Perennial veggies and edible roots to plant this fall and whether they're non invasive.

Good evening friends! Blake wants to find out if the skirret, Caucasian and French Mountain spinach are safe to plant in our native food forest or edible gardens. Also asking y'all the same thing for the perennial onions and stuff. Wanna target more better and flavorful plants to harvest this fall in a short run as well as the long. I don't wanna hurt my native gardens, but also wanna plant some Eurasian and Latin American types to commemorate my community's past as long as they're not invasive and behave well in them. Heard of perennial kale before? Please shoot back if you need me. Take care!

Where do you live? It will influence what you can grow. I live in Southern California. Here ar the vegetables I grow on the forest floor. Tree collards are perennials and will give you collard greens year round. They can be hard to get started, but once they established, they will keep giving you greens year round. The flavor changes with the season, being sweeter in winter than summer. Radishes of all kind, especially diakon radishes grow very well there, and the critters don’t like the taste, so they leave them alone.
Walking onions, rams, wild garlic and wild leeks grow well there too. I also seed a mix of native wild flowers, herbs and medicinal plants like calendula, mountain mint, borage, comfrey and chamomile. Lastly, I gather expired seeds of all kinds in a jar, when I have some, and toss them out in early spring. This year those seeds gave us tomatoes, amaranth and broccoli.
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What's going on! I'm from the Midwest in Chicago and am in Zone 6. Trying to find out if I could plant some perennial vegetable types into my native edible or food forest gardens without them going outta control. I'm considering some perennial spinach, onions and other edible roots that have rich historic background and rich flavor. One of those is the skirret and I've tried to grow those from seed, but didn't work out that way. How we grow skirett in this country?

I don't see a problem growing skirret or Caucasian Mountain spinach.

I have read that French Mountain spinach can be a prolific self seeder.

Here are some threads of interest:

https://permies.com/t/271966/root-crops/Lets-talk-Skirret

https://permies.com/t/137341/perennial-vegetables/Caucasian-mountain-spinach

https://permies.com/t/growing-orach

Thanks! How you been? Wanna find out how we cook skirret. And what about for walking onions?

Blake Lenoir wrote: Good evening friends! Blake wants to find out if the skirret, Caucasian and French Mountain spinach are safe to plant in our native food forest or edible gardens. Also asking y'all the same thing for the perennial onions and stuff. Wanna target more better and flavorful plants to harvest this fall in a short run as well as the long. I don't wanna hurt my native gardens, but also wanna plant some Eurasian and Latin American types to commemorate my community's past as long as they're not invasive and behave well in them. Heard of perennial kale before? Please shoot back if you need me. Take care!

I'm north of you and walking onions do great here.  They do "spread" and walk around, but they are very easy to control if you want to cut back on the number of them.  Just eat them before they go walking

I might look for a recipe for skirret and if I could not find one I would cook like turnips or parsnips.