edible apartment balcony: local food and urban permaculture

feralkevin discusses the food value of his balcony container plants. He talks about Campanula (bellflower), Camellia sinensis (green tea and black tea), nasturtium, calendula, -- and human urine as a high nitrogen fertilizer.




DISCLAIMER: This posting does not claim to be an intstructional guide to eating wild plants. Never eat a plant unless your completely sure of its edibility, and do not use this posting or other feralkevin postings to identify plants.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• permaculture
• edible
• balcony
• urban
• container
• Campanula
• Tea
• Camellia
• Nasturtium
• human
• urine

[rawveganwurzel]

Given the choice surely washing off the leaves of plants is a good idea as you never know whether a bird or dog ,insect or in this case a human has left their mark.

[feralkevin]

Where's the fun in that?

[BigTestAbc]

Anyone know where to get the capandula plant and/or seeds?

[feralkevin]

"Campandula." It's like a cross between two of the plants I talk about in the video. Campanula and Calendula. You can get Calendula seeds almost anywhere, either local nursery or mail order seed catalog. Campanula is available at almost all nurseries with a baffling variety.  It is a very common ornamental planting with hundreds of members in the Genus. More research would be in order.

[forestmonk]

very nice video! and id have to agree with Beccalgiallo, you performance was very nice, clear, understandable, the video quality was excellent.

i like your idea of watered down urine as fertalizer, i might try that idea myself! is the urine itself nitrogen rich or is it a reaction to the soil or enzmes of the plant?

[feralkevin]

the urine itself is nitrogen rich. But beware on several accounts. Too much (not watered down enough) urine can damage your plants. Using urine can also create odors if used too much, and of course, only use urine from a healthy person. Also, using urine to fertilize your plants may seriously challenge the paradigms of people in your life.

[Yabbablabba]

How come I never meet people this interesting out in the real world...

[zenrainman]

Great work and nice and simple explanation, agree with the urine bit completely . More power to your elbow :) and good luck.

[JessieKateRose]

@feralkevin "Where's the fun in that?" I know what you mean! I eat stuff straight out of my garden whenever anything's ripe. As long as I don't see bird poop on it, I don't want to go inside before eating it! I want to eat it while it's still warm from the sun.

Your balcony is so awesome.

[ashcote1028]

good job man, one balcony at a time. Green the world

[vidaripollen]

nice work.i do multi species in my pots too.you can also introduce a few worms to turn the soil there.

[inivonwini]

I live about 15 miles away from you!

[4leafmetal]

Doesn't anyone else notice that this guy sounds like Paul Rudd?

[leapingfroglady]

Very informative. Thanks

[harshLesson]

Hey look its Bernard Madoff's illegitimate son =D

[TheGordonK]

nice little note about urine at the end...

[jimmenaman]

great video and all but am I the only person who finds this funny?

If anyone was walking past your house they would be like dam that crazy B****** is eating his flowers