Food Growing Like Weeds
Growing perennials and annual crops that easily reseed themselves gives us a garden bed full of crops that grow just like weeds. We use open pollinated seeds for best results. Here's what's growing in the bed: Perennials: chives dandelion Egyptian walking onions garlic chives red veined sorrel sage salad burnet Annuals: arugula claytonia collards giant red mustards kale leaf lettuce mache mustard greens parsley radicchio red orach spinach 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: Emulate a Permaculture Food Forest In Your Vegetable Garden: http://youtu.be/tnjdhaEDBW0 Our Fall/Winter Garden: Low Cost, Low Effort, Self-Sustaining: http://youtu.be/O-aTvOrOKyY
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Hi, I want to buy some Walking Onion's. But, can not find them in Australia. Are you able to offer any advice? Thank you.
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purslane, amaranth zone 9
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chicory. most invasive edible self seeder in my garden. cichorium intybus. great job folks, doing the same in my own region (mediterranean).
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I'm just discovering your videos OneYardRevolution and finding them so helpful. Thank you! How do you feed this bed? It seems like it would be hard to get mulch or compost in there with such densely growing plants? Or is it possible to do it in spring before things come away? (I'm afraid that I will bury my self-seeding seeds too deep if I do this).
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Arugula, malabar vine spinach bunching and onions gone to seed, welcomed weeds.
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Some of the perennials that I'm growing here in Iowa (Zone 5)..... Raspberries, Rhubarb, Peaches, Pears, Hardy Kiwi, Asparagus, Strawberries, Comfrey, Horseradish, Blueberries, Aronia Berries (Black Chokeberry,) Plums, Apples, Mulberries, Hazelnuts, Lavender, Sage, Walnuts, Stevia (In pots not hardy enough), Oregano, Rosemary, Jerusalem Artichokes, Mint, Wild onions, Wild Garlic, High bush Cranberries
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I am watching all of your videos! I just moved to the Chicago suburbs from southern California. I have much to learn!
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Hi, Great patch!
I am working on incorporating the self seeding salads to my garden. Just wondering what sun position is your plot on? -
Geez! What variety of spinach is that, that gets so huge over the winter? 2nd question: I notice the hoops; did you use this bed as a small-scale hoop house over the winter? Thanks in advance for your reply.
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Great video. Your garden rocks!!!! You mentioned that you would add a list of crops that reseed themselves. I know this video came out a long time ago. I looked way back in the comments and could not find the list. Would you mind posting it again?
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Borage, tomatoes,swan plants, pumpkins, and lemon balm seem to enjoy self seeding in my dad's garden year after year! I hope my garden eventually becomes as abundant as his, or yours!
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My home schooled farmers (7 and 8) and I are really enjoying your dvds. We built a raised bed yesterday and planted winter veg, potatoes, garlic and a stray gooseberry bush in it, waiting for onions to arrive. Our mache seeds arrived today and we are so excited to be getting those in as the first ground cover/salad in our forest garden. I hadn't even heard of it before. This is so exciting. The point of the post was to say thank you from us all.
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btw-thanks for the great video!
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Here in sunny Florida we have a very limited window to grow most green leafy veggies....gets so hot by late March to early April that everything goes to seed or withers away....EXCEPT sweet potatoes! Did you know the greens are edible?!?! In Florida they grow like weeds....I have to chop them back regularly (and eat them of course :) or they grow right out of the banana/papaya tree bed next to my front door and start attacking visitors ;) And they seem to be immune to pests and disease. Gotta love a plant that gives so much AND takes care of itself. Plus the beautiful flowers they produce in fall look just like morning glories!
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Your gardern look amazing with all sort of veggies thank for the videos
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Nice! I have peppermint coming year after year without much care
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Hi Patrick, as I am trying to plan a fall garden,I've been going through your videos again and you said that you had a spinach plant that survived your Chicago winter but you didn't say the variety.I sure want to try that one. Did that spinach grow in the hoop house or the cold frame?
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I always get free tomato plants from our home-made compost!
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Some tasty looking weeds growing there ;-) I lost our walking onions in the polyculture bed along with the garlic :-D
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In the high desert of southern california, i've got arugula, radishes, amaranth, lambsquarter, dandelion and various thistles all re-seeding. I used to encourage the dandelion and thistles but they are too bitter here. I will be keeping them from going to seed (they should make good mulch/compost) and favoring the amaranth and arugula. I need to get more different amaranths, since they are beautiful. I rarely get any kale to eat due to pests, but they keep the insects off my other plants, so I am fine with that.
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