and growing your own food, you’ll be well on your way to achieving food security and enjoying the many benefits of sustainable gardening.

Hi, I’m Annie. Welcome to the channel. Uh, today’s video is just quite a quick video on some of the jobs I’ve been getting up to this week. So, I hope you enjoy. I’ve just been to the garden center and bought these um to brighten up my gateway. Uh, we put in the retaining wall um probably a couple of months ago. I’ve just put in the tire raised bed over that side. Um, I was going to get it all planted up, but the weather’s not uh very nice. Everything that I’m planting um is all edible, but hopefully people won’t know it’s edible. So, if I needed to eat stuff or want to come out and pick some salads and stuff uh in the winter, it gives me um some greenery that I can eat with the um with the viola. And the flowers are edible, too. The aliiums are well all this is edible. The crocuses bought them for the the red stuff that’s saffron. The bulbs have already started to shoot. They um it says planting time uh August to November. Flowering time October to December. So hopefully we can get these in today if we get a break in the weather. It was nice when I woke up this morning and I was starting on my herb garden which I don’t have. Uh so we’ve got some sage, some origam. But like I say the it’s come in really horrible. Well, they’ve definitely got the forecast wrong at the moment. It’s hailing and they gave it full sunshine today. I had a break in the weather. So, in here along the front, I’ve put a couple of rows of the saffron crocuses. Uh then I put some of the viola in. And then along the back, I’ve put in the aliums. And then over here again uh along the front I’ve put in the violas. Um and then I’ve put in the great hyestence uh in between them. So hopefully they’ll come up in the spring and give a nice bit of color. Uh the buds um and the bulbs are edible, but you need to do your own research as to how to prepare and cook them. Then we’ve got the the time uh at the back. That one’s in the wrong place. That’s the origami or oregano. Uh and then we’ve got the sage. Then right at the back I’ve got some seeds uh to go in in the spring for some creeping time which will come down over that bank. Um and then I’m most likely going to have the echynia uh as a border along the back. Um, so I’ve gently dug up a couple of the plants from the poly tunnel that I’ve been growing. This is the selfheal and this is honesty. Uh, both plants are edible. Honesty, you can eat the leaves, young leaves in salad or you can cook the uh bigger leaves like spinach. The flowers and seed pods all edible. But these little roots here, um, as the plant gets bigger, they’ll get get bigger. Uh, and apparently they can be washed, peeled, and cooked like potatoes. The selfheal again is the flowers and the leaves uh can be eaten raw or cooked just like you would uh a salad or spinach. So, just a couple more uh options. Going to put those in over there. Now, that’s our uh honesty and our selfhealill all in place. Um and the flowers, they survived the night, which is always good. I’m hoping to actually do some sort of artwork on the side of the shed so it sort of blends into the environment a bit more. I’ve also been and bought some more screws cuz uh in my new sort of workshop shed, I built this shelving uh last week. Uh and I want to put another one on this side. Uh, so I’m going to be doing that today while it’s horrible because I can do that in here. So, I’m going to crack on with my shelving. For those of you that watch the channel quite a bit, I don’t really buy anything. Uh, people give us stuff or we get stuff from local companies that they don’t want. So this wood is actually reclaimed sort of uh big pallet wood that they have deliveries of granite come in on. So they ring us when they’ve got a load. We go and get it. It comes with these on as well. Um so we go along and take it all apart and then use it for whatever we want to use it for. Even this uh pressure washer, everything you see in here actually um we haven’t bought. The pressure washer again, uh, it was dumped on somebody’s on a company’s driveway. Um, they said, “Did we want it?” They weren’t sure if it was working. So, we brought it home. It didn’t have a handle to it. So, uh, we brought it home. Uh, cleaned out the fuel tank. It’s fired straight up. Uh, so we bought a new gun for it. And, uh, now we used it up here. I’ve used it two or three times this week to pressure wash the yard and uh also I’ve pressure washed uh the outside the stables ready for a bit of painting. So, I’ve got the two sides together. I’ve just got to uh drill some more holes up there uh so I can put some more bolts in. I need to go and get another battery. I did have a few problems. Um, but it wasn’t my fault. It was uh the actual wood was twisted uh and bowed so it wouldn’t join up. But so once I realized that, took it apart and rescrewed it that’s on the back piece. That’s fine. So I learned from that. So made sure that I had all square wood um when we came to do this bit in here. So, I’ve just taken a old door apart from an old shed um from my little common Andy stack and I’ve worked out if I cut them at 21, it gives me four out of each length. So, that should give me enough for top and bottom. So, I’m going to get those cut up. And I finished the storage in here in my shed. So, I the camera went flat. But the wood that I showed you, I just cut into lengths and screwed down uh parted them obviously and just screwed down in between them. Uh on the floor, I braced the floor and put a couple screws down uh into the floor. And I also just used an old hinge just to to hold it back so he’s not at all wobbly. There’s a little bit that end, but he stood away from the wall because of the all these bits. My mom would be pleased because she was having a clear out. Didn’t want these and the spice racks. So, that I’ve put those up. They’re all ready for me to sort out all the seeds I’ve been collecting. Seeds I’ve still got. Uh they can all go into little pots and they’ve actually got a place. So, that’s nice. I’ve started my winter storage. Uh these were some windfalls from one of my neighbors just down the road. I’ve put some hay in the bottom, layered some apples, the best ones. Then some more hay and uh another row of apples. And then these ones I’m taking home to have baked apples with. Um pumpkins obviously in storage. Um, they have already been cured uh for 3 weeks before coming in. I’ve just moved them into here, but they were in my cabin. So, I’ve been looking for obviously I wanted a place for them, but there’s be plenty of room in here now. So, at least now I’ve got somewhere to bring my Jerusalem artichokes and the sugar beat. When uh after the first frost, we’ll be able to get that in and we’ll bring that into the storage area. Because of the smell of the apples in there, I have put around some bait stations for our little rodent friends in case they are on the prowl. It’s still pretty mild uh for the time of year. The leaves are changing color now, which is I love this time of year, but I don’t like it when it’s rainy. Oh, grass needs cutting again. Look at the trees. How beautiful they are. It’s all looking good down here still. So, that’s at the end of another video on this wild and windy day. Thank you to everybody who has continued to watch. Uh, it’s much appreciated. Um, and it does help the channel if you give it the old thumbs up. Uh, and a subscribe if you’re not already. Till next time. Bye.