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Grow a Perennial Vegetable Garden
Veggies you’ll only have to plant once
Every year, millions and probably billions of people around the world go out and build a vegetable garden. They dig. They prepare the soil. They plant seeds and work diligently throughout the summer to get a vegetable crop.
In recent years, there has been a movement called permaculture where people take an ideology started by Bill Morrison and they produce a gardening system in which they don’t have to dig and plant regularly. In this system, fruit, nut, and nutritionally support trees, climbing plants, brambles, bushes, tall plants, herbs, and root crops. Among these plants are perennial vegetables that come back year after year.
Asparagus
Asparagus is probably the best-known perennial vegetable. It is one of the first vegetables ready to harvest in the spring. Since it will be in the same place for years, it’s important to find an area with all the growing conditions they need. Asparagus plants are slow to mature, taking three to five years to fill in, but they are worth the wait. Once they start producing well, you will be harvesting asparagus spears for more than a month every spring before the rest of the garden starts producing
Though I grew the ones I have from seed, most people find it easier to grow asparagus…