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Perennial edibles are a low-maintenance way of producing delicious, abundant crops with less work. Ideal for a budget-savvy garden, they save time too: plant once for years of food. Often cropping in the spring, many perennials can provide delicious meals during the hungry gap periods, helping to increase your home-grown abundance.
Edible perennials, which include herbs, vegetables, fruit and flowers, are plants which are expected to live for at least two years, and usually crop for much longer. Requiring less attention than annuals, they are ideal for people with busy lives. Many, such as globe artichokes, alliums and sea kale, are structurally beautiful and perfect for cottage garden-style ornamental borders.
These established plants are more resilient, with
