What plant is the most giving?

[bearded bloke]

Rhubarb has gotta be in the list I reckon

[veggiechicken]

Rocket - sow it once and let some run to seed and you'll have it coming up there for ever.

[Mr Bones]

Daubenton's kale. It can be can picked 365 days a year, plants last 5-7 years and a snapped off stem/branch plonked in the soil makes a new plant. We use it for all usual kale recipes plus as a substitute for crispy fried seaweed and vine leaves for dolmades. Just trimmed back my three plants which collectively stand at about five feet tall and covered an area about ten foot diameter.

[AllInContainers]

Ramsons! It's perenial, and you can use the leaves, stems, flowers and bulbs

[jacob]

Rhubarb: you plant it, you've got it and it produces for ages.

Rocket: this has to be the single best value for money crop in the garden. Get it established and that's salad leaves for ever.

Jerusalem artichokes: on the basis that we had some much of these a few years ago we've gone off them. We've got a big patch of them which I'm politely ignoring.

[ancee]

Ooh Mr Bones! That's given me some great recipe ideas!

[Littlefox2000]

For me, I think kale, spinach and Swiss chard are brilliant for their longevity! I'll also agree with courgettes. Last year I didn't do runner beans (I have a few this year), but my French beans just went on and on giving.


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[Richard Eldritch]

Runner beans for me too. I'd also say Defender corgette ( they just keep producing masses of fruit) I also have a lollo rosso lettuce which I've been cutting and coming again for about 4 months now! It looks like a lettuce on a two foot stick!

[bario1]

My Defender isn't cropping particularly heavily, only had about 3 courgettes off it so far as opposed to 9 or 10 from the Parador sat right next to it. Hopefully it just hasn't properly got going yet...

[catgirl]

Last year I would have said courgettes, but since I started to grow cherry tomatoes (Vilma) this year I keep finding masses of them. I must be picking at least a bowlful every couple of days, and this off only five or six plants. And what a lovely flavour and texture they have!

[Noosner]

Runner beans and perpetual spinach, defo, and I'd like to add globe artichokes. My plants seem to go on producing heads for ages, and they are absolutely delicious.

Sweet peas, for flowers - can't believe how many we are getting this year.

Never heard of Daubenton's kale, Mr B. Am getting interested in perennial veg so am just off to look it up on tinternet.

[dim]

perpetual spinach, a cut and come again romaine type lettuce (not sure of the name), Venus courgettes (a bush type and gives an average of 15 courgettes per plant), runner beans and wild rocket

[BUFFS]

Undercover it's got to be the good old Tomato & outside I'd go for the spud.

my tomato being trained along the roof of the greenhouse now has 10 trusses producing and possibly one or two more to come, the roots seem to be taking about a gallon of water per day in its 12ins tub(with a tray underneath to hold the water that drains thru and is then sucked back up) and the fruits all look like they will be goodsized when ripe so it will be loads of pasta sauce again for those winter nights..

[BUFFS]

I have just been out watering the toms and the plants from my own saved seed seem to have crossed as the black Russian toms are as big as the olympe(largest tom last year was 2lb 7oz) so it looks like I have got an unexpected bonus, instead of being the size of a fairly average apple I have 7 so far the size of grapefruit, I had to check the attached label to make sure I had the right toms as they were germinated in different propagators, as they are still green I will be watching to see if I can beat last years best....who's a happy boy then?......

[Scarlet]

Lucky boy!!!

French beans are doing very well for me this year had stacks of them already! (runners, not so as the flowers are dropping!