Cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife - Growing with Nature
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Stacy Witscher wrote:I do love perennials. I'm in the process of moving, so digging up asparagus to bring with, but otherwise I will be starting fresh in southern Oregon. I really like artichokes, asparagus, tree collards, and perennial herbs like rosemary, sage, thyme, chives etc. I tried lovage, didn't care for it, very strong flavor. I currently have rhubarb, but don't think that I will plant it at the next place, I don't much care for it now that I can't have sugar. Sorrel is nice but very sour, and hard to get rid of once established.
While I know that having certain root vegetables and bulbing vegetables, like potatoes, garlic and onions in the same place every year, I can't seem to keep them from popping up everywhere that I've once planted them.
Cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife - Growing with Nature
Gurkan Yeniceri wrote:I have some perennials and some annuals that are coming back from seeds. These are
Marjorana hortensis
Mentha spicata
Centella asiatica
Comfrey
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I also have elderberry, jostaberry, black currant, aronia melanocarpa, red currant bushes.
Cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife - Growing with Nature
Robin Katz wrote:Daron, your first picture of the flowers reminded me that biennials like collards, chard, etc. have abundant flowers in the second year that the beneficial insects in my garden love. In the past I've harvested the leaves but left the plant intact and many would survive the harsh/dry Denver winter to bloom in the spring. It was a great way to support insect life and get free seed. Of course if I'd left all the biennials to bloom there wouldn't be much space for the new annuals so I'd leave select plants to bloom and plant annuals around them.
I really like the idea of mixing perennials, biennials (including a few the second year), and annuals. Every year the garden looked different and I could see what worked in combination, and what didn't. I found this to be fun and reduced the stress of trying to get the garden right. Every year there were successes and failures, but nature still provided an abundant harvest.
This is a great discussion. Thanks for starting it!
Cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife - Growing with Nature
Stacy Witscher wrote:. I currently have rhubarb, but don't think that I will plant it at the next place, I don't much care for it now that I can't have sugar. Sorrel is nice but very sour, and hard to get rid of once established.
While I know that having certain root vegetables and bulbing vegetables, like potatoes, garlic and onions in the same place every year, I can't seem to keep them from popping up everywhere that I've once planted them.
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Daron Williams wrote:
I'm planning on making some new beds that I will let go a bit wild. Just let things flower and self-seed. I still plan on getting a harvest from them but I want to just let them do their thing and see how it changes from year to year. Just a fun experiment and there are some plants that just don't play nice in a vegetable garden but would do great in this setup.
Denise Cares wrote:
Daron Williams wrote:
I'm planning on making some new beds that I will let go a bit wild. Just let things flower and self-seed. I still plan on getting a harvest from them but I want to just let them do their thing and see how it changes from year to year. Just a fun experiment and there are some plants that just don't play nice in a vegetable garden but would do great in this setup.
So Daron, basically that's what I've done with my volunteer arugula (that I don't know what variety it is) and now after 3 years of letting it go wild it survived the winter snows and has gone amuck and taken over my whole garden area! So now I have the joy of pulling out plants abundant as weeds only they are 4 ft tall flowering and delicious. There's just too much of it! Help!! How do I bring this wild abundance under control?
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E Dorr wrote:I love the concept of perennial vegetables! I plan on filling my hugelkultur bed with them, over time… asparagus, artichokes, cardoons, more sorrel, herbs, etc.
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