Perennial Vegetables

Perennial vegetables are vegetables that can live for more than two years. Some well known perennial vegetables from the temperate regions of the world include asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb.

Rhubarb - 162RW

Details Rhubarb is is a rhizomatous perennial, really easy to grow from seed and is quite vigorous growing. The plants that this seed came from were themselves seed grown. Plants love well-rotted organic matter mulched around them. Sow seed in a seed raising in small pots and plant out once seedling are 10cm tall

Botanical name Rheum x hybridum

Date Of Seed Harvest seed refreshed yearly

Grower name Richard Watson

Contains at least 30

Price per packet $4.50

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Skirret - 6RW

Details Skirret is a perennial vegetable which dates back to Roman times. Related to carrots, it is the bunches of skinny white roots that is the edible portion. Doesn't like to be grown anywhere too dry and are slightly vulnerable to carrot fly. Roasted its a very tasty vegetable. Sow in spring time and treat the seedling like carrot seedlings by keeping them weed free and at a spacing of 20cm apart. Roots develop their full flavour during winter. Best grown as a annual.

Skirret seed is a difficult seed to germinate, the best method appears to be surface sowing in early winter outdoors in a area where the surface stays damp, by spring the small seedlings can be transferred to there garden bed, space out by 20cm x 20cm.

Botanical name Sium sisarum

Grower name Richard Paul Watson

Contains at least 50 seeds

Price per packet $4.50

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Wild Chicory - 134RW

Details The original seed was given to Richard as part of a seed order from the UK and was said to have been sourced from plants growing wild. A perennial member of the dandelion family Asteraceae. Ideal for salad leaves or roots which can be baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute.

Seed extraction and processing is extremely difficult and time consuming which reflects in the price of this seed

Botanical name Cichorium intybus

Grower name Richard Paul Watson

Storage Info Seed stock refreshed yearly

Contains at least 15

Price per packet $5.50

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