PERENNIAL VEGETABLES FOR A PERPETUAL VEGETABLE GARDEN
Annual sowing, regular watering and weeding... Do you lack the time to provide the daily care necessary for the success of your vegetable garden? What if perennial vegetables were the solution? It is indeed possible to obtain a wonderful vegetable garden, right there, at the kitchen door, entirely planted with perennial vegetables and 'generous' species, whether edible or condiment, which with a minimum of effort, will provide their bounty year after year. Beautiful in the garden, these plants will amaze you with the variety of their flavors: the essential perpetual artichokes and leeks, of course, but also the original crunchy tigernuts, the tasty earth pears, the delicious Mauritanian mallow and the surprising mertensia with an oyster taste. Plant, let it grow and enjoy! Summary: The particularities of the perpetual vegetable garden: Why choose perpetual vegetables? - Some short definitions - Know and associate the rhythms of each vegetable - A different vegetable garden. Create a perpetual vegetable garden: Where to make your perpetual vegetable garden? - When to install your perpetual vegetable garden? - The secret of success: good soil preparation. Take care of your perpetual vegetable garden: Watering, an essential step - Maintain your perpetual vegetable garden - Mulch to facilitate maintenance. Perennials remaining in place (16 cards): Rocambole garlic - Artichoke - Cardoon - Perpetual celery - Good Henry goosefoot - Daubenton's perennial cabbage - Scallop chives (perpetual shallot) - Crambe - Mauritanian mallow - Mertensia or oyster plant - Rocambole onion - Sorrel - Small burnet - Perpetual leek - Rhubarb - Perennial rocket. Perennials by their tubers (7 cards): Elephant garlic - Tuberous nasturtium - Crosnes - Ocas - Cochet ground pear - Edible chufa - Jerusalem artichokes and sunchokes. Generous annuals and biennials (8 cards): Amaranths - Orach - Swiss chard - Borage - Giant goosefoot - Cuban claytone - New Zealand spinach - Cherry tomatoes. As a conclusion: Bibliography - Address book.
