What if the easiest vegetables to grow were the ones we’ve been pulling out and throwing away?
In this video, you’ll discover 20 forgotten vegetables that grow like weeds — tough, resilient plants our ancestors relied on because they thrived on neglect, ignored poor soil, survived drought, and kept producing food year after year.
These aren’t fragile hybrids that need constant watering and fertilizer. These are edible “weeds,” heirlooms, and old-world crops that:
Self-sow and come back on their own
Thrive in heat, cold, drought, and poor soil
Require little to no maintenance
Produce reliable food with minimal effort
From purslane and lamb’s quarters to Jerusalem artichokes, amaranth, nettles, and miner’s lettuce, these plants prove that growing food doesn’t have to be hard.
You’ll also learn the hidden pattern that makes these vegetables virtually indestructible — and how to turn your garden into a lazy gardener’s goldmine by working with nature instead of fighting it.
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DISCLAIMER:
This content is for educational purposes only. Always properly identify plants and consult local guidelines before consuming wild edibles.
43 Comments
Do these plants need a box to prevent voles?
No.2 ….That's not lamb's quarters…wrong pictures .
This sounds like AI.
Purselane tastes better to me when it is smaller than a handful (7 inch diameter) it can grow much bigger but the taste is stronger.
Dandelion
nice , love the information
You're awesome cause I would be the best lazy farmer ever
Brilliant! Wisdom and clever narration!
The Lambs-quarter looks a lot more like Lambs ear in the video. Consider a correction.
Lambs:As quarters ys delicious. going to have tio try purslane and chickweed. Dandelion is great boiled in several changes if water. take the midrib out of the leaves to reduce bitterness and roots boiledntastenlikeba cross between carrots and parsnips
That does not look like the lambs quarters that grows here at all.
That is lambs ears not lambs quarters in this video.
Lambsears are also edible though .
Orach can also be gassy.
So many of the pictures used to show the plant being described are totally wrong. Fix this.
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Number 11 looks like knitbone/comfrey
Any free apps to help identify other friendly weeds/plant's?
Too bad this AI. I want to hear from people
I eat wild plantain in late summer. It is edible as long as it’s alive
I put purslaine in my salds
Purslane!
Never grow anything in tires; lots of poisonous cardigans are transferred to your food
I was cleaning up an over grown yard and had to put a netal plant that was over 30 Ft tall it was bigger then a two story house and broke the chain trying to pull it out.
I'm a lazy gardener
How do I get seeds and, maybe wriiten info for education?
Fukuoka Masanobu STYLE = lazy gardener/farmer: "The One Straw Revolution" and "Sowing Seeds in the desert" = wonderful books that teach this LAZY STYLE of gardening and let the beneficial microbes do all the work 🙂
K-12 schools: what needs to be taught: Growing food as medicine and Growing plants as medicine "chemical free" (our Existential Activities without which We the Patients cannot be WELL; young people who learn these things will HAVE CONFIDENCE they can go anywhere and feed their families, friends, & Neighbors and grow botanical medicines for the SAME people = SPECIFICALLY, by the end 8th grade we can drop students into EVERY MICROCLIMATE & they will know which plants are FOOD or MEDICINE or poison); firearms, MARTIAL ARTS and weaponry for SELF-DEFENSE and protection against RAPE; Financial literacy; Cultural Exchange, value systems = Let's go Please 🙂
What a great video! I have deer eating practically everything I plant. Any helpful hints for this four-legged problem?
2:19 countdown
Where to get seeds or starts of these?
These while important aren't most aren't really vegetables.
My neighbors get upset because I let my lawn grow. I let all the plant life die off on its own. I enjoy our and garden the wild food and medicine that's in the lawn, is priceless. I love to go outside and be able to ask and pick whatever it may be, and thank the Great Divine for providing us the food and medicine we need. I make salves and tinctures with some. Only down side is the poison ivy that growns all over the place. I just stay aware and away from it. Any pesticide would not be good for the soil, period. Its slowly being taken over by virginia creeper. A lesser of the itchy plants. It covers the north and south sides of my house. 3 stories of brick, and itvwants to come in the windows. No no. Lol some people say my house looks abandoned. I think theyre silly. I take them for a walk around the house and through the yard, just under an acre, and educate them on the plamt life. And the food for the bees, butterflies, bunnies, and humans! The bursts of color everywhere are beautiful and some things grow 6-8ft, providing leaves and fruits for everyone. Its awesome to go out back and pick a variety of berries for a beautiful addition to breakfast. I've learned to pull thistle without getting poked. The 2 inches first out of the ground are not jabby. Carefully pull from there and get the whole root out. Everything comes back next year, even more. Dandelions grow from spring through fall here. Purslain, burdock, chickweed are all over the yard. I love it. Self taught with this wonderful knowledge. My dad was diagnosed with the c word a couple years ago. Hes 50/50 Native American and Italian, so I thought and felt natural medicine would work for him. I've had him on a regimen since six month from diagnosis. I'm not a dr. But he is still here. He trusts me. And I consider things from all angels. Ive made our own bath and cleaning products since my teens. Chemicals make me sick. Anyway, sorry for the long post. I appreciate videos like this that show the things people are unaware of and kill when theyre really there for such great purpose. I educate as many people as I can. And indont care if the house looks abandoned due to plant growth. I take care of them. But I also let them do their own thing. We are fortunate. ✨️🌳🌿☘️🌱🌾💚🏵
Most aren't vegetables though but are still good to have growing
Purslane
Lambs Quarters
Dandelion
Good King Henry
Chickweed
Stinging nettle
Jerusalem artichokes AKA sunchokes
Orach
Wild Mustard
Miner's Lettuce aka Claytonia
Borage
Plantain
Wood Sorrel
Amaranth
Fennel
Garlic Mustard
Clover
Violets
Mallow
Shepard's Purse
I like squash because I eat the leaves the flowers and the young squash and the mature squash and their seeds … And grows like crazy vines
Thank God
Noww ill tell why i eat those plants happily
Hope everyone will have knowledge about the things and take advantage of nature ❤
Thank you for your sharing work🙏
Where can I buy some of the vegetables that grow with out problems in Massachusetts
I am a lazy gardener. I try growing many varieties but never produce enough for the work I put into them.
Have to be careful with dandelion root. Can help cause hypercalcemia with those probe to it (many cancer patients for instance)
Wild mustard spreads fast
Have to be careful not to eat too much borage at once. Better used as herb and soil improvement and pollinator attraction.
Various forms of amaranth and all are a pain to get the chaff free (seeds are tiny)