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I had several types of potatoes plants in two different beds come up volunteer this year. I don't know if they came from potatoes left behind or from seed since they all bloomed last year. I have more than a dozen of them though. So it looks like potatoes can be sort of perennial.
Where do people purchase Egyptian Walking Onions l keep hearing about? Aren’t they the plain onion seeds/bulbs they sell in Bunnings or a completely different type. That’s all they sell & offer there….nothing labelled as Egyptian anyways! Curious 🤔
@@SustainableHollyHi Holly, l can’t find Egyptian Walking Onions at Bunnings. They only sell, seeds, spring onions or plain onion bulbs. I never see the name “Egyptian” on any of their products sold there. Is there a distributor of this type of onion that l need to find elsewhere?
Hey Holly! Your channel just gets better and better! I can't wait to plant papaya, warrigal greens, canna edulis, egyptian walking onion (a favorite of the band The Bangles), and making the Ecopots. May I suggest planting society garlic which is subtle (hence the name) and is happy in my subtropical food forest. It is a survival crop because I could not imagine cooking without it. Also I learned recently the difference between sweet potato and a yam. A yam looks more like an elephant's foot. I am also happy to report that I have discovered another unknown fruit tree in my food forest...the Brazilian Cherry! Happy to get so much rain in the last week, so newly sown and transplanted specimens are doing just fine. Cheers!
Thanks Craig! Yes for Society Garlic 🧄 mine is flowering now and I love the flowers in a salad for colour and subtle garlic flavour. Yay I love hearing about your finds haha. I have been thinking about getting a Brazilian cherry too! So you will have to let me know what you think 🌱
#1 on my list is canna - we have edulis and indica sub cultivar purpurea which both produce massive rhizomes - flowers are edible too, but I leave those for the hummingbirds. We have some hybridized canna that make large showy flowers: they do not have any real taste, just texture, and are a colorful substitute for lettuce. The rhizomes of the hybrids that I have grow to date have not been anywhere near as substantial, although they could be eaten in a pinch. For the rhizome producers, a 4 square foot area/plant, with sufficient water (they abhor a drought!) will give us 20 pounds of rhizomes, 15 after the skins are off, at 320 calories/100g .. for a plant it and forget it crop, that is just too good to pass up! In the edible flower area, we have violets a-plenty, with edible leaves appearing early in the season, edible flowers, too - as much vitamin C in 100g of violet leaves as an orange, and even more vitamin A. Day Lily _hemerocallis Fulva_ makes some of the tastiest flowers ever, sweeter than the best lettuce you can find, and also quite colorful - and there are LOADS of colors to choose from. The tubers are edible as well, and I wind up eating quite a few every year when packaging them up for shipping - it saves on shipping costs, have you seen how expensive they are these days? _yikes._ Next up in edible flowers we have Dahlias .. not for eating in the first year, unless you grow them from seed, as the primary source is the Netherlands, where they use far too much pesticide for them to be safe to eat. We are trying out several varieties, and I imagine there will be some that make for better root crop than others, same as cannas. We'll keep posting results as they come. Yacon, Oca, Crosnes, and Jerusalem artichoke all make storage roots .. not for every zone, but we are giving them all a try in US zone 7a (a little cooler than Perth .. we are just out of range for good fruit producing bananas, although we can grow them for biomass) I did a video last year on our top 7 survival crops, but they weren't all perennials .. #1 I already mentioned, but #6 was sweet potatoes - now I broke these down by calories produced per square foot, because for most people living in small spaces, that is going to be their greatest limiting factor - so you can imagine, as good as sweet potatoes are, they came in next to last (in an arbitrarily numbered list 😉) Peanuts got the number seven spot - ironically, they have one of the best, if not THE best calorie density of just about any easily stored survival crop, but their calories per square foot of space utilized put them last in that ranking. I don't know that my favorite perennial foods are all necessarily the best for survival gardening .. but I do consider the allium proliferum to be essential - that, or some other perennial allium. If your food tastes bland, it doesn't matter how much you have of it! We may be out of range for Tetragonia .. but I think we can get away with some Turkish rocket - sort of like a broccoli rabe/leaf cabbage, prolific spreading, perennial (they can get downright invasive, which is not bad for something that produces tons of nutrition!) I planted those everywhere, and added lovage .. more lovage than I will ever likely need, to be frank, but it makes a good habitat plant for our predatory insects, so I want plenty of them for more reasons than just my belly!
I can’t stop my artichoke from growing. 3 out of 4 that didn’t make it last year ended up coming back without any work. In fact they’re doing better than last year. And there’s plenty good to say about artichoke in permacultures
oohh I need warigal greens.😊Inspiring video.I have let my garden overgrow sadly, but now I have inspiration to keep going.❤I love the seeds from papaya.
I've been experimenting with perennial brassicas here in US climate zone 7. The easiest one to get going is horseradish, as you can just plant the roots you get at the store, and the plant will permanently establish itself. I'm having limited success keeping my sea kale alive, though a few of them did survive our winter. I'm also trying to grow perennial kale, which is closer to the wild cabbage ancestor of modern brassica cultivars.
Interesting! Save the seeds from the ones that you have the most success with and regrow those. You may be able to get some plants that are adapted to growing in your exact conditions that way.
Hey there, fellow zone 7a person here. One thing that is incredibly hardy even at most of the coldest parts of a zone 7 winter is collard greens. I did have a type of kale that remained somewhat green all winter. Turnips were wildly successful in my backyard and I harvested the greens all summer and for the most left the turnips in the ground. The young turnips are really good. Asparagus is another low maintenance perennial although initially you have to give it a few years to develop before harvesting. I filled a 3 x 5 foot very deep raised bed container with asparagus and it doubles as a kitchen scrap compost pile in the winter. The other surprise maintenance free hardy veg was sorrel, which I had forgot I had planted and it totally dominated the garden plot all summer.
@@SustainableHolly I watch other garden videos & like them, but I luv luv your videos! You are pretty to look at, have a nice smile & you are natural 2 the camera..🥰Thankyou again.💜
The male banana blossoms (the one at the bottom of the bunch after the fruit forms) is cooked as a vegetable in Asia, although you have to pull out the tough stamens. It can also be cooked in sugar, vinegar and soysauce and dried and used aromatic.
@@SustainableHolly Hi Holly, heaps if water and picking young are best in summer for rocket. Have you got some seeds? Also you know where I can buy the walking onions in Perth? I haven't fo d them yet. Thank you. Love your videos.
Hi Holly, I have really enjoyed watching a number of your videos and have made heaps of notes for working in my garden. This is another great video and i especially love how you have used leaves to make little pots for growing seeds in. I am keen to try this with our banana plant leaves. Thanks again for your inspiring videos.
Peace be upon you, Holly. New subscriber here. I love farming and I also plan to start a small homestead routine in the house garden too. Your content is really peaceful and therapeutic. I honestly felt a certain calm watching your content. Huge respect for Kiwi people! Have you ever grown Violets? Stay blessed & Kia Ora!
@@SustainableHolly, thank you so much for replying. Actually, I wanted to ask the easiest method to grow Violets. I want to grow them in a clay plant pot. Can you give me some advice in that regard?
Yep, Warrigal greens are awesome. Year-round greens. Sweet potato too. In Melbourne, I've had no success with bananas I guess a bit too cold in the winter. Did you get the walking onions from seed or an onion pup? I've tried seeds a few times but no go. Where did you get yours from?
Hey Holly! RU-vid deemed me worthy to be exposed to your fantastic channel today! I love all things garden, regeneration, homestead, survival, Permaculture, beautiful, clever and amazing. :) So your channel fits right in there! I think you are beautiful, sexy and very intelligent. What more can I say? A lot. I can be interminably verbose but I'll spare you today. Suffice it to say that I am going to thoroughly enjoy watching all your videos, drinking in your beauty and learning and applying what you know. :) Cheers from magnificent, yet quite insane California!!!
Love your channel. Just a note on QLD Arrowroot the chooks and rabbits love the leaves so makes a good green food for your chickens. I grow it especially for them
enjoyed your video so much my granny would take the leaves from the calla lilly n wrap them in head scarfs for a headache and fever never realized you could eat the roots wow I wish she was still here to tell her that thank you👋👋
Loved this video! Interesting to see that you grow a lot of the same crops as I do here in chilly-always-winter Norway. Some of my survival crops are asparagus, walking egyptian onion, welsh onion, lovage, rhubarb, sun chokes and sea kale.
First of all love your channel it's very educational and inspiring. With the sweet potato being all year round in Perth does it produce the potatoes as well? Is it a certain variety of sweet potatoes?. I always wondered what summer spinach could be grown in summer and have just ordered your some seeds.☺️
Thanks Janet! Normally we plant in spring and harvest in Autumn but because of the mild winters it will often grow through winter. I still stick to Autumn ish harvest though.
Great video, I'm loving the ecopots idea. I started growing Egyptian onions this autumn and looking forward to a perpetual harvest. I've never been successful at growing the larger sized onion so its a great option. Do I need more than one papaya tree for pollination?
Thanks for sharing, dear Please can you give your list of plants in the description box , if it's easy 4 you as it's hard to remember from the screen . 😊 Though you play every name with the plant, it is good to know what the plant looks like. Very well presented videos 👌
Great video! I did a video on a $50 survival garden for temperate plants that follows a lot of the same focus on perennials! Great info and looking forward to trying the pots idea with our cannas!
👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻Awesome video!! All your videos are extremely well edited with great content/tips/suggestions!! My question is how do you keep the papaya alive after it reaches 3-4 feet(/1/2 meters) tall? Mine always died, I’ve tried 4 times & have never been successful!! How moist did you keep the soil?
Hello from the UK. Love your video. And the eco pots are brilliant. Because we cannot grow bananas here, I will try Comfrey leaves for the eco pots. I love plants they call weeds and use Japanese Knotweed, Plantain herb, Dandelion, Stinging Nettle etc in drinks and smoothies. I have a 'Japanese Knotweed Garden' video on my channel, I would love to hear your thoughts. In my 20s I dated a New Zealand guy. I visited and stayed in and around Auckland a lot. Beautiful place and people. ♥️😊♥️
I really enjoyed this video. You must be up north somewhere. I'm in Kaikoura and I can't grow bananas or papayas here. That spinach looks very interesting. Do you know where I can get some please? I grow lots of perennial climbing beans here, and snow peas in early Spring. Brassicas also grow easily here, but it's an absolute must to net them as the white cabbage moth are rampant Oh, you're in Perth! Bit warmer there 😂
What Strain of Papaya did you grow? Imma make it my goal to grow all these one day can you believe a Mulberry tree of that size goes for $450 @ my local nursery cant afford one yet got a Apple Dorsett tree starting there amd a couple of Perennial SouthernBlueBerry bushs and Pepper perenials still gotta learn from all parts of the world how to grow its "Agricultura" Agriculture right its what we do keep growing HomeSlice...
i live in elizabeth just north of adelaide, im finding just normal potatoes are survival crops in my garden . i planted them around 5 years ago and i have not planted any since but i am getting enough volunteer plants come up every year to feed me nicely
@@SustainableHollyHello Holly, l recently joined your channel and have sweet potatoes in pots outside for 4mths. Do you know if l leave them in there for too long, and with Melbourne autumn weather bringing on a rainy season, would they potentially rot if l decided not to harvest? I want to leave them in the ground for a more extended time to “save” tubers underground & keep them multiplying but l have never grown these & am just curious if l can do this? You know a lot about sweet potato growth, so l’d love to hear your take on what l’m trying to do. Thanks Sofia
Wow I can't believe your warrigal greens! I could hardly get mine above one 5cm stalk in a really well nourished garden bed 😔 and in summer! Wonder if i could give it a crack now in Melbourne!
Hey Holly....another great vid, really enjoyed it. l have canna auguste ferrier growing in my garden - do you know if that is also edible .....keep the vids camming
@@trevenen8882 I planted my first bulbs early last Summer. They are all producing babies nicely for the first time now, you see the babies move up the stems. It is so exciting! I'm in Northern California.
Hey Holly, great vid!! One question ( please). Apart from the onions, will chickens eat and like the other foods ? I'm trying to grow all my own chook food, so thought I'd use your list. At least to start with. Cheers Simon, from outback Sth. Australia. P.S. keep up the great work. :)
Hi Simon! Yes I believe so 🌿 I know they love the NZ spinach! they will provide plenty of food to share between you and the chickens 🐓 the papaya seeds are probably good medicine for them to ward off parasites
@@SustainableHolly Thanks very much for the quick reply , Holly . In England, during WW2, root crops were the go for chooks, because people could also eat them. Parsnips, Turnips, Mangle wurzel. That sort of thing. What are thoughts on these ? Thanks again, very much, Simon.
I've got hoselink hose,secateurs and sharpener. Could you show how to sharpener the secateurs correctly as I must be doing it wrong. I can't find a video on sharpening up close on YT.
Also, a tip on what to clean them with would be good as different sites say different things. Your garden is amazing, you certainly know what you are doing.
I’ve heard that NZ spinach should not be eaten raw and requires cooking. Is that true? It hasn’t been a priority of mine to grow for this reason, but if it can be eaten raw I definitely want to make space for it.
Like most of these spinaches it does have oxalates and is recommended to cook or blanch. Personally I choose to eat small amounts raw of spinaches and select the young leaves. But best to look into and decide what’s right for you 🌱
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@@SustainableHolly Hmmm no, not here in Tasmania. Canna edulis and sweet potato need a much longer growing season and more heat. So I think does the warrigal greens. Luckily I can grow plenty of potatoes (if they don't get killed by frost) and silver beet and raspberries.
