This is a list of plants to make a permaculture edible garden, made of perennials, that once you start, there is almost no further work required. Some vegetables are perennials, other are self-seeders.
Some plants for a minimalist garden:
Perennials for greens (spacing indicated)
- 9-star broccoli .... 100cm
- Daubenton's kale ... 60 cm
- Good king henry (bitter taste) .... 30 cm
- Sea beet (tolerates sandy soils) .... 30 cm
- Tree collards .... 100 cm
- Skirret .... 25 cm
- Sea kale .... 90 cm
Perennials for salad use
- Ḿitsuba (can grow in part shadow) .... 15 cm
- Musk mallow .... 30 cm
- Pink purslane (acid soil, and shadow) ... 15 cm
- Salad burnet (alkaline soil) .... 20 cm
- Chicory .... 20 cm
- Garlic cress ... 30 cm
- Ramsons or wild garlic (for shadow) ... 10 cm
- Sorrel ... 25 cm
- Turkish rocket ... 50 cm
- Watercress ... 15 cm
- Everlasting onions ... 15 cm
- Tree onions .... 20 cm
- Welsh onions .... 20 cm
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| Perennial 9-star broccoli, can give many crops if you keep cutting them. |
- Fat hen
- Swiss chard ... 25 cm
- Alexanders .... 50 cm
Self-seeders for salad use
- Chickweed (can grow in part shadow) ... grow without thinning
- Lamb's lettuce ... 10 cm
- Winter purslane (tolerates sandy soils) ... 15 cm
- Bittercress ... 10 cm
- Land cress ... 15 cm
- Nasturtium ... 15-20cm
- Rocket ... 10 cm
The following table can help you calculate how many plants do you need to get full ground cover with perennials. The recommended spacing is described later below.
Spacing, cm ---- Plants
100 ................... 1
60 ..................... 3
30 ..................... 11
25 ..................... 16
20 ..................... 25
15 ..................... 44
10 .................... 100
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