This week we check out my Top 10 edible perennial vegetables, herbs and flowers in the Permaculture Orchard. Your top 10 will likely vary from this list based on your climate and taste. We are in AgCan Hardiness zone 5 (USDA zone 4).
My top 10 are as follows:
10 – Arugula
9 – Daylily
8 – Oregano
7 – Thyme
6 – Mint
5 – Perennial Shallots
4 – Egyptian Onion
3 – Chives
2 – Sorrel: Profusion Sorrel from Richters: https://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X5683&show=all&prodclass=&cart_id=7571171.30959
#1 – Garlic Chives
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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).
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 !!
Great vids. Why would anybody thumbs down? Crazy.
Some of you people commenting on here are rude as can be.
I am not sure about the perennial shallots, can't find them online, is it the correct naming?
oregano in munchkin voice!!!
Is number 5 just a green onion? I hear alot of americans call them shallots. Which they are not. Both related to onions as I know but green onions are very different. So Im assuming that is what you have here. Green onions. Rastafari grow all their green onions and thyme (might have been lemon grass) in the same plot, and only eat them together. Slow farming is quite similar to what you do here, but also different.
Garlic Chives – so important for Chinese and Korean cuisine
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my sweet mint is doing greate from stem growing my oregano stem growing is slow tho
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Garlic chives:
Get it ✍️ Eat it ✍️ Use it ✍️
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.
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!
Greetings from Poland!
New sub. Great vid! Thx!!
Śmieszne filmy
Angielski super panie Stefanie:-) a gdzież to pana zawiało w świat?
Love how he laid down on the ground the entire video
Hallo Stefan, here write Gunter and Silke from Bavaria. Since 6 years we have a permacultural -garden for our self-sufficiency and you are the big heroe since our firts days with your film about miracle farm!!! Thank you!
Today we want to give you something back. We haved an idea for a plasticfree wormbin, our wormpot!
Please show it all people, because it is not good to feed our microbes, than our plants and at last ourself with microplastic!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvljBfro1O4&t=125s
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Best Wishes from Gunter and Silke from Bavaria/ Germany
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
Would like something like spinach or kale in perennial form.
I love these videos and Stefans sense of humor is awsome.
Fantastic video! Thanks for the giggles.
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)
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LOL loved your presentation… great INFO ! thank you sir
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 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.
Thought Lily plants were poisonous
Brilliant
When's the best time to plant the first 2 trios? USDA zone 5
can you do 10 nitrogen fixing perennials for California?
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 🙂
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
Did anyone catch the guy who was talking? I couldn't find him