If you are someone that doesn’t want to have to plant every year to have home grown fruits and vegetables, grow perennials! Believe it or not, perennial vegetables do exist. After you plant a ...

Gardeners like perennial flowers because you do the work to get them established once and they bloom again and again. There are numerous perennial vegetable perennial vegetables as well but they lack ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Those ...

Perennials are the gift that keeps on giving, coming back and blooming season after season for years—unlike their annual counterparts. This is an especially welcome reoccurrence when it comes to ...

As we look toward the approach of fall, many gardeners are warming up to the idea of cool season crops. Most of what we think of when it comes to vegetable gardens are annuals like tomatoes, cucumbers ...

Most vegetables grown in home gardens are annuals. They wither and die at the end of the season and need to be replanted every year to reap more crops. But if you're short on time or money, don't want ...

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As the days lengthen and the sun grows stronger, many of us are champing at the bit to get our gardens started. Seed catalogues are being pored over, dog-eared, and circled, and some folks may have ...

We usually think of vegetables as annuals, here for one season and gone, but there are many perennial vegetables that grow well in the Bay Area. Contra Costa Master Gardeners Janet Miller and Helen ...

Vegetable gardening isn’t just a summer thing. There are many plants that can be grown as perennials, providing food year after year. Contra Costa Master Gardeners Janet Miller and Helen Erickson, ...

The idea of growing perennial vegetables means that you get to enjoy your harvest and crops every year from the same plant. Most vegetables, however, tend to be annuals – that means they’re sown, ...