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Loved this video liz! I have a perennial allotment plot and am totally crazy about perennials so it's great to see them being showcased by bigger channels 😁🌺

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Kelly, ooh a perennial allotment is exciting! Do you have Hablitzia Tamnoides? It's the Caucasian spinach. If not, drop me a note and I'll try and get one to you.

Oohh I've also started growing wild garlic this year. Can't wait. Loved the Monty cameos!

@Wings91

3 жыл бұрын

How is your wild garlic growing? Thinking about growing that one too 🙂

@estherhanko1457

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wings91 It was just a few leaves and flowers this year, so I harvested nothing. It's probably going to go crazy next year :)

@Wings91

3 жыл бұрын

@@estherhanko1457 that's exciting! Hope all goes well :)

Good video

another cracking video well done liz

Thanks for the mention Liz! Glad you found the footage useful. R&P.

Had NO idea there where so many useful perinial veggies!! 😁😃🌿💖

How are your wild garlic doing? I bought some bulb on Ebay & planted them on 11/05/2024. I am really hoping that they do well so I can harvest next year 🌱

Lovely update Liz thank you for your time in sharing as always and making these video

Thank you for the good description and hello to Monty! Blessings to you Liz :)

Loved this episode! The only perennial veg I have is artichokes. I’d love to find more. You are very inspiring! Thank you so much!

@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD

5 жыл бұрын

i never knew there was so many perennials about until i thought about it and watched videos on youtube !!! take care all

That wild garlic will look amazing as it naturalises, where I go walking I see tons of it and it looks lovely and smells amazing Liz. Looks like a fairy woodland when it all flowers!

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, all those little white stars hanging over the leaves :-)

Good day to you my gardening and homesteading friend, thanks for sharing your update and adventures with us today !! Perennial veg the gift that keeps giving and giving 🌱💚👍🎥🙏

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I will report back on these next year (and the veg I planted in January) so we can all see how they've grown :-)

I remember my father-in-law was growing walking stick cabbage - it was from a packet of seed that we put in our home made Christmas crackers. Not sure of what happened to it but he did say it grew huge! Like the idea of perennial veg. Skirret looks pretty. Cheers xx

Another 5 great perennials Liz. At last we had a few hours of dry weather to get in the garden, Tipping down again now though. But I did manage to finish filming what I need. :) Your garden is packed already the temps so much warmer and drier there

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tony, ah yes the riviera is warmer, not sure it's drier or less windy though! lol Glad that you managed to get outside to film, I look forward to watching it in due course :-)

Thanks for featuring these interesting perennial veggies! I may have to look into a few of these.

I like the idea of all year round food!! I am trying to do the same thing here in Australia!!

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I think it's just a case of finding the right plants, not just ones that will survive from year to year, but ones that we actually like the taste of! I keep trying different perennials to find ones that we like :-)

The poly tunnel looks fantastic, you are growing so much in there. Monty looking good after his recent scraps. PS you look fab too Liz❤

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nicola, Monty continues to get mended and then he goes off to next door to start another fight with their cats! The polytunnel contents are growing well, it's been so cool, wet and windy for June that I think the plants inside are very happy.

Great video, so glad I found this channel. Monty is so cute too. 😁

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chrystel, I'm pleased that you are enjoying the channel :-)

Great video and watched the one at the end. Oh my goodness your doing fantastic on your weight loss journey x

Loved this video liz. Added to favourites. I wish every veg was perennial. Your hair and outfit look amazing xx💟

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Annie, that's very kind of you :-)

Now I’ve got lots to research! Great tips. Tks!

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Candy, thank you for watching this one!

💕🙏 Thank You !!! I appreciate your peaceful , Loving, Happy and Positive Energy 🤗 Thank you for teaching me 🙏🥰🌿🌸 🐝 🌽 ( California)

@LizZorab

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome, thank you for your kind words.

Great idea's

enjoyed the video....have a real nice day

Really enjoyed the video, great info and ideas. Thanks and Happy Growing 🌱🍅🌱🍅

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kit, I'm really enjoying getting to know these perennial veg, I keep imagining how much less work it would be if half the garden was planted with perennials!

Hi just found you been bingeing your channel..love it..very interesting plants today..cheers..😎🇦🇺

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hello Susan and welcome! I'm so pleased to read that you are enjoying the channel. If you are a FB user, there is a group called Friends of Liz Zorab - Byther Farm where we share day to day thoughts and ideas and it's packed full of folks with tons of knowledge about gardening, homesteading, cooking etc.

@nicolaj3294

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Susan, welcome I'm from Brisbane and been a fan of Liz for a while, you'll love it.

@taffy7404

5 жыл бұрын

@@nicolaj3294 yes they have a beaut property..😁

Love your gardens and info

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I hope you're finding some of it useful :-)

Hi Liz, your garden is looking fantastic. The high tunnel is looking exceptionally lush and green!

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Bettina, we have had so much rain recently that everything is looking lush and green - especially the weeds!

@bettinah.7429

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab we have had so much rain here in Ontario Canada too! It has been a wet cool spring.

Loved this one!

@LizZorab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Linda, if you haven't found it yet, you may like this video of 5 Tips for a Perfect Garden! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJh5tqareMyWl9Y.html

Thanks for sharing these perennial vegetables Liz. Monty wanted some camera time it seems. Beautiful cat. 😻🌱💚

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, yes Monty is always happy to show his furry face on camera. He's like a companion dog with less dogginess!

Wow your garden looks so beautiful dear Love it enjoy Love from here have a Blessed Day 💞💐😍

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for dropping by again, glad that you've enjoyed the video :-)

Wild garlic smells amazing.

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

It does indeed, I don't often wish it was smellivision, but when I'm making videos like this, I certainly do!

Liz you look amazing , must say i think your outfits are beautiful on you. Next someone will sponsor you for clothes because with that figure you will be good for promoting their clothes. Now on the garden front, the tunnel looks devinely georgeous( even with the cat pop up ha ha , enjoyed him jumping by you).Everything looks so well. Best of luck with the new plants, nice to have new type plants. Thanks for sharing.

if asked what should I grow I say grow what you eat and if you have the space grow something that's new to you :) thanks for sharing

Hi looking forward to seeing them as well. I've got lots a areas were wild garlic grow in Dawlish. One is by the medical centre. The other. Not telling he he. It's certainly light in taste and put flowers on salads.

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Oh putting the flowers in salads is a good idea - thanks for the tip!

Walking onions do intrigue me. I have never seen them other than in videos. I assume these would get Allium Leaf Miner though. Do you know? I think the Walking Stick Cabbage is also Portuguese Cabbage which we grow, and interestingly I now know why I recognised it. I am saving seed from the Portuguese Cabbage we have, and it seems to be producing loads!!! 😀 😀 😀

Nice one Liz. I grew Skirrett a few years ago - just that little bit too fiddly for me when harvesting/cleaning etc. Tastes okay though but as I have limited space I decided to move on. 🙂 Steve

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, ooh I'm glad to read that it tastes okay.

There's a few i've not heard of, will be looking into them! :)

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jen, thanks for stopping by, I saw you in Stew's live chat earlier on :-)

@JensGardenAdventures

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab Hi Liz, yes that was a great live chat! When you said hi It reminded me I had your video to watch next, I'm definitely getting some wild garlic! 😊

10ft cabbage sounds mighty Liz 😎

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Apparently the stems were used (in the old days) to make walking sticks from - hence the name :-)

@What..a..shambles

5 жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing it

Monty!!! ☺️Great video Liz, when you were in the poly tunnel and I saw Monty coming I thought he was going to scare you. 😉What does the last one (roots), suppose to taste like? I never heard of it. I appreciate you sharing what you do with us! 😊

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! Skirret is a perennial parsnip, so tastes like parsnip apparently. I will let you know when I finally get to taste it!

Excellent video Liz, Also wow your channel is growing fantastic, you deserve it with all the info and hard work you have put into it, a great help for smallholders/homesteaders, i barely have any spare time for youtube these days always too busy in the garden. Do you sleep ?? !!! i hope the revenue is helping you with your projects and passion !! the good life at its best. thanks and take care

@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD

5 жыл бұрын

oh i forgot to mention, i managed to get some seeds from some wild sea kale/cabbage from the coast near me. A lovely perennial but a protected plant in the wild, i am the proud owner of 5 sea kale plants in my garden now. ( should produce for the next ten years) we have a coast line of miles of this plant, not to be picked because of its status but as seeds dropped i took about 20. totally within the laws, happy days,take care

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

There is no income from YT for my channel, it's still demonetised 😩

@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab oh no ! i remember you pressed the wrong button but that was a long time ago, i hope you get it fixed real soon.

Always good to learn of more perennial veg to eat. Did you know hostas are also edible?

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Edie, yes I had heard that they were edible. I'm not sure I'd want to eat a hosta, they are such beautiful plants!

Some nice plants there - apart from the asparagus I'm growing all the others. Others to think of can include sorrel (or a variety called profusion which doesn't bolt), Good King Henry (aka Lincolnshire Spinach), , Scorzonera, Daubentons Kale ( there's a green and a variegated variety called Panache), Turkish Rocket, Wild Rocket, Jersey Kale, Sweet Cicely, Lovage/Scots Lovage, Cardoon (a relative of the Globe Artichoke grown for the leaf stems), mashua, chuffa

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! We have scorzonera, wild rocket, sweet cicely and lovage. I grew cardoon in my last garden, but never really liked the taste of it much so mostly it just ended up flowering and providing food for the birds with the seed heads - a valuable thing in itself, but we decided not to give it space in the productive areas in this garden. I could still be tempted to put it in a flower border :-) Sorrel - I let it go to seed 3 years ago and I'm still pulling it up all over the place!

@jasons-jungle

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab How about Earth Chestnuts - tried them yet (OK not a productive main crop though, but can be slipped into a little space and forgot for a while)?

Fantastic video Liz. I love the idea of perennial vegetables. I hope to harvest my first tomato in the next couple of days. I just must not cut it too early . I have watered for 6 weeks but should have given the plant more feed . It will have cost a lot as I will be passing the plant on to a family member. When will you start to harvest your tomatoes and will it be too late in 2 weeks time to buy tomato plants in Wales? Love from Margaret

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Margaret, if you are buying tomato plants it may be worth look at grafted ones (I have no idea whether they are better or not, but the plants I've seen look larger and healthier). The weather is still pretty cool, so I would say it's not too late, but you'll need to expect a later harvest and keep your fingers crossed that late blight doesn't hit the plants :-)

@margaretsofocleous8137

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab Thanks Liz

It would be nice to find links to some of these. I'm not having much luck. You look beautiful today my friend :)

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Dolly, I looked for links and couldn't find anything useful. As soon as I find some in quantities more than one or two I will post links.

@dollyperry3020

5 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab Thank you very much :)

Skyrit? Is it related to salisify? I used to use a lot of Salsify in hotel kitchens, it has a mustard/liquorice flavour and it's the root used for cooking, very nice poached in white wine or chopped very finely and added to flavour rice when cooking a Lamb Tagine, use sparingly it is strong, with rose water it flavours cous-cous for a Tagine beautifully, adding that Moroccan aroma.

@LizZorab

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, it's skirret, I don't know if it's related to salsify, but it could well be. I've grown salsify here this year but the roots are very small and twisted together, they would have to be something incredibly special for me to bother with all the cleaning that would be needed to get them into the cooking pot.

I’m not sure those would be perennial in my location. Not much survives -30 C.

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Brrrrr, that's chilly!

I invested in some Babington leeks after your first perennial veg video. They have grown but still only pencil width. Hope they will be harvestable next year. Now I want perennial broccoli!!! Where did you source the seeds/ plants?

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Gail, if you have a look on a well known auction site, check out a seller called quercusedibles.

Egyptian walking onion being added to the garden! She note = onion / garlic / bulb plants are highly poisonous to cats/ dogs ( the cause at least blood thinning, at worse organ failure and death) so always be careful gardeners to keep your lovely plants out of reach!

are these perenneial brassicas just as prone to cabbage white caterpillars as normal brassicas? do they need a brassica cage?

@LizZorab

2 жыл бұрын

I found that when I put other plants close to the perennial kales and cabbages that they were troubled by caterpillars. The ones that I gore with a little space around them seem to be less attacked by the caterpillars. I don't cage and net the perennial brassicas.

Are Brussel Sprouts perennials?

hi please tell me when your wild garlic sprouts! ive been trying to sprout it for years now ! did it work out?

@LizZorab

4 жыл бұрын

This video is from last year and the wild garlic stubbornly sat in little pots doing nothing all year. This spring it has sprouted new leaves which are now about 5 inches high. I will take a photo and post it on the community section of this channel.

@tinnerste2507

4 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab cheers!

Where are you sourcing the more uncommon plants Liz?

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, there's a link in the info section for one place that I'm getting the plants and other than that I'm using that well known auction site!

Hi Liz do you have trouble with Monty in your raised beds

@LizZorab

4 жыл бұрын

Yes a little, but not as much as the three or four cats from the neighbouring homes! I use chicken wire over e beds when I first sow seeds to give the young plants a chance to establish.

@tinanicholls5988

4 жыл бұрын

@@LizZorab thank you Liz for getting back to me,my husband and I made two 4x4 raised beds and having trouble with cats getting in so we are going to make a cage around so that I can start growing again.love your videos

What was the last veg? Skirrit?

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Lizzie, it is skirret. Monty Don raved about it on Gardeners World a couple of years ago and now it's really hard to get hold of, hence being pleased at getting a couple of plants and I'm growing some from seed too.

@lizzieatherfold2293

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

My kale got eaten by birds, then when i put it inside the greenhouse eaten by bugs :(

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

Oh no! I have found it definitely worth netting brassicas, if only to keep the butterflies off it, but it would keep birds away too :-) I hope you'll try again.

What is crunching by you it is annoying

@LizZorab

5 жыл бұрын

There is nothing I can do about that noise sadly. It's the plastic cover of the polytunnel moving in the wind (and it was very windy when I filmed this video).

@beverleyriddell2264

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that love your video from Wolverhampton 👍👍