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#PerennialVegetables

Thinking of including any perennial vegetables in your garden or growing space next year?

The Backyard Larder have a good range of plant options. UK only. #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #PerennialVegetables #Permaculture #SolarPunkSunday

https://backyardlarder.co.uk/

Two kales, some flowering pink cosmos and a boxer dog wearing a poppy. #Allotment #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #PerennialVegetables #SolarPunkSunday

Two perennial kale plants growing inside two metal dog crates to protect them from being browsed by the wildlife. A dark green leaved Taunton Deane kale on the left is much larger than a smaller daubenton’s panache kale with lighter green variegated leaves. A wood chip pathway with a little white flowering alyssum is growing in front.

A brindle boxer dog wearing a red poppy on his collar and a green and black harness is standing in front of a small container pond that’s surrounded with foliage. A pink cosmos is in full flower but most of the other flowers have gone over. Wood chip pathways cover the ground. A metal wheelbarrow is upturned leaning against a rectangular water butt.

SIlverweed bannocks.

I like the sort of person who just casually states "Barley flour didn’t seem obtainable in our small town but I had grown some barley a while back and luckily still had some barley ears sitting in a tub."

https://backyardlarder.co.uk/2025/10/silverweed-bannocks/

#Foraging #WildFood #PerennialVegetables #HistoricalCookery

@Hellybootwader It’s good to spread the word and the seeds around.

Gardening is so much easier when we let nature do a lot of the heavy lifting with perennials and self seeders.

I moved the daubenton’s panache kale grown from the cutting you sent me to the new plot earlier this year and it’s settled in ok now.

I think it much prefers the shadier plot and a bit less slug pressure. There’s more wildlife here to help keep the slug numbers down.#Gardening #PerennialVegetables #GrowYourOwn

Two rusting old dog crates are being used to protect some perennial kale plants from the pigeons while the plants get established. The crate on the left has a Taunton Deane kale with dark green foliage inside. The other crate contains a daubenton panache kale which has variegated leaves. The ground around them needs a good weeding to knock back the marestail and fat hen that’s coming up.

Tiny session at one of the local community gardens yesterday - have not had much time to devote to this one lately, fortunately a few other people have been able to do some upkeep. So glad we went heavy on the perennials in the early days, so there was rhubarb and perennial leeks ready for harvest. Fruit trees and fruit bushes are coming on.
#CommunityGarden #PerennialVegetables

A photo of a raised bed with a lid of cut leeks resting on the front edge, a stand of leeks growing in it, a gooseberry bush is behind the leeks and beyond the raised bed are fruit trees.
It is a sunny day, the grass is green and there are some clouds in the patch of sky visible in the top right corner of the picture, more dark trees on a hill in the distance are in the top left corner.

Caucasian spinach (Hablitzia) uprooted and washed. You can see the tiny shoot buds at the base. That tells you how the plant manages to make a new flush of shoots when you eat the first. At this stage and for the next month or so, depending on location of the plant, they are really delicious spring green. We're entering the time of year when our annual food system is the most poor (hungry gap) and the perennial greens are the most lush. It's a no brainer that we should grow more of those. #Hablitzia #perennialvegetables #gardening #hungrygap

Plant with people no and green shoots and large black roots uprooted and washed. You can see the tiny shoot buds at the base

@Hellybootwader The leeks are looking really good.

I have a load of babington’s leeks doing well with no sign of allium leaf miner damage over the year.

The daubenton’s panache has overwintered well too after being protected since autumn.

Turkish rocket and Siberian purslane are perennial veg winners here too. #PerennialVegetables #GrowYourOwn

I recently attended a workshop by Permaculture Institute of North America about starting nurseries. Among all the facilitators, these books were most recommended. A bit hard to find used though. I guess people keep them.

#permaculture #PINA #PerennialVegetables #ForestGarden #FoodForest

Four books:

Around the World in 80 Plants
Perennial Vegetables
Edible Forest Gardens vols. 1 and 2

Some pics of the perennial kale landrace I'm developing. Original seed came from Chris Homanics which I crossed with Daubenton for further bushy growth habit. There's probably also some other kale genetics in there by now. Have been growing it for 5-6 years or so at 4 different sites. This one is at the school. I love to go looking for new colors, shapes or particularly healthy individuals, esp. ability to survive the winters, slugs, birds and caterpillars. My goal is to adapt this landrace to my conditions and the tastes of local chefs. These are doing pretty well in February! #PerennialVegetables #PerennialKale #PlantBreeding #LandraceGardening #AdaptiveGardening #BrassicaOleracea

Photo of leafy kale with slight purple tinge on leaf veines

Photo of leafy kale with savoy-esque texture

Last fall I had the chance of harvesting a huge load of Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) when visiting Antibes in Alpes-Maritime, southern France. This herb was so sought-after in the 19th century that it almost went extinct in places in the UK and other similar herbs got sold under that name as a marketing scheme. I've been wanting to revive this culinary gem. The aroma is really special - with notes of celery, green citrus zest, fennel and the typical terpene compounds of umbellifers. This species have recently re-entered Denmark after having been extinct. I think we should grow it instead of foraging it. If you live in Denmark and are a member of Frøsamlerne, you can order seed from me this spring, to get in on the action. #CrithmumMaritimum #RockSamphire #Foraging #SeedSaving #CookingPerennials #PerennialVegetables

Two 1L plastic bags filled with seed and a watch for size

My perennial tree collards are looking great, after all these frosts (despite some bug damage).

Per. tree collards can live several years, producing leaves as soon as the season starts unlike annuals.

This one is a 1 yr old plant from a strain called "Michigan", a strain which has survived 0°F/-17°C. When fully grown, some can be over 6 ft/2 m, and produce large quantities of greens throughout the year (and can be harvested well into winter).

#gardening #perennialvegetables #food #pnw #tacoma

A picture of a perennial tree collard plant in a one-gallon pot.

@Hellybootwader Thanks. These seem very similar to the babington’s.

Another place always worth looking at is Martin Crawford’s Agroforestry Research trust. I ordered my babington’s and a few others (Turkish rocket, Siberian purslane, sweet cicely) from them maybe 4 years ago.

Click on the link below for the plant list pdf and 2025 pricing.

Enjoy!
#PerennialVegetables #GrowYourOwn

https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/product-category/plants/

@OriginalLucy @Cyclist https://backyardlarder.co.uk/ is a very small company specialising in #PerennialVegetables

@GoodCheerPixie Have you considered #perennialvegetables? After the upfront cost of little plants or bulbs, in the case of the perennial onion crew, they just keep growing and you get to keep on harvesting. Beyond their itty bitty baby stage, they can survive some slug and snail attacks, too. I highly recommend perennial kale. Daubenton’s is a good variety, but there are even hardier ones, if that’s what you need. See also beet greens, Egyptian/walking onions, wall rocket.

@emsenn Diplotaxis is a fantastic plant. Mine is 5 or 6 years old and gets a brutal haircut in the early spring and it only encourages it. I like to restart it from seed when it gets a bit woody. #perennialvegetables

@shonin @ArtseaGardener This book was my bible on winter harvesting. I’m always happy to hear about anyone’s veggie plots. Perennial rockets, kales and beet greens go on producing all year long. And I’ll keep banging the drum for Egyptian/Walking Onions. I just chuck a bit of fleece on them if the weather gets really grim. #perennialvegetables

First harvest of chives for the winter - washed, air dried, scissor cut and will be frozen on this tray overnight, then packed into a jam jar. They stay tasty for months and are a welcome addition to scrambled eggs, soup etc. #growyourown #perennialvegetables

An oven tray, lined with a cotton cloth, on which a pile of vibrantly green chives are sitting. They’ve been snipped into short lengths.

Allium nutans or senescens? I can never tell the difference. A favorite group of onions. Cover the ground fairly well, becomes less weedy and with a flat long leaf that has a leeky chives flavor. #allium #alliumnutans #alliumsenescens #perennialvegetables

@alexisbushnell See also Welsh Onions, Perpetual Leeks, Society Garlic. #PerennialVegetables are generally really hardy and once they get established, able to withstand the dreaded slugs and snails.

@alexisbushnell Get yourself some Egyptian onions aka Walking Onions, as small plants. They look like hearty Spring Onions, but are #PerennialVegetables, so you’ll be able to crop them all year round, once they get established. They make little bulbs at the top of a stalk in July, this falls over and roots itself, hence they “walk” over your garden. Good sources include Incredible Vegetables, Backyard Larder, Pennard Plants and Otter Farm.

#PerennialVegetables

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