Year after year vegetabes

[pukka.tukka]

Hi

I would be grateful if someone can tell which vegetables I can plant which keep growing each year without having to replant them and if any prefer wet soil.

Many thanks

[Shortie]

Hi PT

I don't thinkit falls under a veg.. (more salad) but I'm growing perpetual spring onions. They do need replanting in a month or so to give them space to spread, but they survive the winter happily in the ground to burst back next year. I don't know if thye like wet soil though as onions generally don't as far as I'm aware

But... I have no idea where to get them. I was donated mine by a lovely lady whom I bought a shredder off last summer.

[supersprout]

Interesting question!

Our perennial veg (apart from herbs, soft and tree fruit)

Globe Artichoke; Green Globe, Purple Globe, Violet de Provence, Artichoke Romanesco, and Violetta Precoce
Asparagus, Wild; Asparagus, Purple
Chives, Welsh Onion
Rhubarb

I stand to be corrected, but believe:
Artichokes and asparagus need well drained fertile soil.
Chives will tolerate a very wide range of soil.
Rhubarb prefers it on the wet side.

Asparagus and rhubub are probably the most 'perennial' (you hear of 20-year-old asparagus beds); artichoke are better propagated by division every three years; and I'm still finding my way with the alliums.

If you plant a wide variety of artichokes that crop at different times, and grow plenty (we'll have 100 plants by the end of next year) they're pretty much a year-round vegetable, and are one of the few veg that can take bottling IMO. They don't have to be expensive, if you're patient - sow from seed, and pick the strongest plants for propagating on.

[nick the grief]

There is a variety of Cauliflower called Nine star Perrenial that you can leave in and you just pick the small heads as they come & don't let it go to seed. Whether you'd want to is another matter.

A couple of years ago I grew some Swiss Chard (Bright Lights) and I just cut it to ground level and it re-grew but it went to seed eventually ( after about 2 years) But you could let it seff seed itself and replant the seedling around if you wanted. I guess you could do the same with spinach as well.

[rustylady]

As already said, but Jerusalem Artichokes are nearly perennial, you always leave a few in the ground and they re-grow. I have heard that once planted you have them forever. Spinach beet? not sure but I think it keeps going. Horseradish, though it's not really a vegetable.

[Poledragon]

Swiss chard self seed so easily they may as well be perennial! I last planted some about three years ago and I find plants all over the place.

[Snadger]

Horeradish,Egyptian tree onions, chives and garlic chives, rhubarb,welsh bunching onions,Jerusalem Artichokes,asparagus.
Mint loves wet soil and of course there is Colnes? which grows like mint but you eat the corms! Most other perennial herbs like dry arid soil!

If you just want something to fill your lottie and be easy to maintain you can't go far wrong with all the different derivations of soft fruit. Could even be planted through Teram and with a bark mulch on top, would take very little maintenance and give good crops!

[Ratty]

There is a variety of Cauliflower called Nine star Perrenial that you can leave in and you just pick the small heads as they come & don't let it go to seed.

Hiya all,

I always thought Nine Star Perennial was a brocolli so I went and googled it - Seems its a bit of both! You get a small cauliflower head and a number of brocolli-like spears!

Two veggies on one perennial plant has gotta be worth a try!

[Nicos]

Never heard of it- think I will give it a try this year.

[Snadger]

Hiya all,

I always thought Nine Star Perennial was a brocolli so I went and googled it - Seems its a bit of both! You get a small cauliflower head and a number of brocolli-like spears!

Two veggies on one perennial plant has gotta be worth a try!

Three things worth thinking about, brassica?, crop rotation?, clubroot??? No answers I'm afraid!

[Benacre]

Jerusalem Artichokes?
Not sure though.
Benacre

[supersprout]

Yes, on balance benacre I think JAs need completely clearing each year - they produce larger tubers if they're freshly planted, and you can get smoother tubers each year through deliberate selection