Edible Perennial Gardening: Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces

Description

Introduction: Anticipation -- Setting an objective: Find and grow as many perennial vegetables as possible -- Foundations and underlying themes: Permaculture, forest gardening, and natural farming -- Living soil and plant nutrition -- Growing in polycultures: Diversity by design -- Choosing perennial vegetables: Part one -- Choosing perennial vegetables: Part two -- Cooking with new foods -- Plants to complete a polyculture -- Pathways to polyculture -- Site selection and preparation -- 'Managing' a polyculture -- Reflection -- Appendix 1: Table of perennial vegetable plants -- Appendix 2: Suppliers of seeds and perennial vegetable plants -- Appendix 3: Books, websites, and blogs -- Appendix 4: Dynamic accumulator plants -- Appendix 5: Enzyme co-factors in physiological processes.;Do you dream of a low-maintenance perennial garden that is full to the brim of perennial vegetables that you don't have to keep replanting, but have only a small space? Do you want a garden that doesn't take much of your time and that needs little attention to control the pests and diseases that eat your crops? Do you want to grow unusual vegetable varieties? You can have all of this with Edible Perennial Gardening. Anni Kelsey has researched the little-known subject of edible perennials and selected her favorite, tasty varieties. She explains how to source and propagate different vegetables, which plants work well together in polycultures, and what you can plant in small, shady, or semi shady beds, as well as in sunny areas. Introduction: Anticipation -- Setting an objective: Find and grow as many perennial vegetables as possible -- Foundations and underlying themes: Permaculture, forest gardening, and natural farming -- Living soil and plant nutrition -- Growing in polycultures: Diversity by design -- Choosing perennial vegetables: Part one -- Choosing perennial vegetables: Part two -- Cooking with new foods -- Plants to complete a polyculture -- Pathways to polyculture -- Site selection and preparation -- 'Managing' a polyculture -- Reflection -- Appendix 1: Table of perennial vegetable plants -- Appendix 2: Suppliers of seeds and perennial vegetable plants -- Appendix 3: Books, websites, and blogs -- Appendix 4: Dynamic accumulator plants -- Appendix 5: Enzyme co-factors in physiological processes.