Here are my top 9 tips for creating an urban edible garden in your home or property.
1. Start with Herbs
2. Fresh Salad Greens
3. Diversity
4. Rewilding
5. Shade tolerance
6. Grow robust foods
7. Eat the whole plant
8. Make use of vertical spaces
9. Colour
Enjoy!
P E R M A C U L T U R E R E S O U R C E S
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Morag Gamble
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19 Comments
Hello Morag bless you. Thankyou for sharing. Max
Morag, watch canadian permaculture legacy's newest video on spreading leaves in patches in the lawn. So many of us have giant areas of grassy lawn that are impenetrable fortresses to new seedlings, so to start planting food we have to override the lawn first. Also, to someone new, we don't know what a lot of the herb seedlings look like, and the seeds for many are so extremely tiny and they take such a long time that we end up pulling them out waiting for something more familiar to come up out of the ground.
Thank you Morag
Hi Morag, I am a bit further up the coast, and the ongoing drought isn’t making it easy to have a thriving garden. Oh for some soaking rain, then my loofahs might go crazy for me!
Cassava and pigeon peas are two of my easy grow favourites, but there are others. I find Jicama yam bean ( Pachyrhizus erosus), another tasty crunchy tuber, grows better than the yacon for me in my clay soil with our dry/wet periods. Aibika (Abelmoschus manihot) is a perennial leafy green that seems easy to grow, and fairly hardy. Cheers
Thank you for another enjoyable video Morag. Here in Northern Ireland I find perennial blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes, strawberries, canefruits such as raspberries and blackberries and rhubarb very easy and dependable. My other staples include all types of brassicas , onions and leeks, carrots, parsnips and swedes. As you suggest my easiest and most money saving crops are my herbs and salads as these are best used fresh and can be expensive to buy and wasteful too if you have to buy plastic bags of stuff that you can't use up before it spoils. I love making teas with my herbs and using them in homemade skincare products so I get great benefit from my garden. Apple, pear, plum and cherry trees need a bit of care, but once established here in Ireland they produce for donkeys years. I use flowers from my variegated elder tree to make my own elderflower cordial and I know others who make wine from the elderberries. Being able to garden is one of the best gifts my parents gave me and I am forever thankful to them for giving me the knowledge and skills to enjoy this hobby.
Hello and thank you, Morag. Here in the UK my most hardy plants that I don't need to touch once planted are Jerusalem Artichokes, Spinach, Nasturtiums, Wild Rocket and Red Veined Sorrel. I never have to replant because they seed themselves endlessly 😍😍
I'm in a cold climate…what perennial veg for this climate?
Thanks!
I know the herbs, shrubs and trees.
What grows in my area real good? Lambs Quarters, Dandelion, Mallow(I think), and oh dear I forget its name. What people call weeds. They taste quite good. But, I share my yard with my neighbor and her 3 Male dogs. So I smell and wash real good.
What a great informative video!! I love learning about all the 'other' parts of plants that you can eat. Thank you for sharing with us your knowledge and passion for permaculture and the garden 🙂
Fantastic info . Much love and respect fellow earthlings
The Nigella Lawson of gardening. love the videos. Thank you.
Would you or have you ever needed to add basalt rock dust to your gardens to Remineralize your soil?
Thanks so much Morgan ….
we eat lots of italian food, so i've planted basil, chilies, oregano, onions, garlic, tomatoes . . . whatever we eat the most i plant the most 🙂 thanks for sharing your knowledge. i have to relearn how to garden now that i'm restricted to container gardening. TOTALLY different ball game smh i feel like a failure now in the garden. guess that just means I have to learn more about container gardening 🙂
Enjoying your video, but wondering where you live?
I've just learned so much in the last ten minutes listening to this. Thankyou.
Gamble..That's a Scottish boarder region name.
Cassava, dasheen, sweet potatoes, yam, edoes….super robust
I live in Norway, Europe. Perenials who survive in this climate is jerusalem artichoke, caucasian spinach, nettles and other weeds, plums, apples, alpine strawberries and other berries etc. an norwegian oregano, thyme and some other herbs, daylilies. I recently startet my garden and tries to grow as much edibles as possible. Other stuf need a frost free basement to survive. I just got my first tuber of yacon and are looking forward to harvesting in the fall.