get a I'm Mike from self-sufficient me and in this video I'm gonna give you five vegetables that grow faster then grass let's get into it okay you've got me the grass at this time of year doesn't grow as fast as usual but that's not the point the point of this video is to show you five really quick smart SuperDuper fast growing greens that you can grow in a hurry but not only that give you several tips on how you can harvest these greens early so that you can get some food in the kitchen and on the plate quicker than you can say these greens grow like weeds number one is lettuce I rarely ever have to buy lettuce seed from the store or online because it just comes up in our lawn and there are reasons why that happens it's not by accident but it's sort of is it's by accident because I make it an accident by letting our lettuce plants go to sea just in this one patch of grass around here there are several varieties of lettuce growing you've got this yellow leaf lettuce a red coral type lettuce a minicars which is just crunchy as and so prolific and fast growing and you could even group some endive the curly left bitter end of that is lovely in an Italian salad growing also popping up everywhere they are now starting to interrupt other crops that I actually sowed for real for instance you won't find many weeds at all in this bed but you will see a plethora of salad crops coming up here it's just crazy and I've been picking them like crazy because I have planted spring onions a red bulb spring onions along here and larger red oblong onion on the outsides and they're starting to grow well except these lettuce seedlings are coming up and they're starting to smother the onions seedlings and I don't want that but at the same time it's a conundrum we've been picking them like crazy to eat and transplant in other places but I think you'll agree this is a really nice problem to have to crops out of the one bed as these onions are slowly maturing they're gonna take a while several months probably only be ready in around summer the spring onions they will be ready sooner of course and we can harvest them a little earlier but as they are developing we can harvest these lettuce as they pop up some of them are still just popping up as small seedlings others are more developed I'll just harvest the ones that are encroaching more on the onions first and as they get bigger get rid of them so then finally when the onions are ready for maturity and needing that extra Sun and growth room the lettuces will be harvested it's a win win every one of these lettuce plants here have either been transplanted from the lawn or the adjoining bed here and look at how healthy they are growing they didn't take long at all to reestablish out of this head here you'll get thousands of lettuce seeds and with those seeds I tend to sometimes save them but most of the time I just let the wind scatter them or I crunch them up throw them around in the garden in garden beds knowing that they will come up one time at the right time as well and that is another interesting fact about most types of self seeding plants like this number two is mustard is that cute very tasty too especially the young leaves but this can turn into a really big plant that is starting to get there but Japanese mustard can get humongous that looks beautiful in the garden you can even pickle the stems I gained just like lettuce it's us seeds like crazy and of course we know it seems like crazy because people use those seeds have done for thousands of years to make wonderful condiments typically here we grow the Japanese and the ruby streaks both grow extremely fast they can get a little strong to eat as they get large but if you eat the leaves young they're just delicious especially if you mix it in with a another type of salad because this plant is gonna get huge I'll have to harvest this very soon otherwise I won't have any onions in this immediate area because it'll just be smothered out number three is sorrel and sorry that this looks a little bit like a shallow grave I assure you there's nothing buried underneath here I'm just refurbishing some old garden beds and making new ones and that's why this pile of soil is here but it brings me to a fantastic point in this garden bed was some sorrel and look how its popping up through can you see any weeds no weeds this sorrel is outgrowing any weeds or grasses on this bare soil and that is remarkable it's so strong the taproot in sorrel goes down so far so quickly that it can outgrow just about anything it is growing in my lawn over there too it grows anywhere and I'll show you another spot you know raised tunnel trellis here it's come out of nowhere you know a little bare patch of ground that are prepared for some cucumbers that didn't make it but it has just taken the opportunity to sow itself right here and it couldn't be in a more perfect spot to be honest I'm going to leave it there it's filling a gap in the in bed between two tomato plants and that's all that I wanted was this space to be used with a food crop and not wasted this is a red vein sorrel and I reckon it's underrated it is beautiful young especially in salads and you can even chop it up really fine and make it into a quite spicy nice sauce it's a bit of a cross between mustard rocket and lettuce in my opinion and it is extremely Hardy and fast growing one of my all-time favorites and speaking of all-time favorite plants to grow number four is the good old bok choy let's pick up a little small one here of course it's growing in the lawn and I'll transplant him in you see this vegetable all the time especially in Asian food stores but in Asian food and in lots of European food as well because it just grows so easily the whole plant is edible it's a juicy lovely mild type of green that is easy to eat not bitter the pace at which this thing can grow is incredible let one of these plants go to seed and it will produce literally thousands of seeds you can then spread them around the garden if you want or you can collect them and then sow them at will but my favorite way to eat them isn't to let them mature which is very nice to have a nice mature bok choy a large plant you see in the grocers I reckon the best way is to eat them when they're small and it's so easy to do and it's not a waste to over so in a garden bed and then just pluck them out small because you're getting the seed for free anyway and the other thing that I love about bok choy is how little fertilizer it needs to grow it'll grow practically in any type of poor soil now I don't mean that you should grow it in poor soil and not look after it but I'm just saying that if you don't have a very fertile plot or you don't have some good potting soil in a container well this is one of the plants that you can grow to save a lot of money and to grow fast yeah that bok choy should do really well there and fill up that little gap between those onions nicely number five I'm gonna go quite broad and call it as most baby greens and I've got a good reason for it because I'm are over Sawa I'll admit it I've got a problem I over say and I love over saying because that's how I get all those baby greens on a plate and harvesting food for the kitchen and on the plate quicker than I would otherwise because I over so and I've got heaps of those little examples for you here let's start just here kale pick up a little bit and when they're small like this I know some people don't like kale I love it whole family loves it and it pickles really nice too especially if you mix it up with some cabbage like in the sauerkraut carrots are bringing in closer some people might think our markets a waste you've sowed a whole packet of carrot seed here and they're not going to all grow very well because they're so close together that's the thing as you thin them out you're eating them early so let's get an example here I'll just pull out this one here now these have only been growing for a few weeks and already they've got a little bulb a little root there you know how much you pay in a fancy restaurant for this type of stuff those five star Michelin restaurants will put a baby green on the plate like this big white plate and they'll call it art and they'll make it gourmet food and you'll pay 50 bucks for it you know maybe a bit of an exaggeration but you get the gist don't you you can have this replicated at home in your own kitchen in the dining room eating a small baby carrot like this and have it all gourmet like but that's not the only thing you can also eat the leaves chop them up real fine but imagine this you don't have to eat it like that you can chop it up really fine and like have a tabbouleh tiboli am I saying that right in the comments section below where you can make a roll out of it or have it on a kebab and and with a sauce and some meats gonna be beautiful cut nice and fine well it is beautiful cut nice and fine like that so there's plenty of options feeding yourself early you're also allowing enough room for those remaining plants to develop a nice big carrot or bulb or whatever type of edible baby green you're growing on the inside of these carrots on growing cell Iraq and you can see that a gain of over soda but I have pulled out some and spread them apart here because it's a large root growing crop but you can also eat the tops and you can also eat them baby just like celery have a look at this long row of beetroot and piece look at this 15 meters of beetroot and peas and in the middle here I've transplanted some of that seller AK here as well given it some good spacing gonna get a ton of seller AK but also a ton of the treat and peas and all of these crops can be eaten young so as these be trig develop you're picking the leaves it's looks a little bit a little bit like sorrel actually but it's tastes completely different it's a lot more tender and mild the beetroot leaves and it doesn't hurt picking the leaves as the beetroot are growing or picking a baby beetroot but here look at these a lot of people don't realize that you can pick off pea leaves because you're waiting for the pea pods to develop they can take a while can take a couple of months before you're getting peas or even snow peas they eat whole but you can also pick the leaves and have them in salads they're dainty they're sweet people love them scatter them on a plate people say what are they you never seen them before is that's different I say well that's P leaves I never tried P leaves give it a crack no here tastes like tastes like a P yeah great great the same rule applies over sow and reap the rewards early have you got any other examples there's plenty of them and there's lots that I don't know if you do have examples of other types of edibles that you can eat early whilst waiting for the rest of it to mature that grow as fast as grass especially at this time of year let me know in the comment section below because 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