Perennial food crops are great to have in the garden. Once established, they provide food year after year with minimal effort. They also typically require fe…
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Perennial food crops are great to have in the garden. Once established, they provide food year after year with minimal effort. They also typically require fe…
Nice selection of plants there Patrick.. Have you thought about growing
yacon/ground apple?
Would be easy enough to over winter rhizomes in poots or cool store inside
over winter…
Cheers Sir & hope you & yours are all well & happy..
Rob..
i actually don’t grow all that many perennial plants. hopefully i can next
year. Your garden is so beautiful. love it! keep the videos coming.
Hello Patrick – more food for less effort – I like it! I don’t have too
many perennials – mint, sage, chard grows here all year,but I don’t think
its officially a perennial. Would love to add some on your list to my
garden. Someone else mentioned perpetual spinach. That sounds wonderful
as well. Your videos are always well thought out and presented. Thanks!
I have sun chokes ready to go in the ground this spring (got them from
amazon.com). I grew yacon last year, but I think the frost got it. I
thought it was an attractive plant. I think I was supposed to dig it up
before the first frost. I have grown asparagus for 3-4 years and it has
done well (I found that chickens don’t like asparagus foliage-strange).
I’m going to try buffalo gourd (cucurbita foetidissima) this year (seed
from Native American Seeds of Texas). I had the same Swiss Chard plants
growing for the past 2-3 years, until this winter when I didn’t cover it in
the last ice storm. So I think Swiss Chard can be grown as a tender
perinneal in Texas with row cover. I think I would also like to try tree
collards. My problem is finding a place to plant all these things. I also
want to try to grow some buckwheat and alfalfa in my front yard flower
gardens next summer to see if they can be attractive and useful in the
flower garden.
Lots of great ideas there. You will get useable asparagus a year or two
sooner if you buy crowns instead of starting them from seed.
How tall do tree collards grow, can you grow them in pots year round?
Hey Patrick, We have some perpetual spinach and like our Jerusalem
artichokes they grow like weeds unassisted. The spinach is growing up on
our council verge so from time to time also feeds the neighbours too 😉 It
has been happy there for the past tree years… Thanks for putting together
another well thought out clip… Chris :-)
Excellent video bro, Excellent! very nice editing nice audio and great
visuals!
Green thumbs up!
Brock
Great info as always! FYI: We are in Zone 8
Perennials we grow; Asparagus, Pecan, Blackberry, Mulberry, Mint, Oregano,
Rosemary, Thyme, Bay Laurel, Garlic Chives, & Crocus sativus (for
Saffron)…May try Artichoke, also perennial.
One suggestion on Asparagus, buy 1 or 2-year old root stock from Gurney’s.
Seeds will just take longer before you have asparagus. We ordered from
there several years ago, GREAT price and selection; look for their coupon
deals!
Also, I planted some Garlic Chives several years ago, and guess they are
perennial here for us. They never die! Have you though of growing any
berries?
I have a couple of rhubarb cultivars. *Red Champagne* and *Victoria* I
would recommend the former because of the colour and the robustness of the
stalks.
As always love you’re video. And all the comments you all have left!!!
Great ideas! I’ve been trying to add perennials in our garden every year.
Asparagus, and regular artichokes (which nearly were lost due to our freak
snow storm) tons of herbs. Mints and such, lavender and rosemary. We had a
friend call to come dig up her Rhubarb!! Many people don’t want the pain of
growing here so they have me come and dig up there yard. Score!! Now we are
working on the fruit and nut trees and berry bushes/vines. +Brandon Marshallwe are in zone 8b. I love your garden also.
I hear awesome stuff about loveage.
We grow some and trying to do more here good info. Dave
+OneYardRevolution I grow Lovage Partrick its a very acquired tatse that is
almost like a curried celery and im struggling with it as in what to use it
for ? You will know what i mean when you taste it !! Do you grow Fennel the
herb ? Thats very hardy and comes back year after year and also Tarragon
again very hardy, And finally do you grow bay ?? Again a very hardy
perrenial.
I used to have rosemary and thyme that lived for a couple of years in a pot
but then I’ve killed it now – not enough water. Great video!
Your videos are always inspirational. I’m very interested in having more
Perennial food sources. Thanks for putting together this great resource!
How many square feet of growing area do you garden?
Great video Patrick. I’ve been trying to spend time researching perennials
as I want to set out as many as possible but haven’t the time. I MUST make
time now! We’ve messaged a few times but not sure if you are aware I moved
to Germany a few years ago for family reasons. The new EU seed laws are
going to greatly reduce seed availability due to cost of registering seed
and people are going to be forced into the commercial seed. Thanks for this
list of perennials. Gives me a good starting point to begin my search.
I love perennial’s, it just makes sense! You don’t have to keep planting
them year after year and many of them are packed so full of nutrients.
Great, Great, Great video +OneYardRevolution Patrick! Thanks for the
awesome info…
Great video! Here I have rhubarb, in its second year and asparagus in its
first year that was grown from seed.
Great video Patrick. Do you grow nettles at all? My nettle patch is one of
my favourite crops. It`s so amazingly good for you. I make nettle tea to
drink and, of course, the nettles can be chopped and made into a great tea
along with comfrey for feeding your soil. Keep up the great work.
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