Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

I hope you are doing well as we are moving into fall.

Hopefully you're planning out that fall garden.

Speaking of, we are back with Richard Canal owner of the small island seed company and

he specializes in rare unusual cold hearty vegetables and herbs and some of those are

perennials not annuals and we're going to talk today about why that's so important.

I'll say this Richard just to start it off.

I've been moving into more perennials in general for sure but kind of stair stepping from

the vegetable edible world like I'll do artichokes right and then I'll do I guess a couple

seasons worth of strawberries will count as a perennial in my world I started getting into

trees and so as you have a longer time horizon on a property of course perennials seem

to make more sense and I'm curious as to your perspective on that.

Absolutely and you're off to a good start here because the sooner you get started the better.

Many perennials a downside of them is that they take a little bit longer to actually establish

themselves and start producing so like asparagus for example they say four years from seed yeah

and even when you plant the root crowns it'll still be a few years before you get a good

crop so the main reason the first reason why I really enjoyed perennials so much is that

they are a huge time saver we all spend so much time with annual crops and that includes

you know starting the seeds you got to select the seeds and start them and nurture them at the

seedling stage many plants can be susceptible to diseases fungus bacteria so it's great to not

have to deal with that as the years go by or at least less and less and less planting less

getting down on your knees and taking up the soil and planting that can get tiresome over the years

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