What’s Growing

Perennial vegetables and unusual edibles we are growing…

Perennial vegetable growing including perennial kales and tree collards, roots and tubers and an array of edible perennials and alliums – here are a few of our favourite pics, just a small sample of the hundreds of plants in our collection.

Dwarf Jerusalem artichoke — Dwarf Jerusalem artichoke grows 50-60cm tall

Apios americana, Groundnut or Hopniss harvest — Apios americana, Groundnut or Hopniss tubers

Apios Americana flower — Beautiful scented flowers of Apios americana ( Hopniss or Ground nut)

Apios Americana vine — A young Apios Americana (Hopniss) plant

Apios americana, Groundnut or Hopniss — Apios americana, Groundnut or Hopniss showing abundant summer growth.

Apios Americana — Apios Americana (Hopniss) grown in bottomless pots

Apios americana, Groundnut or Hopniss tuber — One of our largest Apios americana tubers

Poireau Perpetuel — Poireau Perpetuel, a wonderful perennial leek

Poireau perpétuel perennial leeks — A patch of Poireau perpétuel perennial leeks

Poireau Perpetuel — Poireau Perpétuel perennial leek flowers beginning to open

Babington's Leeks — Babington perennial Leeks

Potato onions — Heirloom Potato onions – Allium Cepa Aggregatum

Potato onions beginning to multiply

Egyptian walking onions — Walking Onions or tree onions

Norrlands Onion flowering — Norrlands Onion

Allium Unifolium — Allium Unifolium between a variegated Daubenton kale

Three cornered leek — Three cornered leek, Allium triquetrum growing amongst perennial kale

Egloskerry perennial kale

Carole Wellwood perennial kale

Daubenton's kale, variegated variety — A young Daubenton variegated perennial kale ‘Panache’

Taunton Deane kale — A four year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plant approaching 3m wide

Purple Tree Collard — A majestic Purple Tree Collard approaching 2m tall

Young purple tree collards — Young purple tree collards with Chamomile and Feverfew

Purple tree collard — Purple tree collard long lived brassica, edible and ornamental

Perennial Taunton Deane Kale — Taunton Deane perennial Kale

Taunton Deane perennial Kale — 1 year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plants

Galician perennial kale

Thousand Headed perennial kale — A perennial kale thought to be Thousand Headed kale

Daubenton x tree collard — Daubenton x purple tree collard perennial brassica

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Hablitzia Tamnoides climbing up bean netting

Tender and tasty leaves of Hablitzia

Vibrant green growth of a Hablitzia plant in early spring

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial climbing spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides – vivid green heart shaped leaves

Hablitzia plants in pots — Hablitzia Tamnoides seedlings

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial climbing spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach flowering

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Mandy nurturing one of her Hablitzia ‘babies’

LIgularia Fischeri — Ligularia Fischeri, herbaceous perennial Korean edible plant with fragrant leaves

Sculpit flower in bloom — Silene Inflata (Stridolo, Sculpit) perennial with edible aromatic leaves

Good King Henry — Good King Henry, Blitum bonus-henricus herbaceous perennial

Ashitaba Angelica keiskei — Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei)

Sochan Rudbeckia Laciniata — Sochan (Rudbeckia Laciniata) perennial spring green used in Cherokee cuisine

Udo Aralia Cordata — Udo (Aralia Cordata) herbaceous perennial -young shoots are eaten

Buckshorn Plantain — Buckshorn Plantain, self sowing annual to perennial plant

Trifolium Wormskioldi roots in a pot — Trifolium Wormskioldi edible rhizomes

Pickerel weed flowers — Pontederia cordata, common name Pickerel Weed with edible seeds and leaves

vleikos (Aponogeton distachyos) in a pond — Vleikos (Aponogeton distachyos) edible aquatic plant

Wapato and Chi-gu in a bath tub — Wapato and Chi gu with edible tubers

Hog Peanut — Hog peanut, Amphicarpaea bracteata harvest of edible legumes

Lathryus tuberosus, Earth nut pea (Aardaker)

Lathryus tuberosus, Earth nut pea (Aardaker) — Lathryus tuberosus, Earth nut pea (Aardaker) tubers

Skirret harvest — A nice collection of freshly lifted three year old skirret plants.

Skirret flowering in the field — One of our many skirret patches in the summer months

Yacon plants — Welcoming broad leaves of Yacon plants in summer

Some baked potato size Yacon tubers freshly lifted

Red and white skinned Yacon varieties

Yacon tubers — Red skinned Yacon variety with sweet and crunchy tubers

A Yacon propagule — A Yacon propagule from one of our red skinned varieties.

Yacon flower — One of our Yacon plants flowering in Autumn

Oca beds late summer — Oca plants flourishing in the late summer sun

Freshly harvested red oca tubers — Vivid red Oca tubers from our winter main crop

Mashua, Tropaeolum tuberosum — Mashua, Tropaeolum tuberosum, creamy white tubers

Mashua, Tropaeolum tuberosum — Mashua, Tropaeolum tuberosum, root crop with edible leaves and flowers

Perennial Nine Star Broccoli

Giant Tree Spinach Chenopodium Giganteum — Giant Tree Spinach

Achocha or Caigua (Cyclanthera pedata) — Giant Bolivian Achocha or Caigua (Cyclanthera pedata)

Mexican Fat Babies — Achocha ‘Fat baby’

Melothria Scabra in the polytunnel — Melothria Scabra or Mexican sour gherkin

Cucamelon growing in the polytunnel — Melothria Scabra growing in the polytunnel (can be grown as a perennial)

Luffa aegyptiaca growing in the polytunnel — Luffa aegyptiaca grown for home made sponges

Cardoon — A hedge of cardoons with chives and honesty

Strawberry Spinach — Strawberry Spinach Blitum capitatum self sowing annual

Bath Asparagus (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum) bulbs

Chufa (Cyperus esculentus)

Szechuan peppercorns in the palm of a hand — Szechuan peppercorns Zanthoxylum simulans

Huacatay mint flowering — Huacatay mint (Peruvian black mint) Tagetes minuta

Perennial Chinese Artichoke leaves — The Leaves of Chinese Artichokes, part of the Mint Family

Perennial Chinese Artichoke tubers — Chinese Artichoke (Stachys Affinis)

Sea Kale flowering — Sea kale (Crambe Maritima)

Sweet potato vines — Sweet potato plants are left to trail across the polytunnel

Sweet Potato harvest — A good harvest of sweet potatoes