Edible perinials

planzman · #1 03/31/12, 02:20 PM

What are you growing?

I have about 800 feet of grape trellis and a few muscadines (scupernongs), 4 or 5 thornless black berries, 20 highbush blue berries, a couple of figs and a single keifer pear that is already burdened with this years fruit. We have a couple of pecans growing inthe hedge and the neihbors have a couple of large trees that we gather from.

I am looking for suggestions for more.

I have heard about high bush cranberry, walking onions perinial rye, but what else?

where I want to · #2 03/31/12, 02:29 PM

Artichokes and many herbs.

planzman · #3 03/31/12, 02:42 PM

You know i have never eaten an artichoke!

where I want to · #4 03/31/12, 02:49 PM

It's one of those "you either love it or hate it" veggies. I grew up on them and had to have them where ever I lived. Many people have stopped me in a grocery asking how you cook them or even how you eat them.
Asparagus too. And kiwi's-now there's a trouble free bounty.

planzman · #5 03/31/12, 02:57 PM

Have a kiwi farm near me, so I know we can grow them here, I should look into them.

Danaus29 · #6 03/31/12, 03:25 PM

Blackberries, red and black raspberries, asparagus, rhubarb, grapes, currants, gooseberries (if they survived) lingonberries (but it looks like one didn't survive), walnuts, hazelnuts, hickory, sassafras, pawpaw, sunchokes, blueberries, strawberries, elderberries, violets, burdock, cherries, apples, peaches, herbs and a hardy almond.

planzman · #7 03/31/12, 05:42 PM

I have about 50 of these and is there any part that is edible, thenleaves could pass for kale?

Common Tator · #8 03/31/12, 05:47 PM

We have a commercial apple orchard with about 400 trees, but Tators can't live on apples alone! We have concord grapes ready to plant. 8 peach trees, 10 more apple trees of varieties we don't already have, 4 cherry trees. I just planted the onions. I also have potatoes ready to plant in the garden, garlic ready to plant, asparagus, rhubarb. I picked up some non hybrid tomatoes , and some hybrid. I got plenty of plants started.

planzman · #9 03/31/12, 05:49 PM

Can Nasturtiums be used for pepper substitute? The seeds!

Danaus29 · #10 03/31/12, 06:53 PM

Gerbera daisy, all I could find says it's not toxic but that doesn't mean it can't make you wish it were. Some medicinal qualities in the flowers.

Nasturtium seeds are used as a substitute for capers. What those are and how they taste, I don't know. Not perennial in areas where you get freezing temps.

I forgot my daylilies, spring beauties and mulberries. I'm sure I've forgot others too.

bee · #11 03/31/12, 07:06 PM

Horseradish,mints,sumac....autum olive, rugosa roses,redbud, bamboo,persiminons, cattails, ramps,groundnuts......

Yknot · #12 03/31/12, 07:11 PM

Asparagus grows good and comes up every spring, depending where you are. It takes a couple of years to get going then it is steady.

Common Tator · #13 03/31/12, 08:13 PM

I listed garlic, which isn't a perennial, because it is self sustaining. The heads saved from the previous year can be separated into cloves and planted.

I listed potatoes which also aren't perennials, but are also self sustaining.

I want several varieties of nut trees. Hard to get in California.

stamphappy · #14 03/31/12, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Common Tator

II want several varieties of nut trees. Hard to get in California.

Can you get almond trees to grow in your area? THere was a large almond orchard about 2 hours north of where we used to live (san diego).

Callieslamb · #15 03/31/12, 08:41 PM

asparagus, black,red, yellow raspberries, blueberries, grapes, apple, cherry, apricot, pear, peach, rhubarb herbs, blackberries, strawberries. I hear that gogi berries are quite popular to grow right now. How about edible bamboo?

JuliaAnn · #16 03/31/12, 10:12 PM

Picked several handfuls of mayhaws today. Not May, but they were ready...

Common Tator · #17 04/01/12, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by stamphappy

Can you get almond trees to grow in your area? THere was a large almond orchard about 2 hours north of where we used to live (san diego).

I'm thinking that I should get nuts from the varieties I want, and start my own trees from nuts.

praieri winds · #18 04/01/12, 02:33 PM

pomegranates, I read that the pond cat tails have edable tubers and shutes,

and if you plant your own nuts common tater you might not get the sane thing you planyed as most trees are grafted onto different roots

||Downhome|| · #19 04/01/12, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by praieri winds

pomegranates, I read that the pond cat tails have edable tubers and shutes,

and if you plant your own nuts common tater you might not get the sane thing you planyed as most trees are grafted onto different roots

every part of a cattail is edible depending on when you harvest.

City Bound · #20 04/01/12, 08:10 PM

dandelions, dock, concord grapes, chives, mint, sage, thyme, sun chokes, nettles, currants, goose berry, raspberries, blue berries, bush cherry, figs, blackberries, elderberry, honey suckle