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I love roast beets & borscht, but I’ve found my absolute favourite way to eat beetroot is Alys Fowlers beetroot marmalade preserve recipe! OMG it’s incredible & goes great with cheese, in salads, on top of meals. I actually can’t get enough of it! I also make a batch with fresh chilli in as I love spicy things & this year I’m trying it with golden beets, tarragon, ginger & cider vinegar; it’s become a staple of ours!
For the mint – great for mojitos:)
Chard, easy to grow, pest resistant, cold hardy, space to yeild ratio will outperform every other crop over the entire season!
Loved this video, such great ideas. I can’t enter your contest cause I’m from Canada😢
Beetroot kimchi was a winner for me last year, and I'll be making some shortly. I love grated raw beet, I use it as an alternative to cucumber when making an Indian raita.
I would Like to Grow this Crop in my Garden
i love nasturtiums: they provide flowers to pick, and leaves for salad and are very easy to grow.
Jerusalem artichokes have become a real favourite. I ferment them in a cabbage/carrot/ginger/beetroot slaw and find them very digestible that way. If you slice them very thinly and then dry and grind them up into flour their flavour becomes really addictive when added to a flatbread mix.
What temperature to cook the beets? I'm in Canada so will have to pass on the contest 🙂 I l LOVE mint but sadly it does very poorly on this property. Thanks for another great video!
I abandoned my first garden and learned that without tending or watering at all that Basil, Mint, Cilantro, and Marigolds do fine. Anything that is categorized with "grows like a weed" is also an excellent grower. I've found that set and forget is the best way to deal with high stress situations. Dinner included.
So disappointed that Australian's are never included 😞
In spring I always forage for nettles. I (wearing rubber gloves) clean them, rinse them and put them in boiling water for just a minute. Then I freeze them and use in omelettes with cheese, pasta dishes, soups…
I also use Chenopodium album the same way.
Every autumn I forage autumn chanterelles that I dehydrate. Even though I have several buckets full of dehydrated mushrooms from last year I can't stop getting more. A jar of dehydrated mushrooms is a great gift.
Also my grown up sons love that I have a lot of mushrooms that they can get in my pantry whenever they run out of them. 😂
An IMPORTANT WARRNING about foraging, or venturing into tall grass on your own property are that TICKS are all over North America and also many parts of Europe, it is important to wear Tick Repellent when foraging and even in high grass on your property. Most people think that ticks are only in areas where deer reside but mice and other rodents also carry ticks.
You can find Natural Repellents on the internet to purchase, or make. I make one that kills ticks on contact and have witnessed it myself. Tick disease can be debilitating and even cause death.
God Bless and stay safe and healthy.
I am one who can't get past the dirt taste of beets but the green and stems are delicious cooked! My sunchokes came back every year because of not seeing the marble size tubers (an assumption).
I just can't seem to get beets to grow well! Lots of leaves, but the roots always end up small and woody. Anyone got any suggestions?
Pity it's not open to ROI viewers 😢👎
The other way to prepare beet is, you peel , slice and roast it with your chicken and potatoes.
Stop telling everyone about foraging!! There’ll be nothing left!! 🤨
It has been a fabulous year for foraging Huw, and I wish more people would follow the correct code, however on the other hand I have seen people look questioningly at what I'm up to 🤣. Just recently I've had guelder rose berries, rosehips, Hawthorn and rowan. Today I had a marvellous haul of crab apples, and most of them were windfalls. I left a tidy pile in the hedge too for blackbirds, mice and voles etc. Anything left are great for insects too. After I have processed them there is another great self-sufficiency thing to do – my hens absolutely love the leftovers. Especially because it is such a natural thing for them to eat this time of year. Thank you for bringing up foraging Huw – it is my favourite subject and has been ever since I found a copy of Food For Free when I was about 13. Little did I know then how iconic it would become 🙂 Take care, thank you for the video!
Some interesting crops mixed in there. I love lima beans but rarely see anyone growing them on the podcasts out there. They are relatively easy to grow bush or pole varieties as long as your soil is not to rich in nitrogen. They are high in calories so are a good thing to incorporate into your garden to help in being self sufficient.
I live in Eastern Canada, (the most eastern edge), and we have several favourite foraging crops – maple syrup tapped from our own trees in late March, wild lovage, wild blueberries, lingonberries, wild cranberries, Chanterelles, king boletes, chaga and seaweed!
For bountiful and nutritious harvest I have to mention broad beans (fava beans in the US I believe). What also makes them so great is that they grow super early, even over winter, enabling a follow-on summer crop like pole beans or winter squash. In my experience the best vegetable to maximize year round production if you have a limited area to grow in. Fantastic taste too in my opinion, and freeze well for later consumption.
In Switzerland, sunchockes are on the watch list for invasive species. They should rather not be planted, or only in containers…
"Beetroot" DRINK!
After saying "dig up", this video is being demonetised. 😀
i'd def recommend foraging mint rather than growing it unless it's in containers. maybe it's not as aggressive where you are but it's a threat to my garden
Very informative!!
I've never had J artichoke tubers look like yours. Mine are very branched and knobbly and impossible to peel
Not a particular plant, but a group of plants. Herbs, they can help to change and augment the flavour of your crops. If all you have is beets after a while you may get bored with them. This is where adding herbs can help.
I like watching and listening to your channel which is so helpful. Am going to give the golden beetroot a try next year. I have different kinds of mint which I use in cooking and mixture into sauces. I love chopping chard up in stir fry.