My top 8 plants for your new food forest garden
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2021
- Starting a food forest or a garden this spring? Here are the top 8 plants I suggest adding into your food forest. This is a combination of plants that will turn around VERY quick return on investments, propagate well, are dead easy to grow, are cold hardy and resilient, are almost completely ignored by pests, and also perform other functions besides just simply being food! What more can you ask.
This video focuses on non-trees. For the tree layer (if you are starting a food forest), make sure to add your favorite fruit tree to this. Sure some will get up and producing sooner than others (apples are quick vs say hickory nuts which are slow). But overall, a tree will take a bit longer to produce. Get those started also (the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today). However, this video is going to list some plants that (baring some kind of unique soil condition) should be quite easy to grow and will multiply. Plants that typically tend to have a large market - if you want to sell them, and are considered miracle foods (food is medicine).
Some of my favorite plants didn't make this list (Seabuckthorn is the most obvious one here), but only because I wanted to keep this list more "new person friendly". Mushrooms are one that should be in there (winecaps, oyster, shitake, pearl, lions mane, etc), but are one that deserve their whole proper video.
Also, I definitely welcome "you forgot _______ which is my favorite" kind of comments. All comments are welcome. Understand that I could make this list 150 plants deep, and that would make an equally useless video.
Last thing... if you really want "quick to produce and turnaround", that's something that annuals are great at. I didn't want to make this list a bunch of annuals, but for those, consider stuff like Potatoes, Carrots, Onions (which did make this list for a very interesting reason), Tomatoes, Zucchini, Peppers, Squash, etc. But for annuals, people will just grow their favorites, and call it a season. Perennials have a bit more of an "investment", because they stay around for longer. So I did try to focus this list on perennial foods.
If you grow nothing but annuals, try to start adding some of these perennial options to your garden - and ask for other amazing perennial options, such as red Russian kale vs traditional kale. So many gardeners focus exclusively on annuals, and that's a lot of work. It's nice when the season starts that 90% of your gardens are done, your only job is picking food. Oh and that food is already coming up in the spring, with some fiddleheads, ramps, asparagus, perennial onions and mushrooms.
Last thing - get ordering soon. Gardening is experiencing a massive renaissance, and nurseries are going out of sale quickly. Always try to buy as local as possible, not just to support local growers, not just to reduce transport emissions, but also to get varieties best suited to your local area.
Happy Gardening friends,
Keith
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Im surprised Jerusalem Artichokes didn't make this list : ) . I started my food forest last season (barkyard in scarborough) , I planting out a bunch of Sumacs seeds I collected. I hope enough come up this season to thing out (sell a few ) and start building privacy screen along a busy road.
Strawberry tip from Paul Gautchi: In the Fall after they are done for the year, cover the entire bed with enough woodchips to make them "disappear"; and in the the Spring, only the young, strong plants will be able to push through. Lazy (easy) way to thin your strawberry patch.
I love this channel. I am in a zone five on a mountain side at 3400 feet elevation. Most permaculture videos I have found are beautiful and educational but for warmer, longer growing seasons. I am starting my second season in this climate and love all the ideas for plants that will work for my climate.
Bunches of onions should be called “bunions”.
1. Raspberry 2. Garlic 3. Onion 4. Egyptian walking onion. 5 aspergus 6.strwberries 7.haskaps 8.beans and peas
I'm in zone 5 in Iowa. I started my food forest this spring. Raspberries, asparagus, strawberries, gooseberries, garlic, walking onions, horseradish, cat mint, spearmint, chocolate mint, lemon mint, lemon balm, sage, thyme, borage, oregano, and echinacea. I'm looking for comfrey and a friend will be giving me black raspberries after the harvest. I would LOVE a pear tree or 3.😁 I so enjoy your videos. Relaxing, informative, and not super long. The strawberries were given to me today. About 300 plants. I have a wonderful friend who was looking for help in her garden. She is teaching me great skills and blessing me not only with her friendship and knowledge, but lots of free plants. This woman was truly God sent to me.❤️. I pray I bless her right back.
"Get those trees in the ground today." I love that advice. I've wasted two years already focusing on building basic farm infrastructure first when I should have planted the long term fruit and nut trees instead. This reality hit me this week when a lemon tree I planted from seed four years ago in my kitchen garden in the house I live in in the city flowered for the first time ever! Plant your fruit trees early and you will thank yourself for it later because fruit trees are God's gifts that keep on giving year after year with little maintenance needed :-)
Hi Keith! I planted 1/2 pound of Egyptian walking onions seven years ago and I can assure the readers that these plants multiply like mad. The voles don’t seem to hate them so I started planting them next to the fruit trees. The greens in spring are great. They mix well with chives. The bulbs, to me, are STRONG. However, I am not a big time onion lover. Sautéed they are tamed down a lot and taste fine to my non-onion loving palate. Great choice in permaculture garden or food forest. I am in zone 4b on Montana.
Yes to strawberries! I put 6 plants up on the hill and within 2 years they had covered 1/8th of an acre... virtually no top soil, tons of competition from Himalayan blackberries (a very aggressive invasive here), poor water retention clay (due to the steep slope). No extra water, no food, no weeding and now we have a rich stable hillside that the bushes and trees are moving into on their own. Another benefit is they provide great habitat for garter snakes so we don’t have to worry about slugs as much. Snacking on the way up to slash the remaining blackberries is also really nice. Tiny berries that are super sweet. We get so many we can’t pick them all so the birds have a feast and they can’t even get them all before they ferment on the plant. Now those are really interesting!
There's a perennial garlic. Allium canadense. Also, I don't think the Nodding onion is as invasive as the Walking one.
My local nursery is huge. They had 8 different verities of Haskaps. I bought all of them. Came out to 42 plants. Some of them were covered in berries already. All of the bushes were a couple feet tall. A few days ago i planted Jerusalem artichokes. Its a type of sunflower with edible tubers. They are invasive and spread quickly so you will get a lot of food from them. They love the shade too. So if you have a spot where you don't normally plant like the shade side of your house, Jerusalem artichokes will do great.
Great list!
Oregano, thyme, sage, chives and rosemary are high on my list! Herbs are essential to keeping our meals flavorful and making herbal remedies.
For everyone who searches great strawberry varieties. I cultivated quite alot of strawberries with my parents and came to the conclusion that the tastiest and nicest strawberry is a french variety called gariguette they have quite big strawberries with alot of flavor the only thing is that there not really disease resistant/ive had alot of nasty bugs invasion nearly every year even with alot of spiders and ladybugs around.
i have something very interestning to add here, ive been growing onions in varieties from seed for years and usually keep some patches of 6/7 onions spread around the garden in the ground to overwinter and flower, one of those flowering onions produced a set of small onions instead of a flower with seed heads i noticed it very early, i let those grown or swell up not sure what actually happend in the same frame as iwould for trying to harvest seeds, i instantly replanted some of those bulbs as i harvested the well mature other onion flowers and kept some in the cellar for next year planting, those i instantly planted rotted after the show, those i planted the next spring all became 'walking onion plants' ive grown from 'radar' variety onion seeds and been going for 4 years now
In addition to the walking onion and asparagus soup, my spring time go to salad is asparagus, walking onion, sorrel and dandelion salad with a simple oil and vinegar dressing. The garden is productive enough i could eat salad every day!
"Stop watching my videos and start ordering some plants". Growers must love ❤ you.
Another thing about strawberries: you can use the leaves as tea 😄 and when you have to actively thin them out, you can actually consider this a harvest 😄😄 you should look into making berry leaf tea if you haven't already. Fermenting (or actually oxidizing) the leaves makes a fruity black tea alternative out of them😄 i never tried it with strawberry but it works very well with blackberry leaves. It's originally a method from Russia where they use fireweed leaves to make a beverage called "ivan chai".
Watching this confirms all my plans and gives me confidence that im moving in the right direction!! Got everything you recommended, just looking for asparagus! My son even asked me... "why are you watching if you know all this stuff mom??" Lol... just encouraging to my soul! Thanks!
Did Egyptian walking onions last year because of you. So fun…thank you!