Category Archives: perennial greens

Taunton Deane kale in flower

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Anni Kelsey

This has never happened before – my Taunton Deane kale is just coming into flower.  I have had the plant for years and it has always been just leaves and I have propagated it with cuttings.  It’s a lovely plant … Continue reading →

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Massive perennial kales

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Anni Kelsey

Perennial kales were one of the first perennial vegetables I tried to acquire and from that time to this they have always been a mainstay of my garden.  This year they have surpassed themselves in growing even more massive than … Continue reading →

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Pennard Plants

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

The range of suppliers that provide interesting heritage and perennial vegetables is increasing all the time.  I used to survey all the companies I knew of each year to provide a summary for readers but that would be too big … Continue reading →

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Review of spring polyculture patch

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

This bed was started in the spring of 2014.  Originally I just needed somewhere to transplant a number of perennial vegetables from my first bed in this garden (below) which was about to be covered over with an extension to … Continue reading →

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Recent plantings and changes in the Borderland garden

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

I have made some changes in the Borderland garden over the past two weeks.  The vegetable patch begun last year (for a polyculture of perennial vegetables) has been moved and fruit trees planted.  The vegetable patch was in the way … Continue reading →

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Evaluating 2013 in the Telford garden

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

Our house in Telford went up for sale in the late spring of 2013.  As yet it has not sold but the year began with the clear possibility in mind that we may not see the growing season out in … Continue reading →

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Delights in the Mid Winter Garden

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

I would contend that a garden of edible perennials must be one of the few to yield delights in the cold and often bleak mid winter months.  I have left a number of root vegetables in the ground over the … Continue reading →

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List of Perennial Vegetable Suppliers 2014

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

The most popular links on my blog are easily those to seed companies that sell perennial vegetables.  Last year I did a spreadsheet to cover all the main perennials and who supplies them and supplied it to a few people … Continue reading →

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Evaluating 2013 and Looking Forward to 2014 in the Borderland Garden

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

2013 gave me an wonderful opportunity to start a new garden in the Welsh / English borders.  There are already a series of posts about this venture, and there are links below to some of these.  At the start of … Continue reading →

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“Building” and planting the new garden

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Anni Kelsey

The new garden in the hills is coming along nicely.  As described on 14 April 2013 I used what was at hand initially to begin the new veggie patches and I have continued to do this to make fertilise and … Continue reading →

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