Perennial Vegetables
4 guides tagged Perennial Vegetables, from first steps to advanced care.
- BeginnerVegetables
Growing Artichokes: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Learn how to grow delicious globe artichokes in your home garden. This comprehensive guide covers variety selection, planting, care, and harvesting these Mediterranean delicacies.
15 min readRead guide - BeginnerVegetables
Rhubarb: The Stalk Is Dinner, the Leaf Is Not
Rhubarb is the one plant on this site where getting the wrong part onto your plate is a genuine poisoning risk, not just a quality problem. The stalk is the crop. The leaf, on the same plant, at the same time, is toxic. Per two land-grant extension sources: what the split actually means, and the one piece of received folklore about it that's false.
7 min readRead guide - IntermediateVegetables
Jerusalem Artichokes: What You're Actually Committing To
Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke) isn't a globe artichoke, and it isn't a normal vegetable decision either. Plant it once and, per two land-grant extension sources, expect it to spread by rhizome and resprout from any tuber fragment you miss at harvest. This isn't about whether it grows well. It's about whether you actually want a perennial patch you may never fully remove.
6 min readRead guide - IntermediateVegetables
Asparagus: The Two Years You Don't Get to Harvest
Plant asparagus crowns this spring and, per two land-grant extension sources, you take zero spears the first year and only a two-week trial cut the second. Cut early or cut hard in those first two seasons and you weaken the crown for the seven-to-eight-year run that's supposed to follow. This is about the discipline of not harvesting, not the mechanics of growing.
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