Garden video dump - giving fellow breeders insight

I did a little garden tour, nothing fancy, just walk around with my ‘smart’ phone. I mean, i like too read, i like to converse, but a video gives extra impressions.
Hope y’all upload your garden and project videos here. And comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hupSYKLC0n4&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJkCT9vGdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5mMSsemYM

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Nice, there are so much green, my garden is yellow.

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Whoa, your salsify is so tall!! The stuff that I’ve seen is only about 15cm tall. Yours looks over 1m!! :exploding_head:

Do you harvest it to eat? If so, how does the Morning Star taste?

Hi Jens, No! For years i tell myself to try, the Dutch folk name translates as Kitchenmaid despair, not very encouraging either. I grow them basicly for biodiversity’s sake and because they self seed and don’t care much about white clover or other cover crops i can just let them grow big, be a radiant insect magnet, make beautiful seed heads and then mulch them, leaving a nice plug in the soil to top off.
I have this idea of using them in a palate of many field wide cover plants amongst parsnip and daikon and 18 or so other plants to boost microbial life for a year or two and then start using the soil for human consumption crops.

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Ohh, okay. I’ve heard of it called the oyster plant, not sure if that name has anything to do with its flavor or not. I’ve grown it before, mostly the short yellow kind, but have never harvested it to eat it. There’s a bunch growing where I’m staying at the moment, so I’m curious about digging some up and eating it later this season. :sweat_smile: I also harvested some seeds to bring home to scatter about our yard as well.

I use tillage radishes how you’re using salsify. Break up the soil, leave a pocket in there to decompose and feed the area, and so on. We have pretty rich forest soil though, so I don’t really think I need to improve it so much as just start creating areas for food crops.

I really loved your rounded trellises and erratic climbing rack for your dry beans. :joy: I sent the videos to my hubs so he can get some inspiration. :grin:

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Looked into it a bit, i should not have clicked it was for kids… they’re not allowed comment. sigh. New to this!
@jens haha. If he listens you can pay me to make videos about what you want him to do next!

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