Perennial Vegetables List.

[soladragon]

Hi all I have been looking up perennial vegetables for my patch and I decided to make a list. If anyone would like to contribute to the list below I would love to hear your unusual plants and add it to the list.

Asparagus - Lasts 20 years or so and produces edible spears in the second/third year onwards.

Everlasting onions - Spring onions that bunch together and multiply.
Walking Onions - Onions that produce bulbs underground and big bulbils similar to garlic
Potato Onions - Similar to shallots but bigger.
Babbington leek - Leek like plant that also produces a type of garlic underground that is also edible.

Artichoke
Green Globe' - popular variety with big green heads
'Romanesco' - attractive purple heads
'Violetta di Chioggia' - great tasting purple heads
'Purple Sicilian' - small, deep purple heads
'Violetta Precoce' - violet coloured heads

Artichoke Jerusalem - Produces hugh 6ft+ plants that create edible nut/potato like bulbs underground.

Rhubarb

Radicchio

Garlic

Elephant Garlic

Sea Kale

[Two_Sheds]

Just curious ~ in what way are golden shallots perennial?

And you have groundnut (peanut) listed too: that's a tender annual, as is sweet potato

Comfrey isn't edible: in fact it can seriously damage your liver

[BeatTheSeasons]

nine star perennial broccoli

[zazen999]

What's perennial in it's natural home isn't necessarily perennial here.

[taff]

good king henry

also, not necessarily perennial, but you can let things go to seed to avoid sowing every year, so lettuces, beetroot, leafy stuff etc...some herbs are perennial, some can self seed......

[soladragon]

I found them online. Removed

[Two_Sheds]

^ Yep, it's too easy to find (and repeat) bad advice, online. Good job you checked with us, eh?

Seriously, when I hear/read about something, I always go and check the source/author/authenticity if I can

[planetologist]

Sorrel
salad burnet
perennial beet (also called perennial spinach)
scorzonera
kale
nettle
fennel (florence fennel isn't very hardy, so you could call it a herb rather than a vegetable, but what's in a name)

[Snadger]

Cardoon.............

[veggiechicken]

Lovage.....

[veggiechicken]

Daubenton & Cottager's Kale

[Guest]

The groundnut as in native american tuber not peanut. Check out pennard plants

Perennial Vegetables

Artichoke (Chinese)
Artichoke (Globe)
Artichoke (Jerusalem, also known as sunchokes)
Arugula, (Rocket)
Asparagus
Bamboo Shoots
Beans (Winged bean, Scarlet Runner) (I have never personally managed runners as a perennial)
Broccoli (Nine Star, Purple Cape)
Cardoon
Chayote; Mirliton; Vegetable Pear (Sechium edule)
Chicory
Cottagers Kale (Crofters Kale, Perennial Kale)
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Elephant Garlic
Garlic
Good King Henry
Mashua
Nettle
Oca, New Zealand yam
Onions (Potato onions, Shallots, Egyptian onions, Japanese bunching onions, Welsh onions, Chinese leeks)
Peruvian parsnip, Arracacia xanthorrhiza
Perennial Beet (Perpetual Spinach)
Perennial Leek (babbington)
Perennial Lettuce (lactuca perennis, blue lettuce, reichardia picroides)
Radicchio
Rhubarb
Salad Burnet
Salsify
Scorzonera
Sea beet, Beta vulgaris ssp.maritima
Sea Buckthorn, Sea Berry
Sea kale, Crambe maritima
Swiss Chard
Skirret
Sorrel
Spinach (Ceylon, Sissoo, New Zeland)
Taro
Tree Collard (Walking stick Cabbage)
Waterchestnuts
Water Cress
Yacon
Yams

There are always exceptions and some of these work for some people and not others.

[Thelma Sanders]

Only wild rocket (Arugula Selvatica) is perennial, the other varieties are annual. It's one of the greens picked from the fields by Italian grannies and much stronger in taste than the kind we are used to.

A few from the list are only perennial in places with frost-free winters, unfortunately - in the same way that aubergine, peppers/chillis and tomatoes are perennials in better climates.

[jacob]

Chillies (if you're prepared to take them inside). Rocket.

Edit: as Thelma has just said...

[Jay-ell]

May I add Sweet Cicerly to the list