It seems that 8 months after making this video, the RU-vid algorithm is suggesting it to a bunch of new people! Welcome to everyone new. For all the new viewers, I have created an "essentials" playlist here - if you enjoy this video, make sure to check the playlist out, as it will give you a good idea of what this kind of regenerative gardening looks like: ru-vid.com/group/PLWcGSYiimOLxSGAkqn1OYnf8nE2auy3y6 Specifically, I suggest starting with a few particular videos: 1) Who we are, what is permaculture, what it's all about: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-39_V9d5t_Xg.html 2) This will change how you garden forever - which really talks about my 2 golden rules of gardening: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cFLyGVhu0bY.html 3) No land, no problem? This is one about planting TONS of trees, and is a soft-intro to Guerilla Gardening in a responsible way: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oiIJkzahH1k.html If you enjoy those, then feel free to dig deep into some of the deeper permaculture videos in there on pest control, pruning, water management with swales and ponds, etc. Thanks for watching!
I'm so fortunate. Whatever happened, I'm ao grateful for it. I hope you all enjoy my videos. I can't wait for this spring, to see all the really young trees start growing more!
If you actually want to heal the soil you have, there are a LOT native bushes with edible berries. Viburnum, serviceberry, Spicebush, chokeberry, gooseberry, and highbush blueberry to name a few. And some are nitrogen fixers and grow incredibly fast. So maybe think about planting some native stuff in order to get more beneficial insects. Studies have shown that pollinators are extremely more likely to be attracted by native plants than nonnative ones.
I had a large thornless blackberry in my back yard for years. A skunk moved in under it when the plant was about three foot around. I never had a problem with him. He only came out at night and kept the bugs in check. 20 years later and 10 feet across. We still live in peace.
The skunk might have keeping some other critters or birds away to that are not wanting to get sprayed. Sounds like the scene for a children's story on sharing and compassion :)
The house is in the high desert in Arizona, on the edge of a small town. All kinds of animals visit our yard. We have found large toads and bats by the front door. I always keep a large bowl under the garden hose connector to catch any leaking water hose. That small amount of water has saved many animals from the heat. With no fence and the property completely covered with as many of my favorite plant’s that I could manage. Many animals that were abused found comfort in this yard as they passed through. Many memories indescribable joy.
So do strawberry leaves. Is rose hip marmalade actually...good? I made a spoonful of jelly as a test a couple years back and it was nothing to write home about.
I vehemently agree, bushes are vastly under rated, but my reasoning is their use as wind breaks and wind diversions and wind channellers, so much of micro climate is wind dictated. Wind can create arid regions, absence of wind drops evaporation exponentially. Ground cover can alter ground temperatures by enormous amounts.
You didn’t mention gooseberries. Since you like tart berries I’m sure you’d love these. They also have a TON of pectin so they’re awesome to combine with other fruits for jam. I concocted something called “ Bluegoose jam” last year from blueberries and gooseberries. It’s sooooo good.
Jam combos are something I'm going to mess around with a lot this year. Love gooseberries. Another thorny plant, but makes a bigger sweeter currant (ribes family).
also: Josta berries. They are a hybrid of black currants and gooseberries. The Berries look like black gooeseberries (a little smaler) taste is also a good mix but : no thornes. There are also gooseberry cultivars without thornes.
Sweden here (lat 64, about the height of Fairbanks Alaska)! Try to make coldbrewed black currant lemonade, delicious. Half a bucket of berries, fill up with boiling water, slice a lemon and put them on the surface (or stirr in citric acid). Keep cool for 2-3 days and then sift it. 4-6 dl...I guess that is about 1,5- 2 cups...of sugar and stirr until the sugar has disolved. Less sugar = keep the lemonade in the freezer. More healthy than boiling or steaming the berries. Bought garden raspberry does not taste as good as the ones I pick in the forest, have gotten rid of all of mine...but I have them in the forest around our village. Sea buckthorn has not wanted to live in my garden but I will give them another try. Rose hips are very wholesome; vitamin C/A/E, folate, calcium, potassium, magnesium and antioxidants.
excellent info thank you !! I'm in the Golden State of California and will absolutely plant these bushes you recommended in my "new"perma forest garden🍀🍀🌈💫
Bend the raspberries over, anchor to the soil with a rock and they will root. Easy! Same with blackberries. In fact, many cane plants will propagate this way.
@@AliciaLovesYAHUSHA I wouldn't worry. They grow a bit differently than regular bushes, in that instead of short forked branches they send out these really long, bendy canes.
To eat rosehips, cut open the ripe hip (bright orange or red, flower has completely vanished, usually mid to late autumn), scrape out the seeds and the spiny inner material, and eat the remaining flesh of the fruit. Rosehip jam and rosehip marmalade are delicious, but most importantly, rosehips contain a lot of vitamin C (which is why they're so strong when not sweetened into a jam, syrup, or jelly).
Do the rabbits leave them alone in winter? We live in the city and I have a problem to pick bushes, too many have been completely destroyed by rabbits during our cold MB winters. Also, any suggestion for a shadowy place to put an edible bush in?
Veery late comment, but! You can also make rose jam out of the rose hips. That's what traditionally we have our pączki stuffed with here in Poland ;) Yummy
I found some raspberries growing near a spring I get water at and transplanted them. A few years later the neighbors were harvesting raspberries, and a year later their neighbor behind them too. There was no way they could complian since we all had hollyhocks coming up everywhere. That's not even close to mint I had growing once though. That stuff made the entire neighborhood smell like mint, especially if I mowed the "grass." Mint spread rampant and fast but somehow didn't go into everyone else's yards too much and keep going endlessly.
Ha! I just came across your channel. Did my first guerilla gardening this weekend - planted a rock rose and lavender bush in a park opposite my house where the council had ripped out some shrubs. Hoping to plant sunflowers in a lawn opposite my house. Lockdown native flower planting to bring happiness to neighbours. 🌻🌹🌼
I love it man, this was a great list! I live up in zone 3a, north of Bancroft Ontario and I find my favourite wild berries to pick here are saskatoon/service berries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, elderberries, chokecherries, sumac, etc. While in the garden, raspberries are my favourite hands down both black and red, currants, grapes and strawberries. I plant them with hardy pears, plums and apples. Maple Syrup production is king in spring here though! All the berries are frozen to be crepe sauces with maple syrup.... yumm!
Do you know the varieties you plant for the pears, plums and apples? I will be in a 5a zone soon and really want some extra cold-tolerant varieties so a plum that survives in 3a would be amazing!
My mom grows about 15 different types of berries. Her absolute hands down favorite in terms of abundance, taste is the Illinois mulberry. The only problem is keeping the size in check.
Elderberries are also loved by chickens. I've been growing some elderberry bushes from seed that I collected from some spectacularly productive elderberry bushes growing in a hedge here in the UK.
Black currant is my favorite 🤗 it does very well here in Finland, taste is amazing and the yeild is always good. Even harvesting it is pretty fast compared to some other berries.
This was my first year gardening and I had so much fun growing ground cherries. They are very invasive, which is why I chose them and so cute. They were a big hit at work. Now all my coworkers want to grow ground cherries.
Black currants make an excellent fruit juice, too! Toss in a blender with some sugar/honey/sweetener of your choice with some water, blend, and strain! Stick the pulp in the freezer or dehydrate to use in baking. Drink the juice! Can the juice if you want as well (Be safe with your canning methods please!)
Ugh - I had a fail with currents here in St. Louis, and I love them remembering that my grandmother grew them. The gooseberries nearby have done well. Great video!
Thank you very much for mentioning the cultivation area. Your wonderful work, inspires me to watch what I could do at home. May the year 2021 be a year of plenty
My food forest includes Oregon grapes, Salmonberry & Thimble berries. Also I grow my greens most of the year especially in shade of the trees in summer. 😋
Re-watching as a few things in our yard are starting to poke their heads out. Currants we bought and planted in October are budding, saffron we planted at the same time are sprouting out of the ground too. Very excited for everything to "wake up" as you said!!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy hahaha well we're not totally out of the woods for freezes or cold temps yet so we'll see, it always seems to come March/April (just as you're getting excited for warm weather). We are getting a spot prepared for quails though so hopefully that'll help make any cold snaps seem more bearable! Hang in there though, my husband and I love watching your videos and are greatly anticipating any updates this year! Maybe in the meantime a few games of hockey will help? 🏒
I can't imagine my garden without red currants,literally have more than 10 bushes for sure.I also like raspberries,and their hybrids.I growing some golden currants (ribes aureum)cuz I have some troubles with black currants.(taste is really nice,more sweetier from black currants,but berries size is much smaller). Goseberries is really nice bush,modern varieties have good imunity and big sized berries. I really want to grow haskapberries (I think canadian varieties on the top now) Chaenomeles is really underrated,ppl should use it not only for decorative.
I must not have ever had a really good quince, because I'm not really a huge fan. I may pick up a tree just to say I have them - and that I'm not judging it based on storebought quince. I mean... I'd be silly to judge strawberries based on storebought ones.
Rabbits , one winter, ,before we fenced in the garden, decimated our entire raspberry patch by eating the bark at 'snow' level. When they also repeatedly ate all the bean seedlings we quickly learned to keep bunnies out of the garden .
I definitely can see why people think that way. I like them myself. They do damage but they also leave so much fertility behind. I find for me they mostly eat my kale and clover that I plant for them, so for me that's manageable. I'm sure that doesn't work everywhere though.
Hascaps are only sour on certain varieties or if you don't let them ripen. They can be some of the sweetest berries out there. you probably just have a tart variety. all types taste different
So glad to see several of my working standby plants in this video--blackberry, elderberry, raspberry and currants. 100% correct about the currants--they make the best jam, hands down. This spring, I'll be planting the roses for the rose hips (want to try rose hip jelly). Lots of great suggestions, and I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! Thank you.
Rose hips can be two completely different things sure one of them is immature rose flowers but that is not the type you would make jelly from. The dog rose tree produces flowers and then makes these small red fruits called rose hips (they type you make jelly from) the seeds inside are usually pressed for their oil which has the smallest molecule size of all oils and is great for breaking up scar tissue and healing stretch marks.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope you include some Arctic or Siberian kiwis. I bought a pint once in a local grocery store that were unlabeled. Most delicious, complex fruit I ever tasted. The size of a grape. I know there's a big difference in their culture, but I can't find the book now.🥴
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy That's inspiring to know! Have you had fruit from them yet? If so, are they the grape-sized fruit, or the blueberry-sized fruit, which I've not tasted?
You’re opening skipped straight to Haskaps. And we have a wonderfully abundant crop of delicious berries on the property we got last year. And the hugest most juicy Saskatoon berries as well. The previous owners had a “U Pick”. I need to get the business side of it sorted out, but last year it was a “come on over and help yourself Pick” farm. 😂
i LOVE SO CALLED INVASIVE EDIBLES! THEY ARE A SERIOUS NO BRAINER! Glad you have Blackberries! My bees would love your food forest! Most Food Foresters reject all the so called invasives! I guess they like to shoot them selves in the foot. Try Medlar and Black Current Jam seriously best jam I have ever tasted! As for the Hascap it depends what type though. We have developed a very sweet tasting one from crossing two different cultuvars from different regions. Correction the Bumble Bees created them. Great Video!
My personal top six are raspberry, blackberry, serviceberry (saskatoons), currants, gooseberry, and Damascus roses but this year I'll add some native grapes and haskaps. I grow on a 1/6 acre town lot in PEI.
Another underutilized fruit bearing shrub is the chokeberry (Aronia family). These shrubs are well behaved, have great fall color, and are very cold hardy. The berry is blue black, astringent like cranberries, but with great flavor. The seeds are a rare natural sources of vitamin K. Native Americans would make a fruit leather (seeds and all) for winter consumption. A super food too. Many juice combos in your supermarket will use chokeberry as an ingredient. Not sweet, but has a delicious taste to it. Great in fruit smoothies. OH and because it is native with early flowers, is an important pollinator plant for native bees.
That's a great list you have there. I planted my first Raspberry bushes this year. I actually have them in a food plot that's intended for the deer, rabbits and birds. I also plan to plant some Beautyberry bushes on the edges of the treeline. Never heard of the Currants - might see if I can find some this Spring. Thanks!
My hound used to eat all my raspberries. He was so good at it too! Took me nearly all summer to finally figure out how the ripe raspberries were disappearing. He also would purloin sugar snap peas through the welded wire fence. Who needs squirrels with a foraging hound?
What a great video. I would love for a follow up video about your "honorable mentions to" plants AND another video about how to propagate all these plants (you mentioned how to do this with a few in this video and that information is INVALUABLE). I am so happy to have found your channel-- fellow Canadian in zone 4
That's awesome, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's definitely hard to make a video that talks about all of this stuff. I find when my videos get too long, the watched time remains the same, and people miss out on all the extra content. It is much better to keep them to roughly 10-15 minutes maximum, and split extra topics into their own video. Hardwood propagation can be a great video, and same with some more on some of those honorable mention bushes. They are all incredible too! I just had to keep it to 6 in order to keep the video length down, and have some time allocated to each bush to talk about them a bit (currants great for shade, elderberry great for wet soils, etc.).
Neighbors, lol. We bought a lot to build on. On day I was working with my husband cutting and burning dead brush, we also cut down a dead pine and burned it. While doing this a neighbor stopped over to tell us we needed to cut down the live pines. Why? Because large 5-6 foot black snakes would sleep and hang from the branches. I mentioned that no one lived on the property so it should be fine. He corrected me. Everyone uses the lot for their dogs to go poo 💩 and that the rest used it as a walking path. None of this with permission. I asked the past owner of 12 yrs if they gave permission. Clueless. And it is illegal, with prison terms and 10,000 fines per tree to take down those trees. The lot was 30-40 feet from a large river. The county and state take pictures every year and just waiting for home and lot owners to take down live trees. And, if they miss it, neighbors will turn you in. LisaBissett
Let me add... Oregon Grape Bush. altho very invasive a very medicinal plant. Super Tart/bitter but add sugar and the jelly is to dye for. Very purple hands upon harvest!
Great list! I like how your food forest design still allows plenty of room for the dog to play. I don't have a yard of my own to experiment yet, but I've been curious about planting thorny stuff around the chicken coop, for predator protection and a tasty treat. I just did a quick Google search and apparently adding a low percentage of seabuckthorn flowers to their diet can increase egg production. Those thorns look like they'd be a pretty good deterrent. Yikes.
Awesome video, will definitely take some of these amazing plants into consideration! My wife and I are moving into our first home this summer (Zone 5b, 0.1 acres) Not a lot of land to work with, but we are excited to finally put some of these permaculture principles into practice after years of apartment building vermicomposting, lol...
If your freeze Cranberries the same thing happens. For breakfast I boil 21/2 cups of water, through in a hand full of cranberries , let it return to boil then add steel cut oats. Let it cool for 1/2 an hour add 1 cup of almond milk, sugar free. Turn to simmer then shut off while you have your coffee. Bowl it up. It is delicious. All of a sudden it is sweet but no sugar was added.
we just had to clear our 78ft long by 30ft wide backgarden from blackberry bush :( left a small amount in one corner where my composting bins will eventually be, if the blackberry dont make it then i will not be sad! bloody stuff gets everywhere! much love from the uk xxx
Last year was already more than I can get to, even with 3 boys (1 teenager) eating their bodyweight in berries every day. At this point I am planting more just to flesh out the food forest and donate more to my caretakers (natural beings). I suppose at some point I could retire early and take this up as my retirement gig, and have a food stand at the local market, or open the food forest up as a you-pick one day per week. For now though I am just doing it for nature. I already can't pick it all, and I've at least tripled the bush layer this past winter.
FYI - USDA zone 4 = Canadian Zone 5... For Canadian Prairies - Utilize Microclimates as much as possible and try to utilize nursery stock rated for Canadian zone 2/3, and source from local nursery growers, not imported nursery stock from big box stores!
Oh boy, I agree with this comment SO much. You walmart tree may have come from a nursery in South Carolina. What kind of genetics are they picking when they grow their trees? Do they have cold hardiness as the number one concern? Compare that with a local nursery where the trees you buy are bare root, and litearlly already survived a Canadian winter in their first year. I know which one I want.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Just discovered you, and looking forward to watching more of your videos. Where are you located? I’m currently in NE Alberta (zone 2/3), but my wife and I want to move closer to my brother near Cranbrook BC (zone 5) - WOULD LOVE to live in a warmer growing zone!
I'm in Ontario between Toronto and Ottawa. I'd love to live on Vancouver Island, somewhere like Courtenay. Or mainland somewhere like Chilliwack or Prince Rupert or that whole coast. ZONE 8 in Canada? Man, I'd love it.
That's great! Yoy can grow everything i grow here. Some of the stuff gets harder in zone 8/9 but pretty much anything you see on my channel will also work in zone 7.
I'm in zone 4 in Nebraska and my bush layer is about 200 black raspberry bushes, 24 red or white raspberries, 12 blueberry bushes, Goji Berry bushes i can't even count anymore. But they made 700 pounds of goji. Its now December and they are still producing. For trees i have 3 cherry trees, 3 plumb trees, 3 pear trees, 3 apple trees, 5 Hazelnut trees, and 12 pawpaw trees. The reason i have so many black raspberry bushes is because i freeze dry them and sell them. They go for almost 60 dollars a pound due to their medicinal value.
Awesome! You are pushing the zone for goji. I'm glad to hear it's doing well in zone 4. Hope for me here... for some reason gojis want to die each winter.
I tend to have a talent for finding wild black berry and mulberry plants around there's a big mulberry on the furtherest corner of my grandparents property and a whole thicket of black berry separating her land from the neighbors though given the straight line they seem to go in I have a feeling the previous owners put them in and they where forgotten :p the spot her house is on was a part of a cow field so who knows but yay berries to pick and propagate
I have all of those :) Got them from a place called Lareault nursery. They are on the food forest strip near the road. lareault.com/en/38-cherry-plants
Canadian Permaculture Legacy I have two of each as well as raspberry, haskap, aronia, black and red currant, blueberries, regent saskatoon, highbush cranberry, and a couple sad josta berries in the orchard with my fruit trees. This will be first year for the cherries to bear.
Pump up the Jam! I am very partial to sour and complex flavors used to make marmalades (I blame my addiction on Lady Marmalade and her promise of late night delights in French no less). In my garden I have two types of cumquats (the round and the Japanese oval one). They are the opposite of a normal citrus where the flesh is sweet and the rind is sour, cumquats have a sweet peel and a sour flesh. For me a marmalade in the morning seems to stir the taste buds. I also have a Tahitian lime and a native Australian Finger Lime (Bush Tucker) which is known as citrus caviar. My Tahitian lime is everbearing (at any one time, my tree has blossoms, young fruit and ripe fruit. The Finger Lime hasn't fruited yet but has flesh the color of a neon red sparkling red wine. I don't grow any berries other than strawberries and a blueberry. I will keep my eye out for blackcurrrents that like the subtropics. I draw the line at Gooseberries however. Cheers!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Don't act like it's not possible... : ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZD_3_gsgsnk.html Nebraska retiree uses Earth's heat to grow oranges in snow
Great content! You grow a lot of things I wish I could but down in Texas we get up to 115F a couples times a summer. This last summer we also went almost 3 months without rain so my conditions unfortunately won't allow a lot of these awesome plants. Each climate has it's perks I supposed. I get to grow figs at least!! Thanks for the great work and for reaching out!
Indeed! I wish I could grow some of the stuff you can grow. Scarlet runner beans for example. Caucasian mountain spinach. Yacon. But there are major benefits to being in a colder climate. More steady rains, cooler summers, etc. It's really important to be grateful of the blessings of the climate you call home, and not focus on what we don't have, but love what we do have.
Oh, I just realized who this is. I just binged your videos a few days ago. We are like brothers from across the continent. /fistbump Also FYI, I'm not sure why youtube picked up this video ajd pushed it to people. It's just a very avg video. You may really enjoy my soil microbiology guide, or permaculture guild guide, or "this will change how you garden forever". Those ones are really good starting places! ❤️
Nice list hard to choose with so much to love! I would add Amelanchier and Aronia AMAZING FALL COLOR (VERY TART) .;) Organic Alfalfa meal from feed store is loved by berries and roses increases cane break (produces more canes). In hot areas like California helps plants deal with the heat due to naturally containing triacontanol the triacontanols will also increase yields. O Goji is an easy plant also wish I could get a buckthorn hard to find. Love the taste of eleagnus but they are Invasive in a lot of areas. THANK YOU FOR VIDEO BEAUTIFUL GARDEN!!!
I’m really looking forward to my seaberry this spring will be it’s first year. I’m planning on using them in the future as an edible privacy/security fence around the property along with some BlackBerry and raspberry mixed in.
Whoa!!! For some reason YT unsubscribed me from you. I've missed a ton of content because I wasn't getting notifications...i will be catching up tonight!!!
With respect to the Rosa rugosas, I have found that the better the flowers smell, the better the flower petals taste in a salad and they offer colour to the salad as well.
I tried to find this video again a few months back but couldn't remember who was the creator. I googled "top 6 bushes" then musta got distracted. So I'm glad the algorithm suggested that I watch it again!
