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  • #1

    Perennial veg

    Any others on here starting to move away from annual grown veggies and more to perennial. If so what are you growing?
    Currently perennial cabbage is a big hit with me. I love my welsh and walking onions to.

    It is certainly a lot less work.
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    I've set aside a bed just for perennials - Babington leeks, bunching onions, Daubenton & Cottager's kale, rhubarb, globe and jerusalem artichokes, cardoons .......and 3 cornered leeks elsewhere. proably others too v-but I can't remember them offhand!
    Which perennial cabbage are you growing?

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    • #3
      Nearly the same as you Veggiechicken apart from the cottagers kale, globe artichoke and cardoons. They take up too much room in my small intensively cultivated patch.
      The only annuals I grow now are tomatoes, runner and climbing french beans.

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      • #4
        I'm going to try overwintering some beans - broad and French, just to see what happens

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        • #5
          I like the idea of perennial veg, always have my chard for 2 years. I hadn;t heard of perennial cabbage and kale..off to Google!

          I love this forum, learn something new every day!

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          • #6
            Not sure how some of these things can be perennial! (I am showing my ignorance here) I mean an onion or leek is what it is a single bulb once you pick it its gone, or have they invented little bushes where onions hang down like apples?
            photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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            • #7
              Well actually, Bill, they have!! Egyptian Walking Onion

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              • #8
                If I hadn't been thinking about moving house for the last few years I would have planted a few of the perennial veg I've heard about here.
                Ones I've been wanting to grow are asparagus, potato onions, walking onions, perennial kale, perennial broccoli and tree spinach.

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                • #9
                  Well blow me down! had I come across that web page I would have been sure it was an April fools joke. I remember one year the BBC did a documentary on spaghetti trees.
                  photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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                  • #10
                    You mean it was a joke
                    I've been trying to grow a spaghettitree for years without success - assumed the seed was pasta its best.

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                    • #11
                      That site doesn't let you buy em - where can I get some please ???


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                      • #12
                        Vegetable Seeds : Special Onion Seed
                        I started some this year but they didn't form a head - so I don't have any spares I'm hoping that mine will survive the winter and do the biz next year.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                          Well actually, Bill, they have!! Egyptian Walking Onion
                          *Thinks?*..........a long walk from Egypt!
                          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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                          • #14
                            Grown nine star perennial cauli's before and walking stick klae both of which are short lived perennials. My cardoon is 15 feet high with fresh blue flowerheads alongside last years papery flowerheads!
                            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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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                              *Thinks?*..........a long walk from Egypt!
                              It would be the way this pair do it

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