The Perennial Kitchen Garden | Design & Goals for 2024

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[marijeb]

The way you adapt your attitude to the garden shows one of the greatest aspects of gardening to me. It is not about getting it perfect and then doing the same thing year after year, but the fun is all about growing, adapting, changes things up a bit, exploring. As the garden grows, so does the gardener

[gardentours]

"Excitement" and experimenting with new plants makes gardening an adventure 🌱👍

[ml.]

Totally makes sense.
Grow what you love to eat and what you can't get or is most expensive at the market.
Also, crazy beautiful food forest works for me, so I do plant for the wild animals, my chickens and bunnies.

[l.l.]

Just paused the video to say THANK YOU for not making me sit through the blurb about the gizmo that I don't need and have no interest in. VERY considerate. And, now, back to the show. . . . :)

[Frog]

Huw, I really have to admit, I hate your garden because it's not in my yard, however I am really inspired by it. Just have to allow my wind break to hurry up and grow, as whatever I create will be torn apart.

[pperrinuk]

Fantastic. I love your self-sufficiency book - step by step, month by month, producing as much 'traditional' food as possible.

This new phase of using that experience as a basis from which to produce a personal, customised version is perfect.

'Efficiency' (growing as much as possible) is important to commercial growers, the more they grown the more money they make -- but when growing for yourself, you simply need 'enough', it doesn't have to be acres of spuds just because they are energy dense etc...

[NancyLPerry-xr]

You have created a charming and productive palace in a lush landscape, very beautiful Hew!

[nicholasayres]

May I suggest a variation of "perennial" where seeds are not bought, but grown. For many crops, a particular variety is not needed - just similar leaves. For example, most people don't care what lettuce variety they have, just that it is lettuce. Same with rocket, mizuna, mibuna, etc. So let them go to seed, and then use the seeds later. Of course, even with broccoli going to seed you can still use the leave as cabbage substitute.

[debvalle]

Wow, you’re so ahead of the game! I’m still in seedling stage. We had several late frosts but also, I’m still learning + had to travel. Thankfully a dear friend is keeping tabs on them. 3 more days and I’ll see my garden babies!

[sarahtrew]

I am so behind this year it feels overwhelming, it was too wet to get anything out early or keep on top of the weeds and they have gone mad (the entrance to the allotments where I am gets so water logged where we are that it is impossible to walk up it to get to my plot which meant I wasn’t able to bring in some of the compost/manure I needed in autumn, my compost area is a work in progress, and it’s delayed so much) and in order to get plants out I have so much to do. Telling myself it’s okay but have had to revisit my plans and compost some plants that would normally have gone in, now weeding one bed at a time and doing what I can and focusing on beans/peas, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, herbs and a few onions for the summer with a view to putting in some brassicas here and there as I can and for overwintering (luckily the garlic I planted before it got really bad is doing really well). Not ideal but I am grateful for anything I can get that is home grown especially with such a difficult start to the season. Very interested in perennials so excited to see where you go with this and may help me chose some plants that could help fill in the gaps in difficult years 🌱

[WPHWw-kmtk]

I have been trying to establish my perrenial veg garden in Sweden.
I have asparagus, rhubarb, chives, fruit trees and varipus berry bushes, I found sourcing other type of veg plants is difficult. Eg. I cannot local nursrous that carry perrenial kale plants. The selection of seeds is also limited, and more difficult to germinate. ..
I look forward to see the new chapter of your new garden and the audiences to get new inspiration!

[devoywilliams]

tree collard is a nice perennial, which you can make some tasty collard greens.

[southernhemispheregal]

Great video, thank you. I'm also growing way more than I need now. I give away a lot, and have sold excess at my local market. All the extra cash goes back into the garden, so it pays for itself finally (after 7 years!).

[Miss_Lexisaurus]

It's my first year growing anything this year so I've started small just to learn some basics but I'm hoping next year to focus on perenials for fruit and growing salads so I can be self sufficient in the things that I love and are the most expensive first.

[Realatmx]

Nice arrangement... You should try growing safflower lits eaves are so flavorful you make salad too

[bertibear]

When I saw you burning leeks I thought that’s strange but I think you were cooking them?
There’s so much to do after the long rains that I am gardening with a broken leg!
My asparagus and artichokes are producing and can’t buy these anywhere near as fresh.Welsh onions have been great and I used these as spring onions with purple sprouting broccoli in stir fries.
Great garden you are doing I am getting the book and buying a tunnel this autumn.

[tinnerste]

I have a half perennial garden! My top producers are seakale for cabbage and spring broccolis. I grow green garlic, scallions and elephant garlic (for leeks) by planting a clove or bulb and harvesting them all except for the largest one which i plant again for next year in the same spot. Hablitzia and good king henry for potherbs. Aswell as handfull of perennial salad leaf plants. Im growing crambe cordifolia as a cabbage to try this year as the seakale doesnt go bitter in my lukewarm rainy climate but i hear its not always tasty.

[Catoftheogdollcollectors]

This is very expensive project to do. I am doing something similar. Cost of beds and bark and soil if you don't have good soil. If you need chemicals or seeds there's another cost. Cost of water if you don't have butts. Time and space. WOW it adds up.

[anndean]

If you like green onions, there's quite a few perennial ones like Welsh onions, walking onions, victory onions.

[REDGardens]

Such a cool project! I really like where you are going with it. I love the idea of growing only on what I really want to eat, but it seems I keep adding more explorations and trials!