You can eat trees! There are so many benefits to growing edible trees and they are also suitable for smaller gardens as you can pollard them to keep them small. From no slug damage to year-on-year harvests, particularly during the hungry gap, here are some though-provoking points about growing edible tree leaves which could replace your salad bed!
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This is a very cool and underrated approach to growing food. Thanks Huw.
I’ve got goji berry that hasn’t had fruit either in 2 years. The plant is fairly big. And lots of different branches full of leaves.
I had trouble growing lettuce too.Failed 3 times.Eaten by pests despite raised bed and slug pellets.
Awesome idea! Ty!
Can we get scientific names for the plants he mentioned? Lime trees mean something very different over here in America 😂
As I, along with many others with health challenges such as mold toxin, autoimmune, food intolerances and such issues – incl. arthritis – may VERY much benefit from a strict, low-oxate diet ( one of the reasons the carnivore diet is healing so many), I am VERY interested in the oxalate content, per typical serving size, and how the typical person would eat it (OR both content when raw and content when simmered in water and the water discarded, such as for beet greens & chard, which I love.. ). I'd settle for SOME idea of oxalate content per serving, of these tree leaves and other lesser-known edibles ( and herbs, spices and medicinal plants), such as nasturtiums, etc. … which aren't on the usual lists. I know you have your own interests and personal goals and projects, Huw, so I'm just putting it "out there" in case this is something you can add to your list, ask of "colleagues", or if any of your viewers can take this up. My efforts of "googling" things, so far, is time consuming and not 100% fruitful. I'm very interested also in how sprouting affects it in seeds, grains, nuts.. . If just any sprouting is the same, or if plenty of rinsing and time spent soaking, and rinsing super well again, makes a notable difference.. due to the fact I buy my flours sprouted, so, don't control the process myself (and I have enough to do, so…) . I can just go without quite a bit, but not all the time.
I don't think when you say lime you mean the citrus tree. Must be a Britishism.
Doing it with birch, hornbeam and lime. sometimes just pick from the tree fresh young leaves.
How interesting that you could try those leaves.. 🤩 Regarding slugs, I do have some succes in having the local hedgehog around to eat the slugs and snails in my garden. And with a bowl of water for the hedgie, and maybe a little hideout for the creature helps too.