I wrote these notes for my dad also which is why it focuses on perennial vegetables that can grow in the colder climates. Sorry Florida.
Perennial Vegetables By: Eric Toensmeier
WHY?
- Perennial means recurrent…so you plant this once and it keeps producing food year after year after year.
- Think rhubarb. It’s always there every year.
- Some thrive in full shade (so you can utilize the space under your tree)
- Some thrive in poor or waterlogged soils
- Some will grow in your water garden
- Plant some perennial vegetables, including edible trees, shrubs, and vines, and in a few years you can become a forager in your own backyard Garden of Eden!
- Here’s a bunch that will grow in Cleveland!!!
- * = it sounded more interested than your average vegetable
- **** = I would definitely plant this!
- Arrowhead
- Multiplier onion
- Ramps
- Perennial onions
- Lovage
- *Water celery
- *Skirrete
- *Udo
- warning!!! Must be processed (boiled in salted water or soaked in water with vinegar) before eating raw
- * Chicory aka Dandelion
- yes the dandelions in
the front yard are edible!
- Sunchoke
- Fuki
- Scorzonera
- Turkish Rocket
- Sea Kale
- *Watercress
- *Yams
- ****Fiddleheads: ostrich Fern
- Groundnut
- Chinese Artichoke
- Asparagus
- Camass
- ****Day Lily
- buds used like green beans
- flowers can be put in salads, as garnish, or battered and fried
- young leaves cooked taste like creamed onion
- too much at once can be toxic
- Giant Solomon’s Seal
- ****Cranberry Hibiscus
- This one can only be grown as an annual but it’s freaking delicious
- *Musk mallow
- *Fragrant Spring Tree
- *Sorrel
- *Linden tree
- Stinging Nettle
- Rich in vitamin A, C, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, fiber
- ****Garlic chives
- Wild hyacinth
- Jinenjo
- Most fruit trees/plants
- Fruits that grow up north are usually perennials like strawberries, grapes (got an empty fence?? grow concords!), blueberries, apples, peaches, blackberries, raspberries, and pears can all grow in Cleveland
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