Perennial is definitely the way to go. Plant it once and enjoy the bounty.

Hidden gardens! A lot of ornamental plants started out as vegetables or grain. Amaranth seeds can be popped, the leaves taste like beet greens. They will self-sow, but if animals find them, they're gone. Some chilis are ornamental. Cana lily roots are the 2nd best cooking starch known. The ancestors would peel and shred the roots, then dry them. We planted sweet potatoes, chilis, ground cherries, cana and so on in flower beds. Everyone commented how pretty the flowers were. :)

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Stinging nettles beats all. More vitamin C per volume than an orange and much more. We eat it weekly in the winter and almost every day in summer. Love this channel. Thanks for the info.

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*And We Know* brought me here & I’m happy he did, Awesome Channel!!!

Love the shirt. I haven't listened to him in a while...... thanks for the reminder!

I planted a bunch of perennial vegetables last year. Jerusalem artichokes, Chinese artichokes, rhubarb, asparagus, sorrel, Turkish rocket, walking onion, perennial leek, meadow garlic, and nodding onion. Turkish rocket only thing I seemed to have lost, as I have no idea where I planted it and the tag was pulled out, it will be found eventually. A few red Russian kale and Swiss chard, did not die over the freezing cold winter, surviving -20 nights, they were little things hanging onto life in early spring and now nice plants giving me a harvest.

i watch And We Know. Im glad to know that people know the situation going on.

Gardening and an "And We know" shirt... love it!

Love the AWK shirt!!! Yes sir!

Billy! You're an AWK FAN?! YESSS!! LOVE THE SHIRT! ❤

My grandmother grew up in Appalachia, one of thirteen children. They always grew cushaw squash. Years later after marrying and moving to Ohio she still grew it. I remember eating her cushaw pie as a child. It is better than pumpkin pie in my opinion.

This is the second video I’ve watched and I was already hooked with the first one. Comfrey is my fav. ❤I just love that your son helps I’m starting to get my son and husband help as well praying they get the garden passion 😂

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Bidets are wonderful. William, you are smart!

The Cherokee tans are our only pumpkin we’ve had luck with. They resisted the squash beetles and like you said, they are prolific we harvested up till our first frost and got around 300 pounds off 4 or 5 plants and we still have a couple left in the pantry. They fed us and the animals over the winter. Great addition to any garden!

Love your t-shirt! I have one, too! 😁

ANDWEKNOW!!!! Wooohoo! Love your shirt!

I'm in Central TX zone 8b and my sweet potatoes are perennial! I left some roots in the bed when I harvested last fall and I have a whole bed of new sweet potatoes again this year for free!

I hope and pray everyone listens to y’all. Thank you for preaching!!!!!❤️ Sure like that deep voice behind the camera.

Just came across y’all! I love your style! Absolutely agree with finding vacant land anywhere and everywhere to grow/hide food for future use if we needed it! It’s coming and people need to understand how important this is. If we don’t need it great but better to be safe than sorry

Prior to Covid, several English villages began 'gardening' in public spaces such as parks, medians, easements. One that was featured showed how the older citizens knew exactly what to grow where. My favorite line from a lady was that when you finish your morning walk you could come home with a salad. Thank you for promoting this concept here in our country.

Love the information & Love LT = And We Know, God Bless

AWK shirt! Yeahhhhhhh. Love from Australia !

FYI.. I joined the club last week went all over my work place (luxury apt complex) and gorilla gardened red skin potatoes teehee was so much fun and not one person asked what I was up too. 😜 I'll do more later this week, next step I'm gonna plant right in front of the office see who notices

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I love your shirt and watch “And We Know” religiously as I do yours! The only two I look for so I don’t miss an episode.

Love your shirt, I follow "And We Know" as well!

🎯 thanks Billy always good 🥘 for thought

I LOVE your And We Know shirt. I too listen to Lt..

God bless yall and your whole family. Sincerly, a virginia boy

Love the And We Know shirt!

I love your shirt! I listen to him too!

I am glad I found you guys.

Love that you have a And We Know shirt on great show

Love your channel! Thank you so much! My husband is watching now too. He is a civil engineer and you speak his language! We have 10 acres, we are in the position now to start to develop- we want to do like your saying- put the infrastructure in first!

A note just for information, youngish leaves of horseradish, can be washed and chopped and added to other greens or stirfry for added zip and nutrition ( my granddaughter adds it to salads and nibbles on it while we garden)

LT from AWK sent me here!! Thank you for all your help 🙏

Subscribed because of your shirt. xxx And we know. xxx

Thanks for all you guys share. I love coming back to some older videos time and time again. Way better than an episode of Friends is watching 2 or 3 of y’all’s videos.

If there is a vacant lot, try finding and contacting the owner. They will likely be happy to have someone "take care" of the lot for them. About the only thing they wouldn't allow is permanent structures. For colder climates where you can't grow citrus fruits, try growing the rugosa rose. Their hips are high in vitamin C, and the bushes can double as privacy fences/deer barriers. For cold climate, higher fat crops, sunflowers are good source.

Love your "And We Know" shirt. :D

My new favorite KZfaq channel, thank you so much for being here

It just stopped snowing here two weeks ago. Count your blessings!

I just found this video and love the message! Our family currently has a mix of regular raised bed gardens and containers, but I am slowly turning our back yard into a food forest. Your videos have inspired me to do more. Thank you!

Nice video, sadly where I live in Baltimore they don't want you to grow anything on your balcony. It is said that we should only have patio furnitures but I'm growing nonetheless. This all of a sudden came up this year about what we can't have. I've been growing on my balcony and it was never an issue. My desire is to get a piece of land to grow on and if possible live on as well.

I totally agree with you on perrinials and annuals. I do everything I can to grow for self-sufficiency. Great job you guys 👍

Love the AWK shirt! My greenhouse design is done, revised to use more free oak pallet wood, done again, and now almost all reclaimed materials have been collected, so the build starts next week. Thanks for all the great tips!

Thanks for the tip about the two squash varieties! I had trouble with mildew and the vine borer got three of my squash plants this year, these resistant types are just what I needed! Great vids with abundance of practical info!

You are a great teacher! So much knowledge, and you are able to convey it in a way that sinks in. Thank you!

Great info! Thanks for sharing. And love your shirt...LT rocks!

Dude! Your shirt! 👍🏼🙌🏼🔥 That is very cool. We love wearing our Romans 8:28 shirts and the conversations that follow. Keep shining a light into the darkness!

Thanks Mr Billy and Mrs. Michelle for sharing your wisdom with us. Really enjoyed. God's blessings ❤

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Thank y’all! Blessings

OMG! I love your shit from LT. First time viewer - so impressed with your knowledge. Just subscribed.

I really have to say your videos are the best and most down-to-earth ones I have seen on this subject matter. I am not familiar with cooking/preparing some of the vegetables that you talked about. When it comes harvest time, could you please include some videos on preparation, cooking, and storage of the things you grow? Thanks and keep up the good work!

All so gorgeous. I'm so excited to see the terrace when complete. Blessings, julie

Great job folks

Get ready buddy! LT over at And We Know plugged you

Love your shirt. ❤️

I had been planning on getting comfrey for some time. I bought a dozen early in the spring and I have put them around some of my fruit trees like you and others have recommended. Coincidentally I also planted sweet potatoes around the fruit trees in between the comfrey. I have also planted potatoes in four different locations in my garden. I have been looking through my garden all spring to find spaces in my garden that are under utilized and figure out what I can grow in those spaces. I have grown several dozen sweet potato slips from three sweet potatoes I bought from the supermarket. I have been able to get four successions from just those three sweet potatoes to extend my harvest period. I also bought 5 citrus trees to add to the lemon tree I already had. I put some sweet alyssum and balloon flowers in the citrus pots to attract pollinators and benifecial insect interest they also act as a ground cover. I live in an HOA but have been able to build a greenhouse, three bay compost system out of old pallets and have converted the entirety of my .05 acre back yard into a "back to eden" garden trying to keep perma culture and organic concepts in mind.

We planted Tromboncino last July. It grew extremely fast with large strong stems..It tastes like Butternut squash and gives you a lot of seeds to save. Bought our seeds from Territorial Seed Co. Needs a lot of room as it vines out like pumpkins.

I love your shirt, and I enjoy watching that show on Rumble for current events intel.

So glad I watched this episode I was going to ask if you 2 were married because I didn't see any rings and you're just so adorable together. Thank you for starting this channel I absolutely love watching you and I feel like I can relate to you much better than many others on this platform. You're the coolest

A single trombocino produced over 300# of squash and I was like Forrest Gump in the shrimp scene figuring out what to do with all of it. My friend 's donkeys were blessed multiple times. I didn't start any this year. I needed to recover from PTSD (post traumatic squash disorder) and one snuck in. I am trellising it for all I'm worth.

Thank you ore helping people to learn to survive in .this time.

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We are so Blessed can grow sum food. Thank God I found bout 30 peach trees came up. I am save them all to plant an share.

In the Phoenix Arizona area you can contact the land owner of the not used piece of urban land and make an agreement with the land owner on growing gardens there, setting up plots for people to garden and the land owner gets a tax break on the land, so you may have that in other cities also.

I am trying to be self sufficient in the suburbs and as a renter there is only so much I can do. With the economy and the way the world is going I want to do and learn all I can now. “If we don’t grow our own food, we’re going to be screwed”. That’s my new thing I teach everyone!

Ive been watching and taking notes on y'all's notes. I dont have land, but im working hard at saving money and building credit and collecting knowledge so that when im ready I can just bust out of the gate with the lexicon of knowledge ive collected and start working hard at something that actual yeids. Im eager and it all feels quite urgent.

Thank you for these amazing answers. Those squash ideas and the thoughts about planting things in a forest is fantastic.

So happy to have found your channel! Thank you for sharing what you do.

If you are thinking of growing food on someone's private land they aren't using, I'd suggest contacting them and asking. Perhaps offering a part of the harvest. Too many folks these days are squatting/dumping trash/setting up homeless camps on private vacant land and getting met with the business end of a shotgun when the owner comes across them. I own vacant land and would be miffed to see someone doing anything without asking me first. Public land - cities may welcome food production on their property. Master Gardeners in my area hold classes and do just that with the blessing the local government.

Thank you. I found you through Jack spearco and Nicole sauce. By the end of the month, I'll have listened to every episode of your pimpcast

And We Know! I love the shirt and I watch the podcast as often as they come out. I love your channel!!!

I do the David The Good Grocery Row Garden style myself. I have an annual garden box area in my backyard. Down on the 4 1/4 acres my Dad had an orchard, most of which doesn't produce anymore but i have made that GRG down there after clearing out a lot of blackberry vines that havent been maintained for a long time. And the even more invasive grapevies that actually took down a couple of his old trees. Its a reclaim from mother nature but i am doing what i can to give back to the bees, birds and other animals on the property as well. I will be putting up 2 deer nets along that GRG to keep the deer out. But i will leave them food as well. My wife loves her disney princess life (deer, raccoons, squirrels, birds, owls, etc) lol

Another great one y’all ! I’m so glad to be from Arkansas! I live in the country and no one will bat a eye to what I’m doing. I’m right there with you about some of these jacked up laws that is only gonna get worse! How I know, IT IS WRITTEN! God Bless and be smarter than the serpent!

Wishing I had known about the festival months ago but literally just came across your channel this morning …will certainly keep up as best I can …thank you for all of your content and knowledge…stay blessed…

Once I saw Romans 8:28 on😢your shirt, I knew that you were my guy. May God bless you, your family, your offspring and all your friends. You're doing God's work, friend.

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God Bless you guys..

I've had an excellent season so far, here in South central NC in August, planting Marconi peppers and sweet potatoes together in a 35 gallon container. The peppers are bearing nicely and if the sweet potatoes are producing under the ground the same way that the vines are growing, I should have an excellent harvest on sweet potatoes.

I like the LT shirt!

I'm so here, binging your videos...... you can say it much better than I do. I'm not a video person...I am trying

Love you guys, and the wealth of information you provide. Please continue to give updates on various festivals and homesteading events in the area. I for sure will be driving in from Texas for one of these in the future.

I just learned about sweet potatoes and they are taking off. I have them growing on my porch in buckets.

Take them to task.... rolling! Thanks for all the videos we have been learning side by side and putting things to work. Glad you do it!

Thank you guys for your content!

We planted comfrey around the fruit trees and both the comfrey and trees are doing amazing! We cut the comfrey for the livestock and it grows back fast! We have also planted a lot of perennial plants and herbs. Great info!

Fabulous book! Fabulous ideas... Great minds 😊 thanks for sharing!!

yes I have been growing my own sweet potatoes slips, so far so good

Like your shirt from LT 😀

Thanks for the valuable knowledge and the humor!

Comfey is such a versatile good thing!

Great ideas and a new book to read. Thank you!

Great information an great people bro