5 Must-Grow Perennial Vegetables: Harvest Year After Year... 👩‍🌾

Wish you could plant once and harvest the same plant year after year? Well you can! ...if you plant perennial vegetables. 🥬 Try some of these beautiful, unusual and surprisingly tasty options! Why not experiment with some new varieties and discover new favorites that will keep on producing year in year out?!
Ben shows us how, with these top 5 perennial vegetable tips. Let the love show and let the veg grow!

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[Lemonz]

I’m from the Faroe Islands and my great grandfather brought a ‘Victoria’ rhubarb root back from the UK when he was there selling fish sometime in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. The same plant is still in the family. We have split the roots many times over the years, to get more of them. My grandparents have sold their excess for decades. They often harvest over 100 kg a year. My mom has a more modest garden, and harvests around 10 to 15 kg a year. We moved to Denmark 12 years ago, and my mom took the roots with her to Denmark. It has sentimental value at this point, lol. 😋

[scottvergin]

My family has a rhubarb plant that’s been around for at least forty years. My grandma planted it.

[emilyc]

Haha, you know you're a gardener when your first thought when he's digging is "oooh, that's some BEAUTIFUL soil"

[uncle_pappy_sam]

I'm glad you didn't forget asparagus. My great-grandmother planted some on her farm long before I was born, and we still haven't it every year. It just keeps coming back.

[mimibaker]

5 perennial plants-
Globe artichoke
Rhubarb
Babbington leek
Perennial kale
OCA -New Zealand yam-Jerusalem artichoke
Asparagus

[hoperules]

Thank you for including both metric and imperial measures! It really helps.

[oliver_and_raven]

I just love how his dog is so into this demonstration.

[BrookeandBaby]

This might sound weird but when I grew up in northern Maine my Memere had a rhubarb field -my sister and I would peel a rhubarb and put some salt on it and eat it as is. It’s sour without the salt but it’s such a delicious snack with it. Weird combo I know but it was normal for us 😂 we’d just be flying by on the four wheeler with a salt shaker and a handful of rhubarb 😂😂

[megelizabeth]

One of my favorite, low maintenance perennial herbs is actually chives. They are practically no maintenance once established, deer-resistant, and reliably are one of the first plants to come up in spring. I also like how they can serve double duty as both a fresh kitchen herb and a lovely, bee friendly ornamental. The one potential drawback is that they will happily self seed, and can take over a yard if not careful. (we started with one, and now we have at least three, and I even split the largest one a few years ago.)

[Ellex]

I'm in SW Pennsylvania, and can highly recommend the Egyptian/Walking onion. I started with 2 plants on clearance at a nursery, bought on impulse, and quickly graduated to a 5x2 foot "onion patch" that needs regular thinning. The green tops are as tasty as the bulbs, but the bulbs do need to be harvested when they're young, or they get a bit woody. Just leave some for next year and you never run out. I have noticed that, while you can leave the new bulbs at the top of the stems to fall over and root themselves, it pays to spend a few minutes breaking them off and planting them properly. The chopped bulbs and green tops also freeze well. I've seen several varieties offered in seed catalogs.

As for perennial herbs, you can never go wrong with spearmint, chive, and oregano.

[j.]

Two plants that I would add are loveage... for that "maggi" flavour... and sorrel... for that sour "lemon" flavour... They'll both grow hearty like weeds and are easy to contain.
Over the years, the sorrell may spread and the loveage is easily divided.... so both are easy to share with other growers.

[christinalynn]

A greenhouse tucked away behind the trees, foliage. A beautiful garden. A cute dog. 🙂

[gingafinga]

This video is destined to become a perennial classic. Well done veggers!

[martinmaddox]

Several of my neighbors in my rural neighborhood in Georgia grew asparagus. I made a raised bed, using railroad ties but now realize that due to the chemicals in the ties, 1 layer of concrete blocks would be better. I bought some asparagus roots from a local feed store, 3 packages, 2 green and one purple variety. I purchased 3 year old roots. I planted them in the fall and had some the following spring. They grew at about the rate of 15 inches a day from April until august. Neighbors had good producing asparagus for about 15-18 years from original planting. I used a mattock to dig five 8 foot long trenches in soft fill dirt . The purple asparagus was the best. To my amazement it turned green in the olive oil and garlic pan. The asparagus grew in about 1/2 inch diameter which is twice the diameter of most store bought. I found out that it should be harvested at 6 to 8 inches tall about 1/2 inch below the surface with a broccoli knife or a cheap hook knife, the dirt is hard on the knife. When it gets 12 inches tall the 1/2 of its length is tough. The last few weeks beginning around august first, stop harvesting, let it grow to about 5 feet and cut it down, I used a 5 horsepower weed eater that I used to trim pasture at the fence line. This growth looks like weeds and is provides necessary nutrients for the roots and allows the roots to grow for the next spring crop. I fertilized it around august first. Had for about 10 years before moving to Florida. It tasted so much better and was softer that store bought asparagus. So easy to maintain, I wish all vegetables were perennial.

[roddiemacinnis]

My 4x great grandfather found a bush of wild rhubarb up on the mountain by which he lived and planted it near his house, this stood here until my grandfather wanted to move it down to his house closer to the highway he had quiet the green thumb so he knew what he was doing and successfully transplanted it, that patch of rhubarb stands at his place to this day so that patch has been in my family for over 150 years

[epowell]

About 12 years ago, I tried cooking fresh asparagus for the first time, roasting it in the oven. After a lifetime of just eating canned, neither my husband nor I cared for the crisp texture. He was convinced I hadn't cooked them long enough, and maybe he was right, because I tossed them out in the yard and years later noticed a lovely clump of asparagus growing lol

[candidegunn]

I planted my asparagus from seeds, a whole pack of seeds in an 8 gallon grow bag because I got the pack as a free gift with an order...I think every seed sprouted! The next spring the plants were HUGE! I got hubby to pull up the bushes in the brick flowerbed in front of my house and I carefully separated them and hubby planted them in the flowerbed. Five years later and they are still doing great! I did not even expect them to sprout much less do so well in our hot climate. Try growing them from seed, much cheaper and so many more plants...you never know.

[RCPrepping]

My wife and I have been enjoying this "free food" for years.

[badassfood]

I could easily see this as a weekly serial on a number of home crafting tv channels.

[BobSmith-fxsz]

I heard a saying:
The French spend their money on fine food, the Italians spend their money on fine cloths, and the English spend their money on their garden!
Thanks for the video (love the dog!)