🌿 13 Forgotten Vegetables That Grow Like Weeds — The Lazy Gardener’s Goldmine
In this video, I reveal 13 forgotten, low-maintenance vegetables that the commercial gardening industry has quietly left out of the conversation because a plant that practically raises itself and returns for thirty years is terrible for their bottom line, and extraordinary for yours.
These are not exotic greenhouse experiments. They grow in heavy clay, cracked pavement, deep shade, rocky soil, and rooftop containers without expensive fertilizers, without weekly pest sprays, and without a massive yard. Many of them are already growing in your yard right now, and you have been pulling them out.
🌱 PLANTS COVERED IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ Plant #1: Sunchoke / Jerusalem Artichoke — The Living Underground Pantry
✅ Plant #2: Purslane — The “Weed” With More Omega-3 Than Almost Any Land Plant
✅ Plant #3: Lamb’s Quarters — Wild Spinach That Outperforms the Store-Bought Version
✅ Plant #4: Amaranth — The C4 Powerhouse That Thrives at 95°F
✅ Plant #5: Dandelion — Stop Spraying It. Start Eating It.
✅ Plant #6: Stinging Nettle — The Perennial That Also Makes Free Fertilizer
✅ Plant #7: Egyptian Walking Onion — The Plant That Propagates Itself
✅ Plant #8: Ground Cherry — A Self-Seeding Fruit the Garden Industry Ignores
✅ Plant #9: Sea Kale — Plant It Once, Harvest It for 30 Years
✅ Plant #10: Good King Henry — The Forgotten Perennial Green That Feeds Itself
✅ Plant #11: Garlic Mustard — Turn an Invasive Problem Into a Nutritional Asset
✅ Plant #12: Chickweed — Cold-Season Ground Cover You Can Eat
✅ Plant #13: Skirret — The Most Forgotten Root Vegetable in American Gardening
✅ Bonus: 5 More Vegetables That Grow Like Weeds (Malabar Spinach, Sorrel & More)
What US State or USDA Hardiness Zone are you gardening in? Which plant on this list surprised you the most and which one are you planting first? I read every single comment, and your answers directly shape the content this channel builds next.
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Tn
Iowa
Dallas Texas ,8a I am learning so much and remember so much from my childhood, Thank You Sunchoke / Jerusalem Artichoke — The Living Underground Pantry
Barrie, Ontario – Zone
Thanks for on screen text – helpful for Deaf viewers
My new love is butternut squash (Waltham). Growing your own is so sweet and tasty compared to the cardboard flavor you buy in grocery stores. So good it can be eaten cold. But what I like best is bugs leave the vines alone. Once established, no need to water much. They can be picked young and used like summer squash. Some fruits grow huge like 20 inches long. Best reason to grow them is they store inside your house with no refrigeration all winter and into the following spring… I still am eating them from last falls harvest and it it now mid-may. When harvesting right before frost in autumn, if some are not ripe yet, they will continue to ripen even after you pick them. They can be cut into 2" chunks and microwaved in 8 to 10 minutes. Great additions into chicken vegetable soup. And can be used mashed as a substitute in pumpkin soup…. the creamy kind you make with canned evaporated milk… sooo good. Haven't tried yet but read they can make a nice custard dessert too. I will forever grow these each year.
Surprised to learn about Sunchokes, have seen them before – link to Native people and also served at 1607 Samuel de Champlain Good Cheer
Surprised to learn about Sunchokes, have seen them before – link to Native people and also served at 1607 Samuel de Champlain Good Cheer