It’s Day 105 of my garden’s sabbath year. Time for an update. Many have asked what plants have volunteered so I will be giving you an update on that and harvesting some herbs along the way. Yeah I am ok to just mow the weeds at this point and let the garden have a true rest. I am telling myself it’s good nitrogen to feed the soil and we will try to manage this using another method come fall.
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We add horseradish leaves to a jar when pickling cucumbers. It helps with crunchiness
Looks fun to walk around gathering all your goodies❤
Thank you for the lemon verbena blueberry and mint idea. I have been making your strawberry lemon balm basil tea for the last 10 days and it is delicious. Especially after coming in from the garden after working a few hours in the heat. Had to comment before I got too far into your video just in case I would forget.
Airplane counting… hilarious 😂
I have been pulling out plants that are not edible and replacing with edibles the past 3 years. Lots more work to do!!
I finally got tired of the weed and grass pressure in my garden and put weed cloth over everything. If you watch Living Traditions Homestead they do that and I am so glad I did! I have just a few spots where the weeds come up at the corners of my raised beds and a few grasses I pull from under my tomatoes and that’s it! I will never look back. If you don’t like the look of the weed cloth, you can put wood chips over it in the pathways. I will remove it this fall when I put my garden to bed for the winter because I rotate where I plant every year and I will amend the soil then. It makes gardening so much more pleasurable.
You can actually eat Pokeweed. Look into it. It's a lot like kale/collards/turnip greens. You do have to do a bit to it but it's eatable. Plantain is eatable, also. Check out the mugwort, too. I love your gardens.
I recently discovered that the leaves of borage are edible and there is an Italian ravioli of ricotta and borage leaves, there is a traditional summer pesto that uses borage and that it makes a lovely addition to summery pea soups.
Oregano tincture sounds like a miracle herb/treatment… want to learn more about it!! I react to poison ivy the same way.
I made your strawberry tea the day you showed it. My family loved it.
What are the purple flowers?? SO BEAUTIFUL!!❤
The purple flower is larkspur.
Beautiful spot you have there.
Thyme is probably my favorite 🌿
Bee balm is aweaome too. Mine is a big bush and the hummingbirds love it. I can sit on my back porch and just watch the hummingbirds play..its lovely too❤
We've live here 6 year planted kale once the first year and never had to plant it again😂
I’m surprised you don’t have a ton of birds hitting those mulberries in the yard/tree!!
Most Bee Balm likes moisture as well. It is a mint family member. Your thyme is beautiful and 1 of my favorites for roast chicken. Using it as a tea with soap making 🤔 sounds like an interesting option! The gorgeous purple spikes are larkspur, and annual relative of delphinium.
We moved into our house that’s on the outskirts of a small town, so still in town in MN. But This year we put in 2 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 blueberry bushes, and will be adding more. We have grapes growing under our deck on a trellis! We are totally in mindset of whatever grows in our yard it must be edible!
Thank you. This was such a fun video for me to watch. I am also experiencing a lot of peace. God bless you!
But dock is edible and is a great chop and drop since roots grow 18 feet!
Why remove a wild grapevine? Aren’t leaves and grapes both edible?
Lovely exciting garden. Wonderful weeds and flowers Isn’t it great to grow so much food when you do nothing??!!!
I heard borage tastes like cucumber. You can eat it fresh (I’m pretty sure I’m thinking if borage).
Love, love , love volunteers; I would dig some of those up and plant them somewhere else in my landscape or give them to friends and family!!! Love your channel!!!
Some of those weeds are wild edibles. Young poke, Dock ,curly dock . Some are medicinal.
Your garden is so beautiful and bountiful! What part of LA are you from?
Rachel, I have never heard of oregano being good for poison ivy! Thank you SOSO much for sharing this! My son is ALSO highly allergic to poison ivy! The only thing I have ever found that works instantly is 20 minute Epsom Salt bath soaks, but oregano would be a great substitute when I cannot find epsom salt which I have ran into several times. Thank you for sharing your tips I appreciate you! God bless and have a great evening!❤
LMAO At all the airplanes! You must be close to DTW 😉
That was fun
Example of how nature will take care of itself
Look into the medicinal properties of your poke weed berries before you eradicate it. Have you tried eating young horse radish leaves? Ive heard they are an interesting green. I would love to see you make some kind of fermented berry wine, or vinegar with those mulberries!
Where can I get lemon verbena seeds from?
The spiked purple flower is larkspur.
Love your videos!
I think you need to rest and enjoy life sometimes. It’s ok to sit back and rest and let things go. I like these videos, and you sharing things with us. Thank you!! God Bless
I think the purple flower is larkspur flowers.
Mulberries on the ground? Send in the chickens!
While we aren't resting our raised garden beds, we've been amazed at the number of volunteers, this being our 8th year gardening. We went with the principle of three this season: herb, flower and veggie. It ended up being very beautiful with all the flowers and herbs inter-planted with the veggies. I'll definitely do it again, with a few changes to maximize space utilization.
Thank you for this video ,I was pegging the string down with wire clips. this is going to save me Time and money not spent on wire clips. Alf🙂🙂🙂
Just a side note, I've joined and i have a post hole digger So you can use mine. I live in Melbourne Australia, Hope to see you soon. Alf😜😜😜
Those leaves are a little big now, but when the poke first starts, harvest the young leaves and cook them like spinach. We wash them, boil then pour that off, then cook them like we do spinach with scrambled eggs.
Do live by an airport??
Missed seeing you….😊
Horseradish leaves kimchi or pickled greens is oneof the best condiments there is — if you like kinda spicy one.
Really beautiful video and thank you for great tip
Everything is so beautiful and peaceful ❤
Hi Rechel. Day lili is Hemrokalis.
Milkweed-Asclepias.
Lemon Balm-
Melissa officinalis.
Black eye susie-
Rudbeckia
Where is the video of your home made skeeter spray?
It’s obvious you live in the flight path of Metro Airport. We would get the planes that went north for their approach to land when it was super cloudy or bad weather.
I started taking borage oil capsules and don- que capules in my late 40s. Went through the change chage of life like a breeze Im 71 and could not tell you what a hot flash is. Felt better during those years than i had felt in many years!
The garden looks great! We eat the horseradish leaves like spinach greens. absolutely delish!