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    Perennial Vegetables List.

    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
    Last edited by soladragon; 07-04-2012, 11:07 AM.
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    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
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      nine star perennial broccoli

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      • #4
        What's perennial in it's natural home isn't necessarily perennial here.

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        • #5
          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......

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          • #6
            I found them online. Removed
            Winter is coming

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            • #7
              ^ 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
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                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)

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                • #9
                  Cardoon.............
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #10
                    Lovage.....

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                    • #11
                      Daubenton & Cottager's Kale

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                      • #12
                        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.

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                        • #13
                          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.

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                          • #14
                            Chillies (if you're prepared to take them inside). Rocket.

                            Edit: as Thelma has just said...
                            Last edited by jacob; 23-09-2014, 01:59 PM.
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                            • #15
                              May I add Sweet Cicerly to the list

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