Perennial vegetables and unusual edibles we are growing…
Perennial Vegetable Growing including perennial Kales and Collards, roots and tubers and an array or edible perennials and alliums here are a few of our favourite pics
Poireau Perpetual, a wonderful perennial leek
Egloskerry perennial kale
Carole Wellwood perennial kale
A four year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plant approaching 3m wide
A majestic Purple Tree Collard approaching 2m tall
Purple Tree Collards rooting in pots in the polytunnel
A perennial kale thought to be Thousand Headed kale
Freshly harvested Hablitzia leaves in mid May
Four year old Hablitzia Tamnoides plants (Caucasian perennial Spinach)
Hablitzia Tamnoides plant in full growth
Hablitzia Tamnoides climbing up bean netting
Deep green tasty leaves of Hablitzia Tamnoides
Harvested in March 2017, after three years, skirret with some good eating roots.
Mature Skirret plant with offsets (Sium Sisarum)
A nice collection of freshly lifted three year old skirret plants.
Yard long beans living up to their name in the polytunnel
Red and white skinned Yacon varieties
Dazzling colours of Colombian Long Red and Ravelo Lisa Ulluco tubers
Dazzling yellow flower from one of our Yacon plants
Perennial cabbage and flowering plants
Julien plants out different varieties of Ulluco tubers in early May
Healthy Ulluco ready to go in the ground
Ulluco sprouted in trays ready to be planted out in early May
A misty Dartmoor morning as the sun comes up over one of our Ulluco patches
By September, the Ulluco have formed a carpet of beautiful succulent leaves
A dense carpet of Ulluco leaves
1 year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plants
A good harvest of sweet potatoes
Sweet potato plants are left to trail across the polytunnel
Shishigitani squash
Oca, Perennial 9 Star Broccoli and mixed polyculture beds
Trial Oca beds for the Guild of Oca Breeders
Oca plants flourishing in the late summer sun
Just some of the trial varieties in 2015 for the Guild of Oca Breeders
Vibrant green growth of a Hablitzia plant in early spring
Three year old Hablitzia plants heading skywards
Mandy nurturing one of her Hablitzia ‘babies’
Hablitzia Tamnoides seedlings
Tender and tasty leaves of Hablitzia
Beautiful scented flowers of Apios Americana ( Hopniss or Ground nut)
A young Apios Americana (Hopniss) plant
Apios Americana (Hopniss) grown in bottomless pots
The maturing roots of a two year old skirret plant
Skirret plants have produced good eating roots
One of our many skirret patches in the summer months
The florets emerging on one of our sea kale plants
Ten varieties of our harvested Ulluco
Some full size Ulluco tubers
Ravelo Lisa Ulluco, an heirloom green variety
Colourful Ulluco
Freshly harvested Ulluco
The most beautiful Ulluco tubers 2015 harvest
Hablitzia Tamnoides – vivid green heart shaped leaves
Some baked potato size Yacon tubers freshly lifted
Red skinned Yacon variety with sweet and crunchy tubers
A Yacon propagule from one of our red skinned varieties.
The exquisite and dazzling colour of purple Ulluco tubers
Vivid red Oca tubers from our winter 2016 main crop
Chinese Artichoke tubers (Stachys Affinis) against the dark earth
Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach
Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach flowering
Beautiful variegated variety of Daubenton’s perennial kale ‘Panache’
Spigariello
Babington perennial Leeks
Taunton Deane perennial Kale
Prolific nutty tubers of Chinese Artichoke (Stachys Affinis)
Heirloom Potato onions
Bumper Winter Squash
Garlic Drying in the Sun
Whopping Tromboncino Squash like Cavemen’s Clubs
Perennial Nine Star Broccoli
The Leaves of Chinese Artichokes, part of the Mint Family
Tuberous Chervil, lovely nutty tubers that store well
Bumper harvest of Andean Tubers and Chinese Artichokes
Stunning sky Blue Borage Flowers
Fizz Kale, very attractive frilly leaves
Oca Plants ( Oxalis Tuberosa)
Scorzonera a tasty and sweet root vegetable
Sutherland Kale
Salad Burnet
Padron Pepper, 1 in 10 are super hot!
The Triffid like flower of a Tromboncino Squash
Little Tomatillo in its own beautiful lantern
Malope Triffida, exquisite edible flower
The succulent leaves of Ulluco
Yard Long Beans – One bean make a meal
Giant Tree Spinach
Frilly Petit Posies
Flowering Cardoon Plant
Mexican Fat Baby – or Achocha
Baby Skirret roots from a 1 year old plant
Cucamelon growing in the polytunnel (can be grown as a perennial)
Oca, Ulluco, Chinese Artichoke, Jerusalem Artichoke
The fleshy top growth of Ulluco tubers
Welcoming broad leaves of Yacon plants in summer
Vivid yellow Yacon flower which appear late in the season
Walking Onions or tree onions
Super schmelz kohlrabi
Potato onions beginning to multiply
Three types of perennial kales being propagated in the polytunnel
Perennial 9 Star Broccoli
The exquisite colours of ten Ulluco varieties side by side
Colombian Long Red, White spotted & Ravelo Lisa Ulluco
Late summer and the skirrets are in full bloom
Skirrets grown from seed about 18 months old
Ulluco tuffets! A month or so after planting
Spotted White Ulluco forms tubers with beautiful patterning