Edible Perennial Gardening - Plant Once, Harvest for Years
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About half of my allotment garden is dedicated to temperate climate perennial edibles -- vegetables, fruit, berries, and herbs that I've planted once, and can rely on for harvests every year. In this video, I show you some of the ones I grow, and a few others at the allotment. I also share some of their benefits and how I grow them in the garden and containers. There's even a perennial that many people know as a common annual crop!
If you're new to edible perennial gardening, think of it this way. Instead of sowing seeds every spring, perennials regrow each year, providing an easy, and often very early crop. Perennial edibles are also low-maintenance, long-lived, and save both time and money in the productive vegetable garden.
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I love the idea of a predominately perennial garden!
Also check out "Kiss the ground" on Netflix it is a really interesting documentary
Yes, Easy Gardening all the way!
Nice video - thanks for sharing.
Did you mention Rhubarb?
Lavendar granita is so easy to make but tastes sooo good.
I've got 4 specied of perenial leeks in the garden - including the annual leeks I perenialised. There's also 4 types of chives, 3 types of onion, perennial loose leaf cabbage, 2 types perennial kale, 2 types rhubarb, hostas (never got round to eating them though), sorrel, cardoon, Jerusalem artichokes (start off the season with only a little gradually building it up helps the gut acclimatize - also try using with savory), good king henry, rocket, skirret, scorzonera, sweet cicely, fennel, scots lovage, wild garlic, elephant garlic, oerprei, Globe Artichoke, Cardoons, caucasian spinach.
Plus mashua, earth chest nut, oca, american groundnut.
Then theres the fruit - red currants, black currants, goose berries, raspberries, straw berries, honey berries, blue berries, 3 x grapes, choke berries, himalayan honeysuckle, dwarf mulberry, medlar, quincem goji berry, June berry.
Wow, listing it looks alot.
Then there's the kiwi fruit, rosemary, marjoram, sage, bergamont, japanese spinach, fig trees, logan berry, cranberry, comfrey.
Mashua, babington leeks, walkies leeks, multiplier onions, everlasting onions, elephant garlic, hablitzia, skirret & perennial kales are good ones too. 👍
Another good perennial are hostas. I cook the leaves like spinach with butter and it tastes like asparagus.
I did not know that hostas were an edible. Cool! 😊
Yum
@@AndreaM77 yeah me either! Chickens love them as well I found out!
All hostas???
@@kiachris76712 Yes. In fact all plants are edible. Some are only edible once.
I was made for a food forest. I have such a brown thumb that this year I was scouring the net for as many plants that had perennial species as I could find when eventually Geoff Lawton's videos began coming up on my Recommendeds. 😄. I was starting one and didn't even know it had a name. 👍
I have the herb comphrey that can be made into a tea for drinking, poultice, liquid fertilizer or green fertilizer by chopping and dropping. The bees love their flowers.
Thank you for sharing!
Perennials and permaculture gardening is so helpful and important! Right now I'm in an apartment, so my perennials have been Herbs like yarrow, then I have lots of annuals. With my land I plan to have mostly permaculture, and an orchard, with perennials, then my annual garden closer to the house.
I have videos of my crazy covered apartment patio. It's been fun to get creative, but I'm ready for property! 💚💚💚
Perennials are also so much better for the environment, especially large scale, because they sequester more carbon in the soil, and don't require tilling. When soil is rolled, like large scale annual agriculture, extremely large amounts of carbon are released. You can even see images showing all the carbon being released in fields of the Midwest US during early spring tilling season, and then again when all the animals die off before winter.
Plant once and you get harvest for many years. That is my kind of thing! Haha 😄
have a great result with super size plants and huge potatoes. I use a 4ft by 8 ft mesh sided compost area. Each year I move to a new spot. I did build an 8ft trellis for beans, but as I had lots i just put the potatoes in. The plants got strung to it as reached 7ft tall. Once dug up I had 1 potatoe at 1.2kg and many at 0.5kg. This proved effective now for the 3rd year. I thing the ground gets so full of of energy the plants go nuts.
Mushroom plant, Okinawan Spinach, Vietnamese Mint, Lemon Grass and Society garlic Cheers, Muffy from Oz (Australia)
Re: jerusalem artichokes - preparation is key to managing the gas issue. Slow cooking and pickling both work. As to it taking over, as with pretty much all plants, it depends. I've tried them in two different locations, hundreds of miles apart, and had them disappear entirely in no more than three years.
Half of our garden is perennial herbs, vegetables, and fruit. Some are rugosa for rose hips, about 14 kinds of berries/nuts, asparagus, greens, American groundnut, artichokes, grapes, walking onions, horseradish, and Rhubarb. Just ordered seeds for Nine Star broccoli, welsh onions, perennial sunflowers, and more strawberries plants.
What zone are you in
@@CersiB zone 6
I love these videos and the comments section for lots of ideas for my garden. I'm envisioning a predominantly edible garden which looks pretty too like an English cottage garden. I add a few more perennials each year, so it's slow going, but exciting seeing how each new addition has progressed each year!
Sunchokes are something that most people can't eat, because they never eat them. You don't have the gut flora to digest them properly. Once you start eating them, you will actually adjust over time and be able to eat them regularly with no problems. But it can take a couple months.
For years I had a capture sunchoke bed concrete stair, walks, and structures on all sides. The reason for growing...they would bloom 3 days before the first major frost.
And you lifted my :mood,'I have an allotment,and comfrey play's a big part in providing plant nutrition as well as beautiful flowers which bees love,and will try it as a remedy for skin healing if and when required.Have a good day, and thanks . Southampton, UK
I could watch the bumble bees on comfrey flowers for hours :) Such a useful and often beautiful plant!
I loved the editing on this video. 👍🏻 This was so informative and really opened my eyes to all the different types of perennial edibles! In my garden we have rhubarb, blueberries, blackberries, and new this year, raspberries. Thank you for the video!
Some other good ones which are easy to grow are elderberries, lemonbalm, wild leeks, mint, strawberries (not exactly perennials but they will self-replant fairly easily), rhubarb, fennel, wild garlic. Also if you have a patch of nettles don't get rid of them, they are a very nutritious perennial food source, as good as spinach.
Yes and you can contain them in a couple of pots for harvesting/pollenators 😊
I love nettle tea, one of the most nutritious plants! You know you can make tea out of the green seeds to provide an energy boost like coffee!
Yes zone handiness and climate is the most important thing in gardening. I find one of my best perinials is the prickly pear cactus in my 11a zone. I have months of free fruit without any work except collecting them. Another low maintaince periniel I have success in is moringa.
I live in Portugal and one thing that comes back every year is Allium triquitun. You can eat everything, the litle bulb, the leaves and the flowers. They are out in march when all other members of the onion family are not good to eat. I think they survive in any climate but they do become an invasive plant so take most of the bulbs out in April
Triquetrum. Registered invasive in the UK.
So many people think annuals. "Crop rotation! Omg, this bed had a virus so I can't plant any of X family in it for X years! It dies around X month!"
Me as a predominantly perennial gardener: "It's getting bigger, should only be a bigger harvest this year with less work than the year before."
Definitely a very enjoyable and informative post. Thankyou, young lady.
Thank you, lovely video! I am in New Zealand, and we definitely have mild winter in the north ! Our silver beet (swiss chard) will grow for 2-3 years, sorrell, yacon, and I found a wild arugula seed that is meant to be a perennial to trial this year. As well as asaparagus pea. Thanks for sharing your garden, very inspiring (I am going to try growing yams now).
in norther california they also grow for 2/3 years and by the time the plants ar ready for the compost heap ,there are self sown young plants around them to keep the greens coming.and about sunchokes i love too, if i peel the tubers when eating raw then no stomach upset, i just subscribed very good info and beauty!
Oca tuber formation is triggered by day length. Part of why it's difficult to grow further north. When our days are the right length to trigger tuber growth, there's not enough time left before killing frosts. I'm considering planting them where I can put a blackout cover over them to artificially shorten the days ;)
I love your vedio. Watching in the cold climate.. and 1stime gardening last summer.. thank you for a wonderful tips🥰😍
Really interesting video with some perennials that I did not know about. Always great chance to learn a lot of things with your videos!
Tanya , YOU are a Treasure over and over again with so much great information . Thank You So Much !
Some very interesting plants I’ve never hears of, so I really enjoyed learning about them. You might consider lacto fermenting the Jerusalem artichokes, as it makes them more digestible and eases their gas causing quality. I make a curried type pickle with them and they are really tasty.
If you leave the artichokes to cure for a few days there will be no gas problems
The Spanish Black radish is a perennial in zone 7. I have never been able to get any Scarlet Emperor Runner beans, have not been able to get the seed, but I think the idea of a perennial green-bean is awesome...
They can survive winters in mild climates and there's a row growing in my garden right now. They're biennials though, meaning that they set seed and die in the second year.
Believe it or not, peppers can be perennial. Cut them back to a main stem with a few buds when it gets too cold for further growth, and as long as there is not a hard freeze or root rot, they will come back the next year.
A great video, somewhat new subscriber here. In some growing zones, such as zones 5 -- 6 , I can grow herbs that are a zone 8 and above inside a greenhouse where they will overwinter. Also, part of what I would call my perennial garden are annuals that will readily self seed. [[ the seeds overwinter on the ground and do well ]]
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley) might be an idea.
Peppers can be perennials if you cut the stem in the shape of a Y (just before frost) and store them over winter in pots.
The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple.
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Nasturtium - commonly known as watercress or yellowcress
Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic
Malva or mallow.
I knew that Man and most of Scotland is Zones 8 & 9.
I live in Minnesota, USA. It is Zone 4. Some of the plants that you are growing are perennial here, too: asparagus, rhubarb, cardoon, and Jerusalem artichokes. Burdock is a "weed," but I eat it anyway.
Many states won't allow any type of currants to be grown, because it is a vector for white pine rust, which will kill the trees, and white pine grows in many areas here.
I have to grow rosemary in a pot and bring it indoors when it gets cold.
P.S. Sunchokes are a GREAT prebiotic for the beneficial bacteria in your gut biome. If you eat too much of them, your beneficial bacteria will 🎉🥳🥳 party, to the detriment of your comfort. The advice I saw said to introduce it *very" cautiously.
Burdock is a HUGE nutritional plant. We use it extensively as herbalists.
How do you prepare burdock (both of you) and what is it good for herbally? We have tons here.
Lovage is one of my favorites. It is a perennial celery.
Lovely suggestions, thank you. Rose hips have a lot of vitamin C so i use them as winter fruit and tea .
I'm setting up a garden now - the tips you provided will be useful. Thanks so much!
I really enjoy your videos. As for perennials, I grow much of what you do, and also honeyberries, blueberries, goumi berries, and am just going to try a perenniel mild chard called biettina.
This was a great watch ! Thanks for sharing 😻
I've got good king Henry growing for a reliable perennial veg, along with sunchokes, kale, and reseeding annuals. Love berry patches, and camas bulbs too. We've also tried to find wild forage and relocate it for a food forest. This way we have wild field garlic, and ramps along with various mushrooms and greens
I wish I had camas. It's EXPENSIVE! A great way to utilitize those shady spots.
@@lesliekendall2206 I bought in a half dozen years ago and have carefully encouraged them to spread. My great failure was out local squirrels like saffron bulbs.
I always grow yacons. They're so easy. Each plant produces lots of tubers, the parts you eat and numerous rhizomes, the parts you replant for next year's harvest. I leave them in the ground over winter and harvest them during the "hungry gap", March through to early May. I peel them and use them like a cucumber, which won't be ready for months.
Yacon are something that I've been interested in trying. Interesting that you use it similarly to a cucumber! Good to know :)
Do they taste like a cake too? What zone are you in?
Asturian Tree Cabbage is officially a biennial leafy green, but I had a plant last several years. Great in soups and stir-fries.
Was great seeing you on Gardeners world.
I absolutely love your property!! Great videos! Keep up the great work!!
Awesome update thank you for sharing Tanya
Always a must watch 👍
Wonderful important information during times of uncertainty. Thank you!!! And your garden is beautiful! ❤ from Florida, 🇺🇸
Elder is another good perennial. I use both the flowers to make a lovely cordial and the berries are also very good medicinally for the winter months. Autumn olives or known as silver berries as well are also great but they could take over your garden so I tend to forage for those. Sumac is another.
Great video. 🎉 I am a retiring chef and want to grow and experiment with my new organic garden. ❤ Thanks for the excellent advice. 😊 Cheers from Australia, chef Brendan 👨🍳
Everything looks so spiffy! Keep up the good work!
My garden is mostly perennial fruits. There are some uncommon fruits that are super delicious!
I've got soft fruit as perennial, they are so yummy to munch on at the plot!
Agree! I ate so many raspberries and blackberries while filming this piece 😍
I never thought of growing horseradish in a container. Thank you!
No problem 😊
We always grow horseradish in a container, as a perennial, overwintering it in our greenhouse. Growing it in a container makes a lot of sense because, like mint or comfrey, it is highly invasive.
@@danrubin4506 What's your temperature like in winter? Wondering if I can do it in Manitoba Canada.
Brilliant to see you on Gardeners World again....
It was fun to be on :)
NYS has wonderful woodlilies, they are edible all over, you can chop them down and they will grow their greens back the same season, just keep them cut and chop them in to stir fries and soups. Flowers are edible in bud and bloomed state, just get creative. Even the root although I have not ventured there yet, just too busy. Easy to work in the garden too. So beautiful. I also love our wild speearmint just comes back on its own. Keeps sharing, nice video. Blessings.
lovely video
Wow what a lovely garden,I'm in awe,thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
First time seeing your videos, I'm in love.
planting perennial crops can save you a lot of time and money.
I have many perennial herbs. Sage, oregano, different kinds of mint and thyme. And lemon balm.
The Birds and animals eat the peaches off our tree, so far none for us sadly
Love perennials.
Hi Reggie, hang old cds in your peach trees and put out a fake predator bird (like a plastic owl) and it will discourage the birds in your peach trees. Also peppermint oil sprayed on your trees will discourage bugs. Good luck. Happy gardening.
I have the same as you...here in sunny South Africa.. except for Lemon balm...càn you post a picture and share what you use it for, pls
How do you deter squirrels and raccoons
@@7654wolfie In my experience, squirrels (eating the pits) are the problem on peaches, not birds.
@@elainemyburgh9339 Look up Melissa officinalis. (It looks a bit like mint, to which it is related.) It is a tea herb (& nectar for honeybees [which is what the genus name means]). Since you probably have a warm winter, lemon verbena might be a better choice, as it has a stronger & sweeter odor.
Of course, in the USA, Zone 8+ (except for the West Coast, which has a mild Maritime or Mediterranean climate like Western Europe), it gets too hot for most runner beans to set fruit. I did see a landrace grown in Manchuria (hot in the brief summer), so perhaps there are some sorts that will work, but Phaseolus coccineas comes from altitude and doesn't generally like Continental or subtropical heat.
You forgot another factor: a true perennial must also survive (actively growing or in dormancy) *summer*.
Maybe try the runner beans in a place with afternoon shade. Your zone is suppose to be okay for them.
Nice garden
what a beautiful garden. 😍
Gardens make me happy :)
Thank you so much. it was amazing video and very well way to explain things for us , that's fantastique
Look I don't know what's more beautiful - you or the garden.
Lovely walkthrough of your perennials. Thank you Tanya from Western Oregon and the Willamette Valley!
I have a lot of perrenials, fruits, berries, herbs, wortel, rhubarb, good King Henry, and many more...
@Anna Johansson thanks, having problems with my mobile phone, and the auto-correction
Oh tysm my mom says d she got some of ur ideas to plants she planted startberry already, and the flower buns, and the 🍇
Thank you so much 🌻
Amazing garden
I'm trying many perennials (veg and fruit) Ive had success with oca (new zealand yams) and artichokes (both kinds) but failed so far with asparagus and mixed success with 9 star broccoli. Some others im trying not seen in your video are skirret, turkish rocket, Hablitzia tamnoides (a climbing spinach) various hardy mini kiwis and sea buckthorns. I have a long forest garden Around 60 ft long by 14 ft wide running approx West/East, some sun some shade but can be exposed to high winds. I also have a 10 year old Mulberry (Illinois Everbearing) which regularly crops heavily. I have around 6 varieties of blueberry and some tea plants getting established and growing slowly. Trying lots of annuals and other plants. I grew scarlet runner var. Painted Lady last year. Used green runners and retained some seeds to eat and to plant this year. How do you perennialise and how many years survival ? I also grow a black podded/seeded runner probably "black magic" which does well here. Still got room for more things in future! Love your posts, only just discovered you. Isle of Man not too far from North Wales so similar climate. M☺
Wiw what a beautiful garden
Gorgeous Gardner 🌹✌️
Great post thanks.
Thanks for the cardoon information, not heard of this and think my artichoke may actually be a cardoon
Loved your spot in Gardener's World :)
Thank you Dolly :)
Good vid. Thank you.
Wow 🤗🍀🌿🌳😃
Lovely garden, great job on the video. New subscriber
Canadian and US gardeners can order seed for oca (New Zealand yam, as it is also called) from Cultivariable in Moclips, Washington in the USA/
Thank you!
Envy your mild, mild winters, But, I do go snowboarding in the winter here. A little benefit of winter.
Lovely. Perannial is the way to go. I've got strawberries & 11 asparagus plants. I live in New England though so gets pretty cold, some of your nice crops wouldn't survive here.
Thank you, gracia's.
I've noticed my Arugula is perennial in zone 6b. It stays alive from the roots and it sends out a massive army of seedlings as well
Yes! Wild rocket (arugula) is a fantastic perennial. Good call 💚
In my Zone 4 garden in Vermont, USA I grow lots of apples, plums, pears and berries, and rhubarb - great for pies and crumbles!
How do they handle the frost?
@@racuna007 New England is famous for apples and berries you have to pick them at certain times of the year but I don't know about plums and pears. We used to go up small hills and mountains to pick buckets and buckets of blueberries every year then in the fall we would go apple picking.
@@songbirdforjesus2381 Pears grow good in zone 5.
So do peaches.
@@songbirdforjesus2381 American X Asian plums and wild Prunus nigra or P. americana (which are probably best used for preserves and sauces and which seem to be needed to effectively pollinate the hybrids) can be grown in very cold climates (in some cases z3). Greengages are worth trial in Zone 5 & maybe Zone 4b, as they have exquisite flavor. The big (but not very flavorful) types you see in the grocery store are usually Asians grown in California and they don't do so well in either cold or Southeastern areas (where the problems are pest pressure and low winter chilling--the usual solution is a set of 2+ hybrids of a southerly Asian and the native Chickasaw plum).
👏🏻sensacional !Very Very love😍
Don't forget Leeks and Carrots. They overwinter quite well in my 6b plot.
Both are biennial -- they die in their second year, after flowering. There are perennial leek varieties and I'm growing one starting this year. They aren't the same as the larger standard leek varieties though.
@@Lovelygreens I'm interested. What variety are you growing? Would you be interested in a seed exchange?
I'm slowly getting some perennials in my garden. Put in blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, oregano, and rosemary this year, and hoping to get some asparagus and thyme planted in the spring. Might add a dwarf fruit tree as well, but I haven't decided yet what that will be.
I simply love how there's no mention of hardiness zones in every one of those gardening videos.
Yo lemme how to grow edible perennials in the jungle. Alright.
At least this one's different.
great video
Dwarf curly kale is a nice perennial, as is sage. If you have tomatoes that crash to the ground, you’re likely to get volunteers the next year. I do want to try sun chokes this year, now that you’ve mentioned them. I’m wondering if they’ll last a Des Moines winter.
I’ve not been able to find seeds for the 9 Star Broccoli anywhere but one place in Canada and they don’t ship to the USA. 😩
Thank you for a great video!
What a beautiful garden. Thank you
your video is great, thank you.
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Nice video
Kale!!! I grew Dinosaur 🦕 Kale this past year. Total Perennial and feeds the pollinators! I love growing Kale!!! Great in smoothies! Boil the leaves and drink the broth - benefits our kidneys.
Nice garden, wish I could grow some of those but I'm in a zone 4 unfortunately. Some I will add to your list for cold climate growers, they are Ostrich Ferns for the fiddle heads in early spring, dandelion patch for mid spring and a row of spruce trees for the spruce tips in late spring are just a few of my favorites to get me out of the winter and into veggie season. There are a few others throughout the year that I love but I look forward to these in spring along with all my veggie starters growing in the sunroom to get me out of my winter blues.
Zone 4? You live in the hunger games or something?
I’m in 4b and I will try some of these ideas. If you shelter the plants many will grow fine
Wild garlic dry it mix with good salt lasts for yonks
Fun thank you
my best is rhubarb. always good for a dessert