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Forcing & blanching PERENNIAL VEGETABLES for an earlier harvest in my food forest
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Forcing & blanching PERENNIAL VEGETABLES for an earlier harvest in my food forest



In today’s video I show how I force & blanche many perennial vegetables in the herb layer of my food forest such as asparagus, sea kale, rhubarb, lovage and hostas in spring for an earlier, gourmet harvest1

Videos mentioned:
10 Perennial Vegetables: https://youtu.be/zBN4ODMBgGk
Harvesting in April: https://youtu.be/EQ_pyWzbOWs

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Time stamps
00:00 intro
01:06 what is forcing and why to do it
01:46 how to force vegetables (materials)
03:24 forcing rhubarb
04:43 forcing hostas
05:34 forcing lovage
06:33 forcing Good King Henry
07:29 sea kale
07:48 asparagus
08:20 outro

33 Comments

  3. Tigerlily

    I’m glad you’re back, been chatting with my husband about you this morning, that you’re my inspiration.

  4. Stephen Moss

    Nice to see you back. Can you do the same in Central Portugal as daytime temperature is in the early 20s? But still cool at night around 8 degrees.

  5. Marjan Helder

    Thx voor de video, fijn om weer van je te horen…vraagje wat zijn de prachtige rood oranje bloemen die nu achter je bloeien?

  6. LB

    Great and informative video. Very nice to see you're back at it and teaching us new things 😃

  8. Pandhari

    Thanks a lot for showing these examples! The blanched hosta looks especialliy delicious 😋 I will definitely try this with my sea kale, but it's only one year old and i think it first needs to grow a bit stronger 🍀 Greetings from Switzerland 💚👨‍🌾🌿

  11. mel still

    So happy to see you here again! I always seem to learn something from your presentations and this one is no different. I really like rhubarb too and now that I have several growing well I will try this. I might even plant some lovage too because it looks so good.

    I will look forward to more of your videos (hint, hint)! 😁

  13. Myrrhidian

    Wonderful to see you again! I had no idea you could force good king henry. I grew some from seed this year, so maybe year after next I'll have to give this a try. Thank you for the video 🙂

  15. Jim Mason

    Those clay pots are really beautiful…..I first saw them and these forcing ideas used in the BBC show The Victorian Kitchen Garden tv series….the sea kale was really white when they blanched it….(🇨🇦)

  16. Favourite WasteofTime

    loved this video and gave me some good ideas to try. I think I am going to plant some sea kale and try this and perhaps cover my rhubarb next year as well. I very much miss your videos and seasonal tour of your food forest and garden.

  19. A. M.

    So happy to see a new video from you! You’re by far my favorite garden content creator!

  20. Zoe Ward

    Yay, lovely to see a video from you pop up today 🙂 I really must try forcing rhubarb, it is so pretty!

  21. Miles Madigan

    What a nice treat to see a new video! Thank you for posting. I've learned so much from you, and I've incorporated so much of your advice into my own gardening endeavors.

  23. Hayley

    I don't get how people can do this without the veg getting covered in slugs…?

  24. Keith

    So good to see a new video from you. You have great content which I've found really helpful working on my new allotment.

  27. Aki

    I was so happy to find your video when I opened YouTube! Please don't try too hard but I wish I can watch some more videos from you!

  28. Ese

    So lovely to see you back. One of my favourite youtube channels, and I watch a lot of youtube.

  31. Louise ppp

    I’d love to try this with my lovage, but it already has normal green growth. Could I chop it down to ground level and cover it with my rhubarb forcer?

  32. Vendula Svobodová

    Hi! I somehow presume that you are from czech republic – if this is true – would you consider making subtitles for your videos in czech language please? 🙂 or at least make a czech titles for the names of plants please? thank you! But if I am mistaken, please feel free to ignore me. I just had a feeling, that in video from your parents garden, that it is in czech republic 🙂 Thank you for your nice videos!

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