Spring Perennials to Plant NOW

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Let's talk perennials my friends. It is spring, hopefully when you're listening to this and if
0:19.0	not hopefully it's coming soon we have Angela Furrow fanning back on the show Cornell certified
0:24.3	permaculturalist and homesteader in central New Jersey and the author of
0:28.7	the Sustainable Homestead which I recommend you check out. So we talked about yesterday a food forest and kind of a lot about
0:36.8	fruit trees specifically. When we talk about getting a garden started, we often think annuals because that's sort of the traditional
0:44.4	lingo of the garden but of course perennials pay off incredibly well so if someone doesn't
0:49.3	have any in their garden right now Angela and Springs coming and they're, and they're like, you know what, I'm kind of interested.
0:54.0	What would you recommend?
0:56.0	Yeah, that's a great question.
0:58.0	So I take a look at what you eat, what you purchase from the grocery store,
1:02.0	start growing what you eat.
1:04.0	And we hear that a lot when it comes to annuals, but can you take that a step further and think about
1:08.4	that in terms of perennials? So if you're buying apples or you're buying oranges or lemons every week at the grocery store,
1:15.2	could you look at incorporating that into the garden?
1:20.0	I think there's a lot of things that we don't realize are actually perennials like rhubarichokes
1:25.9	chives some onion varieties there's a perennial spinach perennial lettuce varieties and
1:37.6	there's even this long leaf, it's like a tomatio kind of a cherry tomato
1:39.6	ground cherry kind of a thing.
1:40.9	And you know, when you start exploring this world of perennials you get a lot of new
1:45.6	flavors if you're not familiar with them but then what ends up happening is you're getting these
1:50.4	awesome harvests without all of the labor associated with planting and
1:54.0	seeds starting every year.
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