🌿 Want a low-effort edible garden that keeps feeding you year after year? In this video, I share my Top 10 Edible Perennials perfect for backyard gardens, food forests, and sustainable gardening. From asparagus, berries, and strawberries to perennial herbs, rhubarb, edible tubers, and fruit trees, these plants are resilient, productive, and mostly hands-off.
❄️ I show you which plants are native, wild, or cultivated, how to get the best yields, and tips for long-term success with minimal effort.
🌱 In this video, you’ll learn about:
Asparagus – the classic perennial for a seasonal harvest every spring.
Berry bushes & shrubs – haskaps, currants, gooseberries, elderberries, and service berries.
Raspberry & blackberry canes – summer vs. fall bearing varieties.
Strawberries – June-bearing, day-neutral, alpine, and native types.
Rhubarb – easy, hearty, and perfect for desserts or forcing early harvests.
Edible tubers – Jerusalem artichokes and American groundnuts for long-term yields.
Fiddleheads – ostrich ferns for shady garden spots and a spring delicacy.
Perennial herbs – oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, mint, lemon balm, stinging nettle, and more.
Perennial alliums – Egyptian walking onions, chives, perennial leeks, ramps, and wild onions.
Fruit trees & vining plants – apples, plums, peaches, pears, pawpaws, mulberries, grapes, hardy kiwi, and the boysenberry.
✨ Honorable mentions: nut trees/shrubs and some perennial greens.
Whether you’re a beginner gardener or looking to expand your food forest, these perennials are a sustainable way to enjoy fresh, homegrown food for years to come.
Timestamps:
2:23 Asparagus
5:42 Berry Bushes & Shrubs[AE1.1]
11:36 Raspberries & Other Cane Berries
14:40 Strawberries
18:57 Rhubarb
22:30 Edible Tubers
25:31 Fiddleheads
27:19 Perennial Herbs
30:07 Perennial Alliums
33:39 Fruit Trees
38:57 Honourable Mentions
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5 Comments
Lonicera the edible honeysuckle….the haskap, is more commonly known in the states as honeyberry. Delicious berries, but hard to find in the south.
Currants and Gooseberries and Haskaps, oh my!
My favourite new perennial is Lovage. We bought one from a grower in a pot one year while picking up some nice heirloom tomatoes and ended up planting it in ground the following season. Several years later it's HUGE and grows even in mostly full shade. It's quite early in terms of spring growth and is an absolutely delicious herb. Tastes a lot like celery. Leaves, stalks and roots are all edible. At the end of the season you can seperate the roots to plant elsewhere — but honestly one is enough for my family. It gets about 6 feet tall as is best eaten young.
I have been struggling with growing blueberries too as my soil is around 7.0 ph. Tried to lower the ph with horticultural Sulphur and didn't succeed. I think I will pull the blueberries and plant some haskap. Have you ever grown Jerusalem Artichokes?
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