hello friends in today's episode we will look at some plants that can be grown year-round
you can grow these plants in most zones starting from 9 and above
so we will be looking at mint
we will look at fenugreek
we will also take a look at growing lettuce
we will take a look at growing cilantro
and radish
so the first plant we will take a look at is cilantro and cilantro is also known as
coriander in some countries it is basically a herb and it also produces seeds that are used
as a spice which is actually good coriander so the fresh greens are called
cilantro and they can be used to prepare a lot of dishes now cilantro is one of the
plants that can be grown year-round very easily and the best thing about
cilantro is that it grows very well in full sun as well as partial Sun but it still
needs about four hours of sunlight every day in order to produce nice leaves
that you can use it's very easy to also start cilantro indoors and you can keep it in
the greenhouse and then transplant it any time that you want cilantro
grows very well and adapts to a lot of conditions and one of the best things I
like about cilantro is that can be grown in very small containers it has shallow
roots and when you harvest cilantro you just harvest the top part of the plant
and then the plant will grow back very quickly so you can grow a few plants and
then harvest cilantro right throughout the season
that usually last for a few months and then you plant some more
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and the next plant that can be very easily grow year-round is Fenugreek
Now fenugreek can be eaten as micro greens
and you can also eat the plant itself the leaves of the fenugreek
plants are very delicious and very healthy and have a very unique nutritional profile
and if there was any plant that could grow in any sort of container I think
fenugreek would take the top spot fenugreek again has very shallow roots and
you need to grow a lot of these plants though because they have very small
leaves but you can use some wide containers like the ones that you're seeing on your
screen here to grow fenugreek very easily now this is the sort of container that is
almost perfect for fenugreek it's round its wide and it has a lot of surface
that you can grow these greens in
So fenugreek is one of my favorite plants to grow
it produces very well almost throughout the year if it gets very hotjust
put it in some shaded area in your garden and it should do very well and here you
can see how versatile fenugreek is I'm just using some leftover play sand from the
kids area I just put the play sand in an aluminum foil and made some holes at the
bottom and sowed fenugreek seeds and you can see how well they've grown they
have grown almost perfectly fine and this is the reason why I love growing
fenugreek it on the easiest things to grow and there are a a lot of uses for fenugreek
and I'll shortly share a recipe with you with how you can use Fenugreek
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So we'll now take a look at growing lettuce
Lettuce is one of my favorite things to eat for lunch
and this is a Spring Mix - one of my favorite types of lettuce to eat it
basically has a lot of a micro greens or mini-greens rather I should say that
you can grow very easily in almost any kind of container and then you can eat
it as a salad so I had this white container left from somewhere and I'm
just using some regular potting mix peat moss, perlite and some compost and i've
sown these seeds and you can see they've already sprouted it takes a very short
time for these sprouts to show up and once they show up they also grow pretty
fast so lettuce is actually one of the plants that truly doesn't need much
attention and when growing lettuce I make sure that I keep it a little
elevated so a little higher up from the ground and that ensures that there are
not many slugs or snails that get to the lettuce now also remember that
lettuce is one of the vegetable that has a very high water content so it makes it
very easy for lettuce to absorb all sorts of minerals around it now those could be bad
too so make sure you're getting organic seeds only that's very important that
you use organic seeds when you're growing lettuce . Our soil is organic
we've not added any kind of pesticides, chemicals or fertilizer you don't
really need to lettuce is a plant that grows very easily in straight up compost
peat moss and perlite or vermiculite and you can see here we're harvesting this
lettuce and we've got a really good crop here from such a small area harvested a
lot of lettuce and it's looking pretty good
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so the next plant on our list that can be grown year-around without any problems is
mint - if you've watched my earlier video on growing mint and I'll provide a link to
that for you at the end of this video you would have known the different kinds
of mint that you can grow this mint that you're seeing here is a special
variety of spearmint and spearmint is one of the most common types of mint
that you can grow in your garden and it's a very rewarding plant mint
literally requires no maintenance you can keep growing it in smaller
containers like you see here and just snip the top part of the plant's the leaves
and the mint will grow back right away so another cut-as-you-go
plant which will give you fresh mint almost around the year now some of you
asked me about some problems with the mint plant and yes the mint
plant might have some issues with spider mites or some kind of fungal diseases
but if you really see any diseases on your mint plant just thin them just
cut them or you can even raze them right at the surface of the soil level
and they will bring up nice leaves that you can eat so that the mint plant
I would say if you have any insects or diseases don't try to go ahead and fix it
just remove those leaves and then let the new leaves come out and you can easily use
those leaves and mint has a lot of user and I am excited to share a very special
recipe with all of you and that is coming up right now
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radish is another cold hardy plant and can be easily grown around even in the
summer season however note that there are two types of radishes - one radish
is a winter radish and one is a summer radish and we're talking about the small
winter radish here this can be grown round the year you can see you can use a small
aluminum tray to grow them as well and they grow pretty well you can even use
larger containers like whiskey barrel which gives you a lot of surface area and
you can grow this in larger containers as well
So Hail Stone, Cherry Belle all these are winter radishes they are smaller in size
they come in different colors like this cherrybelle here the cherry radish
took about 25 to 30 days for this radish to form and it's a very quick crop so
you can keep growing it round the year, just make sure you time your sowing accordingly so
that you get a fresh radish every month or even every two weeks if you want to
do very easy to grow that was the cherry Bell radishand here you can see the
White Hailstone radish the Hailstone radish is another great variety of
winter radish that you can go pretty much throughout the year so you can see here
these radishes look very beautiful once again very easy to grow now remember
that not only is the radish root edible the radish greens are edible as well
and they are absolutely delicious
so I hope you liked this episode and I know that there are many other plants
that you can also grow around the year but this gives you a little idea on
which plants are good candidates to grow year round so please do let me know your
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