If you’d like more information on perennial vegetables, you can get a handy overview of 20 PERENNIAL VEGETABLES, their growing requirements, what parts are edible and notes on propagation on my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/growntocook. Thanks so much for watching!

Thank you. Very inspiring! We also eat Dandelions, Nettles, Hablitzia Tamnoides, Ground Elder (eat it so it does not spread too much) Miner’s Lettuce (May be an annual but self sows prolifically!) Sweey Cicely, Western Waterleaf (very early) Salsify, MuskMallow, Lemon Balm, Tree Collards, Wild mallow, Wall Lettuce and Baby leaves of many shrubs and trees. Many thanks to Stephen Barstow!

Perennial rocket or wild rocket is a good one, it's pretty peppery but grows like crazy and doesn't need much sun.

I really appreciate the format with segmenting each plant, so I can skip back to the ones I need to see again.

You are so wonderful. This gardener appreciates all your videos. The knowledge you share is much appreciated.

Beautiful bounty. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with growing food. Everything looks yummy and I can't wait to get started. Have a blessed day. Teresa in SC ❤

I didn't know about the perennial broccoli either :) I love good king Henry and also grow asparagus, artichokes and perpetual leeks

Thank you for covering this interesting and useful topic. I especially appreciate the fact that you provided the scientific names for these crops. Makes it so much easier To research them further and to find the correct seed.

adding many of these to my plant wish list! we just moved to our acreage and are determined to plant all my perennial edibles first.

ohno Vera...you make my wishlist evergrowing hahaha. Fortunaletly I inherited an artichoke and some rhubarb from the previous allotment-renter. Also some gooseberries. And so far I've managed to get my hands on some cuttings or rehoused plants like autum yellow raspberry, red currants(aalbes?!) and even an asparagus-plant. Hoping it will have survived the transplant and winter, no sign of life so far. Sowing some myself this year, very exiting! I would love a perennial broccoli(steeds uitverkocht bij denieuwetuin) and kale, if you have some left-over cuttings, do let me know! Oh and now I want the Welsh Onion as well..thinking of making my own gildes for my apple-tree in my backyard as well as our plum-tree in our front-yard. Thank you for all the inspiration!!

Thank you so much for this. I will definitely be adding these to my garden.

Fantastic vid with really useful info! I've watched a few vids already on the hungry gap that didn't say much so I appreciate the great advice here. Xxx

This is great information ! I just sprouted sea kale . I will try to find some of the other plants . Thank you I'm glad I found your channel !

Try also broad leaf sorrel, three cornered leek and wild rocket in spring, these are also "once planted will live forever" plants.

Thank you! I have been transitioning my garden to having more perennials. These suggestions are ones I mostly hadn't heard of. This gives me a lot to play with.

Thanks! I found a couple things to try and add into my garden. I can’t wait to start being able to harvest things. My asparagus hasn’t started coming up yet, but should soon!

How SUPER to get an idea for winter produce! A new world opens up👍😉THX!!

I am inspired!!!! I love perennial and your video introduced me to some I did not know about! Thank you! I am looking now for seed ! ")

Hello Vera! Thank you for this video. Stay blessed.

I'm so happy that I found your channel. I didn't know that you can eat hosta. It's one of my favorite plants. You're a great gardener and a good teacher. Thank you! Nooh from Georgia USA.

Just subscribed after seeing you on Huw Richards' gardening channel. Very informative videos.I'm enjoying watching them. Your English is amazing. 👍😁

Great information, especially about the asparagus and hostas. Thanks.

I enjoyed also this time. Thank you, Vera 💖

This video is amazing thank you for your precious time,I’m going to grow the lovage

Ty so much now I’m getting my list I’ve searching for perennials

Thank you, quite informative

Thank you so much for these amazing tips! I can't wait to introduce them to my garden :-)

Thank you, you have helped me in knowing what to plant as a very keen learner.

Great video! I had never heard of the perennial beet!

That is the biggest asparagus I've ever seen. Love the information! Thank you

I love harvest videos, so relaxing. It was so satisfying hearing the crunch when you cut the asparagus lol. That and Brussels sprouts are what I want to plant once we have our forever home. I'm container gardening right now since we move often but I've had some success. Gardening is my new hobby and I'm really loving it. Wish I was interested in it when I was younger, I could have spent so much more quality time with my mama who spent most of her days outside working on her garden while I stayed inside the house. I regret it now but she's so proud of me that I love the same thing she loves and we have more to talk about now other than her grandkids lol.

Well done thanks, Dom

Thank you for sharing these. We have only some of the ones you mentioned; we have some extra sorrel, dandelions, ștevia and lemon balm.

Thanks for sharing your video..your new friend Boy Dahon watching from Philippines...stay healthy and take always.

Wonderful information. My chickens devoured one of my large hostas!

Found some nice ideas for the next year. My all time favorite for early spring harvest is nettle, grows everywhere in the garden and is very nutritious.

Thank you for sharing these useful tips.

Lovely video Vera x

Useful info! Thanks

Nice! Thanks for the share!

Thank you for sharing

Great video, added several new items to my wish list!

Very cool, hope to have a garden like that one day :)

Nice work. Thanks for the info.

Excellent and informative video! Thank you

Awesome vid! I had never heard of some of those!

So helpful- thank you 🙏💕

Wow, really glad I stumbled across this video. Lots of new ideas to get down ready for next year. I just looked up for more information about planting under fruit trees, particularly welsh onion as I've just "inherited" some seed and came across a blog post written by you. I will continue to look out for your work in future.

I grow egyptian waking onions, and soon I'll be growing sunchokes and perrenial kale. Rhubarb also comes up early and so it works well as a solution for the hungry gap.

Hi Vera, just discovered your channel via Hugh's recent polyculture video with your input. I am 3 years into a permaculture food forest garden and orchard with chicken tractor from Omelet (fantastic). My perennial veg n fruit include Jerusalem Artichokes, globe Artichokes, and perennial kale, Dauphines I think. I have added berberis for colour and berries, elder is a new one for me as it grows wild everywhere but I have added the Californian variety, (between the apple trees in the new orchard), which has larger flower clumps and therefore more fruit. It is a fruit full of health benefits, for cordials and cough medicine with extra spices like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, it keeps well, and is useful during our current Corona virus times. Plus the flowers can be used for elder flower champagne. The amount of work involved in your garden is amazing, a lot going on in the background, so neat, mine is more wild and weedy, great job best of luck Brian

Your video's are so informative and surreal, you have a extra ordinary skill of presentation 👍

I love this video♥️so much good info. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for some good ideas. My favourite perennial vegetable in my back yard is stinging nettles. They're delicious and very nutritious and really take care of themselves. Others I grow which I love: lamb's quarters, sun chokes, and horseradish. The leaves are edible as a green and not strong if cooked in a pressure cooker.

Great informative video thank you!

Super handige video! Dankje :)

I love your accent ...its very soothing! 😍

What a great video!

I did not know that hostas are edible! When I used to work in Brunei, they had a fern vegetable that you could buy in the open market. It was quite tasty. I loved it! Maybe I should grow the Ostrich Fern you mentioned on this video. Thanks!

Wonderful to discover your channel. Thanks to Huw Richards! Happy gardening :)

Very informative. Thank you.

Well done and explained thanks

Thanks 😀

Great subject and good timing. I'll be looking to add a couple of these to my growing garden patch. The first time I heard of eating fern shoots was many years ago when I used to work in a very remote mountainous area. Each spring an older couple would appear for several days to harvest the wild growing fern shoots. They were kind enough to explain to me how they prepared them but I've long since forgotten. I just remember they said they tasted like beef. That was surprising.

A wonderful perennial green that I grow is Italian stridolo, which I grew from seed many years ago. In our mild, marine climate it has perennialized and also self-seeds. I am harvesting it now, in late January, and it will continue to give greens until it flowers. It doesn't mind having its flowers cutback for more greens growth, although it tends to be bitterer in that second harvest.

Fantastic. I had no idea Hostas were edible. My to-do list grows. Really love your garden - it looks like mine!

This is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time! Extremely informative and inspirational

I've watched 3-4 vids now, love the channel. No-brainer sub!

Subscribed right away 👍🏼

Amazing !!!

I watch a lot of gardening videos and this was fantastic. Things I didn’t know till now and would like in my garden: perennial broccoli, hostas (didn’t know they were edible), fiddleheads and perennial kale.

Great show. I love lovage. I am looking for more perennial veg in South Africa.

Great video. Thanks

Nice video thank you I will try some...

sorrel, nettles, ox eye daisy, are my spring greens

I didnt know there was perennial broccoli. How neat!

In the back yard of our cabin is a rhubarb plant, the same one my grandmother had when she and my grandfather lived here.

Ma'am, this was a very informative and well done video. Thank you. Your English pronunciation also was very good and easy to understand.

So nice 😍

Beautiful video, really useful.

Not a perennial, but great for the hungry gap are spring onions. Sown late summer/early autumn they will serve as spring onions if the weather is not too severe. Or, if left, by may they will have a big bulb for use in place of the onions and shallots from last year that could be finished or gone off. Thanks for the useful video.

Very nice video, thank you! I must do Asparagus !

Great advices, thank you very much 🙏👌

My mom has grown Hostas all my life, so I'm going to surprise her with some Hostas in a meal in the near future!

Great video - I came from Huw Richards and have now subbed!

Didn't know that hostas were edible! Thanks!

Thank you, Vera! I also first saw you on Huw' s channel. I am in Oregon, have Good King Henry, and lovage - have tried Sea Kale (there's a well established population near a lighthouse on our coast that's a bit current than the one we can get from seed) and want to order Kaleidoscope Perennial kale grex seed .... My son-in love and daughter have a row of hostas, and I had just recently learned they're edible! I also have nettle and the red veined sorrel, self heal, primrose, day lilies, and a number of perennial herbs 🌱

Greetings from the US ! Great channel--subscribed ! Glad I stumbled across it. My maternal side of the family is all Dutch & were all great farmers a generation or two back :) I now live in the warmer client of Arizona, but many of these are still applicable w/ the right micro-clime...Easy to follow video ! Thank You :)

I’ve now subscribed to your KZfaq channel and all blessings

Thank you for sharing. I had no idea that the host wa edible. I have lots in my garden!

Greetings from Down Under! I admire your willpower to wait for your young edibles to grow on a little before harvesting. I love cooking from my garden and as soon as I bring home a new plant, I am looking for recipes where I can use the recent acquisition. The fiddlehead ferns look amazing as both as an edible and as an architectural plant. Cheers! (or how do you say it in Dutch? Proost?)

I grow babbington leeks which are Perennial.. they have a delicious garlicky taste and help fill the hungry gaps too 🙂

I didn't know that was perinatal. But I just found that out because I have new growth coming on from last years plant and turnip greens stayed all winter too. We have Polk greens and many wild eatibles .

Hi Vera! I really enjoyed this one. Another plant that comes to mind is French sorel. Day Lily buds are also edible. Take care!

I watched with interest! I always welcome a few new ideas! I grow Jerusalem Artichokes, a great alternative veg to potatoes, really earthy taste (my kids aren't too keen!) But really tasty roasted. Easy to grow, will hold in the ground through most of the winter (am at 52° north) but may not survive hard frosts. And amazing tall yellow flowers in summer, bees love them, like little mini sunflowers! But are a bit robust so can be difficult to clear so put in an area that you are happy to let them take over!! Give them a try..

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Love this (and love you!). Always learn so much. One I would want to add is 'Kaukasische rankspinazie', Caucasian Spinach. This is a plant that grows like ivy; if the winter isn't too harsh, it will not wither, but even if it does, it will emerge and grow again the next season. Here is a link (in Dutch) to learn more about it. Edible like spinach (as the name says) and very popular in Scandinavian countries. I have only just started to grow them myself, and am very much longing to find out how it will work out :-)

Nice

Thanks for sharing. I haven't known some of those plants because we're not from same region. Lucky me I have seen those. 😊New friend here.

Lilium davidii var. willmottiae(tiger lilie), day lilies (whole plant, but closed flower buds with eggs mostly),Sun chokes, elephant garlic (because it self seeds), wine cap mushrooms,sorrel, dandelion, mint, garlic Chives, arugula. You gave me a few new ones. Great video. Garlic will come back a year or two, but I replant it every year to get bigger bulbs.

That’s a nice list, and some I didn’t know about. I don’t think I heard you mention Garden Sorrel. Although some may consider it an herb, I use it as a main ingredient in dishes so think of it as more of a vegetable. It’s the first true perennial in my garden that I can harvest in the spring (before lovage, asparagus or hostas).