Our permaculture garden maintained itself quite well during our week-long absence. However, our Broccoli that was ready for harvest when we left, had fully bolted and gone to seed by the time we returned. But all is not lost, this gives us a perfect opportunity to talk about plant life-cycles and self-seeding crops.
VIDEO: Self-Seeding Broccoli
Our permaculture garden maintained itself quite well during our week-long absence. However, our Broccoli that was ready for harvest when we left, had fully bolted and gone to seed by the time we returned. But all is not lost, this gives us a perfect opportunity to talk about plant life-cycles and self-seeding crops.
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Great video. Couple years ago. Garden all spouted up foot or so. Figure I'd give it a good charge with chicken made compost. Spread it up n down every row. Had the best cherry tomato harvest to date. Figured it out, fed chickens kitchen scraps, n obviously cherry tomatoes in the mix. This closed system is Always a surprise and Blessing.
Thank you so much for making and sharing your videos!! I watch them with my children whom I hope will get the gardening bug! What hugely valuable lessons, both about gardening and about learning from your mistakes and looking for the opportunities that lie within. Awesome! My 8 and 11 year olds are riveted by your videos as am I! :-).
Nooo the flowers are totally edible and delicious!! They have a somewhat tangy taste. I always let my raabs go to flower. Theyre great when mixed in a salad or to add in a sauté
I am disappointed you did not share with us what variety went to seed.
Excellent video…very informative and thought-provoking. Thanks!
I've heard of a perennial wheat. Has anyone else heard of it?
I'm late to the party but just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos and all the info you share. I first saw you guys when you were van-lifing so it's really cool seeing the evolution of your journey.
That is exactly how some hot peppers, some weird kind of black beans, cucumber and cherry tomatoes I have work, they always regrow from where they died during last growth period between yams and other roots I grow
Eat the leaves. They are delicious
I planted basil in my raised ved garden about 5 years ago and accidentally let it seed out; now, every spring my yard is full of small basil plants and smells great
Dude I love you guys!!! This is what the world needs.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your very informative and incredibly creative videos. I too am a beginning farmer and so enjoy the connection to like minded souls.
are these the same seeds that you can grow sprouts with?
NO NO.. you missed the gold.. Don't mourn the lack of brocolli buds…
delight in the gift of lots of totally delicious broccoli flowers.. they're gorgeous..
raw or cooked.. all the broc heads all the way.. buds, closed flowers.. and full flowers..
lots of brassicas have delicious flowers.. rocket flowers are one of my fav things..
I love your videos. They confirm all the things I believed. I grew up in a city & we’re basically fed propaganda against nature.
Thanks for all your videos 🙂
where are you in Canada ? I am in ON
i would think brocoli rabe and brocoli both in the mustard family will hybridize. how bout self seeding peas?
That is so cool!!!
I have seen this guy somewhere
You should check out, One Yard Revolution, he has tons of videos on self seeding food crops in his garden
Greetings from Nova Scotia! Much like yourself gardening is me and I just love seeing what mother nature provides when I stay out of the way. Every year for as long as I can remember something edible grows that I did not have anything to do with it!
You can harvest the bean pods that are resulting from the Bolting Broccoli and eat them. The beans taste like Broccoli and I actually prefer the flavor of the bean over the florets.
We used some of our kitchen scrap compost in our garden beds this year. Tomato that we had throw out into the compost has now spread their seed into all over the garden. Growing like weeds!
Best informational video I've ever seen! Thank u so much! I planted broccoli and ended up with the flowering seed one instead! It's so pretty ! Mine is 6 ft tall! Lol . I posted onna facebokk site and eveyone kept saying its mustard seed! Which it is not. If u didnt post this I wouldnt know what I had! Thank u!
you can still harvest and eat the broccoli that went to flower 🙂 it just isnt presentable but you get neverending broccoli when u keep cutting it before it flowers 😀
Self seeding!
Well that's how they made it to here over the time….
When we weren't farming or anything
Thank you
In my village some squash have escaped cultivation and grow feral…this year we even had a feral mellon grow in our lawn (of course we kept it, it was amazing)…those plants although many say they are thirsty and need lots of water, survived one of the hottest (if not the hottest)and driest summers here with almost no rain, and i live in greece so its really hot and dry and our soils here not even good
I feel like this experience changed me and my overprotection of my plants, and i feel like now that i share it, it can change many gardeners.
If we understand how nature works we can all live and garden better