5 Perennials to Plant Once that will Feed You Forever…

Today Tuck and I are going to share with you five

perennials

that you only have to

plant

once

and you can harvest

forever

. Come on, the first perennial

plant

that

will

feed

you for life is asparagus. This is the first spring perennial crop I have harvested and

once

. I see them coming out of the ground as you can see here, it always motivates me to get out into the garden. Homegrown asparagus tastes nothing like store bought, homegrown is so tender and sweet that I eat it raw right out of the box. in the garden they are not fibrous at all and are so juicy that the liquid drips from the bottom after harvesting, if you don't already have a patch of asparagus growing I suggest you plant one now that the tuck is out because once these tender asparagus They start coming out of the ground, this guy comes and grabs them.

They are one of their favorite snacks to eat fresh from the garden. The quickest and easiest way to get a patch working is to buy one. one year crowns when planting the crown you need to dig a trench 12 inches wide and 6 to 8 inches deep, then you

will

need to make a small mound at the bottom of the trench and place the crown on top, this will help it spread the draping. Roots of the asparagus plant and encourage them not to become tangled. Then cover the crown with 2 inches of soil and water it in 2 weeks, add another 2 inches of soil and continue following the same process until you return to the same thing.

The level of soil you start planting with is crown or root asparagus will save you a year of time, but planting asparagus from seed will give you a big advantage. Asparagus plants are either male or female and males tend to be more productive because females waste much of their growth energy based on seed production rather than solely on spear production. I harvested seeds from my asparagus plants last year, this year I planted them and now have young asparagus plants growing if you plant your asparagus from seeds however you like. What we can do is identify the females when they are young, you can see when they start to bloom, we don't have any blooms yet but if they start to bloom we will know she is a female and we will remove her.

To plant it in the garden in this way, the only asparagus that we plant in our garden are male, this will ensure that our garden has a much higher yield and the next perennial plant that will

feed

it for life are strawberries, one of our gardens barely is beginning to wake up. Going outside on a beautiful spring day and grabbing a bucket of fresh strawberries is the closest thing to Paradise you'll get on this Earth. In my opinion, some varieties that you can grow at home are nothing like those in the store. Incredibly sweet, immensely juicy and addictively delicious.

I suggest you start your Strawberry Patch by planting bare root strawberries. You can get some great varieties this year. I'm adding some Albion strawberries and the strawberries behind me are my favorite variety I've ever planted. these are the Shuksan strawberries from here in zone 7A. Spring is the best time to plant strawberries. Strawberries grow best in full sun and grow well in most soils. They also grow fantastic in containers, so if you don't have much space, that's not a problem when planting strawberries. I suggest soaking the plants in water while you are planting them, this allows the roots to rehydrate a little before planting.

A good technique when planting is to dig a hole and then make a mound in the center and place the strawberry crown on that mound to allow the roots to hang over the sides and spread in all directions. Also, when planting, be very careful not to bury the crown of the strawberry plant because this is where the leaves will unfold. Since you are young, the newly planted strawberry begins to bloom, although it will be difficult, I suggest that you remove those flowers so that your young plants do not concentrate all their energy on the production of small berries, but rather they can concentrate on becoming strong and healthy plants. established that feed you

forever

.

I have another suggestion: plant some strawberries under your fruit trees. If you have some fruit trees, I found that this is a relatively symbiotic relationship, where the strawberries act as a living mulch and you can get a crop from them and you can see up here that we will still have a fruit tree growing. This apple tree can grow a ton of apples, so it's like you're getting twice the yield in the same spot. Tuck and I want to take a quick look. The second is to show you our Tower Gardens how well everything is growing in them and we love them so much that we want to give one to one of you.

All they have to do is guess a number between 1 and 500 and send it to the email. address right here hello. We in the subject line put tuck and then the number you guess in next week's video on Saturday we will announce the winner, we will simply put it in a random number generator if two people guess the same number and that is the number that wins will be the one who submitted it first, so send an email, guess a number and have a chance to win a tower garden so you can grow food in your backyard or even in your greenhouse, another perennial crop that will feed you, of for life, you're brambles, brambles like the raspberries you see right here and the blackberries behind me are some of my favorite crops, they're easy to grow and there are a ton of different types, like fall-producing raspberries, summer-producing raspberries , blackberries, purple raspberries, them.

They are all delicious and quite nutritious, brambles grow like weeds so keep the area free of weeds and your plants will thrive. One important thing about brambles is knowing how to prune them to ensure you get the biggest crop possible for most brambles, like summer raspberries or blackberries, could you see here? They bear fruit on 2 year old canes and most of the fruit is on side branches so you will notice my blackberries. I cut them back to about 4 feet or so and then encouraged lots of side branching because This is where most of the fruit will be produced - fall raspberries that you can cut down to the ground after they fruit and they will sprout new canes that will be loaded with fruit In early fall, if you don't have some brambles planted, I suggest starting some. fall raspberries, the yellow ones are my favorite, the fall gold ones and the yellow ones and in my opinion they are the best tasting varieties out there, plus the raspberries will grow very well in a pot, so if you don't have a lot of space and maybe just room for a patio Brambles in the garden will be a great addition The next perennial you need to plan for that will feed you for life are perennial herbs like oregano, thyme and rosemary.

I put this oregano plant in the ground about 5-7 years ago, every year it grows bigger and bigger and I have barely done anything about it, the only thing I do is in late fall or early spring. I'll come here and prune these flower stems like this, plus all I do is harvest. Not only does it provide me with fresh oregano, but it also provides an incredible amount of pollinators when it is flowering and the whole plant looks absolutely beautiful. Even an herb like Rosemary wants and can get years and years of production. Although it is a little intolerant to the cold that it gets around here, what I do is grow my rosemary in the garden and then, when it starts to get cold, I dig up my rosemary and plant it in a pot and take it to my greenhouse. or at home this allows me to grow it all year round and if I want I can plant it again in the spring.

Mint is another herb that you can plant once and will feed you for life, but it can be a bit of a spread on your bread. little too much in a garden and become invasive if you want to plant mint I suggest you plant it in a pot if not plant it in a pot and plant it in the garden before you know it your garden could become mainly a mint garden , there are other herbs you can plant, like lemon bomb, that are easy to grow and will add flavor to your dishes for the rest of your life.

The fifth perennial that will feed you for life is one I can't live without. without talking about blueberries, blueberries are without a doubt my favorite fresh crop to eat from the garden, there is nothing like grabbing a handful of them and pink lemonade blueberries have become my favorite blueberries of all time, amazing color, sweet taste, there is nothing like it right below us. Here you will notice that we have the boss protecting one of our

perennials

that will last a lifetime. This guy is just relaxing, it may look like he's not doing much, but he's inspecting, making sure nothing sneaks in and loves looking in the garden. if you love watching talk, the videos spam some hearts, he never gives up, he's always here, he always has our back and he's not a big fan of strawberries, which makes me very happy.

I can eat them all, but when you get to the carrots, peas and green beans, this guy is on top of the blueberries, like they grow in acidic soil, so when planting it's a good idea to mix in a little Pete Moss or some pine needles to lower the PH to a level where blueberries will thrive if you have super alkaline soil, it may not be worth planting blueberries in the ground, but they grow fantastic in containers, just make sure that if you plant blueberries, especially in containers, plant two different cultivars because they are not self-fertile.

I suggest you try planting even two different varieties of blueberries in one container in the same place. I plant my blueberries in the ground, but these are two different varieties, they are planted next to each other and they are both thriving. I live in New Jersey and this is an ideal place to grow blueberries. They actually grow wild in some of the local forests. When planting blueberries, I suggest you plant 2-3 year old plants because blueberries usually take 6-8 years. Until they reach full production, there are a number of additional penalties that will feed you for life.

A lot of them are fruit trees like this one here, a pear tree. This thing was loaded with fruit last year, but I wanted to stick with perennials that most people can plant in their garden even if they don't have a lot of space and some of the ones I share with you can be grown in pots. There are also additional pules that I didn't feel were worth mentioning. one of them is solar chokes, some people like to say that solar chokes are great, you should plant them in the garden but in my opinion they are not worth it, they are a perennial plant that will probably grow forever but will end up being something that will probably I don't want to, they don't taste like potatoes at all, although some people say they do.

I prefer to plant potatoes every year rather than have Sun chokes, sometimes called Jerusalem artichokes, in the garden. In my opinion, it's just not worth it. It can also become invasive, so I think sometimes there's a reason why rare plants are rare. That's today's video. Producers, thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed it. We hope they got something out. Tuck and I had a great time here. The weather is really starting to improve. uh we have most of our beds all filled, but not all, it's so many extra things that we put in the garden this year, it's so exciting that we already have some things planted and we can't prepare, we can.

Don't wait to get to the Harvest, it won't be far from here, we had a great time and we hope we brought you some value and we hope you plant some of these perennials in your garden and start to focus more. With a perennial mindset instead of just an annual, it's great to grow annuals, but it's even better to grow annuals and have perennials in the background, always producing and working so they can continue to feed you like I said for the rest of your life. I mean, these blueberries should last 40, I don't know, 50 or 60 years I guess, but they're going to last a long time, so it's nice to have something here that you not only have to take care of but can take care of you Tuck and I wanted Mention a shout out to one of our new channel members myself, Crystal Johnson, thank you for being part of the growing team, thank you for having your hand in everything we are doing here.

Tuck, the young boss. young king, the inspiration for the garden and James, we will be with you again very soon we will leave