Growing Perrenial Vegetables in the Garden

Posted by TopVeg - March 13th, 2008

Growing perennial vegetables provides food from the garden for several seasons, with little maintenance.

Perennial vegetables include

  • rhubarb

asparagus-spears

  • asparagus
  • Jerusalem artichokes
  • sea kale

Advantages of perennial veg are:

  • crop for many years without replanting
  • taste delicious
  • yield well
  • stretch the seasons as can be harvested when annual plants aren’t available
  • make easy gardening
  • low maintenance

The problem with perennials is that they take up a lot of space, and there are many months when they are just sitting there - not providing vegetables for the kitchen. Compared to planting seeds annually, which allow greater yield of vegetables per unit of vegetable garden, perennials are not so valuable.

The big advantage of growing perennial vegetables in the garden is that they are less work.

Posted in general, vegetables

2 Comments »

  1. I would love to have an asparagus patch, but have heard it is fairly high maintenance if it would even grow here in zone 7 clay. And the space it would require is an issue. What would you say is the smallest patch that would be worth the effort?

    Frances

    Comment by Frances - March 13, 2008 8:35 am

  2. Hi Frances
    When we were short of space, I planted 6 asparagus crowns in just under a meter square. They were great - but you have to ‘dress them up a bit’, instead of eating platefuls of spears! We had asparagus quiche, which meant that you could do something really exotic with about 4 spears! Or, the odd one or two could be cooked & added to a salad when cold. They were worth growing in a small patch - particularly as I love the fern too!
    TopVeg

    Comment by TopVeg - March 13, 2008 6:20 pm

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