Perennial Vegetables for a Fall Planting

It is fun to plant something once and then eat it for years.  You can do just that with perennial vegetables!

Here is a list of perennial vegetables that can be planted in the fall. I have also included some threads about these:

Shallots



https://permies.com/t/140805/Shallots-bulbs-divided-multiplied


Rhubarb



https://permies.com/t/93741/Rhubarb


Walking Onions

https://permies.com/t/82715/perennial-vegetables/Easy-Grow-Perennial-Walking-Onion


Potato Onions

https://permies.com/t/138977/perennial-vegetables/Potato-onions-easy-grow-perennial


Saffron Crocuses



https://permies.com/t/60787/kitchen/planting-growing-saffron


Asparagus



https://permies.com/t/93431/Clueless-Asparagus


Salad Burnet



https://www.thespruce.com/growing-and-using-the-herb-salad-burnet-1402607


Fruit & Nut Trees

https://permies.com/f/212/


Daylilies



https://permies.com/t/52826/Daylilies-food

Do you have some other suggestions?

What are your favorite fall perenial veggies?

Thanks for this list.  I've never heard of some of these.  I'm very interested in the potato onions and will try to find some seed bulbets.

Great list, Anne!  I have some of these in the ground, but have a few that I need to add to my project list.

I think there are some perennial kales?  At least in some zones.  https://permies.com/t/130961/perennial-vegetables/Grow-perennial-brassicas

Great List!

I'm going to try saffron crocus for next year once the bulbs I ordered arrive.  But here's one to add to your list:  Jerusalem artichoke (neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke) a.k.a. a sunchoke.  

It's a perennial: Helianthus tuberosus.  After the first frost, you dig up the roots -- delicious if slow roasted in oil & garlic.  In summer, it looks like a very tall 6-10' sunflower with small 3" flowers.  After the first frost you dig up the roots.  And here's the trick:  you always miss some.  This spreads like crazy (aggressive) from a single bulb/root.  Not sure what the right conditions are.  I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

Jean Rudd wrote:

I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

Wondering how difficult it is to dig up the roots when they are growing in clay soil.    I keep wanting to grow them, but I just think it would be too difficult.

Garlic?

In the North: carrot, parsnip, black root, oatroot

Kaarina Kreus wrote:In the North: carrot, parsnip, black root, oatroot

Carrots and parsnips are not perennial, but bi-annual (first year they make the root, second year flowers and seeds).

What do you mean by 'black root'? Can you give the botanical (Latin) name?

In the allotment garden I have all kinds of fruit bushes (and two apple trees). They are perennial edibles, but fruits, not vegetables. There are all kinds of Mediterranean herbs, do they count as vegetables? There are some different kinds of Alliums you already mentioned.
And there is 'good king Henry', that's a real perennial vegetable. The leaves can be eaten like spinach. They grow from Spring till Autumn. In winter they disappear, but from the roots they come back the next Spring.

Loretta Liefveld wrote:

Jean Rudd wrote:

I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

Wondering how difficult it is to dig up the roots when they are growing in clay soil.    I keep wanting to grow them, but I just think it would be too difficult.

My jerusalem artichoke roots are about a full shovel head (8") down -- I probably planted about 1/2 shovel (4") down.  I water mine deeply when digging up if I have trouble getting to them.  If you are worried about missing some of them (which happens often) you can try to contain them by planting a deep container.  But I bet they will find a way out.  The ones I have trouble getting out are under the driveway.  I think there is more moisture trapped there and it has a sandier base than the natural clay soil.  

I found that they grow better than my potatoes in the clay soil, which I found difficult to dig up. (Trying above ground methods now!)  And it makes sense that sunchokes seem to grow better than potatoes for me since sunflowers are one of those deep-rooted, "bring up the nutrition from poor soils" type of plant.

Jean Rudd wrote:

Loretta Liefveld wrote:

Jean Rudd wrote:

I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

Wondering how difficult it is to dig up the roots when they are growing in clay soil.    I keep wanting to grow them, but I just think it would be too difficult.

My jerusalem artichoke roots are about a full shovel head (8") down -- I probably planted about 1/2 shovel (4") down.  I water mine deeply when digging up if I have trouble getting to them.  If you are worried about missing some of them (which happens often) you can try to contain them by planting a deep container.  But I bet they will find a way out.  The ones I have trouble getting out are under the driveway.  I think there is more moisture trapped there and it has a sandier base than the natural clay soil.  

I found that they grow better than my potatoes in the clay soil, which I found difficult to dig up. (Trying above ground methods now!)  And it makes sense that sunchokes seem to grow better than potatoes for me since sunflowers are one of those deep-rooted, "bring up the nutrition from poor soils" type of plant.

If you can find the potato variety 'Pontiac', it grows well in clay soil.  Our soil identifies as silty clay - jar test showed 5% sand, 45% silt, 50% clay.

Jean Rudd wrote:Great List!

But here's one to add to your list:  Jerusalem artichoke (neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke) a.k.a. a sunchoke...  This spreads like crazy (aggressive) from a single bulb/root.  Not sure what the right conditions are.  I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

We planted sunchokes in a 5 gallon soil bag so they wouldn't get out of control. We ended up with way more than the 2 of us could possibly eat, and they were easy to harvest cuz we just dumped out the soil bag.
Now, if someone could advise me on how I can eat them without inflating like a tick and blasting off into space, leaving behind a cloud of methane, I would really appreciate it. Fermenting didn't work, letting them freeze before cooking didn't work. Any other suggestions?

M Wilcox wrote: advise me on how I can eat

Oh!  I totally forgot that part!!!  You have to start eating them with TINY amounts and build up. We split one at first and then after awhile we'd work up to one.  But not much more.  They have a lot of Prebiotic.  Inulin, I think.

Modern Farmer recommends boiling in lemon juice or pickling:  Modern Farmer  but I haven't tried it.  

Good catch!

Loretta Liefveld wrote:

Jean Rudd wrote:

I give mine neglect and no water in clay soil.

Wondering how difficult it is to dig up the roots when they are growing in clay soil.    I keep wanting to grow them, but I just think it would be too difficult.

Not hard at all.   A little tug on the left over stalk and a little spade and they come right out.   We have hard clay under them too.