Perennial vegetables are vegetables you only need to plant once and you are rewarded with years of harvesting. A perennial patch is a vegetable patch perfect for the lazy gardener. Actually, scratch that. It’s perfect for a smart gardener who wants to spend less time planting, more time eating.
Perennials are plants that produce for years. We are all familiar with fruit trees providing us with fresh produce for years without us having to do much work, so why not also in the vegetable garden?
When you have a perennial patch, all you need to do is keep it mulched, fed, watered and keep harvesting! There are many positives to having some, if not many, perennials:
- you’re not disturbing the soil by cultivating and resowing
- there will always be something you can harvest.
- if your garden is full, weeds will not have the space to grow.
- perennials usually have deep roots so can reach water and nutrients further down, meaning they are more drought resistant and hardier than other plants.
- The deep roots perennials have, mean they can also be way more nutritious and delicious than their annual comrades.
