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Thanks for sharing.
The entirety of North America used to be one continuous food-forest/range-ranch. Look into what's already growing in your area. It's the future.
Outstanding as usual Huw.
Guess gardening will be outlawed soon and water collection banned..We are the carbon they want gone!
I’m leaning towards this more and more also because they are less appetizing as well to gophers here
I planed 50 Rhubarb plants last year unfortunately vine weevil wiped out most of them and other perennials like blueberry and Raspberry plants are vulnerable to weevil. I think Artichokes are a great perennial as they multiply so quickly.
I expect food prices to soar in the coming years as food production is being replaced with rewilding and green energy.
Pepper plants are perennials in tropical regions. If you move them inside (house or greenhouse) for the winter or overwinter them without leaves in a shed or garage you can replant them in the ground in the spring and just have earlier peppers and bigger plants each year. Tomatoes you can root the suckers and have them grow over the winter so not a true perennial but still a cheaper and quicker way to get tomatoes the next year.
Thanks Huw! I already love perennials and you gave me even more reasons. I wish I knew of more veg perennials. I'm trying to move my garden to being less time intensive, and perennials are definitely a component. As always, great filming 🙂 Love seeing images of what you're talking about.
It's so funny how alike our thinking and likes are.
I got a half dead redcurrant from hombase 2 yrs ago for 79p. Left it in it's pot in a messy corner till I found it again last month, Nealry three feet tall, and bushy. . I've planted it and it's covered in little brackets of flowers. It's going to thrive.
What a fantastic video Huw…crikey, thank you ❤❤❤❤
Let me tell you Huw! Thats exactly what I was thinking after planting 80 tomatoes yesterday =)
Great video and thanks for the inspiration.
Listening to you talking about adding more and more perennials is beginning to sound like us 80-year-olds.. 😀😀😀
"I'm driven by flavor" That's not the only reason you garden. And we both know it! 😆
Wondering where this new desire to plant fruit trees is coming from?🧐😂
Another good thing about perennials is that people often don't recognize them as food….so the little garden raiders are less likely to take them.
I personally uses to steal peas as a child….
Thank you. I have learned so many new things from you today.
I planted garlic last November and they're looking good. When will they be ready for harvest?
Great video Huw, I'm looking to add native apple trees and hazelnut trees to my garden. Ive got lots of rhubarb and herbs that come back year after year but am guilty of planting lots of annuals which are a lot of work. I would love more ideas of easy perennials for wet Irish weather that are resistant to slugs. Ive also got blueberries and raspberries so I'm looking forward to having those every year 😊
I grow nine star perennial sprouting broccoli (little cauliflower heads, much creamier), welsh onions (also called japanese bunching onions) and cutting celery. The broccoli is so much easier to grow than cauliflower and the cutting celery gives me celery for about 9 months of the year! They thrived during the drought we had last year in Cornwall UK.
something that I'm trying out this year, and that might interest you as well; this year I'm incorparting mushroom spores in my veg beds, to benefit plants but also as an extra crop. I recently saw a very cool video by "Anne of all Trades" on building a new bed, and she used winecap-spores in her woodchip-mulch. Seemed to work really well. I trying it with grey oysters instead, and quite looking forward to see how it works out.
Hi Huw,
it's funny, how alike our thinking is. Today I planted my broccoli seedlings out. One week and the tomatoes will come too. Keep working on the garden! From Hungary
Glad you've also joined the szechuan-pepper train! Love mine, leaves are nice as well.
An added benefit of perennial (trees and shrubs) are also that they are able to create beneficial microclimates in your garden; by creating shade or sheltered areas, providing a habitat for beneficial wildlife, etc. Last winter my fruit trees really helped with keeping the ground dry in the excessive rainfall. I am more and more trying to incorporate the two together so my annuals and perenials benefit from each other.
Planted almost 30 fruit tree/bushes. Now I'm rigging stakes so I can cover with netting. Expecting a huge group of cicadas that damage fruit trees.
Don’t forget about the ornamentals you already have in your yard. Day lilies, spiderwort, hostas,redbuds, altheas, are all edibles. We just think of them as too pretty to eat. We’ve lost touch with eating with the seasons. Even our vegetables are more edible than we think. (Sweet potato leaves and pea shoots are edible) I’m sure there are many more, too, that I’ve missed.
I couldn’t see from the video, but are your apricot and peach trees in your poly tunnel in a big pot or in the ground? 😊
Your garden always looks beautiful full of food. Mine? I have just been out to the carrots I sowed on 11th march then some more on 21st march only about 10 if that have come up. They are under fleece and damp with all the rain we have had. So I have just resown them. Can I justify the cost of seeds? What am i doing so wrong? What to do when you feel so despondent? Do you ever have awful failures?
Thank you for your channel nice to see someone succeed 😀
I just visited the local growing place foodforest section, because i was done with the not wanting to grow seeds from the store that i know are fertile. So i now focus way more on a perennial veg garden rather then an annual one. Comes down to onion family, leafy greens, roots/tubers, herbs and fruits + some plants mainly/only for the rabbits. Will try or buy some courgette plants after last frost for more bulk veg. and green beans in the freezer.
And don’t forget all the “weeds” that are edible
I have what they've called "miniature blueberry " bushes. They're grown specifically to grow in pots.
I risked a bit of them for cuttings and so far so good. Apparently I need another variety (I think) to set fruit, but I don't know for sure.
Boysenberries are definitely perennials, and definitely need pruning or they make a jungle. Berries are delicious.
Thank you for yet another amazing video:)
Hi Huw, great video thank you, question while watching another YouTuber she got a broad fork for her birthday, first time in over 40 years of growing I've heard of them, then you use a one 🙂.. are they the width of two forks together ? and do you have a video using them? they look great,, Steve Colwell
A couple of videos ago you was talking about about growing willow for wood chips what sort of willow was it ?
The admit defeat and change mindset is real for me. I have horrendous issues with insect damage. Most of it comes from my neighbors sections where they have old citrus trees infested with aphids and white-fly every season. No matter how much I try to eradicate them from my small garden, they get replenished from just over the fence.
I have to try and grow plants that are less vulnerable, less attractive to these pests.
I'm surprised stonefruit aren't ok outside in your climate. What is it that causes issues? Late frosts?
I have been gradually adding more perennials to my full-size allotment that I took on two years ago. It helps my workload to become more manageable, and I am happy to see trees and plants in the ground all year round. I like your point about saving on the amount of compost by having perennials. I make as much as possible, but it has been a big expense to buy in. Thank you for mentioning broad-forking, as well as adding organic material to soil that has been compacted by rain over winter.
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I have (what I believe are) Egyptian Walking Onions in clumps. I harvest one or two at a time but don't pull them out of the ground. Instead, I cut them a few inches above the soil. They regrow and come back every year.
Thanks for including slugs
Which perennials are good in shade?