My top 8 plants for your new food forest garden

[@MrEddiecu]

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. I also put in black berries, and 2 verities of haskaps. I haven't planted any trees yet as a I want to build the soil first. Im going to spread daikon radishes, amaranth and peas/beans.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yes, they were a hard cut. I just thought I talk about them too much as it is, and they even have their own spotlight video. Also a lot of people just don't like them for some reason, so I thought it was best to leave them out. But if this was a list just for me, I honestly think they'd be number 1. Another hard cut was seabuckthorn, for the same reason. I feel like I talk about that plant too much, but if I were starting fresh, I would have that in my food forest before anything else.

[@debbiehenri345]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I think Sea Buckthorn is vastly underrated. I found some in Norfolk (UK) some years ago and grew a few from seed I collected (easy enough). Planted them too small, however, and the grass in my garden overwhelmed them. Yesterday, I finished planted 20 much larger plants that I've just bought online. Really quite cheap for what they are. The other great thing about Sea Buckthorn is the fact they are such an open, airy plant, allowing a lot of light through, down to the ground and onto other plants directly behind them.

[@buzzyhardwood2949]

Sea buckthorn is extremely versatile in terms of hardiness. I planted mine in former pasture and most grew in spite of me. Those planted nine years ago are about nine feet tall and beginning to sucker. I like free plants. Comparing our two climates, UK to Montana east of the Great Divide, shows this is one incredibly adaptable plant. Our temps have ranged from a winter worst -27F to 102F since I planted them.

[@VeronicaKirin]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I had Jerusalem Artichoke for one season. They were REALLY tasty but holy cow did they take over my entire garden XD Will try cultivating them in a raised bed next time.

[@snowhero9]

sunchokes are native to north america

[@grandavepermaculture]

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.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Definitely a good thing. Works similarly with many plants.

[@KatesSlate]

I listened to that advice and mine are doing amazing!!!

[@kennethetucker]

TY, GB! Less stoop labor for this Septugenarian 'thinning' is a good thing.

[@JWHealing]

Oh great idea. Thanks for posting / passing it along!

[@c.m.303]

I was just about to post this! Love sharing the gardening tips.

[@johnrandant]

Great list! Raspberries Garlic Egyptian walking onions Asparagus Strawberries Haskaps Beans Peas

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

TY

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

I've got all of these except Egyptian walking onions. Most of my honey berries ( hasksps ) are tiny. All were planted last year. Another good addition to this list would be sea berries( sea buckthorn). My jersey night asparagus will be replaced this year with jersey night. The jersey night being removed are 27 yrs old and past their prime. My purple passion are just coming into full production. I just started my food forest the season before last. It's still a baby even though the orchard trees are between. 2 and 100 yrs old. The oldest trees are loving the forest system with the supporting plants

[@midwestribeye7820]

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.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Fantastic!

[@salemorganicranch]

"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 :-)

[@kellinigh2398]

"Stop watching my videos and start ordering some plants". Growers must love ❤ you.

[@mygardenadventures3682]

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.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wow, thanks! That's exactly why I decided to make my own channel. I'm honestly very introverted - not that I'm uncomfortable around people, but my ideal "social setting" is myself in the woods alone. That's just how I'm made. So it's really hard for me to be on videos, honestly. I cringe when I watch my own videos - I think that's natural though. It's tough, but I think it's important that people in cold climates have something to watch and see how much we can do up here. Sure our growing season is shorter, but my goodness, the BERRIES alone, there is no climate that does berries better. We can get INSANE production from berries. Then we also get winter-resets of pest problems. We get downtime to do infrastructure projects. The longer I do this in the cold climate, the more I realize, it's not WORSE, it's just DIFFERENT. There are really nice benefits to being in a colder climate. And honestly, we get so much rain here, that alone is a massive blessing.

[@kescah]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Don't cringe! You are the greatest!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha I appreciate the love you guys send me always.

[@mygardenadventures3682]

My favourite thing about being this remote is getting to spend days out in the woods. We moved onto this quarter acre last spring and I was thrilled to find loads of raspberries already here . Hopefully the currants I bought last year survive the winter and I can spread some cuttings around this year. I am definitely getting some oyster and winecap spores to add to the two loads of wood chips I had delivered last year and I am putting in asparagus that I have started from seed. I haven't decided on any trees yet, that is still being planned and debated on. I have truly found so much inspiration from this channel. I love the more in depth videos and the lengthy explanations. It's great to know X works with Y, but understanding how it works and why I am doing it makes it all easier to remember and implement. And side note, as a budget fanatic, I really appreciated that you addressed the financial aspects and considerations in a few videos. A lot of people neglect that aspect, but it is vital.

[@Canceriantigershark]

​@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy One thing that also gets left out is higher elevation areas that may get late frosts that kill all the flowers on your apple, pears, plums, peaches, etc. Nobody talks about this.

[@Lauradicus]

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!

[@buzzyhardwood2949]

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.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome. Yeah, I can attest to them being pretty potent. I really enjoy that aspect of them because they add SO much flavour to soups. They can be a much smaller onion, so I like that they pack a punch. The greens are a bit more tame. Honestly, this onion is probably my favorite onion for taste. The fact that they are perennial, it's just amazing.

[@Darkice77]

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.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

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[@dionysos4288]

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. Second variety that is good is lambada really disease resistant good taste (not as good as gariguette) and really big strawberries. Number three is darselect just an average great strawberry that runs fast normally disease resistant a bit sweet/sour taste which you need to like. El santa is also great but a bit small, but taste great and good producer and disease resistant. Korona is great too with nice taste and nice big strawberries and really disease resistant What you shouldn’t get are the following varieties: Framberry (just never worked for me, don’t know why and needs hand pollination but i cannot get any fruits on it they all get sick or die off) Pineberry (interesting, okay taste but really low producer so no good and needs other strawberry for pollination or hand pollination) Bubbleberry (tooooo sweet and taste bad, cool name but that’s it, it attracts so many bugs that you can’t have one leaf that is normal also not nice producer and only causes problems maybe the worst strawberry there is.) There are plenty of varieties to choose from and experiment with so have fun with gardening. This is my opinion and experience you can do with it what you want and you can test out with the bad varieties too of course I would be really interested if someone could actually manage to get some framberries growing and show it on KZbin. Ps. You showed a fragment of you’re strawberries I think and you didn’t know which species you’re strawberry were, well the fragment with the pink flowers is called toscana strawberry. I don’t know if you knew so yeah.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wow Dionysos coming with the knowledge. You are something like 16 years old, right? That's an amazing post, thanks for sharing. I also think you are bang on with the Toscana, I think I do rememeber seeing that on a tag. Damn dude.

[@dionysos4288]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy haha yeah I am 16 years old and thanks for commenting👍😊

[@alchomica5207]

I grow Framberries and have been for many years. They were originally called, Strasberry and they are the sweetest strawb out there. Now that jar lids have come back to the shelves I just made strawberry/kiwi jam with them. The trick I exercise to get great crops is to plant them in coffee tubs with a good compost and I place two plants in the corners then I plant two gigantic British Sovereign plants in the other two corners. Or, in my raised beds I plant strawbs all along the edges. One Framberry then one BS, continue. The BS is big and the Framberries that get cross-pollinated by them are quite a bit bigger than the other ones. I grow Charlotte from France as well that tastes like bubble gum...

[@SamirAbuLina]

Did you try Mara des Bois by any chance? They supposedly have a nice taste and you get fruits from June till October.

[@arialblack87]

Oh Pineberry are one of my favourites! They do need other strawberry plants around, but (at least in my situation) they produce a lot of interesting-tasting fruit that are rearely eaten buy bugs or birds, as they are ripe while almost white, slightly pink. They also are quick colonisers, so you'll have more than you need in a couple of years. Just do remember to have other plants with male flowers around Edit to add: they are quite tall too, both the leaves and the flowering/fruiting stems, so they work great with a shade tolerant ground cover. I have wood sorrel under them and mint around. The mint overwhelms other varieties but not pineberry

[@livingcleanhomestead4960]

Oregano, thyme, sage, chives and rosemary are high on my list! Herbs are essential to keeping our meals flavorful and making herbal remedies.

[@nomiss2593]

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". Cheers from Germany 😄

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh that's neat. I knew you could eat the young leaves, but they aren't particularly great. I will have to try making some tea with them.

[@pameliac]

😂

[@angeliquemeyer9660]

Hello ! I'm new to permaculture, but wanted to add on to this comment too! raspberry leaves tea is also very good, and helps regulating the female cycle (period pain for example)

[@cammaritalbot9482]

I have heard that strawberry flowers are edible as well

[@teeshastutzman2717]

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!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Ha! I binge watch permaculture content. It's just my way to chill. I love it. I could make a coffee and watch someone turning their compost. I'm just into this stuff. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but that's okay. We all relax in our own ways.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Heck yes, it beats the dickens out of watching depressing news and stoopid TV shows. I like your phrase "encouraging to my soul."

[@chandrikatilwalli4741]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy It just funny that you enjoy learning about composting. I tell my family that when I am gone, I want my headstone to read “ here lies a composter-composted- now compost”!

[@jinde75]

I have Strawberries, but the pillbugs get most of them... I have two Haselnuts that have been blooming since early February, maybe even January. And we had snow here in northern Germany.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL

[@DIABETESHEALTHS]

1. Raspberry 2. Garlic 3. Onion 4. Egyptian walking onion. 5 aspergus 6.strwberries 7.haskaps 8.beans and peas

[@krimmer66]

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!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed! Many people overlook the dandelion, but it's really good. Just make sure you harvest it off your lawn/garden only, because the world hates this wonderful plant for some reason, and taking dandelions off someone else's place, who knows what kind of crap may have been sprayed on it.

[@krimmer66]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I have a small garden dedicated to walking onions, sorrel and the dandelion, they seem to love each others company:)

[@helio2k]

yes, you are the perfect excuse to take a break from studying phytomedicine. Tomorrow exam and i am not thrilled to study insecticides. I just got a few artichokes and a tamarillo. Haskaps are already budding. It's up to 20° here. Fall garlic already emerged. And my first comfrey is also saying hello World.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Hahaha take a break from studying phytomedicine by watching a video talking essentially about phytomedicine. You are addicted my friend. Welcome to PA. Plantoholics Anonymous. My name is Keith and I am a plant addict.

[@helio2k]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Yes, watching all these videos gave me a strong scientific foundation making many topics pretty easy to understand. And yes I am addicted. But I think this is one of few healthy addictions :D

[@rootedinjoy8821]

Did Egyptian walking onions last year because of you. So fun…thank you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

How are they doing? Soon you will have thousands of them!

[@FBall-im8ui]

Left the east for Vancouver Island, I currently have 7 items growing through the winter, so nice. learning to appreciate the warmth and not having snow, Planting trees today, preparing soil for a run of blueberries 100 plants

[@NatashaAidinyantz]

I got my first two haskaps growing at my allotment in the UK. Can't wait for the first blooms! And lol at your comment about garlic. I take it as a challenge that I can't eat as much garlic - watch me! Nice video. Thank you

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

*Throws down gauntlet* Indeed, we actually DID manage to eat over 400 garlic last year. We made a LOT of soups to freeze for hockey season.

[@Sky-Child]

Garlic bread? Don't mind if I do... (My absolutely favourite is Foragers Soup - mushrooms, garlic and hazlenuts)

[@theweirdospfan.28]

Korean pine and Swiss stone pine are great trees to plant for pine nuts in colder areas! If you live in zone 1, you can plant Siberian pine for pine nuts too! You can basically grow pine nuts anywhere!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Just make sure you know how much effort and what low yield you get from those pine nuts. The pine nuts you buy in a store are from pinyon pines. Siberian, Korean and Stone pine nuts are the size of sunflower seeds or smaller, and they are a pain in the butt to harvest.

[@theweirdospfan.28]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy pinyon pines don’t usually grow well here because it’s too moist. There’s also the dwarf Siberian pine that you don’t have to climb up to harvest. So there’s that

[@milipwn]

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

[@formidableflora5951]

A fine list!! However, I think everyone should plant at least one perennial leafy green, so there's a video for another day (plenty of choices--Hablitzia, stinging nettle, good King Henry, sorrel, sea kale, hosta shoots, etc.). I went out with a bowl early last spring and filled it with over a dozen greens that were either perennial or had self-seeded the previous year. Fruit gets a lot of attention, but I can't wait to eat some spring greens.

[@lesliekendall2206]

A great perennial green is Waterleaf. Both leaves and rhizomes are edible. Some sources say it naturally grows in a warm climate but look further, it grows in almost every planting zone.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

We have stinging nettles down near the river and they are quite good (have to cook them). Extremely nutritious apparently. Sea kale, I have that o'plenty, and it reseeds very well also. I have to still add Good King Henry and Hablitizia. I actually planted Caucasian Mountain Spinach, not knowing it was Hablitzia. For some reason I don't think it ever popped up. Maybe I didn't cold stratify it long enough, maybe it will pop up this spring. If not I'll try it again and maybe baby the area a bit more until it gets established. Definitely want more perennial greens!

[@formidableflora5951]

@@lesliekendall2206 Wondering how aggressive you have found this? Eastern waterleaf is native in my area, but I don't want to disturb the current balance much.

[@lesliekendall2206]

@@formidableflora5951 I haven't had it long enough to know. It didn't like where I planted it last year so I re-potted it last fall and brought it inside till Spring.

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

Hey Keith! Gotta love your intensity in this latest video tome. Using a whole set of story telling styles reminds me of the book Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes. A good story should have a beginning, middle and an end and once again you have proven that it doesn't even have to be in that order. The indulgent use of celebrity placement (your better half) and the odd pop quiz keeps the story line pumping. The fact that you choose to shoot this video standing in shin deep snow with a tea cosy on your head just adds to the uniqueness of this story. Thanks once again and I hope the warming literature reference (being set in Spain). Cheers!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Please never leave my channel. I want to read your comments for the rest of my life. I'm begging you. Tea cosy on my head, LOL.

[@HavaWM]

When you said to pause the video and guess, I was saying, “Bc you live in Canada!!!” 😂 Okay, well, giving bees nectar is also a valid answer 😅

[@amyr505]

This is so timely. I am starting my food forest this spring. My trees and some shrubs are ordered, just waiting for them to arrive.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Indeed, I was trying to think of good videos to do which would be timely in nature. I was wanting to do a video on which trees/bushes to order (because now is ordering season), and then I got that comment from April and it aligned perfectly.

[@mikeholper553]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Order early!!! I was surprised by how little variety of stock most of the nurseries have this year! I ended up having to order from 10 different nurseries just to get most of what I wanted to get this year.

[@0KiteEatingTree0]

Watching in the UK, had to look up Haaskap . Commonly known over here as Honeyberry. Lonicera caerulea) is the plant to look for to make sure you get the right plant:)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That's the one!

[@lesliekendall2206]

There's a perennial garlic. Allium canadense. Also, I don't think the Nodding onion is as invasive as the Walking one.

[@ScottMorganINFJ]

My new favourite Permaculture channel.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Cheers 🍻

[@victorybase5847]

I have a knee jerk reaction to your videos that makes me feel like a total sycophant. So I usually I just refrain from commenting altogether. 😂 But honestly I don’t think it can be overstated-you are doing a PHENOMENAL job EDUCATING THE MASSES on food security while also showing how to be a great steward at caring for our planet & the wildlife on it. Even people that aren’t watching & don’t care will soon learn that relying on others to feed them could end in a diseased & nutrient starved family or worse, end in starvation. So hats off to u for taking the time to educate people u don’t know & probably never will. But what I really wanted to say about the video is-I’m almost shell shocked that you live in one of the coldest climates there is yet I have never heard the word “container” in any of your videos. The internet had me convinced that “container gardening” was necessary bc I live in the States in a ZONE that has FOUR distinct climates! Which zone? ANY ZONE that ends with a number! 😂 How is it possible that u have the garden of Eden in Canada? IN THE GROUND? I lived in Canada as a child, my sisters were born there, we had 2 seasons, #Cold & #BuriedinSnow. Yet here u are bragging about an empty “stickly” looking garden covered in snow! It’s truly awe inspiring what God has actually blessed us with regardless of where we’re planted. Yours is one of, if not thee most important + educational + beautifully amazing earthly channels on KZbin. So if I say thank you after every video, I’m actually not a sycophant, I’m just grateful that you’re teaching me for FREE. #ThankYou ❤️

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

haha, thanks so much! The key to no containers is equal parts laziness and planting zone appropriate species and varieties. I could make a food forest in Northern Alberta, it would just be limited on what plants I could grow. (VERY limited). Containers are great for if someone has lots of time, lots of inclination for babying plants (water and nutrients long term), and want to grow things that don't normally grow where you are.

[@annburge291]

If one adopts a Charles Dowding, no till system, with cardboard over the soil and a bed of deep old compost... the potatoes grow in the compost layer and the roots of the trees are fine because the soil isn't being disturbed.... the only consideration is that some trees don't do well with rich soil ( nitrogen fixers) and the annual usually needs to be sunny side of the truck. If the soil is naturally contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, lead etc... one tends to have trees that produce mulch and have little uptake of heavy metals into their nuts/fruit and all root vegetables are grown in raised wicking beds and containers with no contact with the contaminated soil.

[@marilenebeaulieu9727]

One I have been surprise by its productivity is ligonberry. I have a nice patch at the house (really sandy soil) and I don't know for how long they have been there but we can pick about 4L per year of that little cranberry like fruit. It is a nice soil cover too. The grouses ate them all this year since we did not took the time to pick them :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

This is one I don't have yet. I still have to find some and add them to my expansions this year.

[@marilenebeaulieu9727]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I think I would be able to send you some but I don't know if I would remember in spring when snow is melted...or be able to dig some out now

[@morninglight7544]

Just an idea, one of my favorite channels has the long live show, then later puts out an edited video with what he considers the important points. I think it works really well for both the types of viewers. And the condensed version give a chance for the live viewers to go back and take notes! Looking forward to this!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Definitely. Right now, my internet provider is xplornet and they SUCK. I get 100 kbps download and 30-50kbps upload (even though it's advertised at 20Mbps and 5Mbps). So right now it's literally not possible for me to do - however hopefully we can get starlink soon. If I do, then I'll certainly do a live chat once every 1-2 weeks.

[@cedarridgeorganics8141]

All alarms, notifications and reminders set ... excited !!!!!!

[@stevejunipergrey403]

ty so much for all these informative videos. Greetings from Germany

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching!

[@mariusluca7936]

Could've bet that one of the eight would have been Jerusalem artichokes :) Thanks for the selection, I followed your advice from earlier videos and had most of them in the ground last autumn. Fingers crossed that they survived the winter and re-awake in my garden.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Honestly if it were just me, they would be number 1. I know that a lot of people don't like them as much, and I already have them spotlighted in their own 30 minute video. I'll probably write a soft-rock ballad for them at some point. But for this video I did choose to leave them out.

[@ELee-zv5ud]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Many people don't eat them as they are one of the food plants that create a lot of gas. Guts differ in what they can digest.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Definitely, my wife has that problem with then. That's why I mention the way to break them up by boiling them. It destroys the inulin which is what causes that reaction in people. The longer you boil them for, the less inulin.

[@tashasmith1234]

Glad to find your channel because the other ones on food forest are Southern. I'm in NW Washington state, so solid list for me! Thank you! 😊

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@valerieschoof4813]

Looking forward to this!

[@dragonflowergardens3254]

Haskap! I didn't think of that. I was focused on getting the blueberries going. Thank you for this video. Put in 5 strawberry plants 3 years ago now it completely covers a 10 by 12 plot. Get y'all some strawberry! Just put in over 50 canes of raspberries. My neighbor dug them up and was going to throw them in his burn pile. He said they were out of control. I took all those canes and just play them straight into the ground. Y'all get some raspberries. Great addition to the Food Forest! Stay awesome my Gardener friends.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha, thanks for the confirmation. Indeed, they produce so much, and spread so fast they are bordering on "problem" territory. But that's what I want in my garden. Stuff that wants to grow and stuff that feeds.

[@dragonflowergardens3254]

I want in my garden plant that are perennial that I only have to plant once and then I can feed my family with it continuously. I was Fabregas that he would pull up all his raspberries and then try to burn them. Wow dude! I told him," I'd be glad to take care of that for him." Just like you my friend, so many strawberries, giving them away to my other Gardner friends that are local.

[@IS-217]

AWW! What a tease! Hahaha. Looking forward to it. Cheers!

[@bobbiejean864]

I have wonderful runners on my strawberries. Last spring I planted 6 Seascape and 6 Albion strawberry plants. Both types are everbearing (and delicious!). I pinched off the flowers like you said, letting the roots establish. Thank God I did because 4 of my Seascape plants were eaten by deer. They took off every single leaf. But they grew back!! All 4 plants are not only alive, but thriving. And my original 12 plants have had so many runners that at last count I had over 50 plants! At the end of the season I couldn't keep up with pinching off so many flowers so we ended up tasting both varieties. Both are quite delicious!! FYI - I bought the 12 strawberry plants and 1 blackberry plant from Berries Unlimited. All are thriving.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh thats great! Not that they were eaten but that they rebounded. It's a really good thing to remember, I will mention that the next time I'm talking about pinching flowers. It's preventitive measures against unforseen future damage too.

[@jonroberts2445]

If you don't have haskap in here, we're gonna have words 🤣

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lol 😆

[@martybartfast1]

Thank you so much, I'm a recent subscriber and am enjoying the back log of content. It seems very concise and well presented. The saliva glands are flowing just imagining the harvest of your smart labors. You are a true teacher. m

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Hahaha! Thanks

[@mimibergerac7792]

My one cent if you have non perfect soil like I have (mine is heavy ph 7.8) is to buy only one plant per variety but as much varieties of eg raspberries you can get (with taste description at least : very good) because they really are different in their adaptability to adverse soil conditions. Some die out after one season and others just continue to produce..

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

This is a really good comment. Same thing for if you have vastly different areas in your land. Buy a few extra of each type and plant them in various places to see where the plants naturally do best. Really good comment, thanks Mimi.

[@charlenekociuba7396]

yep, working on my garden even if I can't get into it, planning ahead.

[@kescah]

You lost the strawberry tag... no surprise. What I've loved for use on our new property is an app called Picture This. It's $20 US per year, and if you take a picture of the plant, it will give you tons of information about it as well as having support available. It even tells you if it sees symptoms of this or that disease and what you can do about it. Love it!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That is the one I use as well :)

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

I want strawberries all over our property, even if they never produced an actual berry. Because here in East TN they stay green all winter long, which means they're always supporting that crucial soil microbiology. They're also just a nice-looking, low-maintenance groundcover. We've grown some standard varieties from plants you can get at any store and this year we also bought seeds for a "wild" alpine variety. And as a bonus to all that.... strawberries! :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I made a post like this on reddit today. This is such a good take, and not only because I also said it today also. Just getting a spreading groundcover has value for the soil microbiology. Any strawberries you get are a bonus.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yes, exactly. I take the view that my first priority is to "grow" healthy soil. Everything else can sort of work itself out as I develop that.

[@Orange_You_Glad]

Thanks for the size guide on haskaps! I bought two if the saskatewan varieties at an “end of bare root” same and I was worried that they were slow. But now I’m thinking that I should be happy with 6” shrubs.

[@rashmiendenburg5115]

Love it ! I appreciate the reasoning behind your choices. I also love (biannual and perennial) kale !

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks!

[@barbaranewerla]

Ans so nice that kohlrabi seems to be a weired plant in Canada🙂. In Germany we eat it all the time. A great fast growing plant, very hardy, easy to grow, from very early in spring until december, which does not consume much space. Great to eat raw with other raw food and salads. It even gets quite sweet with the last sets in winter.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I am definitely going to grow more of it this year. I think my family is slowly opening up to eating things that aren't lettuce LOL

[@ancientgardening6920]

We've been spreading asparagus seeds everywhere from the three asparagus plants we started from seed several years ago that have grown into stands. Same with garlic, it's spread over the entire garden so much that we dig out entire sections of it and not make a dent in their numbers. We've even started some new varieties of garlic after finding out that there are mild ones that you can grow as well.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

This is the best part about spreading your own seed. Making your own varieties! Land race.

[@ancientgardening6920]

Absolutely! We just got four kinds of bunching onions and already put them in the ground with leek seeds, whatever comes up will be fine and if they mix, even better. We put saved radish seeds all together, and when they come up we eat through them to guide their evolution. We also got a couple new packets to mix in after they go to seed. Oh, it turns out that propagated plants like garlic and strawberries have more mutations in their propagating stems, so they don't miss out on the genetic diversity.

[@enchantedkeyboard7674]

Thanks for the winter garden tours! Helping me get through winter in Ottawa

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I can't believe it's already end of February. This winter went so much faster than last winter for me. I feel like a kid in November and Christmas is just around the corner, and you start counting the days until it comes. Spring is almost here... kinda sorta.

[@sjk7314]

I'll just second your comment except end it with "...here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Lake Superior."

[@barbaranewerla]

Great video. I just finished my own PDC with Geoff Lawton and planted a lot of trees and bushes in autumn. Now I did a lot of research for the other layers to cover the ground quickly in spring. I am in zone 6b/7 on 720m height and there is not so much out there for our cooler climate zones in the north...espechially no really concrete and detailed information about plants and guilds. Always said: Oh just start and try it out. I could do this for sure but whhy should I invent the wheel again for myself? Why not share experience in the community to get started faster and be more efficient. So I am really thankfull for this! ❤. The plants you mention are what I have come across so far, too, but it is of great value to participate in your years of experience what really works.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I agree so much! We should be collaborating as much as possible!

[@waterjades]

Re: Perennials Preferred over Annuals. I don't fully agree with this. Some annuals go to seed, the seeds fall to the ground, replanting itself and naturally growing the next year. There's no work involved. My top pick for edible annuals is spinach specifically bloomsdale (because I've never grown other varieties). The seeds start sprouting in the spring along with the dandelions. If it snows, they just power through it like the dandelions. It's one of the earliest foods you can eat if you let nature do the work. I would argue that it's easier than peas or beans because peas and beans require human intervention and need to be physically planted. After the first year, you don't need to plant spinach again as long as you always let a few go to seed. Plus you can plant spinach by throwing the seeds to the ground and letting it grow where it lies similar to how nature plants seeds. A note with regards to peas, I agree this is a fantastic plant to grow. Most people don't know you can eat most of the plant. You can cut the tips off of the plant to eat and the plant will branch out making it a bushier plant with more tips. Once the plant is taller you can harvest some of the leaves from the middle of the plant. The tips and leaves can be stir fried and tastes like a milder version of a pea. Pea tips are crazy expensive and go for about $5/lb at the grocery store! I start eating the tips of the plant once it's about half a foot tall and continue to cut off the tips as it grows. You don't need to wait for the pods to start eating.

[@dionysos4288]

Excited!

[@WilliamComiskey]

This will technically be year 2 for my food forest, but the first year that it might look like something. 2019 I mulched a wide border around the house just to reduce the amount of mowing, then started extending out the border on the NW side. In 2020 I planted two blackberry plants, an aronia, and a goji in the year old mulched area and extended the area to 63-ish feet (around 5 truck loads of arborist wood chips). Now I'm waiting on my order from Raintree Nursery.. Three varieties of apple (Akane, Boskoop, William's Pride), two blueberry (Blueray and blue gold), two raspberry varieties (Cascade Delight and Fall Gold), Methely Asian plum, three strawberry varieties (Albion, Eversweet, and Mignonette), Neptune is grape, and a supposedly cold hardy Rosemary (Arp). Haskaps, Seaberry, comfrey, king stropharia, and walking onions are high up my wishlist, though. Waiting for Spring is killing me!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha, I am this comment. I can remember being there. I can still FEEL it so much. You have such amazing future ahead of you.

[@WilliamComiskey]

Oh, man, I hope so! We're in a 900ft² house on a quarter acre lot, so it's just too much "lawn" except everything is sand, so grass won't grow well anyway. I have an area about 1550ft² mulched out for a permaculture food forest and during the summer, the sun travels almost completely parallel to the street and higher than the trees on the opposite side, shining almost straight down, so all these plants that say full sun better mean it, because that's what they're going to get!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL

[@jrmikulec]

Smooth editing and concise information. You're awesome!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! You have really seen it all, you have been around since my first videos ever. Slowly getting better... lol

[@daniel4647]

Good thing I pre-ordered those strawberries then, gonna be awesome.

[@hellamiss]

Wow I am super grateful for and impressed by your channel! Blessing to you and yours 🙏🦅💗

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thank you! You too!

[@dongkraus]

Really appreciate this video. I will start with all of these. Greetings from southern Germany!

[@lauraalmasan3930]

I’m in zone 5(Chicago) and I watched several of your videos to help me expand my garden. I’m going to make some guilds this year and I’m looking forward to planting some haskaps, sea buckthorn and Jerusalem artichokes.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah! Best of luck Laura. I've seen you making a few comments, so you are brushing up your info before planting! Awesome stuff, you will be an amazing gardener with this thirst for knowledge 👌

[@matttilghman2644]

Haha I love how excited to find you your dog was at 3:06

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

She's hilarious. It's funny when she sees me out there and starts barking because I'm too far away. Then I'll yell "Ginny it's me" and she comes BOUNDING through the snow to say hi. She's the best dog I've ever had. Yeah, she's just the absolute best dog ever.

[@cpnotill9264]

Really appreciate this and thank you in advance! 🌱👍

[@pameliac]

🍀🌱🪴🌲🌳🌸💐🌹🏵🌺🌻🌼🌷⚘🍃

[@Glow0110]

Great video brother

[@zachlloyd9392]

@3:53 I had to rewind, was clanking my coffee spoon around and thought you said eco-terrorism.

[@FebbieG]

I ordered really early (in the fall) from a southern-based company that ships when they're ready to plant, and my dormant perennials came in earlier than expected, but still in a good planting window based on my typical local climate, so I planted them out. *Then the Texas ice storm came*. It got down to 0°F, here, and that NEVER happens. Literally all of them survived, even the fig, and I'm so excited about it. I just might order some more. Haha

[@lesliekendall2206]

Scratch one of the limbs to see if the underneath is green or dead. Even so, don't worry too much. I thought my new grapes were dead last year but waited another month and BOOM, started budding like crazy.

[@FebbieG]

@@lesliekendall2206 I edited my comment, because I decided to just Google my question (lol) and then I immediately went out and did the scratch test on all of them. I saw that I didn't have a reply to this comment yet, so I just edited it. I guess I was doing that while you were typing out your helpful reply. 🤦‍♀️ Haha

[@nomiss2593]

Oh and talking about "superior choice over blueberries", service berries man😄 I just like them so much and I heard you guys in Canada have some heavily producing varieties 😄

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So good. They are slower to grow so wouldn't really match this video (they are a fast growing tree though). But definitely, I am going to do a top tree video at some point, and these will definitely be on the list.

[@moniqueollinger8988]

I got some Egyptian walking onions last fall and planted them. I’m so excited to see them this spring.🌱✨

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Try to not touch them this year - maybe just a little bit to taste them (a few greens). But let them get established, let the greens develop and make photosynthesis for stronger roots, let the greens get hard and turn to hard stalks for bulbit sets, then end of season take those and spread them, planting them like normal onions. Take a solid year or even two to spread them.

[@claudiaperea]

You are such a wealth of information. I cannot express my thanks!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

You just did and it's so appreciated! You are all the best. I have such a nice community of people who come here.

[@lynsmith2698]

Excellent video, thank you

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

You are welcome!

[@charlesbale8376]

Wonderful tips and information.

[@stonedapefarmer]

I got a single haskap last year. And then had the deer come through and destroy my bushes. Luckily they're both budding out, so hopefully I'll get more fruit this year and a chance to propagate the bushes and spread them around.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That's too bad. Thankfully they are pretty tough plants and should bounce back well. At least as much as anything would.

[@stephaniecrunchycanadianma6280]

I just found your channel and have been binge watching! I live in Northern Ontario and it’s so nice to see videos more relatable to our zone! (3B)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@CranberryHollow]

This was so helpful, thank you. We're starting our food forest this spring and it's easy to become overwhelmed with all of the options.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad it was helpful! You can do it. Remember, you can't screw this up and you have more than enough time to adjust and make changes. The worst thing is to get overwhelmed and not make the leap.

[@Thee-_-Outlier]

Epic video man. Just found your channel. You're in a colder climate than me but I subbed because I like how you think

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome, welcome 😀

[@melodylyons4631]

Great presentation.

[@kcoker9189]

I've had a recent thought lately to help get "wild" spots planted. Having bird and squirrel feeders set up with seeds of local plants that are more common and beneficial to local wildlife (maybe grasses, flowers and ground cover). That way the birds and squirrels can be the planters and only the areas and plants that can survive and thrive on their own will cultivate. I haven't decided if I'm going to ask permission for this or ask for forgiveness later haha. But I have a few people I'm talking with about this and other local projects too. Also I'm slowly amassing cuttings and seeds for this year and I'm getting ridiculously excited haha. As always great video, thank you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Forgiveness. Definitely forgiveness. =p

[@debbiehenri345]

There must be some Haskaps that are 'better' than others, because I bought 3 and they taste revolting, really eye-popping bitter. Even the birds wouldn't touch them. I've shoved them into another part of the garden to see if a move will help. If birds are a problem around strawberries - try the white variety called 'Snow White.' It has a superior taste (some liken it to a pineapple). It both fruits pretty well and sets lots of runners at the same time. The birds simply ignore the white fruits, nor did I have trouble with mice or slugs. Because they don't turn red, you learn to know when they're ripe by the smell, the amount of 'give' when you squeeze them gently, or by a very slight blush that some fruits develop. As well as Egyptian Walking Onion, Welsh Onions do pretty much the same job - plus there is now a red type to add a bit of border interest. I also have a 'Thick-Leaved Dandelion' which is a selected type. That's pretty good if you can handle the taste of Dandelion leaves. They blanch well too. I leave mine in the ground, just stick a pot over them and - well, you can't easily kill any dandelion, they just keep on producing leaves. (I've left a pot over one Dandelion for 2 years - as an experiment - and it 'still' produces leaves. Immortal, I reckon). Good King Henry is another good one for producing a few good leaves in their first year, and they just seem to get better year after year.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

A great post, and love the suggestions. I need to still try Good King Henry myself. One thing about haskaps is that when you think they are ripe they aren't. They will go from green to bright blue, and they still aren't ripe yet. I have a feeling you just ate an unripe one that looked ripe but wasn't. You have to wait until just brushing lightly against it makes it fall off the bush. That's when they are ready. It could be variety also though. I have boreal, beauty, beast, tundra, and a few others. They are all quite good. Definitely sour, but a nice sour, not a lip puckering face vortex of sour. Just a nice tart sour with a deep complex flavor. Hard to describe.

[@liabobia]

Oh man it's my birthday then, thanks for the knowledge present fam ;)

[@twominutefoodforest165]

Happy birthday!

[@chachadodds5860]

I've been wondering about Haskaps. Thanks for covering this plant in your video; I never hear anyone talking about it. This looked good in the catalog, but since I'd never heard of it before, I wasn't sure what the berries tasted like. Now, I'm convinced that planting this is a good idea, especially after what you said about the aviary benefits. First time I've watched you. I'm subbing, then watching more.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Thanks for watching. These are indeed one of my favorite bushes - if just for the bees alone. The berries also taste great though, they are very productive, very healthy berries, and they give a crop a solid month before anything else, extending your season greatly. A wonderful addition. Make sure to get at least 2-3 varieties for better fruit quality and set (they are semi-fertile, meaning they will make fruit on just 1 plant, but the quality and size improves with more varieties pollinating eachother).

[@soilbellefarm3210]

Great video thanks

[@cpnotill9264]

Have all but one on your list.....haskap but on the list to find today! Thank you again for sharing vauable information Keith. 🌱🌞💚

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Good choice! Good luck! They are a huge favorite of mine.

[@mudotter]

Have you tried Pascal celery yet? It is the original variety of celery. Stems get woody, but the leaves make a great greens, and green manure, they're so productive. I also dried a lot of it for putting in cooking all winter. As a biennial, it is fill space well, produces a ton of seed, (which is incredibly nutrient dense) and I suspect it is a deep root grower. It's going to be one of my go-to plants for the food forest I am starting, but I already cut my teeth on semi- permaculture raised beds at my last place. Really enjoying your videos :-)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

My family isn't a huge fan of celery, but I will still keep my eye open for it. Thanks for the info

[@GtJrGrowsItAlaska]

Another great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@Ph0enixW0lf]

I think I enjoy your videos because I’m also an engineer and you think like I do about this stuff. I’m in the process of buying a 10 acre property where I’m going to start my own food forest/homestead. My focus getting started is going to be poultry and mushrooms, because I have experience with that, but I do want a solid food forest eventually. The one thing that gets me every time I start thinking about it, which I haven’t seen anyone talk about, is HOW THE HECK do you keep track of what is growing where, especially when you allow annuals to go to seed and propagate themselves? I would appreciate the engineer’s take on this in a video, perhaps?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I'm very organized at work, but in my food forest I'm a squirrel. I plant everywhere, forget where I put stuff, and find things growing all the time and think... did I plant that? Short answer is, I don't. And I love it. I revel in the chaos of my food forest.

[@Ph0enixW0lf]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy LOL! I was afraid the answer might be “learn how to visually identify your plants as young as possible, then go look.” I think I might make my own personal plant ID guidebook with pictures and descriptions... I just can’t remember how to ID more than a couple of unfamiliar plants at a time without something to refer back to.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Also, that's something that really builds as you use the plants. You can look at so many pictures and books and vidoes but you won't retain much longterm. You will think you are, but then a year later you will have forgotten most of it. However, getting outside and touching the plants, finding them, using them, making tea, drying them, etc... you pick it up really really quickly. It's also one of those things where you look like an expert but you aren't. So many people around here think I'm some infinite encyclopedia of plant knowledge. I'm not at all. I just know my plants here (and if you look through some of my earlier videos, I had some mid-IDs on plants as I was learning them still). To a new person I look like an expert, but to an expert I look like a new person. And to that expert, they look like a new person to someone with more expertise than them. It's one of those things... the more you learn, the more you realize you have SO much left to learn.

[@marshhen]

Another fantastic video. Such informative useful information. This really helps my friend who has just purchased a place and I know she wants to get some things planted this spring, even though most of the gardening will have to wait until she has made more extensive plans. I also really like that you make gardening videos in the snow. It is good to have this guidance even though we live in a climate with real, snowy winters. Much more applicable than many gardeners who make videos and have 2-3 growing seasons. You make it all seem possible and almost relish our beautiful Northern climate. Need that in the depth of winter, when it is feeling long.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh boy, I feel that. Every winter without fail (this one included) I start pulling up listings for land in warmer climates. I feel like this winter, continuing to make videos on the weekend has helped me get through the winter doldrums. I know the visual appeal isn't as great as the summer videos, but hopefully if I can knock out some of the more info-heavy video types, then in the summer I can focus on many more "mood" pieces, and actually get way more nature footage this year (which I can then splice into my 2022 winter footage). I need to record more! This summer is going to be a crazy one for me here, because I would say 80% of my trees are entering their "leap" year (Year 1 they sleep, year 2 they creep, year 3 they leap).

[@lesliekendall2206]

My favorite jelly:. Gma's "Blackcap". The Munger black raspberry.

[@bidybo]

Fantastic video! I've subscribed. Will be purchasing some egyptian onions!!

[@aipalapala]

Excellent video. I found out honeyberry leaves are edible and very nutritious.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I've never heard that before

[@aprilcharter9926]

Thank you so much for answering my comment :) I wasn't thinking about some of these, but now I'll be planting garlic and asparagus! Such an awesome channel, it's made permaculture seem easy and attainable for me.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome, thanks again April :)

[@caledoniafarmpermaculture]

Fabulous list, thanks! We're in the Northern Tablelands of NSW, Australia. We have frost for much of our year, and a very short growing season. We had very light snow today, but rarely get the blanketing I see in your video here. I love your suggestions. Never heard of haskaps before, but they sound GREAT! I'll be looking into them further. I'll be watching more of your videos, I can tell. Thanks!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome, good luck 👍

[@ozkid6791]

Love this channel

[@shawnhawkins3966]

Getting antsy in Minnesota to start planting been using this channel for a lot of help would love see annual starting seeds indoors

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Make sure you check out my seed starting comprehensive guide here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epa0m6ytnp2GqdU

[@LauraStepney]

Such good advice thanks! I will definitely be following this as I plant out the beginnings of my new garden this year.

[@amyblueskyirl16]

Great video, thanks! I’ve planted fruit and nut trees and will be adding your suggestions, as well black currants which I love. I’m excited about getting these all in our first year!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Black currants are maybe my favorite jam. That or haskap, it's sooo close. I really enjoy eating them raw too, especially when they are perfectly ripe. They tend to be a little larger, although maybe that's just my variety.

[@amyblueskyirl16]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Never heard of haskap but sounds like a very useful plant in our area

[@matthewgonsalves2479]

bummer for the strawberry cost up there, for a six pack of crowns at our local garden center it is around 5 bucks us. the variety is Ozark beauty. Sweet video keep um coming !!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Matthew 😊

[@57kerry53]

One of my favourite videos yet. Love the list and I have most of your list growing in my zone 3 Rocky Mountain small backyard. Let me second your love of Haskaps. I planted seedlings three seasons ago and they have grown up exactly as you mentioned. They are buzzing with activity early in the season and provide my favourite tasting berry. Each berry is a taste explosion waiting to happen. The only plants on your list that I don’t currently have is asparagus and walking Onion. I’ll look into those for this season.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome Kerry. Are you Alberta/BC? I'm kind of Jealous. Zone 3 is even colder than I am, but the rockies are just so beautiful. I should have been born in BC - I feel like that's where I belong.

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Ya welcome back.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching Deborah :)

[@BuildandGrow21]

Nice. I really like how you recommend raspberries as starters. That's what I did and will do in the next spot too thanks

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Any time!

[@ancientgardening6920]

Radish, Arugula, and Garden Cress. They are easy to grow, and self seed a ton, which you can put in all the bare spots to keep the garden filled out. Also, plant a few brassicas in the solid mass of strawberries to create edges so they don't all crowd themselves out at the same time.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Great ideas

[@ancientgardening6920]

In this year's garden we're in such a better position than last year, we started a month and a half later with lots of overcast days, and now we have ten times the garden space planted, and it's all in the ground instead of in planters, and we know how a few more of the plants taste, and some of the plants survived the winter, so all in all we starting massively ahead of where we were last year, to get there we kept setting up new areas every week or so, and planting them so the grass doesn't grow back, and saving seeds from everything that made them.