Creating a Small Suburban Perennial Food Forest - part 1
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One of our goals this year is to grow more perennial food crops. This is in line with our longer term goal of creating a small suburban food forest with many, if not mostly, perennial crops. We already grow many perennials, including blackberries, raspberries, honey berries, grapes, strawberries, red veined sorrel, sage, oregano, chives, Egyptian walking onions, mint, rosemary, lemon balm, and dandelion. Though this is a great start, we want to grow even more perennials, because once established they come back year after year with little effort, and, thanks to their deep roots, often require less added nutrients and water than annuals. Global Inventory of Perennial Vegetables: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9ew4_svq9K3N3puYWNuSF9MdlE/edit Geoff Lawton tours Eric Toensmeier's garden: http://www.geofflawton.com/fe/61569-perennial-abundance Scientific Names For Perennials In Video Tree collards - Brassica oleracea (Acephala Group) Sea kale - Crambe maritime Good king henry - Blitum bonus-henricus French sorrel - Rumex scutatus Jerusalem artichoke - Helianthus tuberosus Asparagus - Helianthus tuberosus Rhubarb - Rheum rhabarbarum Paw Paw - Asimina triloba Asian pear - Pyrus pyrifolia Peach - Prunus persica One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Featured Videos: Soil Fertility Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0v8SWe2uDw&list=PLApXYvbprElwCOe5gdtcOMiEMGRpUBb4e Fall And Winter Gardening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUxbL_cwRV0&list=SPApXYvbprElwtRHz0l63gp6ZsoM-BvdmM&index=1 Biochar Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGWfRu3Y84&list=SPApXYvbprElwrArh0ffNKWU4pFdRSSjH4 Growing More Perennial Vegetables and Herbs: http://youtu.be/SQw8ul70gG0
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looks really good , thank you so much, we gratefully appreciate you , sending blessings from the team at Food forests for healing, health & peace https://www.facebook.com/Food-forests-for-healing-health-peace-347638495382415/
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I love your easy-to-follow & informative narration (even with the shameless promotion of seed suppliers LOL)
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I have had great success with collard greens. I live in Houston, TX and wanted to know what is a good vegetable perennial for my area? I hope to try strawberries this year.
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Another perennial vegetable crop that I just discovered in the last couple weeks is Caucasian Mountain Spinach. This vine is relatively new to the US, and FEDCO Seeds is offering a limited supply of seeds for the second year in their 2016 catalog. I placed my order already, hoping that I will have the opportunity to try it. There's limited information available on this crop, but I believe it holds much promise. As a fellow Illinois resident, I especially appreciate your gardening videos for inspiration to further increase the food production potential of our small city lot, knowing our climates are very similar.
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wahou thank you for the link global invotery of perrenial vegetables
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Helpful, I ordered "Paradise Lot" on this video reccomendation because I live in the city with very poor soil. This will be my 4th year garden in the city and it is getting better but very poor soil and a water table that goes deep in the Summer turning the ground into cement almost. My probem mostly is getting too over zelious and planting items I really don't need an abundance of and without researching that item. A perfect example for the coming season I wanted to plant Jerusalem Artichokes all along the interrior pirimeter of my privacy fence. Had I not listened to the advice of gardeners on You Tube I would have been over run with this invasive plant. I now know to plant only 6 - 10 in my large planters where they can be contained. Plus I found out I can trellis my pole beens up the Jerusalem Artichokes to save space. I didn't know where to put my pole beens anyway and thought I would need to build another trellis.
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this was a great video! very informative and your garden looks beautiful!!!!
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i have been looking now for some time for those sunchokes? i think i saw a video where your came from "growing your green" with john. i was j/w if you knew where i could get some. i feel i have looked everywhere but i know someone has to be selling. Or maybe you are selling or trading? either way i really really would love to be able to grow some this following season. any help would be great thank you
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Another great video OneYardRevolution! I have LIKED and SUBSCRIBED to your channel. Check out this video we just posted on how to grow ginger in a food forest http://youtu.be/yAZH_M5GnXk I look forward to more of your videos!
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Hello! Your perennial garden sounds like ours in Iceland!
We are also at zone 5, but we have a cold short summer, when it rains all the time. Rarely above 17ºC.
We also have as the most abundant perennials, sorrel, kale, rhubarb, lovage, good king henry, chives, jerusalem artichokes, raspberries, strawberries, hops. So far my crambe plants always rot at a certain point, I am trying other species of crambe now. Sea buckthorn is another excellent option.Black salsify works great. I have small ramps, and I am trying apios americana too. Fruits it's the only stuff we can't grow. -
i have some Rhubarb root balls you can have i live in southern WI
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I couldn't see what kind of supports you're using for the blackberries because they were so lush--I can't wait for my new plant to start growing. Did you have your support in place when you first planted your blackberry and how many plants did you start? I only have one plant. Thanks for all the help!
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Thanks so much for your very informative videos. Very well made! It is certainly appreciated. I live in Southwest Michigan in the same zone, so it is great to see what your doing in my neck of the woods. Thanks again. Please keep making terrific videos. Cheers
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Great! I've been waiting for info to emerge for zone 5! Those paw paws looks yummy. Enjoy!
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For some reason every time, every size and every soil I have ever used of those smart pots have not done well - an understatement. I don't know what I could possible be doing wrong, but I just threw my last one away yesterday.
I have a feeling that a lot of the wonderful pictures we all see in commercials and some videos are plants that have been raised in specialized conditions and brought into some kind of gardening system to make them look good. Most things do not look warn or unbleached as they would if plants had actually grown in them all their lives. -
Great selection of crops there Patrick.. Didn't realise your paw paw was a member of the custard apple family.. Know a few folks with the knobbly varieties over here.. Interested in trying the tree collards here but haven't had much luck finding suppliers..
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Great video. I am growing some of the Perennial fruit trees am training them along my fence. My Asian Pear is a Cocktail with 4 different varieties of Asian Pear grafted on. They are very juicy.
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Very nice list of perennials. I'm growing a lot of the same. I have not planted sorrel yet but want to as soon as possible. I've never even tasted it but after hearing so many people speak highly of it, I know I will like it, too. I am glad you are working on a food forest. I am doing the same. We will have to compare notes.
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I have the opposite problem, Patrick. I know my own biases in the garden - if it's not perennial, it will just die! My plan this year is to try to go with more annuals. Find the balance Andy....
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Great stuff +OneYardRevolution I am not getting any alerts now when people upload :( We ordered Asparagus too lol. Your garden is going to be great. Get both fruit trees you know you will.Dave;-)
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