what plants don't need sowing every year?

[cariann88]

I am probably going to sound stupid for asking but...
Which plants do you not need to sow every year? I know strawberries, berries, apple tree are ones you can keep for year.

[Alison]

Pretty much all proper fruits (hard and soft) will go on for at least a few years but there are less veggies that work like this. The main exceptions being rhubarb (which we use as a fruit anyway), asparagus, artichokes and loads of types of herbs. I also have some that self seed really well so I just dig the plant up and move it to where I want it. There's probably other things but not ones I grow although you can try and overwinter quite a lot of things (personally I can't be bothered) like chillies, runner beans and even tomatoes but they need to be kept frost free and not left insitu.

[mothhawk]

Perennial veg fall mostly into 3 categories - alliums, leafy greens (mostly brassicas) and salad leaves. So, there's three cornered leek, everlasting onion, chives, garlic chives, Welsh onion, wild garlic.
Then, Daubentons kale, walking stick kale, nine star perennial broccoli.
And salad leaves - wild rocket, land cress, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, salad burnet.

No, I don't grow any of these apart from salad burnet and land cress, but I have a book!

[Two_Sheds]

yes, the word you're looking for is "perennial"



although you have within that the "short lived perennials" eg. strawberries, which are usually grown for 3 years before being replaced

[solway cropper]

As a lover of all things allium I grow patches of chives, wild garlic (ramsons) and welsh onions. They can be relied on to give you some of the first fresh pickings of the year...usually in March when there's little else apart from mustard and cress on the kitchen window sill.