11 Easy Edible Perennials - Plant Once and Harvest Every Year

Welcome back to our cottage garden! I thought I would show you around our current collection of perennial fruit and vegetable plants. We are based in the south of England in approximately zone 8, so do check if these plants will suit your garden zone too. We are always looking to grow more perennial plants so stay tuned as we expand this growing space and harvest more food from the garden.

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[iseriver]

'you can eat from them, the caterpillars can eat from them, it's ok'
How refreshing to hear.

[georgejennings]

Thank you for making this. I planted 30 feet of asparagus and it all died, including all my egyptian walking onion. Because they were planted at the forest edge and got less than 5 hours of direct sunlight. So lesson learned, I will try planting them in full sun. And strawberries + asparagus is a great idea. The chipmunks and birds eat up the strawberries though, so we have to share the food source, the bounty with the furry animals our brethren. Yeah caterpillars and insects are prevalent but the frogs and harmless insect eating ribbon snakes abound in and around my garden. So when we help nature we help ourselves, for nature provides back in return for our time, effort and labor. Nature pays us back in edible fruit, tubers and greens.

[jamiepaszek]

I get so happy whenever I see you post a video! It's so satisfying to see the progress of things you've invested in over time.

[FindTheFun]

First place I heard mention Strawberry Spinach. Thanks for the suggestion!

[judithnzogi]

I love the way the vegetables are fresh

[carola.h.]

This was fantastic! I didn't realise you could grow so many fruits and vegetables in the garden!

[JCC_]

I absolutely love my perrinal garden plants. There are so many different plants that are perrinals that you can enjoy year after year. I have all of these plus tons more. You should really check into perrinal spinach. So many varieties. Plus, most people don't seem to understand that pepper plants are perrinal. They just need protection from the cold. Beautiful garden 💜 Happy growing 💜

[bobbilynnmiller]

Your videos are lovely . I learned a lot, and look forward to growing these plants in my garden! Thank you for sharing your garden journey with us!

[georgejennings]

Last year I started skirret and canna edulis achira and queensland varieties. Canna tubers are hardy to 18F. Started with a tray of Skirret seedlings and each plant gave me 5-15 offsets so literally exponentially increased the # plants/beds in 1 year and they are delicious, even tastier than parsnip and you can pull it out of the ground and eat it like a carrot. Its one of my favorite most delicious perennials now besides pokeweed leaves/shoots, stealth gardening substitute for asparagus. Skirret is not invasive, not potentially a spreading problem like daylillies and horseradish which spread can readily across the garden in full sun.

[gudgengrebe]

Walking onions! I subscribed to your channel just for that! I’d never heard of them- I’ve been gardening since about 2000, so quite a while. I also didn’t know we can grow kiwi fruit here in the uk ( my wife’s ears just pricked up) and I’m experimenting with no dig, so your channel is a lucky find. Thanks for sharing such interesting info. We enjoy your presentation style, which is straight to the point and without waffle or distracting music. We love discovering new plants and methods. Thanks for the great video!

[charlesbale]

Great information...Enjoyed spending time in your garden.

[utuberick]

Great video Mona! Thank you for sharing your garden experience. Perennials are the best. I’m going to give the Kiwis a shot based on your recommendation. Fingers crossed 🤞.

[MrBlacksunster]

Thanks you for the video! Always great to see perennial edible plants that other people have. Less maintenance as annual, more wildlife habitat, stronger plants and what I also find interesting are the more unusual plants.

We have an (red) hardy kiwi in our garden (one male, one female). Flowered (both) this year for the first time but no fruits yet. Hope next year. Watch out though, can get massive and needs a lot of climbing space. Hope yours will grow and be healthy!

[Bffge]

Chenopodium is good. It is virtually indistinguishable to spinach.

[waterbottles]

Caucasian spinach is a great one to grow. Nice garden!

[kelleyamador]

That is a very nice assortment of perennial vegetables. I have most but not all of them in my garden.

[samanthahatton]

Loved this! Makes me even more excited for my asparagus crown to mature. Can you a similar video for flowers.

[jackstone]

There are hardy, small kiwi plants from New Zealand which do well - issai or red hairless or red Ken or a few other varieties which pomona fruits do and should do well in UK climate

[flowerpixel]

Wow I've never heard of strawberry sticks

[celineetter]

Thank you for the Video, what kind of perenial onions are next to the walking onions? i think you forgot to mention the name 🙈