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00:00 Why grow Perennials
01:51 Sweet Potato
03:34 Asparagus
04:27 Egyptian Walking Onion
05:33 New Zealand Spinach
06:17 Calendula
07:16 Rosemary
08:47 Fennel
10:03 Lemon Tree
11:46 Passionfruit
12:53 Mulberry
14:16 Ginger
15:43 Raspberry
16:42 Strawberry
17:30 Mint
19:25 Apple Tree
20:02 Banana
21:24 Turmeric
21:56 Perennial Basil
22:27 Society Garlic
23:47 Globe Artichoke
24:43 Pepino
25:16 Feijoa
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From South Africa. 200 banana trees with sweet potstoes as a groud cover, cassava, papaya, and cherryv guava in between the bananas. Then i have 8 beehives. The fence on one side has a row of shugarcane and the other side has passion frute and katowa grapes. I have 8 rabit doe's and 2 bucks , 7 hens and 2 roosters. 8 Bukets of strawberties, acwaphonics with salads and a 18x2.5 metre spinach pach under banana trees oppisite my driveway. My total property is 1,100 square metres.with a house of 150 square and a rabetery of 5 x 4 metres. My chicken coop is 6x 6 metres. I have 25.000 litre rain water tanks and 5kva 48volt inverter with 5kva l-ion battery and 1.5 kva solar pannels. I am living off grid and sustsin my self. I do have a small khichen garden with herbs, tomato, and pumken exetra🌹
That sounds amazing. Could you give us a sneak peek of your garden?
It all sounds so lovely!
very cool
From South Africa I live 90% from bananas, sweet potatoes, pawpaw and eggs
I love that you show the dishes that you make with your fresh produce. So colourful, beautiful and creative 😍
Thanks Marisa! I love colourful food 🙌 🌈🌱
@@SustainableHolly maybe recipes soon too❤❤❤
I started my own saffron this year, got 21 plants pop up from 20 corms lol. Excited to start growing my own saffron, and for them to multiply in the coming years
Wow amazing!! What a unique one to grow ⭐️
My bunnies love mint I never worry about it taken over my garden 😊
You are very wise for your age. God bless you. ❤
Sadly I live in a zone that can't grow everything you can due to some hard frosts in winter. I think it would be a great addition to your vids to mention the climate zones of the plants, since you likely have a lot of audience outside of New Zealand. ;) Some plants can grow in a very wide range while others require tropical conditions.
Yes indeed! Many New Zealand plants or plants that grow well in New Zealand do well in the UK but there are many other zones across the States and the world. Agree
totally this. im in zone 6b and i appreciate the information you have, but would love to just be told "this is hardy in zone XYZ"
I thought she said 3:17 she is in Perth, Australia. Still, a valid point to talk about climate zones.
Omg, Is she so informative, and yet so charming while she’s doing it, plus she’s quite frankly brilliant!
I just have to thank you for so much inspiration & knowledge!!! 🙌♥️🥰 Warm hello from tropical Puerto Rico ☀️🌴
Thank you! 🌱🌱
OMG you are brilliant! I’m in Belize & using all your suggestions… thank you so much for being so generous for your excellent advice! Many blessings on you & your stewardship 🙏💕
Love your motivating enthusiasm Holly. Thank you...even in a hot Brissy Summer, I have hope for my garden👌
Absolutely loved this video and these ideas Holly! I've recently planted a lemon and peach tree months ago and am already getting baby peaches and lemons from both trees! Growing your own food is soo much fun! 😍🙌🏻💞🍋
Yum!!! It is so exciting the potential future meals you can make from your own garden! 🙌🌱🌸
I also grow pigeon pea, arrowroot- low maintanance perenials. Thank you for the informative video .👍
Those are both great ones! 🌱🌱
My pigeon peas bushes die in the winter.
Hello! Despite the fact that we live on different continents, many perennial edible plants grow in my garden too. My favorite is chives. I didn't know calendula leaves were edible. Thank you for a great video.👍🌻💙😜😘
Hello! 🌱 I love chive flowers 🌸
I didn't know about this either. I like how they add a pop of brightness in my garden.
Love perennials because they save you money big time.
Thank you Holly! For sharing and for the ebook! Much appreciated 💗
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I you spray the dried fennel flowers with sparkly white or white then add iridescent glitter, they look like snow flakes.
Lemons also imply limes and other citrus. Avocadoes are a must have if climate allows. Plenty of great ideas and knowledge here...added few more to my want list.
Thank you. ❤
I grow pepino melons too! Good to see another gardener appreciate their value =)
Great thank you especially as I live in Perth
I’m so glad I have quite a few of these in my garden!!
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@@SustainableHolly Also, I bought myself a Feijoa today because of you :)
Great information. Thanks for sharing 😊😊😊
Love this video so much Holly. Thank you so much for the ebook as well. So handy and im excited to start adding everything I dont have to my home garden :) What type of apple tree do you have? Ive been thinking about getting some apple trees lately.
I have enough room around my yard for 7 dwarf fruit trees. My plan is to graft at least 2-3 more varieties on each to extend the fruiting season and of course give me more choices.
Some great ideas, Holly. I’m going to try at least half a dozen of these.
Thanks Paul! There are so many amazing Perennials its really a never ending list!
I have planted golden grapes, figs and feijoas, which are all favourites
Yum!! 🙌🙌
A beautiful person can only create beautiful life❤
Thank you 💚
Banana and passionfruit. What a dream 😍 My climate is much cooler than yours but you still inspire me.
Thank you 💚
Your joy is so contagious I want to go plant now
Yessss 🙌🌱🌱🌱🌱
New subscriber! I love this list! I am in zone 9a (NE Florida) so I can grow most of what you can grow. Thanks for the videos!
Excellent channel Holly, you deserve a lot more views, but they'll come in time 😀
Thank Rory! 🌱
wow, just had a lovely afternoon watching a bunch of your very informative videos! thank you! and even more useful because you have all the info for kiwi/downunder growing, many thanks from Raglan NZ!
Yay thanks you Suzie your message made my day 😊 Raglan is a magical spot!
Thanks for your insights and preservation ideas
Thanks! 🌱
😊@@SustainableHolly
So inspiring my garden is looking amazing just because of you
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You are so thorough and interesting. Absolutely love your accent. I am very eager to get a perineal garden established and how wonderful that I found your videos BLESSINGS!
Awesome Gardening
Luv luv rosemary & asparagus..good tip4 rosemary cuttings!😁Ooohhh.I need2 dehydrate my lemon peels..thankyou!! I never knew mulberry leaves were edible..Thai mint is amazing too! Apple sauce can be used for egg substitute in baking..my kids like turmeric in their rice4 yellow rice..love this video! Very informative & motivating!💚Ooohhh pepino sounds interesting!
I love watching the Asparagus grow it's so fascinating!
@@SustainableHolly me too!!
@@SustainableHolly don’t blink or your little asparagus will be knee high! 🤤
I just learnt s much. Thank you. My backyard is all eatables, and I love the fejoa hedge idea.
Glad it was helpful!
Permaculture garden is like creating a foraging Forrest that doesn’t require labor. Some weed clearing maybe. Seems like the way to go
Absolutely it’s incredible 👌🌱
Great video, the garden is looking amazing! I just bought a dwarf Tahitian lime tree and I am so excited 😍
Yay! My how good are limes! 💚
Thank you 🥰🤗
You’re welcome 😊
very inspirational
Btw...You can still eat the larger leaves....you just have to cook them a little longer like you would kale. Good video!
great information. Thanks
Great informative video. I live in Western Sydney, so a similar climate to you, it can get quite hot but we don't get frosts. I had never heard of the pepino , I'm keen to give them ago. Also, you've convinced me, I'll grow some sweet potato. Raspberries I have growing in a pot, as they send their canes out everywhere.
Very Energetic Likeable & Informative... ✨😇✨ Thanks for Sharing Miss Vikie Howell 🕊💖🕊 The Texas Take 🇺🇸 I shared you on my Facebook page 😊
Great article I’m on board with sweet potatoes 77 lbs from six plants this year and still more coming…rosemary is an amazing cognitive plant as well…thank u for sharing these unique plants…stay blessed
Wow that’s incredible 👌👌
Brilliant list!! Thank you for sharing. I recently bought 2 acres and you've given me sooo many plant ideas. Thank you for suggesting Feijoa! I LOVE them but could never remember what they are called haha Im planting my own!!
Yay! I’m so glad 🌱 2 acres how exciting!! You have room for soo many delicious edibles 🍉🍇🍏🍌
Great video Holly must put in asparagus one day hope you're doing well sending hugs and love xxx
Thank you 💚
Great video. I live in the South Island of New Zealand so some of these plants we can’t grow. Bananas for instance. But we grow a bay tree, and chives, Jerusalem artichokes, Yacon and horseradish and rhubarb. Lots of different berries, grapes and fruit trees. Never been able to find society garlic here. Love your videos.
Oh beautiful! I love chives and chive flowers 🌸 Thank you!!
Fabulous video Holly, I’m growing calendula for the first time this year, I’m going to have a go and making some calendula and lavender balm. Look at your FEIJOAS they look amazing, I’m hoping I might get a couple on my two trees this year 😊growing garlic didn’t work for me this year so I will see if I can find some of the garlic you recommend
Thank you! Yes im saving all my calendula to make some balms too :) Slow and steady for the feijoas they just get more and more each year and the size of the fruit is increasing too. Yes Society garlic could be a great win for you.
What a beautiful Kiwi girl you are Holly. Thanks for the info. Greetings from home!
No place like home 🌱
Hello. Could you make a video about your favorite tea blends please?I love your work. Thank you so much.❤
Great suggestion!
Love it! I don’t think much of this would grow in Ireland though!
New Sub here. So much info in one video!! I am unsure if some of what you mentioned can grow in the U.S. however my favorite this year has become the sweet potato. Originally I was growing them for potatoes without much luck.. This year, I learned I could eat the leaves... what a game changer!! I love those leaves in stir fry and scrambled with eggs, I enjoy the small new leaf sprouts at least twice a week! Any potatoes will be a bonus at this poinf
Yay many of these are pretty hardy an can grow in a range of climates just not the tropical lovers like the ginger and turmeric 🌱
They do ! I live zone 8b NC grow just about it all she talks about.
Hi again Holly! Doing a bit of a binge of your youtube over here :) Do you have any tips for growing raspberries in Perth? I've read a few things online about them needed a colder climate than we have here. Is it better to grow them in a shadier spot for that reason? And do you have a video on propogating them at all? Thanks in advance, absolutely love your videos.
Haha love that! I only have one young yellow raspberry and it definitely likes dappled shade and a cooler spot. Still some sun though. I have propagated by digging up smaller side suckers to make more plants atm. I believe you can take cuttings in late winter when it’s dormant and they will shoot off in spring.
Would love to see how you use them.
oh, I'm so jealous! Almost none of those are frost hardy enough to grow here in Germany, except asparagus, apples, raspberries and mints of course. Rosemary will survive most winters and I have a Pineapple Guava and some citrus in pots so that I can bring them inside if it gets below freezing. Artichokes would be growing here, too, but I kind of don see the point in having such an enormours plant to eat just tiny pieces of the flowers. I'd love to have cold hardy sweet potatoes. Plant breeders, get onto that!! 😊 Luckily there are so many other perennials hardy enough to survive our winters: sea kale, caucasian mountain spinach, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, jostaberries, hardy kiwi, plums, pears, cherries, peaches, persimmons, pawpaws (Asimina triloba), several species of onions, hops, walnut, hazelnut, pecan nut...
Yum!! That’s still a delicious list thanks so much for sharing for other fellow cold climates!! There’s so many delicious perennials I am always adding more and more! Especially berries 🙌
@@SustainableHolly try thornless blackberries.... soooooo gooooood
@@MartinaSchoppe i will!! thank you :)
Hello from Greece!! Nice videos and very informative!!! Awesome!!! I have used many of your fantastic suggestions!!! How about trying stamnagathi - chicory (Cichorium intybus)?
A few fun additions are muscadine Vines, and sugar cane.
Yum! What sweet additions 😁🙌
do you grow any aussie native perrenials?i live in south australia and have finger limes, quandongs(native peach) and a native plum
Yes 🙌 I have the finger lime and the blood lime but still waiting patiently on fruit! I think I will get my first finger lime this year! So excited.
@@SustainableHolly they taste awesome
im tring egyptian walking onions for the firats time this year but my fav ia any berry, and also grabbed the e book tyvm for the work you put into making it:)
@17:35 I had to rewind like 6 times because I thought I heard you say "I seduce" you grown mint. Love the Kiwi accent ❤
The best mint for stomachache and colic, is catnip. For infants dilute a TBL of prepared tea with warm water with a little sugar. It doesn’t take much to help ease the pain from colic.
You can make homemade apple cider vinegar from your apples, as well
Yes!! So many things to make with apples they are a great staple crop 🙌
Wonderful video. I will be adding a few of your plant recommendations to my garden. I have garlic society plants throughout my garden and I live them for the evergreen look and flowers. Helps with mosquitos. I did not realized you can eat them. Will try it out. Thank you!
The flowers are so good as garlicky garnishes 🌸
Hi Holly, thank you for this fabulous video. A question if I may, using Sweet Potato, as a groundcover, do the tubers not interfere with the roots, and overtake your other plants? One year we left a sweet potato in the ground, the tubers were so large, they actually lifted the paving? So now I am weary lol. 😊. As I love the idea of a groundcover, but have always wondered. Thank you. 🌸
Yep ideally not have them rooting too close to your fruit trees like citrus as they don’t like interference. Just lift the vines up so they don’t get to send out runners. Or train them up vertically. But I also let my gardens do as they want 😂 wow that is some impressive sweet potato!
I still have that problem. The sweet potato was in a pot on a paved area and the roots found their way into the gaps between the pavers. Now we've lifted the pavers and removed what we can find underneath and I hope this has done the trick. 😅
I don't know if the feijoa plant that my parents have in their front yard is more of an ornamental variety maybe, but we never ate any of the fruit when I was a child. I tried it a couple of years ago and it was sour... maybe not ripe enough? I'll try them again, they should be dropping right about now here in California, always had to sweep them off the sidewalk for the trick-or-treaters on Halloween or we would have a mess.
IMPORTANT: Not all passionfruit flowers and leaves are edible - the blue passionfruit flowers from the rootstock are not edible. Check you do not have a rootstock variety that has taken over! Watch this video next - kzhead.info/sun/d8l_Zsadj5uBZ6c/bejne.html Let me know if you grabbed the ebook too 🌱 22 Edible Perennials Plants Ebook - Free Download bit.ly/3sba0do
Mint! And yes grabbed book!
Yes got the ebook. Thanks very much. If you have any other ideas for edibles that might survive our Perth climate I would be very interested! Cheers Holly.
Longevity spinach and Okinawan spinach! I use them all the time for stews and stir fries. They're delicious, nutritious, great groundcover. I love them.
Hey holly, any chance of buying some walking potato bulbs from you or can you recommend in Perth where they can be purchased?
I’m not too sure but will keep an eye out! Hopefully next year I will have plenty to share
Hi, Where are you located? You seem to have a lot of tropical fruit trees there. Best, Albert, SF, USA
I have so many different mints as well. Ive planted them in planter boxes along fenceline. How deep do they shoot roots?
I’m not sure how deep they go but every little part left behind will regrow 🌱
@@SustainableHolly Thanks Holly. The planter goes about 25cm under ground so hopefully thats enough but I'll keep an eye on them. I have ginger mint. Have you heard of it? I have just put it in. Should be a nice tea.
Ginger mint sounds so lovely!! I need to look that one!
I love Rosemary too. I’d make rosemary OIL from the excess chopping sand mix the oil with CEDAROILfor an excellent mozzie and flea repellant spray.
I have a citronella plant too so many options!
Have Asparagus, Chives, Strawberries, Dandelions, Lamb's Quarters, Greek Oregano, Parsley, Thyme and I forget the name. Another edible weed.
Yum!! 🌱🌱🌱
Paw paws...easy
Yes! I love them but haven't had much luck in my garden. Still trying though :)
This is maybe a silly question, but I am just beginning my path down gardening. My soil is not the best so I have to grow in containers and raised beds. Will these plants come back even in containers? Is the care different, and how so?
Not silly questions 💚 Yep most of these will grow in containers! Just be aware they don’t dry out and add fresh compost after they have produced to replenish the nutrients 🌱
@@SustainableHolly thank you so much. You have a beautiful garden and you make beautiful food.
Does perennial basil have another name? I'm trying to find seeds?
Perennial sweet potatoes???
What zone are you in
Rhubarb lol 😁
Yum!!
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In the USA, Calendula is a (usually) self-sowing annual, not a perennial. You appear to be tropical and most of your plants would not survive winter in the Midwest USA. I am surprised you are able to grow red raspberries (as opposed to Mysore black raspberries, Rubus niveus) along with the tropical stuff like lemon, warrigal greens, and rosemary. Raspberries hate the Southeast USA; it is easily to find blackberries (& dewberries, which are just trailing types) for that area. Red raspberries need a winter and have disease issues in the American "subtropics;" Dormanred has a Chinese ancestor that makes it more heat tolerant but it is also insipid. In the subtropical condition you appear to be in, I like Cnidoscolus chayamansa (Mayan tree spinach, must be cooked), Malvaviscus arboreus drummondii (leaves are a slimy spinch like marsh mallow or molokhia/jute mallow, edible flowers beloved by hummingbirds in the Americas, edible fruit), and Talinum (weedy, use like purslane). In the Midwest USA, non-fruit options are limited by winter. Many trees like Tilia ameticana (basswood, though I think "linden" or "lime" in non-American dialects) are briefly palatable in spring, as are some sping ephemerals, but perennial vegetables with harvest seasons that persist into summer and fall are pretty limited: chives (an herb/seasoning really) and Caucasian mountain spinach vine (Hablitzia)...
How often do you water sweet potatoes that are in hot full sun in summer?
Depends how good the soil is. Sweet potato will show you when they are hot or dry their leaves droop. I water my gardens most evenings in summer and keep them mulched
@@SustainableHolly thanks. Someone told me 2 times a week. I did that and got leaves with pencil thin potatoes
Lots of compost and work on building good soil. Soil is usually the key to most issues 🌱
You say that potato leaves are edible. Are you referring only to red or orange potatoes, or also to those with white skin and pulp?
Can you eat any of the sweet potato leaves, or can you only eat the young ones? I heard something about having to blanch some certain greens before eating, not sure which ones?
Yep a lot of greens should be blanched or cooked because of the high oxalic acid. I usually cook or stirfry most of the sweet potato leaves but will use a few young ones raw here and there
Ps I want a walking onion!!!!
so fun!
Lemon & Honey + Ginger is better
Keep rastberry in control, it is much worst then mint, once you have it it will grove meters around your house with quite deep ruts. In some parts of my garden I cant get rid of it in years and we live on almost 1000m above see level, very low temperatures and some winters 1,5m of snow. Our growing season start in end of May till start of October. Also my fruit trees around garden make shuts from the roots, like plums we cut down and curents. Now I have a plum tree in the my vegetable bed 2m of my cut down plum tree, with hell of deep roots, amazing and anoying. So be carefull with your planting plan, some of the invasive plants can survive minus 20 for 4 to 6 months, not in Australia that we know hahaaaaa....only flower seeds witch survive here is calendula, once you have it you have it for life, sorry and camomile. We dont grow sweet potato, we dont eat it in our country. When our normal potatoes are sweet we know they have been frozen so we cook them for pigs and cows an chickens or live them in room temperature for 24 hours to use them in kitchen. They are not sweet after camical reaction I dont understand. You can grow in Australia all year along, even in winter. I live in a very beautiful country in the national park but this long winters killing me. In 6 months you have to grow two crops and sleep in the garden to scare the dears off, not to eat your vegies, hahaaaaa....so to grow or not, that is the question now. Wish you all the best fro Europa!!!
I grew mint, it does grow well, but, they attract flies. Just fyi.
I don't understand the belief that strong scented plants repel "pests". If they repel "pests", why don't they repel "beneficials"?
Pests and beneficials are both looking for food. Masking the veg makes the pests look elsewhere and the beneficials will follow
I really love this website, but find it difficult to watch. Reason is she uses her hands and arms constantly and that is very distracting.. I asked others, because it could be something personal ofcourse, but others reacted the same! So sorry, cannot follow this, what a shame!
Less pictures of plants and more lectures presented. Those who want to see plants more will find only few seconds of interest.