Had a lovely chat with my neighbour out in the garden. He struggles to grow fruit and lost all his raspberries, I lack the patience for annual veg seed starting but my perennial fruit plants are very abundant so he offered to share his veg in exchange for some fruit. Between us we've got a good harvest covered. I like that rather than all of us trying to grow bits of everything.
Also traded some raspberry cuttings for well rotted horse manure from another neighbour.
@marsiposa hope you don’t mind me jumping in.
Perennials I’ve got that are providing a crop now are leeks (Babingtons), kale (Daubenton’s plain and panache) 9 star brocolli, walking onions, herbs (sage, chives, thyme, rosemary)
Soon I’ll have skirret leaves & rhubarb.
Hoping to harvest some Hablitzia tamnoides sown two years ago
The corn salad, bittercress, wild rocket & red orache seed themselves.
As well as the fruit bushes and trees.
Also looking for more ideas
@Hellybootwader That's a great selection! I do want to try perennial veg as I only have fruit atm (well salad burnet and lambs lettuce that has escaped and self-seeded also)
@marsiposa I have apple, pear, cherry, apricot, gooseberry, black and red currants, strawberries everywhere, and raspberries in a couple of different varieties that give a nice long cropping season.
@Kimberley all of that sounds great, thank you! How do you eat the Salad Burnet? I planted one last year, it's very prolific, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Do you chop the whole branch? Separate each one of the little leafs?
@Hellybootwader I've never planted the perennial vegetables either, I'm not even sure I've seen them in nurseries. Would you say they behave like an herb? .. I mean, you prun them every now and then and eat what you prunned?
Kimberley
Mar
Helena