Your garden may be producing more than vegetables and flowers right now. It may also be producing next year’s garden. Every ripe tomato, mature pepper, dried bean pod, sunflower head, and fading zinnia can contain seeds capable of continuing the growing cycle into another season. Seed saving is one of gardening’s oldest skills. And late summer […]
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10 Perennial Vegetables You Plant Once and Harvest for Years
Most vegetable gardens start over every spring. Tomatoes are replanted. Beans are resown. Cucumbers go back into the ground. Lettuce starts again from seed. But not every edible plant follows that cycle. Perennial vegetables can remain in the garden for several years, returning season after season without requiring complete replanting every spring. Some produce for decades […]



