Perennial Vegetables for a Food Forest Garden

Expand your garden with perennial vegetables and create a food forest garden. Adding vegetables to your flower garden and they look beautiful! This is one of the easiest ways to add food for more self sufficient.

this year I’m going to be adding a lot of perennial vegetables to my flower garden creating a more food Forest style type of a garden for the back part of my flower bed I’ll be planting walking stick kale this can be a pretty large Plant it can get up to 8ot tall and it’s Hardy down to Zone 7 it does end up with a really long stem on it so if you have really cold Winters you might want to protect that stem and they’re easy to do cuting off of these too you can just pinch one of these little parts off right here stick it in water and let it root takes only about a week stick it in soil and you’ve got yourself a new plant it can be used just the same way your other KS can be used put it in salads eat fresh or also made into kale chips another one that I really am excited about this year is the pink dandelion now I know dandelion is considered a weed but around here we like that kind of a weed for one the flowers offer pollen for the bees the leaves we eat in the springtime for cleansing and The Roots can be roasted and used as a replacement for coffee the flowers are absolutely beautiful in the morning when they’re opened up that pink color is absolutely Exquisite another one that I’m growing is good King Henry the leaves taste like spinach they can be eaten cooked or raw it’ll kind of create a mound shape and creep across the ground so it’s perfect for bordering I also like this one because it will continue to grow through the season d back once it hits the hard Frost and then comes back in the springtime the perfect perennial Edge plant for a flower bed that’s edible thanks for spending time with me today may your garden grow strong